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I'll say it again: The Democrats are the new Republicans.
Change of corporate parties, and change of the guy sitting in the White House means very litttle without a partisan agenda.
Can we all agree that there is too much money in Politics and find a way to pass a Constitutional amendment that says "Money does not equal free speech"? (Of course, this concoction came from a Nixon appointee to the Supreme Court.)
I do not believe that our government was founded on the principle that the rich and powerful should have a greater level of freedoms, such as freedom of speech, than the less powerful.
When Barack Obama decided to forsake public financing, which is something that he used to believe in, and when he signed on to the FISA bill, he was telling us all what level of change that we should expect from an Obama administration. There should be no surprises.
