How much would it cost to buy the loyalty of Dems in Congress?

[yurbud]

DC is a whorehouse. We thought we got a virgin just because we picked the whore with fewer open sores and that she would be faithful to us.

Maybe it's time to cut the dewy eyed idealism about them and talk to them the way corporate people do: what's your price? What's it going to take to make me your exclusive customer and buy your undying loyalty?

The price will be pretty steep. For some senators, it could be into the hundreds of millions for a lifetime of lobbying, CEO, and trustee jobs they will have to pass up to work for us.

Now that I think about it, they would probably take our money and STILL see other customers.

[dsa]

1. are you starting the collection?

i'll chip in my dewy eyed idealism and the contents of my piggy bank.

[az chela]

2. I think you are closer to the truth then any of us care to admit!!!

We have been been sold out

[Skidmore]

3. It should only cost a vote, and that is the message the

corrupt ones should get. You act in the peoples' interest, or you don't get the votes no matter how many decades you've been in DC. These are ELECTED OFFICES, not inherited titles or entitlements. Quit sending dynasties there and rewarding poor performance.

[yurbud]

5. look at effort to remove Lieberman--and the result

business wanted him, Democrats didn't, so they skirted all the rules to keep him in.

Look at the treatment he got compared to true independents like Ralph Nader or other greens.

[Screwfly]

4. No voting block

has pockets deep enough to buy the loyalty of the politicians in Washington. If the multinational corporations can't buy political influence, they'll use blackmail, assassination, economic warfare, or whatever it takes to get what they want.

At this point the population is pretty much at the mercy of big business; we can't stage a run on the banks because every body owns the banks money, a nation wide strike wouldn't do any good because they would just replace the strikers with foreign scabs, and boycotting military service wouldn’t work either since their puppets in congress would reinstate the draft in heart beat if it came down to it.

I think the American people are fucked.

[yurbud]

6. we need to figure out how they did it in South America

where they had decades of literal dictatorship and death squads to shake off.

[spotbird]

7. I just called my rep and senators dc offices

it's a waste of time, but I don't want them to think they are voting their constituency as they betray the world.

[Le Taz Hot]

8. Revolution is

cheaper and more honest. :hippie:

[yurbud]

9. it's getting closer--when independents and people who think they are moderate

get mad, we'll be there.

[yurbud]

10. you would think rust belt workers would be heading to DC with pitchforks when "trade agreements" are

in the news again.

[mmonk]

11. We evidently don't have enough.