Archive for July, 2012

The Romney Campaign’s Situational Demagoguery

July 25, 2012
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Worse than Swift Boating, worse than Willie Horton, and even worse than the racist push polls Karl Rove used against John McCain in the 2000 South Carolina primary, Mitt Romney is running the most craven, dishonest, and hypocritical campaign we’ve seen in contemporary American politics. The Romney campaign is engaging in “situational demagoguery,” a...

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SuperPACs and LIBOR: A Heck of a Way to Run Capitalist Democracy

July 9, 2012
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Everybody seems to know (whether they’re willing to admit it or not) that the 2012 elections are going to be the most corrupted elections by corporate money than any held in this country since the Gilded Age. Unregulated, anonymous and laundered cash is being pumped into the system at an unprecedented rate. Meanwhile, the...

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