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DownWithTyranny!: OK, Pandit Rhymes With Bandit But What Does Boehner Rhyme With? How The Banksters And Their Congressional Shills Destroyed The Economy
Harry Hanbury: Capitol Hill: Parties All the Time
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
When I showed up unannounced--and
with a video crew in tow--at a couple dozen Congressional fundraisers
on Capitol Hill, I felt as if I were channeling two paragons of contrarian
virtue: first, Diogenes
the Cynic ...
Video: Chasing Campaign Cash in DC
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
What happens when you try to visit every campaign fundraiser held in Washington DC in a single day? You get turned down at lot, and you realize that lawmakers don't spend as much time slaving away over issue briefs as you might think. From the American News Project:
The way fundraising bastardizes the work of Congress is one of the things that Robert Kaiser, who wrote So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government, talked about in an interview with Mother Jones.
MJ: You write about the way in which the increasing need ...
OK, Pandit Rhymes With Bandit But What Does Boehner Rhyme With? How The Banksters And Their Congressional Shills Destroyed The Economy
DownWithTyranny! —
Yes, yes, the CEO of CitiGroup has a name, "Pandit," that is only one letter away from what would describe his line of work. But the problem with the banksters goes beyond Vikram Pandit and beyond CitiGroup. Basically the finance/insurance/real estate sector invested around $6 billion dollars ($2,215,520,643 in legalized bribes, or what our elite encourages us to call "political donations") and the balance in indirect bribes or "lobbying." And although one of the worst and most corrupt handmaidens of these banksters-- Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH- $3,045,809 in bankster bribes)-- insists there was not only no quid pro quo ...
While Rome Burns...The REAL Congressional Business
Crooks and Liars —
The GOP media machine openly questioned whether it was appropriate for President Barack Obama to travel to Los Angeles this week, when his "business" should be on the economy, the implication being that Obama was not capable of multi-tasking. It's an easy mistake, given the previous president could not watch TV and chew pretzels simultaneously. However, American News Project producer Harry Hanbury decided to take a look at the real business of Congress: fundraising. Collecting as many invitations as he could find, Hanbury found no less than two dozen fundraisers taking place over the course of a single day in DC and tried to visit them ...
Congress Hard At Work Fundraising As Economy Collapses (VIDEO)
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Via Crooks and Liars comes this extraordinary video report from the American News Project's Harry Hanbury. In it, Hanbury spends a day trooping around Washington, DC in an attempt to attend every single political fundraiser occurring that day. As you might expect, very few people choose to talk to him, and the whole thing more or less becomes an exercise in watching a man get asked to vacate various premises -- in one notable case, at the threat of being "chased by security." (Not detained, "chased!")
[WATCH.]
As C&L;'s Nicole Belle astutely notes, the irony is ...
Congress Hard At Work Fundraising As Economy Collapses (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
Via Crooks and Liars comes this extraordinary video report from the American News Project's Harry Hanbury. In it, Hanbury spends a day trooping around Washington, DC in an attempt to attend every single political fundraiser occurring that day. As you might expect, very few people choose to talk to him, and the whole thing more or less becomes an exercise in watching a man get asked to vacate various premises -- in one notable case, at the threat of being "chased by security." (Not detained, "chased!")
[WATCH.]
As C&L;'s Nicole Belle astutely notes, the irony is ...
Stop Loafing and Focus on the Economy!
Politics Daily —
Filed under: House, Democrats, Republicans, Economy, FundraisingLast week, several Republicans advanced the notion that the President should spend every available second focusing on the economy, to the exclusion of an 11 minute ESPN segment, and an appearance on the Tonight Show (good advice in hindsight, but not for the reasons they gave). While it should surprise no-one that lawmakers, Republican and Democratic, spend entirely too much time on fund-raising, this report by American News Project journalist Harry Hanbury highlights the absurdity of any lawmaker taking offense at the President's 11 ...
