Amen! As in part two of my tagline...
In addition, it should be nearly impossible to exchange political donations for favorable legislative treatment. All donations should be anonymous; you can't sell influence if you don't know who is buying.
I've heard some say that all donors and recipients should be publicly identified, so everyone knows who is backing who and why. That would help if two thirds to three quarters of the populace was not too engrossed in American Idle or what celebrity outdanced the other celebrities to notice, and if the lamestream media would fairly and accurately cover that news. but you know neither will change.
You should have the right to donate any amount to anyone you want; that is freedom. But you should not be able to demand certain result from them in exchange; that is criminal. < /rant >
Perdue was not TEA party. He was just the GOPe alternative.
As for your rant, excellent!! Five stars+. There is so much that needs to change. Buying political influence has reached such proportions that our congresspeople no longer listen to or care what the constituents want. They are, as Rush put it, governing against the will of the people. Amazingly, they just keep on getting away with it.
The ‘getting away with it’ is the part that has to change. We the people have ALL the power; we just seldom recognize it & rarely use it. If, in every cycle, we voted 99 percent of the incumbents out [personally, I’d want people like Jeff Sessions to stay; he is a national treasure] we’d get dramatic results after just one cycle. The hacks that remained would be scared witless. Whatever we wanted, we’d get in a heartbeat.
But we just keep sending the incumbents back. Then some are surprised that the problems just keep getting exponentially worse. Duh. Things have got to change. We are the ones who can do it. Let’s hope & pray for a major house cleaning SOON.