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Citizens-U Ditty

Oligarchy
Dollargarchy
Mon(ey)archy
Moe!

Don’t-see PACS
collect big dough.

Plutocracy
Lootacracy
Hypocrisy
Hee!

Huge donations
don’t come free.

Media
Schmedia
WatchDog
Ha!

Amateur Cameras
drop the jaw.

Legislating
Voter-baiting
Hallucinating
Hoo!

When will Congress
finally do!?

Moating voting?
Nah!  Get your card!
But not till
registration’s barred!

(Oh dear.)

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Rock the vote, don’t block the vote!  Or let it be blocked.  This is what most worries me about 2012–it’s one thing if candidates win on their idea; another if they win by blocking votes.   My 55 for the rocking G-Man.    (Citizens-U a reference to the Citizens United case allowing certain types of unlimited campaign donations.) 

PS – Completely disheartened that the Senate GOP has blocked the Veterans’ Jobs Bill, that would have supported efforts to hire veterans as policemen, fire fighters, and in federal parks.  The bill would have increased hiring opportunities for vets, and also increased protection for federal parks and included provisions for its payment.  It was supported by both the American Legion and the Sierra Club.  The  ostensible reason – that GOP Senators did not like the bill’s funding plan which related to collection of  back taxes owed from certain healthcare providers.    (We are talking about taxes already owed, not new taxes.)