What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld.
From Jim Hightower
It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.
It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'
If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.
Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.
You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.
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