Hi all - I watch enough cable news to classify myself as a political junkie. My goal is to have a blog (a first for me) where people post thoughtful opinions regarding the issues of the day. I'm thinking Chris Wallace meets Rachel Maddow. The Sean Hannity's and Kieth Olbermann's of the world need not apply. The only requirement for posting (I'm assuming and hoping that others will be able to post here as well...learning as I go) is that you have an open mind and that you argue without resorting to name calling and cursing.
So I'll start it off with what I think is a topic we can all agree on: lobbying. A year after the bail-outs of AIG and Golman Sachs there hasn't been any movement on government oversight in the banking industry. I think the main reason is that the bankers have hedged their bets and have given millions of dollars to both the dem's and rep's so no one is going to propose rules to govern these guys. I always liked McCain when it came to campaign finance reform - he understood that the huge sums of money given to politicians is not good for the system. Politician's are not going to touch this because they don't want to endanger their re-election funds. (I'm going to stop here because I want to see if this works - but Im looking for responses....I want this to be a dialogue, not me just ranting - please post if you can!)
