More from Mother Jones about the fight for FreedomWorks. (Guns weren’t scary enough, so they broke out the lawyers.)
Do.
I can’t hear “Dick Armey” without thinking of Marilyn Manson’s line about it sounding like the name of a gay bar.
This happened at least 10 years ago, and probably a lot longer.
My best friend, who worked in politics for about 15 years, told me, in 2002, that every good political operative has two options:
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work for the Dems, or for the better liberal causes, and know you’re making the world better
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work for the Repubs, or especially the nastier conservative causes (like the big tobacco lobby), and get PAID. PAID as in, probably about 3-4 times as much money.
He said this in 2002, and I’ve guessing this has been true since AT LEAST the late 80s, if not earlier.
There’s just a whooooooole lot more money on one side of the equation. It’s just not even close.
Oviously, think tank staffers need to be armed to defend themselves against such invasions.
Doesn’t the chairman need a quorum or something?
If it were muskets, that would have a certain degree of cool.
It was* going *to be the name of Andy Dick’s fan club, but that would require someone no one likes to have fans.
It seems like the only person who really lost anything here was Stephenson. For everybody else, it was a win. Armey got money, the fired staffers got their jobs back, and the tea partiers got control of their group.
Ain’t FreedomWorks the loser here, if it has to pay Armey $8 million to go away?
If he’s got 13 in the mag and 1 in the pipe, he’s got a fucking quorum. You unnerstand what I’m a sayin’? Cause you know, it’d be a shame if we wuz unable to find some ground which is common. People break. Happens alla’ time. I’m just sayin’ is all.
Regards,
-BouncerWithTheFedora-
Nah, in most cases there are topical creams that will make it shrink without that procedure.
Max Bialystok: NEVER PUT YOUR OWN MONEY IN THE SHOW!
So this is embarrassing… apparently there are two journalists at WaPo named Amy Gardner. This one was not written by my friend. I emailed the other Amy Gardner, but no response yet.