Hrebendorf, you don't get it....

NO BILL REACHES THE HOUSE FLOOR FOR A VOTE WITHOUT HOUSE LEADERSHIP APPROVAL.

There will be nothing to vote ON if Pelosi can be forced to NOT BRING THE BILL FORWARD.

However, if Pelosi and the rest of these corporate whores wind up shoving this down our throats, I'm leaving immediately for Washington DC....I hope hundreds of thousands follow...

Posted at June 19, 2008 1:36 PM in response to Lawmakers Reach Deal Over Government Surveillance Powers

Obama's number is overwhelmed and cannot take any more messages either. I tried for 15 minutes and was unable to speak with a live operator or leave a message....

THAT is grass roots!

Posted at June 19, 2008 1:33 PM in response to Lawmakers Reach Deal Over Government Surveillance Powers

Screw You Dodd....you should do something about credit companies charging 29.9% APR because some farking Utility company sent a 143 dollar late bill to collections.

You fucking assholes suck..every goddam one of you.

Posted at June 18, 2008 1:11 PM in response to Dodd Thought "VIP" Status was "Just A Courtesy"

7 more months? HA!

Just wait for the undefined declaration of a national emergency followed by an unpublicized declaration of martial law.

We are thoroughly screwed. They did it. "Mission Accomplished" indeed.

The United States is no longer a democratically elected representative Republic. George Bush and the "secret executive order" have enabled the corporate statists to destroy what was left of our constitutionally defined government.

Posted at May 1, 2008 10:17 AM in response to Today's Must Read

Given the amount of public discourse Yoo has already participated in, frankly..I'm amazed he's still breathing.

Posted at April 23, 2008 3:27 PM in response to Yoo: Justice Department Won't Let Me Talk

I see the trend towards citizen's economic disenfranchisement as going on for about 120 years or more.

Back to the 1880's when the corporation as citizen with constitutional protections first began to surface in regards to Rail Road companies.

Somewhat after this occurred, Unions began taking off and made some significant inroads to protecting citizens from corporate abuses in the name of profit. Miners paid a particularly high price for this small victory.

But then the globalists won again when the Federal Reserve was instituted early in the 20th century. This laid the ground work for the debt based economy we know today. And profits soared for a decade and a half, until the Black Monday crash.

We foundered as a nation for a bit, then FDR's works programs began to have an impact. Unions took off again and as the work place exploded into production to support WWII, the American worker knew their greatest expansion of wealth that had ever occured. Union's became extremely powerful during this period.

Union corruption, just like corporate corruption, began to unravel the gains the American worker had made. And the pendulum began to swing the other way again.

When Nixon disengaged the dollar from the gold standard, it effectively turned the dollar into a promissory note, in other words, a debt with no real asset backing int, and this further strengthened the Federal Reserves control over our economy.

The pendulum swing of workers rights on one side and corporate rights on the other has been ongoing for a long long time. But for every stride forward that citizens made, every return swing has favored corporations just a little bit more.

The loosening of media ownership restrictions and bank lending regulations has further ensured that debt loads on the average citizen will increase while realtime pertinent news and information becomes filtered through a corporate owned looking glass, helping to keep the masses, more or less, uninformed.

Today, we appear to have a financial model which favors profit over citizen. A debt based economic model conveniently called trickle down by the Reagenaites and Chicago schoolers, in which the only thing that consistently trickles down is debt load.

The American citizen today, is pretty much treated as a potential profit center, and until very recently, pretty much unable to have their voice heard ABOVE the corporate lobbyists, by their elected representatives in Washington.

The blogosphere has the ability to change all of that. It's impact in gaining the ears of our elected representatives has already been noted. It's ability to disseminate news and information which is never covered via the corporate owned Main Stream Media has proven invaluable.

Josh Marsall, Glenn Greenwald, John Amato, Digby, Brad Friedman, Nouriel Roubini, these people are the modern day heroes, without their astute observations and lust for truth, we wouldn't even be having this discussion today.

This is the "Network" as it should be, and we, as the citizenry MUST stand up, go to the window and shout at the tops of our lungs..WE AR MAD AS HELL, AND WE AREN'T GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!

Corporations...OUT of GOVERNMENT NOW!

Posted at April 8, 2008 8:48 AM in response to Response to Barbara

"As NRCC Chair Tom Cole (R-OK) puts it, "the evidence we have today indicates we have been deceived and betrayed for a number of years by a highly respected and trusted individual."

Good. Now the asshole knows how WE feel.

Jackass.

I hope this hurts real bad.....

Posted at March 13, 2008 9:13 PM in response to NRCC Audit: Aide May Have Stolen "Hundreds of Thousands"

I suspect he will not get anything in public...but most likely a cushy job with the RNC

Posted at February 2, 2008 6:00 AM in response to Wisconsin Senate Votes to Reimburse Prosecuted Aide