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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI am loving this!!
Little to Show for Cash Flood by Big Donors
At the private air terminal at Logan Airport in Boston early Wednesday, men in unwrinkled suits sank into plush leather chairs as they waited to board Gulfstream jets, trading consolations over Mitt Romneys loss the day before.
All I can say is the American people have spoken, said Kenneth Langone, the founder of Home Depot and one of Mr. Romneys top fund-raisers, briskly plucking off his hat and settling into a couch.
The biggest single donor in political history, the casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, mingled with other Romney backers at a postelection breakfast, fresh off a large gamble gone bad. Of the eight candidates he supported with tens of millions of dollars in contributions to super PACs, none were victorious on Tuesday.
And as calls came in on Wednesday from some of the donors who had poured more than $300 million into the pair of big-spending outside groups founded in part by Karl Rove perhaps the leading political entrepreneur of the super PAC era he offered them a grim upside: without us, the race would not have been as close as it was.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/us/politics/little-to-show-for-cash-flood-by-big-donors.html?hp
At the private air terminal at Logan Airport in Boston early Wednesday, men in unwrinkled suits sank into plush leather chairs as they waited to board Gulfstream jets, trading consolations over Mitt Romneys loss the day before.
All I can say is the American people have spoken, said Kenneth Langone, the founder of Home Depot and one of Mr. Romneys top fund-raisers, briskly plucking off his hat and settling into a couch.
The biggest single donor in political history, the casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, mingled with other Romney backers at a postelection breakfast, fresh off a large gamble gone bad. Of the eight candidates he supported with tens of millions of dollars in contributions to super PACs, none were victorious on Tuesday.
And as calls came in on Wednesday from some of the donors who had poured more than $300 million into the pair of big-spending outside groups founded in part by Karl Rove perhaps the leading political entrepreneur of the super PAC era he offered them a grim upside: without us, the race would not have been as close as it was.
~snip~
Fuck You, Adelson!
Fuck You, Karl Rove!!
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I am loving this!! (Original Post)
Emit
Nov 2012
OP
Since they won't invest in American businesses in general and hide money overseas
Shrike47
Nov 2012
#1
Good! Maybe they won't be as quick to throw that money down the drain next time. eom
ChisolmTrailDem
Nov 2012
#4
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)1. Since they won't invest in American businesses in general and hide money overseas
It's nice to see the money being spent here and creating work for Americans.
Emit
(11,213 posts)3. There is that
I suppose, lol.
calimary
(81,297 posts)2. Your cash ain't nothing but trash!
Hey big spenders! I've got your new theme song!
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)4. Good! Maybe they won't be as quick to throw that money down the drain next time. eom
backtoblue
(11,343 posts)5. Now that they won't have the money left to pay their employees
they'll be blaming a poor economy and President Obama. This is why trickle down economics do not work. Greedy bastards with too much money and too little brains.