Posts Tagged ‘Koch Brothers’

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There Can Be No Doubt That Mitt Romney is a Member of the Dangerous John Birch Society

on November 5th, 2012 at 4:03 pm

While Mitt Romney wants you to believe he’s a moderate, he’s actually the most extreme candidate for president since Barry Goldwater in 1964. While members of the John Birch Society hide their membership because it would instantly disqualify them from office, they can’t hide their positions, and if their positions align perfectly with the extremist […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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The Republican Party Has Been Fully Taken Over By the John Birch Society

on October 26th, 2012 at 2:33 am

With the nomination of Mitt Romney, the Republican Party has been completely taken over by the John Birch Society. In this post, I will detail what the John Birch Society is, and why it’s so dangerous to the future of the country. The JBS is a violent extremist group led by right wing racists. It […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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The Sham of Republican Conservatism

on October 17th, 2012 at 2:11 pm

It took me a while, but I finally figured it out. I have to give Republicans credit, over the years they’ve developed such a complicated shell game that I genuinely thought they had some depth and principle. What I’ve discovered is that they only stand for one thing; rich people getting and keeping as much […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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If Romney Was Being Honest, How Much Would He Say He’s Really Worth?

on October 5th, 2012 at 11:58 pm

The 2012 campaign will be remembered for the way billionaires like the Koch Brothers and Sheldon Adelson tried to buy the election for their friend Mitt Romney. It may also be remembered for the Republican Party putting up a billionaire as their candidate for president. A few years ago, conservatives all believed that Mitt Romney […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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The Tea Party Ruined Everything

on September 3rd, 2012 at 1:29 pm

We get it– President Obama is a Kenyan socialist who hates the country and wants to kill your grandmother. That’s pretty much what the Tea Party has given us.  Yes, they wrap it up in patriotic ribbons and confuse you with talk of freedom, but that basically covers the Tea Party’s contribution to society. You […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Mitt Romney Embraces Paul Rand… errr… Ryan

on August 11th, 2012 at 10:56 pm

And you thought Sarah Palin was a crazy VP pick? Paul Ryan has been a government bureaucrat for most of his life spending most of his adult life on the government dole as a member of the House of Representatives. He has built a nice house with the help of taxpayer money, while railing against […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Top 10 Ways the CNBC Tea Party Has Sold Out

on August 4th, 2012 at 9:08 am

They once claimed to be nonpartisan. Now, the Tea Party is heading to Tampa as just another brick in the Republican Party wall. They thought they hated the government, turns out they just hated President Obama. They once perceived themselves as leaderless, now Sarah Palin tells them what to do. In the beginning, Tea Partiers […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Romney’s Holy Grail: $5 a Gallon Gasoline

on July 15th, 2012 at 3:24 pm

It’s not the best kept secret out there, but some may not have noticed it; Mitt Romney is intent on making you pay $5 a gallon for gasoline. You’ve probably noticed how Romney opposes every alternative energy option out there, and you might be keeping track of Romney’s inflammatory rhetoric when it comes to the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Romney’s Reveals His Koch Problem at Hampton Getaway

on July 12th, 2012 at 4:29 am

Before heading to Aspen, “Mitt Romney headed to the sprawling estates of the Hamptons, where he held a whirlwind series of fundraisers, charging up to $50,000 a head and infusing his campaign with an expected $4 million.” He was there to meet with one of his closest friends and allies. Mitt Romney declared he was […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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How Chief Justice John Roberts Stared Down the Tea Party and Won

on July 5th, 2012 at 3:14 pm

There’s been a lot of talk about the dramatic circumstances that led the Supreme Court to vote to uphold the Affordable Care Act last Thursday. Chief Justice John Roberts was the deciding vote in a narrow 5-4 decision and many have speculated on why he chose to vote with the more moderate justices. CBS News […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Meet a Friend of Mitt, the Other Koch Brother

on June 7th, 2012 at 2:42 am

Bill Koch isn’t as well known as his other two brothers, Charles and David (they had a falling out a few years back when they were fighting over their billion dollar inheritances) but he does share similar extremist views. William I. Koch, the Osterville summer resident and fossil fuel magnate who helped bankroll the opposition […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Why the Wisconsin Recall is so Important

on June 5th, 2012 at 2:36 am

Wisconsin is going to the polls today to recall their unpopular governor, Scott Walker. Unfortunately, Wisconsin is up against some pretty strong outside forces. 60% of Scott Walker’s money comes from out of state. Walker’s biggest supporters are the Koch Brother, headquartered in Wichita, Kansas. The Koch’s have spent $10 million for Walker through their front […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Are Mitt Romney’s Corporate Friends Deliberately Firing People?

on June 3rd, 2012 at 2:34 pm

Last month, Goldman Sachs started cutting an estimated 2400 jobs. Goldman Sachs is one of Romney’s top donors. Hewlett-Packard announces plan to slash 27,000 jobs. CEO Meg Whitman is one of Mitt Romney’s biggest fundraisers and finance chairman of Romney’s 2008 failed candidacy. Best Buy, always a big donor to Republican causes, closes 50 stores. Despite strong numbers, Cisco has […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Scott Walker: Republican Bully of the Day

on May 11th, 2012 at 11:17 pm

The Republican Party has become the POB, the Party of Bullies. Today we highlight Wisconsin’s biggest bully, Republican Governor Scott Walker. Walker is a CNBC-T Party favorite who has continually gone after public employees like teachers and firemen. He’s funded to an obscene degree by right wing billionaires like the Koch Brothers and Beloit billionaire […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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T. Boone Pickens Goes After the Koch Brothers

on May 3rd, 2012 at 11:31 pm

“The biggest deterrent to an energy plan in America is Koch Industries,” the BP Capital founder tells Yahoo’s Aaron Task. “They do not want an energy plan for America because they have the cheapest natural gas price they’ve ever had, and they’re in the fertilizer business and they’re in the chemical business. So their margins […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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A Small Circle of Billionaires Want to Rule America

on February 22nd, 2012 at 1:50 pm

CNBC investigates the strangely intersecting world of right wing billionaires trying to buy our election. Some of the superdonors, like Mr. Simmons and Robert J. Perry, a Texas homebuilder, are longtime backers of independent groups that were active in past campaigns, like the Swift Boat group, which in 2004 challenged the Vietnam War record of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Corporations Should Not Meddle in Politics

on February 12th, 2012 at 1:42 pm

Lately, we’ve had certain Republicans and Supreme Court justices arguing that corporations are people and that they have the same rights as people, specifically the right to free speech, the right to spend unlimited amounts of money for political causes. Why is this idea incorrect? You would think it would behoove a corporation to get involved […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Koch Brothers Pledge to Buy the 2012 Election

on February 4th, 2012 at 2:44 am

By now, everyone has heard about the ultra-right Koch brothers. Their nefarious plan to get far-right Republicans into office by duping the American public with millions of dollars in negative ads worked in 2010, and so they’re going to do it again in 2012. At a private three-day retreat in California last weekend, conservative billionaires […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Herman Cain Speaks For the Billionaire Koch Brothers

on November 7th, 2011 at 1:26 am

It turns out that Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has a deep relationship with the Koch brothers. Republican Herman Cain, facing allegations of sexual harassment, returns Friday to a familiar, and presumably friendly, venue — the annual convention of Americans for Prosperity, the conservative group founded by billionaire businessmen David and Charles Koch. The group […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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