He has mentioned it again about GOP obstruction of Obama nominees.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/05/reid-nuclear-filibuster-reform-nominations.php?ref=fpb

Mayer Rothschild, uber-banker, once said, ""Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws," and truer words were never spoken nor more accurately describe why we are in such a financial mess and why it is so impervious to political activism.

Private bankers make our money out of thin air by loaning money that they don't have that we pay back with the sweat of our brow both for our own debts and the debts of our government that has to borrow the created money from them too.

The ability to make money out of thin air means we could never hope to match their political campaign donations and certainly not offer politicians the kind of jobs they get working for the banks and Wall Street as lobbyists, consultants, lawyers, CEO's, and do nothing board members when they leave office.

Shouldn't banks be businesses like any other instead of our masters?

The history of debt in this article is must read as well.

The trick to this proposal is getting from here to there.

Considering that the Wall Street Journal article that I got the original graphic from was about the only mainstream media source to discuss impeaching Baby Bush his numbers are even more impressive.

Republicans don't improve their electoral chances playing the scandal card, but it does help their short term strategery of obstruction.

Let's hope the public reacts the way they did to the Republican impeachment of Bill Clinton's penis and give BOTH chambers of congress to the Democrats.

And then let's hope the Democrats actually use those new majorities to do more than agree with conservative stupid ideas.

Democrats have given Republicans and especially Republican presidents a pass on some serious, serious shit.

Nixon doing back door negotiations with the North Vietnam to undercut LBJ in the 1968 election, the October Surprise, criminal charges for Iran Contra, vote rigging and vote suppression in several elections, violating as many parts of the Geneva Convention as possible in the invasion of Iraq, including lying (not being mistaken) about Iraq being a threat, and approving and even orchestrating torture at the highest levels, no bid contracts in Iraq, wiretapping CONGRESS and on and on.

Democrats thanks for all this has been a sharp, pointy, steel tipped cowboy boot in the ass, and Republicans squealing like a stuck pig every time Democrats do something they would enjoy doing more.

Is it paying off for Democrats to leave this stuff untouched?

If not, what could they go after that would give them the most bang for the buck?

The article on Huffington Post about Obama musing about going "Bulworth" prompted this.

The guy has done some good in office (cue THE LIST posters), but for the most part, he has spend his whole first term and first part of his second trying to prove to Republicans that he doesn't really like Democratic ideas either.

I'm not an idiot. It ain't about ideology or bad "strategery." Like the Republicans, he's playing to the big money people, and if he didn't, he wouldn't have made it as far as the White House, and wouldn't have been allowed to stay there.

But since the Republicans are going to threaten to impeach him no matter what, why not earn it by doing something good and daring the GOP to undo it?

Figure out what the most is he can do with executive orders, or in foreign policy to set things right, and watch the right wing wither like the Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz when they threw water on her.

Hell, he could even do some good with just his declassification power: declassify the Saudi pages of the Joint Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 and destroy the very last shred of GOP claim to be the better party on defending America.

Set the Justice Department after the vote riggers, and felon voter purgers, or hell even Wall Street. Treat those who destroyed the world economy with the same legal creativity he did some crank in Yemen whose blog posts MIGHT have inspired POTENTIAL terrorist acts.

He would be a hero and make it easier for Democrats to hold onto the White House and retake both chambers of congress.

Will he do any of that or will he continue to tape a kick me sign to his own ass before bending over in a room full of Republicans?

Democracy Now has been covering the genocide trial of U.S.-backed Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, but more damning than any details of any atrocity are the reactions of the business community and what it reveals about how they use governments like Montt's, not just in the past but today.

Most macabre is the recent quote by security guards at a mine who said protesters didn't realize that the mine "generates jobs" (a Republican talking point) before they opened fire on the protesters.

Most people don't care about communism, socialism, free market fundamentalism, or whatever. They just want decent working conditions, to be able to take care of their family, and have their employer subject to the rule of law if they don't provide the other two.

That is obviously intolerable to corporations in their dealings in the Third World, and increasingly in America and the developed world.

Eventually Americans are going to realize that the companies they work for see us the same way they do Bangladeshi garment workers and Indian miners in Guatemala, and we will change things.

If not, look forward to being buried in rubble during of sixteen hour shift or being shot for not respecting "job creators" in the near future.

Source: Chicago Tribune



Chicago voters hold a dim view of Rahm Emanuel's stewardship of public education after a tumultuous year that featured a teachers strike and the mayor's push to close many neighborhood elementary schools, a new Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows.

Disenchantment with Emanuel's education policy is particularly acute among minority voters, and that's helping drive up negative views of the mayor's overall job performance as he reaches the middle of his first term this week.

Nearly 6 of 10 surveyed said they disapproved of Emanuel's attempt to downsize elementary schools, while just a third approved. Those numbers closely mirror negative feelings about Emanuel's approach to public education, which he has labeled a top priority.

The general dissatisfaction was even greater among those with children in public schools — three-fourths disapproved. But even a majority of voters without so personal a stake expressed reservations about the way the mayor has dealt with Chicago Public Schools.

Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-rahm-emanuel-schools-0512-20130511,0,4437967.story

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Rahm is showing the outer limits of the "lesser of two evils" approach of corporate Democrats is wearing thin with the public.

It's little comfort when your kids school is closed to think that a Republican would have closed more schools and privatized the remainder for the benefit of wealthy donors faster than Rahm would.

When will the Democrats get back to giving us an actual choice instead of a corrupt echo?

Or will it take progressives coming together in one new party to their left?

You could also sign a similar petition your senators and congress rep via this Moveon petition and get this more visibility by signing the Moveon.org presidential petition as well as the direct White House petition.

Researchers in any field aren't exactly the most rowdy people, so this is really saying something.

Real research and teachers' experience are being ignored for top down corporations before kids policies backed business buzzwords and BS.

The quote from Mayor Bloomberg, who is using his money to force corporate friendly education reform and get himself elected and re-elected sums up the state of our democracy. When asked how the people could hold him accountable, he said, "They can boo me at parades."

A "Let them eat cake" statement like that tells you how profoundly corrupt our political system has become and how drastic a correction it needs.

Obama had window of opportunity to change this with true reforms with the support of the people, but he squandered it.

Eventually, the broad middle class (or what's left of it) is going to figure out how to wrest power from the dangerously morally bankrupt financial elite, and they might not have as much left as they would have if they had let (or told) Obama to do more to fix the mess they made.

I'm going to post this to the White House petition site, not because I think they will do what it says, but because I want to hear their response to it and it's not like any reporter is going to ask about this.

I made some slight edits and posted it.

You can sign it here http://wh.gov/zd0Y