Get rid of the Supremes as well!

This is too rich! Corporations can now buy elections (is this new?) With this latest court ruling, corporate right -wing extremist, activist justices have overturned precedent and 100 years of settled law. The Supreme Court, originally not supposed to rule on whether laws are constitutional or not (thank you Chief Justice Marshall);now rule. Yet another branch of government that is not responsive to the needs of the people. Get rid of them!

While we're still at it, abolish the filibuster and the Senate as well. Not only can a minority of Senators filibuster a bill to death, not only is the senate an unrepresentative body where the Senator from Montana (750,000 population) has an equal voice with the senator from California (38 million population); not only do senators act as paid shills for the mighty corporations that truly run this country; not only that these senators are millionaires many times over; not only were they put in the Constitution to stop the will of the majority--these folks, are, for the ,most part vapid, soulless creatures.

While we're at it--might as well abolish the Senate--have a unicameral legislature like Nebraska, with only a house of representatives. Rich folks are afraid of popular rule but they need it for their own good because our empire is going down with their continued misrule!

Get rid of the filibuster;get rid of the Senate!

Not only can a minority of Senators filibuster a bill to death, not only is the senate an unrepresentative body where the Senator from Montana (750,000 population) has an equal voice with the senator from California (38 million population); not only do senators act as paid shills for the mighty corporations that truly run this country; not only that these senators are millionaires many times over; not only were they put in the Constitution to stop the will of the majority--these folks, are, for the ,most part vapid, soulless creatures.

My solution--abolish the Senate--have a unicameral legislature like Nebraska, with only a house of representatives. Rich folks are afraid of popular rule but they need it for their own good because our empire is going down with their continued misrule!

Stamping out evil the Obama way

Sounds like Obama is revving up for the long, endless war--the one to end evil in the world. Good luck Mr. President! Obama will show those Republicans! He can morph into a Cheney, a Bush, whoever. But wait a minute--those guys failed--they didn't stamp out evil, they provided a role model and then encouraged it.

So now, we will connect the dots. Half a million people on a no-fly list--we will know their every movement. A billion Muslims in the world- we now know who you are.

If we didn't have the Democratic vs. Republican dynamic could we create a sensible policy in regard to evil or, as we prefer, the Muslim evil? Maybe we're wrong trying to stamp out evil , maybe we're not the shining city on the hill, maybe we should look into our own souls and not try to rule the world--after all, it's a big job and many of our betters have failed at it.

Coakley vs. Brown in Massachusetts

Martha Coakley is dull and boring, just what you would expect from a DA. Plus, she ran a charisma-less, lackluster campaign. Dems in Mass had a chance to support Rep. Capuano, a far more exciting and left of center figure, but they went for Coakley instead. Obama's health care reform is dragging down her numbers. Women were her strongest suit. Hopefully they will come out en masse for her.

Of course, Obama and his so-called health reform bill has been a disaster. Enough people are unhappy with it. He should have stayed with a jobs program. After all, if you had to choose one, what would you prefer--a job or health care?

Rebuild Haiti!

Turn Haiti into a model country! Get the world's best thinkers, builders, planners, etc. to create a country that has an economy, trees, rebar structures, trade unhampered by the IMF and the World Bank--i.e. allow it to protect (tariff) it's commodities.
Empower it's people to run the place--not the wealthy who run/ruin the place now. Bringing back Aristide(too populist for the US) would be a good first step.
Of course it will take tons on money. Since France and the US worked hard to enfeeble the country (Jefferson was afraid that the slave revolts in Haiti would encourage the slaves to revolt in the US so he punished the Haitians, as did France, as did Rush Limbaugh)--it is only right that these countries help build a new self-sustaining Haiti!

Wall Street Crime of the Century

The Wall Street Crime of the Century was repackaging junk, getting the rating agencies to relabel it as AAA and then selling it as gold. Old story--buy cheap ,sell dear--with the added element of fraud. Obama never pursued the Crime of the Century. He was, sad to say, part of the cover-up--by putting Summers and Geithner in place-he put Wall Street's lobbyists on his team.

And you can't blame the Crime solely on Bush's efforts at deregulation. Bill Clinton signed the damned deregulation bill, Summers and Rubin were his henchmen.

We have a 2 party system here but they both are subservient to Wall Street.