{"id":70620,"date":"2009-03-19T15:16:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T15:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/19\/le-populisme-danse-sur-le-pont-du-titanic\/"},"modified":"2009-03-19T15:16:07","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T15:16:07","slug":"le-populisme-danse-sur-le-pont-du-titanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/19\/le-populisme-danse-sur-le-pont-du-titanic\/","title":{"rendered":"Le populisme danse sur le pont du Titanic<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Martin Wolf, du Financial Times<\/em> (et du Monde<\/em> pour l’occasion), avait eu des mots s\u00e9v\u00e8res pour ceux qui, aujourd’hui, r\u00e9clament des moyens d’action, de r\u00e9gulation, de surveillance et de police contre les exc\u00e8s des march\u00e9s, des banques et des grands \u00e9tablissements financiers, alors que c’est le sort du monde qui est en jeu, et que le sort du monde d\u00e9pend du red\u00e9marrage exactement de ce m\u00eame syst\u00e8me qui nous a donn\u00e9s les exc\u00e8s des march\u00e9s, des banques et des grands \u00e9tablissements financiers. C’\u00e9tait dans son texte du 3 mars<\/a>, dont nous nous \u00e9tions permis de dire quelques mots ce m\u00eame 3 mars<\/a>. Voici le passage:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abJe suis constern\u00e9 par l’obsession europ\u00e9enne visant \u00e0 r\u00e9guler les hedge funds et les paradis fiscaux. Ces derniers sont-ils \u00e0 l’origine de cette crise ? Non. Les Europ\u00e9ens demandent aussi une r\u00e9gulation de l’ensemble des produits et acteurs des march\u00e9s financiers, sans exception. C’est un peu comme demander qu’on acc\u00e9l\u00e8re les recherches sur le radar pendant que le Titanic coule. R\u00e9alisent-ils bien que les banques, au cur de cette crise, sont les \u00e9tablissements les plus r\u00e9gul\u00e9s de tous?<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tQue doit-il penser du spectacle am\u00e9ricaniste cette fois, en plus des intentions europ\u00e9ennes? En effet, la seule question \u00e0 l’ordre du jour, aux USA, coeur m\u00eame du syst\u00e8me, c’est bien d\u00e9sormais de savoir comment punir et emp\u00eacher les exc\u00e8s des organisations financi\u00e8res, c’est-\u00e0-dire essentiellement AIG<\/a>, comme l’on imagine.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tA Washington et alentour, tout le monde ne pense plus qu’\u00e0 une chose: se faire le scalp des dirigeants d’AIG et de tous les intrus, criminels, profiteurs qui se cachent dans les coins sombres de Wall Street. M\u00eame les plus extr\u00eames des neocons<\/em>, qui port\u00e8rent fort hautes les couleurs de la d\u00e9mocratie financi\u00e8re US, des march\u00e9s libres, du chaos cr\u00e9ateur de l’ultra-lib\u00e9ralisme, du mod\u00e8le \u00e9conomique et financier \u00e0 promouvoir au bout du fusil, m\u00eame ceux-l\u00e0 s’y mettent, et pas avec le dos de la cuiller comme \u00e0 leur habitude. ThinkProgress.org<\/em> signale, le 17 mars<\/a>, l’intervention, notamment de Charles Krauthammer, demandant qu’on les pende en place publique, ou qu’on importe une guillotine from the French<\/em> (il doit bien en rester l’une ou l’autre, non?)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abYesterday on a local Iowa radio show, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) suggested that AIG executives consider committing suicide. And last night on Fox News, far right pundit Charles Krauthammer and his milder counterpart Mort Kondracke argued that some should be put to death:<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbKRAUTHAMMER: I’m all in favor of keeping this heaping opprobrium. I would deny them the bonuses if possible. I would be for an exemplary hanging or two. Have it in Times Square, invite Madame DuFarge. You borrow a guillotine from the French and we could have a party. If that’s what it takes to maintain popular support, let’s do it. But it’s not going to change anything economically.<\/em> []<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbKONDRACKE: I was going to recommend boiling in oil in Times Square, but look, because these are the people who invented these crazy credit default swaps that are leading to the whole disaster.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tD’une fa\u00e7on g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, effectivement, les r\u00e9publicains sont sur leurs grands chevaux populistes, r\u00e9clamant qu’on tire \u00e0 vue sur Wall Street, qu’on mette tous ces patrons-financiers sous surveillance, qu’on envisage m\u00eame de ne plus rien donner \u00e0 ces monstres pourris, qu’on laisse AIG voguer tout seul et s’\u00e9crouler s’il le faut. Le parti r\u00e9publicain n’est plus du tout le parti du syst\u00e8me financier et capitaliste, du non-interventionnisme quand tout va bien et de l’interventionnisme s\u00e9lectivement favorable \u00e0 la finance quand tout va mal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tObama, lui, est en Californie. Le voyage tombe bien: le pr\u00e9sident quitte Washington pour aller s’adresser \u00e0 l’Am\u00e9rique profonde, mettant un peu dans le m\u00eame sac les types de Washington (dito<\/em>, les r\u00e9publicains) et ceux de Wall Street. Obama \u00e9largit de spectre du populisme que les r\u00e9publicains eux-m\u00eames ont ouvert en le cantonnant \u00e0 Wall Street. Il fait du super-populisme, formule versus<\/em> Washington + Wall Street. La formule est inratable et, ainsi, la sc\u00e8ne politique US se transf\u00e8re \u00e0 nouveau, ou se confirme, dans la bataille politicienne qui se marque cette fois par une surench\u00e8re populiste aux d\u00e9pens du syst\u00e8me. (Selon AP, le 18 mars<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb[Obama] defended his ambitious plan to overhaul health care, energy, education, taxes and spending policies in the coming months, against unnamed forces aligned against him. I know some folks in Washington and on Wall Street are saying we should focus on only one problem at a time: our problem,’ Obama said. But that’s just not the way it works.<\/em> []<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbReferring to the uproar over bonuses paid to executives of the largely nationalized AIG insurance company, Obama said: I know Washington’s all in a tizzy, and everybody’s pointing fingers at each other and saying, It’s their fault, the Democrats’ fault, the Republicans’ fault.’ Listen, I’ll take responsibility. I’m the president. In the same breath, he said, We didn’t draft these contracts. But he added, It is appropriate when you’re in charge to make sure that stuff doesn’t happen like this.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbObama tried to head off questions about AIG by saying he understood taxpayers’ anger. And he tried to broaden the issue, which has vexed his young administration. These bonuses, outrageous as they are, are a symptom of a much larger problem, he said. It’s a culture where people made enormous sums of money taking irresponsible risks that have now put the entire economy at risk.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tPour ajouter une cerise sur le g\u00e2teau du d\u00e9sordre caus\u00e9 directement et indirectement par les bonus AIG, Obama se paye le luxe de diviser les r\u00e9publicains selon la ligne classique de fracture des USA: le centre (Washington) contre le reste (les Etats). Ce qui donne (sur AP, le 19 mars<\/a>):<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abPresident Barack Obama is playing a bit of divide and conquer this week, pitting his Republican critics in Washington against GOP governors and mayors eager for the federal money that his hard-fought stimulus plan will bring. Next on the list of Republican notables to embrace the president is California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is to join Obama at a town hall meeting Thursday in Los Angeles.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 19 mars 2009 \u00e0 15H17<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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