06/23/05

As that great American, Deep Throat, never said, 'Follow the money.' (The line is by William Goldman, who wrote the movie, 'All the President's Men'). Keeping your eye on the shell with the pea under it is not easy when the right-wing echo chamber continually takes up new chapters in the culture wars -- the dread case of the senator who didn't, in fact, say the United States is as bad as the late Soviet Union and the equally grave perennial constitutional amendment to prevent the menace of flag desecration. Meanwhile, largely unnoticed and unreported, the drumbeat of giveaways to big corporations continues: unnecessary tax breaks for the undeserving, more green lights for the rampant exploitation of the environment, and all manner of theft and skullduggery...

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=19248

from Working for Change, by Molly Ivins -- Hat Tip to Tom Paine


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp