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Jonathan Richards

Posted: January 2, 2011 05:39 PM

Shaking up the Senate

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Senator Tom Udall (D, NM) gets ready to take on the filibuster and shake up the Senate.
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Jonathan Richards
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07:16 PM on 01/11/2011
The Decaffeinated Tea Party?
03:05 PM on 01/03/2011
Dear Vice President Biden,
On January fifth you will have the opportunity to recognize a point of order leading up to a majority vote to relax the filibuster and hold rules of the Senate.
Historically, the two primary forces leading to revolution and loss of human rights are the economic destruction of the middle class and the dysfunctionality of their government.
The destruction of our Middle Class as measured by the Gini index and reported by the CIA is now second only to Brazil of the developed countries. All developed countries with a Gini index over 38 except the US (i.e. Russia, China, Mexico & Brazil) have a police state with limited human rights or wealthy families must travel and live with armed guards to prevent robbery and kidnapping.
As you know, over 300 bills were left languishing in the Senate at the end of the last session of Congress of which over half received a majority of Republican votes in the House. For the sake of our Union and our human rights, we must not let this continue.
I am writing to you today to implore you in the name of our precious democracy to restore the functionality of the Senate.
By taking this critical step forward you will allow our democratic institutions to get to work on job one -- strengthening our Middle Class.
Thank you for hearing my Plea,
09:21 AM on 01/03/2011
If only anything could work.
07:54 PM on 01/02/2011
It must be all that decaffeinated tea. The teddy bear is priceless.