Red, White, and Blue in the Face!

and are in such fear of losing their opportunity to “transform America” that the Democrat leadership in the House and Senate have managed to pull yet more legislative coup d’etats.

Campaign Finance Disclosure –  The Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act, otherwise known as H.R. 5175 was passed late Thursday afternoon. What can I say about this one! The Progressives in the administration have been salivating at the prospect of putting a muzzle on their political opponents. The Supreme Court decision that corporations have a right to give money to election campaigns definitely put a burr under the progressive donkey’s saddle and had to be dealt with. In fear of losing their political majority and thus endangering the progressive agenda, Dems have voted to apply pressure on political opponents by requiring them to disclose all of their campaign contributors. In order to get the bill passed some conservative Dems had to be placated by amending the bill to eliminate disclosure requirements for organizations that have more than 1 million members, have been in existence for more than 10 years, have members in all 50 states and raise 15 percent or less of their funds from corporations.

Then, while the rest of America slept (many of us fitfully)

Finance reform – the House and Senate Democrats worked through the night to reach agreement on Finance Reform legislation (loving called the Dodd-Frank bill). Given the progressive bent of Obama’s administration and it’s tight-fisted control over the Democratic members of our legislative branch this bodes no good for the United States.

In a quote reminiscent of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s comments on the TARP bill, Rep. Chris Dodd said

“No one will know until this is actually in place how it works. But we believe we’ve done something that has been needed for a long time. It took a crisis to bring us to the point where we could actually get this job done.”

So now the Progressive movement in America has their finger firmly on the pulse of the economy and if this Progressive movement remains true to the Progressive principles we are in  for an economic gutting. As they ram “redistribution of wealth” down our throats Obama’s administration and his minions in the Democratic party are effectively putting a knife to our economic throat and saying “you’ll do it our way”. It’s difficult to believe but the Democratic Party has been completely and effectively hijacked by the Progressive minority (yes, I still believe that the majority of Dems are liberal but not progressive, they’ve just proven themselves to be primarily spineless).

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