[gidget7]

An update on what the left is up to, and how they push their agendas on the American People. Clearly, they don't intend to allow anything to stop them.

Where are the conservative billionaires? Money talks!

[KevinDavis]

I do have a question, why aren't they sending any money to the Tsunami victims???

[DOGEY]

All that money and the Swiftees sank them for pennies.

[Bigh4u2]

Soros still thinks he can influence the U.S. enough to change the Constitution so he can run for President.

Ain't gonna happen!

[BlackElk]

G7: The following is NOT an attack on you but on the abuse of language in the posted article and upon the Financial Times.

Isn't the Financial Times (of London) a Euroweenie pantywaist anti-American and antiwar website? Note the telltale use of the leftist invented term "neo-cons" in the headline. The body of the article does reference "conservatives" which is, of course, the proper term and embraces the entire post-Neville Chamberlain conservative movement.

"Movement" is also a word with a meaning. When combined with the word "conservative", we define out the boozy, weepy, anti-war poetry sniffling frauds who call themselves "paleo-cons" when they are actually paleo-wimps. The use of either of the terms "neo-con" or "paleo-con" suggests that poetry-loving sob sister paleowimpery is some alternative form of conservatism when it is actually a form of ideological surrender on the installment plan to the leftist enemies of Western Civilization who live to genuflect before the enemies of the west.

[DixieOklahoma]

What they are doing is finding out how their massive voter fraud campaign didn't work and how to better fund it in 06 and 08. FYI they are planning on moving (voter fraud) investment dollars from already fraud filled states into red states.

[TChris]

At a meeting in San Francisco last month, the left-leaning billionaires agreed to commit an even larger sum over a longer period to building institutions to foster progressive ideas and people.

Far from being disillusioned by the defeat of John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate, the billionaires have resolved to invest further in the intellectual future of the left, one person involved said.

They had 95% of the Legacy Media on their side, 80-90% of public schools, colleges and universitiy faculty on their side, 95% of Hollywood on their side, and they still lost! Who's left to buy off?

[Dan from Michigan]

Time for another inside trading investigation of Mr. Soros.

[Nick Danger]

I think this is hilarious. They are basically admitting that the left has not had a new idea since Franklin Roosevelt died. So they need "think tanks" to come up with some.

They have all those leftist "professors" at all the universities, and it doesn't do 'em a bit of good.

So where are these billionaires going to get the Ph.D.s to staff their think tanks? I'll tell you where — from the same universities where the leftist Ph.D.s are now. These are the same zeroes who are having their clocks cleaned by the guys at Heritage, Cato, and AEI. Does Soros really believe that changing the name on their office doors is going to turn these leftist duds into geniuses? Good. Let him blow his money.

[shrinkermd]

IMHO these two aging liberals are making a big mistake. In the age of egalitarianism they are becoming highly visible as elites of the left.

Machiavelli said quite correctly that society is always ruled by elites and they are either "foxes" or "lions" in their method of rule. These two made their money by being foxes but seem to aspire to rule by being lions. Won't work.

In the meantime, Soros should know better. He studied with Karl Popper and has definite intellectual interests himself. Must have become more narcissistic than usual in his old age.

[Herakles]

“George Soros, who made his fortune in the hedge fund industry”

Let me explain this babble speak:

Soros made his money by crashing the currency of third world countries, destroying businesses and throwing families out in the street, taking food off the plates of children and cloths off their back and forcing many into crime to support themselves.

This is how GEORGY SOROS made his money – by destroying the economy of countries. This man is the embodiment of evil walking the earth.

When Soros was circumcised, they threw away the better part.

[jdege]

The intention is to provide the left with organisations in Washington that can match the heft of the rightwing think-tanks such as Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute.

The left already has think-tanks that far outstrip the right in funding, size, and influence.

The top think-tanks:

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research	Right
The Brookings Institution	Center-left
Cato Institute	Libertarian
Economic Policy Institute	Far-left
Electronic Privacy Information Center	Special interest
Freedom Forum	Left
The Heritage Foundation	Conservative
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace	Left
Hudson Institute	Center-right
Institute for Policy Studies	Far-left
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies	Far-left
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research	Center-right
Progressive Policy Institute	Radical-left
The Urban Institute	Center-Left
Worldwatch Institute	Radical-left

[satchmodog9]

bump

[jagrmeister]

Every leftist crackpot agrees that right-wing "think-tanks" are the cause of GOP success. I don't but it for a moment. Sure, Heritage Foundation and their like influence inside-the-Beltway deliberations. But rarely do their views filter down to the people. I hear repeatedly from the Left that conservative think-tank opinions are sought and reported in the press but I can't think of the last time I read a Heritage Foundation thinker quoted in the news. So I don't believe it. And I think this is another case of the Democratic Party buying its own BS and chasing down a rathole. The Democratic Party made a temporary resurgence with Clinton and New Democrats. In other words, by moving right. You can't spend enough money to make leftist (sorry: progressive) ideas popular.

[white trash redneck]

Good money after bad.