It’s a well-known Republican dirty trick that when they are in power, they spend like drunken sailors on shore leave to give the Sheeple the illusion of prosperity while they stagnate their wages and send their jobs to China.  Republican Deficit hawks only appear during Democratic administrations when they need to justify their attempts to dismantle our social safety net and privatize every New Deal initiative that created the American Middle Class (making them too “uppity” for Republicans).   When it comes to refusing to extend unemployment benefits or putting an end to jobs programs and health insurance subsidies for laid-off workers, phoney Republican Deficit hawks appear like flying monkeys out of the Land of Oz.

Only when it comes to carrying water for the wealthy and entrenching an inter-generational aristocracy in America do concerns about the deficit go the way of their concerns about a child’s school-lunch program as their recent obstructionist move to allow one-quarter of 1 percent of people to inherit their parent’s wealth tax-free demonstrates.

Watch: GOP Goes To Bat For The Wealthy, Blocks Estate Tax Extension

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If the BP oil disaster highlights anything, it is that the American People are at the mercy of a Corporate Bankster class with no allegiance to either country, community or democracy. They are what FDR called, “Economic Royalists.” They are vested in selling the dumb Serfs myths about “freedom” while forcing misinformation and division into the public discourse through their media outlets. All the while making sure, with the help of Republican and Democrat in Name Only operatives in government, that the late, great, middle class is too tired from working 3 “uniquely American” jobs to get out in the street and take back their seat at the table.  Greed is their highest value and everything else can go the way of the Brown Pelican if it stands in the way of rapacious profit. Even our Mother Earth herself does not warrant a modicum of respect against these corporate bastards and their greed, so how much less does that pesky American worker fare in such a business model?
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As the ugly consequences of government complicity in corporate greed continues to pour into the Gulf of Mexico, the big moneyed interests are falling back on their standard operating procedure of pouring money into the pockets of legislators to cover their asses.

Politico is reporting that May was the busiest donation month for Halliburton’s PAC since September 2008 as they made contributions to 13 Republicans and 1 Democrat – 7 of whom are on committees investigating the oil spill and its aftermath.

This increase in contributions illustrates the tragic fact that our government mainly operates in the interest of transnational corporations whose only allegiance is to profit – not to country or community.  For example, Exxon Mobile was the most profitable company on Earth in 2009, yet paid absolutely no federal taxes. If one of “the little people” tries the same, the IRS will be unleashed to thump them unmercifully. This is not mere happenstance – it is by design.
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In the 1760s English jurist William Blackstone in Commentaries on the Laws of England stated, “better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.”

That statement sums up one of the pinnacle principles of a truly free society but, like the right of Habeas Corpus, made “quaint” by right-wingers as the activist judges on the Supreme Court weaken Miranda rights yet again.
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The Daily Beast has uncovered a BP memo showing that five years ago, as opposed to blast-proof lodgings, they put workers into cheap portable trailers right next door to dangerously explosive facilities solely to cut corners and save money. The result became known as the Texas City Refinery explosion where 15 workers died and 170 were injured.

This disgustingly tasteless internal document justified BP’s callous, greed-centered, cost-cutting as “The Three Little Pigs.” Ironically, it is the capitalist pigs who gambled with the lives of its workers by building cheaper housing for workers after comparing the cost of housing fellow human beings in blast-resistant buildings versus flimsy trailers.

Once again, when corporations gamble, it is the people who lose and pick up the tab.
Why should our “betters” care? To them, the lives of dumb Plebeians are expendable!

Here’s the memo obtained by The Daily Beast and read the rest of the story at their website.

From GritTV with Laura Flanders:
“BP has yet to stop the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, and the Obama administration seems content to let them remain in charge. Or is it that whether or not they are happy with the state of affairs, huge corporations like BP simply have too much control of our government? According to Mike Papantonio, it’s a little from column A, a little from column B: Ken Salazar, interior secretary, is a friend of oil companies and has certainly allowed them free rein, but at the same time, it’s an age-old problem at this point that we’ve handed over too much government power to private companies. Papantonio is the host of Ring of Fire Radio, and also an attorney representing Gulf shrimpers and fishermen in a class action lawsuit against BP. He joins us to discuss the suit, the continuing disaster, and why BP decided that $10 million a life was a price it was willing to pay.”

I got such a kick out of this that I had to share.

We all know that Republicans are dead-ender ideologues devoid of ideas but here it is in living color.

Let’s all watch and laugh as GOP candidate for Idaho’s First Congressional district, Vaughn Ward, Plagiarizes Barack Obama’s 2004 DNC speech to kickoff his own campaign in January.

He delivers the speech badly, I might add, sounding like a typical superficial Repug with no actual sense of the concepts of which he speaks.   Ward also proves once again that Repugs have such confidence in the ignorance of their supporters that they actually believe they could blatantly steal from such a well-known speech and get away with it.

Once again we see that Repugs are nothing but front-men playing the role of “populist” with the aim of entering the halls of power to continue the corporate-sponsored hobbling of the America Middle Class.   Just put a script in front of them and watch them go – even one written and delivered by a man from the party they supposedly vehemently oppose!

Fresh from her endorsement of the throwback to Jim Crowe Rand Paul, half-term Governor and professional Facebook updater Sarah Palin has also put her stamp of approval on Ward.  Why a person who quit her job as Governor of a state she left with the largest debt burden in the U.S. would be considered a “good” thing is something, I guess, only dead-ender Repugs can understand.

Every time the Teabagging darling Rand Paul opens his mouth, he gives normal people (non-Republicans) the opportunity to see the regressive, backwards, divisive, dead-end vision the Libertarian “philosophy” holds for America.

In the few short days since he won the Kentucky Republican primary, Paul inserted his foot into his mouth on Rachel Maddow’s show concerning his desire to roll back progress on civil rights and, because he, himself is not disabled, also expressed his interest in abolishing of the Americans with Disabilities act.

Paul also didn’t miss the opportunity to take up the Republican raison d’être and jump to the defense of poor misunderstood corporate America by defending BP’s need to cut corners in the name of greed with the flippant retort, “accidents happen.”  This all while the BP created oil geyser continues to destroy the ecosystem and economy of the Gulf Coast and beyond.
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The AP reported on May 19: “A far-right faction of the Texas State Board of Education succeeded Friday in injecting conservative ideals into social studies, history and economics lessons that will be taught to millions of students for the next decade.”

It must be tough to be a Conservative Republican – so bound up by fear and wedded to a philosophy of greed and division that you must actively work to smite the truth from creeping into the ears of the future Serfs of America – lest they get the notion that there is a better way.

With this in mind, the right wing ideologues on the Texas School board are at it again – chipping away at historical truths that are too “liberal” and turning our education system into  a vehicle for their political ideology.   For all their “Nazi” accusations when it comes to making sure Americans don’t go die for lack of care or go bankrupt if hit with a catastrophic illness, their tactics of propagandizing impressionable children with their racist, divisive, war-mongering philosophy would make Joseph Goebbels blush.
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Republican Senator from Alaska Lisa Murkowski, the darling of the oil industry who earned a well-deserved profile at Polluter Harmony is making sure that BP won’t have to pay more than 75 million dollars to clean up the billion-dollar destruction their greed has inflicted on America by blocking the bill to raise the liability cap.

The fact that a liability cap exists is proof in point that our government is wholly owned, not by the people they are supposed to represent, but the transnational corporations who view said “People” merely as hosts from which to suck profit.

Senator Murkowski’s office phone number is 202-224-6665.  Let’s call her and suggest she make herself useful for once by getting off her well-fed ass and take a mop and bucket down the the gulf to clean up the mess herself.

Keith Olbermann breaks down the whose sad scenario here:

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