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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Sunday, April 27, 2025

Observercast

Billionaires Crap Out In 2012 Elections

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER They came. They spent! Then, they limped home, tails between their legs. [OK, they didn’t limp; they were flown home on their private Gulfstream jets. But still, their tails were tucked down in the defeat mode.] “They” are the far-right corporate billionaire extremists who tried to become America’s presidential kingmakers this year. Unleashed by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United edict allowing unlimited sums of cash in our elections, they spewed an ocean […]

Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton became editor of The Observer in September 2006. Previously, he served nearly two decades as the Dallas Morning News’ Oklahoma Bureau chief. He also covered government and politics for the San Jose Mercury News, the Dallas Times Herald, the Tulsa Tribune and the Oklahoma Journal.