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Bad Mojo Rising
A malevolent cloud is sweeping across America tonight. It has permeated the air with betrayal and cowardice. Around the District of Columbia, our putative leaders are breathing in the foul stench of capitulation and finding it to not be as nauseating as they imagined it would be. Our fearsome and feckless Democratic Senate is poised on the precipice of utter degradation. Tomorrow, July 10, 2008, a majority of Democrats in the Senate will march in robotic step with a majority of Democrats in the House and drag our Party, the Constitution and our Republic into the gutter of craven careerism with gusto and enthusiasm. They will vote for the abridged FISA act and gut the Constitution.Posted by Brad Parker, Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Independence Up Y’all
So, if you are one of the many who are now looking forward to believing in the hope for change remember this - you are the change. No savior on a charging steed, or FEMA, is coming to save us. We are on our own. It's Independence Day 2008. Now go out and act like it.Posted by Brad Parker, Friday, July 4, 2008
TRUTH AND THE WAR
Posted by Brad Parker, Saturday, May 31, 2008Control or Facilitation? The Immigration Town Hall At the 2008 CDP Convention
Progressives had many things to feel good about during the 2008 CDP Convention in San Jose. There were some long sought gains made for principles and the people - especially on the Platform Committee and our new mostly Progressive platform. However, the fate of the Immigration Town Hall, initiated by the Progressive Caucus, was a donkey of another color.Posted by Brad Parker, Thursday, May 1, 2008
The Subprime Sucker Punch
So, what to do with all of these homes going into foreclosure? Let them go. That’s right – walk away from the house. Wait a minute – you are thinking. Are you suggesting that all of these Americans just drop their mortgages and give up on the American dream? No – I’m not. They should realize that, by staying in their dream, they would only wake up to discover that it is a nightmare. The price they bought their home at will not be realized again unless they stay put for maybe up to ten years. Most of these homes were sold to Americans who couldn’t afford them and most importantly at prices that were inflated 100% above what they should have been selling at. These Americans were suckers in a scheme with many deceivers but the sucker punch that will hurt the most is if they stay and continue to pay for all of that equity which does not exist.Posted by Brad Parker, Sunday, February 24, 2008
A Deep Bow
I love the fact that all of you are here and standing up for what you want. I stand with you. I won't be silenced if I disagree and I will be there to the end for all of us in the struggle.Posted by Brad Parker, Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Obama - Mr. Opportunity (return of the hollow man)
Dateline – America, 2008. Barack Obama must have spent a lot of time studying Bill Clinton because he has become an eerie doppelganger of the same triangulating, capitulating dogma aimed at romancing any citizen who wants all image, vague promises and little substance; a citizen on edge about the future. Mr. Obama says, “I am the change!” Change to what, we ask? Mr. Obama says, “Turn the page!” Turn to what page from what book, we ask? Mr. Obama says, “Hope we can believe in!” Hope for what, we ask? The siren song remains the same - a lot of smoke and mirrors and no ideas. Here is how the dog and pony show works.Posted by Brad Parker, Saturday, January 5, 2008
Who’s “Minding” the Store?
Posted by Brad Parker, Friday, December 28, 2007National Insecurity - the blame game…
All of the national security failures of the last seven years, domestic and foreign, are the primary responsibility of the Republican Executive Branch, not the Legislative Branch of government. Any future attacks will be the responsibility of this White House. To be fair, we should add that the previous Republican Congress does shoulder significant blame for abdicating their role as a co-equal branch of government, allowing the monumental profiteering and mounting failures to continue unchecked. Most distressing though is this current Democratic controlled Congress, which deserves special condemnation for failing to stand firm, instead acting with the excuse that the House and Senate votes are not there – a favored capitulation ploy of the Clinton DLC. In any case, the executive still runs the “security” show.Posted by Brad Parker, Thursday, October 4, 2007
Billary
Billary – second verse, same as the first. They are the epitome of what is wrong with the American political landscape. Their howling ambition has become a match for Lady and Lord Macbeth. Their fierce need for fame and fortune is obscene. Their obsessive insistence on the secrecy surrounding their dubious financial dealings is bordering on paranoid and tyrannical. Then there is their personal behavior.Posted by Brad Parker, Sunday, September 30, 2007
Support of Affordable High Speed Internet for America and Internet Neutrality
No issue of public governance is more critical at this time in our history than the immediate need for every level of government to pass and enforce legislation to embody the principles of this resolution. Therefore, we call upon every Democrat in America to send this resolution to every elected official across the nation and to insist that Net Neutrality and affordable high speed Internet become the law of the land.Posted by Brad Parker, Wednesday, September 26, 2007
