Displaying 1,891 To 1,920 Of 16,275 Comments Sue, you may have caught this earlier from “Common Cause” but here it is from “ThinkProgress” REVEALED: Full List Of ALEC’s Corporate Members http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/05/04/478253/alec-corporate-list/ The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has been under fire lately after the 15 major corporations and organizations pulled their support for the conservative organization, which helps quietly implement corporate-backed legislation in statehouses across the country. Now, the watchdog advocacy group group Common Cause has released a complete list of corporations on ALEC’s task forces. And what’s this? There are lots of major online businesses, including AOL (the parent company of the Huffington Post), eBay, Amazon.com, Yahoo, and Time Warner. See complete list: http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=8078765 Whoever leaked this to Common Cause best have his passport in order. 😆 » Posted By bito On May 4, 2012 @ 6:15 pm KQ, I ran the Heartland Institute on Muckety and they scored a 92 on the scale of hanging with the “most influential people”, surprised? I didn’t play with the map much but it might be interesting. http://www.muckety.com/Heartland-Institute/5094349.muckety » Posted By bito On May 4, 2012 @ 4:57 pm I just looked at the Obama 2012 You Tube channel and they have an amazing 2,193 videos, and adding more daily. If you ever need something to do….;-) http://www.youtube.com/user/BarackObamadotcom?feature=watch » Posted By bito On May 4, 2012 @ 4:34 pm In memory of May 4, 1970. What a day it was! On May 4, l970 members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students. The impact of the shootings was dramatic. The event triggered a nationwide student strike that forced hundreds of colleges and universities to close. H. R. Haldeman, a top aide to President Richard Nixon, suggests the shootings had a direct impact on national politics. In The Ends of Power, Haldeman (1978) states that the shootings at Kent State began the slide into Watergate, eventually destroying the Nixon administration. Beyond the direct effects of the May 4th, the shootings have certainly come to symbolize the deep political and social divisions that so sharply divided the country during the Vietnam War era. » Posted By bito On May 4, 2012 @ 1:30 pm I think you are probably right KQ, the Obama 2012 team does have their “Rapid Response” team and they are good. They had a video out while Romney, Bachmann and the VA Governor were just finishing their speeches(lies), while Kerry took forever to respond. Also the internet has made a world of difference in elections. » Posted By bito On May 4, 2012 @ 12:55 pm Hmmm, funk, it probably is worrisome like KQ said R’s are better, more consistent voters, but are all the polls using the same methodology, I don’t think so I think it’s no more or less reliabe than any other of the polls. » Posted By bito On May 4, 2012 @ 12:34 pm You’re right about that KQ. Dems could run J.C.himself and they still would have to spend a ton of money on GOTV to get him elected. As long as I can remember that has been a problem. » Posted By bito On May 4, 2012 @ 12:28 pm That is slap out weird KQ, And to think that the people behind this are adults–I think they are adults. Maybe adults with too much money. I will allow them to be skeptical all they want, that’s their right, but to call people/scientists that believe in global warming evil makes little sense. Like you say believing in science theory is neither good nor evil, it’s sitting there awaiting to proved or disproved. If they are non-believers, they should take their money and donate it to independent scientific research not good and evil. Weird. Andrew Sullivan comments on the billboard at The Daily Beast: In some ways, this is an almost perfect illustration of what has happened to the “right.” A refusal to acknowledge scientific reality; and a brutalist style of public propaganda that focuses entirely on guilt by the most extreme association…. Mann and Ornstein are correct. Large sections of the American right are now close to insane as well as depraved. And there is no Buckley to rein them in. Just countless Jonah Goldbergs seeking to cash in. » Posted By bito On May 4, 2012 @ 12:23 pm West Wing Week: 5/4/12 or “Out of Many, We are One.” This week, the President traveled to Afghanistan to sign an historic Strategic Partnership Agreement, visit with our troops, and address the American people about responsibly ending the war. The President also traveled to Fort Stewart to sign an Executive Order to protect service members and their families from deceptive marketing practices, spoke at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner, welcomed the Prime Minister of Japan, and spoke at the Building and Construction Trades conference. » Posted By bito On May 4, 2012 @ 9:09 am Despite having their pocket constitutions firmly at hand, they couldn’t seem to articulate their constitutional objections to the Affordable Care Act at all. Among the responses were some truly ignorant ones, like “the commerce clause was added to the Constitution” (it wasn’t), or that the Constitution didn’t specifically mention health care. Hey, it doesn’t specifically mention nuclear weapons either, but I don’t see them out there protesting against those. Can we stop referring to this group as something legitimate and simply acknowledge they represent the easily-led group of card-carrying Republicans?
Wow what an ignorant group! They are so damn sure it’s unconstitutional but they can’t even cite why or where the reasoning behind what they believe! » Posted By bito On May 3, 2012 @ 8:29 pm Mitt Romney’s Swift Boat strategy Mitt Romney, the likely GOP presidential nominee, is following a similar attack strategy against President Obama. He’s trying to neutralize the president’s strengths – his handling of the economy, his likeability, and his foreign affairs successes – and turn them into weaknesses. For instance, Romney tells supporters that Obama didn’t cause the Great Recession, “but he’s made it worse.” It’s an absurd statement. Is Romney saying we’ve gone from the Great Recession to a second Great Depression? No credible economist agrees with that outlook. The “he’s made it worse” message caused Romney to fail a fact-checking test by the Washington Post. Romney uses a small business start-up statistic to substantiate his claim, arguing that startups declined under Obama. But The Post says Romney is interpreting the data incorrectly. He also tells supporters that he’s not going to go around apologizing for America’s actions. The Reagan-like message is intended to weaken Obama’s foreign affairs successes, such as eliminating Osama bin Laden. The swift boat-style ads against Obama haven’t begun yet. But they’re coming, and they’ll be far more aggressive in this election than they were against Kerry. http://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/news/blog/2012/04/Mitt-Romneys-Swift-Boat-strategy/ » Posted By bito On May 3, 2012 @ 7:37 pm funk on the D’s out raising the R’s, even though the R’s have a huge advantage with their Super Pacs, the individual fund raising shows voter support over the R’s. » Posted By bito On May 3, 2012 @ 7:22 pm What were you saying Michelle: 10. ROMNEY ENDORSEMENT FALSE — Back in February, Bachmann seemed to take offense at the prospect of endorsing Romney, demanding the Boston Globe retract a “completely false” story reporting that negations were in the works. “Let me be absolutely clear — there are absolutely no negotiations between me and the Romney campaign regarding any pending endorsement of Governor Romney,” she said in a statement. » Posted By bito On May 3, 2012 @ 7:18 pm Let him run, like I said earlier, I don’t think that the country will turn that hard right for him to win and if it’s one the R’s want to win. If he does run and wins the US will be officially a Fascist country. » Posted By bito On May 3, 2012 @ 6:58 pm Does one catch the syndrome of lying hanging around Mitt or do you have to adept at it to be hired by him? Romney Adviser: Al Qaeda Is Stronger After Bin Laden’s Death [….] Earlier this year, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said new U.S. intelligence estimates “lead us to assess that core al Qaida’s ability to perform a variety of functions — including preserving leadership and conducting external operations — has weakened significantly.” But the assessment of the Director of National Intelligence and U.S. intelligence agencies isn’t convincing to Mitt Romney foreign policy adviser Walid Phares. […] Phares provides no information to back this assertion which seems to fly in the face of U.S. intelligence assessments and the accomplishments made by the U.S. military and intelligence community in reducing al Qaeda’s operational capabilities. Data from the National Counterterrorism Center’s Worldwide Incidents Tracking System shows that, in the past year alone, there has been: a 16 percent drop in successful attacks by the al Qaeda network; a 65 percent drop in successful attacks by the al Qaeda network outside Africa; and a 35 percent drop in casualties caused by al Qaeda. Twenty-two al Qaeda network senior-level operatives and leaders have been captured or killed since May 2011. Looks like Mitts campaign strategy is lie about everything, facts be damned and keep his tax returns, Bains “work” and his offshore accounts hidden! » Posted By bito On May 3, 2012 @ 5:04 pm funk, that is good news. Can I mock Michelle Bachmann from this morning? “Take OUR country back!” 😆 » Posted By bito On May 3, 2012 @ 4:46 pm Here is a bit of good news! Challengers outraise GOP incumbents in 1st quarter WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic challengers raised more money than Republican incumbents in 20 competitive House races from California to Virginia during the first three months of the year, and President Barack Obama’s party has the upper-hand in eight other districts where congressmen are retiring. The early look at fundraising, laid out in reports filed with the Federal Election Commission, suggests momentum at this point may be on the Democrats’ side as the party tries to wrest control of the House from the GOP. [….] Washington-based campaign committees that work to elect House Republicans and Democrats are sitting on stockpiles of cash they’ll spend on the most competitive races, another area where Obama’s party at this point has an edge. Outside groups aligned with both parties also are expected to spend millions of dollars to influence the outcome of several dozen competitive races. Money matters, this year especially. Candidates and parties alike will need hefty sums to pay for TV commercials and get-out-the-vote efforts that usually are more expensive in a presidential election year. How many house seats do the Dems need to retake the leadership? 25 (says the article.) » Posted By bito On May 3, 2012 @ 4:15 pm Gotcha, AdLib. if the Paul boys get the GOP to turn right much more, they might just turn the GOP out of being a party. I wish them success. 🙂 » Posted By bito On May 3, 2012 @ 3:33 pm This chat makes me want to bang my head on the wall screaming “why does anyone vote Republican?” » Posted By bito On May 3, 2012 @ 3:29 pm KT, that was what my buddy was saying about the same time you were posting, “Wait for the debates,he can’t lie his way through them. » Posted By bito On May 3, 2012 @ 3:10 pm I liked how he fleshed out his plan for the economy the other day, “just do the opposite of what Obama (no President Obama) does.” Now what the hell does that even mean? Is he afraid to give a serious answer or it it he doesn’t want to answer “I am going to follow the Ryan plan and do away with SS, Medicare and Medicaid, raise your taxes and give the top 5% tax cuts. Is that why he can’t answer because he would lose large if he told the truth? He is not even empty suit, he is empty headed. Does he think he is going to win by attacking PBO with lies? » Posted By bito On May 3, 2012 @ 3:08 pm Rand? You think so? I don’t see the country turning that hard right, look at this year. The R’s had their chance to turn harder right and they got Romney, money or not. Rand may even split the big money if he runs between the country clubbers and the Kochs. Waaay to early, first we need to get PBO reelected 🙂 Yep, the way the R’s run some of their primaries are more like the Soviet Union did, vote all you want then we will decide who wins later. Actually, I’m not sure if that is even a good example, but it sure doesn’t seem to be very democratic. » Posted By bito On May 3, 2012 @ 2:49 pm Romney: Chinese dissident Chen’s departure from American embassy was ‘a dark day for freedom’ Gawd, what an idiot. Reading through the story he doesn’t even know the facts, yet he has to get political on a diplomatic crisis while the Secretary of State is in the middle of it. Dunce! » Posted By bito On May 3, 2012 @ 1:29 pm More on the AZ shooting. Arizona Immigration Law Sponsor Russell Pearce Defends Past Friendship With Neo-Nazi Gunman http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/russell_pearce_jt_ready_massacre.php I remember Pearce hanging around him but I couldn’t place the name and picture together. Now that the shooter, JT Ready, is dead Ole’ Russell will be the only one with the “facts” on their falling out. » Posted By bito On May 3, 2012 @ 1:15 pm That vid was posted by the “Rapid Response Team” while they were still speaking! Romney may have to keep his speaking schedule a secret. That should draw the crowds. 😉 » Posted By bito On May 3, 2012 @ 1:08 pm Wowza! Mitt talking to his kinda people, the “haves and the have mores!” (GWB Romney in Anchorage, KY Mitt Romney addressing donors at a fundraiser in Anchorage, KY at the home of “Papa John” Schnatter. Is this what he is going to campaign on?? A pack o’ lies? Mitt Romney Versus Reality: Global Edition » Posted By bito On May 3, 2012 @ 12:17 pm Ron Paul’s Delegate Antics Could Spell Trouble For GOP Convention Across the country, fired-up Paul supporters are crashing the delegate-nominating process long after the rest of the party has moved onto the general election. Exploiting a byzantine nominating process that often flies under the radar, supporters are working the system to gain delegate majorities in states Paul lost in the primaries or caucuses (he hasn’t won a single contest outright). I fail to understand the GOP nominating procedure nor do I understand what Ron Paul expects to get from all this. Taking the GOP further to the right at the convention? Getting a vote on his nomination? Making the GOP looked divided on national TeeVee, what exactly? » Posted By bito On May 3, 2012 @ 12:04 pm DNC Hits Romney, McDonnell, Bachmann On Women’s Health The DNC released a web video Thursday connecting Mitt Romney to the anti-Planned Parenthood, mandatory ultrasound policies of the two supporters he’s appearing with today in Virginia, Gov. Bob McDonnell and Michele Bachmann. The video goes through clips of all three supporting measures that the DNC says are “turning back the clock on women’s health.” The video comes just as the Obama campaign is stepping up its efforts to paint Romney and his policies as harmful to women. Can’t say the DNC had their timing down on this one. Rapid Response! Romney, Bachmann, McDonnell: Turning Back the Clock on Women’s Health » Posted By bito On May 3, 2012 @ 10:59 am But he has sources Khirad, a Russian Girlfriend (or maybe a Russian mail order bride) I have a Russian girlfriend, and she tells me that over there, in intelligence circles, they don’t believe bin Laden’s really dead,” he continued. So if he doesn’t find the body in this exact location, he has proven that Osama bin Laden isn’t dead after all, thus proving that the government is not to be trusted. Either way, it’s a win-win for Warren. » Posted By bito On May 3, 2012 @ 9:52 am C’lady, I always thought you had to be a card carrying/concealed carrying red nek to live in Gilbert. 😉 I noticed that you retweeted the Muckety story/map on Patricia McKeon race. Where is that district, do you know of her from your work? http://news.muckety.com/2012/05/01/defense-contractors-donate-to-obscure-ca-assembly-race/36901 » Posted By bito On May 3, 2012 @ 9:21 amComments Posted By bito
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Pretty amazing story, how much more blatant can be showing how corrupt they can be?
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