As the repubs make one or two more desparate stabs at covering Bush’s butt, using the constitution for TP and passing more obnoxious and obscene bills limiting rights, I am looking for hope.
So looking at Wapo, in particular “The Fix”, one gets a feeling of hope. That finally the outrages of the repub stranglehold are beginning to dawn on even the most dedicated koolaid drinkers and we may have a dem rout in November. Barring of course, tinkering with voter id obnoxiousness from repubs and possible tinkering with the actual voting hardware.
So friends if we get the dem house what can we expect? Hearings? Some accountability? Maybe a Tim Ryan all the time show?
more…….
Could we even get a bill of impeachment out of the mix? Could we even look at undoing what the repubs have done? Would the dems repeal the patriot act or only just gloss over and take it as a given that our rights are gone? Would we, on the blogs, continue to have fire in our bellies until we could actually see some progress?
What if we actually had both house and senate? What would you like to see accomplished? My list includes complete repeal of the patriot act, health care insurance for all, maybe some federal oversite of some bennies like 401k, pension, etc. so that people could see some stake in their futures being created regardless of where they are on the class spectrum. I would like to see some of the unbid contracts both for the wars and katrina reviewed and accounted for. I would like to see the outsourcing of the war discontinued. I would like to see some of our respected vets brought back to the military to restore its luster. I would like to see open and honest and free debate about all of the above. I would like to see open and honest and free HEARINGS without all the shit about not allowing this that or the other. I would like to see bills actually debated and amendments actually allowed.
In short, I would like to see congress restored to some kind of luster that maybe it never even HAD before.
I would like to wring the money out of politics. That could be done with public data bases perhaps where every penny was noted about where it came from.
I would like to see the lobbyists kept out of the bill making machine. Why bother with congress when the damn lobbyists write the damn bills?
Do you dream about it? What do you see? Do you fear waking up after the election and nothing has changed? Assuming a dem win, how do we hold the fire to their feet and get things undone and done?
