Campaign Finance Reform

What if you had a job you loved but the pay was too low for you?

What if you were allowed to seek out alternative forms of income because your employer couldn’t afford to pay you what you needed? I mean, quite literally, your boss said, “Look, you’ve got a guaranteed job here with me
that doesn’t pay much – But if you decide to stay, you can spend as much time needed outside the office in order to find the kind of money you need and want.” Then your boss says, “People won’t be happy with your inability
to come into the office, but at least no one can fire you for not being here.”

That’s exactly why we need campaign finance reform. It’s the only real way we can fight the Supreme Court’s ruling – by making this our next challenge.

Health care is obviously not going to get done with Harry Reid at the helm in the Senate. We have a strong majority in both houses, yet we can’t seem to get him to see past the number 60. Republicans rammed through tons and tons of legislation within the first few months of Bush’s first term – and all they had was the House, with a very weak majority there. They destroyed this country – because Democrats were too afraid of what they might have to deal with if they went up against Darth Cheney (the one who acted like president).

Corporations and Republicans are a deadly, scary duo.  They are both ruthless – and I don’t blame Dems for being so frightened.  And back during Bush’s iron-fisted dictatorship, I can only imagine what it must’ve been like with the weight of the world on your shoulders, Fox News, et al, smearing your name, and the only way you could protect yourself was to play possum when “the Hammer”, Tom DeLay, decided to threaten you within an inch of your life. Republicans stole two presidential elections, knew about 9/11 long before it happened, sent us to war on a pack of lies, bankrupted our country way before 9/11, and made sure everyone paid dearly if they didn’t vote for every rightwing psychopathic measure.

I’m not exactly sure why Dems haven’t stood up against the Republicans yet. But I’m pretty sure it’s like asking why the Soprano’s neighbors haven’t set Tony’s house on fire yet. They don’t want to be part of the sh*t storm that would go down on them for trying to seek justice.

Campaign Finance Reform would help put politicians back in the voters’ corner. But it would only help politicians who were brave enough to go up against the Sopranos. We need to tell the Dems in office that we’ve got their back if they’ve got ours.