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
See Major Contributors

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

Obama Caving To Big Business – Again

Will Obama once again give big business what they yearn for? [...]

Susan Fulton Shocks ‘Fox News Two’

July 12, 2010

This is a video you don’t want to miss — one of Wall Streets’ own making Wall Streeter’s mouth drop open. In this case, Wall Streeter’s being the three political capitalist on CNBC’s “The Call” and another guest.  

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Goldman Sachs “Defines” Core Of Financial Crisis – Video

Our current shadow government, Government Sachs (previously known as Goldman Sachs) has gotten to the “real” cause of last year’s financial crisis. It’s “all about bad lending”; not the market or traders of the market. [...]

The More We Learn, The Worse It Gets! (A Must-Read)

What’s so amazing for me is the fact that these very moral and responsible people decided this issue was so important that they needed to band together and get to the real truth using real facts without allowing political ideology and self-interest interfere with the results. [...]

API — Against Any And All Climate Bills

Naturally Gerard is not in favor of the climate bill. If those like Gerard turn out to be completely wrong, my question is ‘can we afford to find out the hard way just for the sake of the company’s bottom line’? [...]

Health Care Industry — The Common Peoples New “Friends”

If there is a single solitary sole in our country that believes the health care industry is going to volunteer to give up any money, they are living in a fantasy world. We can all bet that before the ink dries on any official document, the industry will come out ahead and the common peoples will once again pay the price. [...]

GM Follows Banks Lead — Shows Their Appreciation to Taxpayers

CEO Fritz Henderson seems to be trying to “justify” this intent by saying that GM was also canceling projects in Mexico, Russia, and India. Well, your highness Sir freaking Henderson, let me ask you this — just how damn much money did those countries contribute to bailing out your sorry ass? [...]

Who’s The Author?

What I couldn’t quite understand was, was the author saying we should just let bygones be bygones in favor of protecting the innocent, or if he was saying we should only dish out a punishment up to a point where the innocent wasn’t hurt. [...]