What can i say . I know it is raining outside. In year the sun is shining. I joked on twitter that the Atlantic Council one that think tank lottery because when we planned this event, i have a feeling they would not meet the deadline of march 31 for some sort of political understanding or framework. Indeed, i was right. We are the first think tank in washington to be able to discuss the historic event that happened in switzerland. I am delighted. I am barbarously van and i coordinate the Enron Task Force and the Atlantic Council. I ask you to check out our website. We have a new statement that is out that includes esteemed individuals. A lot of foreignpolicy experts and Nuclear Experts. Of course, all of you, by now have read some of the details of this agreement. We will look at it in more detail and specificity. Theres plenty of skepticism out there from israel and to some of the arab states across the persian gulf, and certainly from congress about the nature of what was agreed to i
In power. You think youre untouchable. What would americas founders think of todays washington, d. C. s overlord. Thats our show tonight. Its election season, and this year i keep hearing that voters are angry. President obamas Approval Rating is way down and approval of congress is even lower. It almost makes me feel sorry for our overlords in congress. Theyre all going to lose their jobs. Voters will vote in new representatives. Except they wont. Voters almost never throw the overlords out. Remember what was called the bloodbath election of 94. Republicans took back the house. Time magazine calls it a g. O. P. Stampede. Peter said voters were like two years old throwing a tantrum. In the bloodbath of 9 4 90 percent of congress was reelected. Heres a chart of reelection rates. See any trend there . I dont. The election rate never drops below 85 percent. And 98 percent is not unusual. Once in washington, the overlords are almost never pushed out. This year reporters say it will be diff
In power. You think youre untouchable. What would americas founders think of todays washington, d. C. s overlord. Thats our show tonight. Its election season, and this year i keep hearing that voters are angry. President obamas Approval Rating is way down and approval of congress is even lower. It almost makes me feel sorry for our overlords in congress. Theyre all going to lose their jobs. Voters will vote in new representatives. Except they wont. Voters almost never throw the overlords out. Remember what was called the bloodbath election of 94. Republicans took back the house. Time magazine calls it a g. O. P. Stampede. Peter said voters were like two years old throwing a tantrum. In the bloodbath of 9 4 90 percent of congress was reelected. Heres a chart of reelection rates. See any trend there . I dont. The election rate never drops below 85 percent. And 98 percent is not unusual. Once in washington, the overlords are almost never pushed out. This year reporters say it will be diff
In power. You think youre untouchable. What would americas founders think of todays washington, d. C. s overlord. Thats our show tonight. Its election season, and this year i keep hearing that voters are angry. President obamas Approval Rating is way down and approval of congress is even lower. It almost makes me feel sorry for our overlords in congress. Theyre all going to lose their jobs. Voters will vote in new representatives. Except they wont. Voters almost never throw the overlords out. Remember what was called the bloodbath election of 94. Republicans took back the house. Time magazine calls it a g. O. P. Stampede. Peter said voters were like two years old throwing a tantrum. In the bloodbath of 9 4 90 percent of congress was reelected. Heres a chart of reelection rates. See any trend there . I dont. The election rate never drops below 85 percent. And 98 percent is not unusual. Once in washington, the overlords are almost never pushed out. This year reporters say it will be diff
Contributions, an enormous number which is dwarfed by the number spent. We have the coke brothers who are today, as a family, worth 80 billion. Who have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on political campaigns and setting up think tapgs and, in fact, are doing that in this election, as well. According to the Washington Post and the center for responsive politics. The coke brothers. Where does the coke brothers get their money . They are a fossil fuel industry. They have invested 407 million in the 2012 political election. That money is clearly dwarfed by the amount of money coming in from the fossil fuel industry. I find it remarkable that some have expressed their deep concern for the lowincome and the elderly. I would remind the people of this country that these are the same folks whose compassion and love of lowincome people prevents them from working to raise the minimum raise so people can have a living wage. Allows them to make massive cuts in the Liheap Program which provide