It isn’t fair to focus on the House of Representatives, since the SCOTUS decision on Citizens United, popularized as “corporations are people,” is just as evident in the Senate and the White House. But that whole “People’s House” description of the House of Representatives makes it an excellent example of how the meaning of “people” [...]
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Fox Executives Respond About Karl Rove’s Role on Election Night
What role was Karl Rove playing when he heatedly contradicted Fox News? – New York Times THIS IS the question that reverberates after what played out on the evening of Election Day. Chris Wallace kicked it off by saying he’d talked with the Romney campaign, who was challenging the results of Ohio and the calling [...]
Nine States Backing Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United
This story won’t gain any traction in the midst of the presidential campaign season that’s setting new records on money spent. I mean, where’s the entertainment in dull stuff like Citizens United when you can keep score (at least on the Democratic side of things) with Big Bird, binders, bayonets and horses? The thing is, [...]
Back to the Bain Attack
According to Priorities, the ad is part of a multi-million dollar television and online ad campaign slated to air in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin, key battleground states. [The Hill] “BUSINESSMAN” HAS many connotations, with the Obama SUPER Pac determined that voters in swing states will remember. “Mitt Romney is making promises [...]
Top Story: Mitt Romney’s Talking Points to Business Owners and Political Pressure on Employees
In the post-Citizens United era, “there is not much political protection for at-will employees in the private sector workplace,” explains University of Marquette Law Professor Paul Secunda, a pro-union labor lawyer. “It is conceivable, under the current legal regime, that an employer like Koch could actually get away with forcing his employees, on pains of [...]
American Crossroads Keeps Coming at Obama on the Economy
Strategists say Crossroads is spending $6.6 million on ads in eight swing states, aggressively undercutting Obama’s campaign slogan: “Forward.” At the same time, the associated group Crossroads GPS is dropping another hefty sum into the North Dakota Senate race, attempting to take down a surprisingly resilient Democratic nominee, former state Attorney General Heidi Heitkamp. Both [...]
News Desk: Reddit Snags Obama, Who Calls for Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United
“Over the longer term, I think we need to seriously consider mobilizing a constitutional amendment process to overturn Citizens United (assuming the Supreme Court doesn’t revisit it). Even if the amendment process falls short, it can shine a spotlight of the super-PAC phenomenon and help apply pressure for change,” Obama wrote. [Politico] REDDIT USERS got [...]
Top Story: Accuracy in Super PAC Ads Brings Incriminating Team Romney Response
“To that point, if people had been in Massachusetts, under Governor Romney’s health care plan, they would have had health care,” Andrea Saul, Romney’s campaign press secretary, said during an appearance on Fox News. “There are a lot of people losing their jobs and losing their health care in President [Barack] Obama’s economy.” – Romney [...]
Bernie Sanders: ‘Responding to Citizens United and the Rise of Super PACs’
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Yesterday, on NPR’s Weekend Edition, Sunday, Andrea Seabrook reminded listeners that this time last year, the “debt ceiling” battle was in full swing, which eventually saw the appointment of the bipartisan “Super Committee,” a “come up with a solution — or else” idea. The consequences [...]
Romney In Shambles
IT’S THE TWITTER hashtag, #romneyinshambles, and it’s been trending for 24 hours. It’s the biggest legacy from Romney’s foreign policy gaffe tour. Jimmy Fallon, my fave, starts off the National Journal’s round-up of Romney jokes last night. Mentioning a town hall setting that will be part of the presidential campaign, he says one of the [...]
Karl Rove, Koch Bros., 60 Plus Hide Behind ‘Social Welfare’ Label While Targeting Democrats
**UPDATED** The complaint cites Crossroads GPS, co-founded by Republican strategist Karl Rove; Americans For Prosperity, supported by the billionaire industrialists David and Charles Koch; and 60 Plus, which bills itself as the senior citizens’ conservative alternative to AARP. The three groups have all told the IRS they are social welfare organizations, just like thousands of [...]
Edward Klein’s Jeremiah Wright Interview Goes Wide with Swift-boating Proposal, and Sean Hannity’s Help
“The world is about to see Jeremiah Wright and understand his influence on Barack Obama for the first time in a big, attention-arresting way,” says the proposal, which was overseen by Fred Davis and commissioned by Joe Ricketts, the founder of the brokerage firm TD Ameritrade. Mr. Ricketts is increasingly putting his fortune to work [...]
Romney’s Bill Clinton Swipe Followed by Whopper Rove Ad
MITT ROMNEY IS betting that tweaking Pres. Obama on Bill Clinton in Iowa will land, while just making stuff up. That he’s using a plot line that is also one of Edward Klein’s favorites illustrates the value of Regnery publishing to the right. Romney’s cracks got the attention of Politico, CNN, USA Today, Huffington Post, [...]
Bill As Barack’s Ultimate ATM Machine
When he took the backyard podium, Obama, 50, noted Clinton’s “remarkable” economic record in his two White House terms and referred frequently to the political powerhouse standing behind him, who stands to be a huge fundraising force in the final months of the presidential campaign. – Obama and Bill Clinton campaign together on economy IT [...]
Humor in the Face of State Sanctioned Superiority for the 1%
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Finding the humor, or creating it, is crucial in advocacy, not to mention in life in general. It’s not ignoring, avoiding or minimizing the deluge of serious stuff dumped on us daily. Rather, humor can be a way to focus on “issues,” take an energy-building [...]
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