Dear Senators Cornyn and Hutchison,
Congratulations on your Victories…
I gave you my vote, as you requested, and here’s what I’d like in return…
I’d like for you to Co-Sponsor a Bill … It should be engineered as follows:
Objective:
Simple enough…
Determine the Failure areas of the Senate and House… And to determine these areas, the failures in the Trading/Banking/Mortgage realm provide fertile ground for determining the Faulty Areas ( Influence peddling) and eliminating the problem so this doesn’t happen again… In addition, the preponderance of Cash-flow should make the assessment easy in these Economic areas…
Structure:
Fund the employment of 50 teams of 3 Non-Partisan Forensic Accountants… These accountants will be teamed with an appointed Prosecutor from each States Attorney General office…
Each of these teams will be tasked with undertaking the investigation of campaign contribution ties to “Earmarking” I personally prefer the “Old School” nomenclature of “Porkbarreling”… When probable cause is found for Racketeering violations of the RICO statutes, warrants will be issued for record Access/Seizure… Actionable charges are to be immediately filed by the Special Prosecutor with the State Attorney Generals Office, and simultaneously made public, in the form of an arrest… This insures that the event is not buried on “Page 6” of the NY Post...
Outcome:
The House and the Senate are so gleefully anxious to “Perp-Walk” corrupt Corporate CEO’s down the steps of their Wall Street offices, when found in violation of the Laws and regulations… Laws and regulations written by the House and Senate… Laws and Regulations that NO-ONE is above, particularly and specifically those who construct and compose them… They, above all others should understand the reasoning behind the regulations, and the consequences of them…
SERIOUS GOVERNMENT REFORM would begin in earnest from the “Inside” when the Second Congressman or Senator is Perp-Walked down the Capital Steps in front of Network Cameras… This IS what it will take to convince the Electorate that our Representatives are serious about Reform… Remember, the Innocent Man or Woman has nothing to hide, do they…
Senator, you asked me to “Extend your Contract” with the people of this state by giving you my vote, so that you could go to work on fixing the Partisan atmosphere in Washington, work across party lines… I did my part, now go do yours…
Sincerely and Insistently,
Your Constituent,
The Masked Independent
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Confronting The Congress!!!
Congratulations President Elect-Obama…
Unlike many of the Para-Liberals who fumed and fought and denigrated George Bush after 2000, Barack Obama will have my support as an American…Whether I voted for him or not, whether I think his policies will be damaging, at this point make little difference… Like it or not, he’s now MY President, and I will respect the Office…
Now comes a time of reckoning… Time to “Walk the Walk”…
Poll-driven Political expedience will no longer cut it… Hundreds of Millions of Dollars worth of “Touchy Feely” slick Ads are not going to pass laws… The “Transcending Party Politics” clock is now ticking…. “We the People Inc.”, your new employer, are going to expect measurable results…
And it’s time to CONFRONT THE CONGRESS!!!
Dozens of times last night, I heard the phrase “ Bush’s approval ratings are the lowest in the history of Polling”… OK, I’ll buy that, somewhat… 27.8% approval is far from Stellar…
Congressional Approval ratings are 10.5% lower than Bush’s, 17.3% approval, but so far I haven’t heard a word about it…
Obamas Political capitol can easily be squandered by the Pelosi/Reid/Schumer/Emanuel quadratic equation in very short order… Just break one promise...
Ms. Pelosi said 2 years ago that the new Congress would work in a Bi-Partisan Manner, and thus far nothing has been farther from the truth… A Little more than a week ago she reiterated the same sentiment, with the caveat tha "with a majority, it will be better"... Fool me once, shame on you... fool me twice, well you know the rest!
A “Vengeance” campaign against remaining House and Senate Republicans would destroy not only their credibility, but that of the President Elect as well… Americans understand this, and I believe that’s the reason (although the Reid contingent made significant gains last night), the voters determined that the Senate should not be Filibuster or Veto Proof…
17.3%.... That number should be “Idiot-Proof” to improve… Generally, all they should have to do is show up for work, and they can hold that line… But “We the People Inc.” deserve better…
It’s time to get to work… Stalling, disallowing Debates and Votes on the House and Senate Floor, Sandbagging, Poisoning valid Bills with Pork is no longer acceptable… With Democrats in control of 2 out of 3 Branches of Government, and a strong possibility of acquiring leverage in the Supreme Court in the next few years, there are no excuses anymore… “Plausible Deniability” is now replaced by Responsibility and Accountability…
17.3% Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Reid… Take careful note of that number… You’ve flown under the Radar for the last 2 years, and in the words of the New President “Change Has Come!”…
Nancy, you’d better break out the Kevlar panties, and Harry, you sir had better start wearing a “Cup” when the Senate is in session… People are still going to want non-partisan investigations into the Economic collapse…People are going to hold you accountable for any extremist policies… Your actions have consequence, and now you have no one to blame but yourselves...
I hope you're up for the job of purging the Legislative branch of the toxic environment you helped to foment...
Remember the Ancient Chinese Proverb “Be careful what you wish for, you might get it…”
I hope, for the good of the Country you use the next 24 months to better advantage than you did the last 24...
We'll be watching...
Congratulations President Elect-Obama…
Unlike many of the Para-Liberals who fumed and fought and denigrated George Bush after 2000, Barack Obama will have my support as an American…Whether I voted for him or not, whether I think his policies will be damaging, at this point make little difference… Like it or not, he’s now MY President, and I will respect the Office…
Now comes a time of reckoning… Time to “Walk the Walk”…
Poll-driven Political expedience will no longer cut it… Hundreds of Millions of Dollars worth of “Touchy Feely” slick Ads are not going to pass laws… The “Transcending Party Politics” clock is now ticking…. “We the People Inc.”, your new employer, are going to expect measurable results…
And it’s time to CONFRONT THE CONGRESS!!!
Dozens of times last night, I heard the phrase “ Bush’s approval ratings are the lowest in the history of Polling”… OK, I’ll buy that, somewhat… 27.8% approval is far from Stellar…
Congressional Approval ratings are 10.5% lower than Bush’s, 17.3% approval, but so far I haven’t heard a word about it…
Obamas Political capitol can easily be squandered by the Pelosi/Reid/Schumer/Emanuel quadratic equation in very short order… Just break one promise...
Ms. Pelosi said 2 years ago that the new Congress would work in a Bi-Partisan Manner, and thus far nothing has been farther from the truth… A Little more than a week ago she reiterated the same sentiment, with the caveat tha "with a majority, it will be better"... Fool me once, shame on you... fool me twice, well you know the rest!
A “Vengeance” campaign against remaining House and Senate Republicans would destroy not only their credibility, but that of the President Elect as well… Americans understand this, and I believe that’s the reason (although the Reid contingent made significant gains last night), the voters determined that the Senate should not be Filibuster or Veto Proof…
17.3%.... That number should be “Idiot-Proof” to improve… Generally, all they should have to do is show up for work, and they can hold that line… But “We the People Inc.” deserve better…
It’s time to get to work… Stalling, disallowing Debates and Votes on the House and Senate Floor, Sandbagging, Poisoning valid Bills with Pork is no longer acceptable… With Democrats in control of 2 out of 3 Branches of Government, and a strong possibility of acquiring leverage in the Supreme Court in the next few years, there are no excuses anymore… “Plausible Deniability” is now replaced by Responsibility and Accountability…
17.3% Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Reid… Take careful note of that number… You’ve flown under the Radar for the last 2 years, and in the words of the New President “Change Has Come!”…
Nancy, you’d better break out the Kevlar panties, and Harry, you sir had better start wearing a “Cup” when the Senate is in session… People are still going to want non-partisan investigations into the Economic collapse…People are going to hold you accountable for any extremist policies… Your actions have consequence, and now you have no one to blame but yourselves...
I hope you're up for the job of purging the Legislative branch of the toxic environment you helped to foment...
Remember the Ancient Chinese Proverb “Be careful what you wish for, you might get it…”
I hope, for the good of the Country you use the next 24 months to better advantage than you did the last 24...
We'll be watching...
Monday, November 3, 2008
This Blogs Virgin Post!
I Thought I'd Launch my Blog on "Election Eve"...
Simply amazing!
I heard this morning that in my little Texas County, of the 78,000 registered voters, 24,900 have already voted… Almost a third… I can’t wait to see how the turnout is tomorrow…
That gives me hope that there are far fewer “Sheeple” this year…
Now that people are taking responsibility, we need to use that momentum to address the “OTHER” Issues…
Let’s talk for a few minutes about the charges (and I don’t even think it could be called “Alleged”) of Fraudulent voter Registration and the Counter-Charges of “Voter Suppression”…
In the last couple of months, I’ve read up on the Voter Registration problem… Stories from a little Mississippi County that has 486 registered voters over 105 years old, 30,000 convicted Felons registered to vote in Florida… 4,000 Dead People still registered in Houston… ACORN being investigated in 14 states…
I never thought I’d say this, but perhaps we need Election Observers here from the Putin/Medvedev Government, Chaves, and maybe Yasser Arrafats old Cabinet… If you want to catch Rats, you don’t “Think like a Pidgeon”… The Election Observers I mentioned probably have experience than anyone in the world at Election Rigging, Ballot Box Stuffing, Vote Suppression, etc...
The “Help America Vote Act” of 2002, after the “Condo-Commando/Hanging Chad Fiasco” of 2000 was supposed to address some of these Issues, but, your Representatics yet again subscribed to the Government/Military problem-solving protocol #1 before they truly understood the problem:
Government/Military problem-solving protocol #1
“There are no problems so large or difficult that they can’t be solved with a suitable application of Funding or High Explosives…”
Government/Military problem-solving protocol #2 “In the event of unanticipated situations or difficulties, refer to Government/Military problem-solving protocol #1…”
Hundreds of Millions, if not a Billion or more have been spent on new technology in six years, and I find the results extremely underwhelming!
I can take my credit card and spend 8 bucks at Quizno’s, and by the time I get back from lunch that charge will be posted to my account, and I will have walked out of there with a receipt that shows me what I bought… Why THE HELL can’t we have a “Cash Register style” Voting Machine that keeps an internal “Paper tape Log” and print a voter “Receipt”… But even with that, (and this is where the House and Senate have failed Miserably), the real problem isn’t addressed… What good does the “Newest Technology” provide if “The VOTE of the Individual", a Sacrosanct part of our process can be tainted by these charges?
I was greatly relieved when I voted here last week, to see that even with a Voter Registration Card in hand, each and every person in line also had their photo ID in hand, and expected to have it checked against their Voter Registration…They were checked! Kudos!!!! But technically, it’s not a “Requirement”…
Does a “Photo ID” requirement suppress Low income Voters, the underprivileged, etc…?
NO. Those who want to vote, and are eligible, will vote… Any low income voter, who has a bank account, a job, received government assistance, participated in a “Job to Work program” (or any other State/Local/Federal program of any kind)etc. has at some point had to verify their Identity in some form… But we don’t REQUIRE a Photo ID for the most important aspect of the process… One Individual, One Vote!!!!... If you’re eligible, and can’t produce an ID, then cast a Provisional Ballot until your Identity can be confirmed…
The ACORN chicanery, where I believe the goal was to help Barack Obama, ended up hurting him, and devaluing the sanctity of the individual vote…
Will it supress votes? Most definitely! It will suppress the votes of the Fraudulently Registered, Felons, the Ineligible, and Dead People…
Your Representatics have thrown away 6 years of opportunity, instead using that time, and hundreds of millions of hard earned dollars to foster a “Symbolism over substance” PR campaign that produced no real fix for the problem…
Campaign Financing and Earmarks!
I don’t know if you all are as concerned about this as I am, but are you aware that the two leading Candidates have generated OVER ONE BILLION DOLLARS IN CAMPAIGN FUNDS IN THE GENERAL ELECTION ALONE! If you include all the campaign contributions swept up in the primary Races that number verges on 2-2.5 Billion…
This is freaking obscene…
One of McCains favorite Obama Earmarks was the “ 3 Million dollar Overhead Projector” for a Chicago Museum…I wished that he would have gotten off that line, because it was a Planetarium projector (as an educational project, couldn’t this have been submitted as a Grant request ethically instead of being used as political leverage?), but the Obama Campaign could have totally funded the project “Out of Pocket” and not suffered a single hit in the Checkbook, infact, His campaign could probably by a new projector for every planetarium in the United States, and still have a Surplus of a hundred million in the “Warchest”…
$10,000,000 Dollars of that surplus could hire 200 Elementary School teachers for a year, or improve the payscale and benefits of those we already have… How many School lunches does 40 million dollars buy? How many free healthcare clinics could be opened with 25 Million… That’s how you “Earn Votes” rather than “Buy Them”….
Do we really need this much money in politics? I say either Cap fundraising, or put the surplus to use in a POSITIVE Manner… E-mail your Representatic… Tell them that you want the same “Freedom of Information Act” transparency applied to Campaigns and Campaign contributions, that are applied to The CIA, The FBI and the Military…Again, the lack of “Positive” Identification is leading to abuses, providing “Plausible deniability” cover for Senate, Congressional, and Presidential candidates to take “Grey Area Donations”… We need Transparency in this process… Every donor and their donation should be published in a database that is public, and if you’re going to verify online and credit card contributions “on the back end”, you know, take the contribution, report your fundraising “Record”, and then confirm whether some of those need to be “returned”, then you shouldn’t be able to include those contributions in your “Monthly Gross” until all of them have cleared and been confirmed as Legal and Valid… Again, “Positive Identification” and Transparency would reduce the "Level of probability” of corrupting and manipulating the system…
Up Next! Confronting Congress!!!
Simply amazing!
I heard this morning that in my little Texas County, of the 78,000 registered voters, 24,900 have already voted… Almost a third… I can’t wait to see how the turnout is tomorrow…
That gives me hope that there are far fewer “Sheeple” this year…
Now that people are taking responsibility, we need to use that momentum to address the “OTHER” Issues…
Let’s talk for a few minutes about the charges (and I don’t even think it could be called “Alleged”) of Fraudulent voter Registration and the Counter-Charges of “Voter Suppression”…
In the last couple of months, I’ve read up on the Voter Registration problem… Stories from a little Mississippi County that has 486 registered voters over 105 years old, 30,000 convicted Felons registered to vote in Florida… 4,000 Dead People still registered in Houston… ACORN being investigated in 14 states…
I never thought I’d say this, but perhaps we need Election Observers here from the Putin/Medvedev Government, Chaves, and maybe Yasser Arrafats old Cabinet… If you want to catch Rats, you don’t “Think like a Pidgeon”… The Election Observers I mentioned probably have experience than anyone in the world at Election Rigging, Ballot Box Stuffing, Vote Suppression, etc...
The “Help America Vote Act” of 2002, after the “Condo-Commando/Hanging Chad Fiasco” of 2000 was supposed to address some of these Issues, but, your Representatics yet again subscribed to the Government/Military problem-solving protocol #1 before they truly understood the problem:
Government/Military problem-solving protocol #1
“There are no problems so large or difficult that they can’t be solved with a suitable application of Funding or High Explosives…”
Government/Military problem-solving protocol #2 “In the event of unanticipated situations or difficulties, refer to Government/Military problem-solving protocol #1…”
Hundreds of Millions, if not a Billion or more have been spent on new technology in six years, and I find the results extremely underwhelming!
I can take my credit card and spend 8 bucks at Quizno’s, and by the time I get back from lunch that charge will be posted to my account, and I will have walked out of there with a receipt that shows me what I bought… Why THE HELL can’t we have a “Cash Register style” Voting Machine that keeps an internal “Paper tape Log” and print a voter “Receipt”… But even with that, (and this is where the House and Senate have failed Miserably), the real problem isn’t addressed… What good does the “Newest Technology” provide if “The VOTE of the Individual", a Sacrosanct part of our process can be tainted by these charges?
I was greatly relieved when I voted here last week, to see that even with a Voter Registration Card in hand, each and every person in line also had their photo ID in hand, and expected to have it checked against their Voter Registration…They were checked! Kudos!!!! But technically, it’s not a “Requirement”…
Does a “Photo ID” requirement suppress Low income Voters, the underprivileged, etc…?
NO. Those who want to vote, and are eligible, will vote… Any low income voter, who has a bank account, a job, received government assistance, participated in a “Job to Work program” (or any other State/Local/Federal program of any kind)etc. has at some point had to verify their Identity in some form… But we don’t REQUIRE a Photo ID for the most important aspect of the process… One Individual, One Vote!!!!... If you’re eligible, and can’t produce an ID, then cast a Provisional Ballot until your Identity can be confirmed…
The ACORN chicanery, where I believe the goal was to help Barack Obama, ended up hurting him, and devaluing the sanctity of the individual vote…
Will it supress votes? Most definitely! It will suppress the votes of the Fraudulently Registered, Felons, the Ineligible, and Dead People…
Your Representatics have thrown away 6 years of opportunity, instead using that time, and hundreds of millions of hard earned dollars to foster a “Symbolism over substance” PR campaign that produced no real fix for the problem…
Campaign Financing and Earmarks!
I don’t know if you all are as concerned about this as I am, but are you aware that the two leading Candidates have generated OVER ONE BILLION DOLLARS IN CAMPAIGN FUNDS IN THE GENERAL ELECTION ALONE! If you include all the campaign contributions swept up in the primary Races that number verges on 2-2.5 Billion…
This is freaking obscene…
One of McCains favorite Obama Earmarks was the “ 3 Million dollar Overhead Projector” for a Chicago Museum…I wished that he would have gotten off that line, because it was a Planetarium projector (as an educational project, couldn’t this have been submitted as a Grant request ethically instead of being used as political leverage?), but the Obama Campaign could have totally funded the project “Out of Pocket” and not suffered a single hit in the Checkbook, infact, His campaign could probably by a new projector for every planetarium in the United States, and still have a Surplus of a hundred million in the “Warchest”…
$10,000,000 Dollars of that surplus could hire 200 Elementary School teachers for a year, or improve the payscale and benefits of those we already have… How many School lunches does 40 million dollars buy? How many free healthcare clinics could be opened with 25 Million… That’s how you “Earn Votes” rather than “Buy Them”….
Do we really need this much money in politics? I say either Cap fundraising, or put the surplus to use in a POSITIVE Manner… E-mail your Representatic… Tell them that you want the same “Freedom of Information Act” transparency applied to Campaigns and Campaign contributions, that are applied to The CIA, The FBI and the Military…Again, the lack of “Positive” Identification is leading to abuses, providing “Plausible deniability” cover for Senate, Congressional, and Presidential candidates to take “Grey Area Donations”… We need Transparency in this process… Every donor and their donation should be published in a database that is public, and if you’re going to verify online and credit card contributions “on the back end”, you know, take the contribution, report your fundraising “Record”, and then confirm whether some of those need to be “returned”, then you shouldn’t be able to include those contributions in your “Monthly Gross” until all of them have cleared and been confirmed as Legal and Valid… Again, “Positive Identification” and Transparency would reduce the "Level of probability” of corrupting and manipulating the system…
Up Next! Confronting Congress!!!
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