Noa Kalakaua
"The fact that Democrats have sufficient majorities in both houses of
Congress to pass whatever they want but are struggling to pass anything
that would make a decisive and conclusive break with the past suggests
the problem in Washington is not "partisan politics". It's a political
system and culture so crowded with corpo...rate lobbyists, that it is
apparently incapable of fulfilling the wishes of the people even when –
as with a public option in healthcare – that is what they want." -- Gary Younge, the Guradian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/
Congress to pass whatever they want but are struggling to pass anything
that would make a decisive and conclusive break with the past suggests
the problem in Washington is not "partisan politics". It's a political
system and culture so crowded with corpo...rate lobbyists, that it is
apparently incapable of fulfilling the wishes of the people even when –
as with a public option in healthcare – that is what they want." -- Gary Younge, the Guradian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/
The system let Obama be president. But he still may not be able to beat it | Gary Younge | Comment i
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Gary Younge: Even if he is pushing the US in the right direction, it is unlikely to be far or fast enough in a political cultureresisting reform
Noa Kalakaua
Ms. Pelosi promised to drain the swamp. She hasn't. Something must change.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story
Source: www.npr.org
When Democrats took over the majority in the House, they promised to clean its stained reputation. They adopted a new system for investigating complaints and created a nonpartisan, independent review board. ...
