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2010-12-27 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2010-12-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Our government is getting more and more corrupt (not that it was every pure as the driven snow). People have lost faith in it and are losing faith in the process. Not good.

Posted by DarthVader 2010-12-27 10:30|| 2010-12-27 10:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Whores!

Only allow one term, only allow 60 days to campaign, limit TV spending.

Posted by 49 Pan 2010-12-27 11:12|| 2010-12-27 11:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Now, now 49 - there's no need to go insulting Whores. At least with them you expect to get f*ed so they do provide a needed public service of a sort.

Didn't M-fker Murtha used to do this all the time. They would even give him a dinner event to thank him for accepting their ~~bribes~~ contributions.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-12-27 11:47|| 2010-12-27 11:47|| Front Page Top

#4 It is the collapse of public faith and confidence in our government that is the most chilling aspect of the past decade, accelerating in the past two years. Its not something that returns quickly, if ever. People can see now the incrementalism of big government, like the Obama Medicare decision to administratively invoke the "end of life counseling", making the slide towards death panels actually true. Glenn Beck looks more like the canary in the coal mine than a loon, and that ought to give all of us pause.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2010-12-27 11:48|| 2010-12-27 11:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Not just public faith and confidence in the Government but in the Media as well. People are waking up and realizing that the Media has been outright lying to them.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-12-27 11:52|| 2010-12-27 11:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Amusing that Iran PressTV has suddenly discovered the issue, and are so highly indignant. Given that their own country is a corrupt religious tyranny and all, I mean.

Congress is always in the process of drafting new laws. That is their job, after all; even when they are officially on vacation or campaigning for re-election, they are wheeling and dealing over the phone trying to move their various projects forward. And, given how expensive it is to run an election campaign these days, if they don't constantly raise funds, they won't be able to run.

My personal feeling is that, while our current batch of Congresscritters is more corrupt than the Founding Fathers, they're probably a good deal less corrupt than the Tammany Hall generation.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-12-27 13:23|| 2010-12-27 13:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Count ALL the "institutions" that have been lying to us:

1. Government at all levels
2. The "Legacy Media"
3. "Hollywood"
4. College & University professors
5. Many if not most secondary school teachers
6. A majority of "scientists"
7. The Left (but I repeat myself)
8. Half or more of all churches
9. The "elite".

Is there any wonder that most of the thinking people in this country are skeptical? What should the "elite" think, but that the "ordinary people" are angry? Of course we're angry! Everyone and their brother have been lying to us for the past 70-80 years. Far too many people think they have the right to remake this nation to conform to their beliefs, and the rest of us can just accept it, or else. It's time to re-assert the Constitution, and start hanging people that think they can ignore it. It's finally torch and pitchfork time. It's going to take courage - a great deal of courage. Unfortunately, I think that's something in short supply at the moment.

Posted by Old Patriot 2010-12-27 13:55|| 2010-12-27 13:55|| Front Page Top

#8 People can see now the incrementalism of big government, like the Obama Medicare decision to administratively invoke the "end of life counseling", making the slide towards death panels actually true.

What pisses me off is the deceptiveness and lying that has accompanied much of this creeping cancer. The American people have been aced out of the process. They have merely become the source of money to feed this monstrosity.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-12-27 19:04|| 2010-12-27 19:04|| Front Page Top

#9 PEOPLES DAILY FORUM > [Atlantic War] ECONOMISTS: 2011 WILL THE YEAR OF [US-Global] RECOVERY.

and

* XINHUA > 2001-2010: A GAME CHANGING DECADE. Despite its seeming omnipotence, the USA is finding that it cannot achieve its agendum alone, i.e. widout the assistance of traditional + new Allies = various Regional, International States.

* GWYNNE DYER: NEW WORLD ORDER ARRIVED IN 2010, albeit it may NOT be OFFICIALLY/PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGED FOR ANOTHER 5-10 YEARS = 2015-2020.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-12-27 23:55|| 2010-12-27 23:55|| Front Page Top

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