What the hell is the matter with the Democrats? Why are they such spineless sellouts instead of the people’s champs? I think maybe (like the Republicans) they are bought and paid for the by has become the real power brokers in the US. The real power brokers are the colluding global companies that can spend 100s of millions dollars lobbying for certain legislation.

Democrats claim to be huge opponents of the Bush Administration but realistically they are as affective as an Republican majority in Congress.

Need proof:

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/dems-agree-to-e.html

Breaking months of acrimonious deadlock, House and Senate leaders from both parties have agreed to a bill that gives the nation’s spy agencies the power to turn a wide swath of domestic communication companies into intelligence-gathering operations, and that puts an end to court challenges to telecoms such as AT&T that aided the government’s secret, five-year warrantless wiretapping program.

Civil liberties proponents quickly blasted the deal.

“The proposed FISA deal is not a compromise; it is a capitulation,” said Wisconsin Democratic Senator Russ Feingold, the only senator who voted against the Patriot Act in 2001. “The House and Senate should not be taking up this bill, which effectively guarantees immunity for telecom companies alleged to have participated in the President’s illegal program, and which fails to protect the privacy of law-abiding Americans at home.”

The deal marks a huge, though belated, victory for a lame-duck White House, which fought a pitched, hyperbolic battle to expand its legal wiretapping powers after being busted targeting Americans without warrants.

I am so disappointed with the Democrats. I want to believe that the Democrats are for the little guy, for freedom and liberty, but they refuse to challenge the Bush administration on civil liberties. I’m being pushed toward candidates who I KNOW can’t win without major revolution. Candidates like Ron Paul, Bob Barr and Dennis Kucinich or even Ralph Nader.