At Hullaballoo, digby writes
This is what happens when the richest people have all the money:
This is pocket change for billionaires. They have so much they can afford to spend such vast sums without even feeling it:
And 2016 is going to break all records.
With few exceptions (such as Sheldon Adelson who is spending much of his fortune on politics for the purpose of influencing Israeli politics) most of these wealthy people are doing this simply make sure they are able to keep every last dirty dime they ever touch. They want it all, including yours.
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2014—Michigan anti-abortion group stoops to attacking candidate's daughters:
You might have thought that Michigan's rape insurance law was about as low as the anti-choice right could go. But you'd be wrong. The law bars insurance plans in Obamacare's private insurance market from covering abortion, forcing women to buy a separate rider to cover abortion even in cases of rape or incest. Democratic House member and Senate candidate Gary Peters has strongly opposed the measure, and the response is truly disgusting:
“As the father of two daughters, I struggle with how to tell them that the state we love and where our family has been for generations is now unfairly discriminating against them and makes health care less affordable,” Peters said in a statement last week.
Right to Life of Michigan—the right-wing group that was instrumental in getting the new law approved last winter—has seized on that sentiment. In a new website highlighting Peters’ abortion policy positions, the group cites Peters’ recent comments to assert that the pro-choice lawmaker “wants to make sure abortion is accessible and cheap for his daughters.”
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Did you catch that none-too-subtle slut-shaming of Peters' teenage daughters? And did it make you want to vomit? This is a staggeringly vicious and stupid attack. Vicious because, again, teenage daughters. Stupid because, really, immediate family members of United States congressmen are not the people harmed by making abortion more expensive and harder to obtain.
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On
today's Kagro in the Morning show, we get the backstory on one of the NCAA's craziest team mascots, the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs, from contributor
Arliss Bunny. Next,
Armando points to the latest on eGhazi from
Politico, which suggests that the State Dept. was hoping to cut back on records retention. That led to an extended discussion of the issue's many complexities, and an ever-present tension in all transparency decision-making. The white supremacist Mesa, Arizona, shooter has nothing to do with white supremacy, somehow. An interesting follow-up to how scam PACs swindle small donors:
ProPublica looks into how they swindle large ones.
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