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Wall Street Republicans Form ‘Action Tank’ To Push Corporate Agenda

By Victor Zapanta on Feb 6th, 2010 at 5:15 pm

Wall Street Republicans Form ‘Action Tank’ To Push Corporate Agenda

Just two weeks after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of opening the floodgates of corporate donations into electoral politics, a class of Wall Street Republicans have assembled around a new GOP group that aims to capitalize on corporate America’s empowerment. According to The New York Times, the group aims to “develop and market conservative ideas…hoping to capitalize on the fundraising and electioneering possibilities opened up by a recent Supreme Court ruling.” “This administration as well as Citizens United — when you combine the two the prospects for funding these types of efforts are greatly enhanced,” said former senator Norm Coleman, one of the group’s organizers.

The Republican figures behind the American Action Network have a long history and symbiotic relationship with Wall Street. Here’s a breakdown of the key players in the group:

The Wall Street Republicans behind American Action Network

Robert K. Steel
Former Goldman Sachs Exec & Wachovia CEO
Robert Steel spent close to 30 years with Goldman Sachs before joining his Goldman colleague Henry Paulson in the Treasury Department. Steel and Paulson helped ensure that Bush’s 2008 Wall Street bailout would leave Goldman “among the biggest beneficiaries of the $700 billion U.S. plan.”

Kenneth Langone
Home Depot Founder, Investment Banker
Wall Street titan Kenneth Langone was called “The Man Behind Grasso’s Payday” after NYSE Chairman Richard Grasso was awarded $139.5 million amidst controversy over Wall Street excesses in 2004. Langone, chair of the compensation committee, defended the exuberant pay, arguing that Grasso was entitled to the amount. Then-NY AG Eliot Spitzer filed a lawsuit against the NYSE — including Langone — charging that “the board of the NYSE was misled about parts” of Grasso’s compensation. In 2004, a businessman in Florida also sued Langone for $1.8 billion. The suit charged him with “conspiring to interfere and interfering with business relationships,” as well as “extortion, defamation, fraudulent misrepresentation, and violations of the Florida Antitrust Act and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act.”

Ed Gillespie
Fmr RNC Chairman, Lobbyist
Ed Gillespie’s lobbying firm includes a host of clients whose interests are grounded in Wall Street: Enron, Citibank, Bank of America, Zurich Financial, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the “clean coal” front group ACCCE.

Fred Malek
Thayer Capital Partners Founder
Fred Malek is a super-wealthy Republican operative who got his start with the Nixon administration. The former co-owner of the Texas Rangers with George W. Bush was responsible for a 1972 scheme that was investigated by the Senate Watergate Committee to politicize broad segments of the federal government in favor of reelecting Nixon. In 2004, Malek “was fined $250,000 for what the SEC called a ‘fraudulent scheme.’”

The list doesn’t end there. Coleman and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour are also involved in the organization. Coleman’s record defending Wall Street bank interests includes his support of the 2005 Bush bankruptcy bill. The bill was widely panned for making bankruptcy more difficult for individuals including service members, veterans, and senior citizens. On top of that, Citigroup tapped both Barbour and Gillespie when the banking conglomerate needed representatives to look out for its interests on Capitol Hill.

It is clear that the parties involved in forming the American Action Network all have a history of fighting for pro-corporate policies. Malek already summed up what we can expect from the group going into the future: “My strength is loyalty, my downfall is loyalty.”

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181 Responses to “Wall Street Republicans Form ‘Action Tank’ To Push Corporate Agenda”

Fritz says:

According to The New York Times, the group aims to “develop and market conservative ideas…hoping to capitalize on the fundraising and electioneering possibilities opened up by a recent Supreme Court ruling.”

And the disintegration of our great Democracy begins in earnest. Take a look around before it goes, republicans. You’re gonna get screwed too.
February 6th, 2010 at 5:19 pm
Bobwurst says:

Malek already summed upwhat we can expect from the group going into the future: “My strength is loyalty, my downfall is loyalty.”
It’s a shame his loyalty is not to his country, but to his class…
February 6th, 2010 at 5:20 pm
theweparty says:

The We Party
A progressive response to the tea party
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=339608504744
February 6th, 2010 at 5:22 pm
Ape-Man says:

Corporate control of government is paramount to fascist rule. Torture also goes a very long way towards fascism.
This is serious.
February 6th, 2010 at 5:23 pm
Ape-Man says:

Think Tank. Action Tank. Put on your helmets boys…
February 6th, 2010 at 5:25 pm
P.D. says:

Now it begins. The officail demise of our Country. We are now in the hands of Corporations. It was a beautiful Country….
February 6th, 2010 at 5:27 pm
SoapBox says:

Wow…a who’s who of the rich, powerful, creep, lying crooks.

What a Goin’ ROUGUES gallery.

Say, I just looked up Rogue in dictionary.com…seems to fit these creeps and St. Sarah the Quitter perfectly:

rogue
–noun
1. a dishonest, knavish person; scoundrel.
2. a playfully mischievous person; scamp: The youngest boys are little rogues.
3. a tramp or vagabond.
4. a rogue elephant or other animal of similar disposition.
5. Biology. a usually inferior organism, esp. a plant, varying markedly from the normal.

–verb (used without object)
6. to live or act as a rogue.

–verb (used with object)
7. to cheat.
8. to uproot or destroy (plants, etc., that do not conform to a desired standard).
9. to perform this operation upon: to rogue a field.

–adjective
10. (of an animal) having an abnormally savage or unpredictable disposition, as a rogue elephant.
11. no longer obedient, belonging, or accepted and hence not controllable or answerable; deviating, renegade: a rogue cop; a rogue union local.

Origin:
1555–65; appar. short for obs. roger begging vagabond, orig. cant word

Synonyms:
1. villain, trickster, swindler, cheat, mountebank, quack. See knave.

HOLY COW! When the BIG shoe fits…Rushpubs wear it!
February 6th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
The Republic of Stupidity says:

Geez… what a collection of faces…

Who’s the 2nd one from the top… Jabba the Hutt’s younger brother?

Saaaaaaaaaaaay… where’s the… uh… diversity?

Looks like ANOTHER bunch of constipated white guys to me…
February 6th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
MapleStreet says:

Well that sure didn’t take long to form an organization (from SCOTUS to now is what, one week?). You’d almost think they were already planned and just waiting for the opportunity.
February 6th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
har5125 (brought to your by The Independent Faction) says:

Wall Street Republicans Form ‘Action Tank’ To Push Corporate Agenda

I have their theme song.

Money, money, money by ABBA

I work all night, I work all day, to pay the bills I have to pay
Ain’t it sad
And still there never seems to be a single penny left for me
That’s too bad
In my dreams I have a plan
If I got me a wealthy man
I wouldn’t have to work at all, I’d fool around and have a ball

Chorus
Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man’s world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich man’s world
Aha-ahaaa
All the things I could do
If I had a little money
It’s a rich man’s world

A man like that is hard to find but I can’t get him off my mind
Ain’t it sad
And if he happens to be free I bet he wouldn’t fancy me
That’s too bad
So I must leave, I’ll have to go
To Las Vegas or Monaco
And win a fortune in a game, my life will never be the same

Repeat chorus 2 times
February 6th, 2010 at 5:31 pm
Hoodathunk(sponsored by Scroomall Health Corp) says:

Rather interesting to see the number of Republican and right wing groups spending huge amounts of money on these sorts of groups in the past year. It couldn’t be because they are wetting their pants over the possibility that the American public might have a chance to get heard.

If their message is so basic and grassroots, why do they keep having to spend money to have it heard?
February 6th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Max Anax junius-1 (sponsored by DOW Chemical) says:

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CORPORATISM…
… Is so un-American.

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February 6th, 2010 at 5:40 pm
Max Anax junius-1 (sponsored by DOW Chemical) says:

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One Voice = One Vote

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February 6th, 2010 at 5:40 pm
Leftside Annie, brought to you by the Far Left Smear Merchants™ says:

What Ronald Reagan started, these ghouls are going to finish.

RIP, America.
February 6th, 2010 at 5:41 pm
tombaker says:

crooked bastards, each and every one of’em.

not one of them invented anything beneficial,

or created anything new,

other than ways to screw people and backstab their peers.

throw’em all in with Madoff, and make the world a better place for people.
February 6th, 2010 at 5:42 pm
Max Anax junius-1 (sponsored by DOW Chemical) says:

#10 har5125,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCkOmcIl79s
February 6th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
SWBob says:

Well, the Repub Supremes have now blessed the open attack on democracy and it isn’t taking long for the rich elite to do what they’ve wanted to do in the open since they put Raygun into the WH. A citizen directed democracy is now a fading memory in the history of the United States. The continued suppression of the middle class into the working poor will begin in earnest now.
February 6th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
Max Anax junius-1 (sponsored by DOW Chemical) says:

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Ahhh…
… The blending of Government and Big Business.

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February 6th, 2010 at 5:44 pm
Hoodathunk(sponsored by Scroomall Health Corp) says:

The only redeeming factor about fat old white guys gathering to tell us the way is they all tend to be candidates for infarction. We need a few progressive think tanks to tweak their noses and accelerate the process.
February 6th, 2010 at 5:44 pm
Zooey (sponsored by The Blue Sun Corporation) says:

If nothing else, this issue should bring together the left and right, in order to fight against our common enemy.

But I won’t count on it. The right will enable and cheer on these bastards until this country is completely looted, and when they realize it will have an effect on them, they’ll look around and scream: IT’S YOUR FAULT!!
February 6th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
Ape-Man says:

20 – that’s right – they will not learn.
February 6th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
Jackie says:

For 8 year Americans believed our enemy was the Terrorist while the real enemy was in the White House robbing us blind. Now we see the Recession and the FAB 5 Justices are called to change the Law. Obama is fighting alone as most Americans are watching Fox News. Yes the Middle East will not only take over but laugh while doing it. They funded the idiot Bush, used Cheney and brought up majority of shares in US Corporations. While the GOP and Media were posting Bin Laden for Fear, the US Law Making Crooks were busy stealing. Teabaggers now want the FAB 5 Justices to repeal the Jim Crow Law. Right now many Americans have no idea their home mortgages were sold to Foreign Banks. Churches want to dismantel the DOJ to rapist, torture, child molesters, wife cheatings and murders can go free in the name of GOD. The Churches want to get back to being on the Govement payroll like they were with the Bush Administration. Senator Shelby is doing his part by blocking all Obama appointees to make use all of the Govenment agencies are open for attack. Cosmo Brown used the Labor Union who gave him the most votes to win and on his first vote as a Senator voted against Labor and is laughing at it. Gov. Sanford left SC to talk freely to his soulmate Maria and demand the Stimulus money he refused for over a year. Sarah is found to have stolen and lied her hold career and to make up with cheating on her husband made him in charge of the Governorship. Yes the First Dude was the man, while Sarah was planting a garden with Levi. First Dude’s sister another family memeber who’s a drug addict was finally charged after three robberies of the same house for drug money. Bristol’s boyfriend is living with her as she learns from her Mother. Pat Buchanan is joining the Teabaggers for the money. Harold Ford Jr. is again confused and doesn’t know if he should play the black card or the white card. As the US has the worse weather in it’s history, Republicans still say we don’t have climate change. When the Earth is destroyed then and only then will Republican believe.
February 6th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
blue53 says:

Will they file for tax-exempt status too?
February 6th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
har5125 (brought to your by The Independent Faction) says:

The Republic of Stupidity says:

Geez… what a collection of faces…

Who’s the 2nd one from the top… Jabba the Hutt’s younger brother

And is the last one Peter Graves’(Captain Oveur from Airplane!) younger brother.
February 6th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
tombaker says:

legalized treason,

and the best any of us can do about it is find the nearest R-bagger, and kick’em square in the nuts.
February 6th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
maggiejean says:

January 21, 2010, the day democracy died. RIP.
February 6th, 2010 at 6:12 pm
glamourdammerung says:

tombaker says:
and the best any of us can do about it is find the nearest R-bagger, and kick’em square in the nuts.

Thanks for the advice, jerk. He gave me $20 and said he would kick in another $100 if I would defecate in their mouth.
February 6th, 2010 at 6:17 pm
glamourdammerung says:

Lefty Liberal says:

Pop quiz: What is the name of this blending?

I would say “fascism” but Jonah Goldberg’s poorly written screed sure debunked the myth that all far right-wing movements were in fact, far right-wing movements.
February 6th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
livelongandprosper says:

MapleStreet says:
Well that sure didn’t take long to form an organization (from SCOTUS to now is what, one week?). You’d almost think they were already planned and just waiting for the opportunity.

Oh They KNEW it was happening. The opportunity presented itself a long time ago. And this is but a step, albeit a major step, in their plans.
February 6th, 2010 at 6:27 pm
glamourdammerung says:

Lefty Liberal says:

Will they actually realize the effect on them, or will they continue to spiral downward screaming about “The Gays” and “The Liberals” as they loose their houses and jobs.

You forgot “the coloreds”.
February 6th, 2010 at 6:28 pm
bob h says:

Wasn’t Malek Nixon’s “Jew Counter”, responsible for identifying those thought to be compiling embarrassing unemployment statistics?
February 6th, 2010 at 6:33 pm
Max Anax junius-1 (sponsored by DOW Chemical) says:

#28 Lefty,
LOL…
… Neapolitan Ice Cream?

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February 6th, 2010 at 6:39 pm
glamourdammerung says:

Lefty Liberal says:

glamourdammerung says:

Lefty Liberal says:

Will they actually realize the effect on them, or will they continue to spiral downward screaming about “The Gays” and “The Liberals” as they loose their houses and jobs.
————————–
You forgot “the coloreds”.
—————————-
And immigrants.

I am pretty sure they only count if they are non-white.
February 6th, 2010 at 6:39 pm
glamourdammerung says:

bob h says:

Wasn’t Malek Nixon’s “Jew Counter”, responsible for identifying those thought to be compiling embarrassing unemployment statistics?

That would be the one.
February 6th, 2010 at 6:41 pm
Max Anax junius-1 (sponsored by DOW Chemical) says:

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Modern History Sourcebook:
Benito Mussolini:
What is Fascism, 1932
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mussolini-fascism.html

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. It thus repudiates the doctrine of Pacifism — born of a renunciation of the struggle and an act of cowardice in the face of sacrifice. War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have courage to meet it. All other trials are substitutes, which never really put men into the position where they have to make the great decision — the alternative of life or death….

…The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide: he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest, but above all for others — those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after…

…Fascism [is] the complete opposite of…Marxian Socialism, the materialist conception of history of human civilization can be explained simply through the conflict of interests among the various social groups and by the change and development in the means and instruments of production…. Fascism, now and always, believes in holiness and in heroism; that is to say, in actions influenced by no economic motive, direct or indirect. And if the economic conception of history be denied, according to which theory men are no more than puppets, carried to and fro by the waves of chance, while the real directing forces are quite out of their control, it follows that the existence of an unchangeable and unchanging class-war is also denied – the natural progeny of the economic conception of history. And above all Fascism denies that class-war can be the preponderant force in the transformation of society….

After Socialism, Fascism combats the whole complex system of democratic ideology, and repudiates it, whether in its theoretical premises or in its practical application. Fascism denies that the majority, by the simple fact that it is a majority, can direct human society; it denies that numbers alone can govern by means of a periodical consultation, and it affirms the immutable, beneficial, and fruitful inequality of mankind, which can never be permanently leveled through the mere operation of a mechanical process such as universal suffrage….

…Fascism denies, in democracy, the absur[d] conventional untruth of political equality dressed out in the garb of collective irresponsibility, and the myth of “happiness” and indefinite progress….

…iven that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority…a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State….

The foundation of Fascism is the conception of the State, its character, its duty, and its aim. Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived of in their relation to the State. The conception of the Liberal State is not that of a directing force, guiding the play and development, both material and spiritual, of a collective body, but merely a force limited to the function of recording results: on the other hand, the Fascist State is itself conscious and has itself a will and a personality — thus it may be called the “ethic” State….

…The Fascist State organizes the nation, but leaves a sufficient margin of liberty to the individual; the latter is deprived of all useless and possibly harmful freedom, but retains what is essential; the deciding power in this question cannot be the individual, but the State alone….

…For Fascism, the growth of empire, that is to say the expansion of the nation, is an essential manifestation of vitality, and its opposite a sign of decadence. Peoples which are rising, or rising again after a period of decadence, are always imperialist; and renunciation is a sign of decay and of death. Fascism is the doctrine best adapted to represent the tendencies and the aspirations of a people, like the people of Italy, who are rising again after many centuries of abasement and foreign servitude. But empire demands discipline, the coordination of all forces and a deeply felt sense of duty and sacrifice: this fact explains many aspects of the practical working of the regime, the character of many forces in the State, and the necessarily severe measures which must be taken against those who would oppose this spontaneous and inevitable movement of Italy in the twentieth century, and would oppose it by recalling the outworn ideology of the nineteenth century – repudiated wheresoever there has been the courage to undertake great experiments of social and political transformation; for never before has the nation stood more in need of authority, of direction and order. If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time. For if a doctrine must be a living thing, this is proved by the fact that Fascism has created a living faith; and that this faith is very powerful in the minds of men is demonstrated by those who have suffered and died for it.

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February 6th, 2010 at 6:45 pm
A Patriot Acting says:

“The Republican figures behind the American Action Network have a long history and symbiotic relationship with Wall Street”

…and John Boehner would blow each and every one for a dollar.
February 6th, 2010 at 6:55 pm
Max Anax junius-1 (sponsored by DOW Chemical) says:

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Benito Mussolini On Myth

http://www.historyguide.org/europe/duce.html

We have created our myth. The myth is a faith, it is passion. It is not necessary that it shall be a reality. It is a reality by the fact that it is a good, a hope, a faith, that it is courage. Our myth is the Nation, our myth is the greatness of the Nation! And to this myth, to this grandeur, that we wish to translate into a complete reality, we subordinate all the rest.

[Source: From Herman Finer, Mussolini's Italy (1935), p. 218; quoted in Franklin Le Van Baumer, ed., Main Currents of Western Thought (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978), p.748.]

We’re #1, We’re #1, We’re #1, We’re #1, We’re #1, We’re #1…
… Ain’t it grand to think of oneself as so? Even when you’re NOT?

I’m not saying that striving to be the best isn’t a necessary inherent evil objective. It’s just the means to which one takes to “BE” #1 is where we’ve been lead one astray.

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February 6th, 2010 at 6:57 pm
tombaker says:

those “great men” will all be dead in the next 10 years, so they best pick up the pace.
February 6th, 2010 at 7:05 pm
Insidious Prophet says:

Unfortunately the only way we the people can ever get our government and country back is through a mass rebellion or a revolution.

Sadly too many Americans are still clueless, content, don’t want to rock the boat, too busy watching American Idol or playing the newest video game on their Play Station, or are just to busy trying to feed their families and keeping a roof over their heads.

When will the American people wake up? Elections aren’t enough. We will never get real campaign reform. Corporations and their whores in government aren’t going to just give up their power.

We seriously need to start taking action now. With organized marches, protests, mass civil disobedience before it really is too late. The midnight hour draws near on this grand experience called democracy.

We desperately need an army of Martin Luther Kings, Howard Zinns and Abbie Hoffmanns in the world today.
February 6th, 2010 at 7:06 pm
har5125 (brought to your by The Independent Faction) says:

Robert K. Steel, shouldn’t that second ‘e’ be an ‘a’ ?
February 6th, 2010 at 7:06 pm
Insidious Prophet says:

experience = experiment
February 6th, 2010 at 7:07 pm
Eugene Debs sponsered by the Church of the presumptious assumption says:

BigJohnny

MORONS like you will ruin America. If you dont like the fact you are a moron KISS MY ASS
February 6th, 2010 at 7:11 pm
Xisithrus says:

Shorter Action Tank: Screw You TEA partiers!
February 6th, 2010 at 7:14 pm
Xisithrus says:

Big John says: These great men will help make our country great again. Don’t like it? Get out.

Action Tank: You lIE!!
February 6th, 2010 at 7:15 pm
P.D. says:

Off topic….I was reading some quotes from people at the ‘Tea-Bag’ Party, when one thing a woman said struck me, “I was expecting more diversity.” ????? Didn’t this broad SEE any of these ‘protests’? Didn’t she notice the old, white, and bitter morons or their racist signs? WTF?
February 6th, 2010 at 7:19 pm
Xisithrus says:

Big John says: These great men will help make our country great again. Don’t like it? Get out.

I dont think Futurama is meant to be taken literally J$. You dont want coporate America, solely in government for profit making laws. They will end up making something very close to communism, tell you where to work, what your best suited for, company housing, company store, company doctor. And of course the debt you will have to the company finance arm. Not to mention your kids will work for the company from age 6. 12 hours a day.
February 6th, 2010 at 7:19 pm
Max Anax junius-1 (sponsored by DOW Chemical) says:

And now contrast my citation at #41 with another, shall we?

FAREWELL ADDRESS (1796)
George Washington
http://usinfo.org/docs/democracy/49.htm

Toward the preservation of your Government and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may be to effect in the forms of the Constitution alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what can not be directly overthrown. In all the changes to which you may be invited remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments as of other human institutions; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country; that facility in changes upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion exposes to perpetual change, from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion; and remember especially that for the efficient management of your common interests in a country so extensive as ours a government of as much vigor as is consistent with the perfect security of liberty is indispensable. Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to con-fine each member of the society within the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property.

I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.

This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy….

It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another; foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passion. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.

There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose; and there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.

February 6th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
Eugene Debs sponsered by the Church of the presumptious assumption says:

BigJohn

Is so PROUD of his ignorance. He is so PROUD to be brainwashed. He is so proud he had no decency, no integrity, no honor, no brain, no heart, and no soul. What is WRONG with subhumans like Big John?
February 6th, 2010 at 7:23 pm
Xisithrus says:

And the wars, just think J$, more wars for more resources. Wars for wood, aluminum, uranium, oil [oops already got that], for coton, for wheat for rice, why it will be like the Dutch East India Company all over again. And eventually one company will run it all. It will be like 1984. Victory Gin!
February 6th, 2010 at 7:24 pm
Max Anax junius-1 (sponsored by DOW Chemical) says:

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#42 Big John,
Many men have said such grandiose words…
… Of little substance.

“Buy ‘UNION’ Made” ?
Hardly, especially with these men.

“Made in the USA” ?
… Not profitable for these men.

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February 6th, 2010 at 7:24 pm
Rab says:

Big John, full of big shit.
February 6th, 2010 at 7:26 pm
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February 6th, 2010 at 7:26 pm
Xisithrus says:

Just think J$, Coca-Cola for president. Depends for senate. Green Giant for governor. Dole Banana for Mayor. It will be awesome when we have a trapped economy, Soviet America here we come!!
February 6th, 2010 at 7:27 pm
jjm says:

When in the past thirty years HAVEN’T THEY BEEN MARKETING THESE STALE, OUTWORN IDEAS?

Are people going to keep being duped into identifying body and soul with these soulless connivers?
February 6th, 2010 at 7:28 pm
Xisithrus says:

Justice is blind but keeps a monied tipping finger on the scale.
February 6th, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Xisithrus says:

Headline of the Future: Glorious Robber Barons Raise Wages .0001 Cent To 3 Cents An Hour. All Bow in Appreciation.
February 6th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
Xisithrus says:

Soon, they will erect a sattelite dish on a tall building and it will hide reality OBEY from DREAM your SLEEP eyes.
February 6th, 2010 at 7:35 pm
Xisithrus says:

I think you confused “Hour” with “Day”

My Bad. I meant week.
February 6th, 2010 at 7:36 pm
00mpp00 says:

Do we need any further proof that Wall Street and Big Business are running this country? SCOTUS ruling or not, they are in control…

http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ssablog
February 6th, 2010 at 7:45 pm
had enough says:

We need to rename, regroup and call it for what it is:

the Corporatist Party

and

the Labor Party

I then wonder which side the Tea Baggers would go to.
February 6th, 2010 at 7:45 pm
politicalscrum says:

Cooler heads have to prevail on this or at least another liberal justice and a bad decision overturned.
February 6th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
Zooey (sponsored by The Blue Sun Corporation) says:

P.D. says:
Off topic….I was reading some quotes from people at the ‘Tea-Bag’ Party, when one thing a woman said struck me, “I was expecting more diversity.”

Too funny…
February 6th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
Max Anax junius-1 (sponsored by DOW Chemical) says:

.

Bill Moyers Journal
Bill Moyers smacks the Democrats and Republicans for sucking up to corporate lobbyists at their retreats and Mitch McConnell for the hypocrisy of his statement on the Citizens United v. FEC Supreme Court ruling.

Video (h/t C&L)
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/media/play/wmv/11773/
Text:
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/bill-moyers-lets-face-it-two-political-par

.
February 6th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
had enough says:

00mpp00 says:

Do we need any further proof that Wall Street and Big Business are running this country? SCOTUS ruling or not, they are in control…

For some time we have been under the thumb of the multi transnational corporations aided by their corporate partner the MSM. Thom Hartmann is always on this topic.

I am hoping for the day the Tea Baggers will wake up to the fact they have been used by the very ones they should be angry with. With the exception of the ones in it for bigotry, many should come over to our side.
February 6th, 2010 at 7:58 pm
Jane E. Schneider says:

I never trusted that chinless Ed Gillespie, and Fred Malek looks like the Cigarette-Smoking Man on X-Files.
February 6th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
P.D. says:

Jane@74, LOL! I loved the X-Files.
February 6th, 2010 at 8:03 pm
Beam me up Scotty says:

The bottom line is that we all know that Americans can be bought. A clever sound bite or two broadcast 24/7 is all that’s needed.
If we had a free press and engaged voters, serious about their role, we’d not be so quick to grieve
February 6th, 2010 at 8:12 pm
tarazan says:

Lobbying nowadays is the killing disease that is destroying this country.
I don’t believe the Founding Fathers would have agreed on such thing when they wrote the Constitution.
Now we even hear the Supreme Court interprets the Constitution to say that a corporation and a person are equal in the political arena.
Unless this problem is dealt with by the people,the lobbyists phenomena will get bigger and more of the same will continue.
I am not optimistic,because these politicians who retire or leave their jobs in Washingotn,they turn around and try to cash big time on the time they served, by starting a lobbyist firm or even more than one,chasing the Federal dollar,and it is legal.
May God help us…
February 6th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
bizarrobrain (Sponsored by Tysons chicken in a tube!) says:

I knew after Citizens Divided and the Supreme Corporate Bought Court sold us out some GOP “think tank” would further the crippling of our democracy. This is the GOP’s idea of free-dumb and it screws all of us…Republicans and Democrats…Liberals, Moderates and Conservatives.
February 6th, 2010 at 8:19 pm
P.D. says:

Beam@76, It always amazes me how stupid Americans are. We are so easily distracted and so self-absorbed we have no idea what is going on around us. I knew we were in big trouble when Bush was re-elected in 2004(Maybe, Thanks Ohio!). All the people in power need to do is keep feeding us the bullsh*tand we suck it up. Add MSMs ‘Infotainment’ and American Idol and other crap, we are doomed.
February 6th, 2010 at 8:19 pm
Max Anax junius-1 (sponsored by DOW Chemical) says:

#76 Scotty,
That reminds me of what Stewart said to O’Riely in one their exchanges:

‘I’m Not Saying Your Mother’s a Whore’:
How Fox News Censored Jon Stewart vs. Bill O’Reilly
http://gawker.com/5465299/im-not-saying-your-mothers-a-whore-how-fox-news-censored-jon-stewarts-showdown-with-bill-oreilly

Once again, this is like the old joke:

Would you sleep with me for Ten Dollars…? NO!
Would you sleep with me for a Million…? O.K.!

So now, we know what you are, we’re just negotiating price.

.
February 6th, 2010 at 8:22 pm
realpatriot says:

Geeez, time hasn’t been good to Peter, Micky, Mike and Davy has it?
February 6th, 2010 at 8:38 pm
had enough says:

Where is the legislation to undo the person hood the corporate powers were granted by the SCROTUS? Have heard nothing since Obamas SOTU speech.

No way can I sit and watch THIS too fall down the way side
February 6th, 2010 at 8:53 pm
P.D. says:

Wow, it’s dead here tonight. I guess everyone is shoveling out.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
bizarrobrain (Sponsored by Tysons chicken in a tube!) says:

P.D. says:
Wow, it’s dead here tonight. I guess everyone is shoveling out.

–
Seriously…where is everyone? I thought there would be more people on after I finished cleaning and doing laundry.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:12 pm
P.D. says:

biz@84, Maybe they are preparing for the Super Bowl. My husband just got done shoveling and he broke out his Quad. Sigh. I hate that friggin thing.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:15 pm
House of Roberts says:

I’m watching Palin on MSNBC, so I’ll be able to understand what Ed Schultz says about the speech.

No cable? Watch here: http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN.aspx
February 6th, 2010 at 9:16 pm
P.D. says:

House@86, I guess that’s why the trolls aren’t here. Queen Sarah is going to talk to the unwashed masses! I guess they can’t watch and type at the same time.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:20 pm
bizarrobrain (Sponsored by Tysons chicken in a tube!) says:

P.D. says:
biz@84, Maybe they are preparing for the Super Bowl. My husband just got done shoveling and he broke out his Quad. Sigh. I hate that friggin thing.

–
How deep is the snow?

And quads are okay…I haven’t been on anything like that since I peeled the skin off my right knee after I crashed on one of those little pocket rocket bikes. Basically the brakes failed and I hit a bump in the road. I’ll stick to my mountain bike.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:23 pm
P.D. says:

Oh God, How I can’t stand this broad. This woman is so full of crap! Bush EXPANDED the Government. The Repugs, right now, are courting Wall Street. These people are dumb as*es. And the Repugs ARE spending stimulus money. WTF?
February 6th, 2010 at 9:25 pm
P.D. says:

biz@88, We got off lucky. Only 13 inches. Phila got hammered so did D.C.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:26 pm
glamourdammerung says:

P.D. says:
Queen Sarah is going to talk to the unwashed masses! I guess they can’t watch and type at the same time.

Maybe they figured they were at enough of a disadvantage without typing one-handed on top of everything else.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:26 pm
bizarrobrain (Sponsored by Tysons chicken in a tube!) says:

House of Roberts says:
I’m watching Palin on MSNBC, so I’ll be able to understand what Ed Schultz says about the speech.

No cable? Watch here: http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN.aspx

–
Thank you for the link. It’s only worth watching it to understand what Schultz’s response will be…other than that I can’t stand Palin.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:27 pm
P.D. says:

Biz, My husband smashed his knee on his stupid dirt-bike. He had to have his entire knee reconstructed. That’s why I get pissed when he does sh*t like this. He was told ny the Dr. NOT to do it. Idiot.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:29 pm
P.D. says:

glam@91, LOL! I thought the same thing but didn’t type it. EEwww… I don’t even want to think about it, but, you’re right.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:30 pm
bizarrobrain (Sponsored by Tysons chicken in a tube!) says:

P.D. says:
biz@88, We got off lucky. Only 13 inches. Phila got hammered so did D.C.

–
I read that D.C. was getting at least 24 inches and Philadelphia got like 18. I love snow fights and building snow men but that that would be hell getting around in that.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:31 pm
House of Roberts says:

bizarrobrain (Sponsored by Tysons chicken in a tube!) at 9:27 pm

That was my motivation!
February 6th, 2010 at 9:34 pm
bizarrobrain (Sponsored by Tysons chicken in a tube!) says:

P.D. says:
Biz, My husband smashed his knee on his stupid dirt-bike. He had to have his entire knee reconstructed. That’s why I get pissed when he does sh*t like this. He was told ny the Dr. NOT to do it. Idiot.

–
Ow. My dad used to do the same thing…he had a horrific motorcycle injury before I was born and he had to learn how to walk again. My mom finally yelled at him enough so that he sold the bike when I was five. For the record acting like idiots isn’t a strictly male trait but some men sure act like it is. :)
February 6th, 2010 at 9:35 pm
Xisithrus says:

Palins not electable so I dont care what she says, like with Limbaugh, or Beck, they just rant, dont change things, so their followers will make them rich.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:36 pm
bizarrobrain (Sponsored by Tysons chicken in a tube!) says:

House of Roberts says:
That was my motivation!

–
Haha…well it’s good to see that so many people dislike (er…hate) Palin enough to suffer through her speech.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
Xisithrus says:

Anyway, maybe the detractors [trollops] have figured out when wall street says conservative they dont mean following the constitution but abrogation of it.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:38 pm
bizarrobrain (Sponsored by Tysons chicken in a tube!) says:

Xisithrus says:
Palins not electable so I dont care what she says, like with Limbaugh, or Beck, they just rant, dont change things, so their followers will make them rich.

–
All of that is true but these individuals do influence politics in a negative way by spreading their propaganda.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Fred ♪♫♪ says:

bizarrobrain (Sponsored by Tysons chicken in a tube!) says:
All of that is true but these individuals do influence politics in a negative way by spreading their propaganda.

They murder our people if they get too much influence. See MLK
February 6th, 2010 at 9:42 pm
P.D. says:

Xis@100, Did you see any of her speech? I watched some of it but couldn’t take the lies anymore. Her statement about the stimulus was a down right lie. WTF? Wht are people so friggin stupid! I pisses me off to no end.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:43 pm
House of Roberts says:

Like I said elsewhere, I feel for the Media Matters group, they’re going to be pulling an all-nighter debunking this one line-by-line.

It doesn’t sound like a very big crowd, the ovations were real weak.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:47 pm
Chicano2nd says:

Big John says:

These great men will help make our country great again. Don’t like it? Get out.

Spoken like a true Nazi sympathizer. He would be the one that would rat out Anne Franke if he could for a pat on the head!

You get the hell out of here and I hope you drown your stupid as on the way back to Europe asswipe!
February 6th, 2010 at 9:48 pm
Gary Herstein says:

“Action” tank …

See, I always just called it a “toilet” …
February 6th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
P.D. says:

House@104, It was estimated only 600 people were there. OMG! She just said the Repug Party should absorb the ‘Tea Baggers’! That is against what hard core ‘Baggers’ believe! She is losing the audience. Not a lot of applause after that statement.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
bizarrobrain (Sponsored by Tysons chicken in a tube!) says:

P.D.
And she wrapped her speech up with an homage to Reagan which was just insane and then the tea-baggers cheered like idiots!

Fred ♪♫♪ says:
All of that is true but these individuals do influence politics in a negative way by spreading their propaganda.

They murder our people if they get too much influence. See MLK
–
Or Operation Rescue and their killer Scott Roeder.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:51 pm
Fred ♪♫♪ says:

P.D. says:
House@104, It was estimated only 600 people were there.

I heard 6000 but tommorrow it will be 350 million.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
Buckie Boy says:

The enemy within.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
P.D. says:

OMG! This is unwatchable. This is cringe worthy.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
tarazan says:

I just finished listening to Sarah Palin..
I did not see or hear anything about a new party.
It is all about GOP.
She attacked everybody from Oabma and democrats,to terrorists to Iranians,to Wall Street, to lobbyists, but not the Republican party or Bush and Cheney.
Amazing how this whole thing start to look like a joke.
I wonder how much her speech writer will be getting out of the $125,000.oo she is receiving for teabaggers?
February 6th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
P.D. says:

‘Lame-stream Media’??? Oh God, make her go away.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:54 pm
Xisithrus says:

All of that is true but these individuals do influence politics in a negative way by spreading their propaganda.

Propaganda, yes, but it seems to me it creates a smokescreen and ranting and raving while behind closed doors it the SOS
February 6th, 2010 at 9:55 pm
theweparty says:

The We Party…
A progressive response to the tea party…
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=339608504744
February 6th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
Xisithrus says:

Did you see any of her speech? I watched some of it but couldn’t take the lies anymore. Her statement about the stimulus was a down right lie. WTF?

No. I didnt watch it. If Bush were president still she would be saying what a great thing the stimulus was. Im not surprised at her partisan schtick. I just wonder if she realizes it or a just repeating what she has been ‘advised’ to say. She didnt even write her own auto so probably the latter.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:58 pm
bizarrobrain (Sponsored by Tysons chicken in a tube!) says:

tarazan,
She basically walked in lock-step with everything Fox has been saying over the past year. She called Obama’s proposed 2011 budget “immoral” and she called “generational theft.” The woman has no ideas on how to fix it like the rest of the GOP, this was just another GOP Obama hate fest.

I hope her fans have fun selling freedom coffee after she robs them of all of their $.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:01 pm
Xisithrus says:

LOL Sarah attacking wall street? Populist drivel she doesnt believe. Wasnt it the NYT that had her on tbe best seller list?
February 6th, 2010 at 10:01 pm
Xisithrus says:

See, I always just called it a “toilet” … -Gary

I call it a septic tank
February 6th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
tarazan says:

She is very slick..she said her husband is an independent,and she can’t convince him not to be,but she said nothing about herself being an independent.
Reason,
Her husband has no plans to run for an office in the future but she does..and she does not want to loose her GOP’s future support and base.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:05 pm
Chicano2nd says:

White racism by any other name is white racism and is still the cancer of the Earth! Palin is the queen cancer cell!

Earth needs a cure before she goes metastatic.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:06 pm
Chicano2nd says:

Rich men are crooks.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:07 pm
bizarrobrain (Sponsored by Tysons chicken in a tube!) says:

Xisithrus says:
All of that is true but these individuals do influence politics in a negative way by spreading their propaganda.

Propaganda, yes, but it seems to me it creates a smokescreen and ranting and raving while behind closed doors it the SOS

–
The propaganda is one thing but Palin in general just pisses me off. I just can’t believe anyone takes her serious anymore and not just because she’s a liar of epic proportions. She exploits her children and she’s affiliated with Rush and that witch hunting doctor Thomas Muthee who’s using superstition as an excuse to kill children. Theres more but I think that gets my point across.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:08 pm
Xisithrus says:

Big John says: Rich men are great men. These men are very great.

Jesus was rich? Saudi Kings are rich, are they great? How about drug dealers, they are rich. And those mafia types, pretty wealthy.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:10 pm
Fred ♪♫♪ says:

Big John is a man of a few lies.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:10 pm
tarazan says:

She offered no solutions to unemployment,healthcare,and there was nothing of a value in her speech in solving anything.
Simply she was criticising everybody but G.W.Bush and Dick Cheney.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
bizarrobrain (Sponsored by Tysons chicken in a tube!) says:

Fred ♪♫♪ says:
Big John is a man of a few lies.

–
I think you mean a man of few truthful lines.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:12 pm
Fred ♪♫♪ says:

Big john respects the big dog in the pack. He bows at the right time and pee’s himself when they look at him.

big john is really a little worm.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:12 pm
Xisithrus says:

As the wheel of fame turns there are those that ride it to the top and they also get crushed at the bottom.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:12 pm
Eugene Debs sponsered by the Church of the presumptious assumption says:

BigJohn

Is STUPID, very very STUPID. Rich men are just like other men. Good and bad, great and pathetic. Big John has been brainwashed to obdiently think what he is TOLD to think and to serve power. He defines pathetic shitweasel
February 6th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
bizarrobrain (Sponsored by Tysons chicken in a tube!) says:

tarazan says:
She offered no solutions to unemployment,healthcare,and there was nothing of a value in her speech in solving anything.
Simply she was criticising everybody but G.W.Bush and Dick Cheney.

–
She was only there for the big bucks. She’s no politician, she’s a political celebrity and I am so happy that this insane, corrupt individual did not take over the Oval Office. We were already spiraling down the drain and Palin would have flushed us.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
had enough says:

Watched the speech and my head is spinning.

How much longer are they going to exploit the fact Obama can not fix the mess over night the GNOP put out there. We all knew our economy was being run into the ground… was it indeed on purpose as some said in order to blame and smear the dems that appeared were going to take charge?

What is up with the view points and statements similar to progressives such as We the People, take back our country,… I am very suspicious as it was the corporate powers, (GNOP) that gave birth to the Tea Partiers. What is really going on? Is this group meant to split the dems?
February 6th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
Eugene Debs sponsered by the Church of the presumptious assumption says:

Big John is coward and a punk with no heart, no soul, no decency, no integrity, no honor and definitly no brain
February 6th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
Eugene Debs sponsered by the Church of the presumptious assumption says:

Big John

You will never be free. You are too stupid and you KNOW IT. You think what you are told to think. You believe what you are told to believe. No freedom there. For the incredibly ignorant like you slavery is your sad fate. Just killy yourself you pathetic ignorant punkass troll
February 6th, 2010 at 10:17 pm
Fred ♪♫♪ says:

Big John says:
“If we wish to be free, we must fight!”

Pussies like you are all talk.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
Badmoodman says:

re: Palin’s Q&A at the convention…

– - If you are one of those people who think this person cannot become president of the United States, think again.

The media will never demand policy specifics from her; there is a huge constituency out there (rightly) outraged by Washington corruption and she now has the critical mantle of the rogue outsider; she can channel Christianism and fuse it with the slogans of phony “fiscal conservatism”; she will blame every lost job on Obama; and she will accuse him of betraying the troops and befriending America’s enemies. Behind her are the Cheneyites. Above all, she is capable of generating a personality cult – much, much more so than Obama, because she can harness Christianism to her divine destiny. The power of this kind of appeal – of a charismatic, beautiful woman, an icon of the pro-life cause, persecuted by the evil elites, demonized by libruls, and commanding the biggest military on earth – should not be under-estimated.

Know fear.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:19 pm
Xisithrus says:

Big John says: “If we wish to be free, we must fight!”

Thats all good and well, unfortunately your siding with those that wish to pass more patriot acts and create bigger government. And pointing fingers at your fellow citizens doesnt free you but works to divide and conquer you.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:19 pm
Fred ♪♫♪ says:

Badmoodman, so, she’s a mcarthyite.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:21 pm
Xisithrus says:

Naw, 70% of republicans dont want Palin in office. Shes just a female version of Beck and relegated to the political graveyard, like Huckabee, we know as Faux,
February 6th, 2010 at 10:22 pm
bizarrobrain (Sponsored by Tysons chicken in a tube!) says:

Tea party + patriot = two terms that should never be used in the same sentence. You f***ers aren’t patriots, you’re tax-evading bigots.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:22 pm
Eugene Debs sponsered by the Church of the presumptious assumption says:

Big johnny is a pimply 14 year old moron who no girl will ever touch in his whole life who comes here to amuse himself by being a punk on the internet
February 6th, 2010 at 10:22 pm
Eugene Debs sponsered by the Church of the presumptious assumption says:

FuzzyBeefSwallower

Never heard of him. Then again your opinion doesnt mean much since you are incredibly stupid, a liar and a punkass troll without a shred of decency, integrity, or intelligence. Go FCUK yourself
February 6th, 2010 at 10:24 pm
Xisithrus says:

And how many wins did Limbaugh talk create Fuzzy? Drug addict talk? Who would listen to,,,Oh, you would.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:24 pm
House of Roberts says:

Big John at 10:15 pm

“If we wish to be free, we must fight!”
- Judge Roy Moore, Tea Party Patriot, 02/06/10

Spoken by a true violator of the US Constitution, such a traitor the other Supreme Court of Alabama judges from his OWN party voted against him!
February 6th, 2010 at 10:24 pm
tarazan says:

I don’t understand how a movement,an angry crowd movement as they call themselves, cannot find a speaker from among themselves that they have to bring Sarah Palin and pay her $125,000 to speak for them.
What kind of party is this…?

Sheesh
February 6th, 2010 at 10:24 pm
Chicano2nd says:

Fred ♪♫♪ says:

big john is really a little worm.

Here, here! And cut him to pieces and he is too stupid to die!
February 6th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
Eugene Debs sponsered by the Church of the presumptious assumption says:

BigJohn

Just go kill yourself you worthless ignorant punkass troll. You are far too stupid for anyone to take seriously. You will never in your life know love, respect, or the touch of a woman
February 6th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
Xisithrus says:

Rush cant stay married..huh. Im thinking Beards.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:26 pm
Fred ♪♫♪ says:

Big John says:
“We will either preserve our republic and our faith in God, or we’ll have them taken from us.

Submit to me, I’m rich. on your knees peasant.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:26 pm
Eugene Debs sponsered by the Church of the presumptious assumption says:

FuzzyBeefSwallower

FOAD troll. Your stupid is just pathetic. You disgust all decent human beings and the world will be a better place the day you are no longer in it
February 6th, 2010 at 10:26 pm
Chicano2nd says:

And you like to lap up shit don’t you fuzzy!
February 6th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
bizarrobrain (Sponsored by Tysons chicken in a tube!) says:

Roy Moore is just another idiot judge from Alabama. The guy writes for WorldNetDaily and he tried to undermine the separation of church and state part of the Constitution back in the 90’s and the ACLU ripped him a new one.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:28 pm
Fred ♪♫♪ says:

hey fuzzy, why don’t you answer our questions. All you ever have are childish crushes on liberals.

What’s 2+2
February 6th, 2010 at 10:32 pm
Eugene Debs sponsered by the Church of the presumptious assumption says:

FuzzyBeefSwallower dreams of swallowing Olbermanns beef. He is too shy to just send him the nake emails so he goes into his closet and soils the floor then cries like the pathetic pice of shit he is. Then comes here to show everyone what a stupid and worthless pile of dogshit he is. Then cries some more when mommy makes him leave the basement. He should cry. Fuzzywantstoswallow your beef is the most ignorant and pathetic human being the world has ever seen. On the inevitable day he dies face down in the gutter with dogs gnawing on his rotted flesh being raped by pigs. Every decent human being in the world will feel that much better
February 6th, 2010 at 10:34 pm
Xisithrus says:

Big John says:
“We will either preserve our republic and our faith in God, or we’ll have them taken from us.

Yanno, wall street represent materialism or mammonism people that would take your wealth and see you in debt peonage. Thats not freedom.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:36 pm
Xisithrus says:

FSAB, how many times do I have to tell you I dont watch Olbermann. YOU watch him more than I do. Mancrush?
February 6th, 2010 at 10:38 pm
Xisithrus says:

And where was bathtub boy tonight? -FSAB

Tom Delay?
February 6th, 2010 at 10:39 pm
Xisithrus says:

Why would God need fiat currency and debt J$ Dont you get it? Federalism isnt conservatism. Federalism is aristocracy.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:41 pm
had enough says:

tarazan says:

I don’t understand how a movement,an angry crowd movement as they call themselves, cannot find a speaker from among themselves that they have to bring Sarah Palin and pay her $125,000 to speak for them.
What kind of party is this…?

Sheesh

A party paid for by the corporate powers for reasons we really don’t know yet. We need to keep an eye on this.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:42 pm
Fred ♪♫♪ says:

john, why are you off of your knees?
February 6th, 2010 at 10:51 pm
Zooey (sponsored by The Blue Sun Corporation) says:

Quitter Palin speaks to the teabaggers.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:54 pm
glamourdammerung says:

tarazan says:

I don’t understand how a movement,an angry crowd movement as they call themselves, cannot find a speaker from among themselves that they have to bring Sarah Palin and pay her $125,000 to speak for them.
What kind of party is this…?

Who were they going to get? Neal Horsley? Charles Dyer? Dale Robertson? Some guy dressed like Ben Franklin?
February 6th, 2010 at 10:57 pm
Fred ♪♫♪ says:

Big John that’s it, I’m taking your wife tonight. Get over it.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:57 pm
Zooey (sponsored by The Blue Sun Corporation) says:

Fred, get in line. She’s mine.
February 6th, 2010 at 11:00 pm
Eugene Debs sponsered by the Church of the presumptious assumption says:

RacistJohn

FOAD. You are stupid, pathetic, worthless, miserable and a piece of shit. Just STFU and kill yourself. Do the world a favor
February 6th, 2010 at 11:04 pm
delafield says:

If President Obama was serious about protecting America, he would fly Predator drones over Wall Street and fire hellfire missiles at the Wall Street billionaires and trillionaires who are outsourcing all our good paying jobs to China, who are taking away our rights to health care, who are polluting our air, food, and water, who are starting wars all over the planet, who have stolen every last cent from the U.S. Treasury, and who have destroyed our nation’s economy.
February 6th, 2010 at 11:06 pm
glamourdammerung says:

Big John says:

Button Gwinnett.

And we are supposed to care about some adult playing dress up for what reason exactly?
February 6th, 2010 at 11:07 pm
Fred ♪♫♪ says:

john, whatever you do, don’t click on this link.

link
February 6th, 2010 at 11:07 pm
Fred ♪♫♪ says:

Hey Zooey, I was just going to give her to the troops.

I doubt very seriously that she’s a keeper.
February 6th, 2010 at 11:09 pm
Fred ♪♫♪ says:

hey john, here’s you another one. Clue, the jobs created were not in the private sector.

linkie dink for johnie boy
February 6th, 2010 at 11:13 pm
Fred ♪♫♪ says:

johnie, please do not click on the link. Please.

link
February 6th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
bizarrobrain (Sponsored by Tysons chicken in a tube!) says:

Actually Button Gwinnett was one of the gentlemen who signed the Declaration of Independence and it sickens me that the tea-baggers would slander him that way.

Piss off you ignorant Palin-thumping troll!
February 6th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
glamourdammerung says:

Hey, I dressed like Doctor Who every now and then. Of course I was like six or seven and going door to door to get candy instead of trying to showcase a politically impotent teabagging hobbyist circle.
February 6th, 2010 at 11:19 pm
bizarrobrain (Sponsored by Tysons chicken in a tube!) says:

Fred ♪♫♪ says:
john, why are you off of your knees?

–
Smite the troll with a lightning bolt for refusing to submit.
February 6th, 2010 at 11:19 pm
had enough says:

Palin is all over cnn, msnbc and of course fox…for a convention of, was it 600?

Where was the news media when we protested in the streets in the thousands over the Iraq invasion/massacre?

How obvious can it get…. the corporate media is manipulating the public in the name of greed.

When will the legislation begin to keep corporations where they belong – as non persons?
February 6th, 2010 at 11:21 pm
Fred ♪♫♪ says:

bizarrobrain (Sponsored by Tysons chicken in a tube!) says:

Smite the troll with a lightning bolt for refusing to submit.

I like the way you’re thinking. Hey, that reminds me of a joke.
February 6th, 2010 at 11:22 pm
Fred ♪♫♪ says:

had enough says:
When will the legislation begin to keep corporations where they belong – as non persons?

Even as drunk as I am I feel your concern and share it. I was talking to the kids(college age) about this very thing this evening and it terrifies me.
February 6th, 2010 at 11:23 pm
Fred ♪♫♪ says:

Hey fuzzy, when we going to have a drink?

I’m betting you aint nearly the dip shit you act like here.
February 6th, 2010 at 11:24 pm
bizarrobrain (Sponsored by Tysons chicken in a tube!) says:

glamourdammerung says:
Hey, I dressed like Doctor Who every now and then. Of course I was like six or seven and going door to door to get candy instead of trying to showcase a politically impotent teabagging hobbyist circle.

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Epic choice for a costume. I went as Bub…one of the zombies from Romero’s Day of the Dead when I was 16 and that was probably the best Halloween nights that I’ve had. I got about three big Hefty bags of candy.

Speaking of Doctor Who: heres a parody called Dalek Workout.
February 6th, 2010 at 11:25 pm
bizarrobrain (Sponsored by Tysons chicken in a tube!) says:

Fred ♪♫♪ says:
Smite the troll with a lightning bolt for refusing to submit.

I like the way you’re thinking. Hey, that reminds me of a joke.

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Haha. What’s the joke?
February 6th, 2010 at 11:27 pm
Fred ♪♫♪ says:

Ok bizzaro, it’s a little johny joke. That’s ironic isn’t it?

The teacher says she’s going to reach into a bag and describe what’s in the bag.

She reaches in and says, it’s round, and it’s red.

Little johnny’s hand goes up of course and the teacher says, ok johnny what do you think it is. Johnny says, it’s an apple teacher. The teacher says no, it’s a red ball johnny but I like the way you’re thinking.

Next the teacher reaches in the sack and says, what I feel in the sack is round and it’s orange.

Johnny’s hand goes up and the teacher calls on him again, of course. Johnny says I think it’s and orange.

The teacher says, no, it’s an orange ball, but I like the way you’re thinking.

Finally the teacher says would any of you kids like to try this. Of course Johnny’s hand goes up and the teacher hesitantly says ok.

Johnny reaches in his pocket and says, teacher, I feel something that’s round and hard and has a head on it.

The teacher gasps and says, I knew better than to let you try this johnny, I knew you would turn it into somthing dirty.

Johnny reaches into his pocket and pulls out a quarter and says, it’s only a quarter teacher, but I like the way your’re thinkin.
February 6th, 2010 at 11:34 pm
Fred ♪♫♪ says:

bizarrobrain (Sponsored by Tysons chicken in a tube!) says:
Hey, I dressed like Doctor Who every now and then.

I loved the original Dr Who. The one with the scarf. Smoked a few in those days. Dalek was always causing trouble.
February 6th, 2010 at 11:38 pm
bizarrobrain (Sponsored by Tysons chicken in a tube!) says:

Fred ♪♫♪ says:
I believe it was the 4th doctor who had the scarf. And the Dalek’s are just awesome…probably my favorite race of sci-fi robots besides the cybermen (also from Doctor Who).

And thank you for the joke…I haven’t heard a little Johnny joke in ages. They never get old. :)

I’ve got one for you: a minister was in his church one night when he heard a knock at the door. He opened the door to find two leprechauns sitting on the ground, one looking smug and happy, the other one looking nervous and scared. The smug one asked the minister if there were any leprechaun nuns in the church. When the minister answered, “No”, the smug one asked if there were any in the city. The minister answered, “no.” He asked if there were any in the state, and the minister replied with “no.” He asked if there were any in the country and the minister replied, “no.” Finally he asked if there were any in the world and the minister replied with, “no.” Finally, the smug leprechaun laughed and told the other one, “See! I told you, you screwed a penguin!”
February 6th, 2010 at 11:56 pm
Eugene Debs sponsered by the Church of the presumptious assumption says:

Big John

Go FCUK yourself then put a bullet through that useless, empty, troll skull of yours
February 7th, 2010 at 1:12 am
DallasNE says:

Does anybody realistically believe that a rag-tag bunch of tea-baggers can push aside the might of corporate America and gain control over the Republican Party? It will instead split the Republicans and give the Democrats a golden opportunity (if they don’t screw this up too).
February 7th, 2010 at 1:47 am
Bonnie says:

Geez, I didn’t know Fred Malek was still alive. Wasn’t he involved in some of the Watergate crimes?
February 7th, 2010 at 4:04 am
bizarrobrain (Sponsored by Tysons chicken in a tube!) says:

Bonnie,
Fred Malek was involved in the BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) controversy…still under Nixon though.
February 7th, 2010 at 5:58 am
Game of Life says:

Global Warming means climate change you freakin idiots.

HAHAHAHAHA

Make more commercial exposing your ignorance.
February 7th, 2010 at 7:01 am
junior says:

It is no secret that old white men like the ones in this article control America. After a while it isn’t so much the money they have it is the corrupt power they force down our throats. Are there lists out there somewhere that tell you which corporation is Republican, Progressive or Democratic owned? I’m sure the majority are republican but I’d like to know who I am supporting next time I vote! We may be able to stymie some corporate control of our elections if we can hit them where it hurts the most, their pockets. Oh, and Dems, you need to grow some and get the CHANGE going!
February 7th, 2010 at 8:53 am
karadagli61 says:

Headline of the Future: Glorious Robber Barons Raise Wages .0001 Cent To 3 Cents An Hour. All Bow in Appreciation
February 11th, 2010 at 3:52 pm

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