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80 liberals each pledge $1 million for alliance
Houston Chronicle ^ | 8-7-2005 | THOMAS B. EDSALL

Posted on 08/07/2005 9:16:15 AM PDT by visagoth

Edited on 08/07/2005 9:26:36 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

WASHINGTON - At least 80 wealthy liberals have pledged to contribute at least $1 million each to fund a network of think tanks and advocacy groups, to compete with the potent conservative infrastructure built up during the last three decades.


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To: Cyber Liberty

Same thing I thought of. This will be as effective as ACT and Air America all rolled into one!

"After 6 months, our liberal think tank has determined how to end war and poverty forever. IMPEACH BUSH!!!!"


61 posted on 08/07/2005 10:45:12 AM PDT by flashbunny (Always remember to bring a towel!)
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To: visagoth

OMG! Rove is like a TOTAL GENIUS! This is even more wizard than that ACT scam! This is his best idea since Air America! Matched only by sending that bloviating that a$$hole to Niger and making him think it was his wife's idea!


62 posted on 08/07/2005 10:45:44 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Lonesome's First Law: Whenever anyone says it's not about the money, it's about the money.)
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To: visagoth
Let's take a close look at this! Liberals with money? Liberals spend other peoples' money not their own. The liberals who actually have money are liberals only because of some guilt and them seldom means "guilty enough to spend their own money."

I don't believe you'll find 80 liberals willing to pledge $200K eaxh for five years. Maybe, union leaders, spending some one else's money; maybe, foundaton/501(c)(3) heads spending tax free foundation/501(c)(3) money; or, maybe, left wing PACs. But, writing their own checks against their own accounts, I just don't see 80 folks. They'll get a lot of IOUs, letters of committment and vague promises, but money, new money, I don't see it.

63 posted on 08/07/2005 10:46:30 AM PDT by Tacis ("Democrats - The Party of Traitors, Treachery and Treason!")
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To: visagoth

I would argue that common sense would dictate a 1% chance of dishonesty to be "beyond a reasonable doubt".

Thanks to this nit-wit that sick perv is free to victimize more children.

Nice going lady!


64 posted on 08/07/2005 11:25:05 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Life is too short to go through it clenched of sphincter and void of humor - it's okay to laugh.)
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To: CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
I've always been amused how the least democratic countries name themselves. Peoples' Republic of China...... German Democratic Republic(East Germany)... Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)... Republic of Cuba. Anytime left-wingers desecrate words like freedom and democratic it turns my stomach!!

William F. Buckley (IIRC) wrote a piece once about how Communists choose country names that bear absolutely NO resemblance to reality. They are NOT accountable to the People. They aren't close to being Democratic. They aren't republics. The 'rats don't need Lackoff (rhymes with). They just need Lenin and his new anti-American "friends."

65 posted on 08/07/2005 12:01:47 PM PDT by CDB
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To: visagoth
Talk about 'limousine liberals'.
66 posted on 08/07/2005 12:08:19 PM PDT by M. Espinola ( Freedom is never free)
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To: visagoth

I would like their names & addresses so I can get them to participate in my Nigerian scam...I mean money making venture.


67 posted on 08/07/2005 12:10:58 PM PDT by Feiny (Practice random and senseless acts.)
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To: visagoth; All

Maybe they should pay off the money Err America owes the children and alzheimer's patients, first.


Is there a list of these 80 people/corporations yet?

when there is we need to have a ping list for follow-up....

sure won't buy a product from one of these lame-brains...imagine what a million bucks could do locally,....

Any FReeper have Progressive Insurance? ZOT!


68 posted on 08/07/2005 12:57:29 PM PDT by bitt ('We will all soon reap what the ignorant are now sowing.' Victor Davis Hanson)
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To: visagoth

It's a mystery why such obviousely successful Capitalists would contribute so much to fund the agenda of the rabid anti-capitalists.


69 posted on 08/07/2005 6:05:11 PM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (Respecting liberal democrats requires contempt for every thing respectable.)
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To: visagoth
These should be called: Feel Tanks

A new term for Gay Bathhouses ;)

70 posted on 08/07/2005 7:25:05 PM PDT by Shazbot29 (Light a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day; light him on fire, he'll be warm the rest of his life)
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To: visagoth
"The Democracy Alliance will act as a financial clearing house. Its staff and board of directors will develop a list of established and proposed groups they think will develop and promote ideas on the left. "

Does it cost $80 Million to do a Google search now?

71 posted on 08/07/2005 7:35:30 PM PDT by bayourod (Winning elections is the only thing. Those who glorify losing are unclear on the subject of democrac)
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To: visagoth

What the media should point out, if there were any objectivity about this, is that left-liberals already have a couple of thousand such "think tanks" dedicated to what they call their 'progressive' agenda for the left.... they're called 'universities' and 'colleges' and there are a few thousand of them, nearly all with a strongly left-liberal bent, and nearly all with numerous departments of faculty members devoted to propogating so-called 'progressive' ideas to the next generation.

No, what the left lacks is not funding or "think tank" institutions devoted to leftist propaganda, it's sound ideas and rational arguments based upon facts and good evidence. Let them pour their millions down these new drainholes -- it won't do them any more good than did "Americans Coming Together" which burned through $200 million in just a couple of years.


72 posted on 08/07/2005 7:43:26 PM PDT by Enchante (Kerry's mere nuisances: Marine Barracks '83, WTC '93, Khobar Towers, Embassy Bombs '98, USS Cole!!!)
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To: visagoth

yeah, just like they promised to move to Canada if Bush got re-elected, riiiiiight....


73 posted on 08/08/2005 12:47:43 PM PDT by Rakkasan1 (DON'T BICKER, DRINK LIQUOR-DON'T THINK, JUST DRINK.)
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