The Sunday Before Memorial Day... How About A Good, Powerful Patriotic Movie To Get The Juices Flowing?

No, not Patton; we'll leave that to the ghost of Richard Nixon (who watched it half a dozen times-- sloshed out of his mind-- on the weekend he ordered the bombing of Cambodia). The film I want to turn you onto, The Political Prosecutions of Karl Rove, is less than an hour long. You can watch it all here, and below is a nine-minute excerpt. It gets the point across very well and will remind you of the danger we face if indeed the Republicans again gain mastery over the U.S. government.

Worse even than what we get from Obama and Rahm Emanuel and Lawrence Summers and the whole sleazy crew of Democratic senators-- like the 39 who joined with the GOP last week to keep the war against Afghanistan going or the 21 who joined with the GOP to insure that usury would not be banned the week before, or the 27 who joined with the GOP to prevent "too big to fail" legislation would fail.

This is all part of conservative governance, fueled by billions and billions of dollars in corporate-political bribes. It's sickening, and it's destructive to our country in ways that Osama bin Laden could never be. Who are the dozen senators most in the pockets of the financial special interests? Respected senators of both parties who all, regardless of which party, don't deserve the leniency of a prison cell:

John McCain (R-AZ), $33,674,662
John Kerry (R-MA), $18,112,577
Chuck Schumer (D-NY), $16,708,236
Chris Dodd (D-CT), $14,067,712
Joe Lieberman (I-CT), $10,087,096
Arlen Specter (R/D-PA), $6,516,574
Richard Shelby (R-AL), $5,635,030
Mitch McConnell (R-KY), $5,263,403
Lamar Alexander (R-TN), $4,940,775
Max Baucus (D-MT), $4,809,987
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), $4,694,038
John Cornyn (R-TX), $4,632,892

And it's no coincidence that these 12 corrupt boils on the ass of the body politic all constantly vote against their own constituents' interests to support the bankers and Wall Street bloodsuckers, regardless of whether they wear the blue T-shirts or the red shirts. And yet, when you watch this clip, you'll get an idea about why we force ourselves to keep on working with Democrats-- although I hope you'll notice on the Blue America Senate Candidates Worth Fighting For page that there are no incumbents and none of the DSCC slimeballs already pre-packaged as corporate whores.