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Dave Johnson's picture

What Will Tea Party Members Do When Their Politicians Betray Them?

Tea Party members hate Wall Street bailouts, trade deals like NAFTA, job outsourcing, giant corporations buying laws, government spending, and elites telling the rest of us what to do. more »

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Richard Eskow's picture

Backdoor Bailout, Tea Party Fakeout: The GOP's Secret $90 Billion Gift to Wall Street

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GOP candidates are making a point of running against "bailouts" this year. Yet even as they rail about rescuing big banks, they're working on a plan that would slip those same banks an estimated $90 billion in taxpayer money ... and that's just in the first ten years.

"Fiscal conservatism," anyone?

It was always hypocritical to slam a bailout that they and their party initiated. But it turns out they were just warming up. Now they're trying to pull a fast one on the American public, tapping Tea Party rage about big government spending even as they prepare to slip the big bankers some big bucks. They're planning to siphon off $90 billion meant for America's college students and their families and give it to Wall Street.

Any Tea Partier who votes for these guys is being played for a sucker. more »

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Sara Robinson's picture

Fascist America: Is This Election The Next Turn?

In August 2009, I wrote a piece titled Fascist America: Are We There Yet? that sparked much discussion on both the left and right ends of the blogosphere. more »

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Dave Johnson's picture

Are Tea Party Members Getting Played?

Are the Main Street Tea Party members getting "played" by Wall Street and big-corporate billionaires? There is a big, big, big difference between what the regular members and the big-money funders expect. more »

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Zach Carter's picture

Wall Street's Tea Party

The Tea Party likes to wrap itself in "grassroots" contempt for wealthy elites, but the 12 leading Tea Party Senate candidates have accepted over $4.6 million in campaign contributions from Wall Street for the upcoming election. more »

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Richard Eskow's picture

Blindsight: Economic Injustice, Country Music, and Third World America



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Zach Carter's picture

Scott Brown Votes for Reform-- After Selling Out to Wall Street

Wall Street reform passed Congress today, with three Republicans voting "yes," among them Scott Brown of Massachusetts. But Brown's vote came with a high price tag: he insisted on both hammering ordinary citizens with new taxes, instead of imposing them on the financial behemoths that jeopardize our economic stability. more »

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Zach Carter's picture

Do Democrats Want Toxic Campaign Cash From Goldman Sachs?

Heavy-hitting Wall Street political donors are withholding their money from the Democratic Party's campaign coffers, according to a Washington Post report making the rounds on Capitol Hill today. more »

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Richard Eskow's picture

The Fog of Reform: Dems Oversell While Tea Party Saves Billions For Hedge Funds

President Obama was right to call out John Boehner today for describing our economic catastrophe as an "ant" that didn't deserve a strong response. more »

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GOP Wants a Country by Corporations for Corporations

Tea Party darling and Republican U.S. Senate nominee Rand Paul spoke last week like the political novice he is – revealing unfiltered GOP “truths.”

First he informed MSNBC talk show host Rachel Maddow that government should not be able to force businesses to serve black people. more »

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