We the people MUST remove CONSERVATIVE/moderates from the Democratic Party.

“...it will only highlight the failure of the Democrats to live up to their heritage.”

And their rhetoric.

By PaulMagillSmith, July 18 at 3:59 am
““Let’s ‘frog march’ her out of Congress like she should have done the same for Cheney/Bush.”“
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Great idea and wish it would happen sooner than later but unless you live in her district and can motivate the voters to vote her out and make sure her mafia doesn’t ‘strong arm’ her competion out of the way like I read here somewhere cindy sheehan’s headquarters was attacked, looks like the bitch will break the age record for longevity in the house, she is a poster person of a traitor to this country, damn her to hell.

Maybe we need to scream a little louder. Like ... we all know what caused America’s crippling financial disaster!

And so does Nancy. And so do all the Congressional’s who want to see this commission created. And what’s more, not only do they all know, they all know we all know!

So who’s this for anyway? Is this some lame attempt to silence the right? Is there some notion that making this all public record will educate the folks who never pay attention? Maybe a better question is, does a dem Congress really have the gonads to actually, publicly blame this mess on eight years of Republican control? Or will the end result just be an effort to white-wash whatever responsibility some irresponsible dem might have played in creating the mess?

For goodness sake lets tell it like it is! Apologies to GOP apologists, but we all know Republican control got us into this mess! So-called Conservative love of power will keep us in this mess! And if we don’t grow the gonads necessary to call them out, in a very public way, they will keep right on working to make it worse ... if such a thing is possible!

In case nobodies noticed, the so-called right, in spite of their small numbers, still manage to throw shit in the pot, everytime someone tries to make a decent stew!

And amazingly, folks eagerly line up to get a taste of that shit-laced stew! And even more amazing the folks on the left and in the middle think the fruitcakes who love shit represent the rest of us! So, what’s wrong with this picture?

Maybe it’s time we quit repeating the lies, accepting the lies and eating the shit, and demand Nancy and all the other “leaders” over there, quit it!

How come they don’t? How come the voices of the fed-up aren’t getting through to them? How come the folks with a shit-load of shit in their mouths still control the conversation?

Because they have more money? Well from where I’m standing it looks like the folks on the right, who support the right are just as poor as me. Maybe it’s a mental problem. Maybe they think if they just go on swallowing shit, somehow great wealth will come out at the other end!

Or maybe the dems have been cleaning up conservative shit for so long they have become inured to it!

Maybe we need to force the folks who keep shitting on the floor to clean it up, maybe then they’ll stop! Oh, Oooops! That will never do, because then we run the risk of having them regain control, and then where would we be?

So I suppose in the final analysis we need to demand our Congress throw the bums who created this mess, and now play at fixing this mess, out of Washington DC! And it might be a good idea for President Obama to quit worrying about keeping the “right” happy by playing the “bipartisan” game and demand they clean up, or shut up! And it might be a good idea if he quit listening to the spoiled leftovers from Wall Street who control the Treasury, and start listening a little more intensely to we the people, because we want to see heads role ... in a figurative way of course.

Oh duh ... maybe that’s why rumblings about a commission are ... rumbling.

When Pelosi said, “Impeachment is off the table”, her true colors as a traitor to democracy & the American people shined bright & clear. I don’t give a rat’s ass if it is health care, stimulus, banking corruption, or whatever. What is more important than rooting out criminals from our government? Let’s ‘frog march’ her out of Congress like she should have done the same for Cheney/Bush.

By Russian Paul, July 17 at 4:20 am #
““That is truly a terrifying photo of Pelosi.”“
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Really. Seems she is trying to show how she can quell the masses or she will use some mystical powers to hypnotize her ‘captive’ audience.

Folktruther - voters must like the taste of bs, they keep swallowing the crap even when something decent is offered in its stead

And yet when she ran against Cindy Shehan in a progressive area of San Francisco, she got 80% of the votes.  that I don’t understand.

samosamo - my San Francisco mother says that Pelosi’s love is politics, period, and beyond that there’s not a helluvalot of anything else going on in her head.  Doesn’t excuse her but certainly explains her.

Felicity said: “(His face even took on a kind of moral/ethical glow as he spoke.)”

Felicity, I think you mistook that look for a bout of gas…

A few recent (yesterday) Paulson revelations - when he sold his Goldman shares because he had to when he took the job at Treasury in ‘06, he made a profit of $200 million and paid no income tax on it.  Why?  Because he was “forced” to sell, an answer that seemed to make perfect sense to him.  (His face even took on a kind of moral/ethical glow as he spoke.)

When asked why he decided that Buffet was to be paid 10% on every investment dollar he put into Goldman at the same time as he decided that we tax payers should be paid 4% on our dollars, Paulson said it was because Buffet didn’t “have” to invest but did so (apparently out of the ‘kindness’ of his heart?)

Pretty clear that Paulson (and his fellow money changers) never considered and never will consider the lowly tax payer/American citizen/American nation anything more than dupable, ignorant cash cows which are only kept around to fatten the fat asses on Wall Street.

“Very soon, congressional leaders are expected to announce the creation of a new commission to investigate the causes of America’s crippling financial disaster.”

ROFL!  This is another way of saying, ‘well, our Congresswhores need to get much needed sleep during session, sleep which they have lost due to their nights of carousing, drunkeness, drug fits, homosexual and extra-marital affairs, stealing, the arranging of bribes, etc. etc.

Please!  Why even bother?  Why the charade?  After all, it’s not as if they’re fooling anybody.

That is truly a terrifying photo of Pelosi.

Why anyone with any connection with Goldman Sachs could show their face on this commission is beyond me and all sense of propriety. Unless they’re a whistleblower of course, but I’m not holding my breath. Looks like just another 911 Commission, or Warren Commission, whitewash in the making to me.

Expending time and money on this so-called commission is a waste.  The answer to the question, what the hell went wrong and when did it happen are summed up rather well by - get it - Reagan’s own undersecretary of the treasury, Paul Craig Roberts.  His post “There’s Nothing Left to Recover -  What Economy” can and should be read in full at CounterPunch.org. Some of the relevant parts follow:

“There is no economy left to recover. The US manufacturing economy was lost to offshoring and free trade ideology. It was replaced by a mythical “New Economy.”

“The “New Economy” was based on services. Its artificial life was fed by the Federal Reserve’s artificially low interest rates, which produced a real estate bubble, and by “free market” financial deregulation, which unleashed financial gangsters to new heights of debt leverage and fraudulent financial products.”

“The US government’s budget is 50% in the red. That means half of every dollar the federal government spends must be borrowed or printed. Because of the worldwide debacle caused by Wall Street’s financial gangsterism, the world needs its own money and hasn’t $2 trillion annually to lend to Washington.”

“As dollars are printed, the growing supply adds to the pressure on the dollar’s role as reserve currency. Already America’s largest creditor, China, is admonishing Washington to protect China’s investment in US debt and lobbying for a new reserve currency to replace the dollar before it collapses. According to various reports, China is spending down its holdings of US dollars by acquiring gold and stocks of raw materials and energy.”

“Nothing in Presidents Bush and Obama’s economic policy addresses the real issues. Instead, Goldman Sachs was bailed out, more than once. As Eliot Spitzer said, the banks made a “bloody fortune” with US aid.”

“It was not the millions of now homeless homeowners who were bailed out. It was not the scant remains of American manufacturing—General Motors and Chrysler—that were bailed out. It was the Wall Street Banks.”

“This should tell even the most dimwitted patriot who “their” government represents.”

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached at: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

So if Pelousy and the democrats want to waste more money trying to determine what went wrong, first they should find a cheap mirror, look at it and maybe they will realize that “even the most dimwitted patriot” should know their government is not one of the people.  Folks it is a corporate state, a fascist state, and no commission of fools can honestly say otherwise!

I hope that the commission actually does its work. 
Phil Angelides as Chair has a history of real economics in his role as Treasurer of California. And, he was a member of the PERS board.
Beyond a report, the real measure will be to see if Congress does anything with the report. The could start by re-establishing Glass-Steagall.
the new regulations on finance capital proposed by the Obama Administration in June do not go nearly far enough to provide structural economic reform and to re-establish the 1933 rules under Glass-Steagall.  Without structural reform we will be back in this crisis again within a decade.
This has been a looting by the rich.  We need to throw a few hundred in jail to get their attention.

Pity that her constituency keeps on thinking they are re-electing a democrat from their district into the house of representatives because she, like obama, time after time, talks like a republican and walks like a republican.

I will NEVER forget her stepping up, at the speed of light, to ‘hide’ w & dick from impeachment and then last year giving that piece of shit speech on the first bailout and how it did not provide oversight, regulation, supervision or tranparency so it should not be voted for by the house even though she had voted for it and a week later it was passed, I guess when it gave geithner more leverage to help his wall street buddies.

So what we have here is a true neoconservative republican still trying to hide behind a democrat skirt and not just being a blue dog, AND she is one that needs to be impeached.

And just when I had eliminated Pelosi from my mind, this!  The bubbling decay that is Washington cannot address our needs, nor will they.  Forget them.  They are nothing more than America’s cesspool.

Anyone that has been paying attention, does know what has happened.  Congress deregulated believing the lies of lobbyists that the rules and regulations were hampering “business” ability to “do business”!  Congress along with Presidents since Reagan have installed people in the regulatory agencies that not only didn’t believe in enforcing the laws but looked the other way even as they knew the “Corporate Oligarchy” were committing serious offenses against the American people, Congress underfunded many of the regulatory agencies responsible for oversite of these corporations, and avarice got in the way! 

When Reagan fired the Air Traffic Controllers because they went on strike, that was a silent nod to big business that it was an all out war on the average worker!  This “trend” continued, and when Clinton aided by Larry Summers and Robert Rubin set out for the “lawful” thievery that has become Wall Street what we’ve got is our current debacle!  Oh, let us not forget good ole Bernie Maddoff who was in charge of the stock market, and the go to guy for financial regulations!  Unless this commission is (a) INDEPENDENT and willing to ask serious questions, (b)armed with subpoena powers, (c)can put people in jail for intent to defraud, and treason against the American people - and Congress is willing to go along with the results, (d) and Congress is really going to grow a pair and write serious legislation to stop these crooks and their shenanigans - there is no need to waste more money on lies and insults to people’s intelligence!

The “heritage” of the Democratic party is quite recent.  It dates back to 1992 and Bill Clinton.  The Democratic party before that is dead and buried . . . buried deep.  The heritage of the Clinton/Obama Democratic party is deceit and the color of money.

Many people think that all the capitalist class has to do is to hire some political leaders to get up on their hind legs and lie to the American people.  No, it is much more complicated than that.  they have to form Truth Commissions like the Warren Comminssion, or the 9/11 Commission, to inspire the mainstream truth of the learned and mass media.  Pelosi here is merely following precident, always allowing for the political and economic decay of the American polity historically.

The House is not a home.  The political whores in the House cannot tell those home truths that are such heart warmers to the American people, because they are so contemptable to the population.  So they have to try to find some Responsible power figure who still has some shred of integrity left.  This is not easy to do, and the seach for truthers who will tell us lies that are credible will no doubt be an extensive one.  I can hardly wait.

In 1907, T. Roosevelt called people of great wealth “malefactors.”  Any so-called commission should begin its investigation from that assumption (and then try to find any exceptions?)

I heard Eliot Spitzer this morn and judging by his telling-it-like-it-really-is-this-morning (beginning with unemployment is actually at 20%), he should head the commission.

I also have to echo some of the comments here that government malfeasance along with outright fraud committed by the financial sector have been recognized on this side of the Belt Way for years.

This is typical and what makes about 90% of the democrats and non-voters that would be democrats disgusted with politics in general. Allow me brief explanation.

The republicans own all the MSM, and control most of the wealth in the United States.
Bu the way when talking about the United States you are talking about approximately 100 billionaires, 10,000,000 millionaires and 290,000,000 people that do not count. They are viewed as working peasant, leaches, have no money or inclination to make meaningful political contribution and can be easily manipulated by the MSM combined with the Christian church.

Which leads into the main point, we no longer live in a democracy.  We simply live in a make-believe “two-party” system that is controlled by the oil/industrial cartels which actually goes beyond the definition of a fascist state, into some-type of oligarchy only concerned about creating more wealth and power for themselves and “to hell” with 97% of America (about half vote republican) and to “double hell” with the rest of the world.

Any freedom loving, liberty loving, justice loving American that is aware of what goes on must despise the system, but most are powerless or more importantly made to believe they are powerless to make meaningful change, so we sit here and write trite blogs. 
ps..there are a few demcrats that try to make a difference, which is why I support the party…

The classic way for government to do nothing about a problem is to form a commission to investigate it. If its a bi-partisan commission they will spend lots of time and money arguing about who to blame.

The American people already know who to blame, you… for being the stooges of the plutocracy.

Like a man who jumped out of an Airplane without a parachute, investigating his reasons for jumping, a little soul searching never hurts, but it’s not going to prevent him from hitting bottom with a loud splat.

Wouldn’t it be better congresswomen Pelosi, to do something about the financial crisis, instead of observing and taking notes for later discussion? Before we go splat, not after.

Congress is not about to bite the hand that feeds them. Why, who’d stuff those brown envelopes inside the congressional desk drawers? Every last congressional creeper is bought and paid for with Pelosi being at the top of their food chain. Wall Street is safe. Welcome to the Amerikan Kleptocracy.