“Dubai Ports is lining up powerful supporters to persuade skeptical lawmakers the deal is a good idea. Even before the controversy erupted, the company had hired Bob Dole’s law and lobbying firm, Alston & Bird LLC, to win approval for the deal. The Albright Group, led by former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, also has been trying to speak with members of Congress on behalf of the company. Dubai Ports is lining up powerful supporters to persuade skeptical lawmakers the deal is a good idea. Even before the controversy erupted, the company had hired Bob Dole’s law and lobbying firm, Alston & Bird LLC, to win approval for the deal. The Albright Group, led by former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, also has been trying to speak with members of Congress on behalf of the company.”
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The Bush administration would sell our missile ranges to Red China if Bush and his cronies thought they could pocket a few million bucks thereby.
How damn stupid and blind is the American electorate? Bush and his puppetmasters are clearly banking on the American public being very, very stupid and gullible, and so far they haven't been wrong. If the voting public had the sense that God gave a blind drunk goose Bush's approval rating would have stood at 10% at the time of the 2004 elections. It makes me sick with rage that we continue to let this bunch of fascist traitors wrap themselves in the flag, that the public out there is so gulled by hokey symolism and the ordinary
'buzz' words, that they let these scum posture as patriots and defenders of democracy.
However,the Democrats have nobody to blame but themselves for their failure to appeal to the very people who were once their core contituancy. The Dems have totally turned their back on this country's working class, and supported policies , such as NAFTA, that have excarbated the offhshoring of jobs, and have decimated worker's rights. Worst of all, many Democrats were staunch supporters of the war in Iraq, which proved the big stumbling block for Kerry, a previous supporter. I only hope the Dims have better sense than to run Hillary, for this closet Repug and former Goldwater Girl continues to be a staunch supporter of this war, and that,and the fact that she is deeply unpersonable, will be her, and our undoing.
Pray that the Dems come up with a candidate who truly represents those of us who have to work for a living and pay for what we get, and those of us who like to have a chance to work, and pray that we get someone like that who could actually get elected.
True, but does anyone get the connection to what goes on a little closer to home? Lobby aka contribute? Lobby aka create divisiveness? Lobby aka power spins to prove what point?
No one wins.
Our caring friend Stroger is a prime example. Give and he'll gladly take. He's one of the many out there.
The connection I am making is that the Dems here at home, like those in Washington, in no way represent us, and in no way have our interests at heart, but are interested principally in building their own powerbases and serving their true masters, the powerbrokers who are contributing the campaign funds.
Stroger is one such, and another seems to be Jan Schakowsky. I am still willing to give her the benefit of a tiny little bit of doubt, for she is one of the only people left committed to funding public transportation, but I don't have much doubt left-I am also certain that she is in league with Daley and other power brokers in trying to stuff the outer drive extension and marina at Calvary or Loyola, down our throats. That deal is not dead yet by any means, and I hope nobody believes it is.
However, the public is so exhausted from being besieged from every side we are all becoming apathetic. There are just too many battles to fight. There is so much injustice and irrationality you don't know where to start, which is why most people end up focusing on relatively small issues close to home. It is all anybody can do, yet we really need to combat the policies of both Bush and our local powerbrokers at their premise-the idea they all seem to have that we and our money and our lives exist for no other purpose but for them to plunder and exploit.
This country has dropped any pretense of being a participatory democracy and is now, if it wasn't before, an oligarchy run by and for the 1% or less of the population that has money and position.
We need to remind our officials and the people who vote that our elected officials are here to serve us, not the other way around.
This will only change when all private money (special interests) is taken out of campaign finance.
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