The Robert's court has today decided that corporations have more of a right to free speech than you do. Sad day for democracy.
This decision was bigger than the Dread Scott decision. The Dread Scott decision lead to the Civil War, this one will lead to the end of democracy and possibly the dissolution of the union. George W. Bush though his proxy Chief Justice Roberts has accomplished his ultimate goal and cemented his place in history as the worst president ever, at least in foreign history books, ours will be written by corporations with a vested interest.
Oh you think I am an alarmist? Communism cannot exist in a vacuum without checks and balances and that has been proven by its failure, neither can Capitalism. As of today our political system is wholly owned by corporate interests. No politician will dare stand up against the swell of money that will surely be put against him if he dares stand up to the corporate gods.
Where does that leave you, us, the little people? We are just pawns. Our jobs will continue to be out sourced, until we agree to work for Indian wages. We will have cities like Latin America, the rich living behind guarded walls and the vast majority living on starvation wages. You doubt me? Tell me about it in ten years. This is undoubtedly the end of America
I am not proud to say that the ACLU was a party to this decision, who despite demonizing from the right has defended all sorts of right wing idiots in free speech cases, of which this was one. Everyone is entitled to be wrong every now and then, but nobody should ever be this wrong.
Friday, January 22, 2010
A note on Lieberman, call me anti-semetic, like calling me gay, I am not, so I don't care.
A lot has been made of Lieberman being the Aetna Senator and why not, he surely knows where his toast is buttered. But above all Lieberman is all about Lieberman or the Likud Party in Israel which one takes precedence I cannot tell. I would argue he is more a member of Likud than the US senate.
Last year President Obama demanded that the Israeli government cease all settlements in the West Bank so that a permanent peace agreement would be possible. Wow, now that was a departure from our non ending appeasement to Israeli demands and maybe a final breakthrough that would lead to a peace deal. At the time I thought if he could actually make his demands stick, Obama was a bigger man than we bargained for, but I doubted he had the moxie to make his demand stick. Sure enough less than two month later the Israelis thumbed their nose at him with the help of our Israeli bought and paid for congress, if you do not know what I mean, I am sorry I do not have the time to explain it today. But the short version is we give Israel 4 billion dollars cash a year in foreign assistance and a chunk of that makes it back into the campaigns of Israel friendly office seekers. You are paying for our system to be corrupted by a foreign government. In any case back to the subject, since that ultimatum the Likud government has been working to undermine our president. They have determined that the weaker our president is at home the weaker he will be to make demands on them, and they are right.
When Jim DeMint announced,"Healthcare will be Obama's Waterloo." he was not far off. A defeat in health care legislation exposes all of Obama's weaknesses. Enter Joe Lieberman with his song and dance about how, what, when he will support and then not support. Aetna actually gave him a cover for what he was doing. I would argue he was not even working for Aetna an American company. He was working on behalf of the Likud party to weaken our president, a wish expressed by Binyamin Netanyahu several times to make it easier to stand up to Obama's plans for any peace plan.
So I guess the big question is: Now that Lieberman has proven himself as a scumbag and a traitor, what will he do next to surpass his previous achievements?
Last year President Obama demanded that the Israeli government cease all settlements in the West Bank so that a permanent peace agreement would be possible. Wow, now that was a departure from our non ending appeasement to Israeli demands and maybe a final breakthrough that would lead to a peace deal. At the time I thought if he could actually make his demands stick, Obama was a bigger man than we bargained for, but I doubted he had the moxie to make his demand stick. Sure enough less than two month later the Israelis thumbed their nose at him with the help of our Israeli bought and paid for congress, if you do not know what I mean, I am sorry I do not have the time to explain it today. But the short version is we give Israel 4 billion dollars cash a year in foreign assistance and a chunk of that makes it back into the campaigns of Israel friendly office seekers. You are paying for our system to be corrupted by a foreign government. In any case back to the subject, since that ultimatum the Likud government has been working to undermine our president. They have determined that the weaker our president is at home the weaker he will be to make demands on them, and they are right.
When Jim DeMint announced,"Healthcare will be Obama's Waterloo." he was not far off. A defeat in health care legislation exposes all of Obama's weaknesses. Enter Joe Lieberman with his song and dance about how, what, when he will support and then not support. Aetna actually gave him a cover for what he was doing. I would argue he was not even working for Aetna an American company. He was working on behalf of the Likud party to weaken our president, a wish expressed by Binyamin Netanyahu several times to make it easier to stand up to Obama's plans for any peace plan.
So I guess the big question is: Now that Lieberman has proven himself as a scumbag and a traitor, what will he do next to surpass his previous achievements?
We are back live
Took a break to give Mr. Obama a chance, but thee are just too many things going on that cannot be dismissed. I am still a big supporter of Obama and want to see him succeed. I think he has the smarts, I am doubting he has the balls. Please Michelle take those things out of the closet and give them back to your husband. Like Krugman I am at wits end, on the edge, ready to jump.
Enough is enough. How can you not want want to rip your hair out when the lesson the Dems took out of the Mass special senate election is that they should be even more subservient to the minority. I guess nobody has ever gone broke by underestimating the average intelligence of the beltway insiders.
Enough is enough. How can you not want want to rip your hair out when the lesson the Dems took out of the Mass special senate election is that they should be even more subservient to the minority. I guess nobody has ever gone broke by underestimating the average intelligence of the beltway insiders.
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