Campaign 2010

Countdown to Congressional Elections


The Rise of Corporate Freedom of Speech

$1.45 Billion on 3-14-2010

$2.9 Billion Spent in 08
on Congressional Race
See Major Contributors

Corporate money in politics is bad enough. Secret corporate money is intolerable.


Primary Election Results
(UPDATED: July 28, 2010)






"The Great 2010 Incumbent (Non-)Revolt"

Senate Primary’s
Incumbent Democrats
1 Loss; 3 Wins of 13
Incumbent Republicans
1 Loss; 8 Wins of 12

House Primary’s
Incumbent Democrats
1 Loss; 135 Wins of 245
Incumbent Republicans
2 Loss; 103 Wins of 158

Visual Facts

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National Debt Clock

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WHEN Did You Become Fiscally Responsible?
BEFORE Obama or AFTER Obama??
January 20, 2009
$10,838,758,414,164.46 - ↑90%
Discretionary Spending at 48.6%

January 20, 2001
$5,719,124,940,098.04 - 36%
January 20, 1993
$4,192,107,025,882.17 - 62%
January 20, 1989
$2,601,104,000,000.00 - 189%
January 20, 1981
$909,041,000.000.00

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Debt by President

Are You A Tea Party Hyprocrite??

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United States of Corporations

Thanks to the GOP's Supreme Court
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Corporate Bill of Rights

Quotes and Links

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The Decade When the U.S. Lost Its Way

Tax Rate for Richest 400 Taxpayers Plummeted in Recent Decades, Even as Their Pre-Tax Incomes Skyrocketed

"The financial reform bill will determine whether Wall Street’s banks will serve the American economy or whether the American economy will continue to serve Wall Street's banks."

"While the economy doesn't function for most of us ordinary workers, it yields considerable reward for those at the top."

Republicans Are Locked in a Passionate Embrace with a Corpse and Won't Let Go

"The most important thing Republicans think is that if there are Americans who can't afford the insurance policies that private insurers are willing to offer, then that's their problem."

"It should tell you everything you need to know that, in lobbying to retain its bank supervisory powers, the Fed's allies include the big Wall Street banks."

"[Texas Republican Jeb] Hensarling told a Texas-size whopper — and then tried to claim Republican credit for Bill Clinton’s budget surpluses."

"The Supreme Court's 5-to-4 decision last week giving American corporations the right to unlimited political spending was an astonishing display of judicial arrogance, overreach and unjustified activism."

"It was wrong because nothing in the First Amendment dictates that corporations must be treated identically to people."

"They backed the truck up to Fort Knox in broad daylight. They emptied it out, we rescued them and they get $150 billion in bonuses."

"A huge, unregulated boom in which almost all the upside went directly into private hands, followed by a gigantic bust in which the losses were socialized."

So You Just Squandered Billions . . . Take Another Whack at It

Banks 'Too Big to Fail' Have Grown Even Bigger

Bankers' bonuses Beat Earnings as Industry Imploded

U.S. Rescue May Reach $23.7 Trillion

The Bank Bailouts — Corporate Welfarism

New Evidence Cheney Swayed Reaction to Leak - Valerie Plame

Once Again, The More You Watch Fox The Dumber You Are

"Over the past year, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury have injected trillions of dollars into frozen financial markets, snapping up unwanted bonds, extending guarantees to banks and slashing interest rates."

Building a Better Capitalism

The End of Supply Side Economics

The Great Wealth Transfer

The Richer

Who Rules America? Power, Politics, and Social Change

Proponents of Estate Tax Repeal Are Resurrecting Old Misconceptions

Income Gaps Between Very Rich and Everyone Else More Than Tripled In Last Three Decades

Ending Plutocracy: A 12-Step Program

Our Gilded Age

The Rich and the Rest of Us

GOP's "Small Government" Talk is Hollow



This Week's Quotes (5) (Hover to Pause)
Dear Corporate America: Your taxes are NOT being raised. Your subsidy has expired! - The Old Man

"If we cannot as a nation move away from ideologically stimulated tribal warfare and scapegoating, we are in for a very unpleasant future"Retired Army Gen. Montgomery Meigs

“For big business to now claim that the government is ‘anti-business’ is like the umpire complaining about how badly his game was refereed”Kathryn Kolbert

“Rather than ‘all for one and one for all,’ the United States’ business leaders have adopted more of a ‘one for one and all for me’ approach, detrimental to our country's economic recovery”Amy L. Fraher

“Corporate executives excuse their inexcusable refusal to hire more workers and invest in new products and technologies with the tired old saw that it’s all the government’s fault. The Wall Street financial crisis has brought the economy to its knees and now the corporate sector has the audacity to blame government for the catastrophe?”Elizabeth Sherman

November 29, 2007

God Spoke To Oral Roberts, Jr.

November 29, 2007

The Facts

Richard Roberts (Oral, Jr.) announced today that he is stepping down as President of Oral Roberts University among the accusations that he and his family have misused University funds. It took him several weeks to come to this decision, but Roberts is doing this now because, he said, God told him to.

My View

Where do you start on this? I will never get over the fact of how these mega-preachers use God as an excuse to further their personal agenda. And I will never get over the fact that, according to them, when God calls a man to minister and that man becomes a mega-preacher, God seems to always select a child of that man to replace him when the elder steps down. I’m sure their answer would be the old adage of “God works in mysterious ways”.

Does anyone remember when, in 1986, Oral Roberts, Sr. came on the airways and told the world that God had told him that he, God, was going to “call Roberts home” if Roberts did not raise eight million dollars and build a medical center in one year? Then in 1987 he claimed that God told him to raise another eight million dollars in three months or God was going to “call him home”. And millions of people still refuse to acknowledge what these people really are. If I were a genuine, honest servant of God serving in the capacity of leadership, I would be coming out every day exposing these people. A very few do. Unfortunately, too many are using the crutch that it is not their place to judge. But if they don’t start adopting a different attitude, these crooks are going to destroy their reputation and take them down also. Actually, the destruction has already begun.

In the 1987 case of God talking to Oral Roberts, there was a syndicated columnist on the west coast that made the national news. He suggested that after thousands of years we finally had an opportunity to prove once & for all that God existed. He suggested that no one send Roberts any money, then in 90 days when Roberts was “called home”, that would settle it. Unfortunately, not enough people listened to him. Roberts raised the eight million dollars, and more, in less than three months and is still alive today. I guess some would say that proves God’s existence.

I am compelled to repeat here a phrase I feel certain I coined a long time ago about what God must be saying; “stop blaming me! I had nothing to do with it!”

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