compromised White House, a bought and paid for Congress and now the
Supreme Court has taken the unusual step of asking to re-hear a case
that upheld the already hopelessly weak prohibitions against corporate
financing of election campaigns.
If those limits go, it will be
corporate open season on the few members of Congress - and any
candidate for president - who still has the will to resist their
lobbying and campaign contribution juggernaut.
The first Americans launched the first
American Revolution when they realized they had no voice, no
representation in the English Parliament. Americans today have no
representation in their Congress.
In 2010 the entire House of
Representatives and one third of the Senate will be up for
re-election. They must all go. If need be, the few good among the many
more who have gone over to "the dark side."
It won't be easy. The election laws
are rigged to protect incumbents from any real competition, and they
will have access to a vast war chest of contributions from the
corporate interests they have protected -- Wall Street first and
foremost.
And in times of trouble, the natural
instinct of people is to circle the wagons -- look out for you and
yours and to hell with anybody else. The owners of the Congress will
try to play one group of Americans against another, as they almost
always do, pretending there is a difference between a bought Democrat
and a bought Republican.
But if the American people can work
together against the common foe, the enemy that has subverted our
democracy, great things are still possible.
Thomas Jefferson wrote that "a little
rebellion now and again is a good thing, and as necessary in the
political world as storms in the physical."
It is time for a second American
Revolution, a great storm to clear out the deadwood in the
Capitol.
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