Well…it has been a tumultuous week in politics and the happenings are making my head swim a little, sowing the seeds of confusion while I try to make sense of it. One of the things I find quite interesting is the attack line that is being used on ole Mitt…you would think that the other repubs in the primaries are really democrats with the populist attacks on Mitt’s tenure at Bain Capital…didn’t they get the memo that capitalism=good and, to quote Mitt, “the only people that are really successful are those that are in the 1%…”? It doesn’t matter to him that the majority of the 1% started out with lots of money (like him or Huntsman), or used their government connections (like Santorum or Gingrich) to get rich and these guys truly believe that it’s okay to rail against government on one hand and then profit from government on the other hand. I truly hope this continues since it is making me grin…but I will say it doesn’t take much to amuse me…
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A little about K street Rick…
Well…just wanted to do a short one before I make lunch and get on to the rest of the day…I’m going to be really blunt here about Rick Santorum….and no, I’m not going to go into what comes up when you Google Santorum…what I want to deal with is how a broke, ex-senator goes from a crushing defeat in an election (by almost 20 points), to making almost 2 million dollars last year. When you look at the breakdown, you can see the most egregious crony capitalism at work with his income being derived from serving on corporate boards; positions that were given to him by his previous corporate masters, along with hundreds of thousands of dollars made by being the scourge of our democracy; a K street lobbyist whose only goal is to line his own pockets and those of the corporations that employed him. Do we really think that this idiot can really represent anyone but the 1%? I think the last thing we need is to have another racist, right wing nutjob as president…we are still recovering from the last one….geez…