Monday, December 6, 2010

Time to Think the Unthinkable: A Democratic Primary Challenge To Obama's Reelection

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'
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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