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So with Obama’s popularity falling sharply, it should be no surprise that the Administration is resorting to more concerted propaganda efforts. It may have no choice. Having ceded so much ground to the financiers, it has lost control of the battlefield. The banking lobbyists have perfected their tactics for blocking reform....

When players in a game are scheming that's one thing, but when the refs are corrupt it's ultimate control, just as the real story of Enron was that Andersen had been in on the crimes. With EM08 the players are easy enough to spot, but it's the refs - many paid and elected by the public - that need to be exposed....

So now we have Senator Dodd saying:

"I can't write regulations, this is way beyond the competency of Congress"

Really Mr. Dodd?

How about "Bankruptcy Reform"?...

Our Government Inefficient? Not Really....

Great article provided by J.R. Nyquist on how egalitarianism societies form. This line from the end of the article sums it all up: "In other words, the people who are wrecking our civilization are paid by the rest of us to do their work. We have nurtured them, raised them up, and fostered their conceits with our own cash contributions. In other words, we have paid for our own destruction up front." ...

The founding document of the United States, the Declaration of Independence, states that governments derive “their just powers from the consent of the governed.” Today, however, just 21% of voters nationwide believe that the federal government enjoys the consent of the governed....

Here’s my read of events. Obama wants to make sure big business knows he’s on their side. He said as much in excerpts from the BusinessWeek interview that are already available. Moreover, he wants to mollify deficit hawks – and that’s going to mean cutting spending and/or raising taxes as I have been saying since he turned hawkish....

Rep. John Murtha, a Pennsylvania powerhouse in Congress for 36 years and an early ally for Speaker Nancy Pelosi in her rise to the top of the House, died Monday afternoon as a result of complications from recent surgery....