Author: Farron Cousins

Papantonio: GOP Mocks Own Donors in Document

Two weeks ago the folks who run Republican fundraising made a sloppy mistake. They left the blueprint for their party fundraising plans at a posh resort where they had hosted a GOP retreat. That document is now in the hands of the media. RNC Chairman Michael Steele is having to put a good light on that pathetically cynical document. Money is short in GOP coffers these days. The RNC has less money in the bank than they have seen in a decade. This fundraising blueprint that is circulating shows a sense of desperation. The plan separates Republican donors into...

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Papantonio: Marco Rubio’s GOP Spending Spree

The Rubio story was barely noticeable when it first emerged. We had a Cuban-American conservative poster boy in a heated Senate Republican primary running against Florida Governor Charlie Crist. The headline to the early stories was that Rubio had charged more than $100,000 on his GOP American Express card. Republican leaders were quietly upset that the new face for ultra-conservative politics had used GOP money to pay for bottles of liquor, groceries, personal travel, family car repair and $130-haircuts. GOP critics complained that donors who gave money to the party did not anticipate that one-hundred thousand dollars worth of...

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This Week on Ring of Fire!

This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and David Bender: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire, Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi will be here to tell us how Wall Street thieves like those at Goldman Sachs scammed the federal government through the bailout programs. John Nichols from The Nation magazine will be joining us to talk about how the Democrats need to define themselves in this year’s midterm elections, and why the moderates need to be worried. And Lawrence Lessig, Harvard professor and founder of ChangeCongress.org, will tell us about how we can Call a Convention to possibly overturn the disastrous Supreme Court ruling in the Citizens’ United case. You can now SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST by clicking on the “Podcast” tab at the top of the Ring of Fire blog. And don’t forget to join us on Facebook. Just click on the Facebook icon on the left side of our blog! To find out more about the political ideology and IQ study, click here! You can support Bill Halter’s campaign against Blanche Lincoln by clicking...

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This Week on Ring of Fire!

This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and David Bender: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire, best-selling author Andrew Young will talk with us about his new book “The Politician.” Attorney and consumer advocate Bill Cash will be here to give us the lowdown on the Toyota recall, and we’ll find out how the company intentionally hid the truth about their defective vehicles for almost 3 years. (See the Wins for Toyota document here. Comedian Matt Filipowicz will be here to tell us why prominent GOP leaders think its perfectly acceptable for a domestic terrorist to crash his airplane into an IRS office. And David DeGraw from the Amped Status blog will be here to tell us how corporate American is systematically screwing over the average American worker, and helping keep both our poverty levels and unemployment rates at record-breaking highs. And don’t forget to join us on Facebook. Just click on the Facebook icon on the left side of our...

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Papantonio – CPAC: O’Keefe is Our Hero

James OKeefe is one of those young right-wing leaders that the conservative movement embraces. OKeefe showed up at CPAC only after he posted bail on felony charges he faces in New Orleans. That CPAC young right-wing leader was arrested for trying to tap the phone lines and computer system of a Democratic U.S. Senator. The criminal operation led by OKeefe and several other leaders of the conservative movements bright future would not be considered inspirational by normal standards. It was a criminal operation not much different than one led by another conservative leader named G. Gordon Liddy. Liddy and his pals also believed that criminal break-ins and wiretaps should be part of the conservative social and political agenda.

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