The really amazing thing about this story is that anyone is paying attention to it at all. This is just another desperate ploy from the far-right carnival barkers like Breitbart who cant handle the reality that they are losing all the important political battles right now. Losers. But hey, keep it up! When the right loses, America wins.
Fact is, Prosser would have won easily without Scott Walker and the WI GOP stepping in deep doo doo. But hey, keep it up, republicons! Keep attacking the basic rights of working Americans and see how far that gets ya.
Actually this article is riddled with falsehoods. Public unions don't require membership and the money they get is from people who choose to give them their own money. Not one penny of taxpayers money is taken from taxpayers by unions, much less automatically given to Democrats. Quite a little conspiracy theory you people have going there. Poor little victims! What a complete crock. Admit, private citizens spending money on campaigns is protected free speech. What's good for the goose baby. Plus, there is no intimidation going on here except from extreme rightwingers who, based on a fraudulent narrative of victimhood, accuse working Americans of being communists. This is insane, and I really hope you keep it up! You are losing this battle. By all means keep waging it.
C'mon people! Y'all are losing this one big time. Better go fight a battle you can win - like who is better at name-calling and adolescent humor. Meantime, the big dogs will mop up the mess you brats created in WI and elsewhere, keep the WH in '12, increase the majority in the Senate, and take back the House now that independent voters see how ridiculous the Republican Party and its ignorant Tea Party bullies have become. But hey, keep whining about how Unions are anti-American, by all means.
Supplies are at an 8-year high. The problem is that prices have become unmoored from the fundamentals. The solution is simple and elegant: the CFTC should impose position limits to prevent speculation from needlessly driving up the price.
After the depression laws were passed to prevent speculation on commodities markets. This kept prices wedded to real supply and demand. But in the early 90s, a number of wall st firms got exemptions and were allowed to speculate. By 2010 there were 350 billion dollars in the commodities markets. This is insane.
Drill baby drill?? No. Re-regulate. It worked before and it can work again. Right wingers have been brainwashed by corporate interests to think that regulation = big government = tyranny. What a joke. Deregulation is strangling the economy and rightwingers are saying "more! more!"
The reason Obama wont force the CFTC to do what is needed is that Goldman Sachs is his number one contributor. Obama wants high energy prices? Oh yeah, that'll REALLY help him get elected. That is mind-numbingly stupid.
It's not complicated. Deregulation is good for big corporations and bad for people.
Andy, why not a "Big Corporations.org"? Or would that piss off your benefactors.
Gimme a break. This place is a pathetic joke.
As a progressive I say good riddance, NPR. The most hilarious aspect of this story is that anybody seriously considered NPR "liberal." NPR was centrist mush that tried to walk that middle ground that is rapidly disappearing in American politics. ... Without NPR, progressives will have a much better time of getting their message out to independent voters about positive progressive change and sensible policies for the middle class and working Americans like making the very richest and big corporations pay their fair share. As for marginalizing the tea party as racist - we dont have to do that, you guys do it all on your own. You know what? If you werent racist, you wouldnt spend so much energy desperately insisting you are not racist. You would just carry on. Or, you would do the responsible thing and discipline your own ranks (which I admit you have been doing more of lately.) You guys may be mostly old farts but you are a young movement. And you are learning from the left pretty well, although I have to say O'Keefe could do a better job of picking his targets. Bye bye NPR! Thanks James! And Andy - just come out. you will be happier.
Undoubtedly another act of fraudulent provocation by rightwingers falsely claiming to be inciting violence on the left. No one pays attention to your lies any more, right wingers. Yawn ..... Andy, are you gay? You should just come out. You'd obviously be alot happier and it would help heal that chip on your shoulder ...
Oh, um, you forgot to mention this sentence in the Politico piece: "It’s unclear whether the protesters are members of Common Cause. The organization released a statement last month rejecting the comments."
I have no doubt Andy's little I-spy wannabe's infiltrated the protests and made those statements. This is de rigeur for little rich rightwing brats with too much time on their hands. Clarence Thomas is a disgrace, may well have violated the law, and should be investigated for breach of judicial ethics. He is the classic example of falsely claiming the mantle of victimhood. Clarence Thomas is the victim of his own ego, nothing else. No amount of anateur agent provocateur BS from Andy's merry gay band of pranksters changes that. Not even a nice try. Y'all are losing, fortunately (esp. in Wisconsin) and it shows
Andy, are you gay?
Andy - Do you get Koch funding, directly or indirectly?
Just wondering.
It certainly looks like Andy Breitbart has been caught lying once again. That woman wasnt working for the government back then. Facts anyone? But hey, right wing bullies, take solace! You can lie and get away with it. For a little bit, anyway ... we'll see who wins this one in the end, when the Tea Party movement turns out to be less than a footnote to history! Andy and friends, if you think this proves the NAACP is more racist than the Tea Party movement, I've got a selectively edited video of election fraud by the Democrats to sell ya! Ha! And a free picture of Obama in church with Bill Ayers to the first hillbilly who says I've got something up my ass!
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