Categorizing Right Wing Think Tanks/Political Organizations

[Sandpiper]

I'll get it started:

Cato Institute = Corporate Shills

American Heritage Institute = Corporate Shills

Focus on the Family = Religious Nuts


Who else?

[blondeatlast]

1. TAX-EXEMPT political machines. TAX-EXEMPT political machines.

TAX-EXEMPT political machines.




(In case you couldn't tell, I have a small distaste for their TAX-EXEMPT status...)

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2. Heritage Foundation: Rich elitists finding new ways to screw you

and make you THINK you like it.

[WilliamPitt]

3. New category: Dangerous and Influential Beyond All Reckoning

http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2005/2/23/143437/815

[blondeatlast]

6. Holy shit. There are some seriously scary movers and shakers there.

That truly frightens me...

(snip)
Bringing together the two strains of the far right gave the CNP enormous leverage. The group, for example, could pick a candidate for public office and ply him or her with individual donations and PAC money from its well-endowed, business wing.

The goals of the CNP, then, are similarly two-pronged. Activists like Norquist, who once said he wanted to shrink the federal government to a size where it could be drowned in a bathtub, are drawn to the group for its exaltation of unfettered capitalism, hostility toward social-service spending and low (or no) tax ideology.

Dramatically scaling back the size of the federal government and abolishing the last remnants of the New Deal may be one goal of the CNP, but many of the foot soldiers of the Religious Right sign on for a different crusade: a desire to remake America in a Christian fundamentalist image.

Since 1981, CNP members have worked assiduously to pack government bodies with ultra-conservative lawmakers who agree that the nation needs a major shift to the right economically and socially. They rail against popular culture and progressive lawmakers, calling them the culprits of the nation's moral decay. Laws must be passed and enforced, the group argues, that will bring organized prayer back to the public schools, outlaw abortion, prevent gays from achieving full civil rights and fund private religious schools with tax funds.
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[Warpy]

4. Eagle Forum = woman hating corporate shills

Concerned Women for America = woman hating corporate shills

[peacetalksforall]

8. International Women's Forum - sister group to the Federalist Society.

Council of National Policy
Council for National Policy

Townhall

And yes, for many of them, they survive nicely - you pay for them.

[Beacho]

5. I was wondering when the CNP would come back into the light

I first learned of this group nthe late eighties.

They need to be exposed as much as possible. They are the source from which all rivers of right muck flow.

Americans United article on the CNP

[blondeatlast]

7. Any ideas? I'm willing to do what I can.

CNP is the government and the people need to know NOW.

This is the first I've heard of them but this is HUGE.

Edit: I'm sitting here thinking of their "nondescript" offices. I would LOVE to see some DC area activists have a peaceful gathering outside of them, with signs indicating that "the US government is HERE," or words to that effect. Nothing big--tweak people's and the press's interest and see where it goes.