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Already, this election cycle (2014), the Democrats have out-spent the GOP/Conservatives, 3 to 2; $372 million for the Dems versus 279 million for the opposition, not counting the real-time contributions of the National Media - which totals hundreds of millions to the favor of the Socialist/Democrats.
From Politico:Translation: Our decision to go after the Koch Brothers is solely a political ploy. After all, we sure as heck, cannot run on our record.
Sen. Chuck Schumer defended Democrats’ strategy of slamming the billionaire Koch brothers, predicting Monday that the efforts “will work.”
But their contributions put them [only] at 59th on a list of "big money" contributors. The top 6 political donors? Labor and teacher unions represent 6 of the top 10 political donor collective/individuals.Schumer said recent polling shows 48 percent of Americans recognize the name of the businessmen, who have poured millions into conservative political ads and campaigns.
Again, Democrats are using the Koch Brothers as a "shield" (Schumer's words). Question: A "shield" against what? We all know the answer to that question, "we" meaning "Conservatives AND Progressive Socialists."“That’ll mean about 90 percent of them will know it [the Koch name] in October,” Schumer said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday. “We also have to have a shield that protects us from these ads. And I think the Koch brother thing will work.”
Harry Reid has tabled 160 pieces of legislation coming out of the House. He has done so without the specific approval of the Senate and continues to act as if he were the dictator/president, instead of H Obama. So, who is "un-American?"The New York Democrat brushed off criticism from conservatives that Democrats are trying to suppress the free speech rights of Charles and David Koch with the repeated attacks, including some from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid calling them “un-American.”
Again, the spending habits of the Koch Brothers are far exceeded by the Marxist National Media, alone, or the labor unions, alone, or the national teachers' unions, alone, or the contributions of Gates, Steyer, Soros, Bloomberg, Buffett, all separately and individually "alone," or the combined totals of partisan trial lawyers, alone, or the efforts of AARP, alone.“The Koch brothers aren’t just sitting there innocently on the side,” Schumer said. “They’re spending $40, $50 million in ads that are not focused on their real agenda, which is just eliminating all regulation on corporations, cutting taxes to virtually nothing. And so that demands a response. So I don’t feel sorry for them.”
Schumer and his socialist buds are just upset that the GOP/Conservatives have any money at all, to spend on elections.
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Supporting sources:
Charted spending totals for past several election cycles: https://www.opensecrets.org/bigpicture/
Total partisan spending for 2014 elections: https://www.opensecrets.org/parties/
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ReplyDelete3/4 of all political contributions come from corporations. GOP contributions outnumber Dem 3 to 2. Although Dems lead significantly in labor contribution, Labor unions only contribute 11% of the total, compared to corporations 77% of the total. Look under 'ALL contributions.' http://www.opensecrets.org/overview/blio.php
Why do you think citizens united is being pushed by the 1%ers? Why do you think that an OVERWHELMING majority of Americans are against it? It is the ruling oligarchy that buys elections.
I just gave you the truth. The numbers in my post are not mine nor are they the creation of a Right Wing Conspiracy. 60% of corporate CEO's align themselves with the Democrat/Progressives. "Business" and "Corporate America" are not the same. "All contributions" at the site address you referenced, a good source of information, btw, are LIMITED to those contributions listed. The numbers given do not take into account, the contributions of the Green Lobby, Utility company contributions, teacher unions and associations, labor union contributions to the production of Left Wing propagandist, the extremely partisan work done by Media Matters and its allies, millions spent without any accounting, nor does the Open Secrets report make an effort at counting in the total dollar value of Leftist propaganda published by the likes of the SF Chronicle, the LA Times, the New York Times, the Atlanta Journal, the Boston Globe and the millions of dollars donated by the cable and network media. Again, the Dems win the over-all money game by a 2 to 1 margin and does not control the bully pulpit.
ReplyDeleteWhy is Citizens United being pushed by the so-called "1%ers?" Maybe because they are Americans, too, and deserve the same minority protections offered to all, under our Constitution.
Smithson has just proven he's a pawn of the 1% oligarchs... an unwitting pawn who has been fed a line of BS by the people who are trying to hurt his best interests ... like the Kochs who fund efforts to raise the SS retirement age. C. Koch says he knows the secret to helping poor people ... according to Charles Koch, the U.S. needs to get rid of the minimum wage. The Koch's launched a massive campaign pressuring states to deny health care coverage to lower income Americans through the Medicaid expansion contained in the Affordable Care Act. The Kochs also fund voter suppression efforts that target the elderly. Americans for Prosperity (AFP, aka The Koch brothers' Tea Party) resort to scare tactics targeted at the elderly... i.e. in a poor Detroit neighborhood they posting fake eviction notices on people's doors to further an agenda. http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2011/06/group_opposing_new_detroit-win.html
ReplyDeleteThis is the kind of people SMithson stands for.
Minimum wage was recently opposed by Gates, Warren Buffett and Bloomberg. There are just as many Dems who support raising the SS retirement age, including comments made by Obama, and, those "eviction notices? They were put up by radical Leftists who then blamed teaparty types, as if a teaparty conservative could walk the streets of the Hood without getting shot. Do you not read the papers? Do you not understand just moronic your sound? I would deal with the remainder of your comments, above, in depth, but it is just so stupid, I fear I would lose I.Q. points during the time I countered your arguments.
ReplyDeleteSmithson can't handle the truth. After all, he is an old creationist science denier, what would you expect? Who you going to believe? Someone who is educated and scientific, of someone who thinks science, facts and reason are 'lies'?
ReplyDeleteThe reader will judge the issues. To slander me, personally, is not debate. Ad Hom attacks are always used when the opponent cannot deal with the facts presented. I understand "ad hom," and trust that the reader sees this discussion for what it is: typical Left versus Right, fantasy and slander versus facts and reality.
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