The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“intrusive government and layer upon layer of regulatory red tape. When” — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I actually never thought that Barack Obama was anything but a typical Democratic party politician, which to me meant that he was… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“America is no longer a country that cares about experts. In fact, it hates experts. If you can't fit a story into… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“After eighteen long months covering this dreary business, the whole campaign appears in my mind’s eye as one long, protracted scratch-fight over… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing;… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and sovereign governments to manage their debt, and the scale of… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
It's increasingly clear that governments, major corporations, banks, universities and other such bodies view the defense of their secrets as a desperate… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The mistake our politicians so often make with these industry leaders is in thinking they are interested in, or respectful of, the… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“[Obamacare] was almost the perfect example of politics in the Bubble Era, where the time horizon for anyone with real power is… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“But even though nobody from the government ever says anything out loud about a lack of evidence being the real reason nobody… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“In the elaborate con that is American electoral politics, the Republican voter has long been the easiest mark in the game, the… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“When the Crossfire paradigm loses its force, all that's left is a bunch of people with different views all sitting together in… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“Say as little as possible, hope some of the undecideds like your teeth better than the other guy’s—that’s usually the way this… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“A loose definition of the Tea Party might be fifteen million pissed-off white people sent chasing after Mexicans on Medicaid by the… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progressives, are being bled dry… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“But the ineffectiveness of “facts” didn’t stop there. The election of Trump was not just a political choice, a vote against minorities… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to keep from… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only thing that… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
It's really interesting that we've had this great Tea Party movement that is all about restoring free market capitalist values, but what they completely… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
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