Letters to the Editor
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This is your problem and it is easy to fix
usedtobekristen said:
I worked hard in Democratic campaigns in '06, believing that the Dems taking over Congress would make the difference.
The answer is to quit doing this crap. All you do is feed the beast. You help enable the criminality of our Government (top to bottom) by helping Democrats (or Republicans) win anything. Tirelessly working for Democrats IS tirelessly working for continued torture, abuse, secret prisons, gutting the Bill of Rights, and wars upon wars. Do you WANT to work for all this? If your answer is NO then you MUST NOT HELP EITHER PARTY "WIN" ANYTHING. I quit being a Democrat after being a faithful Democrat for 27 years (my entire voting life) this year. It took too long but I finally saw the Truth - that being a Democrat and voting Democrat does NOTHING to change ANYTHING. The Democrats and Republicans are two faces of the SAME COIN. The only difference between them are superficial surface design features - the coin remains one coin, however. NOTHING will change if you elect Democrats rather than Republicans except minor easy crap at the margins. The rich will STILL get richer at an accelerated rate, the environment will STILL be degraded to a greater or lessor degree but degrade it will, torture will continue apace, secret prisons will continue as will rendition (Bill Clinton, the holyman of the modern Dems, STARTED RENDITION. Bush merely pumped steroids into it...do you honestly think it will quit under Hillary?). I take great pleasure these days telling the money beggars from the Democrat party that they will never ever EVER receive so much as a penny from me ever again. I will not vote Democratic as a party - I may well vote for the occasional INDIVIDUAL who happens to be a Democrat but loyalty to any party? NOT A CHANCE. Both parties are corrupt beyond repair, as is our system. I just can't bring myself, yet, to totally opting out of it. Habit, I suppose.
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Retired Anchors, Free of Their Bonds
With nothing holding them down, I have noticed the two Big Chair anchors of yester-year drifting into new and previously un-charted territories. See: Koppel on Discovery, See: Dan Rather Fights Back. I watch these captains, newly loosed on the world of reporting with vengeance- and credibility, to boot!
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Democrats = Republicans
I have never worked for either party, except for a brief stint in college.
Why? I went to the College Republicans group on campus, and when I went to the first meeting, read their group constitution. It stated that the purpose of the group was to support and espouse the policies of the national party. When I asked what if the local group or students wanted different policies, the only response was a puzzled look.
I then went to the College Democrats, and found the same language in their group charter.
I have supported individual candidates I liked, often based on how much they have varied from the national consensus. But the parties--no.
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Thistle Stewards
Seed Saver Exchange has information about: ROGUING For Trueness-To-Type. Neocons are rogue crops of nasty seed.
Instead of sowing war thistles, and being a foolish barren, a cursed neocons (not even Frontier Herb Company will buy thistles or the laboring class/staff of any garden plot would NEVER attend a GOP funeral),...Oh, Ah!
SO- WHY?
How about planting garden sorrel!
Seed To Seed, by Suzanne Ashworth! Read.
Spend valuable time knowing and growing.
The offspring of a neocon will cry associated with lingage to such bad parental blood lines. A name change? What curses are the GOP's.
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@Kitt
“It made me wonder if some of this nonsense going on in Congress is about these isolated Congress People being truly without a clue, due to their being so isolated.”
I think that has more merit than the dark and extreme reasons others have listed. There is so much demand on a legislator’s time. It is nonstop without much chance to catch a breath. Staff, colleagues, constituents, media, lobbyists, experts, wives, children, grandchildren all compete for time with the people’s rep. The one that demands the most time is fund raising for the next election.
The rep is constantly asked for decisions- small and big. There isn’t time to slow down, read with comprehension and think clearly. Some do find the time, I suspect that most don’t.
I just keep coming back to the most basic problem- money. If the elections were funded by the government, that would free up time for better, relaxed thinking and most importantly, allow the rep to tell the money lobbyist to go to hell. The rep could concentrate on listening to facts, logic and reason when making such critical decisions.
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Joe Vecchio -- are bloggers really getting that rich?
Joe Vecchio says,
"A lot of these guys are doing pretty well already (Markos rakes in at least a million and a half a year in ad sales alone)"
I believe it was last year, Markos said his yearly income was in the mid 80's. For a family of four in the Bay area, that is middle-class, not wealthy. But I don't have any current information on his income and maybe you do.
At the hearings yesterday, Erik Prince, head of Blackwater, gave his income as well over 1 million, so even if Markos is making a that much, at least he is performing a valuable service, as opposed to Prince, who operates a paramilitary group that terrorizes the Iraqi population. And Markos, unlike Prince, is also not being paid out of taxpayer money!
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Sugarmanned
I assumed that was what happened given that every other post in this thread was not by him. Did that happen, or did the light come on in the empty room? Am I inviting calamity by merely asking?
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I'M NO LONGER A DEMOCRAT
Glenn's post today, brilliant as usual, has me thinking in angst about next year's elections. I have been long an advocate of Al Gore, but, as long as he stays out of the election, what are my choices? Hillary Clinton, she of nuanced positioning and harsh words for Iran? Barack Obama, he of thoughtful platitudes about wanting to be "non-political" in this take-no-prisoners political world? John Edwards, who speaks of "Two Americas," but still wants war with Iran? I agree with tempus, who suggests that there is really no difference between the parties. There is a difference: the Republicans have the balls to stand behind their extreme positions on everything from torture to anti-gay bashing to anti-women positions on abortion, etc. The Democrats don't stand for ANYTHING, and cave on every issue, especially torture, illegal wiretapping and rendition.