When one feels full of despair for the human race, this dynamic duo brings one hope.
There are super pundits out there, armed with informed and rational thought, to rescue us from the depths of corruption and shilldom.
Chivalry is indeed not dead.
Without further ado, feast your eyes and ears on this:
Glenn Greenwald explains how Senator Lieberman, who is threatening to filibuster the public option, and his wife have a conflict of interest with healthcare corporations:
a Research 2000/DailyKos Poll that was taken last month that shows that a margin of 68 percent to 21 percent of Connecticut voters, the people whom he's ostensibly representing favor a public option. That's a 47-point margin, which is almost impossible to find on almost any other issue.
the industry that he's serving by doing this, by preventing competition with the public option, is an industry from which he receives very substantial benefits. He's drowning in campaign contributions from the insurance industry, the health care industry, the pharmaceutical industry, more than $2.5 million.
In early 2005, his wife was hired by a large P.R. firm, Hill & Knowlton, in the pharmaceutical division, which at the time representing the health care giant Glaxo and major legislation before the Senate. And several months later, Joe Lieberman was on the floor of the Senate offering legislation that would directly steer huge amounts of incentives to that company in order to develop vaccines.
I think what you're seeing here is the kind of legalized corruption, legalized bribery that runs the United States Senate. Only in this case, it's particularly sleazy and transparent because Lieberman is ready to gut the major initiative of the Democratic Party.
Glenn Greenwald explains how Senator Bayh, who is threatening to filibuster the public option, and his wife have a conflict of interest with healthcare corporations:
let's look at Senator Bayh. His wife sits on the board of directors of WellPoint, one of the largest health insurance companies in the nation. They own, by their own disclosures, between $500,000 and $1 million just of WellPoint stock alone. And as, I think, you reported yesterday, when Senator Lieberman threatened to filibuster the public option, as one would expect, the value of the stock of the health care industry or the health care companies skyrocketed, which directly benefited-personally benefited the finances of the Bayh family.
Bottom line: these Senators are making a lot of money selling out the public option. They are being paid by the healthcare industry to vote against their constituents' wishes to have a public option. No, the bribes don't get passed to them under the table in a paper bag, the money is laundered through their beloved wives and campaign contributions.
Congressmen taking bribes to do the bidding of corporations and special interests is the crux of why we have perpetual wars, our jobs are going overseas, we are bailing out the very wheelers & dealers on Wall Street who removed the safeguards put in place by FDR to avert financial crisis to enrich themselves handsomely at our expense, and we remain one of the only industrialized countries on the planet without national healthcare.
The solution to all of our domestic problems and the world's woes with us bomb, bomb, bombing one country after another is to tighten up conflict of interest laws in Congress.
That's all folks, the cureall to all that ails us: conflict of interest and campaign finance reform.
All of the major issues we care about will be summarily solved if we can stop this revolving door between special interests and our bought and paid for Congressmen, aided and abetted by their lawfully wedded wives.
Herewith are the the marriage vows between corrupt Congressmen, their complicit wives, and their lackey lobbyists:
Dearly bribed,
We are gathered here today to scam We the People,
making our lives better, but our constituents' worse,
leaving them in sickness without decent healthcare and us financed by corporations involved in health,
giving us joys and the chumps who voted for us sorrows,
leaving us lavishly richer and them considerably poorer,
until the untimely death of many of our unsuspecting electorate do us part.
Amen, suckers.