The progressive-leaning investigative journalism group ProPublica says the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) office that targeted and harassed conservative tax-exempt groups during the 2012 election cycle gave the progressive group nine confidential applications of conservative groups whose tax-exempt status was pending.
The commendable admission lends further evidence to the lengths the IRS went during an election cycle to silence tea party and limited government voices.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/14/Progressive-Group-Says-IRS-Gave-Them-Confidential-Docs-On-Conservative-Groups
The gun lobby employed both the carrot and stick in convincing enough U.S. senators to oppose gun-control reforms.
Of the 45 senators who voted against the legislation, 42 received contributions from the National Rifle Association (NRA) in the most recent election cycle alone, as did 205 of the 435 members of the House of Representatives. Only four of the 56 senators who voted in favor of increased background checks received money [...]
By Michael
Why is the mainstream media saying nothing about election fraud even though there are eyewitness reports from all over the country of voting machines turning Romney votes into Obama votes? Why do the Republican Party and the Romney campaign seem completely uninterested in widespread reports of voter fraud in important swing states? The integrity of our votes is of the utmost importance. If our voting machines are not “working [...]
Nancy Pelosi has spent much of the past two years proclaiming that Democrats had a great shot at reclaiming the House and returning the speaker’s gavel to her hands.
But her drive to regain the majority for Democrats is on the verge of a complete collapse. Democrats are expected to pick up five seats at best — a fraction of the 25 they need. On the eve of the election, some party officials [...]
Here’s a difference a HUGE DIFFERENCE
CONVICTED: Bush 1300+, Clinton 1000+, Obama 0.0
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Financial Fraud Conviction Scorecard:
Bush: 1300+, Clinton: 1000+, Obama: 0.0 (+/-)
Meanwhile, not a word of complaint from a single Democrat in Congress, which is especially infuriating given the broad bi-partisan agreement among voters that criminal bankers need to do time. Too concerned with keeping up appearances and the next election cycle, neither side of the false left-right paradigm of American politics [...]
Bush: 1300+, Clinton: 1000+, Obama: 0.0 (+/-)
Meanwhile, not a word of complaint from a single Democrat in Congress, which is especially infuriating given the broad bi-partisan agreement among voters that criminal bankers need to do time. Too concerned with keeping up appearances and the next election cycle, neither side of the false left-right paradigm of American politics is capable of exposing its own filthwhen it comes to legitimate scandal, and this DOJ non-prosecution madness involving [...]
Here’s one more historical curiosity to observe this election cycle. Since election day was standardized in 1845 there have been 6 presidential elections held on November 6th and Republicans have won all six. That means next Tuesday, the 7th Presidential election held on this date, will either break or uphold a streak that began in 1860 with the election of Abraham Lincoln.
Starting in 1792, states had a range of dates [...]
Mac Slavo
October 19th, 2012
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Amid one of the most hotly contested elections in U.S. history President Obama and his challenger Governor Mitt Romney take the night off from dirty politics and campaign stops to humor us a little bit.
Poking fun at themselves and each other, the duo delivers a host of zingers and one liners to an audience of well-off New Yorkers, religious leaders, political insiders and business interests.
While funny to [...]
WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) — The 2012 election season couldn’t have come at a better time for the U.S. Postal Service.
While still low on cash, the postal service has enough to avoid insolvency this month, thanks in large part to the mountains of political junk mail and the influx of Super PACs paying top postage rates.
Federal candidates, political parties and special interest groups are mailing out more fliers and postcards via the postal service [...]
The Obama campaign has been reeling since losing the first Presidential debate of this election cycle in front of67 million viewers. They’ve tried–and thus far failed–to craft a narrative to explain away the debacle in Denver. Previously, we reported to you that Obama Senior Advisor David Plouffe, who ran the President’s successful 2008 campaign, (falsely) accused Mitt Romney of lying. In a rare comedic moment from the typically robotic former Vice [...]
More than 67 million people watched the first presidential debate of this election cycle — nearly 15 million more people than watched the first presidential debate four years ago.
That 67 million, however, falls very short of the Mother of All Presidential Debates: the Oct. 28, 1980 smackdown between President Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, which had drawn a whopping 81 million viewers.
About 12 million of the 67 mil who watched President Obama [...]
(CNSNews.com) – U.S. government employees and their families have been among the top five sources of campaign funds for President Barack Obama, according to Opensecrets.org.
By contrast, employees of five major banks and their families have been among the top sources of campaign funds for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
The academic community has also been very supportive of President Obama’s reelection bid, with employees of the University of California and their families being the very top contributors to his campaign–having [...]
By Gary Tanashian
Like it or not, human will – and a hell of a lot of financial chicanery – has created this bull market. Powerful people, not duly elected but rather appointed, are continuing to degrade the peoples’ money in the interest of keeping the system moving forward.
Here is the S&P 500 shown establishing a new technical objective (hey, it’s TA and it does not care about right and wrong) [...]
If anyone wants my thoughts on this, and it’s probably worth what it’s costing you, here they are…
The Fed does NOT want to appear political. Not to say they aren’t political, but they do have to work with both parties in Congress, so they hate to change policy in the midst of an election cycle for fear of alienating one side of the aisle.
That said, if it means putting a [...]
From Zero Hedge:
In November 2008, President Barack Obama won the popular election for president by 9.5 million votes. A burgeoning financial crisis and weakening economy helped his candidacy at the time, but four years on the sluggish pace of economic recovery is a headwind to his re-election.
Consider, for example, that there are currently 12.8 million people unemployed in the U.S., or that an estimated 8 million adults entered the SNAP [...]
Zerohedge
In November 2008, President Barack Obama won the popular election for President by 9.5 million votes. A burgeoning financial crisis and weakening economy helped his candidacy at the time, but four years on the sluggish pace of economic recovery is a headwind to his re-election. Consider, for example, that there are currently 12.8 million people unemployed in the U.S., or that an estimated 8 million adults entered the SNAP (Food [...]
Bush: 1300+, Clinton: 1000+, Obama: 0.0 (+/-)
Meanwhile, not a word of complaint from a single Democrat in Congress, which is especially infuriating given the broad bi-partisan agreement among voters that criminal bankers need to do time. Too concerned with keeping up appearances and the next election cycle, neither side of the false left-right paradigm of American politics is capable of exposing its own filthwhen it comes to legitimate scandal, and this DOJ non-prosecution madness involving Goldman [...]
Financial Fraud Conviction Scorecard:
Bush: 1300+, Clinton: 1000+, Obama: 0.0 (+/-)
Meanwhile, not a word of complaint from a single Democrat in Congress, which is especially infuriating given the broad bi-partisan agreement among voters that criminal bankers need to do time. Too concerned with keeping up appearances and the next election cycle, neither side of the false left-right paradigm of American politics is capable of exposing its own filth when it comes to legitimate scandal, and [...]
Campaign disclosure forms for Obama for America, President Obama’s reelection team, reveal a heavy emphasis on public opinion polling. According to the forms, in the month of June alone, Obama for America spent a whopping $2,639,265.72 on polling.
This appears to be a record this election cycle. And it does not include money spent on polling by the Democratic party in the month of June.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-campaign-spends-more-26-million-polling-june_648846.html
Steve Inskeep talks with two political strategists on whether a fundraising advantage matters in this presidential campaign. Mark McKinnon advised George W. Bush and John McCain’s campaigns. Mark Mellman is a democratic pollster and adviser.
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Senate Democrats on Monday lost another attempt to pass legislation forcing donors of groups that bankroll most election ads to be revealed. But Democrats, led by New York Sen. Charles Schumer, pledged to hold the Senate floor hostage and continue the debate well into the night.
The DISLCOSE Act, which was dealt the same fate in the Senate in 2010, failed to overcome a key procedural vote on entirely partisan lines, [...]
Top money & politics researchers discover that the public watchdog is quietly deleting information on fat cat funders.
July 16, 2012 | The Federal Election Commission has long been the “go to” source for tracking political money. So when it starts cleansing politically hot contributions from its files, it matters. Big time.
We have discovered that sometime after January of this year, the FEC deleted a whole set of contributions totaling millions [...]
The U.S. is already in a recession according to Societe Generale’s bearish analyst Albert Edwards.
Earlier this month Edwards said companies could see their incomes drop 30 – 40 percent because of the recession, and that the S&P 500 could see its index halved to 666 points.
And he is basing this on a decline in analyst optimism that is a good leading indicator of economic activity:
“Regular readers will know that we have always [...]
A Michigan congressman is being attacked by his opponents for not being “black” enough to represent the state’s newly redrawn 14th district, which includes Detroit, CBS Detroit reports.
Rep. Hansen Clarke (D-Mich.) responded Wednesday to allegations that he is only posing as a black man in order to gain votes, saying racial divides are tearing Detroit apart and are partly to blame for the state of the city’s economy.
Clarke is running [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Internal Revenue Service is signaling that it will increase its scrutiny of tax-exempt political organizations, which are becoming a force in elections by raising tens of millions of dollars from undisclosed donors.
The IRS has been corresponding with such groups and is preparing questions to ask them as part of effort to determine whether their fundraising or advertising work runs afoul of tax law. IRS spokesman Terry [...]
Peter Orszag, former head of the Obama Office of Management and Budget, is desperate. With even Roll Call recognizing that President Obama is fighting an uphill battle for re-election, Orszag is floating a trial balloon: mandatory voting. His call for forced voting comes in an op/ed for Bloomberg News:
The U.S. prides itself as the beacon of democracy, but it’s very likely no U.S. president has ever been elected by a majority of American adults.
It’s our [...]
The last thing the EU needs right now is for Greece to miss key deadlines under terms of its bailout — it may be less painful to simply give the ailing country a little more time.
By Cyrus Sanati
FORTUNE — The results of the Greek election over the weekend may have eurozone champions and Wall Street breathing a sigh of relief, but the political and economic troubles within Greece and the [...]
Mitt Romney gave Iowans a “cowpie of distortion” when he said he knows how to douse the nation’s “prairie fire of debt,” President Barack Obama said in his first campaign event in Iowa of this election cycle.
On social media: Obama’s visit to Iowa
Obama offered a no-holds-barred thumping of Romney on Thursday night, ridiculing his GOP rival’s profit-maximizing philosophy as inadequate for the White House, blasting Romney’s plan for big tax cuts [...]
France May Have Elected François Hollande, But She Really Needs A Napoleon Bonaparte By Tim Stanley May 6th, 2012
Hollande is the latest in a long line of French politicians to exploit the mob. It looks like Socialist François Hollande has won the French presidency. His platform: raise taxes on business to fund a lower retirement age and more spending. Things don’t look good for poor old France. Either Hollande will [...]
by Adam Taggart, CM
Alasdair Macleod, publisher of Finance and economics.org, sees little room for a happy ending to the worsening European credit crisis.
In this interview, he builds on his excellent synopsis from earlier in the week that detailed how the crisis originated, essentially embedding a fundamental structural shortcoming into the entire Eurozone construct starting back in 1997. This flawed monetary model was exploited for temporal gain and it worked very well as long as [...]
Infowars.com
May 3, 2012
Rick Scott visits a gun shop.
As you probably already know, the GOP Conventionis set to take place August 27-30 in Tampa, Florida at the Tampa Bay Times Forum, but what you probably didn’t know is that we might have had to sacrifice a little freedom to be able to attend.
That’s because the Mayor of Tampa requested Florida Governor Rick Scott to consider a gun ban during the convention.
Citing a heated election [...]
D.C. lawyer Timothy Broas, who has funneled more money to the political campaigns of President Obama than nearly anyone else, last week was recommended by Mr. Obama as the next U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands.
As a campaign “bundler,” Mr. Broas collected more than a half-million dollars for Mr. Obama’s 2012 campaign, raising money from family members, colleagues and other wealthy associates; four years ago, he assisted Mr. Obama’s successful bid for the presidency by [...]
This story is part of our series on money in politics.
We imagine the lobbyist stalking the halls of Congress trying to use cash to influence important people. But it doesn’t always work that way. Often, the Congressman is stalking the lobbyist, asking for money.
Lawmakers of both parties need to raise millions of dollars per election cycle. So lobbyists get calls from lawmakers and their staffs all the time, inviting them to [...]
This morning the Wall Street Journal published an interview with Harold Simmons, the Texas investor who — despite his $9 billion fortune and controversial nuclear waste program — has remained largely unknown to the general public.
Simmons came out swinging against Obama, telling the WSJ he plans to give $36 million to various right-leaningsuper PACs before the election. He’s already given $18 million, both personally and through his chemical company Contran Corp., making him the most generous [...]
Recent polls show a large majority of Americans, including small business owners, are convinced that profitable corporations are not paying enough in taxes. Citizens for Tax Justice and U.S. PIRG’s Loopholes for Salepursues the intersection of corporate campaign contributions to members of Congress and the absence of Congressional action to close corporate tax loopholes and raise additional revenue from corporate taxes.
The report includes the following findings:
280 profitable Fortune 500 companies collectively [...]
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