It's been a while since I ventured to post anything political, but hell, this is interesting. A lot of folks - on both sides - have been pretty mad about the free rides they believe corporations have been getting, but where they differ is mainly about government's role in this.
I think that Paul Krugman's finding that the corporations are furious with the administration, and even going all-out against Obama in the case of oil, is quite interesting, however.
It's good read, found here. Pretty short compared to Krugman's usual, too; you can make it all the way through in no time.
(Edit: I'd like to point out that, though it's not surprising, I was shunting this along for the first few paragraphs, not for the conclusions which by coincidence agrees with what I've come to find out is true. In this case, I wondered what the connection between conservative politicians and the corporate lobbies was; I was more certain that the Tea Parties were generally extraneous, but less so that the Rovians were really central; in any case I'm not sure that the coincidence of New Crossroads with Karl Rove is the end of the story; the Tea Parties can still redeem themselves.)
More important than the Tea Party story
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Re: More important than the Tea Party story
The fact that corporations and the super-rich can claim to be so sorely "mistreated" just for being asked to pay the same rates as they did during the Clinton years (which, if memory serves, were still historically low for the time, though nowhere near the utterly ridiculous Scrooge McDuck treatment they got under Bush, while everyone else's living standards were stagnant or regressing, and the deficit skyrocketed to boot) serves as evidence to just how grossly entitled they feel to de facto ownership of the country, anyone else's livelihood be damned.
Knowing Obama, though, heaven only knows if he or his fellow Dems even have the spine or message machine to push things that far, despite the fact that almost the entire country should theoretically be on his side, considering the ceaseless "work harder and stop complaining" treatment they've received under "fiscal conservatives" for the past several decades.
Knowing Obama, though, heaven only knows if he or his fellow Dems even have the spine or message machine to push things that far, despite the fact that almost the entire country should theoretically be on his side, considering the ceaseless "work harder and stop complaining" treatment they've received under "fiscal conservatives" for the past several decades.