And, yes, I DO take it personally: We are drowning in a bipartisan cesspool of corruption

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And, yes, I DO take it personally

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

We are drowning in a bipartisan cesspool of corruption

robert scheer...

Behind the wonderfully engaging smile of this president there is the increasingly disturbing suggestion of a cynical power-grabbing politician whose swift rise in power reflects less the earnestness of his message and far more the skills of a traditional political hack.

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The more one learns about the political roots of our economic meltdown, the more the Democratic Party stands revealed as an equal partner with the Republicans at the center of corruption. ... We are drowning in a bipartisan cesspool of corruption, and the sooner we grasp that fact the better.

the awakening can't come soon enough for me...

Labels: Barack Obama, bipartisanship, corruption, Democrats, economic collapse, financial meltdown, Republicans, Robert Scheer