Our House

Well it actually happened last week.  I've been sorta busy and will post this diary a day or so late but it is an "I told ya so" diary reflecting the very long winded, thick, and ponderous dairy I produced during the heat of some recent Obama/Clinton wars.  Perhaps during this minor break I can reiterate my convictions concerning "It's the Congress, Stupid" and the realities of electoral district size regarding  the likely outcome of elections and policy/legislation.

The recent victory of "Our House" over the more plutocratic Senate (where the electoral district is the whole state) and the latter day Aristocratic (P)resident (where the electoral district is the whole #&#%^$& nation) is the trumpet I will blow in support of my cause.

The "Swift Boat" was a twenty million dollar cannon aimed at one individual in the person of John Kerry.  And none of the money came from the RNC or the Bush Campaign.  There is no real enforcement of rules regarding "freedom of speech" as interpreted by the Supremes. That twenty million was supposedly provided primarily by some very wealthy Texans affiliated with the oil industry.  So why not aim 5 or six smaller cannons at the members of the Senate that might stand in the way of immunity being granted to your company in the "telco" deal?

Although the campaign contribution side may well be a matter of continual yakking and CFR may be heralded as the latest cause celeb, the negative cannon works better and it is far easier to escape all those silly supposed limits.  What is good strategy for the (P)residential campaign is probably workable in the Senate.  It gets a lot more difficult in the House.  The number of guns and targets increases from 4 or 5 to 20 or 30 and thus the number of conspirators necessary to the unsavory enterprise is raised in step.  Such expansion works to thwart unsavory designs.

IMHO the actions of the House in the last week is strong support for the idea of expanding the membership of the House to facilitate a more adequate level of representation of the people as opposed to allowing control by the oligarchy.  And before I forget it, it may well be time to say something positive about Nancy Nice, who finally seems to have shot Bush the rod.

Yet I repeat the charge:  Any, so called, Democrat that is not pursuing a major increase in the membership of the House is a Republican dressed in a Democrat suit.