The Rich Today Are Richer, There Are

The Massive Upward Distribution Of Wealth Engineered By Our Political Class Over The Last Few Decades Has Solidified The Plutocratic Control Of The Rule-making Machinery In Washington And State Capitals.

In One Way Or Another, This Is The Oldest Story In America: The Struggle To Determine Whether “we, The People” Is A Moral Compact Embedded In A Political Contract Or Merely A Charade Masquerading As Piety And Manipulated By The Powerful And Privileged To Sustain Their Own Way Of Life At The Expense Of Others.

It's Very Difficult To Measure The Impact On Policy Of Any Investigative Journalism. You Hope It Matters To Let A Little More Truth Loose In The World, But You Can't Always Be Sure It Does. You Do It Because There's A Story To Be Told. I Can Tell You That The Job Of Trying To Tell The Truth About People Whose Job It Is To Hide The Truth Is About As Complicated And Difficult As Trying To Hide It In The First Place.

There's Hardly A More Bitter Pill To Take Than When A President Disappoints The People Who Most Believed In Him.

Watching The Debate This Afternoon It Was Apparent They Loved Term Limits In The House - As Brutus Loved Caesar.