The McLaughlin Group http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Anthony David "Tony" Blankley (January 21, 1948 – January 7, 2012) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://www.nytimes.com/2012... , 1 -16 Professor Gingrich and the hammer... 1 -19 http://books.google.com/books... , http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012... , { 10 -29 http://xkcd.com/1127/large/ } - Thomas Page

Lobbying http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Front organization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Front groups http://www.sourcewatch.org/index... - Thomas Page

Money trail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://politicaldictionary.com/words... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Politics as "organized combat" Though this process came as part of what the authors describe as a "transformation of American government", it has been overlooked by the public, the media, and recent political science studies. They focus on the more entertaining, fast-moving and easy-to-follow "electoral spectacle" of politicians and their campaigns for office, instead of "what the government actually does" — the more complex, and "frankly boring," organization-driven making of laws and policy.[33] But that the latter is what is really important is reflected in how much money is spent on lobbying (officially $3 billion a year, unofficially much more[34]) than election campaigns",[35] and the growth in corporate public affairs offices in the nation's capital (100 in 1968, 2500 in 1982).[36] These highly effective organizations include business groups like Chamber of Commerce, National Federation of Independent Business, (p.120) anti-tax groups like Club for Growth and Americans for Tax Reform. (p.208) Along with them came a new generation of think tanks, such as the Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute. Officially non-partisan, they focused on "shifting public opinion and policy" in a conservative direction, rather than traditional `objective' policy advice.[37] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 2 -11 politics sort to ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 10 -30 horse race political coverage http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politic... - Thomas Page

A Tangled Web: Who’s Making Money From All This Campaign Spending? http://www.propublica.org/special... - Thomas Page

It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism http://www.amazon.com/Even-Wo... http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch... , ps Looking ahead to the 2012 election, the largest divides between committed supporters of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are over the scope and role of government in the economic realm. http://www.people-press.org/2012... , sort 11 -25 The Senate’s Long Slide to Gridlock http://www.nytimes.com/2012...& - Thomas Page

Category:American political writers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://www.nytimes.com/2012... , 9 -16 http://www.tax.com/taxcom... - Thomas Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 10 -26 http://crooksandliars.com/susie-m... , 11 -3 Category:Political campaign techniques http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 11 -10 http://www.slate.com/article... , 11 16 Political Sportsmanship or Politics as "organized combat" , ufc or street fight , Guillotines and concentration camps , riffing - Thomas Page

Dark projects http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... $ > Dark money http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [ who is following the $ ? 6 -20 Kibosh on the IRS ? , 7 -28 sort http://www.wired.com/threatl... http://maplight.org/us-cong... - Thomas Page

10 -8 sort scoundrel http://www.merriam-webster.com/diction... http://www.collinsdictionary.com/diction... = rogue, cad, bastard, villain, mother, heel, cheat, shit, bugger, swine, rascal, son-of-a-bitch, asshole, scally, turd, wretch, incorrigible, motherfucker, knave, rotter, ne'er-do-well, reprobate, scumbag, good-for-nothing, miscreant, scamp, bad egg, blackguard, cocksucker, scapegrace, asswipe, caitiff, dastard, skelm, wrong 'un [[ scoun•drel (ˈskaʊn drəl) n. 1. an unprincipled, dishonorable person; villain. adj. 2. mean or base in nature; villainous; dishonorable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Bad Faith deliberative methods? {([ Three Limitations of Deliberative Democracy; Identity Politics , Bad Faith and Indeterminacy http://friendfeed.com/citizen... ... ])} Deliberative Politics : Essays on Democracy and Disagreement [When a party pretends to negotiate, but secretly has no intention of compromising, the party is considered to be negotiating in bad faith. Bad faith is a concept in negotiation theory whereby parties pretend to reason to reach settlement, but have no intention to do so, for example, one political party may pretend to negotiate, with no intention to compromise, for political effect. http://friendfeed.com/citizen... , 10 -11 Thomas Friedman And American Democracy At Risk http://onpoint.wbur.org/2013... - Thomas Page

Principles Honesty Fairplay Sportsmanship , making breaking bending the rules , Do the ends justity the means? , Ways and Means ,[[ sort, demanding satisfaction http://www.cracked.com/funny-4... http://www.pbs.org/wgbh... http://www.wikihow.com/Fight-a... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex Is Destroying America. http://billmoyers.com/episode... http://www.dollarocracy-book.com/ [ Media Election Complex [[ 11 -18 sort http://www.rollingstone.com/politic... http://www.rollingstone.com/politic... - Thomas Page

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4 -18 Nasty piece of work? Shit, http://www.thefreedictionary.com/a+nasty... 6 -2 some real twisted fucks - Thomas Page

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Feasibility of taxing windfall profits of election process profiteers ? [ Money as poker chips or Megawatts? Discharge? Winner take All? [[ Recovery of social capital? - Thomas Page

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Politics Is More Broken Than Ever—Political Scientists Need to Admit It http://m.theatlantic.com/politic... That mismatch between parties and governing institutions is exacerbated by the fact that the polarization is asymmetric. Republicans have become a radical insurgency—ideologically extreme, contemptuous of the inherited policy regime, scornful of compromise, unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence, and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition. The evidence of this asymmetry is overwhelming. https://friendfeed.com/citizen... - Thomas Page

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9 -16 Why Democrats and Republicans don’t understand each other http://www.vox.com/2014... - Thomas Page

11 -5 Political Analyst http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... https://www.cia.gov/careers... - Thomas Page

Operation and Oversight of Governance by Political Entities and Agents https://friendfeed.com/citizen... , 9 -23 Job Descriptions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Job performance Review , Accountability to Employer , of by for - Thomas Page

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Fighting Laws , Making Laws , Breaking with Values [ Democracy ? Conservatives ? Conserving ? - Thomas Page

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