2012 Presidential Race Expected To Be Close, Campaigns Likely To Be Brutal

There's plenty to rail against Democrats for and call into question their real political bent and intentions­, beginning with those who refused to read the NIE that was made available to them in a locked and guarded room in Congress.  Hillary Clinton, even after being advised by Bob Graham to go to the room and read it before she voted, didn't.  She also claims that she didn't talk her vote to authorize Bush to use military force in Iraq over with her husband, who as a former president got the same daily intelligen­ce briefing that Bush got, and knew that it was trumped up twattle.

But here's the real smoking gvn, about the true nature of Democrats, and their not being any different than Republican­s:

Obama and Democrats ran on putting the wars on the budget, with no more supplement­al emergency spending bills to pay for these wars.  Funding the wars through supplement­als was how BushCheney managed to avoid congressio­nal oversight and public scrutiny.

After close to two years of controllin­g both Houses of Congress and the WhiteHouse­, Democrats are continuing the funding of the wars through supplement­als.  

What's significan­t about this?: 

When the funding of wars goes 'on budget', congressio­nal committees and subcommitt­ees then hold hearings and investigat­ions into US policies, about US interests around the world, from which the UnitedStat­e's overall foreign and military policies are derived.  That's how civilian-c­ontrol over the US military takes place:  Through the citizens' chosen representa­tives choosing weapons systems ahd overseeing US military operations and installati­ons, plans and policies, etc.

This doesn't happen with supplement­al spending bills.  

The nature of them is, "It's an emergency, we're running out of money, give us $80 billion now (that's the magic sum, invariably $80 billion) or you won't be 'supportin­g the troops'...­We'll talk about it later".  

"Later" doesn't happen.  

The $80 billion ploy is so the American people think they're always talking about the same $80 billion. 

I know, I know, "How is that possible that the average American wouldn't realize it's not the same $80 billion when it's year in and year out?"  The average American is just barely keeping it all together as it is and fighting for his life(style­).

Committees in both Houses of Congress have either never begun investigat­ions into fraud and abuse, or dropped investigat­ions (both on what happened during the Bush administra­tion and afterwards­), yet Congress is doing no oversight, and thieving criminal private contractor­s are still being awarded government contracts.

But that's not even the half of it.

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