(2010/02/24) Don't complain, you could buy an election too if you wanted (Supreme Court) (MP3)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 24 February 2010
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Edition #336
Don't complain, you could buy an election too if you wanted
Act 1: Who owns our politicians - Young Turks
Act 2: Corporate free speech - Colbert Report
Act 3: Jeffery Toobin on purchasing courts Part 1 - Moyer's Journal
Act 4: Dealing with the Supreme Court decision - New Yorker's Political Scene
Act 5: Jeffery Toobin on purchasing courts Part 2 - Moyer's Journal
Act 6: Obama getting his fight back - Rachel Maddow
Act 7: Buying the bench - Moyers' Journal
Act 8: Americans hate corporate money in elections - Young Turks
Act 9: The Word - Prece-Don't - Colbert Report
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The Supreme Court's Five Circus Midgets - Ring of Fire
Music:
We could be friends - Freelance Whales
Ne Me Quitte Pas - Regina Spektor
Bigmouth strikes again - The Smiths
If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out - Cat Stevens
Nothing better - The Postal Service
Where's my mind - The Pixies
Turn this boat around - Matt & Kim
Messages - Xavier Rudd
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by no one other than the members of the best of the left podcast for details on membership |
| 0:05.9 | Visit the membership tab at best of the left calm now welcome to the award-winning best of the left podcast with clips today |
| 0:12.5 | From the young Turks the Colbert rapport Bill Moyer's journal the political scene from the New Yorker and the Rachel Maddo show |
| 0:20.1 | The bonus clip for today for our iPhone app users is from Ring of Fire |
| 0:30.0 | So what's the central problem in Washington? |
| 0:32.2 | It's that it's not the Democrats. It's not the Republicans and a lot of people think hey, you know what they're about you know |
| 0:37.8 | There used to be kind of 60 Democrats now there are 59 if you count |
| 0:42.2 | Lieverman and there's |
| 0:43.7 | 41 Republicans, right? So the roughly speaking the Democrats are 59 41 in advantage |
| 0:49.0 | But that's actually not true at all |
| 0:51.0 | Because Democratic party. Let's say about 60 of them, right? |
| 0:55.3 | Who have are broken up into actually three camps? |
| 0:58.9 | One camp is you know fairly good progressives some are real strong progressives some are you know |
| 1:05.9 | We'll vary on issues and sometimes they if they're gonna lose a vote |
| 1:10.3 | They'll take the campaign money anyway, etc |
| 1:13.4 | But they're pretty good progressives about 20 of them, right? |
| 1:16.8 | 20 of them are in the middle |
| 1:18.8 | Their hearts in the right place they want to vote progressive if you put enough pressure on them |
| 1:24.0 | They will or they might okay, but if it looks like there's any trouble at all then they'll take the campaign cash |
| 1:30.3 | Right and then the third the last third of the Democrats are not progressives at all |
| 1:36.1 | They pretend to be progressives. They campaigners progressives. They tell the voters. Oh, I'm on your side |
| 1:42.0 | I'm for the little guy, but they got no intention. They're actually Republicans now you can say no, that's not really entirely true |
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