When reason fails, people fall back on superstition. The American society has long operated under the basic principle that hard work creates abundance and abundance may solve all our earthly ills. When that logic, which has always been one of our foundations, along with “fair play” and “brotherhood” among citizens…although a creaky stair-climb with many [...]
Entries Tagged as 'lobbyists'
Lies My Republican Candidates Told Me.
October 28th, 2011 · Comments Off · Culture, Politics, Populism, The Budget, Wall Street
The Republican candidates are out on the Old Washington Trail. It leads from Iowa to New Hampshire to the Carolinas, with stops in Nevada and other similarly insignificant places along the way. The costumes are atrocious, the tricks are many and the treats are, well, few and far between. But the missatements of fact…well…they are [...]
Tags: Economics·Health Care·health care lobby·Herman Cain·lobbyists·Michele Bachmann·Mit Romney·Neoconservative obstruction·Neoconservative propaganda·Neoconservatives·Newt Gingrich·Politics·Republican campaign lies·Republican obstruction·Republican Party lies·Republican Presidential Campaign 2011 and 2012·Rick Perry·Right Wing Propaganda
A Time for Action
May 27th, 2011 · Comments Off · Lobbying, Politics, Wall Street
Normally, we all look to events for encouragement or emotional uplift that demands that we get up out of our chairs. Not everyone. Some people are motivated 24/7/365 against injustice, denial of human rights or intense need by some member or segment of society. When Haiti happened, for example, or when the monster earthquakes hit [...]
Tags: billionaire lobbyists·billionaires·Koch family·lobbyists·Nazi political philosophy·Neocons·Republican governors
The Catastrophic Failure of the American Spirit
May 1st, 2011 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Human Rights, Politics
Today is one of the saddest days in the history of the American Republic. Americans proved that they have failed in maintaining the spirit of communal support that built this country. We have clearly failed when tested. The Rich have taken control, just as Jefferson and Adams and George Washington feared could happen. Democrats in [...]
Tags: greed·lobbyists·political propaganda·Right Wing Propaganda·the American Spirit·the American voter·the lessons of history·The Super-Rich·wars
Neocons and Neo-Fascists in the Global Village
July 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Corporations and Industry, Culture, International affairs, Lobbying, Politics, Populism, Wall Street, wars and militarism
What is America? Is it merely a flag? Is it an armed force, with tanks and guns and planes? After all, that’s what many people see in villages around the world. That’s what simple groups of small villagers saw in Iraq…people with no television, no media elite, no sophisticated intellectual government in their region to [...]
Tags: American culture·lobbyists·Neo-Fascists·Neocon Republicans·Neocons·obstruction·progressive policies
Government by Lobbyist
July 11th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Economics, Health Care, Lobbying, Politics, Wall Street
The recent Citizens United verdict by the Supreme Court makes one thing clear. For the time being, at least, lobbying is here to stay and has been given even greater abilities to interfere in the legislation and administration of the United States. What we have now is a law that says that any corporation, and [...]
Tags: corporate lobbying·health care lobbying·Lobbying·lobbyists·Neconservative lobbyists·Republican lobbyists·Wall Street lobbyists
Debts, Lies and Obstructionism
May 12th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, energy, Politics
No mistake about it. We are in crisis mode. No matter what the stock market or the boys knocking down millions on Wall Street say…we are in an economic crisis. And we are in a political crisis. We have trillions of debt that we need to pay off. We owe about $12.8 trillion of which [...]
Tags: corporate lobbyists·lobbyists·Neocon Republican obstruction·Republican obstruction
Lobbying: Our Worst National Disaster
April 16th, 2010 · Comments Off · Lobbying, Media, Politics
There are about 14,000 lobbyists now in Washington. That is more than 26 lobbyists for every Senator, Congressman and member of the White House staff. Last year, 2009, lobbyists spent a staggering $3.46 billion on influencing government. This is a huge problem for the United States of America and its future. If you are a [...]
Tags: corporate influence·corporate lobbyists·corporation lobbying·health insurance lobbyists·independent government·John Boehner·Lobbying·lobbyist influence·lobbyist money in Washington·lobbyists·Mitch McConnell·Neocon lobbyist pandering·Neocon lobbyists·Republican lobbyist pandering
The Next American Revolution
February 27th, 2010 · Comments Off · Economics, Health Care, Media, Politics, wars and militarism
It is time for all Americans to stop what they are doing and think about the future. Your future has already been mapped out for you by a relatively small percentage of Americans, who want to eliminate the middle class. The Neoconservatives, on a mission for the very wealthy and huge international corporations, have the [...]
Tags: Bush·Bush tax cuts·deficits·health care reform·how to pay for deficits·Iraq war·lobbyists·Medicare·national debt·Neoconservative propaganda·Neoconservative think tanks·Neoconservatives·Reagan·Reagan tax cuts·Social Security·tax cuts·tax reform·wars
The Neoconservative Republican Agenda Is Quite Simple. Lie and Lie Again.
February 18th, 2010 · Comments Off · Politics
In the cool, rarefied air of Senate multi-millionaires it may be possible to conduct policy discussions with great civility. At least on the non-producing Democratic side. On the other side, the Neocon Obstructionist Party smiles, makes sarcastic comments in the legislative chamber and then votes against everything. No exaggeration. They have voted against everything by [...]
Tags: health care reform·lobbyist-paid politicians·lobbyists·neoconservative agenda·neoconservative lies. Neoconservative·Republican lies·stimulus plan
Are Neoconservatives Making Us a Laughing Stock Around the World?
February 9th, 2010 · Comments Off · Health Care, Politics
I am sure that Senator Mitch McConnell, whom some pundit called, I believe, a “turtle-hybrid” recently feels that he has accomplished quite a bit for his Party this last year. The Neoconservatives, despite repeated and repeated and frustratingly, boringly repeated efforts by the President to have them join in, be part of the government of [...]
Tags: Add new tag·Health Care·health care debate·lobbyist pandering·lobbyists·Neoconservatives·obstruction
We Can’t All “Just Get Along.” Here’s Why.
February 4th, 2010 · Comments Off · Media, Politics
Our political system is broken. It didn’t happen accidentally. It was deliberate and it has been happening for a long time, gradually, methodically. Corporations have taken all their chips and gone all-in with the Neoconservative Republicans. And the Neocons are now 100% for corporations. They are the arm of corporations in Congress. Take the Republican [...]
Tags: legislation·lobbyists·neocon political ideology·Politics·Right Wing
Over Neoconservative Obstruction and Health Care Lobbying, Health Reform Passes.
December 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · Health Care, Politics
Right to the end, the Neoconservative Obstructionists in the Senate fought their hardest for the health insurance industry, trying to get every benefit they could and putting pressure on all Democratic Senators with any political vulnerability. They fired salvo after salvo at health care reform. They said that the American People were basically ungrateful to [...]
Tags: Health Care·health care lobby·health insurance·health insurance industry·lobbyists·Neoconservative·obstruction
Before Neocons Call People “Nazis” They Should Look in the Mirror.
December 19th, 2009 · Comments Off · Culture, Health Care, Media, Politics
Shame on the Neoconservatives, as they call themselves. They want to be called “Republicans.” But we can’t really call them Republicans, can we? They are not traditional Republicans. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower were more or less traditional Republicans. Neoconservatives are more like the old Dixiecrats. In fact the manic racist Strom Thurmond [...]
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Down to the Wire on Health Care Reform
December 9th, 2009 · Comments Off · Culture, Health Care, Politics
Americans used to be winners. Now we are losers. The current crop of middle-aged Americans are so far from reality that it almost makes a grown man…of which there are fewer and fewer…cry. We started out a year ago electing a man as President who said that he would initiate the process of creating a [...]
Tags: Congressional debate on health care·Health Care·health care debate·health care lobby·health care reform·health insurance·health insurance industry·lobbyists·Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska·Senator Blanche Lincoln·Senator Evan Bayh·Senator Landrieu·Senator Lieberman·Senator Mark Pryor