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Open Thread: The NYTimes Longs for A Simpler Day…

by Anne Laurie|  August 29, 20196:00 pm| 139 Comments

This post is in: Kochsuckers, Open Threads, Republican Venality, Zombie-Eyed Granny Starver, All Too Normal, Flash Mob of Hate, Our Failed Media Experiment, Teabagger Stupidity, Very Serious People

This @jwpetersNYT retrospective on the Tea Party’s “summer of rage” ten years ago makes not a single, solitary reference to race or racism. Nor does it acknowledge the reality that a good deal of it involved opposing President Obama because he was black. https://t.co/W53ZrpylXr

— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) August 28, 2019

When the Very Serious Media People could pretend that the Tea Party was a ‘grassroots uprising’ of good folks very concerned about ‘fiscal responsibility’. Positive side, such as it is: Pushback was swift, vociferous, and (to a degree) effective:

LOL. “We have updated this story to include The Story” https://t.co/CoX9EWeVFX

— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) August 28, 2019

… When Congress approved $320 billion in new spending this month as part of its latest budget deal, most Republicans in the Senate voted yes, prompting a lament from Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, who was first elected in 2010 as a slash-and-burn fiscal conservative.

“The Tea Party is no more,” he said.

But Mr. Paul and others who have signed the Tea Party’s death certificate overlook one way it continues to define the country today. It ignited a revival of the politics of outrage and mistrust in government, breathing new life into the populist passions that continue to threaten the stability of both political parties. Even if the Tea Party’s ideas are dead, its attitude lives on.

“The energy that was with the Tea Party then was not even so much about fiscal discipline, but about holding Washington accountable for the promises it makes,” said Rory Cooper, a former aide to the Republican House leadership. As voters watched one promise after another go unfulfilled, he said, the anger eventually erupted in 2016 with Mr. Trump’s election. Voters said, in essence, “‘We don’t trust any of you, but we will trust this guy who makes every promise under the sun,’” Mr. Cooper said.

“Then what happened,” he added, “was they stopped caring about the promises.” …

The Tea Party was just a mild-mannered, billionaire-funded grassroots movement dedicated to the notion that deficits are terrible when you have a black president and wonderful when you have a white king.

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) August 28, 2019

IMO, the real reason for Jeremy Peters’ purported nostalgia was to set up a beat-sweetner for Mick ‘Acting Head of Everything’ Mulvaney:

… Of the 87 new Republicans elected to the House in 2010 — the most sweeping repudiation of a president and his political party in generations — one who has risen higher than most is Mick Mulvaney, Mr. Trump’s chief of staff.

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In early September 2009, Mr. Mulvaney, then a state senator and part-owner of a chain of Mexican restaurants, sat in the back of a town hall in Rock Hill, S.C., a gathering that was typical for that summer. Seven hundred people filled the hall while another 200 listened on portable speakers outside. Constituents grilled the House Budget Committee chairman, John Spratt, a Democrat, and complained about how much the Obama health care plan would add to the nation’s trillion-dollar-plus deficit…

Mr. Mulvaney decided to challenge Mr. Spratt, and on the day he announced his campaign, in November 2009, he accused his opponent of selling out. “People can say a lot about me,” Mr. Mulvaney said at the time. “One thing they can never say is that I’ve sold out my principles.”…

If Mulvaney had any principles other than ‘What’s in it for Mick Mulvaney?’, that would be a genuine news story.

And any notion that the Tea Party failed in its objectives is nonsense. It was all about racial animosity; and now they have a president who legitimizes and feeds that animosity. They don't care about deficits, and never did 3/

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) August 28, 2019

What we really needed in this moment in time is looking back on the tea party with warm nostalgia.

— Schooley (@Rschooley) August 29, 2019

The Tea Party was a classic example of right wing astro-turfing. A completely manufactured "mass movement" funded by dark money, intended to mobilize the marginalized far right. And it worked. America got played.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 29, 2019

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Schadenfreude. It’s what’s for breakfast*

by Tom Levenson|  April 4, 201810:06 am| 177 Comments

This post is in: Kochsuckers, Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Clown car, Meth Laboratories of Democracy

Which is to say that there are few people in American politics I loathe so much as the wholly owned Koch subsidiary operating under the name Scott Walker.  There are plenty of folks doing more national damage, but few, if any, with the utter, total, almost heroic lack of redeeming qualities as the man Charlie Pierce epithets** as the goggle-eyed homunculus.

So his pain is the sugar in my coffee this a.m.:

“The Far Left” — thanks for the proper nouning** there, btw; I didn’t know we were a franchise operation — as in a decisive majority of Wisconsin voters. “Anger and hatred” — nothing like the mild mannered folks on the right,*** amirite? “Outside special interest money.” Child, please.

But, if it’s all projection with these guys, well we knew that. That subterranean pleasure you feel this morning is that all the faffing in the world can’t hide the genuine panic flowing through Walker like you-know-what through a goose.

And because we need something pretty to wash the memory of Walker’s pallid, grasping mug from our brains, here’s a bird that one-ups that poor goose:

And w/that…open thread.

*That or coke on your Wheaties.

**I verb sometimes. Sue me.

***Very, VERY far from the worst, as we all know, but selected for its exceptional combination of absurdity and cowardice.

Image: John James Audubon, Cygnus buccinator, Trumpeter Swan, 1838.

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Walker Stumbles

by Tom Levenson|  March 29, 201810:55 am| 103 Comments

This post is in: Kochsuckers, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It, Voter Suppression

Wisconsin gets its special elections:

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker issued an executive order scheduling special elections to fill two vacant legislative seats Thursday…

It wasn’t shame, or a respect for the rule of law that drove the wholly owned Koch subsidiary to this decision.  Rather these guys finally got a clue:

Senate Republicans abandoned their efforts to pass a bill blocking the contests amid intense criticism that the GOP was trying to avoid adding to string of losses.

That is: it finally was driven home to these would be junta conspirators that being so obviously terrified of the voters was not merely a bad look, it was destructive.

The decision followed a very rapid rejection of Walker’s appeal, which sought a delay in enforcing a lower court’s order to call the elections that would last long enough for the WI legislature to pass their anti-election bill.  That court didn’t just say no:

“Representative government and the election of our representatives are never ‘unnecessary,’ never a ‘waste of taxpayer resources,’ and the calling of the special elections are … his ‘obligation,’” Presiding Judge Paul F. Reilly wrote.

Walker had one more appeal left, to the right-dominated WI Supreme Court, but chose not to pursue it.  IANAL, and IAN a Wisconsin politics maven, but here’s my guess: this was such an obvious matter on the law that Walker didn’t care to have his entrails handed to him a third time, especially given that the partisan lean of the court would highlight how out of bounds he and the state Republicans have been.

Anyway, a relatively small process win with, I think and hope, a bit more impact than that.  It’s easy to make the case that the GOP is only interested in democracy when it’s the North Korean version, no doubts at all about who wins.

That’s been true of the American right for a long time, no matter the party label of the day (3/5s of a person and all that).  But what seems to be changing now, maybe just a bit, perhaps even just enough, is that the idea that Republicans are scared of voters is starting to stick to the Grotesque Old Party.

Here’s hoping!

This thread, it opens.

Image: Constantin Hansen, A Group of Danish Artists in Rome, 1837.  I know it’s utterly unfair to lumber these 19th century hipsters with 21st century pipsqueak GOP shenanigans, but I couldn’t resist the image.

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Oligarch Open Thread: Koch Bros, Still Monsters

by Anne Laurie|  January 30, 201811:44 am| 104 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Election 2018, Free Markets Solve Everything, Kochsuckers, Open Threads, Republican Venality, Ryan Lyin' Weasel, Decline and Fall, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Jump! You Fuckers!

Paul Ryan, via pre-recorded video, gives Koch donors credit for passing tax cut. "Because of your help we’ve been able to take the ball and run with it," Ryan says.

— Annie Linskey (@AnnieLinskey) January 28, 2018

Kochs super happy. Except for that nagging feeling that it could all go away. https://t.co/tv523xpWAg

— Annie Linskey (@AnnieLinskey) January 29, 2018

The Boston Globe:

… “We’ve made more progress in the past five years than I had in the last 50,” declared Charles Koch, the 82-year old billionaire, addressing a group of about 550 donors who gathered in Indian Wells for the Kochs’ winter policy and politics weekend seminar.

But this era of gains, which brought them a massive tax cut, a queue of conservative federal judges, and an administration full of friendly regulators, could all be gone if Democrats claw back control of the government.

So the vast network has pledged to devote around $400 million toward politics and policy in the midterms to hold the GOP majorities in both chambers. That’s 60 percent more than the network spent in 2014, when Republicans picked up nine seats in the Senate and 13 seats in the House of Representatives.

The sum includes $20 million that Koch and his brother David plan to put behind efforts to popularize the $1.5 trillion tax cut. The network spent $20 million last year pushing the legislation.

“We have a ways to go,” said Koch, teeing up his Big Ask to the well-coiffed group of donors who contribute at least $100,000 a year to Koch-aligned groups. “So my challenge to all of us is to increase the scale and effectiveness of this network by an order of magnitude. By another 10-fold on top of all the growth and progress we’ve already made. Because if we do that, I’m convinced we can change the trajectory of this country.”…

Voters have been skeptical of the tax law in part because much of the benefit is focused on businesses like those run by the Kochs and their allies. The tax cuts directly benefit Koch Industries by $1 billion to $1.4 billion a year, according to a recent analysis from Americans for Tax Fairness, a liberal advocacy group.

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“They stand to benefit by massive amounts more than what they’ve spent,” said TJ Helmstetter, a spokesman for Americans for Tax Fairness.

David Dziok, a spokesman for Koch Industries who attended the weekend events, said he is “skeptical” of the numbers but didn’t say they were wrong…

Mark Meadows manages to toggle fairly well between the House Freedom Caucus, the Trump White House and the Koch world.

— Annie Linskey (@AnnieLinskey) January 28, 2018

It kind of turned into a holy roller session at the end of the Koch Network meeting where donors talked about how great it is to give money to the network.

— Annie Linskey (@AnnieLinskey) January 29, 2018

The Washington Post:

… This weekend is the largest gathering of like-minded donors since Koch began holding the twice-a-year meetings in 2003. About 550 donors who contribute a minimum of $100,000 annually are in attendance, including 160 first-time attendees, said James Davis, a spokesman for the Seminar Network. About 700 donors contribute at that level, Davis said.

The network pointedly declined to endorse a candidate in the 2016 presidential election, but officials have worked closely with the administration. They said they have a lot to celebrate after President Trump’s first year, including deregulation and Justice Neil M. Gorsuch’s confirmation to the Supreme Court…

The Washington Post and other news outlets were invited to cover portions of the three-day seminar, on the condition that donors not be identified without their consent.

Several elected Republicans are attending the meeting: Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, Sen. Todd C. Young of Indiana, Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, Rep. Marshal Blackburn of Tennessee, Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina, Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt and Mississippi Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves.

The Koch Brothers are defending their shift from opposing Trump to embracing him by citing as their inspiration…Frederick Douglass. https://t.co/fzGBPXNnrH pic.twitter.com/6sSaGTtWhP

— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) January 29, 2018

Charles Koch co-wrote a WaPo op-ed in favor of passing legislation for Dreamers & then showed absolutely no evidence he’s done a damn thing about it since.

I don’t recall Douglass saying something was important then doing nothing to advance the cause & never mentioning it again https://t.co/AErz1baXPP

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) January 29, 2018

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Thank You, Repubs Open Thread: Poster Boy for the GOP Tax Scam

by Anne Laurie|  December 20, 201712:26 pm| 169 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Kochsuckers, Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Assholes, Jump! You Fuckers!, Our Awesome Meritocracy

Congratulations to this Koch heir, who is going to become like $75 billion richer in the next few days. He's going to use it to make very innovative ugly shirts. https://t.co/0NDo5GYYRW

— David Roth (@david_j_roth) December 20, 2017

All hail Dave Roth, who first introduced Political Twitter to this remarkable member of the Lucky Sperm Club…

HO.LEE SHEE.IT.https://t.co/PyldlZwzCP

— Born With A Reindeer Tail (@bornwithatail_) December 20, 2017

Spin has some video:

The Post describes the Wyatt Ingraham signature aesthetic as “out-there patterns and colors” which is a charitable way of saying that these are the busy shirts a middle-manager who fancies himself the office comedian wears on casual Friday. The remarkable part of this vanity endeavor is the short video Koch produced to sell the brand, construct his own self-mythology, and peel the curtain back on his creative process. One of the video’s boldest choices entails a Koch heir sitting for his talking head interview wearing a shirt emblazoned with bags of money, as if that image alone couldn’t resurrect the guillotine.

“My father said to me, ‘Wyatt, you can do whatever you want to in life. Just make sure you do it well and do it with passion,” the designer said to the camera, without a hint of self-awareness. The sons of literal billionaires do typically get to do whatever they want in life. That’s the perk of being born into a Scrooge McDuck vault full of gold coins…

This guy so totally needed further protection from the estate tax. Hey, it’s not as though he were capable of surviving without a deep, deep cushion of daddy’s money…

Wyatt Ingraham Koch designs shirts. His design for this shirt is bags and bags of money. pic.twitter.com/iDuUGgglkH

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) December 20, 2017

I’m crying pic.twitter.com/2KJa9DJOXo

— bob (@atbobb) December 20, 2017

His taste for fashion began early. pic.twitter.com/w0xWHlMRvW

— Schooley (@Rschooley) December 20, 2017

What’s the lives and health of thousands of sick kids and poor people, compared to such visions of pure CLASS?

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Late Night Creepshow Open Thread: Grifters Applaud Their Own

by Anne Laurie|  December 9, 201712:53 am| 81 Comments

This post is in: An Unexamined Scandal, C.R.E.A.M., Grifters Gonna Grift, Kochsuckers, Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality, Assholes, Riveted By The Sociological Significance Of It All

Wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, @GinniThomas, presenting an award to @JamesOKeefeIII today for "defending liberty." pic.twitter.com/bWXFgWa36x

— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) December 6, 2017

At @realDonaldTrump’s hotel in DC. https://t.co/T5JHsFTmXf

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) December 6, 2017

We have achieved the ratfcking event horizon. https://t.co/OMYpsg8kyd

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) December 7, 2017

These awards are being given out (at @TrumpDC no less) by an org whose mission is "to unite & equip conservatives in the promotion of Judeo-Christian principles." Recipients: @JamesOKeefeIII @seanhannity @dbongino @TomFitton @charliekirk11 @UrbanCURE https://t.co/T1YVxsNFBJ pic.twitter.com/V7mEchyZ72

— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) December 6, 2017

“United in Purpose” has an even lower profile than Ginni Thomas’ main grift, “Liberty Central”, whose main purpose seems to be keeping Ginni too busy to drunk-dial Anita Hill again. But if you assume UiP’s real purpose is to provide a conduit from “conservative” suckers with too much money to “activists” with more greed than sense…

NYMag:

… The “heroes” honored by United for Purpose had to meet certain criteria laid out on the website for the Impact Awards. These are people who show “tenacity, courage and perseverance even under hostile attacks” and are “respected among their peers,” among other things. O’Keefe, who just made a fool of himself in an attempt to stick up for a sexual predator, apparently meets that criteria in the eyes of right-wing activists.

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O’Keefe wasn’t the only one exemplar of conservative principles to be honored. Sean Hannity received the Outstanding Impact Award and delivered the keynote speech. “We the people are going to work harder than ever to get the government back into the hands of American citizens, where it belongs,” said Hannity, inside a hotel from which president continues to profit…

It wouldn't be 2017 if terrible people who do terrible things weren't receiving awards https://t.co/3x1DCJy4cl

— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) December 7, 2017

Ken Vogel, at the NYTimes, has a good article on O’Keefe’s #FailingUpward history:

… [T]hese should be good times for Mr. O’Keefe. He has an ally in the Oval Office who shares his views. The nonprofit group he started in 2010, Project Veritas, and an affiliated political arm called Project Veritas Action Fund have raised nearly $16 million, according to tax filings, and last year the group paid him $317,000. After years of criticism from across the political spectrum — including from a conservative establishment that has viewed him with suspicion — Mr. O’Keefe would seem well positioned to be more broadly embraced by the right, and feared by the left.

Yet Mr. O’Keefe cannot seem to get out of his own way. And after an attempted sting aimed at The Washington Post backfired in spectacular fashion last month, he has found himself in a familiar position — defending his misleading tactics, uneven results and even his nonprofit’s tax-exempt status, against criticism from across the political spectrum…

In fact, the elite conservative donor class has always mostly kept its distance — at least publicly — from Project Veritas. The primary funding vehicles steered by the billionaire conservative brothers Charles G. and David H. Koch, for instance, have refused entreaties from Mr. O’Keefe’s allies to support his groups, said people familiar with the requests.

Megadonors interested in watchdogging the media have instead gravitated to more cautious groups like Mr. Bozell’s Media Research Center. It has raised $87 million over the last half dozen years — five times more than Project Veritas during that span, according to tax filings. The Media Research Center regularly collects six- and seven-figure checks from some the right’s leading donors, including the families of the New York hedge fund trader Robert Mercer and the Amway co-founder Richard DeVos…

Sure, non-stop humiliating failures would be a problem to donors interested in actually returning our country to the Fifties (either 18- or 19-, depending on the donor). But if what some really want is a conspicuous form of “virtue signalling” — well, O’Keefe’s a master practitioner!

Project Veritas has 40 employees. Even if O'Keefe's little cons blow up in a myriad of comic ways, his big con of getting dupes to write him checks is going smashingly wll.

— Schooley (@Rschooley) December 8, 2017

I'm honestly still often amazed by the sheer number of grifters and hucksters in DC who have convinced donors bases they run groups focused on good government.

— andrew kaczynski?? (@KFILE) December 8, 2017

James O'Keefe is in trouble for lying to NY state regulators so he's arguing that he barely even founded the non-profit he founded https://t.co/b4cwOFM3mj

— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) December 6, 2017

SCOOP: @JamesOKeefeIII previewed @HillaryClinton foreign-$ sting video for Trump at private Trump Tower mtg days after Trump announced his presidential campaign. Trump then pledged additional $10k to @Project_Veritas. https://t.co/BOVhoBEJo7

— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) December 8, 2017

SCOOP: Memo from @JamesOKeefeIII's @Project_Veritas proposed submitting ACORN videos for Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, then bugging judge's deliberations. https://t.co/0D5qso0aqD

— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) December 8, 2017

As I was saying: Grifter respects grifter!

.@JamesOKeefeIII says that the 2 donors I quoted in my front page story about him have both pledged additional $$$ to his group, @Project_Veritas, which posted this photo of him with today's @nytimes. https://t.co/BOVhoBEJo7 pic.twitter.com/SpWXmT8W1i

— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) December 9, 2017

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Open Thread: Defending the DREAMers

by Anne Laurie|  September 7, 20178:35 pm| 60 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Immigration, Kochsuckers, Open Threads, Post-racial America, Repubs in Disarray!, Daydream Believers

NEW: The Koch political network says it will back legislation to codify DACA and protect DREAMers https://t.co/lL9GtBhJ6D

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) September 7, 2017

This meets my criteria for the epitome of ‘mixed feelings’. Anything involving the Kochs, of course, needs to be critically examined for hidden pitfalls. On the other hand, if even these amoral monsters are standing up in defense of young people whose only crime was being born to the wrong parents… well, it is to be hoped that this indicates Steve Bannon, Steve Miller, and Rep. Steve King represent an extinction burst and not a successful revival of racism as a winning political tactic…

… Spokespeople for the Koch network confirmed to The Daily Beast that it will press Congress for a legislative fix to the recently rescinded Obama-era program, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, that shielded undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children.

The Kochs’ backing could provide a crucial boost to efforts to preserve DACA, which Trump announced this week he will phase out over the course of six months. Congress has scrambled to find a replacement for those legal protections that are set to be removed. And Trump himself signaled early support for the DREAM Act, which would, essentially, codify the DACA protections that Obama had imposed via executive action…

With its formidable political and policy operation, the Koch network could provide more political cover to Republican members of Congress as they consider a replacement to the DACA program. Koch network alumni are sprinkled throughout Trump’s inner circle, and include White House director of legislative affairs Marc Short and Corey Lewandowski, the former Trump campaign manager who now advises a prominent independent political group supporting the president…

pic.twitter.com/ic375YUqcd

— Daniel Lin (@danwlin) September 6, 2017

Here's the #1 reason I'm coming to think Don and Chuck and Nancy will strike a deal to legislate DACA. https://t.co/aL9P9frRQu pic.twitter.com/CjvOwQ5ngj

— Josh Barro (@jbarro) September 7, 2017

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