Further evidence of why we need to kill campaign contributions

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I think we all agree we need to get the big, ugly, corrupting influence of the money from the wealthy and corporations out of our election system and so, our government. Until we do, nothing will change.

Link: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-rachel-maddow-show/47623790#47623790

Go get 'em, Claire

A Senator Fights Back "Claire McCaskill challenges outside political ads, but her voice may be drowned out"

And we know this to be disgustingly too true.

We've seen the Right Wing and Republicans gearing up for a big fight over the Senator's seat this Fall. Naturally, with the Supreme Court's ugly, ignorant and so-wrong "Citizen's United" ruling, opening up unlimited corporate and other coffers, these groups are going after all the vulnerable Democratic candidates for office they can.

Claire McCaskill is certainly one of those, sadly enough.

In spite of the fact that she's more standing up for the "little guy" and the working man and woman of the country, she's going to have to fight tooth and nail, so to speak, in order to keep her seat.

Her very Republican, Right Wing counterpart in the Senate, Roy Blunt, meanwhile, is fighting to have government have the first and last words on women's very personal, reproductive rights. He's also fighting for "Big Oil" and for a Canadian company, remarkably enough, so they can transfer their dirty tar sands oil from Canada, all across the US, down the Houston and our Southernmost states so it can go out to world oil markets, yet Ms. McCaskill has to fight for her seat.

It's disgusting.

We, as Missourians, have to stand up and make sure Claire is not surreptitiously ousted from the Senate this Fall.

She's not perfect, no--who of us, is? But she's working for us, for Missourians--the average guy and gal--and we need her in the Senate.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/a-senator-fights-back.html?_r=1

The presidential election, to date--and with a warning

The latest, today, on this 2012 presidential campaign, supposedly: Karl Rove’s Electoral Map: If Election Were Held Today, Obama Would Win

If this is, in fact, Karl Rove's national electoral map and if it isn't just created on his/their part to scare their followers, it says a lot about where the campaign is, naturally.

With this, the Right Wing and Republicans and Tea Partiers and corporations and wealthy and even Libertarians--and yes, separately, in some cases, the racists, too--will be doing their best to scare their followers into giving mightily to their campaigns against President Obama.

This is going to be one big, ugly, expensive political year, folks. Get ready for it.

Link: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/karl-roves-electoral-map-if-election-were-held-today-obama-would-win/; http://www.businessinsider.com/karl-rove-electoral-map-obama-wins-2012-4

Three American "worsts"

And by "worsts", I don't mean German sausages. First, number one:

If for no other reasons than that he lied to us--the entire nation--to get us to attack, pre-emptively and into a war in Iraq, gave tax cuts to the wealthiest of Americans, attacked Afghanistan, too, for a total of two wars at once, without raising any taxes and then it goes on from there. Worst. Ever. Second "worst":

For all of the ugliness and money and greed and corruption he has unleashed on our country, Karl Rove has proven himself, time and again, one of the worst, most vile creatures in the nation. He's partly responsible for, of course, George "Dubya'" Bush getting seated in the White House but then, too, for the ugly, divisive, partisan split in America that exists even to this day, let alone the "Citizens United" decision by the Supreme Court, along with a whole host of other real beauties. Finally, the John Roberts Supreme Court:

They've done a lot of things that have been just horribly, patently ugly on the nation but I'll only mention one item here and that is the Citizens United opinion which said a) that a corporation is a human being and b) that those corporations can spend unlimited amounts of money in our political system and campaigns to get their messages out to us, the American people. History will show this to be one of the most foul, distorting, corrupting rulings handed down in the length of the nation. And now, they may also kill health care reform in the country. I feel sick. Links: http://mostcorrupt.com/Most-Corrupt-Administrations.html; http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article5085.html; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Rove; http://youtu.be/mmwdevPRycY;

Now that it's nearly Autumn....

What Fox "News", the Right Wing, the Rethuglicans, Tea Party and all the other crazies would want you to believe:

Corporations are killing us

 

Last night I did watch this documentary on HBO, "Hot Coffee", telling how corporations spent and are spending millions upon millions of dollars to advertise and market to us to get us to believe, in this case, we needed tort reform, all so they could reap many more millions of dollars in profits and benefits for themselves, all at our expense. They're buying--literally--our judges and justice system and cleaning us out. We're being played for suckers, folks, big time. Now, word out today shows a house in Wyoming that is "a single address in this sleepy city of 60,000 people..." where "more than 2,000 companies are registered." In this way, the corporations can, well just read: "A Reuters investigation has found the house at 2710 Thomes Avenue serves as a little Cayman Island on the Great Plains. It is the headquarters for Wyoming Corporate Services, a business-incorporation specialist that establishes firms which can be used as 'shell' companies, paper entities able to hide assets." I tell you, the corporations are playing us, they're using us, they're taking gross advantage of us and yes, they are exploiting and, in the end, killing us and tearing apart the country. We have to put a stop to them and these practices. Go, see this movie, "Hot Coffee". You'll be astounded at what you learn. It's yet more evidence that, if there were a hell, George W. Bush and Karl Rove would surely have to have one of the hottest places in it, reserved especially for them. Links: http://news.yahoo.com/special-report-little-house-secrets-great-plains-113759191.html; http://hotcoffeethemovie.com/

You ought to see this movie

 

We've been had. Big time. Again. By the corporations. A documentary is coming out this Monday on HBO you really ought to see--and for so many reasons. It is "Hot Coffee" and it's about how the corporations in this country have used and are using us, mostly through advertising, and they're turning our courts and so much of the country against us. Shocker, huh? Links: http://hotcoffeethemovie.com/; http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2011/06/24/hot-coffee-sue

Some Hallowe'en education from Bill Maher

Oct. 29, 2010 New Rule: No Tea Party Halloween

It can't get any better said than that.

Sadly true.

Quote of the day--and you want to vote Republican?

Not only is income and wealth in America more concentrated in fewer hands than it's been in 80 years, but those hands are buying our democracy as never before -- and they're doing it behind closed doors.
Hundreds of millions of secret dollars are pouring into congressional and state races in this election cycle. The Koch brothers (whose personal fortunes grew by $5 billion last year) appear to be behind some of it, Karl Rove has rounded up other multimillionaires to fund right-wing candidates, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is funneling corporate dollars from around the world into congressional races, and Rupert Murdoch is evidently spending heavily.
No one knows for sure where this flood of money is coming from because it's all secret.
But you can safely assume its purpose is not to help America's stranded middle class, working class, and poor. It's to pad the nests of the rich, stop all reform, and deregulate big corporations and Wall Street -- already more powerful than since the late 19th century when the lackeys of robber barons literally deposited sacks of cash on the desks of friendly legislators.  --Robert Reich, "The Secret, Big Money Takeover of America

Only to a lot of us--those of us paying attention, mind you-- it's no secret.  At all.

Link to original post:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/the-secret-bigmoney-takeo_b_754938.html

Three sides of three prominent Republican mouths

First up, Rep. John "Get Outta My Sunlight" Boehner:

Boehner Claims He’s Said ‘From The Beginning’ That BP Should Pay For All Oil Clean Up

Click here to read about this beauty.

"Boehner the Bonehead" first says BP and the government are both responsible for the oil spill and clean up, then he says only BP is, then he goes back to saying both of them. It becomes clear he isn't sure what he himself means. Crazy.

Next, from Texas Governor Rick "Don't Make Me Think" Perry:

After Balancing His Budget With The Stimulus, Perry Again Says He’ll Reject Federal Funding

You can read all about that here.

Keep in mind, the good Governor has done this before--taking Federal money for Texas but claiming it was all so horrible, virtually simultaneously.

And lastly, from Karl "I'll Just Shout Over You" Rove:

Rove Says Obama Should Hear From Academics On Oil Spill, Then Complains He Is Surrounded By Academics

Check that out here.

And some of the American electorate believe this crap. Or they profess to, anyway. They're comfortable with it all and the Party and these people.

Yikes.

If you weren't familiar with the phrase "talking out of both sides of one's mouth", you should be now.

Thanks, Bill!

At least someone's trying