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
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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
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February 25, 2009

Damn, Glenn Beck Did It – He Moved To Fox News

February 25, 2009

The Facts

Here I’ve been saying for the past two years that I pay close attention to the news of the day, yet this one got completely by me. Heck, the “news of the day” is where I get most of the stuff I write about. But evidently I’m not paying as close attention as I thought I was. Glenn Beck has moved from CNN to Fox News, and not only did I not know about it, I hadn’t even heard he was moving. Shame on me.

I learn of Beck’s move when I switched over to Fox News today at the right time, which was during Glenn Beck’s show. I nearly jumped off the couch. I often look at Fox News in an effort to be fair in my viewing of the day’s news, but when they start talking politics, which is most of the time, I have to leave. It’s like watching MSNBC and expecting to hear something good about Republicans and something bad about the Democrats. It just ain’t gonna happen, just like you ain’t gonna hear anything negative about Republicans or anything positive about Democrats at Fox News.

I’ve written at least three posts on Glenn Beck. The first was in January of last year, then again on March 7th of last year and finally on March 14th of last year. The last one, March 14, 2008 I suggested that Glen Beck Should Move To Fox, and now he’s taken my advice. Wow! I didn’t realize the “power of the pen” had so much power.

My View

Ok, now to get serious. It’s only natural that Beck be at Fox News. Everyone knows Fox is the gathering place for all those who hate the Democratic Party and love the Republican Party. Fox News is the epitome of partisan political reporting and Republican ideology. And that’s the same thing Beck has been preaching ever since he’s been at CNN and probably long before. Most likely he’s just been auditioning for Fox and now he’s got “the call”. Congratulations Glenn! You’ve made it to the “big show”!

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