Steve Schmidt Tells Rubio to F Himself

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81. What Americans need to unnerstand

about the Cheney/Leahy "F Bomb" incident is that the were arguing about Cheney's conflicts of interest. I fear few Americans remember Cheney's comment to the press when he "selected himself" to be vice president (look up the history), in response to a question on whether it was a bad idea to have a sitting vice president who was an in-and-out active CEO of petroleum and petroleum-related corporations. I.e. - conflict of interest. Cheney's reply: "who do you want running your energy policy, an outsider or an industry insider?" The result was the manufactured Iraq War II, launched to secure the oil supply of one of the biggest oil-producers in the world, a country that was created by American and British oil companies in the early 20th century in order to extract the oil from it (look up that history! Laurence of Arabia is a good place to start).

Here's the essential point: Cheney was voicing his philosophy, held by lots of current GOP pols, that corporations should be running our government. In the past 40 years the American left has tilted toward the idea that We the People should run the government, and that corporations should be subject to the will of The People's governance. These radical (yes) rw extremists, including Reagan and the core of the GOP ever since him, flip that on its head: they want corporations running the government, and the public being subservient to same.

I struggle with political history, it's a huge subject, but I think that closely mirror's Mussolini's definition of fascism. Can anyone verify that? If so - gee, didn't my Grandpas' (both of 'em) generation fight against that in WWII??