Healthcare reform

Why I heart Rachel Maddow

Rachel, Dick Armey, Tom Daschle and Tom Coburn are on a roundtable on Meet the Press right now. Rachel slams Dick (in his mouth) Armey and he is speechless when she connects his group ‘Freedom Works’ to the Teabagger coalition that posts videos of violence on their website encouraging it. Daschle just quoted Jon Stewart by saying insurance companies are like the lottery, “Send in your forms and hope you are covered.” Classic. This is one of the best episodes yet, and we have another 30 minutes.

Letter writer nails it on Town Hall meetings and our SD Washington Delegation

I couldn’t have said it better myself;

This is a note to all senators and representatives of all political persuasions: You work for us. We employ you. We pay your salaries. We have a right to meet with you in scheduled town hall meetings to voice our concerns directly to you. And you have a responsibility to meet with us and listen.

I have said this at council meetings several times, but they seem to think that once they are in office, their obligation to constituents is over with, hardly, once you are sworn in that is when your obligation starts.

I blame special interest money in this country for why politicians have gone astray, it runs rampant just in Sioux Falls alone, RAMPANT! Public funding of campaigns will solve a lot of problems.