Landed Series Wandering

Based on a Paul Krugman article.

One wonders sometimes if regime change in Washington is just an illusion. The BP Gulf of Mexico catastrophe is a case in point. As Obama was making ready to be ‘mad’ at BP it is revealed that the White House colluded with BP to keep the full extent of the disaster from the public by [...]

This article provides a clear explanation of the Democratic Party’s conservative behavior.

Failed vote to break up the big banks

Does the Senate handling of financial reform legislation reflect the lack of a functioning democracy in the U.S.?

President Obama called the ruling a “major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices of everyday Americans.””

Linda Greenhouse writing in the NY Times provides a concise presentation of the Supreme Court’s treatment of campaign finance regulation. In the opinion of LSW (admittedly an amateur) the result from this case could spell the final demise of the view of the U.S. as a democracy not controlled by the rich and their corporations.