It is time to ask the Big Question: Is the Democratic Process still functional in the United States?  I need a strong argument “for” if I am to believe once again.

BOTH parties are owned by the bankers. Face it. Help is not going to come within the 2 party system.
Let’s hope it can still somehow come within a democratic process.

If the Dims don’t dump Obama in a primary challenge its going to disappear as a
political party.  Obama is not in the center he’s on the far right, he’s so far right he can’t
even be considered a Dinocat anymore. He’s just another Rethuglican..

What a shocker! White bred ivy leagues Obama who lets the corporate interests lead him around by the raisins chooses a banker. Let’s call up the Inquirer.

Well, why the Hell not? Jamie Dimon is already on the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. They may as well have another executive in the White House.

Meanwhile, JP Moragn has effectively cornered the copper market, and their massive naked short position on silver is an effective control on the value of the dollar. JP Morgan’s position in the precious metals market was “inherited” with their “absorption” of Bear Stearns. Of course, all of the bad assets that bankrupted Bear are sitting in a Federal Reserve shell company known as Maiden Lane. JPM got to pick and choose what assets they wanted, and which ones they didn’t. You can thank Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke for that.

So, who really controls the country?

Obama: joined Bush to bail the banks that they may
continue their depredations upon the rest of us;
expanded Afghanistan—immolating American thugs and
Afghan patriots to be re-elected and show himself all
manned-up for the Repubs; continues Iraq; continues
Gitmo; fails to prosecute the war criminals of the
previous administration, making his own even more
complicit in their crimes; dithers about
foreclosures; expands Bagram, where Afghans and
others may be tortured to death by the CIA without
any oversight; expands drone attacks whereby American
“heroes” annihilate the wedding parties of innocent
(“terrorist”) Afghans by flipping a switch at Nelson
AFB; makes sure meaningful health care reform will
NOT occur; bails the companies who then coolly
outsource more jobs; takes direction from BP;  makes
certain real banking reform will not get Citibank’s
panties in a twist; and assures the rich that they
need not pay their fair share for the privileges
they’ve derived from american society and law.. In
short, Obama joins the powerful in making sure this
crisis reduces plain Americans to the peonage the
powerful want. No more unions, no more living wages—
just the workers in their place, happy to be wage
slaves.

Why be surprised that Obama continues to show allegiance to the financial community that paid for his campaign and continues to enrich his party’s coffers? What has occurred to force him to rethink his path? Record losses in the mid term election? Trivial when the money continues to roll in.

Unless and until the people vehemently express their opinions on the war, on the economy, on health care, our politicians will continue to do what their masters tell them to do. The twenty eight million folks who chose not to vote this last election possibly believed that they were making an effective protest. They weren’t. Silence is far too easily ignored.