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Brain -> The Tea Party's Phony Populism - West Virginia Mine Explosion: CEO Tried To "Buy" Supreme Court Judg (4/16/2010 8:16:29 PM)
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The Teabaggers just like killing and robbing Americans for their own benefit. Meet The Teabagger Who Killed the Coal Miners - Blankenship
These men were not simply victims of an industrial "accident" or an act of God. They were killed by the reckless indifference of a greedy and callous mine owner named Don Blankenship, who is the principal owner of Massey Energy, and--you will not be surprised to learn--a big financial supporter of the Tea Party and the rabidly righteous U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Blankenship is a Wall Street Journal editorial page capitalist who believes that any amount of regulation and unionization is the first step to a Communist state, that all corporate taxes are evil, and that the safety of his workers is far less important than the "competitiveness of American industry,"
West Virginia Mine Explosion: CEO Tried To "Buy" Supreme Court Judge - VIDEO
In 2004, Blankenship threatened to shoot and then physically assaulted an ABC reporter attempting to interview him about the case.
Don Blankenship's attempt to "buy" a supreme court judge was the basis for John Grisham's novel, The Appeal.
Remarkably, four Supreme Court justices dissented, essentially finding that paying $3 million to purchase a hand-picked West Virginia Supreme Court justice to overturn a negative verdict is constitutionally acceptable. In fact, Justice Roberts disagreed that Massey's conduct was even an "extreme case."
http://kansascity.injuryboard.com/wrongful-death/west-virginia-mine-explosion-ceo-tried-to-buy-supreme-court-judge.aspx?googleid=280122
The Tea Party's Phony Populism
A new New York Times poll shows Tea Partiers are grumpy, older, well-off Americans who think white people are oppressed--in other words, Republicans.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-04-15/the-tea-partys-fake-populism/?cid=hp:exc
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