CNN: Ryan flying to Vegas to meet with Adelson on Tuesday

[Ruby the Liberal]

@PeterHambyCNN: Paul Ryan heading to Vegas on Tuesday, will be at Sheldon Adelson's Venetian resort.

Guess he is scraping before the throne before talking to actual voters, noting that this shouldn't be construed as black money PAC message coordination or anything. Yay Citizens United!

[warrior1]

1. and to kiss his ring.

[Buns_of_Fire]

10. ...and, of course, to kiss whatever else may be required.

[Justice wanted]

12. beat me to it.

[benld74]

24. same here, beat me to it,

IS this where the theme from the godfather begins playing?

[cantbeserious]

2. Here Comes Another Billion Dollars In Anti-Obama Advertising

eom

[emulatorloo]

4. "Obama is Destroying Medicare"

Gonna be nonstop Projection 101 from here on out.

See

Priebus: Obama Is ‘Stealing’ From Seniors And Has ‘Blood On His Hands’
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021116751

[cantbeserious]

9. That Message and Worse

eom

[marmar]

3. "I pledge myself...to your teachings...to the ways of the Sith."

[Scuba]

5. Rim Job!

[nevergiveup]

6. ain't that perfect......boy meets sugar daddy

[berni_mccoy]

7. Eddie Munster flies home to kiss the hand of the Volturi

Vampires all.

[malaise]

8. Isn't Adelson in trouble withDOJ already?

ReTHUGs are one shameless bunch

[2pooped2pop]

11. isn't that y Alelson is banking the farm on Williard?

buying his way clear of probable felonies? There is a law that needs to be rewritten for him. Rmoney is his boy.

[malaise]

13. The crooks have taken over

Sometimes I wonder if I'm not watching a movie

[2pooped2pop]

15. I know.

We could write a book eh? It could have everything that has happened or is happening with only minor name changes and it would still be science fiction or fiction. Certainly not reality.
Unbelievable

[canuckledragger]

26. Not such a bad idea really..

& if it gets popular, come right out in the open & tell everyone what it was REALLY based on.

Might wake a few people up.

Later editions (once the secret is out) can start with a preamble:

"...this is NOT a work of fiction..."

telling people what you did & why

[ProSense]

14. This Adelson:

Israel: Romney, Walking Gaffe-Man, Insults America's Mid-East Allies
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021035856

Feds Probe Adelson’s Casino for Money Laundering Activities
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021074096

POW! NYT Slams Mitt (Embracing Sheldon Adelson)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021086943

NJDC responds to Adelson suit over prostitution story: “We...will not be bullied...not be silenced.”
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021095452

[Ruby the Liberal]

16. Adelson suing Jewish group for $60m for defamation

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021095588

He didn't like da jews at da NJDC looking into the Macau issue. Love their response you linked.

[BlueStreak]

17. You would think in this age of robotics

a puppetmaster could run his puppets at a greater distance. We can control a rover on the surface of Maars, but Adelson has to have his boy right in front of him??

[flamingdem]

18. Is that before or after he meets with David Koch?

Little Eddie is busy kissing rear, that's for sure

[IggleDoer]

19. Let's cut Ayn Ryan a break here ...

... At least he's willing to talk to a senior citizen one on one.

[Nevernose]

21. Adelson's also a union buster

In the same vein as Walker or Michelle Rhee.

[zeemike]

23. And if he is a casino owner in Vegas

He also has ties to the mob...no one operates in their territory without their acceptance.

[Nevernose]

36. But the mob isn't the mob anymore

FWIW, the mob isn't the mob anymore. I know mobsters, or knew, actual, honest-to-goodness leg-breaking Italians. If you have access to Lexis Nexus, you can find that their last great hang-out was a fast food joint at DI and Pecos and know I'm not bullshitting you. They're still around to collect casino debts (casinos were the first to utilize facial recognition), but the organized crime these days is on Wall Street.

I don't mean figuratively, either: they realized a long time ago that extorting pizza shop owners wasn't as lucrative as extorting 1%ers, and that organized sports betting wasn't as good as Wall Street betting. I knew a guy whose entire job was going into boardroms of major NY financial firms, distributing pictures of the board members' families at school or the gym, and saying, "Now give me a million dollars." Organized crime has moved so far beyond what anyone expects; personally, I think of Wall Street as the mafia in the forties, still able to deny culpability and about twenty years before serious prosecution begins.

[zeemike]

39. And you are right.

The mob long ago went mainstream...even back in the 30s and 40s they moved into legitimate businesses...and especially gambling in places like Havana which they owned until Castro kicked them out...then they used their political power to move to Vegas...

and sometime after the War...which gave them the political power they fused with government and politics and made themselves legal and in control.

[Iliyah]

22. Well we already know where Adelson's loyalties

lie and it ain't with America!

[nradisic]

25. remind him to bring his knee pads...

LMAO!

[part man all 86]

27. How low can they go?

It is a race to the bottom and they are dragging us and the world down with them. I hear their choir singing 'Praise satan, the god of the lowest'.

[RagAss]

28. Yes...they are the human manifestation of Lucifer.

[grasswire]

29. I think they are going to roll Romney

The power will exist in Ryan and his backers. Rom will have to do their bidding.

[xxqqqzme]

30. I'm surprised

the vp selection wasn't cleared w/ the buyer before the announcement.

[Odin2005]

31. Kow-towing to his real masters.

[DippyDem]

32. No wonder his classmates voted him BIGGEST BROWN-NOSER n't

[McCamy Taylor]

33. Gotta get the appproval of the guy who launders the illegal money.

There should be a law against anyone associated with gambling donating money---it is much too easy for criminals--like Mexican drug lords to "lose" a lot of money at a casino that then gets funneled to the candidate who will do their bidding. Same for illegal contributions from China.

[DonRedwood]

34. Most disgusting thing I've seen online today

And that is saying a lot... I just watched a video of that horrible looking penis snake..

But it says a lot that his first official bit of business is going to kiss the ass of their savior. Does his flight have a layover so he can give the Koch brother's asses a few kisses as well?

[patrice]

35. A marriage: The perfect economy, Gambling, for the perfect banking system. Really reduces ...

the overhead of having too many people around to take care of with the perfect for-profit "health" "care" system.

Just like Cheney, you can have whatever you want, if you can pay for it.

[davidpdx]

37. He has to pledge his eternal love for Adelson

Just like he did for the Koch brothers. Romney/Ryan selling their souls to the devil.

[LadyHawkAZ]

38. I can hear the sucking sound

and smell the brownnosing all the way up here.