Campaign 2010

Countdown to Congressional Elections


The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.
Noam Chomsky, M.I.T. emeritus Professor of Linguistics

The Rise of Corporate Freedom of Speech

(Surpassed 2008 total on August 18)

See Weekly Spending Totals

$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: August 25, 2010)






"The Great 2010 Incumbent (Non-)Revolt"

Senate Primary’s
Incumbent Democrats
1 Loss; 6 Wins of 13
Incumbent Republicans
1 Loss; 9 Wins of 12

House Primary’s
Incumbent Democrats
2 Loss; 182 Wins of 245
Incumbent Republicans
2 Loss; 140 Wins of 158

General Election Candidates

Senate

House of Representatives

Visual Facts

Hover to Pause.
Click Image for Larger Size.

National Debt Clock

Hover to Pause

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

Click Image for Full Size


Debt by President

Are You A Tea Party Hyprocrite??

(Click for Debt Details)

United States of Corporations

Thanks to the GOP's Supreme Court
(Click Flag for Full Size)
Corporate Bill of Rights

Quotes and Links

Hover to Pause
(Look for the Listings)

The Decade When the U.S. Lost Its Way

Where Have All the Neocons Gone?

From Neocons to Crazy-Cons

America Builds an Aristocracy

Supreme immodesty: Why the justices play politics

The Biggest Medicare Fraud Ever

Enough Right-Wing Propaganda

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


Distortions, Hypocrisy & More

"I'm not upset that you lied to me; I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you"
Friedrich Nietzsche
[Hover to Pause]

Today is

February 1, 2009

CNBC’s Larry Cudlow Makes Fun Of Obama Administration’s Task Force On Middle Class

February 1, 2009

The Facts

larry-cudlowWall Streets “Free Marketeer” (until he’s not) Larry Cudow of CNBC was making fun of the Obama administrations new task force for middle class America.  In response to Vice-President Biden saying that a web site had been created for transparency into the task force’s initiatives, Cudlow made the statement that he, Cudlow, was going to start “a web site for rich people”. In fact, he not only said it once but several times, and he continuing using that sarcastic remark as his going off the air comment.

My View

I’m not quite sure why Larry Cudlow would want to do such a paltry thing. First off, the rich people of America already have their own political party; Republican. Second, they already have their own around-the-world news organization; News Corporation, owned by Rupert Murdoch. Third they have their own TV news network; Fox News, owned by News Corp. And finally, they have their own business channel (not counting Fox’s Business Channel); CNBC. All of these are extremely high profile. So why even go to the trouble to set up yet another web site for the rich that will just be buried amongst the tens of millions other web sites?

Naturally, Cudlow wasn’t serious (or maybe he was); he’s just continuing to express his personal convictions that the only thing middle America is fit for is to be humble servants (slaves) to the wealthy and wealthy corporations. Oh, yea; and to work at laborers jobs in order to provide tax money to be handed over to his rich friends on Wall Street.

Bookmark and Share

2 comments to CNBC’s Larry Cudlow Makes Fun Of Obama Administration’s Task Force On Middle Class

  • Dear Larry, I think you are way off base on your assessment of GM. I think it is really irresponsible to just write off the best and used to be biggest manufacturing company in the U.S. This company will make a comeback if left alone by commentators. Many people do not now buy U.S. automobiles based on comments by your and others which is wrong. If you really don’t like this country why don’t you just move somewhere else. There has been way to much bashing of American companies. How about a little flag waving and Buy American sentiment. Yours Truly, Jerry McAnnally

  • Michael M PierceNo Gravatar

    Isn’t the law of supply & demand raising the price of American healthcare ? We have aliens ( legal and illegal ) flooding the US healthcare system. Anyone walking into a US hospital emergency room HAS to recieve care…by law .

    1) An uninsured US citizen recieving free care raises the cost for the rest of us . But that’s probably not a significant number of patients . We could absorb that . BUT!!!!! add to that number .
    2) Legal aliens in the US also get that same free care ….at our expense .
    3) Illegal aliens get that care…….and we pay for it .
    4) There IS another group that STILL contributes to rising costs ..foreigners from socialist coutries that come here for BETTER care . Even if they PAY for it themselves they are STILL raising the price of healthcare in the US …while LOWERING the cost of healthcare in their mother country …..BECAUSE OF THE LAW OF SUPPLY & DEMAND .

    I am NOT saying we should just let those people go unhelped . But this IS a significant dynamic that is overlooked . HOW MANY foreigners ( NUMBER and PERCENT ) recieve healthcare in the US ? Even if they pay for the healthcare themselves ..the foreigners are still raising the price for everyone ….due to the law of supply and demand .

    Blaming the rising costs of healthcare on fat , lazy , smoking , junk food eating Americans is probably one of the biggest lies ( maybe a coverup ) ever put out . Certainly FEWER Americans than EVER are smoking…more are exercising, more are healthy diet concious than ever before …and healthcare costs are still rising . Americans are WAY TOO willing to let ALL problems be blamed on them . Maybe the American healthcare system is the victim of its own success .

    Maybe healthcare costs are risng in America precisely BECAUSE we are the best in the world ……AND we are too compassionate to turn anyone away .

    Have an economist work on this and tell us …” What percetage of upward pricing pressure on healthcare in the US is due to foreign DEMAND for US healthcare ” . Then throw in all the free healthcare and see what you get .

Leave a Reply

 

 

 

You can use these HTML tags

<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>