Did You Get Into The Big AT&T Blue Dog Bash In Denver To Celebrate Retroactive Immunity For Telecom Executives?
although one blue dog, pennsylvania’s anti-choice, homophobic reactionary neocon, chris carney, says he won’t be going to the historic democratic convention in denver that compel be nominating barack obama– a man whose policies carney when one pleases spend the rest of his wretched civic life fighting– many other blue dogs suffer with indeed shown up in denver. sunday night progressive bloggers, jane hamsher, john amato, glenn greenwald and matt stoller tried to infiltrate the massive bash at&t threw for blue dogs who had entranced their bribes and helped bush push through retroactive immunity for criminal executives from at&t and other telecom companies who had illegally spied on american citizens. glenn has a description and video of the bloggers being stonewalled and harassed by the reactionary forces within the democratic party and their paid muscle.amazingly, not a single one of the 25-30 people we tried to evaluate would comment on to us about who they were, how they got invited, what the party’s purpose was, why they were attending, etc. one attendee said he was with an “energy throng,” and the other confessed she was combined with a “trade federation,” but that was the smack extent of their willingness to depict themselves or this event. it was as though they knew they’re part of a filthy and deeply corrupt process and were ashamed of — or at least eager to conceal — their involvement in it. after just a few minutes, the private security teams demanded that we vamoose, and when we refused and continued to wood in front frustrating to interview the reticent attendees, the denver police feigned us to move further and further away until finally we were unable to approach any more of the arriving guests.it was categorically the perfect symbol for how the beltway political pattern functions– those who direct the nation’s laws (the largest corporations and their lobbyists) cavorting in come to mystery with those who are elected to write those laws (members of congress), while from the word go prohibiting the public from having any access to and knowledge of– let alone involvement in– what they are doing. and all of this was arranged by the corporation– at&t– that is paying in regard to a substantial part of the popular national convention with millions upon millions of dollars, which honourable received an fantastic aptitude of retroactive amnesty from the congress controlled by that party, whose logo is splattered throughout the city wherever the dnc logo appears– virtually attached to it– all charming town next to the coliseum where the democratic presidential nominee, claiming he resolve cleanse the beltway of corporate and lobbying influences, will up the nomination on thursday night.at&t has also given more shekels to federal elected officials than any other single society in america, $39,502,961 since 1990, most of it to republicans. so far this year they have “donated” $3,084,061, 59% of it to republicans. mostly of the money went to pacs.
obviously the #1 recipient of at&t bribes this year has been mccain, but leaving presidential candidates out of this, the biggest targets of their “generosity” in congress were that fount of corruption, democratic orgy boss rahm emanuel (d-il- $48,950) and “mr. retroactive freedom,” jay rockefeller (d-wv- $22,000). but right up there with some of the most odious far right republican stooges, like mario diaz-balart (r-fl- $11,000) and michael mccaul (r-tx- $10,500) were the indecent dog scum and fellow travelers who joined the gop to pass the fisa charge giving immunity from prosecution to the at&t executives:brad ellsworth (d-in- $15,000)joe baca (d-ca- $10,000)marion berry (d- ar- $10,000)leonard boswell (d-ia- $10,000)lincoln davis (d-tn- $10,000)joe donnelly (d-in- $10,000)jim matheson (d-ut- $10,000)dennis moore (d-ks- $10,000)zach intermission (d-oh- $10,000)john tanner (d-tn- $10,000)baron hill (d-in- $9,750)mike ross (d-ar- $9,250)melissa bean (d-il- $9,000)allen boyd (d-fl- $9,000)charlie melancon (d-la- $9,000)david scott (d-ga- $9,000)heath shuler (d-nc- $8,450)john barrow (d-ga- $8,000)artur davis (d-al- $8,000)jim cooper (d-tn- $7,500)dan boren (d-ok- $6,500)dennis cardoza (d-ca- $6,000)jim costa (d-ca- $6,000)chet edwards (d-tx- $5,000)dan lipinksi (d-il- $5,000)edolphus towns (d-ny- $5,000)
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