Margaret Thatcher, drinking your milkshake (source)by Gaius PubliusI had a different piece set up for the next few days, revolving around a recent interview by Noam Chomsky (which Howie wrote about here) that touches on our so-called "capitalism" and also on the Bernie Sanders candidacy.
When Trump mentioned that he thought grasping, greed-driven hedge-fund managers and banksters should pay their fair share of taxes, the grasping, greed-driven hedge-fund managers and banksters doubled down on sabotaging his campaign. They are getting slime-ball lobbyists, like Grover Norquist and the Club for Growth, to "work on" the congressmembers the banksters own or rent.
OMG, Martin Ritt's film adaptation of John Le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold turns 50 this year. Can it really be that long since the days when British spy Alec Leamas (played in the film by Richard Burton) crossed into the German Democratic Republic to burrow his way into the dreaded Stasi?
Tomorrow is election day in New York. Reform-minded Democrats are threatening to do the impossible: upend the career of a very powerful conservative Governor, Andrew Cuomo but defeating him and his handpicked right-wing candidate for Lieutenant Gov., banking lobbyist Kathy Hochul. Cuomo-Hochul represent all the worst of an Establishment that has treated the public with disdain and contempt.
Whether Huntsman was the one who revealed that multimillionaire GOP tax cheat Mitt Romney paid no taxes at all for years, what we do know for sure is that for the years he did pay something his rate was 13.9%, considerably less than the 35% the very rich are supposed to pay.
