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TexasTowelie

(112,350 posts) Tue Mar 12, 2013, 04:53 AM Mar 2013

With new group, Obama team seeks answer to Karl Rove

(Reuters) - On Wednesday, some of President Barack Obama's most dedicated donors will fly to Washington and pony up $50,000 to attend a fundraiser for Organizing for Action, a progressive new kid on the block trying to counter the likes of Karl Rove and the Koch brothers.

Obama will give a speech to the group, an independent non-profit that is trying to use the data, know-how, and connections of the president's campaign to improve the chances of passing new gun laws and immigration reform.

Their host will be Jon Carson, a soft-spoken political operative who trained as a civil engineer. As the group's executive director, he has been given the task of reviving one of the most successful campaign machines in history, and providing a counterweight to the multimillion-dollar empires managed by Republican strategist Rove and conservative billionaire activists David and Charles Koch.

On the face of it, Carson, a former Peace Corps volunteer, seems an odd fit for the snarling world of deep-pocketed, partisan organizations that came into their own in the 2012 campaign, unbridled by a Supreme Court decision allowing unrestricted amounts of money to flood into U.S. politics.

More at http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/12/us-usa-lobbying-carson-idUSBRE92B06E20130312 .

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With new group, Obama team seeks answer to Karl Rove (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2013 OP

I don't want them to answer Karl Rove, I want answers from Karl Rove Sherman A1 Mar 2013 #1

Democratic party must keep all office for 50 years or more continuously graham4anything Mar 2013 #2

Sherman A1

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1. I don't want them to answer Karl Rove, I want answers from Karl Rove

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 05:26 AM

Mar 2013

in a court of law under oath.

graham4anything

(11,464 posts)

2. Democratic party must keep all office for 50 years or more continuously

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 05:59 AM

Mar 2013

and I don't care how they do so, long as they do so.

The Presidency would have been ours for 50 years since FDR if not for a few horrible events and the damn fractures that occurred in 1968, 1972, 1980, 1984, 1988, 2000, 2004

We must continue to expose the republican party.

The best revenge is not going backward into wasted time into investigations that will bring nothing because they won't bring convictions that stand (like Jolly Olly)besides those things have already been pardoned by 41.

The best revenge to the republican party will be Hillary winning in 2016, Michelle winning in 2024, and John Schlossberg winning in 2036...etc.
And the courts being 9 to 0. (For good sense, sometime in there, they can change the # of court justices to 13, so it will be 13 to 0.)

The best revenge will be winning the house/senate/governorships/mayors/dog catcher/election bureau.
Everything and anything democratic.

As close to 100% as possible.

And I for one do not care how we get to that point, long as we do.

A winner does what a loser won't. That is get seated.

2016 will be the battle for the soul of America. 2013 and 2014 are the starting points for just that.

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