Thom Hartmann: Time to End FL Gov. Rick Scott's Tea Party Experiment

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7. Not 'buying elections.' Buying media time, the message. The voters fall for it. Not classic bribery,

unless one calls television advertising time bribery. I think its not even the ads, although in the weeks before the election, that is significant. It's the year round script that sets the atmosphere for voters to either work for the GOP or if not GOP, stay home. Elections are not just at the time we vote. The GOP runs a permanent campaign that never ends. It's a lot easier for them to do that daily, taking long vacations from Congress, doing their brainstorming at private venues, while the Democrats are busy trying to make things work so they don't have the time to campaign all year long. It's the main difference between the two parties, one is up there doing their job for the people the other is taking time off to do their job for the plutocrats. In neither case is it bribery as favors granted to people doing their job. It's an entirely different way of life at odds with each other, as the GOP represent private interests in all things as they work to hand all government functions over to them.