Nasty Letters To Crooked Politicians

As we enter a new era of politics, we hope to see that Obama has the courage to fight the policies that Progressives hate. Will he have the fortitude to turn the economic future of America to help the working man? Or will he turn out to be just a pawn of big money, as he seems to be right now.

Monday, October 03, 2005

Delay's fall gives uber-rich a chance to further destroy social services

Behind the DeLay indictment: vicious infighting within the US ruling elite: "While DeLay’s support is centered in the Christian fundamentalist groups, spokesmen for the financial interests and the neo-conservatives who have spearheaded the war in Iraq have seized on DeLay’s difficulties as an opportunity to advance their political agenda.

The Wall Street Journal, for instance, published an editorial Saturday which criticized the Republican majority in the House of Representatives for its abandonment of budget-cutting initiatives in favor of pork-barrel spending to help consolidate the power of the Republican Party. “No one typified this more than Mr. DeLay, who has always been more fiercely partisan than he is conservative,” the Journal wrote. “Nothing typified that more than Mr. DeLay’s comments on September 13, when he declared post-Katrina that there was nothing left in the federal budget to cut. They had already trimmed all the fat.”

The newspaper, which reliably translates the thinking of broad sections of the financial oligarchy into political invective, complained that the Republican Congress had accomplished little since the 2003 tax cuts. Funneling another $700 billion into the pockets of the super-rich was all well and good, the Journal seemed to say, but where was the other side of the budget equation—the corresponding cuts in social spending for the poor and the working population?"

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