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Just in case you thought our Congress wasn’t the best that money can buy...
– This election year, the Chamber of Commerce is looking to confirm it. At a meeting in Washington, Chamber President Tom Donohue told members that his organization is, “planning on having a good year,” and will spend more money this election than they did in 2010, when they spent more than $30 million catapulting corporate shills calling themselves Tea Partiers into Congress.
The Chamber is eyeing at least 12 Senate races and 37 House races with their corporate war-chest. Already the Chamber has dumped $3.4 million into this year’s election. As for the goal – the Chamber’s National Political Director summed it up like this, saying, “Our strategy is to protect the pro-business majority in the House and advance our interests in the Senate.”
That’s similar to the campaign platform of Warren Harding who in 1920 called for “more business in government and less government in business.” Nine years later – the economy crashed. And less than nine years after our first MBA President, George W. Bush, put in place basically the same policies – the economy crashed again. And yet, here’s the Chamber of Commerce promising to do it all again.
-Thom
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Daily Take: Crazy Fox news wants government run like a private equity firm
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Hour One: Crazy Fox news wants government run like a private equity firm
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Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Quote: "There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy." -- Thomas Jefferson.
Hour One: How Progressive Cory Booker sold out Democracy
The Big Picture- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator
Hour Two: Will the soft peddle take down of Obama work?
Hour Three: End the Federal Crackdown on Medical Marijuana- Mike Riggs, Reason Magazine
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Thom's Poll
Conservatives are calling Obama’s ads against Bain Capital, "attacks on capitalism." Is American capitalism rotten to the core?
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So Cory Booker takes money from Bain...
Crazy Alert! Good Looks Can Only Take You So Far...
The Rise of the New Economy Movement
Your Take/My Take - Mat in Auckland, New Zealand
The Nirvana of Instant Runoff Voting
The Good, The Bad and The Very Very Mastigophoricously Ugly!
Something Stinks - John Edwards & a 30 Year Jail Term?
Will the soft peddle take down of Obama work?
The "Iron Law of Oligarchy"
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Full Show 5/22/12: Booker and Bain
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Thom Hartmann on the News - May 22, 2012
End the Federal Crackdown on Medical Marijuana
New ad to attack Obama
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