Wednesday, October 27, 2010
The Danger In Free Market Think Tanks
“Most of these bodies call themselves “free-market thinktanks”, but their trick – as (Astro)Turf Wars points out – is to conflate crony capitalism with free enterprise, and free enterprise with personal liberty. Between them they have constructed the philosophy that informs the Tea Party movement: its members mobilise for freedom, unaware that the freedom they demand is freedom for corporations to trample them into the dirt. The thinktanks that the Kochs have funded devise the game and the rules by which it is played; Americans for Prosperity coaches and motivates the team.”
— George Monbiot
Tea Klanners want more freedom for corporations because they think Government is bad. You can vote for politicians, once corporations own the process, we're toast.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
The Big Picture With Thom Hartmann, Episode 9
Highly recommend this show if you have RT [Russia Today] on your cable network. See more here: http://rt.com/About_Us/Programmes/Big_Picture.html
“The Tea Party movement is a force to be reckoned with. Whether you buy into their rhetoric or not, their movement is changing the political landscape. In this show Tom discusses the potential dangers the Tea Party poses to Progressives, Moderate Republicans and the nation. Then God and Country appear to go hand in hand in King, North Carolina. A Christian flag flying on a public war memorial is creating a legal firestorm between city leaders and veterans groups. Tom talks to a Christian flag supporter who’s also making a profit selling flags in that town. Plus George W. Bush has re-emberged from his Texas ranch. In a rare public appearance in Chicago, Bush expressed that one of his biggest regrets in office was not reforming social security. Also see why polling experts are starting to question Gallup’s recent political projections. And California Republican Gubernatorial candidate, Meg Whitman needs a lesson in social media. In this show see her embarrassing tweet mistake that had supporters laughing.”
What The GOP Now Stands For
"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president," - Senator Mitch McConnell.
Rarely has the rank nihilism of the current Republican party been better or more accurately expressed.
It ain't gonna happen. Obama will crush any Republican nominee. Palin? Romney? The 2010 midterm is the last gasp of the far Right. Enjoy these results. The country is moving in another direction.
"Who Was The Last President To Give You A Balanced Budget?"
"I almost gag when I hear these Republicans lambasting the president and the Democrats in Congress, ‘Oh, they’re such big spenders, they’re just crazy, they’re quasi-socialist. I have a simple question: Who’s the last president to give you a balanced budget? I like all this enthusiasm, but frankly there are a few things about this election that have gotten me somewhere between disturbed and ticked off."
— President Bill Clinton
Democrats tax and spend.
Republicans borrow and spend more.
Clarence And Ginni
Clarence and Ginni Thomas. Ginni started Liberty Central, a pro-Tea Party conservative lobbying group. Clarence is a porn addict, accomplished womanizer, former booze hound, and corporate shill.
Never connected her name and face.
This is what a co-dependent relationship looks like.
Untitled
"God is the reason I am running."
— Christine O’Donnell
Then God will be the reason why you lose.
Keep Left. The Center Is For Pollsters
"Democrats think in terms of programs, policies, and particular pieces of legislation.... Republicans think in terms of simple ideas, themes, and movements.... Republicans are also more disciplined (ask yourself which party attracts authoritarian personalities and which attracts anti-authoritarians).... Republicans are cynical about politics.... Democrats are idealistic about politics.... Message to Obama: Whatever happens November 2, don’t move to the center." - Robert ReichIt's a tumblr.
There is no “center” to American politics. The “center” is merely what most people tell pollsters they think or want at any given time.
We need leadership.
Monday, October 25, 2010
What Libertarians Really Are
stfuteabaggers (via supersoygrrrl)
The political unicorn: banished from the GOP, the libertarian exists in an intellectual time machine set to 1963.
Afghan Leader Karzai Admits Cash From Iran. Bush Knew
President Hamid Karzai acknowledged Monday that his chief of staff had taken money from the Iranian government, confirming a report in The New York Times. He said the cash was used to pay for presidential expenses.
"Presidential expenses"? Hookers and blow in Kabul?
Then there is this prime nugget:
“This is transparent,” Mr. Karzai said, maintaining that the United States had long been well aware of the Iranian money. “This is something that I’ve even discussed while I was at Camp David with President Bush.”
Karzai received between $1 million and $2 million every other month from Iran and that the money, effectively a slush fund, was distributed to Afghan lawmakers, tribal elders and even Taliban commanders to secure their loyalty.
This is what Obama stepped in to.
Three Month Study On Tea Party = Useless Hot Air, But Loud
But a new Washington Post canvass of hundreds of local tea party groups reveals a different sort of organization, one that is not so much a movement as a disparate band of vaguely connected gatherings that do surprisingly little to engage in the political process.
The results come from a months-long effort by The Post to contact every tea party group in the nation, an unprecedented attempt to understand the network of individuals and organizations at the heart of the nascent movement.
Seventy percent of the grass-roots groups said they have not participated in any political campaigning this year. As a whole, they have no official candidate slates, have not rallied behind any particular national leader, have little money on hand, and remain ambivalent about their goals and the political process in general.
They are not into endorsing candidates or engaging in the political process, they are about "pushing a conservative idea".
That sentence sums it up. No answers or new policies, just a thirst for power. Throw in the coded "un-American" language are you're done.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
What Thomas Jefferson Really Meant
Revisionism is the GOP Gold Standard. They dream of the past because they can’t perform in the present.
The Shameless Revisionism Marches On
"In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amid a real danger," George W. Bush in Chicago yesterday
Except for the biggest, most destructive terrorist attack in America, EVER.
It's like Bush can look at your burned down house and say "At least I did not let your house burn down".
