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
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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

Why Should Muslims Be Given Special Lawful Consideration?

If you are going to live in this country you will abide by our laws and rules just as every other American does! You will not be less prosecuted by the law simply because of your religious beliefs. [...]

December 20th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Religion | One comment

Muslims Get Labor Day Replaced With Their Own Holiday

August 1, 2008

The Facts

Tyson Foods of Shelbyville, Tennessee has caved to their more-than-half Muslim employees and agreed to drop Labor Day and replace it with Eid al-Fitr, a Muslim holiday. The holiday will be October 1st this year, the end of Ramadan. Tyson Foods employs 700 Muslims, and says they agreed to it because “the majority asked for it”. The Muslim employees had already convinced Tyson to build a Muslim prayer room inside the plant. Continue Reading » »

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August 1st, 2008 | Tags: , , | Category: Religion | One comment

Muslims Insist On Educating America On Their Religion

July 22, 2008

The Facts

The New York chapter of Islamic Circle of North America is spending $48,000 to put up placards on the New York subway system to promote Islamic religion. They say it is to educate America, because “we deserve to know”. Representative Peter King, a Republican from New York, is opposing the campaign, and is asking the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority to reject the proposal. Continue Reading » »

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July 22nd, 2008 | Tags: , | Category: Religion | Leave a comment

Another Muslim Father Kills His Own Children

January 7, 2008

The Facts

Over the past several months, we have heard about Muslim fathers killing or injuring their own children because they, the children, have “dishonored” the father or the family. The Muslims in question are not living in a Muslim country, they are living here in the United States, Canada, and other non-Muslim countries.  Continue Reading » »

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January 7th, 2008 | Tags: , , | Category: Religion | Leave a comment

Mapping Muslims

November 12, 2007

The Facts

Quote: A plan by the Los Angeles Police Department’s counter-terrorism bureau to map Muslim groups in the city has angered civil rights activists and community leaders, it was reported Friday.

The Los Angeles Times reported that the LAPD wants to create a map of Muslim groups in order to [...]

November 12th, 2007 | Tags: , | Category: General | Leave a comment