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Well, strength in numbers. The big lobbyists threaten individual candidates by promising to ‘primary’ them. Well they can’t do that to everyone. (Maybe they could but it would take a billion dollars.) A sad day for the country if a deal that enhances our security and foreign policy, and in past years would have had solid bipartisan support, is rejected for politics and money.
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Here is what is WRONG WITH AMERICAN POLITICS. Right Here!
Switch to Publicly Funded Campaigns (like the rest of the Civilized world) and this issue goes away.
Unfortunately, the pigs feeding at the trough will NEVER vote to take the trough away.
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Some slap in the face obviousness here huh.
Money corrupts the system that isn’t supposed to be in the least about money.
I believe that Obama and his team will prevail and pigs that feast at the trough will get fatter. Oh well, Obama winning is us winning and that is the most important thing.
Just like the actual Iran deal, it is focused on what matters most.
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Yes, well that is easier said than done but I certainly do agree.
But we all could do something today. Call the dem senators who haven’t signed on and tell them we want them to sign the deal. Here are their names, I plan to call each and everyone today The President only needs one of them
Michael Bennet (Colo.) @senbennetCO
Joe Manchin (W.Va.) @Sen_JoeManchin
Barbara Mikulski (Md.) @SenatorBarb
Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) @SenBlumenthal
Cory Booker (N.J.) @corybooker
Maria Cantwell (Wash.) @SenatorCantwell
Ben Cardin (Md.) @SenatorCardin
Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.) @SenatorHeitkamp
Gary Peters (Mich.) @Peters4Michigan
Mark Warner (Va.) @MarkWarner
Ron Wyden (Ore.) @RonWyden
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The Iran deal (now assured) is the least of it. Disclosure for federal contractors should be a basic part of the system.
But I think we shouldn’t be seduced by a quid-pro-quo picture of contributions where politicians who would otherwise Do The Right Thing abandon their principles for money. The problem goes much deeper than that: defense contractors and other big donors who want something done tend to find potential candidates who already believe in the military/corporate/plutocrat crony system and then help them get elected. So even if you can get big money out of the process, you still have to wait for the entrenched politicians to leave the system before you get serious change.
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Let them waste their money on a losing cause. At least it will not prop up any occupants of the GOP clown car.
Done and done, as you know by now. And since the outcome is certain, perhaps a few Dem Senators will get enough spine to support the first vote and prevent the need for a veto.
The graft is ow baked into the political system. Way to go SCOTUS.
Empty threat, because the Iran deal will be signed and sealed long before the election, and because it is a one-off issue. It isn’t like tax cuts or defense spending or industry regulation, or gun control, which all are issues where there will be numerous relevant votes in each session of Congress.
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Good point, my friend. I am also hoping that some real, visible benefits come from this Deal (like lower fuel costs, more Mid East stability).
The larger point, which is allied with Lestatdelc’s post, is the PROCESS, which I am convinced, revolves around MONEY and MEDIA. Presently there is so much goodwill in the United States…and, on the other hand, there is so much bankrolled stupidity brought to the forefront by shills calling themselves “journalists”