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Useful idiots: Republican / Teapublican base voters

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Romney’s line that “corporations are people,” which was defended by Palin and Rand Paul yesterday, along with the GOP debate in Iowa, should convince everyone that corporations are fully, 100% protected by the Teaparty GOP. No worries there.

If you’re a Republican / Teapublican base voter and you’re working- or middle-class, then you’re their useful idiot. If federal programs and services that you use need to be cut because there isn’t enough tax revenue coming in to pay for them, and you support this outlandish argument that the wealthy and corporations need MORE tax cuts instead of less, then you’re their useful idiot.

Romney, Palin and Paul all get something out of defending big corporations and their low, low tax rates: money. But if you’re a working- or middle-class peasant, you get nothing.  And yet, unbelievably, you feel you’ve won something by paying more in taxes than profitable corporations and trust-fund millionaires, and by bringing home less of an income today than you could have three decades ago. The GOP and Fox and rightwing blogs and radio hosts all tell you who you should hate, who to fear (unions, gays, Muslims, libruls, the black president, etc), and you get to feel you’re in The Club when you comply. And that’s exactly how useful idiots are produced and exactly how big your reward will be in the end. Enjoy your club membership.

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Mitt Romney’s message to Iowa (Video): “Corporations are people, my friends.”
Who won the debate in Iowa last night? Four possible choices:
Rand Paul defends Mitt: “I think we’re all corporations. All of us are corporations.”
Sarah Palin agrees with Mitt also, too: Corporations are people. “People pay the taxes.”

Rand Paul defends Mitt: “I think we’re all corporations. All of us are corporations.”

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Rand Paul: still worshiping Aqua Budda.

ThinkProgress asked Paul about Romney’s comments prior to the Republican presidential debate in Ames. Paul rushed to the former governor’s defense, arguing that Romney was correct in his equivalency between man and mega-company…

KEYES: What did you make of Mitt Romney’s statement today that “corporations are people”?

PAUL: Corporations are collections of people. I think we’re all corporations. To say we’re going to punish corporations like they’re someone else. All of us are corporations.

It’s unsurprising that Paul would side with corporations. In the past, Paul has expressed his affection for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, was quick to defend BP during its high-profile act of corporate irresponsibility, and during the 2010 campaign, complained that disabilities laws are unfair to the business owner.

Show me on the doll where the Benevolent Hand touched you

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Matthew Yglesias notes that some Americans, like CEOs and hedge-fund managers, are winning the future while everyone else…  not so much:

The real lucky duckies: The highest-paid U.S. hedge fund managers at some of the biggest and best-performing funds got slightly over $22 billion in pay last year, the New York Times reported, citing an annual ranking by AR Magazine.

Trickle down! Less regulation! Guns, gays, and God! Union THUGS! Tax cuts for the wealthy = so many jobs we’ll be ROLLING in jobs!

Teabaggers who fight for the priorities of the GOP-Koch-funded-Teaparty must be CEOs and hedge fund managers. That, or they’re complete idiots.

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Mr & Mrs Billy Bob: the “Anti-Union” Useful Idiots of GOP, Inc.

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Now I realize that many if not most of the anti-union protesters bussed into Madison yesterday to ‘counter-protest’ on behalf of Gov. Walker were from K Street and were paid operatives of Freedom Works or Americans For Prosperity or other similar groups (just Google “I stand with Walker” or “counter protests in Madison” and they all show up).

But if there were any “real” Mr and Mrs Billy Bobs who squeezed themselves inside the doors of the Tea Party buses, wearing ALL their flag apparel, intending to wave their misspelled signs around Madison for free — then, quite frankly, those people have finally revealed that they aren’t coming out of that coma anytime soon.

Haven’t teabaggers claimed (since Obama was sworn in as POTUS) that they want LESS government? Yet there they were in Madison, SUPPORTING A GOVERNOR, SUPPORTING THE GOVERNMENT, angrily protesting their fellow citizens who are members of labor unions and who are attempting to uphold their rights of negotiation.  Teabaggers protesting union members who won’t take the blame for a deficit that Gov. Walker spent their state into, on special interests, in less than 2 months.

Corporate interests like Koch Industries couldn’t hope for better Useful Idiots than these Fox-News-watching, Palin-and-Beck-loving, not-racists-but-where’s-the-birth-certificate-screaming “patriots” who can be counted on to protest and campaign and vote against their own interests each and every time. It’s Pavlovian.

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Thousands of students, teachers, state workers and union members gather outside Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s office in Madison:

(Abel Uribe, Chicago Tribune / February 18, 2011)

Or as Rush would say, thousands of ’parasites‘ came out of the woodwork.

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Without labor nothing prospers: how far the Republican party has fallen.

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“Today in America, unions have a secure place in our industrial life. Only a handful of reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of breaking unions and depriving working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice. I have no use for those – regardless of their political party – who hold some vain and foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when organized labor was huddled, almost as a hapless mass. Only a fool would try to deprive working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice.” — President Dwight Eisenhower

“I must tell those who fail to report for duty this morning, they are in violation of the law, and if they do not report for work within 48 hours, they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated.” – Ronald Reagan fires most of the 13,000 air traffic controllers who went on strike, 08/05/1981.

“All the parasites of government are now coming out of the woodwork — and that’s exactly what they are, parasites.” – Rush Limbaugh on 02/17/2011, referring to union members protesting in Wisconsin.

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