Congress Lives in a Bubble, Bloggers Know More

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• 28 February 2006, 11:08

  You wouldn’t get a single vote in any precinct that has a voting machine from Diebold, ED&S, etc. The first step is to dump the machines and go back to counting paper votes. If a small country like Switzerland can make this work, why can’t a big, sophisticated (remember, "sophisticated" once meant idiotic!) country like the USA make it work? Of course, this would mean that the facists would lose, and we can’t have that, can we?

  • 1 March 2006, 02:04

    Yes, you are so correct, and it angers and frustrates me that the Democratic Party doesn’t get it yet. Number One problem is the voting machines, yet they never get it. Pelosi, et. al do indeed live in a bubble. The takeover of our country began by cheating our votes, and I can’t see a peaceful solution. The vote cheaters don’t care about Harris polls, or issues, they’ve won already.

• 28 February 2006, 16:52

  I just read a great post on Democratic Underground about this...
  http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2484243

  Do you believe CampaignDollars = ElectionVictory ??

  Candidates are bending over backwards to keep the closet door closed, but polling shows that a majority of Democratic voters across the nation would prefer candidates who were out there fighting for Impeachment. Under these conditions, there are NO long-shots. It doesn’t matter where a candidate stands on fundraising in relation to opponents, things can turn around on a dime.
  WRONG:
  Dollars = Voters

  RIGHT:
  Time + Demand for Candidate Attributes + Contributor Base + Word of Mouth + Viral Marketing + Citizen Evangelism + Dollars = Voters

  Right now, public demand for candidates who are fighting for impeachment is high, and the supply is low — a condition that completely upsets the Money=Voters relationship. In fact, that equation is NEVER right.

  It is NOT about the number of dollars a candidate has early in the campaign.

  It is about the number of voters that go to the polls to vote for a candidate on election day.

  Campaign money provides a means to influence voter decisions, but it is not the only means.

  1. Money is a means to buy marketing services that seek to influence people to "buy the product" (actively support the campaign; vote for the candidate).

  But the best marketing is free. People are FAR more effective at influencing each other than strategists or advertisers. Word of mouth and viral marketing often require little or no monetary investment. The higher the inherent demand for the product, the less money required to kick off a "viral" spread through person to person and internet-based communication....

  Viral Marketing. Virals can be anything that is strategically “seeded” on websites, blogs and mailing lists around the Internet. Can be just about any Web content.

  * Articles, Email, Slogans

  * Graphics (e.g., image of a fantastic billboard).

  * Web pages — product or campaign Web sites; fundraising drive (e.g., an "Impeach Bush" billboard fundraising drive)

  * Videos — MPEG "commercials" and silly, funny, or informational clips

  * Sound — MP3 interviews, music, radio clips

  • 28 February 2006, 17:04

    oops- here’s the link
    http://www.democraticunderground.co...

    

  • 1 March 2006, 19:31

    When People are brain dead Robots, such Senator Bunning, they need someone to tell them what to think, and nobody does it better than Fox News.... This country and all others need a groundswell of people who can think for themselves and answer only to the people. It has to start now and it has to be a very quick grassroots effort to get all new regular people on the ballot, that have no agendas nor owe their allegences to anyone other than the people they represent. We need this effort to move as quickly as a forest and brush fire. This can save our country and our world. We must also demand paper ballots like the Iraqi’s used, and there must be a copy given to each voter. This is the way to take back our country and to build a better world where war, starvation and disease are but waning memories of a world being quickly left behind.

• 28 February 2006, 19:45

  You are quite correct that congress lives in a bubble. But many of them know a lot more about what is going on than they let on.

  And don’t think for a moment that you had a whole lot of choice in the last election. If you voted Democrat or Republican, you voted for one or the other visible element of the same party. It’s the same clowns with different masks and different ties. But they all have a common goal. And that common goal does not involve We The People.

  For those of you that think there is a difference, ask yourself a simple question. You all know the election had some very serious irregularities (i.e. it was fixed). So, why didn’t the Democrat Party press the issue? Why didn’t they insist on accountability?

  They are a part of the same party under the covers. The rest is all smoke and mirrors.

  America needs an alternative.

  • 28 February 2006, 21:50

    I listened to a broadcast of Democracy Now! last week, wherein Amy Goodman was interviewing John Perkins, who wrote the book Secrets of an Economic Hit Man. He mentioned that when he was in the business of blackmailing country’s leaders, a colleague told him that the same thing happened to members of our Congress and Senate—blackmail. Give ’em a little money or power and, if the threat is strong enough, they want the job bad enough, and are spineless enough, they will do whatever is "required" of them by their handlers. To my way of seeing how it’s all been playing out, this is what has been happening for many years...and not just here.

• 28 February 2006, 21:34

  An excellent post! Permission to reprint on my site?

  Boris Epstein

  • 28 February 2006, 21:58

    Boris,

    Sure, post it.

• 28 February 2006, 21:52

  Corruption Requires Revolutionary, Integral, Historical Cyclic Resurgence
  (Apollonian, 28 Feb 06)

  Problem is Congress is outright part of conspiracy along with "neo-cons," Bush, Cheney. Congress is not merely thoroughly bribed by Israel supporters and co-conspiratorial Council on Foreign Relations (CFR—see JBS.org), but is now absolutely extorted and totally intimidated. To say Congressional rep.s are stupid is mere decoy-"cover" for client co-conspirators and dupes, the elders and "Judeo-Christians" (JCs) faction of Falwell, Robertson, Limbaugh, O’Reilly, et al. (See Whtt.org.) We need a revolution and Constantine the Great of 4th cent. AD provides magnificent example.

  One obvious measure to be taken would be to replace these conspirators and sell-outs—for one easy thing in thought and deed, by reverting to original method of election of US Senate by state legislatures. But detailed measures must be taken only under large and abstract, but still simple, aegis, ideal, and principle—what would this be?

  I submit such cultural revolution would go along with overthrowing the reigning instrumental fraud which fuels directly present Orwellian "perpetual war for perp. peace" as against "Terror" and Islam in Iraq and Afganistan. That basic cultural, economic, institutional fraud is the Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) COUNTERFEITING scam by which conspirators and criminals finance a totally corrupt Congress along with all other scams, scandals, schemes, wars, ripoff’s and travesties. Thus Fed funding controls Justice and its corruption, "public education"—just more propaganda and lies—and everything else about the culture before it collapses, the parasite-disease finally killing the host.

  This horrific cultural problem of decline, corruption, and institutional fraud featuring just such counterfeiting and "perpetual warfare," existed and occurred before in an earlier cycle of Spenglerian history preceding present "Decline of the West." Constantine’s Christian cultural revolution signally dispersed the adverse frauds, conspirators, "banker" warmongers, who dominated so oppressively at that time and before, but then not for a long time afterward.

  Thus we integrate Christian aesthetic, literature, and New Testament Conspiracy theory-analytic-template with the same high and effective sort of rationalism which prevailed for the American founders. Thus we seek overthrow of corruption, fraud, Fed, and counterfeiting enforced by "perpetual warfare" with serious rule-of-law and Christian OBJECTIVITY.

  CONCLUSION: Integral Christian aesthetic ideal along with practical rationalism as of the American founders will thus counter heretical false religion and heresy (like "Judeo-Christianity") which justifies counterfeiting fraud like the Fed to fuel "perpetual warfare." And a "monetary collapse" will then be utmost opportunity for meaningful cultural revolution and resurgence. Elders and JCs are key who must be turned for their loyalty, persuaded counterfeiting and "perpetual warfare" is destructive and not productive, benefitting only conspirators, criminals, and frauds, as presently. See more essays by Apollonian at NewNation.org, under "commentary." Honest elections and death to the Fed. Apollonian

• 1 March 2006, 00:38

  Congressmen and women as well as Senators are advised by swarms of advisers and staff. They depend on these "loyal" men and women to give them their best advice and guide them through the ins and outs of governing....

  BUT.... It’s not well known that most of the staff in Congressional and Senatorial offices are Israeli firster Jews.

  It’s certainly OK for any elected official to use Jews for advisers but when those advisers have the good of Israel ahead of what is good for the US then bad things (Iraq....the Israeli treatment of Palestinians) happen.

  Keep that in mind when your elected official gives Israel a free ride to brutalize Palestinians or to bomb Iran...... They have been advised to do so by their Israeli-firsters office help.

• 1 March 2006, 00:50

  Don’t forget our wonderful Utah Senator Hatch saying recently that

  Saddam Hussein was connected to 911. He did retract it after a few days

• 1 March 2006, 01:15

  With using the term BUBBLE, I feel congress isn’t living in one. The Bubble is self generated as Congress not wishing to deal with or resolve issues in real time that has any common sense at all. In Reallity the true Bubble of Congress in my opinion is that of. THIS IS ALL ABOUT ME, I am in this for me and only me and the money I can take home. When a question is asked of a Congress person. I most always notice that they play the game of escape and evade with notorious double talk. Some time ago a Congressman was questioned about the electorial vote, picking the new president. His reply was of. The electorial vote was placed into the hands of Congress due to the fact that, we the common uneducated citizens were not intelligent enough to decide the position of president to lead we the people of this country. Now that is PURE BULL PUCKY. It was quite evident we the voters were either duped by this Congressman or that he considered we the voters stupid enough to elect him. YET! I have to agree with the Supreme Court of this land. That we the people were left with a living will that states. We the people are to form a more perfect union. It is up to we the voters to elect servants to run government for us. Our taxes pay them to do so. Do we not? Yet the servants write legislation to govern we the people? Well kids. Do any of us dictate to our employers on how they are to pay us or how we are going to do the job for them? Again I think not.

• 1 March 2006, 08:42

  Are you at all surprised,try and get rid of these people and you will learn the true meaning of the word futile.
  Here in Australia our Leader John Howard has become so smug that he is starting to sound like an American imperialist.
  Corruption is the name of the game and the more systemic it become the more we draw closer to animal farm.
  Australias on going enquiry into the oil for food bribes handed to Suddam Hussein only goes to show how little all leaders of business and industry care for their fellow man.I hate to think how many American service men and women have died at the point of a weapon that in all honesty was probably purchased with some of the $300 million in bribes paid to the former regime.
  Just remember Govt in any shape or form is only there to serve the interests of the employers.and bloated executives.

• 1 March 2006, 12:07

  Here is what it will take, nothing more, nothing less.

  A HUGE MARCH ON WASHINGTON OF 5 TO 8 MILLION AMERICANS.

  When Lyndon Johnson looked out his window and saw 250,000 demonstrators he commented that he knew then that the war was over and his political ass was grass.. Those numbers no longer overwhelm but 5 -8 million would..
  Why it would work:
  There has to be many times that amount of patriotic folk in America that are deeply shamed by
  the pathetic criminality, stupidity and greed of our politicos and their cronies and feel a strong need to do something.
  It would shake the marrow of the press and these criminals in the white house and force them to answer to the will of the people.
  It would force congress to impeach this evil monster of a President and his cabinet.
  It would stop this criminal war in its tracks.
  It would vindicate the American people in the eyes of the world.
  It would demonstrate to the world the awesome power of the internet to organize for Justice.

  Lets have no more little piddle ass meaningless little demonstrations fostered by mis-directionalists..Lets have the big one..Perhaps by Labor Day..

  STAND UP AMERICA..STAND UP AND BE COUNTED OR LAY DOWN AND BE MOUNTED...

  Fred in Portland

• 29 November 2006, 11:06

  When you’re done fixing America, can you give us a hand in Canada?
  Never seen a better blog - thanks for bringing back some of my lost faith in surviving humans and humanity.
  Ellen North