Lost in last night’s  limitless limpid jets of bloggy love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love, white-blow and delirious nice showered upon the Teatards Ascendant, was a satisfying loss dealt to the bankster class who found out that, if they want to continue to buy power in DC, they’re going to have to keep doing it the old fashioned way (lobbyists, PAC’s, hookers and blow) instead of trotting out a shiny new trophy wife candidate:

Beating back an aggressive challenger, United States Representative Carolyn B. Maloney easily won the Democratic Party’s nomination on Tuesday, according to early returns in one of the most expensive Congressional primaries this year.

With about 90 percent of the precincts reporting, Ms. Maloney, 64, had about 81 percent of the vote, while her opponent, Reshma Saujani, 34, a lawyer who has worked with hedge funds, had about 19 percent. The victory makes Ms. Maloney a heavy favorite to win a 10th term in the general election in November.

You may remember Saujani who wondered why we (the American taxpayers who bailed out Wall Street)  can’t just get along with them (the Wall Street Masters of The Universe who fucked up) :

“We need to extend a hand rather than a fist” to Wall Street, Saujani tells the guests at the apartment. “In New York, it’s complicated because 35 percent of our revenue comes from the financial services industry. We need to have transparency and reform, but we also need to understand that . . . it’s just as easy to go work in Singapore and London and Bangalore, and we can’t make it so difficult to do business here that people will vote with their feet.”

Only on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where a run-of-the-mill penthouse goes for $13 million (Rush Limbaugh’s place on Fifth Avenue is available for about that much, FYI), would a politician find it a plus to run this year as the candidate of Wall Street.

Since she entered the race in November, Saujani has received more than $800,000 in campaign contributions, an impressive tally for an untested candidate. Many of those checks came from New York financiers and their spouses.

Former Morgan Stanley chief executive John Mack has given her money. So has Apollo Management founder Leon Black and the wife of J.P. Morgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon. Hedge fund mogul Marc Lasry hosted a fundraiser for her featuring singer John Legend that brought in $100,000.

Saujani has also attracted help from prominent New Yorkers. Maureen White, a major Democratic donor and wife of financier Steven Rattner, is introducing her to potential donors. Diana Taylor, a Republican former investment banker and the longtime companion of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (I), is advising her campaign.

“Reshma has a strong fundamental understanding about how the industry works,” Taylor said. “You’ve got these people [in Congress] yelling and screaming who know nothing about what they’re talking about — nothing. And it just creates a huge problem.”

Sadly, it appears that Saujani was not ready for prime time; something Jane pointed out a few days ago. In her favor, since she plans to run again in two years, Reshma Saujani is a infinitely less slimy version of Harold Ford so, with a bit more spit and polish, she may actually be a tad more presentable and a little less overt about her true loyalties in the next go-around.