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- ukit0
Amazing how this is totally ignored in the U.S. media...you'd think it would be one the most important stories of the year.
"US midterms set to become most expensive elections in country's history"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/…
The US midterm elections are on course to become the most expensive in history next month, estimated at well over $5bn (£3.15bn) – an indication of how much is riding on the outcome of the biggest test of US public opinion since the 2008 White House race.
With the Democrats facing electoral disaster and Barack Obama battling to save his presidency, the Republicans are resurgent, their campaign chests bursting with money from big corporations whose spending power has been unleashed by a supreme court ruling earlier this year providing anonymity for donors.
The estimated $5bn dwarfs the $1bn spent on the White House race.
Public Citizen, a non-profit organisation that tracks corporate spending on elections and lobbying, said today Republicans had received six times more cash than the Democrats last month, and this could rise to 10 to one this month. Much of the cash had come from Wall Street, banking and the health and pharmaceuticals industry, it said.
"We are going to see record amounts. This is the first year in which all limits are removed. The supreme court ruling reverses a century of political tradition in the US in which corporations are not supposed to get involved," said Craig Holman, Public Citizen's representative on Capitol Hill.
- US Media is bought and paid for by the same peepsTheBlueOne
- At the same time, actually. That is where all that ad money goes.DrBombay
- haha...good point. All those ad buys are keeping them in business.ukit
- fooler20
since this is a design forum... has anyone brought up the new Democrat logo yet?
http://daveibsen.typepad.com/.a/…- It's shit...but kind of irrelevant I think. I'm guessing Obama will use his own logo for 2012 campaign.ukit
- Still better than the new Gap logo.TheBlueOne
- yesQl3N
- I would vote republicant before I'd vote for that Gap logofooler2
- Yeh I tried to bring it up... http://www.qbn.com/t…luckyorphan
- Ramanisky20
at 2:08
- oh noooo! The chinese are going to take us over!!! Save us witch lady!monkeyshine
- Ramanisky20
get ready for awesomeness .. grab your popcorn
part1
part2
- she really is a douche.zenmasterfoo
- i saw that last night, unbelievable!BonSeff
- she is a douche???
by trying to get to know his stance on important issues?Ramanisky2 - That guy answered no questions whatsoever.DrBombay
- he answered the toothbrush questionBonSeff
- they are both annoyingfooler2
- Being annoying is one thing. but issues raised are valid.NathanNice
- Ramanisky20
A day after saying homosexuality is not "an equally valid or successful option," New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino denied being anti-gay Monday but said it was "disgusting" that his opponent took his children to a gay pride parade.
- If O'Donnel wants to win "Least Electable" she's got a long way to go to catch up to this guylocustsloth
- ukit0
An election year already notable for its menagerie of extreme and unusual candidates can add another one: Rich Iott, the Republican nominee for Congress from Ohio's 9th District, and a Tea Party favorite, who for years donned a German Waffen SS uniform and participated in Nazi re-enactments.
http://www.theatlantic.com/polit…
Iott, a member of the Ohio Military Reserve, added, "I've always been fascinated by the fact that here was a relatively small country that from a strictly military point of view accomplished incredible things. I mean, they took over most of Europe and Russia, and it really took the combined effort of the free world to defeat them. From a purely historical military point of view, that's incredible."
- yeah saw that on Friday's
Real-Time with Maher ...
its really unbelievable that these people are running for office.Ramanisky2
- yeah saw that on Friday's
- ukit0
Isn't that how Glenn Beck posed on the cover of his book?
- locustsloth0
It all really makes me start thinking these people are the puppets the right are distracting us with while less nutty (but odious in their own right) Repubs go unquestioned and unexamined. Almost as if they were using the inherit sensationalist nature of media to throw up a smoke screen.
/conspiracy theory
- DrBombay0
This is a question for the colored man.
- ********0
New important UN ambassador has been appointed,
- ********0
Fucking funny...
"It means all the world to us to know that there are prayer circles out there and people who are keeping the spirits clean around us," First Lady Michelle Obama said on the "Tom Joyner Morning Show" today.- and that's funny because?Josev
- The dimwitted often find odd things funny. Just smile and nod.TheBlueOne
- BECAUSE ITS FUNNY!
I THINK ALL YOU LIBERAL TWATS ARE FUNNY!******** - Says the pussy who wouldn't fight for his words. Some patriot.TheBlueOne
- TheBlueOne0
You know what's fucking funny? Christine O'Donnell thinking that we fought the Soviets* in Afghanistan in the '90s**. And that we "didn't get the job done"***.
Even funnier, this person is a serious candidate for the US Senate.
* the only way we "fought the Soviets" was by a proxy war by funding Osama Bin Laden. Funny how that doesn't fit into her little understanding of reality. Unless we count Jimmy Carter boycotting the Olympics, but that would give Carter credit for something, and you can't do that if you're a raging teabagger.
**The Soviets pulled out in 1989, so I have no idea who she thinks "we" were "fighting" there in the 90's
*** I'm not sure how we "didn't get the job done" if, even by the proxy war argument through funding Islamic radicals the idea was to get the Soviets out of Afghanistan, and they consequently left, how the "job" didn't get "done".
- She was too busy not masturbating in her coven in the 90's to pay attention apparently.TheBlueOne
- BusterBoy0
O'Donnell's comments about Afghanistan were laughable yet frightening. She's a perfect candidate for the moron majority.
You wouldn't want to be female and victim of a violent sexual assault in Delaware. If she has her way, if you didn't have insurance you'd be turfed out in the street and then have no right to termination if it led to a pregnancy.
- ********0
These are some funny quotes from OUR VICE PRESIDENT..... i know not as scary as coming from some woman running for the senate...
"This is a big fucking deal!" --Joe Biden, caught on an open mic congratulating President Barack Obama during the health care signing ceremony, Washington, D.C., March 23, 2010
"His mom lived in Long Island for ten years or so. God rest her soul. And- although, she's- wait- your mom's still- your mom's still alive. Your dad passed. God bless her soul." --Joe Biden, on the mother of Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, who is very much alive, Washington, D.C., March 17, 2010
"I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now. ... When one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft. That's me. I would not be, at this point, if they had another way of transportation, suggesting they ride the subway." --Joe Biden, providing handy tips to protect against the swine flu and freaking us out, "Today Show" interview, April 30, 2009
"An hour late, oh give me a f**king break." –Joe Biden, caught on a live mic speaking to a former Senate colleague after arriving on Amtrak at Union Station in Washington, D.C., March 13, 2009 (Watch video clip)
"You know, I'm embarrassed. Do you know the Web site number? I should have it in front of me and I don't. I'm actually embarrassed." –Joe Biden, speaking to an aide standing out of view during an interview on CBS' "Early Show," in the midst of encouraging viewers to visit a government-run Web site that tracks stimulus spending, Feb. 25, 2009
"If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong." --Joe Biden, speaking to members of the House Democratic caucus who were gathered in Williamsburg, Va., for their annual retreat, Feb. 6, 2009
"Am I doing this again? For the senior staff? My memory is not as good as Chief Justice Roberts'." --Joe Biden, mocking Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts' botched effort to swear in Barack Obama as Biden was set to swear in White House senior staff one day after the Inauguration snafu, Washington, D.C., Jan. 21, 2009
"Jill and I had the great honor of standing on that stage, looking across at one of the great justices, Justice Stewart." –Joe Biden, mistakenly referring to Justice John Paul Stevens, who swore him in as vice president, Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2009 (Watch video clip)
"Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs." --Joe Biden, Athens, Ohio, Oct. 15, 2008 (Source)
"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened." –Joe Biden, apparently unaware that FDR wasn't president when the stock market crashed in 1929 and that only experimental TV sets were in use at that time, interview with Katie Couric, Sept. 22, 2008 (Watch video clip)
"Stand up, Chuck, let 'em see ya." –-Joe Biden, to Missouri state Sen. Chuck Graham, who is in a wheelchair, Columbia, Missouri, Sept. 12, 2008 (Watch video clip)
"Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me." --Joe Biden, speaking at a town hall meeting in Nashua, New Hampshire, Sept. 10, 2008 (Source)
"A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States — Barack America!" --Joe Biden, at his first campaign rally with Barack Obama after being announced as his running mate, Springfield, Ill., Aug. 23, 2008 (Watch video clip)
"A successful dump!" --Joe Biden, explaining his whereabouts (dropping deadwood at the dump) to the reporters outside his home, Wilmington, Del., Aug. 20, 2008
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man." –Joe Biden, referring to Barack Obama at the beginning of the 2008 Democratic primary campaign, Jan. 31, 2007 (Source)
"You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.... I'm not joking." --Joe Biden, in a private remark to an Indian-American man caught on C-SPAN, June, 2006 (Watch video clip)
- You're polluting the planet just by existing.TheBlueOne
- You tool bag, you big stupid tool bag!!! you don't even realize how stupid you are!********
- You really have a finger on the pulse of relevant issues this country needs to address.IRNlun6
- csnaps anytime you want to call me a pussy to my face, my offer is still open....TheBlueOne
- ..but considering you were the one who refuses to fight to back up his words, you are by definition, "the pussy" in this thread.TheBlueOne
- HOLD ON, YOU ARE STILL UPSET I CALLED YOU A PUSSY??? WOW!********
- I WANT TO FIGHT YOU!!! AND I AM THE ONE WITH ISSUES..THATS GREAT! DICK!********
- trains are supposed to be on time motherfucker!bulletfactory
- TheBlueOne0
The teabaggers are straight out of 1789. They're anti-constitutionalists hiding behind some false piety towards the Founders. They're from the same line that constituted the Whiskey Rebellion - not "no taxation without representation" but rather "no taxation, period". It's an old, old sawhorse - one that Washington put down by killing a few of these yokels, and has been a non-starter for the entire history of the United States under the Constitution. Basically they want to revert to the Articles of Confederation - which didn't work by the by.
Feel free to argue with me in random all-caps and Biden quotes, as that's the intellectual level you seem to operate on. You can even think you're "scored points" on the "liberal twats", still doesn't make you not a fucking moron and, fundamentally, on the losing end of history.
- DrBombay0
Ow my balls!
- Ramanisky20
cnaps... you're a giant Muff-cabbage
they need to lower you into the Chile mine and seal you up permanent like
