Whiners [and losers] of the world unite, you only need a few billionaires to pull your strings.
Grassroots, yea sure! LMAO
"The modern conservative [libertarian] is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." John Kenneth Galbraith
Common foes bring together losers, 'David H. Koch and his brother Charles are lifelong libertarians and have quietly given more than a hundred million dollars to right-wing causes.' And money has great power. It is fascinating that the tea party is seen for what it is: tools for the corporation, tools for power, tools against our democratically elected president, just whiners and complainers. Too funny but also too predictable. In the final analysis, the 'contented' hate America values, they want theirs and fluck everyone else.
New Yorker piece below:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer?printable=true
"...Charles Lewis, the founder of the Center for Public Integrity, a nonpartisan watchdog group, said, “The Kochs are on a whole different level. There’s no one else who has spent this much money. The sheer dimension of it is what sets them apart. They have a pattern of lawbreaking, political manipulation, and obfuscation. I’ve been in Washington since Watergate, and I’ve never seen anything like it. They are the Standard Oil of our times.”"
and more investigative reporting:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tea_Party_movement_funding
"Koch’s detractors also like to point out the irony of the so-called grassroots tea-party movement’s being funded by a billionaire. Koch’s real motives, they say, are self-serving. In April, Fang posted a dossier on Koch that attributes to his groups a decades-long pattern of “Astroturfing”—funding movements designed to look grassroots, but which in fact represent corporate interests. Richard Fink insists that Koch’s political activity is about principles, not money. “I view David as a courageous American who has a set of beliefs that he’s willing to support consistently over time despite all the flak he gets,” Fink says. “Very few people would do that.”" http://nymag.com/news/features/67285/index4.html
democrats too
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/07/30/oil-funding-everyone/
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Grassroots, yea sure! LMAO
"The modern conservative [libertarian] is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." John Kenneth Galbraith
Common foes bring together losers, 'David H. Koch and his brother Charles are lifelong libertarians and have quietly given more than a hundred million dollars to right-wing causes.' And money has great power. It is fascinating that the tea party is seen for what it is: tools for the corporation, tools for power, tools against our democratically elected president, just whiners and complainers. Too funny but also too predictable. In the final analysis, the 'contented' hate America values, they want theirs and fluck everyone else.
New Yorker piece below:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer?printable=true
"...Charles Lewis, the founder of the Center for Public Integrity, a nonpartisan watchdog group, said, “The Kochs are on a whole different level. There’s no one else who has spent this much money. The sheer dimension of it is what sets them apart. They have a pattern of lawbreaking, political manipulation, and obfuscation. I’ve been in Washington since Watergate, and I’ve never seen anything like it. They are the Standard Oil of our times.”"
and more investigative reporting:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tea_Party_movement_funding
"Koch’s detractors also like to point out the irony of the so-called grassroots tea-party movement’s being funded by a billionaire. Koch’s real motives, they say, are self-serving. In April, Fang posted a dossier on Koch that attributes to his groups a decades-long pattern of “Astroturfing”—funding movements designed to look grassroots, but which in fact represent corporate interests. Richard Fink insists that Koch’s political activity is about principles, not money. “I view David as a courageous American who has a set of beliefs that he’s willing to support consistently over time despite all the flak he gets,” Fink says. “Very few people would do that.”" http://nymag.com/news/features/67285/index4.html
democrats too
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/07/30/oil-funding-everyone/
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