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Tyranny Of The Tiny Minority

by David Sirota

Wondering why Congress rarely passes anything the public wants? Then grab Thomas Geoghegan's 1999 memoir, "The Secret Lives of Citizens."

The book shows that, like the Da Vinci Code, the answers to such important questions are often out in the open, encrypted only by our inability to step back and see them. And when you crack this particular mystery about Congress, you learn not only why Washington is paralyzed, but also where to look for domestic progress, and how stopping b ...

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Posted by: Val Fitzgerald
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Mon Oct 6, 2008 11:51 AM

Hi! Good analysis. I always wonder at those who--unlike me--always get mad but are able to WRITE. I can't write about what's happened for the past 8 years. For one thing, I think that I actually have figured out 9/11, due to the fact that my uncle worked as a rug buyer for Sloane's in NY and in that capacity spent 6 weeks a year in the Middle East, from Tehran to Saudi Arabia, and points above, below, and inbetween. But I don't even care about that any more. Just that I know that we've been conquered by America's enemies, and they're all from the right. (My personal hero--Hugo Chavez of Venezuela who, having kicked Shell & Exxon out of his country, nationalized the gas and seeing the only thriving economy in Latin America (how could it be otherwise, with nationalized gas at the pumps going for a dime a gallon?) Chavez isn't America's enemy. That position has been held by the Bush family for generations. They dealt with the Nazis when the rest of America was at was with them. The Saudis who struck at us on 9/11, weren't hired by Bush but they did do his father's bidding; not to 'hit us on 9/11" but to create an event that would put W firmly on his ever-increasingly shaky "throne" that he had acqquired with the help of Karl Rove and Katherine Harris, she of hanging chad and dumped votes in Florida 2000. Why? Well...suffice it to say that 9/11 didn't work. Stll. Here's Bush and here are our real enemies--any surprise that they all agree? Glad I got your blog. Now maybe if I can just learn NOT to write" MOTHERFUCKER" in front of any sentence that has anything Bush in it--maybe then I'll come aboard the Net, with my own blog... your new friend, Val jvaljon1@aol.com

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