[Specop_007]

DNC reports it has 5 million, compared to the RNC's 34 million.
Wonder how that will affect airtime for coming elections.

I would have never thought the Democrats were bad at managing money.

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Congressional leaders were furious last week when they learned the DNC has just $5.5 million in the bank, compared to the Republican National Committee’s $34 million.

[backstop]

Spec -

does that mean the corporations are content with the way things are ?

Or that the public has cut its contributions to the party that failed to stop Bush's re-election ?

Or that somebody's run off with most of the kitty ?

Or what ? Am puzzled.

regards,

Backstop

[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('backstop', 'S')pec -

does that mean the corporations are content with the way things are ?

Or that the public has cut its contributions to the party that failed to stop Bush's re-election ?

Or that somebody's run off with most of the kitty ?

Or what ? Am puzzled.

regards,

Backstop

[gebregebremarian]

Word on the street is that the DNC took the loot and it blew away with heavy investment in alternative energy wind futures.

[gego]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', 'I') would have never thought the Democrats were bad at managing money.

[Grimnir]

Is anyone not broke these days? Aside from the oil companies and the GOP, I mean (and there's an awful lot of overlap there)?

[frankthetank]

Why is this a current event?

Dems/Repubs...whats the diff? Both work for the "man"...

[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('frankthetank', 'W')hy is this a current event?

Dems/Repubs...whats the diff? Both work for the "man"...

[The_Toecutter]

The democrats offer no viable alternative to the republicans anyway. Both parties are essentially right wing economically and authoritarian socially at this point in time and have been so since Carter. As a result, most of the country doesn't bother to vote, as both leftists and libertarians that compose nearly half of this country don't even have a voice in politics. Our democrats in congress are practically to the right of Britain's conservatives, and the republicans in congress and the executive branch are waaaay out there...

The democrats and republicans both attempt to cater to corporations, religious fundamentalists, brown shirts, and security moms. It just turns out that the republicans do a much better job of catering to these groups than do the democrats.

Then throw in a few 'token liberals' like Hitlery Klinton and John Edwards, who happen to not be liberal but are called that anyway, and a lot of confusion results.

You won't find many politicians in our national congress that opposed ALL of the following:

-Homeland Security Act (unconstitutional)
-PATRIOT Act (unconstitutional)
-Iraq War (unconstitutional)
-Transferring powers delegated to congress to the Executive branch (unconstitutional)
-NAFTA
-WTO

Hitlery, Kerry, and Edwards supported all of the above, barring the ones they could not have voted on before being in office.


It would not surprise me in the least if the DNC cannot raise money, because they don't represent their base and haven't for decades. Disenfranchised leftists and left leaning centrists rarely vote as a result, and they make up about as much of this nation's voting age population as the right wing. In fact, an article posted a while back on these boards contained a poll that found the Green Party best represented the mainstream views of Americans on issues like the environment, the war on drugs, election reform, and the war in Iraq. Yet we don't see any greens in national politics, mostly because the Democrats and Republicans both put in the proper measures to keep them out of national debates, off of the ballots, and away from recieving the necessary exposure needed to have a chance at winning.

Even still, both democrats AND republicans have approval ratings in the low 30s! Ross Perot broke some dangerous ground and scared the crap out of the one party system masquerading as a duopoly, and the state took action accordingly. Why, if disenfranchised centrists and leftists have someone to vote for and actually come out and vote, the democrats and republicans would both be out of office...


I hope the DNC does go broke so something responsive to those disenfranchized voters in this country who don't have a candidate to vote for can be formed. But knowing the republicans, and knowing what pussies the democrats are, we're likely going to 'officially' become a one party state soon, even if the democrats weren't all that different. Our system of checks and balances is gone as it is.

There are a large number of people who would rather choose something else besides a corporate police state(republicans) or a nanny welfare state(democrats) for a change. But most aren't being allowed to even make that choice at the voting booth, and hence a lot of people stay home or choose the 'lesser of two evils'...

I tend to vote mainly libertarian, sometimes green, sometimes independent, but even in my state, most counties won't even put these candidates on the ballot. Nader exposed this phenominon as common around America in his book "Crashing the Party".

[0mar]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gebregebremarian', 'W')ord on the street is that the DNC took the loot and it blew away with heavy investment in alternative energy wind futures.