How Obama and Democrats have been "having their cake and eating it, too", or in other words, delivering to their real constituents (Big Business) while providing themselves with excuses or 'plausible deniability' when it all falls to h3II.
The latest is Obama's freezing of federal employees' wages. Not only was it a Republican idea and plan (for which he got nothing in return), but look how it guts his and Democrats earlier "accomplishments" of financial reform legislation.
The same is true for Obama's healthcare legislation -- Are the insurance regulations enforceable?
Then there's the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein, who lives off her defense contractor-husband's vast wealth, announced that she supports rewriting and expanding the Espionage Act of 1917 to make it easier to prosecute W!kiLeaks and those like them; as always, Feinstein abuses her role as Chair of the "oversight" Committee not to scrutinize and limit the abuses of the intelligence community but to protect them at all costs, as that's where her source of wealth and power lie.
She was responding to yesterday's announcement that Joe Lieberman -- joined by GOP Senators Scott Brown and John Ensign -- introduced a bill intended to make it easier to prosecute Assange. When it comes to authoritarian punishments for those who dare to expose what the US Government does, the mindset is entirely bipartisan.
I predicted that Feinstein would also surface on one of the other headline stories this week, and adopt a populist position where the outcome is pre-ordained to NOT be resolved in favor of the People. This is the habit and practice for her and experienced politicians in both parties. Can you guess which story she's surfaced on? 'Millionaires Don't Need Tax Cuts'
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