What's with Senator Bernie Sanders?  Why do contemporary legislators like Sanders go to The Hill and CHANGE?  What happens to them so that they interpret civil behavior and the rules of Congress (or Roberts Rules of Order or whatever) as more important than and incompatible with living within the LAW itself, specifically abiding by the Constitution by UPHOLDING the Constitution and vigorously defending the Constitution through the avenues provided by the Constitution, for example, IMPEACHMENT!

Sen. Sanders SOUNDS very senatorial, indeed. But I could care less about this IMAGE STUFF;  that's largely TV Land casting stereotype stuff; image and role playing are meaningless in the absence of substance and substantive action.  Looking the part, dressing for success, so much of that stuff is high school peer pressure leftovers.  What about the CHARACTER required to stand up to the criminals in the Bush Administration????  Where is it????

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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.--Eleanor Roosevelt

Did I miss it?  Did either Obama or Hillary mention 'pre-existing conditions'?  Where are they on that?  Because that is a real key to the continued health insurance profiteering!  The corporations backing Clinton and Obama will not want to lose the profits they are getting now from challenging sick people making claims.

I must have missed it.  Did I miss it?  Did they address profit motive in healthcare and "pre-existing conditions"?

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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.--Eleanor Roosevelt

More and more in the regular press and on the blog I sense that Americans appear to be thinking that George Bush Senior and George Bush Junior somehow represent two different ways of operating, two different styles of politics, two separate ways of dealing with power.

George Bush Senior really wants to preserve a chance for the other son Jeb Bush and so is trying desperately to produce this perception that there is a difference.

Everything George W. Bush is doing -- dissolving government, obsessive secrecy, free reign to corporate greed and imperialism, cronyism, bigotry against the poor and those of color, fomenting division and encouraging polarization, etcetera -- are all the very tools his father, George H.W. Bush, handed down to him!

The only difference is this: George H.W. Bush's arrogance was the arrogance of white aristocratic privilege while George W. Bush has put his white aristocractic privilege on the steroids of Christianist/Dominionist autonomy.

Bush 41 snuck around and went to great pains to grasp power on his own terms largely under the radar; Bush 43 has been out in the open telling us "Freedom's on the march" -- that is, HIS definition of freedom which is the total expression of the franchise and immunity and white aristocratic Dominionist privilege he has chosen to express; and it's a privilege so vast that he feels no law applies to him, and so now he can destroy all evidence to neutralize our attempts to document his crimes.

(Regarding us getting into this mess so deeep: As a nation of citizens, we have been really bad listeners, as a truly good listener doesn't use his own vocabulary when trying to understand another person, but rather seeks to understand WHERE the other person is coming from! We need to make a glossary of the words Bush Junior uses that have little to do with our usual dictionary definitions!)

The only thing we can impeach George W. Bush on now is DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE AND REFUSAL/UNWILLINGNESS TO ALLOW TESTIMONY.

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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.--Eleanor Roosevelt