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David Sirota is a political journalist and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist at Creators Syndicate. David writes about political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America's political parties.
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September 10, 2007 2:00 PM
Anyone Want to See What the Hostile Takeover of the Democratic Party Looks Like?
I wrote a whole book on the hostile takeover of our government by Big Money interests - but if anyone wants to see a good example of what that means with respect specifically to the Democratic Party, please take a look at this - and specifically starting from page 7 on. It is literally well-documented proof of an army of lobbyists descending on Democratic lawmakers - many of those lobbyists former Democratic Capitol Hill staffers.
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David Sirota is a political journalist and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist at Creators Syndicate. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Hostile Takeover. He lives in Denver, Colorado. His daily blog can be found at CREDO Action. He contributes regularly to the Denver Post's Web site, is a senior editor at In These Times magazine and is working on his second book. He has been profiled in Newsweek and the Rocky Mountain News and is widely known for his reporting on political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America's political parties. Sirota serves as co-chair of the Progressive States Network, a 501(c)3 organization that supports state legislators and that is a partner of CREDO.
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Reads like a Fortune 500 meetup rather than a Democratic get together. It explains much.
This is the perfect reason to dump the Party and vote Independent. Why settle for all the guck in those two DISEASED parties when you can settle for a clean start all the way?
I'm happy to see that at least the Dems are getting on board one train -- seeing national health care as a competitiveness issue. I'm old enough to recall "What's good for GM is good for the nation." Do we have to lose a GM or a Ford to get the message?
Along those lines, WebMD this morning has a piece about adverse drug reactions being up. More than doubled in the last ten years, in fact.
They included two lists, the first one are the 15 drugs most often linked to deaths, and the second the 15 drugs most often liked to disability or serious outcomes.
Read the lists, they're scary, because if you aren't taking any of those drugs you will have friends and family members who are.
Yet, the FCC pays no attention to the abuses of the big pharma advertisements, and the FDA keeps caving in to the pressures of the pharmaceutical companies to get the drugs out on the market with inadequate testing.
Where's Congress in all this? Taking money from Big Pharma's K-street minions, that's where.
The Democrats need to throw the K-streeters out of their offices and get to work cleaning up this mess.
Don't contribute to the National Democratic Party. Send the money directly to the candidates of YOUR choice. Starve out the Republi-lites!
Not surprised to see our leave-no-lobbyist-behind Melissa Bean represented. The "D" after her name, and down on her knees for ANYone with a checkbook, somehow annoints her as a "moderate" in the local press.
It's bad enough that the politicians NEVER read the bills they pass. In fact, not only do the staffers read and write for them, they THINK for them and then prepare them to BULLSHIT. Very few genuine thinking politicians such as Bernard Sanders and Dennis Kucinich exist these days. Well, I'm sure that it has almost always this way ever since our government was formed but these days it's so transparent and yet really sickening to the stomach !
"It's bad enough that the politicians NEVER read the bills they pass. In fact, not only do the staffers read and write for them, they THINK for them and then prepare them to BULLSHIT. " - Frederick Johnson
Yet, they get all our taxpayer money, something us working middle/lower class people could never even dream of in this fucked up world !
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