If this has already been diaried please excuse my list reading ability. But Bill Moyers was interviewed by Bill Maher and if you didn't see it find a repeat and watch it even if you have to take over your Grandmother's DVR to catch it.
Moyers was, as usual, fantastic. The whole interview was a superb dissection of WTF has gone wrong with the country and the Democratic Party in the last thirty years. Primarily corporate money leading to both Repubs and Democrats serving their corporate money masters except for the Progressives or as we would say the Democratic wing of the Democratic party. And he rightly lays the blame on two founding facts. The mischief of interpreting a SCOTUS decision from 1886 as giving corporations the same rights under the 14th amendment as real persons and the more recent abomination, the SCOTUS decision equating money with free speech.
He wants Obama to wake up and be the leader we believed in at his speech the night he won the Presidency instead of this policy wonk we have seen too much of lately. He is not in the Senate anymore and will never again be there so stop with the polite fictional courtesies of that ossified body and follow Truman's and LBJ's and give 'em hell and kick ass. I am writing the President asking him to watch this Moyers interview and explain to the Progressives why he will or will not follow these suggestions. Even Better,don't explain, just do.
Comment: Thank for the recommendations. Maybe I should do all of my writing at 2:00 AM.