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Title: The 1% Strike Back: Koch-Funded Americans for Prosperity Run New Solyndra TV Ad, Hilariously Lamenting “Political Favors”
Source: Think Progress
URL Source: http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/ ... lyndra-tv-ad-political-favors/
Published: Nov 2, 2011
Author: Stephen Lacey
Post Date: 2011-11-05 05:37:28 by lucysmom
Keywords: None
Views: 10458
Comments: 23

“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.”

– Charles Lewis, founder of the non-partisan Center for Public Integrity, quoted in a New Yorker expose of the Koch Brothers

Over the years, the Koch Brothers have spent over $50 million on campaigns in their fight to stop any action on climate change. They have poured gobs of money into federal politics, bankrolled climate deniers, and issued completely false ads on the impact of carbon-reduction policies. And to top it all off, the Koch Brothers are reportedly set to raise and spend $200 million on the 2012 election — with much of that money going toward energy-related issues.

In short, no two people more epitomize the corrupting power and influence of the 1% over the 99% than the pollutocrats, Charles and David Koch.

Now, one of the most prominent and vocal Koch-backed organizations, Americans for Prosperity, is spending $2.4 million on a new media campaign to highlight the Solyndra bankruptcy, releasing a one-minute television ad in key battleground states.

The tagline: “Tell President Obama that you shouldn’t use taxpayer dollars for political favors.”

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#1. To: Not Badeye, A K A Stone, Fred Mertz, Godwinson, go65, war, no gnu taxes, Skip Intro, ferret mike, jwpegler, mininggold, brian s, mcgowanjm (#0)

Keep in mind, the ad below lamenting “political favors” is being run by groups that have paid tens of thousands of dollars to sit down directly with other corporations and policy makers to write state laws, then engage in aggressive campaigns to get those laws passed.

Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890

lucysmom  posted on  2011-11-05   5:43:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: lucysmom (#1)

Why is Obama obstructing justice and ignoring a congressional subpena?

A K A Stone  posted on  2011-11-05   9:30:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: A K A Stone (#2)

Why is Obama obstructing justice and ignoring a congressional subpena?

Because he thinks he can get away with it and to protect his crony enabler friends.....

Number of shallow, inadequate, hypocritical Leftards who have me on BOZO---3.......... That means I'm doing my job correctly !!!!!!!!! "CHANGE" you can step in..... My dogs have created more shovel ready jobs than the self appointed Messiah!!!

CZ82  posted on  2011-11-05   9:35:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: A K A Stone (#2)

Why is Obama obstructing justice and ignoring a congressional subpena?

Because he can.

Once you're able to kill anyone you want at anytime for any reason.....you're Emperor....8D

Only the Praetorian Guard can stop you....;}

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-11-05   9:35:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: mcgowanjm, cz82 (#4)

Because he can.

Once you're able to kill anyone you want at anytime for any reason.

Maybe I better shut up. I love Obama. Seriously I do.

A K A Stone  posted on  2011-11-05   9:37:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: A K A Stone, lucysmom (#2)

Why is Don Corzine still not in jail?

You all think that MfGlobal's over, eh?

Re: World Markets - URL

Post Sat Nov 05, 2011 8:47 am by mcgowanjm MR Margin on Line 1, sir.

He told me to tell you that if you don't take his call your Accounts will be liquidated by Close of Market... :twisted: :? 8-)

Monday PM.... :roll: :shock: :twisted:

The CFTC and other regulators had the information right under their noses, but it appears they didn’t understand that they were looking at a leveraged credit derivative transaction that could lead to margin calls that MF Global would be unable to meet. Even if all the money can eventually be recovered, it doesn’t change the fact the MF Global took impermissible steps.

Liar’s Poker

Here’s a crazy but true side note. Michael Stockman, the chief risk officer of MF Global (as of January

2011), was in our Liar’s Poker training class lampooned by another classmate, Michael Lewis.

More Liar’s Poker

Last week when customers asked for excess cash from their accounts, MF Global stalled. According to

a commodity fund manager I spoke with, MF Global’s first stall tactic was to claim it lost wire transfer

=Tavakoli

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-11-05   9:37:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: All (#6)

News for CFTC Gensler Corzine

# CBC.ca Gensler-Corzine relationship complicates CFTC probe of MF Global

Washington Post - 12 hours ago Gensler, as chief of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), is one of the key regulators probing the brokerage firm MF Global that Corzine led ... 4231 related articles

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-11-05   9:37:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: mcgowanjm (#6)

You have to decipher your posts. But one thing I like about you is that you never make exescuses for Obama as war, mininggold, lucysmom, script intro do.

A K A Stone  posted on  2011-11-05   9:38:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: All (#7)

When All Commodities drop by 10% Monday,

things will get a little less complicated.

Margin Calls all around....there's something for everyone!!!!

8D

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-11-05   9:38:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: A K A Stone (#5)

Maybe I better shut up. I love Obama. Seriously I do.

Did one of the kids hit you in the head with a baseball bat????

Number of shallow, inadequate, hypocritical Leftards who have me on BOZO---3.......... That means I'm doing my job correctly !!!!!!!!! "CHANGE" you can step in..... My dogs have created more shovel ready jobs than the self appointed Messiah!!!

CZ82  posted on  2011-11-05   9:39:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: CZ82 (#10)

Obama is the best President ever. Even better then FDR and Jimmy Carter.

A K A Stone  posted on  2011-11-05   9:40:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: A K A Stone (#11)

Obama is the best President ever. Even better then FDR and Jimmy Carter.

WOW... that's some pretty LOW company he's keeping..... Lower than snake shit in a wagon wheel rut!!!!

Number of shallow, inadequate, hypocritical Leftards who have me on BOZO---3.......... That means I'm doing my job correctly !!!!!!!!! "CHANGE" you can step in..... My dogs have created more shovel ready jobs than the self appointed Messiah!!!

CZ82  posted on  2011-11-05   9:44:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: A K A Stone (#8)

you never make exescuses for Obama as war, mininggold, lucysmom, script intro do.

Cause I blew off his Bullshite and focused on his actions.

Banksters/Military got exactly what they wanted from Day 1.

And still do. Don Corzine was desperately trying to jump from MF Global to SecofTreasury.

He didn't make it....Splat.

Commodities will drop like a rock Monday.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-11-05   9:45:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: A K A Stone (#5)

Maybe I better shut up. I love Obama. Seriously I do.

And I'm seeing that on other sites...;}

People thinking they're on these lists.

Their problem is their 'lists' and secrets.

They're so damn long and complicated, rat's nests is what they've become.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-11-05   9:48:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: All (#14)

They're so damn long and complicated, rat's nests is what they've become.

Which is why I was laughing at your post (yesterday, I think;).

The one where DARPA's putting out fake classified.

LMFAO Just what our gov't needs. More trash....8D

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-11-05   9:49:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: All (#15) (Edited)

When I was in commodities, someone didn't get a money order for $100 000 to me same day?

I'm on the fucking plane to Chicago if that's what it takes...;)

$1.45 Billion....divide that by say $5700 margin per gold contract (the most expensive).

To See how many people have been fucked over here.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-11-05   9:53:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: lucysmom (#0)

boy those Koch brothers do some good political ads,

make SOROS look like an amateur

calcon  posted on  2011-11-05   10:04:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: calcon (#17)

boy those Koch brothers do some good political ads,

You get what you pay for.

Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890

lucysmom  posted on  2011-11-05   11:01:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: A K A Stone (#8) (Edited)

You have to decipher your posts. But one thing I like about you is that you never make exescuses for Obama as war, mininggold, lucysmom, script intro do.

So me where I have made one 'exescuses' or even an EXCUSE for Obama

"ROTFLMAO... Perfect! She longs... for someone to Teabag her. a man that squats on top of a women's face and lowers his genitals into her mouth during sex, known as "teabagging" She aches for it"... ~~~JWpegler. Head Tea Bagger and Tea Party supporter extraordinaire, explicitly expressing his fantasies in public about other posters.

mininggold  posted on  2011-11-05   11:50:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: mininggold (#19)

So me where I have made one excuse for Obama

Failure to denounce is the same as support.

Reminds me of purges under totalitarian regimes.

Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890

lucysmom  posted on  2011-11-05   11:54:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: lucysmom (#20)

Failure to denounce is the same as support.

Reminds me of purges under totalitarian regimes.

And there's such a long list I have yet to denounce.

"ROTFLMAO... Perfect! She longs... for someone to Teabag her. a man that squats on top of a women's face and lowers his genitals into her mouth during sex, known as "teabagging" She aches for it"... ~~~JWpegler. Head Tea Bagger and Tea Party supporter extraordinaire, explicitly expressing his fantasies in public about other posters.

mininggold  posted on  2011-11-05   11:59:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: mininggold (#21)

And there's such a long list I have yet to denounce.

Oh gosh, me too; and when you consider the unknowns...just overwhelming.

Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890

lucysmom  posted on  2011-11-05   12:17:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: mininggold (#19) (Edited)

So me where I have made one 'exescuses' or even an EXCUSE for Obama

Stone won't be able to show you, but that doesn't matter because he never backs up anything he posts.

The thing is, you haven't called him a ni**er, which to him proves his point.

"our blacks are so much better than their blacks" - (M)ann Coulter

Skip Intro  posted on  2011-11-05   12:20:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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