Koch Bros Helped By Ear Marks From Tea Party Congressman

Freshman Congressman Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) appears to be paying back the right wing billionaire Koch Brothers through earmarks. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur explains.

Read more here from Nick Lyell at Republic Report: http://www.republicreport.org/2012/mu...

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[Relugus]

In a true free-market system companies would be barred from any government aid, and politicians would be barred from receiving any corporate donations. The only way to stop politicians being bought is to make it illegal to "buy" them.

[ChingChongCification]

it's not crony capitalism. it's capitalism period. the system's always been crony. nothing new under the sun.

[wjksea]

Freshman Congressman Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) is a whore and a traitor. He should be called to justice for betraying the american people as a phony public servant who serves a private monarchy.

[missyouhoo]

That dislike bar is smaller than Mick Mulvaney penis

[emberescence]

Koch is pronounced COOK not COKE.... lol

[Jossa81]

Yeah, and he just gave an example of how it was corrupted on some of the worst intentions. You just agreed with him yet said he didn't know what he was talking about at the same time. I'm pretty sure you have a future in politics if you want it.

[tstruss912]

" Libertarianism is the communism of the Right: Good on paper, a failure in reality. "

100% correct

[Mark Bradley]

Who told you unions aren't allowed in libertarianism? The whole point is people doing whatever the fuck they want as long as they aren't infringing on other people's rights. Unions don't play an important role in libertarianism, but you're more than free to start a union. And a politician has no way of busting unions in libertarian utopia either. In neo-con world (Obama included), unions get busted. And the founding fathers were pretty much libertarians (classical liberalism).

[Depsypher]

There's no way for a union to exist in a Libertarian Utopia because it doesn't exist.

That is the biggest flaw in your theory. Libertarianism is the communism of the Right: Good on paper, a failure in reality. It depends too much on the good will of people. The Founding Fathers did not believe in trusting people, that is why the US works. The more that outside forces can co-opt the system that the Constitution put in place, the worse things get. The word corporation is not in the Constitution.

[Mark Bradley]

That's certainly possible, and I do like thinking on different layers...but this guy also worked for the CBC (Canadian state owned station) and the Russian government got him fired when they found out he worked there. Or maybe the KGB got what they wanted out of the CBC lol, who knows? Either way I think that video makes a lot of sense.

[Depsypher]

The USSR's techniques on brainwashing are fascinating, though 1985 was a quarter of a century ago. Times have changed. Even then, this guy calls Mondale a benevolent dictator. Isn't that suspect? Maybe he is an agent sent in as a subversive. The KGB were light years ahead of the CIA in counter-intelligence.

I would say it is far more probable that whomever you are listening to, aside from this oldtimer example, is also propaganda. 'Triumph of the Will' was used more by the Allies than Hitler.