This Is How Bad Politics and Government Are In Our United States Today

It looks for all the world as though Joe Biden will be the Democratic Party candidate for the presidency this Fall.

Sure, Bernie Sanders could still pull yet more delegates in the states that have yet to vote but it does look like, between the money and corporations and organizations that are already behind Mr. Biden and that will be behind him, he will likely gain this political nod and position.

So as the title says, this is how bad politics, presidential, federal government is just now in our nation.

Joe Biden would be a HUGE improvement over Donald, "The John", Trump but he is no way a change agent. Not for the environment, heck, not even for the people.

I've written and posted here, in the last 3 years, some of the worst of the current administration in our White House. God knows this President is ignorant of our government and personally arrogant and misogynist and sexist and racist and homophobic and so much more.

So yes, Joe Biden will be an improvement.

Yahoo.

He can keep us from going over any further national and international brinks, so to speak. He and Congress should be able to, at last, get and keep Russians out of our elections and so much more.

But here's Joe Biden.

And as for the environment?  More on Joe.

Greenpeace Gives Joe Biden a D- 

on Climate Change Report Card

And look what happened today to the markets after Joe did so well last evening.

Dow jumps more than 800 points as Biden Super Tuesday victories boost health care stocks

Oh, sure, Joe says he'll go back and fight for an element of Obamacare.

Biden Vows To Reinstate Obamacare’s 

Individual Mandate

One element. That's it.

Forget about much significant change in our health care system.

Or change in much of anything else, for that matter.

No, no. Joe Biden is, hmm, at best, a "decent" man. He means well. In his career in Congress, he's been "Go Along Joe." He famously/infamously voted for the Iraq war and on and on. 

The wealthy and corporate America no way want a Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren in the White House, know that, fellow Americans. They no way want to allow or make possible true, fundamental change, changes back for the people, the middle-, working- or lower-classes.

All that can be said for him, for or about Joe Biden, is that he's no Donald Trump.  He's an improvement over that.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is how desperately bad our national politics and government are presently.

These are dire times indeed.

We are bought and sold.

God help America.

Link: More of the Democrats and Democratic Party stifling true Progressives--

Pelosi Carries Right-Wing Rep. Henry Cuellar Over Finish Line to Defeat Progressive Jessica Cisneros

Man who took 30 years to win one state considered "electable"

The Case Against Joe Biden: Former VP’s Long Career Shows a Recurring Theme of “Appeasing the Right”

Republicans would be against blue sky if the President came out for it

Yes, I'm convinced of it.

Word out yesterday, in The Kansas City Star, at the end of an article about President Obama's trip to Afghanistan, tells of Republicans thinking they're going to come out against this administration's work for a new treaty with Russia for a nuclear arms deal.

WTH?

Seriously.

How can we take these people seriously any longer?

If President Obama comes out tomorrow for clear breathing, it seems the Republicans would come out against it.

They just patently cannot, they think, allow this President to be successful, country be damned, as I've written before.

They're scared half to death that he'll usher in the next FDR-like 40 years of Democratic control.


Chill, guys, okay?

Work for the betterment of the US, will you? Work with us.

You lost the last election.

Get over it.

Needing and wanting reforms--health care, banking and more

Bill Maher: telling it like it is



Note/warning: some adult (crude) language

Important read in The New York Times today

There is a huge story in The New York Times today that might otherwise be overlooked, I think.

It's about the "Hillary" Documentary that came out during the last Presidential election.

This documentary was a savaging of Hillary Clinton and her reputation and it had been paid for by corporations.

From the article:

"The case, which arises from a minor political documentary called “Hillary: The Movie,” seemed an oddity when it was first argued in March. Just six months later, it has turned into a juggernaut with the potential to shatter a century-long understanding about the government’s ability to bar corporations from spending money to support political candidates."

"At issue is whether the court should overrule a 1990 decision, Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, which upheld restrictions on corporate spending to support or oppose political candidates."

What's happening here that concerns me most is that corporations are pushing to be able to flood money into opinionated, one-sided, possibly and even quite likely out-and-out negative "documentaries" that can assassinate an opponent's political career.

With corporations on one side, they've been joined by some liberal organizations like the ACLU and others that absolutely don't want any censorship but most liberals and organizations are, for the most part, against this idea for the corporations.

This rehearing of this case is going to be a huge battle and the American public will be greatly affected by it and for years to come, one way or another.

I contend that, for the good and sake of the country, we are better-served by keeping this huge well of money--and possible ugly negativeness--out of our political system.

To know about this case, the participants and the possible recriminations, I strongly recommend you read the article.

Link to story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/us/30scotus.html?_r=1&th&emc=th