Let the tea party win all the primaries they enter. that only increases the odds of the R’s losing the general election. Yes it’s true that you can get a lot more old rascist white people to your primary election and make your nutcase tea party moron win the primary.
When the crazy rascist teaparty candidate shows up in the general election it only brings out more independants and progressives who look at the tea party idiot running and decide they now have a reason to vote, and they make an extra stop at the voting booth, on their way to the liquor store, to vote against the dumbshit from the tea party.
The tea party will loose more seats for the R’s by the time they’ve run their course.

in a police state, all police actions are automatically justified.

Maybe the ACLU should get some Columbian prostitutes in on the negotiations on their behalf, they have a better working relationship with the government agencies.

Here’s my question: I was thinking the other day that I’d like to attend a protest. Can I now be arrested because I was thinking of attending a protest ?

so Rupert Murdoch and Comcast/GE conduct a poll, who wants to believe either of these fascist organizations on anything ?

the author’s analysis of Obama’s crazy strategy of “changing DC” is exactly correct. He gave Mitch M and Boehner/Cantor the incentive to oppose everything he tried. Obama’s whole strategy was idiotic. Coming into power with a mandate for huge changes, he shifted to a strategy that could only succeed if the rethugs let it succeed ? How stupid is that ?

I guess you can go to Harvard and still do some really stupid things.

ALEC will just go super secretive. Still a victory for progressives, establishing the strong link between corporations and the radical operatives they knowingly fund. The significant thing is that corporations now know they are being watched by their customers, so there are now corporate presentations being made regarding COST/BENEFIT analysis in regards to their attempts to wrestle democracy away from the voters by way of ALEC and other conduits.

No coincidence that another internet attack bill is being introduced this week. The alternative information flow to the corporate media lies is messing with the fascists. Truthful information vs. corporate lies is the battle, and progressive sites have made that battle take place.

I wandered through one of the downtown hotels a few months ago on my lunch break and there were a bunch of overweight middle aged white guys with mustaches creeping around looking for a feeding trough. It was an ALEC meeting, they all had ALEC nametags. These guys are as disgusting in person as their actions.

at least Frank put through the only legislation that could make it through the tea party/blue dog dem congress, who are one hundred percent obedient to wall street. if you’re going to single out a congressperson, how about Spencer Bachus ? daily trading stocks on private information obtained by his chairmanship of the financial services committee. How about GWB’s SEC commissioner Christopher Cox, who didn’t believe in regulation and torpedoed every SEC fraud case that came across his desk ? Congress, as an entity is owned by wall street, but there are still members who are not owned by Wall Street: Sherrod Brown, Frank, Levin, Whitehouse, Blumenthal. Please reply with a republican who does not fight regulation, Volcker Rule, etc. I’d like to hear if you know of any.

simple rule for all federal lawyers, auditors, investigators: Five year waiting period to work for any industry that came under your federal jurisdiction.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/oliver-stone/jfk-and-the-unspeakable_b_243924.html

Here’s a link to Oliver Stone’s article on the book I read about Kennedy. The book, called “the unspeakable” details all the documents and events, many of them released in the last few years, about 1/3rd of the book is detailed research references. Douglass quotes the executive order verbatim and refers to its official number. The executive order was reversed by Johnson within a few days of Kennedy’s murder. Also interesting are the minutes of Kennedy’s meetings with the Joint Chiefs, meetings that were actually shouting matches and face offs between Kennedy and the war makers.
James Douglass: the unspeakable / Douglass is a former Jesuit seminarian and historian.

The Military/Industrial Complex are serious folks. They kind of let everybody know that when they took out Kennedy 30 days after he signed an executive order to begin disengagement in Vietnam.

Eisenhower warned us, they assassinated a president, and they’ve been in control ever since. Imagine the power these guys have to create wars, sell weapons, and do it all over again, and again, and again. If they could eliminate a president, they can eliminate anybody who gets in their way. If you don’t see any more posts by me after today, that means they probably got me too.

You have to give them credit for their latest war incarnation: The War on Terror, I can’t even find it on the damn map.

check out this article from New York Magazine — what Obama was trying to give away to the oligarchy last summer, but Boehner and his group were too stupid to take Obama’s complete capitulation. It seems that the Obama skeptics in the progressive community had really underestimated Obama’s desire to totally sell out Democratic Party principles. If this news was out last year, Obama would have been primaried:

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/03/how-obama-tried-to-sell-out-liberalism-in-2011.html