This week, Meg Whitman, running for governor of California, broke the record for personal spending on a campaign -- so far, she's donated to herself $119 million. I wonder if she regrets not using the Buy It Now option on eBay -- she probably could have gotten her campaign for a lot less. In Delaware, Christine O'Donnell's upset victory was a big boost to the Tea Party movement, Sarah Palin's clout as an endorser, and comedy writers everywhere. Karl Rove wasn't happy, so O'Donnell has to be doing something right. But, with all the problems we're facing, I'm not sure masturbation is as big an issue for most Americans as it seems to be for O'Donnell. And with unemployment so high, there are a lot of people sitting at home with time on their hands, looking for no-cost entertainment. Budget hawks rejoice: self-pleasure is deficit neutral.
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Reid: Let's see, here... Mr.President, you want us to legislate Campaign Finance Reform through RECONCILIATION?
POTUS: Yep... With CitizensUnited, Rightwingers've desperately taken the gloves off... Calling it through reconciliation affects the budget for campaign finance, targetting corporate contributors big time...
Time we fought back, inspite of what some maythink, we needto fight corruption.. It'll cost us.. Hell, I may lose big, but big differences while we're here're needed, for the nation; and its future.
Pelosi: Mr.President. It's an historic, excellent idea, but many in House won't comply. They're scared to lose their contributors.
Reid: Yeah, forget any Nelson, Lincoln, Byhe support, ... Blue dogs'll howl...
POTUS: Right. Well, they're cowards. They'll beseen as the cowards they are, along with republicans who've cared for nothing but their own agenda. Hopefully Americans'll speakup and haveour backs against corruption. We'll have enough votes to make the difference; showing thinking Americans RightandLeft,... All incomes, we fight forTHEM..... Everything wrong withour country's because of lobbyists andspecial interests.
Pelosi: It's too late for this election...
POTUS: Sure.. effective Jan. 1st.... If majority's lost, let's watch 'em try to take this down.
ALL: LET'S DO IT.
Reid: Let's see, here... Mr.President, you want us to legislate Finance Reform through RECONCILIATION?
POTUS: Yep... With CitizensUnited, Rightwingers've desperately taken the gloves off... Calling it through reconciliation affects the budget for campaign finance, targetting corporate contributors big time...
Time we fought back, inspite of what some maythink, we needto fight corruption.. It'll cost us.. Hell, I may lose big, but big differences while we're here're needed, for the nation; and its future.
Pelosi: Mr.President. It's an historic, excellent idea, but many in House won't comply. They're scared to lose their contributors.
Reid: Yeah, forget any Nelson, Lincoln, Byhe support, ... Blue dogs'll howl...
POTUS: Right. Well, they're cowards. They'll beseen as the cowards they are, along with republicans who've cared for nothing but their own agenda. Hopefully Americans'll speakup and haveour backs against corruption. We'll have enough votes to make the difference; showing thinking Americans RightandLeft,... All incomes, we fight forTHEM..... Everything wrong withour country's because of lobbyists andspecial interests.
Pelosi: It's too late for this election...
POTUS: Sure.. effective Jan. 1st.... If majority's lost, let's watch 'em try to take this down.
ALL: LET'S DO IT.
America IS SO ANTI-WALL STREET CR00KS!
OBSERVATION: Establishment WALL STREET Republicans are DE-AD in the WATER!
DEL + ALASKA = PROOF OF THE DEMISE OF WALL STREET REPUBLICANS!
MEG = WALL STREET REPUBLICAN = DE-AD in WATER!
HOW IN THE WORLD DO YOU GET BACK 119 MILLION DOLLARS YOU'VE INVESTED IN GETTING ELECTED, TO A POSITION THAT PAYS NO MORE THEN HALF A MILLION A YEAR????
WITH THIS IN OUR FACES, WHERE IS THE DISCONNECT THAT WE DON'T GET TO TRY TO CONVINCE US THAT BEING IN POWER DOES NOT CORRUPT?
That alone, in my book, absolutely disqualifies this person from EVER being honestly qualified to run ANy political office of so much importance to so many.
That 5 of the GOP nominees are so pro-choice that even unwanted pregnancies must be carried full term, simply offers proof that something is drastically wrong with our governing (and how this system currently operates)- despite assurances constitutionally of separation of church and state. The conservative right is derelict in their covenant and majority of voters will remove long standing incumbents from office, almost at any cost. The liberal left has turned socialism into bankrupting the future for our children.
And all the mad men (and women) are dancing on the Hill.
Wake up, America, it is almost too late!
TARIFFS, TARIFFS, TARIFFS.
Was Alexander Hamilton wrong? Was Abraham Lincoln wrong? Was every single economic advisor and theorist since 1791 wrong? Why is it that MILTON FRIEDMAN so dominates our economy?
The American Worker needs PROTECTIONIST POLICIES....they worked in the past, and without them, since the adoption of "Free Trade", we have suffered in the absence of them. BRING BACK TARIFFS NOW.
I bet she would win this election if she handed every Californian 1 million. That’s a savings of 82 million and this is a business women?