I'm just filing for a Write In Candidate and voting for myself as US senator of Idaho.... I hope I get other people to declare as write in candidates for whatever positions. More fun for next year for all the people and no fun for politicians, banks, Fed reserve, and corporations.

shirlee I think the main thing is to get some sort of bill,there are always amendments passed after the pressure/money from lobbyists has passed.If politisians lie,that means they lie to the lobbyists too.Usually what happens is amendments get tacked on to another bill that somebody wants passed and you sneak it in.Hey thats politics,I don't think there has been a bill passed yet that has remained virgin since its inception to law.Thats the way it works.

this bill was a win for big insurance, forcing people to buy insurance who cannot even pay for groceries?
How does that help???

Mark laws are not written in stone only 10 are.There will be amendments to the bill being passed later,main thing is to get your foot in the door,regardless of who gets what in the beginning,to do nothing is the bad thing.There are right now 1.5 million vets with no healthcare alone.

It is interesting to see how much money flows to the party in power from outside interest groups. Teddy, FDR, LBJ all tried to do the right things for the American people. End lobbying now. It always amazes me how big business eats it's way into the political referendum. They have no business being there. They are not American voters. They are not ... See MoreAmerican tax payers. They are a business corporation. They are a thing. They should have no voice in the political process, but yet they seem to have the biggest and loudest.

Pete,nice thing about open secrets is you can type in your local governments zipcode and see the same thing at a smaller scale,if you want to do something about it start at the local level,thats where the beast is nurtured.We as lowly taxpayers haven't enough armor to take on the whole monster.Start at the local level and kill it there,the most vulnerable,and eye of the monster.

It also clearly states an eye for an eye,and a tooth for a tooth,so can I pull out your teeth,or can I poke out your eye?If I feel under my interpretation of the bible I feel that you commited a sin?There would be everybody walking around with no teeth or missing eyes.I agree with Bob,give to ceasar what is ceasars give to God what is Gods,a clear ... See Moredeclaration of seperation of religion and state.Let money control mans law and spirituality control Gods law.If you mix them,you get mans law controling Gods laws,and that makes man God.

I know Vice president Dick Cheney was for gay marriages but said it should be state regulated not federally.

She is just another banker lackey.
Banker lackey vs. Banker lackey = can't loose.
Boxer vs. Fiorina is really the same.

This woman is exactly what is wrong with corporate America. Terrible CEO. Banker lackey (to use Dean's term). $20 million golden parachute. I guess it stands to reason she's running for government.

she needs a new hair stylist!!! flippin hair looks like a skunk!!

This is ridiculous. It's like rubbing our noses in our own powerlessness. This is beyond the problem getting worse; it's our elected elite saying "we're doing this to you, this is happening because we want it so, nyah nyah." If I were to charge even half the rates banks charge on money, I'd be in jail. Enforcement of laws is only against the bottom 80%.

One law for them, another law for us

Ditto to other comments. How can she really represent "the people" when she notoriously said as the offshoring whore of a CEO at HP that no American necessarily deserves a good paying technology job. Barring outright vote fraud, no way she'll win, right?

ya she was fired by the Mc Cain campaign, and ummm. Fired by HP for performance. Oh ya she needs to run for the US senate why not have another loser on congress!!!

Well, ol' Betty Boxer may be too butch for the 'wingers, but for sure she will chew up & spit out Carly "I used to be somebody" Fiorina . . . the best thing is that Carly's bux will smother wingbut true believer Chuck DeVore, so the wingnuts will not clog up the polls come Gneral Election time . . . Go Carly!

@Charles - I loved the "I used to be somebody" line - I can't wait to watch her fall flat after moving way to the right~

I am a republican and I am NOT voting for an OUTSOURCER of jobs, the government needs money to run, this one needs to move to India were her friends are.

Fiorina has always been all hat and no cattle.

YAWN!

bumpass,go watch yer fox news,and listen to rush,you betch.On how the country is going to hell because of dems,you idiot.Nothing gets accomplished by name calling,or playing the blame game.Lets just let the beast take over completely and dictate who get insurance by the corporations,they aren't corrupt.We need our foot in the door,amendments can be... See More passed later to resolve the fairness issues,better than NOT doing anything at all.This is what big business is hedging on get them going on us versus them scenario.And laughing all the way to the bank because a law to get national healthcare issue has been drowned out by argueing the dems against the republicans.Its the same old bullshit,if you have no constructive ideas please don't waste time,spewing out crap.Write or contact your local reps,and see how far you get with name calling give them some positive ideas.Heres one bumpass,if the dems are big liars and the president also,whats to say they aren't lying to the lobbyists?

Ever since the fairness doctrine in the media has been abolished by reagan,its been really,really hard to get unbiased news these days.

I can't stand government, I can't stand corporations. You get a choice with neither of them. "Coke or Pepsi, slave?" Choice is not freedom -but we don't even get choices so it's a moot point.

We can do this ourselves, run our own lives; we don't need this nonsense anymore. The People can call the shots without government and without corporate personhood. There's more to life than two sides to every story.

At least the quagmire is consistantly used to do nothing for the people and everything for the "usual suspects". We are treated with nothing but disrespect as citizens in our OWN country. NEVER REELECT!

If we didn't have the Federal Reserve, our salaries would be enough to pay for our own health care and a few recreational massage's, personal training, extra vacation time, early retirement, organic foods, grass fed beef ... We just need our currency dis connected from international foreign banks- then our Congress won't be so easy to manipulate. It's too easy to print money now without congressional oversight, and no gold or scarce commodity attached to the printing. It's that simple.

cecilia,I thought our father liked christians more.

Frontline is so vital; they get to the truth, and tell it in a way everyone can understand, even the far right; but they don't listen.

beverlee,I especially liked their story called "the warning",whats scary is there is no legislation to keep it from happening again.