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

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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

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
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Today is

January 24, 2008

About CPSN

The news media has gone through a radical change over the past twenty-five years or so. While there’s always been fierce competition amongst them to attract a fair share of viewers and readers, the methods used today to obtain that goal is cause for concern. Those methods are at the very heart of the problem with the modern days news media. The list is long, including some that haven’t even been recognized yet. Near the very top of that list is something that had been previously reserved for the tabloids; sensationalism. This in itself covers a lot of wrongs. But at the very top of the list, and probably more damaging to society, is a premeditated & calculated attempt to distort the news in an effort to support ideology. As part of that effort they will distort facts and at times hide, ignore, or refuse to report facts that don’t support their objectives. They and others justify this by calling it “spin” (or other simular words), as if that somehow makes it ok.

At CPSN there is no ideology except to say it like it is; not the way I would like for it to be or imagine it to be. I support no political party, no political organization, no religious belief, or any other kind of ideology, unless you think supporting the American public, especially the working class, falls under the heading of ideology. My Political Compass falls near dead center.

I tend to see & hear the underlying message in the reported news, and that’s mostly what I focus on. Over a life time I have found that it’s not so much what is said, but what isn’t said that tells the most about people. And that observation applies no place better than it does to the news media.

For many, many years, before CPSN, I had a habit of jotting down my thoughts on certain news reports, especially news I found irritating and maybe a little biased. That eventually evolved to include the news outlets them selves. As time went by and many of those old reports resurfaced, I enjoyed going back over my notes — notes sometimes made years earlier — and realizing that not only were many of my thoughts validated, but the media was now reacting with such surprise you’d think they had been blessed with a divine revelation. In 2007, as I begin to reflect on that correlation, my blog was born; first as ACNN, now as CPSN.

While the topics here may be wide-ranging and varying, CPSN is now the place for me to report (or jot down, if you will) my thoughts on the headlines of the day. In addition, you will find a tab called “Additional Reading” where I post my thoughts & ideas in depth on a particular subject which may or may not apply to a particular headline.

Welcome!

The Old Man

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