Glenn Greenwald explains what bipartisan(bend over) means to the democrats and shows the votes to prove it

How do we make running for office cost less? Shorter campaigns is the only answer I can come up with.

Many politicians hate being whores. Really! If they didn't need a cash register on their backs it would come right off.

Forget it, Jake - it's AmnesiaTown

The airwaves are public. The licenses should include a requirement that candidates for office must receive free airtime. A mechanism like advertising vouchers seems good -- the candidate could blow lots on a 30-second Super Bowl spot, or use it to purchase a 30-minute address to the nation, as the candidate wished. Remember Edwards' buying two minutes to respond to Bush's Iraq address back in September? That's an important public policy issue in a democratic election. He should not have had to raise money privately to do it. Currently, the networks can actually raise rates on political candidates over commercial ads because the candidates don't have much timing option (you need to run them before the election). That's shameful for use of public airwaves in a democracy!

Another thing to keep in mind is that the elites are working to impose differential costs on use of the internet, to reduce its use by the non-moneyed and so to impose tighter corporate and government control. We have to keep protecting net neutrality.

With an decent set of balls Harry Reid could have derailed this entire process.

Had he gone with the version not containing immunity he could have let the Repubs filibuster the hell out of it, then let the PAA law sunset and blamed it on those "damn obstructionist Republicans" for not getting the law renewed. I doubt the public really gives two damns whether Telecos received immunity or not. Then, the next time this sort of game occurs, they would at least know he is willing to hit the wall if that is what it takes.

Right now, I don't see how they can see him as anything other than a battered wife. Smack her around and there she is the next day doing the dishes again. Why would you respect someone like that if you're a bully?

...if you were generous to the less-than-rich. Fiscally irresponsible. A betrayal of the Conservative Cause. Just ask Joe Scarborough.