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In reply to the discussion: Evo Morales responds to John Kerry: Never Again Will We Be Your Backyard [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)... and many of the other corporate Democrats that were shaping our party at the time in to the direction it currently is where it claims to support us, but people like Harry Reid hold up their hands after stopping filibuster reform saying that they can't do anything when they "don't have the votes" to stop corporatist BS crap from stopping bills, or shaping the crap that does go through now. They're sneaking CISPA through now and the corporatist crap in the immigration bill (expanding the "indentured servant" H-1B visa program caps when neither foreign or American workers want or need it as opposed to true IMMIGRATION reform) while we're distracted conveniently with other events from paying attention to this (and to what's going on now in Bolivia as well).
People used to joke about how it was odd that Democrat James Carville is married to Republican Mary Matalin, and how "odd" a combination that was. But I don't think that these two corporatists are an "odd couple" at all. They demonstrate with their own marriage as a macrocosm of the BS smoke screen that is going on over Washington as the CORPORATIST party controls everything and it is hard for any true progressive pols to be heard at all, let alone elected now with Citizen's United in place.
I wish I could have responded more to this thread earlier this week, but was swamped at work with situations that has arguably been made worse by the current tech sector work environment alluded to above.