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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo Ted Cruz Was The Chosen One To Run This Koch Brothers Game....
he'll be rewarded handsomely. He is set for life. He sold his soul to the devil.
Michael Moore needs to do a documentary on the Koch Brothers. Someone needs to expose these guys.
We haven't heard from Michael Moore lately - is he working on anything new?
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So Ted Cruz Was The Chosen One To Run This Koch Brothers Game.... (Original Post)
global1
Oct 2013
OP
If Ted got struck by lightning another sycophant would take his place .
orpupilofnature57
Oct 2013
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Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)1. Robert Greenwald did an excellent documentary on them:
malaise
(269,004 posts)2. Check this out
http://www.thenation.com/blog/176335/sabotaging-obamacare-lucrative-endeavor-some#
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To gain steam for his initiative to tie funding of the government to defunding Obamacare, Senator Ted Cruz appeared at events over the summer with the Tea Party Express, a political action committee. Either continue funding the government without giving one more dime to Obamacare, or shut down the government, demands Tea Party Express chair Amy Kremer.
One problem for Cruz-acolytes hoping to make their way into office? The Tea Party Express PAC has spent nearly every dollar of the $2.1 million it has raised this year on campaign consultants and fundraising fees, but not a dime in transfers to candidates or on independent expenditures. In previous years, the PAC has funneled much of its proceeds to Russo Marsh and Rogers, a Republican consulting firm in Sacramento, California.
The frantic crusade to screw up the launch of the Affordable Care Act is a sad tale in American politics. If conservatives are successful, even with a short-term government shutdown Cruz and his House GOP allies might achieve, patients will suffer. If young people fail to sign up for health insurancethe stated goal of one Koch-backed front group now airing television advertisementsmore will drown under crushing debt if they find themselves in need of serious medical care. But Washington, DC, has a bizarre way of incentivizing harmful behavior, and the sabotage Obamacare campaign is not without its winners.
A set of campaign consultants and insurance agents stand to profit from confusing Americans on the eve of the healthcare reform enrollment date.
The conservative media frenzy over the defunding debate has invigorated donors to many PACs, not just Tea Party Express. The Senate Conservative Fund PAC recorded its largest-ever fundraising hauls last month, though it spends way more on candidates and on candidate ads than the Tea Party Express. Still, the Jim DeMintlinked PAC expended nearly half its coffers on administrative, research and fundraising payments this year. FreedomWorks, the RNC and the Club for Growth have hopped on the Cruz campaign to raise funds by advocating the repeal of Obamacare. For a non-federal election year, at least these PACs are doing well.
- See more at: http://www.thenation.com/blog/176335/sabotaging-obamacare-lucrative-endeavor-some#sthash.eWuCQgsf.dpuf
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They are all looting the money - that's the good news
<snip>
To gain steam for his initiative to tie funding of the government to defunding Obamacare, Senator Ted Cruz appeared at events over the summer with the Tea Party Express, a political action committee. Either continue funding the government without giving one more dime to Obamacare, or shut down the government, demands Tea Party Express chair Amy Kremer.
One problem for Cruz-acolytes hoping to make their way into office? The Tea Party Express PAC has spent nearly every dollar of the $2.1 million it has raised this year on campaign consultants and fundraising fees, but not a dime in transfers to candidates or on independent expenditures. In previous years, the PAC has funneled much of its proceeds to Russo Marsh and Rogers, a Republican consulting firm in Sacramento, California.
The frantic crusade to screw up the launch of the Affordable Care Act is a sad tale in American politics. If conservatives are successful, even with a short-term government shutdown Cruz and his House GOP allies might achieve, patients will suffer. If young people fail to sign up for health insurancethe stated goal of one Koch-backed front group now airing television advertisementsmore will drown under crushing debt if they find themselves in need of serious medical care. But Washington, DC, has a bizarre way of incentivizing harmful behavior, and the sabotage Obamacare campaign is not without its winners.
A set of campaign consultants and insurance agents stand to profit from confusing Americans on the eve of the healthcare reform enrollment date.
The conservative media frenzy over the defunding debate has invigorated donors to many PACs, not just Tea Party Express. The Senate Conservative Fund PAC recorded its largest-ever fundraising hauls last month, though it spends way more on candidates and on candidate ads than the Tea Party Express. Still, the Jim DeMintlinked PAC expended nearly half its coffers on administrative, research and fundraising payments this year. FreedomWorks, the RNC and the Club for Growth have hopped on the Cruz campaign to raise funds by advocating the repeal of Obamacare. For a non-federal election year, at least these PACs are doing well.
- See more at: http://www.thenation.com/blog/176335/sabotaging-obamacare-lucrative-endeavor-some#sthash.eWuCQgsf.dpuf
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They are all looting the money - that's the good news
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)3. If Ted got struck by lightning another sycophant would take his place .
Mitt never got that speaking out of both sides of his face thing, appealing to average Americans while having an esoteric talk with the 1% .
russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)5. That may well be, but I would like to see it happen.
handmade34
(22,756 posts)4. Ted Cruz...
Cruz assisted in assembling the Bush legal team, devise strategy, and draft pleadings in the Florida and U.S. Supreme Courts during the 2000 Florida presidential recounts, winning twice in the U.S. Supreme Court.[36][41]
After President Bush took office, Cruz served as an associate deputy attorney general in the U.S. Justice Department[1][41] and as the director of policy planning at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
After President Bush took office, Cruz served as an associate deputy attorney general in the U.S. Justice Department[1][41] and as the director of policy planning at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
applegrove
(118,659 posts)6. I hope Ted Cruz last long enough so that he officially gives up his canadian
citizenship. Cause I don't want to see him here, as a Koch puppet, if he fails in American politics.