Countdown to Congressional Elections

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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

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

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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

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House of Representatives

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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%

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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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Are You A Tea Party Hyprocrite??

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

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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

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