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JaySherman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-06-04 02:28 AM
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George W. Bush's back-door Political Machine
http://www.mediatransparency.org/stories/apparat.html

The Apparat

George W. Bush's back-door
political machine

It's anti-democratic, anti-Constitutional, and is working to create a one-party America

© 2004 by Jerry M. Landay
for Mediatransparency.org

POSTED MARCH 18, 2004 --

On a Tuesday evening in mid-January, a right-wing Washington writer-for-hire named Clark Judge appeared on public radio's Marketplace.

In a commentary heard by an estimated five million people, Judge complained that the philanthropist George Soros was engaged in an "unethical" effort to outwit legal restrictions on campaign contributions.

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The American apparat functions as a broad strategic, policy-formulating, and coordinating machine. Like the Soviet apparat, it is triangular in structure. The main leg can be viewed as the nomenklatura -- the central command of the cohort. Subordinate to it is the second leg -- the major units of government, including the White House and the Congressional majority. The President governs as the creature of the apparat, along with his cabinet.

Vice-President Cheney bridges the two as a senior member of the nomenklatura. So does Karl Rove, the White House political operator, along with the leaders of the Republican Congressional wing -- Senate and House majority leaders Bill Frist and Tom DeLay.

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grytpype Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-06-04 02:29 AM
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1. We live in an idiotocracy.
Government by a despotic idiot.
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-06-04 02:54 AM
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2. All that money that the tax payers have paid has to go some place.
And as I see it the Right wing and neo-cons think it should go in their pocket, and what better way then to take the power for them selfs.People have always been greedy for money and power.
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