Rick if you're weren't so blatantly biased you would be far more relevant. The money you speak of flows down the river before meandering relatively equally through both sides.

Abrignac wrote:

Rick if you're weren't so blatantly biased you would be far more relevant. The money you speak of flows down the river before meandering relatively equally through both sides.

Abrignac wrote:

He's no more biased than anyone else around here. You just don't like his particular "flavor" of bias. So, you consider him irrelevant- because some of what he espouses contradicts your beliefs (which no one wants to have questioned, challenged or to have to change).

What Rick posted is fictional. What makes it funny to me is that we all know it is probably very true, not necessarily by Adelson but by others, that politicians are "bought". And, it is that uncomfortable truth that only the wealthy can afford to do this makes the satire funny.

Try substituting the name of some liberal you believe buys politicians and is so wealthy he can afford it- then smile or laugh a bit with some of us. 😇

rfenst wrote:

how does that nag at you or do you want a stool speciman.

RICKAMAVEN wrote:

Introducing a new wrinkle into the already fraught fiscal cliff showdown,
a consortium of billionaires today warned that if their taxes are raised
they will no longer have enough money to buy politicians.

RICKAMAVEN wrote:

Adding insult to injury for America’s billionaires, he says, “the simple dream
of someday owning a President is slipping out of reach.”
“People think a billion dollars buys you aPresident, but they’re wrong,” he says.
“It barely gets you a lemon like Mitt Romney.”

RICKAMAVEN wrote:

Not so. It's the immutable laws of supply and demand economics. As billionaires have less and less money to spend on buying politicians due to higher taxation, the politicians will lower their prices in competition with one another in order to to maintain their 'grey area' sources of income.

In other words to paraphrase the old joke, politicians have already proven what they are...it'd only be a matter of haggling their price.

DadZilla3 wrote:

Rick if you're weren't so blatantly biased you would be far more relevant. The money you speak of flows down the river before meandering relatively equally through both sides.

Abrignac wrote:

frankj1

not guilty? like oj was not guilty?

actually he wanted into macau.

in that region of the world where gambling is an obsession there is no country
that allows gambling except macau, and like the mafia using vegas as their back
yard when they lost cuba, addelson wanted a president who could give him a line
pass into the macau government, and he wanted exclusivity, or favored person
credentials

RICKAMAVEN wrote:

Relax.....Obama's got this.

HockeyDad wrote:

frankj1

not guilty? like oj was not guilty?

actually he wanted into macau.

in that region of the world where gambling is an obsession there is no country
that allows gambling except macau, and like the mafia using vegas as their back
yard when they lost cuba, addelson wanted a president who could give him a line
pass into the macau government, and he wanted exclusivity, or favored person
credentials

RICKAMAVEN wrote: