This nation's Democratic rule:

[truedelphi]

Take Democracy.

Roast it for a while.

Stick a Corporate-approved fork in it.

Demand that the middle incomed and the poor buy a fork of their own for 32,000% of the real cost of a fork.

Pronounce Democracy "Done!"

[Warpy]

1. Allow a moneyed minority to dictate through a procedural rule

and allow ourselves to be bullied out of using procedural rules to counter it.

That's what's killing us, right there, Reid's refusal either to suspend the filibuster until the GOP stops abusing it or telling them they need to get their fat asses onto the Senate floor and start talking.

Suspending the filibuster in a time of national emergency should be automatic, and if a system that kills 54,000 of us plus 200+ bills passed by the house that are being held up because some fat ass Republican is threatening to filibuster is not a national emergency, I'd hate to live through anything that is.

This is obscene.

[truedelphi]

7. + 1. n/t

[FiveGoodMen]

2. Yup. We have no representation at all.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. Not with being only 3% of liberals, no.

[truedelphi]

6. Pew Survey says that

32% of all Americans are Dems
28% (or perhaps fewer these days) are repugs.

And the remaining whopping majority of forty percent shows the real number indicating the rest of us, (minus maybe three percent as John Birchers or "Rapture is upon us" crowd)


All we are simply wanting is some honest, non-Corporate Person to take a stand that will support the middle class. Isn't that what we are paying them for, when they say they will represent us?

[Ozymanithrax]

3. You know Kucinich approves of this bill...

[truedelphi]

5. Iknow is is being rather petty, but the Kooch avatar is on its way out

He claims his was the deciding vote - and he gave up that vote without any meaningful quid pro quo?

Dennis, Dennis, Dennis, was a single plane ride on AF One worth it to you?

[Ozymanithrax]

8. Try Grayson, he supports the bill but may be able to do something

with his bill.

[truedelphi]

9. Perhaps good advice.

I am taking a week off from thinking about these F___ERs.

Grayson may be good, or may be bad. He didn't care one whit till he lost a great deal of his fortune to the vagaries of the Wall Street shenanigans. I mean, if you or I had passed him in the street six years ago, I am betting he'd have looked the other way.

[Ozymanithrax]

10. Good idea.

I think I will hang out in the Writers group for a while. This politics stuff is kicking my ass.

[BeFree]

11. Bullshit

Grayson's been fighting as a lawyer for years against corruption. If money was all he was after he wouldn't be in congress speaking for the little guys, he'd be the biggest sellout.

You need to take some time off, politics has kicked you in the head, it seems.

[truedelphi]

13. I definitely agree that politics has

made me feel rather kicked in the head.

Carlin was proven right again and again in the past year. We average people definitely are not in "the Club."

[Mari333]

12. he thinks the bill is a steaming pile of shit but voted for it in hopes

that he can work to get a PO into it later.

I think he is deluding himself.