Daily Topics - Friday November 18th, 2011

By shawnt56
In for Thom today: Karl Frisch, Bullfight Strategies
Hour One: Occupy Everywhere! Tina Dupuy
Hour Two: Gridlock Grover? Doug Kendall, Constitutional Accountability Center / Plus, Patriotic Millionaires demand "Tax Me" - Erica Payne, Agenda Project
Hour Three: Penn State...How to create a culture of rape - Cliff Schecter, Libertas LLC




How about our own Grover Nordquist style pledge to get the big money out of politics? No politicians will stand up right now, but maybe some sort of 'when there is a critical mass.. I will support..'
The Norquist pledge was like promising to never turn left when driving.. (actually, two wrongs don't make a right but three lefts will) but this could be a proper ideological standpoint.
Yes there would be pressure from current donors but in the end they should all be in the same boat.. Hard to short circuit the super pacs though.
RE Perry's ad against Pres. Obama;
Right now people are looking at this and recognizing how it is dishonest and out of context. Fine.
It's getting some attention, which is what he wanted, and it feeds his base a bit, like nascar..
Do you realize how much crap is going to be thrown by the un-limited and un-accountable PACs just before the election, with enough time to have an effect but not enough to be countered? This will make Swift Boaters look like a picket line of silent nuns. There will be any sort of muslin, terriorst, Rupert Murdoch sourced garbage they can imagine.
If you are surrounded by monkeys flinging feces, you can say, well, they are just monkeys, but you still end up covered in sh*t.
Good luck,
Rick in Canadia
Remember, If Soilent Green was incorporated, it WOULD be People. ;-)