All for None and None for all!!

Compromise. Whoa! What is it good for? Absolutely nuthin'! Say it again!
Here we go again. Obama's attempt to reach out (several times) was met with unanimous negativity by the Repubs. It only succeeded in watering down an aggressive Recovery package full of infrastructure and educational investment. A bill that would create millions of Jobs. No, it isn't perfect but, what coming out of Washington is? With the repubs screaming for more tax cuts (and voting against a bill that includes the largest tax cut in history! It just goes to working people and not those who receive money via dividends and stock options) we are further away from bi-partisan ism than even during the Bush years. Why won't the media point that out? Oh sorry, I know why. I just forget sometimes. What's truly sad is most of us are oblivious to what is about to happen. Just because the Super Bowl will kick off on Sunday and gasoline is under 2 bucks a gallon, we're are being lulled into a false sense of security. Over 70,000 jobs lost in one day! Bloody Monday came and went with no real attention being paid. we lost millions of jobs over the past year and many more are on the horizon. The impact won't be felt for another 6 months or so but, believe me it will be felt. Once your unemployment has run out, your credit cards are maxed, and your mortgage is due. You'll stop going out to eat and the bicycle will make a big comeback.

So, it's time to use the Nuclear option. F*#k 'em! If they want to filibuster something. Let them go at it. What confounds my sensibilities is why the Dems didn't use the power of the filibuster when they were the minority? It was available to them. The Repubs didn't have 60 votes to stop one. What the F**k? It seems to me that the Dems were content to paint themselves as the "poor poor pitiful victims" of big bully Repubs, powerless to stop the objectionable policies of the Bush administration. Oh well, back to my solution for the current obstruction situation: Let the Repubs filibuster so we can get on record their objections to Democratic economic strategies and listen to them try to defend their failed Republican policies for hours on end. We need extensive media coverage of these filibusters so the American public can become aware of the Right's attempt to stall much needed reinvestment programs. Along with this Pulosi and Reed need to bring to the floor an amendment that would lower the votes required to bring closure with 57 votes instead of the current 60. After the Amendment passes, the Dems go balls out! Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

If the aftermath of the proposed Democratic recovery is more jobless, homeless, and bankrupt businesses (like Rush is hoping) then it will be painfully apparent that our government is irreparably broken. A complete enema will be required to save this nation. Every representative currently holding office must be flushed out of the system. A Constitutional convention must be held so that we can update the existing one. Among some of the changes needed are amendments to curb the cancerous influence of lobbyist, campaign contributions, and graft. No longer should we allow propositions that take away one's civil rights by a simple majority vote. (actually I thought that was already protected by the current constitution but, I'm not sure anymore) When those who had the legality of the marriages annulled due to prop 8, it gave me the idea that we should put to a majority vote whether or not water boarding is legal, or whether or not financial institutions that engaged in credit default swapping should receive billions from tax payers, or whether or not our Justice Department should pursue war crimes against Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Bush.

Something tells me that the results of such a popular vote would show that water boarding is in fact torture, The United States citizens would have billions for infrastructure, health care, and education and Wall Street would have a few less financial institutions (also several billionaires would have to squeak by on only millions) and best of all, the unholy trio would have to lawyer up.

To summarize: We are in a fine mess. It's not solely the fault of the Democrats. It's not solely the fault of the Republicans (although it's mainly their policies that redistribute wealth from the middle class to the upper class) No, the real culprit is Greed. The root of all evil. Since we have evolved (or devolved) to a point where the fittest among us is determined by how much money we can acquire and not by who can run the fastest, hunt and kill the best, or sire the most children, we are left with natural selection choosing those with the largest bank accounts.
Nothing will prevent the approaching Depression. Things can be done to lessen the devastation, but tax cuts are not one of them. A healthy economy is not based on a the wealthiest among us being able to keep a greater percentage of their wealth, or a stocks rising on a well invested Wall Street. A healthy economy is based on a healthy middle class. The middle class are the ones who when they have the money they don't invest it in the market. The middle class spends the money they earn. That is how demand for goods is created and not but supplying the consumer with an over abundance of cheap goods and waiting for them to buy them. ( That's called supply side economics and it's just ridiculous) Jobs jobs jobs and more to the point decent paying jobs jobs jobs is our only chance to survive this class war that has been taking place for 30 years.

DaG Out