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

“Automaker Sacrificed Quality And Got Burned”

These modern-day bosses knew the company’s reputation for building high-quality autos was one of only two ingredients that had led them to becoming the number one car maker. But driven by greed, they chose to sacrifice quality. [...]

The New Catch-All Blame Word

Wall Street’s top priority to completely defeat any and all efforts to force them back into the real world where the rest of the nation lives. To accomplish their mission they must convince the public that the problem with the economy and recovery lies in what Washington is doing to them. [...]

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. [...]

Is This Supposed To Come As A Shock?

If anyone is surprised at this, then they have been letting other people do their thinking for them (politicians and news media). The banks (and those that handed our money over) knew what they were going to do with the money as soon as they got their hands on it. Free money is always spent selfishly. [...]

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

Murtha has been connected to several corrupt cases, many where his brother and nephew were involved. For the life of me I can not understand why the FBI has not chopped the legs from under this crook. But Murtha has been on the job for 35 years, and who knows what kind of dirt he has about other powerful people. [...]

Random Thoughts on Other Notable Headlines of the Day --- Issue XXXII

Our “respectable” elected officials gave the credit card companies a year to continue credit card abuse. Now it appears they just needed the year to come up with different ways to rip off customers before they started “loosing” unearned money. [...]

How Our Modern Free Market Destroyed Our Free Market

Beginning about 1980 we decided to make the bulk of our money in the stock market rather than by making widgets. At the same time we decided to make that money on Wall Street, the national debt started accelerating. As such, since our government does not get its money from the stock market, we have grown in debt to the point now that “we routinely borrow from the poorest nations on earth”. [...]