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

Healthcare – American is Number One!!

June 23, 2010

THE WORD IS OUT !! AMERICA IS NUMBER ONE. ON WHAT YOU ASK ?? SPENDING MORE ON HEALTH CARE THAN ANY OTHER DEVELOPED NATION — AND — GETTING LESS !! Who’s number one ?? New Zealand WITH SOCIALIZED MEDICINE !!!!

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Democrats Win, Republicans Win And The Health Care Industry Wins – The People Loose

No Democrat in the Senate should have to worry about having a heavily laden war chest for their next re-election campaign. The health care industry owes them big. [...]

Why Not This Health Care System?

But don’t be misled — this is the exact same reason the Republicans don’t want health care reform. [...]

The Corporate-Friendly Democratic President

Next year, during mid-term elections, Democrats better hope the voters haven’t realized the full impact of just how bad this bill really is. Democratic voters and a lot of Independents voted for them in 2006 and Obama in 2008 because they were fed up with the Republicans robbing them blind and handing it all over to the corporate world. [...]

Health Care: A Right Or A Privilage? And Who Decides?

So exactly what is a “right”? We hear a lot about abortion rights and right to life. But isn’t a right to good health care a “right”-to-life? Without it, one dies. [...]

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

October 12, 2009  

Hail to the Bankers! – They Never Give Up

Back in May of this year I posted New Credit Card Bill Allows for Continued Theft — and the banks haven’t let me down. I’ve been proven right on several occasions. In that post I questioned why our lawmakers wanted to wait nine months to implement a new law that would restrict credit card companies from ripping off consumers. Then I offered an answer: Give the credit card companies time to go into high gear to rip off consumers before the new law took affect. Among many other examples I could offer, this one is the latest.

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More Strong Support For Real Health Care Reform

Unfortunately for the public, opponents of real reform admit there’s a problem but offer no serious ways of fixing it. Why? Because doing so would reduce the high-flying life styles of the industry from the mesosphere down to the stratosphere. And for them, that’s not acceptable. [...]

Health Insurer WellPoint Takes On Maine

October 8, 2009

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Maine is suing the state for not letting them raise their rates by 18.5 percent. The state regulators say they only deserve a 10.5 percent increase, but the insurer say that’s unfair. The insurer is owned by WellPoint, a company that reported a $2.5 billion profit in 2008.

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