The 1% of the 1% and their agents like Grover Norquist have been selling “demon government,” but it is big business, not big government, that is the real Big Brother. Read the rest of this entry »
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An Elephant May Never Forget, but the GOP and a Greedy Media Sure Hope Like Hell That You Will
In 2012, Auto Bailout, Barack Obama, Big Insurance, Big Oil, Big Three Auto Makers, Bureaucracy, Business, Campaign 2012, Corporatocracy, Defense Contractors, Democrats, Elections, Federal Government, GOP, Grover Norquist, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Ideologies, Jobs, Koch Brothers, Legislation, LGBT, Liberals, Living, Mitt Romney, Neo Conservatives, Politics, Race, Racism, Religious Right, Republicans, Special Interests, Tea Party, The Congress, The House, The Senate, The White House, Unions, Women's Rights, Years on May 9, 2012 at 1:11 am
An elephant may never forget, but the elephants of the GOP are sure hoping that you will, well, overlook a few inconvenient truths in their march to bring back 19th century capitalism without a social safety net. Sadly, so does the media caught between the story and an epic pay day.
Their vested interest and power, without regard to consequence or the welfare of the nation, is only countered by you.
Elephant Droppings: The Far Right’s 10 Most Wanted
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Power. That’s the name of the game in Republican politics. Not principle. Not vision. Who are the core players in that power game? t2P has combed several lists of ‘key’ Republican players from the two opposing forces in the Radical Right, the Libertarians and the Neo Cons. Our top ten list represents the people who, through political clout, money, or both, are seminal driving forces that corrupt Republican politics and push it to the extremist ends that it promotes today.
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What Happens When the Far Right Really Ends Birth Control? The Malthusian Nightmare GOP Style
In 2012, American Values, Barack Obama, Big Insurance, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Three Auto Makers, Business, Campaign 2012, Civil Protests, Constitution, Corporate-controlled Media, Corporatocracy, Dead Billionaires Club, Democrats, Education, Elections, Fascism, Federal Government, First Amendment, Foster Friess, GOP, Ideologies, Jobs, Koch Brothers, Law, Liberals, Living, Mitt Romney, Neo Conservatives, Newt Gingrich, Occupy Wall Street, Politics, Religious Right, Republicans, Rick Santorum, Right to Life Movement, Special Interests, Tea Party, The Congress, The House, The Law, The Senate, Wall Street, WalMart, Women's Rights, Years on March 23, 2012 at 9:11 am
Rick Santorum and the men of the GOP rail on about Right-to-Life issues. It’s a Republican conundrum: Appeasing the Religious Right creates a nightmarish welfare state abhorrent to selfish Libertarian and fiscal conservatives that, unchecked, could bring about the devolution of mankind. Sounds too strong? Read on.
Econ 102 For Liberals: The Real Way to Occupy Wall Street (In Plain English, with Humor!)
In 2012, Big Insurance, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Three Auto Makers, Campaign 2012, Civil Protests, Corporatocracy, Dead Billionaires Club, Defense Contractors, Elections, Grover Norquist, Lobbyists, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Wall Street, Organizations, Politics, Special Interests, Unions, Wall Street, Years on March 19, 2012 at 7:54 pm
Standing and yelling and singing in Zuccotti Park only gets you so far. There’s a real way to “occupy” Wall Street that hits them where they live. Corporations are, amazingly, democracies.
We hand out millions of college diplomas that prove education in everything from microorganisms to law to engineering, but we don’t teach our children how to balance a checkbook, or, more important, how the investment world of Wall Street really works. This makes us ripe for rip-off by the con-men, carnies and hucksters that command Wall Street, and allows the kind of rampant, unaccountable use of corporations as personal fiefdoms by a handful of the self-anointed.
There is a way to beat them at their own game: Take command of the corporatocracy.
I Pledge Allegiance to Grover Norquist…
In 2011, American Values, Americans for Tax Reform, Big Insurance, Big Oil, Bureaucracy, Campaign 2012, Civil Protests, Corporatocracy, Dead Billionaires Club, Elections, Fascism, Federal Government, George W. Bush, GOP, Grover Norquist, Ideologies, Jack Abramoff, Karl Rove, Koch Brothers, Libertarian, Lobbyists, Neo Conservatives, Newt Gingrich, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Wall Street, Organizations, Politics, Privatization, Republicans, Tea Party, The Congress, The House, The Senate, The White House, Years on December 6, 2011 at 11:17 pm
Who is Grover Norquist? His name oozes up when his “tax pledge” hamstrings Republicans who aren’t dye-in-the-wool Teahadis. Norquist is an extremist Corporatocratist with the self-stated goal of ending all government and turning over everything, including the military, to private-sector control.
He is the spear carrier of the long-smouldering Libertarian overthrow of the Republican Party. A Social Darwinist intent on destroying the U.S. Government from within, whose “friends” in back room deals include convicted felons Jack Abramoff, Abdurahman Alamoudi, and Tom Delay, political sharks Karl Rove and Ralph Reed, and presidential contenders Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, to name a few. The more you know about Norquist, the more you should genuinely fear for the future of this nation if he or anyone he’s done business with takes control of the majority of governmental power.
Corporations are People Too, Wackadoo, Wackadoo…
In 2011, Big Insurance, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Three Auto Makers, Campaign 2012, Corporate-controlled Media, Corporatocracy, Defense Contractors, Democrats, Elections, Federal Government, Ideologies, Iowa, Koch Brothers, Legislation, McCain-Feingold, Mitt Romney, Neo Conservatives, Politics, Religious Right, Republicans, Richard Mellon Scaife, States, Tea Party, The White House, Totalitarianism, Wall Street, Years on August 14, 2011 at 4:12 am
Mitt Romney has been out on the stump, proving once again that he is a good automaton for scripted moments, but that his ability to engage in retail politics is a little lacking. The Fire Alarm disaster of late May was nothing by comparison to his Wonderama-rific “Corporations are people, my friend” speech yesterday. Legally right, morally wrong, and politically incorrect, the gaffe was even cat-called by fellow Republicans attending the Mittster’s stump speech late last week. 
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Who is Behind the Union-Busting “Club for Growth” Pushing the Tea Party into a Phony Debt Crisis?
In 2011, Big Insurance, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Corporatocracy, Eric Cantor, Federal Government, George W. Bush, GOP, Joe Wilson, John Boehner, Koch Brothers, Neo Conservatives, Politics, Religious Right, Republicans, Richard Mellon Scaife, Tea Party, The Congress, The House, The Senate, Totalitarianism, Wall Street on July 29, 2011 at 3:35 am
Even though, in the hours following the Monday pitches to America by President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, the Congress was flooded with phone calls and emails that locked up the House’s web servers for a time, Tea Party Republicans are ignoring voters and listening to shadow groups like the “Club for Growth,” saying the “economy is too fragile” to raise taxes on the rich.
Who is the Club for Growth? Union activists in Wisconsin will recall their ad campaign to keep union workers from protesting at the state capitol. Who backs them? Why do they wield more influence than the American people?
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Sorry Republicans: TARP Worked.
In 2011, Auto Bailout, Barack Obama, Ben Bernanke, Big Insurance, Big Three Auto Makers, Bureaucracy, Corporatocracy, Democrats, Federal Government, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, GOP, Legislation, Media, New York Times, Newspapers, Politics, Republicans, Ronald Reagan, TARP, The Congress, The Federal Reserve, The House, The Senate, Timothy Geithner, Treasury Department, Wall Street Journal, Years on May 29, 2011 at 12:47 am
If you turned on a TV, or picked up a newspaper, or logged in to the Internet in 2008, it was everywhere: The Bailout.
It was evil.
It was immoral.
It was the end of days.
It worked.
New Orleans: Ground-Zero in the Cultural War
In 2011, American Values, Barack Obama, Big Insurance, Birthers, Bureaucracy, Democrats, Federal Government, George W. Bush, Ideologies, Living, Louisiana, New Orleans, Politics, Republicans, Years on May 2, 2011 at 12:42 am
The Founding Fathers defined the boundaries of liberty and freedom. New Orleans lives them. The birthplace of jazz. The true birthplace of Rock-and-Roll. Home to most American cultural traditions of music, the Crescent City is a testament to the American Dream. People of no means made it to the big time in the Big Easy, from Armstrong to Emeril.
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