Dennis Kucinich on the Democrats’ Bailout Betrayal
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 7th, 2008 10:40 am by HL
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The passing of the $850-billion bailout pulled the plug on the New Deal. The Great Society is now gasping for air, mortally wounded, coughing up blood. It will not recover. It was murdered by the Democratic Party.
We are on our own. And don’t expect any help from Barack Obama and Joe Biden, who lobbied hard for the bill and voted for it. Ignore their rhetoric. Look coldly at the ballots they cast against us. We, as citizens, have only a handful of representatives left in Washington, most of whom were left sputtering in rage and frustration on the House floor. The sad irony is that some of them were Republican.
“This was the largest single act of class warfare in the modern history of this country,” Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, who led the fight in the House against the bailout, told me by phone from Cleveland. “It is a direct attack on the American people’s ability to be able to stabilize their homes and their neighborhoods. This single vote will define the careers of everyone. We are back to taxation without representation, to markets that are openly rigged.”
HL’s Take:
Dennis is one of the only honest politician out there, I voted for him in the primary; I trust him and after reading this story I am having serious doubts about voting for Obama. Cynthia McKinney is looking better and better. I have already ruled out voting for my house representative Henry Waxman for several reasons many of which come from the interview I did with him about a year ago. It is true, in some respects the Democrats are even more corporate sellouts then the Republicans. The Democrats are selling this country into facism in a New York Minute
