This may be an on-going thread, sad to say.
A friend directed me to an article in yesterday's L.A. Times entitled "Chamber of Commerce vows to punish anti-business candidates." The head of the Chamber is President Tom Donohue, who is quite proud that he was able to find a loophole in campaign advertising finance which permitted the Chamber to funnel $60 million into anti-candidate ads in the last election cycle without identifying the companies funding those ads. If you are looking for the organization which is fighting against the interests of the middle and lower classes, look no further.
Yesterday, Mr. Donohue called a press conference to announce plans to attack "candidates considered unfriendly to business." That means all of the Democratic candidates, running not only for president but also for other national and state positions, and at least candidate Huckabee on the Republican side. No doubt, Mitt Romney is the ideal candidate to Mr. Donohue. He's no "populist," which appears to be a dirty word equivalent to "liberal" in the lexicon of big business.
Mr. Donohue's plan is "to keep Democrats from power for at least 40 years." Let's hope he has a huge failure, bigger than the one the Republicans had in the last Congressional elections. Without George III and his minions in the White House after January 20, 2009, Mr. Donohue must be frantic about a repeat of 2006. Why would the Chamber of Commerce want such an hysteric in charge of its operations? I'm glad I've never felt the need to join the Chamber of Commerce if it is headed up by such an emotional, unstable man.
Since John Edwards is at the forefront of the populist movement which is terrifying Mr. Donohue, it might be a good time to make a contribution to the Edwards campaign. And it might also be a good time to contact the Federal Election Commission and Congress to close out the loophole of which Mr. Donohue is so proud.
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Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
And You Think You've Got Stress?
Hillary Clinton chokes up on the campaign trail and the reports sound like she's having a nervous break-down. Just how much do people hate smart, well-educated, accomplished Democratic women in this country? Give me a friggin' break. I don't recall the press stopping for a minute to report on the Reagans' abilities to tear up on cue, which I had the distinct displeasure to observe on an assignment one day back in the 1980s. Hillary's appears to have been an honest moment in a hard-fought campaign. It's tough to watch something you've worked for and you know you'd be great at slipping away.
I'm also really pissed at the commentators who think that things are all over with these two contests which represent less than 2% of the electorate. I'd suggest waiting until after Super Tuesday, when places like California get to check in, before drawing conclusions. Since I still think that Dennis Kucinich is the only candidate speaking like a true liberal, I'm more than irritated that the networks think they can limit candidates access to debates (that's you ABC.) I also think that it's questionable journalism that skewed the coverage after John Edwards came in second to Barack Obama by saying it was a race between Barack and Hillary. And the report I heard saying Hillary had lost Iowa by double digits was also unfair. She lost to Barack by single digits and was right on John Edward's heels. Only by combining the Obama and Edwards numbers does she lose by "double digits."
This race is exciting as it is. I know it is impossible for Fox Noise to be fair and balanced, but that doesn't excuse any of the rest of the journalists out there.
John Stewart and Stephen Colbert returned to the airwaves last night and did a great job of spreading the word on the WGA strike by bringing on guests who could intelligently talk about labor relations and the monetary issues at stake. We roared with laughter at "The AMPTP, pronounced NAMBLA" and Stewart getting jibes in about the companies lying either to the writers or their stock holders. Colbert's feigned lack of understanding about where the words on his monitor come from was priceless, as was the lack of "The Word."
I so wish the WGA would issue those shows interim agreements, but I do understand why they won't--so far. Unlike David Letterman, who owns his own show, I'm pretty sure Viacom owns "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report." Without the rest of the company signing on as well, it isn't a move in the right direction. Sigh.
I'm also really pissed at the commentators who think that things are all over with these two contests which represent less than 2% of the electorate. I'd suggest waiting until after Super Tuesday, when places like California get to check in, before drawing conclusions. Since I still think that Dennis Kucinich is the only candidate speaking like a true liberal, I'm more than irritated that the networks think they can limit candidates access to debates (that's you ABC.) I also think that it's questionable journalism that skewed the coverage after John Edwards came in second to Barack Obama by saying it was a race between Barack and Hillary. And the report I heard saying Hillary had lost Iowa by double digits was also unfair. She lost to Barack by single digits and was right on John Edward's heels. Only by combining the Obama and Edwards numbers does she lose by "double digits."
This race is exciting as it is. I know it is impossible for Fox Noise to be fair and balanced, but that doesn't excuse any of the rest of the journalists out there.
John Stewart and Stephen Colbert returned to the airwaves last night and did a great job of spreading the word on the WGA strike by bringing on guests who could intelligently talk about labor relations and the monetary issues at stake. We roared with laughter at "The AMPTP, pronounced NAMBLA" and Stewart getting jibes in about the companies lying either to the writers or their stock holders. Colbert's feigned lack of understanding about where the words on his monitor come from was priceless, as was the lack of "The Word."
I so wish the WGA would issue those shows interim agreements, but I do understand why they won't--so far. Unlike David Letterman, who owns his own show, I'm pretty sure Viacom owns "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report." Without the rest of the company signing on as well, it isn't a move in the right direction. Sigh.
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