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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Elephant Droppings: The Far Right’s 10 Most Wanted
In The Congress, The White House, The House, The Senate, Barack Obama, Politics, Campaign 2008, Republicans, Years, Democrats, Organizations, Voting, GOP, Corporatocracy, George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Ideologies, Neo Conservatives, Karl Rove, Mitt Romney, Wall Street, Legislation, States, Political Punditry, Rachel Maddow, Big Pharma, Big Insurance, Bureaucracy, Tea Party, Ann Coulter, Constitution, Newspapers, Federal Government, Elections, Mid-Term 2010, Campaign 2012, The Supreme Court, D.C., Lobbyists, Liberals, Corporate-controlled Media, Big Three Auto Makers, New Media, Special Interests, Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, Koch Brothers, American Values, Big Oil, Religious Right, Antiabortionists, Richard Mellon Scaife, Media Research Center, The Pentagon, Privatization, Business, Communities, African-American, Rick Perry, WalMart, Civil Protests, Occupy Wall Street, Dead Billionaires Club, Occupy Wall Street, Libertarian, Jack Abramoff, Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform, NewsMax.com, L. Brent Bozell III, ALEC, Right to Life Movement, DeVos Family Foundations, Foster Friess, Ralph Reed, Rick Santorum, Focus on the Family, 2012, Huffines Brothers, Hispanic, Women's Rights, Alabama, Paul Ryan, Club for Growth on April 16, 2012 at 10:28 am
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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The Club for Growth is RINO Hunting Dick Lugar and… Marco Rubio?
In 2012, ALEC, Campaign 2012, Club for Growth, Dead Billionaires Club, DeVos Family Foundations, Elections, Fascism, GOP, Ideologies, Karl Rove, Koch Brothers, Legislation, Mid-Term 2010, Mike Huckabee, Neo Conservatives, Newt Gingrich, Politics, Religious Right, Republicans, Richard Mellon Scaife, Right to Life Movement, Special Interests, States, Tea Party, The Congress, The House, The Senate, Totalitarianism, Women's Rights, Years on April 7, 2012 at 10:52 am
The Club for Growth, unimpressed with the GOP presidential pack are going RINO (Republican in Name Only) hunting. The same anti-union, anti-women, Tea Party backers are looking to bag big game in Congress because the name of the game isn’t the White House anymore. It is breaking down the heart of government: The Legislative Branch.
The Dead Billionaires Club – The Dead Can’t Vote, but Should They Give?
In 2011, ALEC, American Values, Americans for Tax Reform, Ann Coulter, Antiabortionists, Barack Obama, Birthers, Blackwater, Campaign 2012, CBS News, Dead Billionaires Club, Defense Contractors, Democrats, Elections, Fascism, Fox News, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, GOP, Grover Norquist, Health Care Reform, Ideologies, Jobs, John Boehner, Koch Brothers, L. Brent Bozell III, Legislation, Lobbyists, Media, Media Research Center, Neo Conservatives, New Media, NewsMax.com, Newspapers, Newt Gingrich, Occupy Wall Street, Organizations, Politics, Privatization, Religious Right, Richard Mellon Scaife, Ron Paul, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, Special Interests, Television News, The Congress, The House, The Law, The Senate, The White House, Totalitarianism, Unions, Voter Registration, Voting on December 13, 2011 at 11:17 am
If the dead can’t vote in Chicago, should they be allowed to influence politics from the grave in Pittsburgh and Denver and New York?
The Koch brothers may be the most visible part of the Dead Billionaires club, but they are not the only New Deal-hating Libertarian elites funding the dismantling of the government of the United States from within.
Obama and Dems Fail To Champion a Champion (Again)
In 2011, Ann Coulter, Barack Obama, Corporatocracy, Dead Billionaires Club, Democrats, Elizabeth Warren, Federal Government, Glenn Beck, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Health Care Reform, Ideologies, Koch Brothers, Legislation, Liberals, Libertarian, Living, Political Punditry, Politics, Republicans, Richard Mellon Scaife, The Congress, The White House on December 1, 2011 at 9:01 pm
In yet another stunning reversal, President Obama and many leaders in the Democratic Party have backed away from support of a true consumer champion.
In September it was Elizabeth Warren, then acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). This month it is Dr. Donald Berwick, acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS). Read the rest of this entry »
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Will You Be the New American Exceptionalism?
In 2011, African-Americans, American Values, Bureaucracy, Centrism, Christianity, Civil Protests, Constitution, Corporatocracy, Dead Billionaires Club, Democrats, Elections, Faiths, Fascism, Federal Government, GOP, Ideologies, Jack Abramoff, Justice, Koch Brothers, Liberals, Neo Conservatives, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Wall Street, Organizations, Patriotism, Politics, Race, Racism, Religious Right, Republicans, Richard Mellon Scaife, Roman Catholicism, Special Interests, Tea Party, The Congress, Unions on November 23, 2011 at 9:45 am
Education is not just a cornerstone of Democracy: It is our foundation, our bedrock. It is crumbling beneath our feet because the 1% who hold power know that education means real democracy, and with it expansions of economic and social power to a wider population. It threatens their age-old dominance and the massively inequitable distribution of wealth which they enjoy by stacking the deck.
The 21st century challenges us to find a new day and a new direction. Will we be able to make our children the next building blocks of that American dream, or will we succumb to the same fear, greed, and false piety that has consumed the great societal aspirations of mankind for millenia?
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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GOP Economic Havoc: It’s the Social Agenda, Stupid
In 2011, Barack Obama, Ben Bernanke, Bureaucracy, Campaign 2012, Corporatocracy, Elections, Federal Government, Ideologies, John Boehner, Koch Brothers, Liberals, Mitch McConnell, Neo Conservatives, Politics, Republicans, Richard Mellon Scaife, Special Interests, Tea Party, The Congress, The Federal Reserve, The House, The Senate, Timothy Geithner, Treasury Department, Unions, Voter Registration, Wall Street, Years on July 15, 2011 at 1:11 pm
The debt ceiling needs raising! The debt ceiling needs raising! Everyone on TV, on the radio and print clamoring like Chicken Little. Freak about the world coming to a financial end. It is exactly what the people who engineer stuff like this do to you. Guys like Karl Rove are the Chriss Angels of political theater. While you’re out there wringing your hands, and the clowns on TV are talking deficit doom, the GOP continues to do what it is really out to do: Socially re-engineer America in its backward-looking world view. Read the rest of this entry »
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Dissecting Right Wing Political Extremism
In 2011, American Values, Barack Obama, Campaign 2012, Constitution, Corporatocracy, Democrats, Elections, Federal Government, First Amendment, Fox News, George W. Bush, GOP, Health Care Reform, Ideologies, Legislation, Media Research Center, Neo Conservatives, Newt Gingrich, Politics, Republicans, Richard Mellon Scaife, States, Television News, The Congress, Years on May 22, 2011 at 1:15 pm
OPINION – Democrats stink at branding and messaging. They still live in the wonkish intellectual nirvana that somehow if we explain the societal benefits of policy to the American people, it will quell their fears and they will rise enlightened into a new age. Republicans embrace fear. They package and brand it in flavors and variations, like Oreos or spaghetti sauce. Fear sells their Sham-WOW politics. Back us and we can make America shiny and white again. Just follow us, folks. We’ll keep the bogeymen at bay. We’re the patriots. The morally correct. The true Americans. It is not dissimilar from the kind of advertising that the cigarette industry used to sell cancer to kids for generations. Read the rest of this entry »
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