1/21/10 - The Day Democracy Died?

"The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes... Corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money powers of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed."

-Abraham Lincoln

Do Dems Deserve Progressive Support?

So, now the Dems hand over a Senate seat to the GOP candidate Scott Brown (a Tea Party conservative) in one of the most reliably progressive states in the nation, Massachusetts. That alone shows the party's incompetence if nothing else. The Dems have had vast majorities in both houses of Congress and the White House for one year. What have they accomplished? Let's see...