I am damn sure that the CEOs of BP didn’t believe

the Democrat vote was a wasted vote.

I doubt all the war contractors believe the

Democrat vote was a wasted vote.  But I would bet

all the cripples , orphans, widows, widowers, in

Pakistan, Afghanisitan, and Iraq believe it was a

wasted vote.

How superficial can one get—premising an article on the idea that the only honest politician is a politician who fears for his/her re-election. “If I don’t do what my constituents want, I won’t get re-elected,” presuming politicians care about constituents.
 
And probablyay not cynical enough to be truthful.  How about ... “If I don’t collect enough corporate money to buy big media time, I won’t get elected. And if I then don’t do what the corps want, I won’t get relected?”  More like, huh?

Do politicians want campaign financing reform?  No.
Do corporations want campaign financing reform? No.
Do people want campaign financinc reform?  Not enough to make it happen.

Ellis,
Dividing people into less-valued and more-valued is the root of all ills on social level.
It was probably done by priest-rulers and later by king-rulers who were regarded as either gods or sons of gods.

While ratio of ‘good’ or more godly people to ‘bad’ people in akkad or egypt ca 5k yrs ago may have been one [or less]to 100, it is now in US more like 10 good-godly people in US to 90 ‘stupidos’.

Add to this numbers the fact that the self-chosen people of today are thousands upon thousands of time stronger econo-militarily than king gods of the past, and one obtains a clear picture of astounding grip on power by this minority of people.

And ab 98% of americans who voted for the self-chosen people have not espied this fact.
But once they do there will be changes. Either desirable change or bloodshed? Let us hope sanity prevails in US! bozh, thanks!

All our Murkin ‘elites’ are insolent.

They do not, as their counterparts in other parts of
the world do, possess any native wariness of the
people. Our elites do not have bred in them the
cautions that arise from guillotines and firing squads
and the furious mob raging for, and then playing morbid
catch with, their heads.

It is the gravest failing of our whole system…

It had been said that morality is not reality. As i understand this statement, it deceives and people who have invented it possibly deceiving deliberately.

I base my opininon on following fact: nature is infinitely valued; we are part of that nature; ergo, we are also infinitely valued.

But we do lessen evil acts of nature and in some lands even lessen or obviate some evil acts by humans.
So, it does not follow that because we are part of nature and morality thus being reality, that we cannot do less evil.

Morality consists of our feelings which are as real as a rock. And many of our feelings are desirable.
How we feel depends also on quality of education. An enlightening education surely wld further make us feel better towards self, others, and nature.

Alas, priestly-politico ‘education’ over the last 10k yrs had always been ab deluding people.
So,its up to parents to warn their children ab what priestly-political-educational people in US are up to: to semanticly enslave; and for a lifetime. 

Since,in US, pavlovian training appears controled by media-schooling-plutocrats,we need to find other ways to get to the kids before the ogrish THEM do.

A political party [or parties] accomplishes that the best. That’s why most european lands have more than two parties.
As far as i know, finns, danes, norwegians, greeks, et al are by far less enslaved than americans.

And it is not their fault; for what happens to an american cld have happened to me! tnx

Samson!  I agree with you.  I am unable to stomach Sirota’s articles. 

We need radical journalists that write the future of what Americans really want.  This faux examination of what’s wrong gets us no where.  Imagine an article that describes how to actually get financial reform, health care for all, education for all, election reform,  quality, quality, quality for all.  Imagine an article that describes how if neither the Dems or Repubs want to get us to that new future, how we organize and sign up for a new party that will.  Hell a viral youtube video inviting people to sign up for a new party that actually stands by its platform…would probably do it.  Make sure every 16, 17 and 18 year old see it. ANd make sure they vote.  Stop listening to anything the Dems or the Repubs.  They are running our future and our Now into sheer Hell.

The problem is continuing to vote Dem…when the Dems are the new Republicans and the Republicans are the Neo-cons.  That’s the problem.  Both Dems and Repubs are for war…what’s the difference?  Both Dems and Repubs are for leaving no CEO behind…what’s the difference?  Both the Dems and Repubs are royally screwing We the people…what’s the difference?  None.  We the people have NO representation.  Why the hell is this Health care reform being pushed if 75% of AMericans do not want it? 

We need a strong third party like never before that actually pushes a platform of pro-peace pro-people.

Is it the Greens?  If not, then who?

Obama’s overall theme, in all of his campaign
speeches was to get the outside corporate interest
away from the decision making.

Every, every, speech he gave

I would like to see Obama have the gonads to stand
up to just one of these money interests.
Like open up Cuba.

Score great political points but loose money from
Florida.

Let the right wing demonize him for it.
The public in the last two federal elections gave
the Democrats unprecedent support and their still
more concerned with a tea bag.

Anyway , it’s the right thing to do !!!

If the money is ever taken out of politics (or at least controlled) and the candidates are given free air time on prime time television to have their say, then we might have some hope for real change.

Till those changes happen we live in a Corporatocracy, and unfortunately some of those corporate interests make lots of money on war materials, and selling riot gear to foreign governments for the protection of small groups of elites and their exploitation of cheap (foreign to us) labor.

myxzptlk said:  “... the challenge is how to keep pressure on unprincipled politicians, after the election is over.”
  This may be a key to getting our democracy back.
The relatively few times when I have actually paid a visit to my Congressperson, sat down in his office for a face-to-face, I felt I was doing something important enough to deserve the time, thought and energy.  The visits were sometimes backed up with phone calls and/or letters, and with letters on the same subjects to local newspapers.  If the guy held a public meeting, I tried to be there, and if necessary to speak up.  In addition, twenty or thirty of us picketed in front of his office on occasions.  He got to know who we represented, and it had an effect in forming his stands.
  I doubt that it influenced his campaign contribution taking from local war corporatons—but if it had been continued and grown into a movement it might have succeeded in “liberalizing” him to some extent.
  There are groups to join who do this as a matter of course, and joining others is more effective.
  This is not a fast way to change, admittedly. It’s slow and steady and requires continuous local cooperation to remind reps and sens of “the people’s” demands. It is sadly missing everywhere—except from people like the tea-baggers. Regrettably, their voices are louder than ours right now.
  It’s not just the corporate money that keeps reps and sens pro-military, pro-business.  It’s the continuous presence of demands on them from military and business interests, and from the right wing. 
  At times like this, when things get so completely out of balance, it means liberal people must find ways to break their silence.  There are millions of us and only a handful of them. And justice is on our side.  We do not “deserve” to be homeless, health-care-less, ignorant,  uninformed and scared—unless we let it happen. And if we are comfortable, we owe it in the name of justice to speak up for others.

It is impossible ain’t it John?  It seems your
overall messages are about morality. We all know
what is right and what is wrong we just continue
to call black, white….everyday…...
(except many good bloggers on this site)...

America is the best example of how you can keep
repeating the same lies over and over and over
again until they become the truth.

We imprison in Iraq , Iranian citizens over there
helping them restructure the government with no
charges, no habeus, no lawyer and wonder why they
imprison some hikers who illegally crossed their
border.  Why wouldn’t Iran believe these young people
were spying as much money as we spend to destablize
their government.
And just what were these young intelligent ,
educated hikers doing in that part of the world,
that close to the border, a war going on in Afgan,
hostilities galore with Iran?
A sunday stroll through the woods , Huh?
they didn’t have any idea of political landscape
they were hiking and want my sympathy.

Which leads people like JOE SIX PACk BIDEN
make rediculous statements like he did yesterday.
“we will always have bullets for those citizens of
Iraq”

They have a really good screw on us don’t they?/

If Feingold, Sanders and a few other Dems protest
military spending,  The Dems that have the power
know they can get the additional votes from the Pubs.

So there is no way the Dems can even protest within
their own party.

Nobody, not one Senator has started a public debate
on how turn our economy from being so dependent
upon the military complex and their wars.
Our whole economy is dependent on this destruction.
There are so many jobs a stake, we can’t.
But to survive, we HAVE to turn this around REAL
QUICK.  Like now. And not one Senator is leading
a national debate to bring public awareness to this
position that most Americans don’t even realize.
If we brought all the troops home it would be exposed
real quick.
Sad fact, all those professing they want change,
are not willing to face that our whole economy is
dependent on the manufacture and usery of weapons,
and if they are, are not willing to make the sacrifices it would take to change our system of
economy that lets us eat but brings hell on others.

If you want to understand what’s wrong here, just listen to David Sirota.

Every election campaign, he’ll tell you how wonderful the Democrats are and how we should all line up to vote for them.  In this piece, he’s touting how progressive the awful, pro-corporate Bennett has become. 

Of course, once Bennett gets re-elected, Sirota will publish a few pieces between elections about how he’s not doing the right thing.

But the problem is that if you listen to the David Sirota’s of the world, you stay trapped in this bad choice that says an awful pro-war, pro-corporate Democrat is slightly less evil than a Republican, so you have no choice but to support more pro-war, pro-corporate Senators who will then block every progressive idea from ever becoming a reality.

What a Democrat political operative like Sirota will never do is to tell you to give up on the corporate Dems and leave that pro-war party that believes in a government of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations as long as the corporations keep Democrat campaign coffers filled so they can then create rock-star images for their lying candidates and con people that they are really progressive. 

And of course, that corporate money also needs to keep flowing to political operatives like Sirota.  Don’t ever count on him biting the hand that feeds him.  Even if that’s exactly what the rest of us need to do to try to get our country back.

Bush and Obama turning over our Intelligence
agencies to private industry..

Just as Capitol has become nothing but pimps,
so has our media….yet for the most part we still
lock and step with it.

Fellow Americans,  I don’t believe we really
deserve universal health care right now !!!!!!!

We souround Iran with destruction on all sides
and wonder why they are showing beligerance.

We funnel money and lots of it to distablize their
government and wonder why they are cracking down
on opposition.

We install a military base somewhere overseas,
after awhile, when we have wrecked the social structue,  the community becomes nothing but a big
whore house to service U.S. military.  Which starts
resistance to their government for letting us there.

I used to have to watch sailors and marines in
Subic Bay throw pennies into SHIT RIVER so they could
get a laugh at the young boys retrieving them out
of the sewage ,  then go buy them a 14 year old girl
for the night that their father had to sell to put
food on the table.

We succeeded in destablizing Pakistan, probably
had our hands in the death of Butto.

We have made Afganistan worse than it ever was
under Russian occupation !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This health care debate has become just what the
Immigration bill was a few years ago,  a big
diversion using an issue that raises hackles.

Any bill they have to haggle and rangle and talk and
talk about and have summit afer summit, is not worth
having.

We have been programed to think only what these wars
are costing us, (not even enouth of that) the Iraqi
people are going to need health care to recover from
what we have inflicted on them forever.. Birth defects, shock, depression, wheel chairs, caskets,
homelessness, and on and on and on

We don’t deserve health care !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For letting the ones that have complete control of
our country take it over,  I don’t even know if
we americans even deserve health care right now.
Sprinkling bombs all over the world, they don’t have
enough doctors for all the misery we are pouring
down in the Middle and Near East.
We let them destroy our public education systems,
our food sources,  energy supplies, everything to
promote our throw away garbage society.
We blame Mexicans, Arabs, Muslims, Chinese, the poor,
and anything else we can to keep the finger pointing
outward.
BRING ALL OUT TROOPS HOME,,,THEN LETS TALK SOME
HEALTH CARE !!!!!!

In CO, Bennett will forget every populist word he’s saying now as soon as he wins the primary.

And since Romanoff is another one of these Democrats that has very little history of being progressive when he held powerful offices like state speaker of the house, to me he’s another one of these fake Democrats who suddenly becomes a left-wing populist when its primary time. 

See Obama 2007-08 for a recent example of how this works.  Compare all his fake-lefty positions that he took then to con Democrats into voting for him.  This has now obviously become the standard playbook for lying Democrats.

My guess is that if either one wins the Senate seat, you won’t hear another populist word out of either of them for the next 5 1/2 years.

The good news is that the Green Party seems nearly certain to also have a candidate in this CO Senate race.  If anyone on this list is interested, look for us in the St. Paddy’s day parade sporting our green.    We’d love to have a big crowd!

I like the title.

And the left needs to be making a lot of incumbent Democrats very nervous.  The way to do that is to be organizing left-ish independent campaigns in the general elections that run strong pro-peace, pro-single-payer health care campaigns that threaten to take our votes back from the lying Democrats.

We need to shelve this health coverage bill for a
while, everyone would be better off since it probably
won’t cover the ones that need it anyway.
It’s pretty obvious whats going on, it is nothing
more than the good guy ,bad guy routine once again
while we get screwed.

Right now , Americans should concentrate on immediatly stopping the wars and bring our troops
home.  I know it will further the unemployment figures, but they will reflect the realism of where
we are.  We are really floundering.  We are by far
the world’s largest debtor nation.  Our aggression
has become more of an employment system than any
war on terror.  It never was a war on terror.

Biden is wrong, our military leaders are wrong,
Bush was wrong and Obama is wrong.  We need to get
out of Iraq right now, leave them alone, we have
done way to much damage to that nation already just
so we may drive.  We are living a myth and and a lie.
We have been for years.
Our social structure and infastructure are shot,
we need a lot of reflection of who we are, what
changes we really want,  very few are specifying
what changes we really need.

myxzptlk,
Like your post. One possible suggestion: enact legislation such that lobbyists are pushed further and further from the political process. Maybe to the point of extinction. As long as a politician can leave office and get a job lobbying for Corporate America (hello Tom Daschle!), they’ll never have to worry about representing the people who elect them.

When I saw the title of David’s column, I immediately thought of Bennett. 

When Bennett first took over Salazar’s Senate seat, he was anti-public option and
seemed destined to be yet another corporatist shill in that body.  But as soon as
Romanoff declared, he became an overnight populist.

The worst part of this situation is that, IMO, Romanoff would be much more
accountable to the citizens of Colorado (based on his track record), yet Bennett is
scoring points with Progressives and might sway some of them to reward his
recent behavior.

All of this proves David’s point, but the challenge is how to keep pressure on
unprincipled politicians, after the election is over.

But both wings of the uncle’s party have full monopoly of truth when they agree to kill innocent ‘aliens’.
They both also have the truth; the whole truth, so help me god, ab basic human rights, such as the right to health care, free education, to be informed not being rights.

Both wings have the truth that only ab 1% of americans shld rule america. They both stand for the principle that one who owns the place has the right to solely run that place.

That works ?fine in a cafe or work place, but not when one owns 99% of a country. This only works well for the one percent of the people but poorly for ab 80-90% of the rest of the pop. tnx