Let's see now - most folks are looking at the long drawn out primary fight but in dc what do we see? We see Hoyer talking about a deal on FISA with Bush, the most disliked president in history. So why is Steny so intent on dragging out a FISA bill that so many of us have fought against? BAU Steny? Getting your campaign funds ready?
Then there is a bill that will limit network neutrality. Again, BAU? Getting your campaign funds ready folks?
And they wonder about voter apathy! But not this year, not this time! We WILL get more and better democrats!
I see that the Senate couldn't pass a bill that would allow the peons (most of us) time to determine we had been discriminated against and then file a complaint. Nope, too hard on bidness? Bidness being your only source of campaign funds? Since the majority of us are skeptical about what you might do to (for) us, probably bidness is the best of your campaign funds. Wonder how that might change?
In the meantime another justice official has pled guilty to accepting gifts and such from lobbyists (and working on their behalf as well although that probably isn't in the charge). And we see that high ranking officials choreagraphed torture and Bush even admitted he approved it. In another story, the Pentagon sent out its minions to get talking points into the press (which was also illegal and most of these folks had a bidness relationship with the pentagon). But silence from most of the media (who is owned by bidness The same bidness that wants to own us all!)
So here we have a repub president with horrible public approval ratings getting a pass on doing so many illegal things that it would take a ream of paper to relate them all. No traction from congress on investigations, No cooperation from the administration which now includes DOJ. DOJ is no longer a bastion of non-partisans, nope. They, like every other corner of the Bush administration is looking to punish any democrats and reward any republicans regardless and heedless of any laws to the contrary. Loretta Doan never did get asked to leave did she? Even after violating the Hatch act. Tsk Tsk. Impotent congress, so powerless to imprint their mark on the administration even after finding wrong doing. Republicans have worked extremely hard and very effectively to make this so. I wonder how they will feel when a Democrat is in the White House and will use the same stonewalling against them? Will they actually care? Will at long last will they consider something as archaic as integrity? Nope, just BAU - using smears and sliming. They never stop even when it is just a damaged 12 year old. No integrity, no humanity and no sense. And that is just the Republican half of congress. The Democratic side is used to the smears, the demeaning attitudes, the bullying and no longer comes back for more. Instead they hack away in little cuts here and little cuts there. Never really being effective, also having to look to bidness for their campaign funds so they are often locked together with their so-called opponents.