Originally Posted by host

scout and willravel, stop "dicking around" with distractions, like 3rd parties, 2nd amendment rights, or "oooohhhh!!!" he or she is tooooo liberal or toooo conservative !! In the present climate, those concerns are parochial....they are luxuries that we can no longer afford. There just isn't time....anymore.

We need restoration of checks and balances, now! We need trade and budget deficit management, a sane foreign policy, and military spending that isn't sucked dry by the Wilkes, Wades, Cunninghams, Foggos, and Jerry Lewises. We need the K Street Project/Abramoff- lobbyists paying to write the legislation that congress then rubber stamps, GONE.....now!

We need open government, and the end to rampant partisan cronyism in appointments to high positions, NOW!

FEMA has been destroyed by crony appointments, the CIA is a gutted shell with no leadership or veteran management....republican hacks replaced them when they resigned or were force out. The NSA is badly damaged, and DHS is an effing joke:

Read the rest of the article, most of the other lawyers Chertoff has hired, come from his former lawfirm, Latham & Watkins....<b>here's one:</b>

Sorry guys....by the time an opposition candidate comes along that is "just right".....middle-o-the-road, NRA member, third party....we won't have a recognizable country left to live in!

This isn't about democrats vs. republicans. It is about QUICKLY electing people who can WIN! In 2006, and in 2008! At first, they have to be democrats because one house of congress has to shift to democrats next january. But....they can't be democrats like this:

<b>We are waking up to a new crisis now. It is the new Corporatism, AKA Fascism:</b>

</b>These bastards proudly display this on their own website:</b>

Guys...this is what we have to begin to stop, on election day, this November, if it isn't too late already....you can only help by voting for democrats who aren't bought by the corporatist complex....that has to be your only criteria, if you ever want to vote in a multi party election, again...it is that bad, IMO!