Stacy Summary: We got so much crap from Koch-bots here about how, contrary to what we were warning, they was freedom and Constitution lovin’ guys. Yeah right. They’re all for denying freedom to everyone they don’t like . . . and there are loads of people they don’t like.
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Stacy Summary: Thank god these ‘freedom’ lovers are going to protect us from the oligarchs and banksters. Um . . . not? What a sad, sad day that this movement has gone from a group that was against bailouts (which happened under the Bush / Paulson regime) and against the Fed, to becoming a fanatical bunch of partisan apologists for their own party’s crimes.
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Stacy Summary: The merger of party and corporation continues. Leo Strauss would be proud. (Oh, and get ready for denial of service attack in the next hour or so once the algorithm / bot finds this item).
The Cane report said the companies, including BP, BASF, Bayer and Solvay, which are some of Europe’s biggest emitters, had collectively donated $240,200 to senators who blocked action on global warming – more even than the $217,000 the oil billionaires and Tea Party bankrollers, David and Charles Koch, have donated to Senate campaigns.
The biggest single donor was the German pharmaceutical company Bayer, which gave $108,100 to senators. BP made $25,000 in campaign donations, of which $18,000 went to senators who opposed action on climate change. Recipients of the European campaign donations included some of the biggest climate deniers in the Senate, such as Inhofe of Oklahoma, who has called global warming a hoax.
The foreign corporate interest in America’s midterms is not restricted to Europe. A report by ThinkProgress, operated by the Centre for American Progress, tracked donations to the Chamber of Commerce from a number of Indian and Middle Eastern oil coal and electricity companies.
Foreign interest does not stop with the elections. The Guardian reported earlier this year that a Belgian-based chemical company, Solvay, was behind a front group that is suing to strip the Obama administration of its powers to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
UPDATE: Does America want tea? No. They want justice.
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Stacy Summary: Excellent appearance from Karl Denninger on Dylan Ratigan’s show. (Get ready for the Koch-bots)!
As Denninger points out, these groups attaching themselves to the Tea Party have made it all about guns, gays, God. And you can see that in action in the demagogues like Joe Miller and Christine O’Donnell, who publicly claim they are all about defending the Constitution. But, clearly, for them, ‘Constitution’ is a codeword for ‘bible,’ for between Joe Miller violating the First Amendment in arresting a journalist and even worse, having active duty military perform those arrests in a political context; and then this from Christine O’Donnell, who claims to be a constitutional expert and yet, as we see in this compilation from Anderson Cooper, she knows embarrassingly little. Neither talks about “rampant theft” of taxpayers’ dollars going to bailout private oligarchs. Nor do their supporters seem to care.
The demagogues being selected under the banner of Tea Party clearly have little concern with, as Denninger puts it, “the corruption of American Politics and the blatant and outrageous theft from all Americans that has resulted.”
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Stacy Summary: A picture tells a thousand words. And not one of those thousand words suggest a party that respects the Constitution (they can’t even get past the First Amendment?) or liberty (at least not for those that challenge their own particular world view). Here is Alaska Dispatch editor, Tom Hopfinger, ‘arrested’ by a private security force for trying to ask Joe Miller a question on public property:
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Stacy Summary: Will the Koch-bots make of Ron Paul’s message to them? The likes of Koch Industries, who organized and financed the Palin/Beck fronted rally, rely on the continued ignorance of the heavy carbon taxes on Americans to finance the increasingly expensive military adventures abroad to secure oil reserves for the likes of their company. So how do you think Koch’s front group will respond? And do you think the Koch Party will fight to remove these taxes on the rest of the population that does not support the corporate welfare scheme for Big Oil?
“As many frustrated Americans who have joined the Tea Party realize, we cannot stand against big government at home while supporting it abroad. We cannot talk about fiscal responsibility while spending trillions on occupying and bullying the rest of the world. We cannot talk about the budget deficit and spiraling domestic spending without looking at the costs of maintaining an American empire of more than 700 military bases in more than 120 foreign countries. We cannot pat ourselves on the back for cutting a few thousand dollars from a nature preserve or an inner-city swimming pool at home while turning a blind eye to a Pentagon budget that nearly equals those of the rest of the world combined.”
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Stacy Summary: Feel free to answer how you would answer each poll question. Is the Tea Party the fabled Third Party of which we have been hearing predictions from the likes of Gerald Celente?
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