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Democrats want to take all our money and return to us one dime out of each dollar. Republicans want to take all our money and give it to corporations and the wealthy. Neither is acceptable!

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

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

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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

CNBC Power Lunch Attacks Keith Boykin — Video Post Number II

Dennis Kneale and Michelle Caruso-Cabrera became so outraged with Boykin’s points he was trying to make I thought they were actually going to throw something at him. The poor man didn’t stand a chance. [...]

Rick Santelli of CNBC — Video Post Number I

Not once — not one single time — did Santelli speak out in opposition to bailouts as long as it was his Wall Street friends who were getting the bailouts. He suddenly became opposed to bailouts when regular commoners were offered help. [...]

The New De Beers — Crude Oil

Several news reports have surfaced over the past couple of months about loaded oil tankers being “in a holding pattern” around the world, including American waters. Not due to storage capability, but waiting for prices to rise. [...]

Random Thoughts on Other Notable Headlines of the Day — Issue XIII

“Chaney was for tax cuts at home and pre-emptive warfare overseas; anything else he seemed to disdain as sentimentalism”. That bears repeating; tax cuts and pre-emptive warfare. [...]

Will Arlen Specter’s Defection Be A Wake-Up Call For Republicans?

The Republican Party has left no doubt in anyone’s mind that any party member who didn’t fully support what that minority group of Republicans (neo-conservatives) wanted, the former would be politically assassinated. They are willing to destroy the Grand Old Party if they are not permitted to run it. And that will be a huge loss for the country. [...]