The Apparat: George W. Bush's back-door political machine (Fascinating BARF)

Axis of Logic ^ | March 18, 2004 | Jerry M. Landay

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(snip) The Cohort

In its latest report, called The Axis of Ideology, the NCRP has identified at least 350 tax-exempt, ostensibly non-partisan organizations within the right-wing's activist front, many operating at regional, state, and local levels. They have penetrated the three branches of the federal government, and dominate the political debate. They guide and oversee the agenda that directs White House action (or inaction). Two of these organizations housed the planners who invented the Iraq war.

Rob Stein, an independent Washington researcher, follows the money flow to the radical activist establishment. He estimates that since the early 1970s at least $2.5 to $3 billion in funding has been awarded to the 43 major activist organizations he tracks that constitute the core of the radical machine. (snip)

(snip)Soros and his recipients -- including Americans Coming Together, MoveOn.org, and the newly established liberal think tank, the Center for American Progress -- are no match, in terms of dollars or mass, for the vast alliance spearheaded by the cohort.

Americans are familiar with some of the names, if not the background, of the cohort's leading members -- the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, the Manhattan Institute, the Hudson Institute, the Hoover Institution, the Federalist Society, the Reason Foundation, Citizens for a Sound Economy, the American Legislative Exchange Council, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, and the National Association of Scholars, to name just a few.

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ROFLOL!

My favorite part:

The potency of right wing politics and opinion molding lies in the architecture of the movement. That is, its constituent organizations think and act strategically. Agendas, priorities, and propaganda are directed from the center. Members are disciplined and dedicated to the narrow theology of the right.

The disparate streams of conservative thought and action -- social, economic, religious, libertarian, and corporate -- set aside major differences and march to a single drummer -- with the tempo set at weekly tactical conferences in Washington.

Weekly tactical meetings? Why weren't we invited?

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You're going to love this one. They are losing it completely.

[Paul Atreides]

The left is going absolutely insane!

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excerpted from: Full article

[Tempest]

Hey these jerks forgot to list the weekly tactical meeting held in my secret out of the way backyard!!! I need to call up Cheney and remind him to bring the cheese whiz and make sure he's not followed.

[Maria S]

"In an op-ed article in The New York Times, Robert Reich, the secretary of labor under Clinton, argued that progressive activism must extend beyond the race for the White House, and beyond campaign season. "The conservative movement," he writes, "has developed dedicated sources of money and legions of ground troops who not only get out the vote, but also spend the time between elections persuading others to join their ranks ... It has a system for recruiting and electing officials nationwide who share the same world view, and will vote accordingly."


Reich makes this sound like ONLY conservatives are doing this!

Isn't Reich that little 4'11" twerp? (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)

[tbpiper]

Isn't Reich that little 4'11" twerp?

Yes, but he'd still be a twerp at 8'11"

[You Dirty Rats]

To: Agents Blue Disk, Fire Clasp, Black Window
From: Agent Double Eye
Subject: Weekly Meetings

Pursuant to protocol DEBORAH, all future scheduled meetings are cancelled.
Detection probability: A.
Activate Venue Red Mountain immediately.
Divert all funds to Location Good Air.
Further Information on Frequency MADONNA exactly 3 hours daily after Time Quartz.
Destroy this message before reading.

[KJacob]

excuse me did you say-Pursuant to protocol DEBORAH?

I thought that was last week. Man I am out of the loop.

[Helms]

"ground troops who not only get out the vote, but also spend the time between elections persuading others to join their ranks ... "

And ridicule You and The Administration in which you served:

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( pnem et circnss, translating; Bill and Janet )

At The Movies with the Clinton Administration: Popcorn shrimp, popcorn chicken, Popcorn Presidency

[ film courtesy of Clinton- Kleenex Littlerock Library Videodata Archives and FBI File and Film Studios ]

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Your points are well made. How much do you want to bet that our college graduates who learned nothing in their liberal, liberal arts educations eat this stuff up? He'll probably be a gueat speaker at UNC Wilmington or Evergreen.

[Ben Ficklin]

The Right Wing Affiliations of Bush Administration Officials

[ModelBreaker]

Weekly tactical meetings? Why weren't we invited?

LOL. This is classic projection. This is how they would like to do it themselves.

[atomicpossum]

I think they're stretching their associations to discredit the original criticism. We're not talking about activist organizations, we're talking about activist, ad-buying, soft-money-laundering organizations designed and run by former political operatives and accepting large stealth donations to side-step campaign finance reform regulations. trying to equate MoveOn.Org with the Cato Institute is assinine.

SECRET RIGHT WING MESSAGE: The monkey is sleepy. The streetcar is going up the hill. My shoes are tight, yet my socks are warm.

You have your orders. Control out.

[Fiddlstix]

The left is going absolutely insane!

Yep! And Worse!

[Liz]

See, I told ya too much viagra and botox would make self-absorbed lefties go kerflooey.

Did these coked-up libs see black helicopters landing on the RBC's lawn, too? Hmmmmmmmm?

Maybe they also saw little green men going in the back door of the WH.

Man Bush has really got to get the FDA to study the assorted mental disfunctions of getting pumped up with silicone, botox and viagra.

[Helms]

Former President Clinton to give Senior Convocation address, May 29
By Linda Grace-Kobas

William Jefferson Clinton, 42nd president of the United States, will present the Senior Convocation address Saturday, May 29, during Cornell's Commencement weekend.
Clinton

Cornell will celebrate its 136th Commencement Sunday, May 30. University President Jeffrey S. Lehman will present his first commencement address and confer degrees at that ceremony.