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

Stimulus Programs: Working Or Not?

Has the stimulus’ worked or not? It all depends on who you ask. But finally a learned and educated answer. [...]

What Cable News Network Lags Behind All Others?

I’ve said for years that CNN was the most unbiased middle-of-the-road network of all cable news networks. So I guess I should take some sort of comfort in that the facts now back me up. But I can’t. [...]

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

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. [...]

CNN’s Reliable Sources Lets Truth Leak Out About Sex Scandal

June 29, 2008

The Facts

On CNN’s Reliable Sources today host Howard Kurtz was discussing the latest sex scandal involving Lara Logan with Jonah Goldberg, National Review’s Editor-at-Large. Logan is CBS’s Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent. It seems that Logan had an affair with Joe Burkett, a State Department contractor for the US in Iraq. Joe and his wife Kimberly Burkett are divorcing, presumably over the affair. But this isn’t the entire story; evidently Logan was also having an affair with CNN’s Michael Ware at the same time. Ware is CNN’s International Correspondent. Continue Reading » »

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Any Question On Who Ali Velshi Represents?

June 11, 2008

The Facts

CNN’s Ali Velshi was giving another report this morning on oil, just as all news outlets are doing now on a daily basis’. Ali was dressed in a black three-piece suit today and had been wearing a sheriff’s “badge”, but taken it off for this report. He was giving his usual justifications for the current price of crude oil, but the major point in this particular piece was the bill that was put down in the Senate yesterday. That bill, among other things, would have place a windfall profit tax on several oil companies. In his support of the bill being defeated, Velshi said, among other things, that if we put this tax on the profits, oil companies would “just take their business elsewhere”. Continue Reading » »

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CNN Hires Conservative Tony Snow

April 21, 2008

The Facts

CNN announced today that former Fox News commentator and White House press secretary Tony Snow will be joining CNN as a conservative commentator. Snow has bounced around over the past two decades between being a politician and a news man/commentator. The CNN web page announcing Snow’s hiring allowed reader comments. The comments vary widely. Snow is praised, accused of being far right, far left, and an outright liar. Continue Reading » »

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Ali Velshi On Oil Prices – Again

April 17, 2008

The Facts

Once again Ali Velshi of CNN talked about the price of oil this morning. He pointed out that oil was going up an average now of $1 per day. John Roberts asked Velshi where does this all end. Velshi answered “Well, this is so speculative that you don’t really know when it ends. It ends when speculators decide that this is not the best bet. There are better places for their money. And part of that means when the stock market, when real estate, when other things become more reasonable investments, but the fact is there is a lot of demand for oil. So if you can trade in oil, you’re going to make money until there are other places to make money. It’s considered safe, believe it or not”. Continue Reading » »

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It’s Confirmed – No Recession According To Ali Velshi

April 9, 2008

The Facts

CNN’s Ali Velshi confirmed to us all this morning that there is no recession or slow down of the economy. During one of his reports today on American Morning, Velshi quoted the higher-than-expected sale prices for some art sold at Sotheby’s yesterday, citing this as a sign that there was no slow down in the economy. He went on to talk about what items were sold and how much people spent on those items. Continue Reading » »

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