Comments on: Shame is dead

By: Vince Ramos

Vince Ramos — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:38:37 +0000

As NM Senator Dennis Chavez once noted: “A politician that is poor – Is a poor politician”

By: Vince Ramos

Vince Ramos — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:38:37 +0000

As NM Senator Dennis Chavez once noted: “A politician that is poor – Is a poor politician”

By: Vince Ramos

Vince Ramos — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:38:37 +0000

As NM Senator Dennis Chavez once noted: “A politician that is poor – Is a poor politician”

By: babyfatt

babyfatt — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:55:20 +0000

Shamelessness knows no party. The recent mayoral election in Albuquerque showed, however, how to make entrenched political interests–of whatever persuasion–accountable: public financing of political campaigns. Level the money field, and suddenly citizens get to vote whomever they want into office. Public financing of political campaigns has been to date an issue of the left (the right hates any mention of any phenomenon that includes the word 'public'). But one wonders in a predominately Democratic state if the wing nuts might begin to rethink their position given that the only recent victory for the Party of No was a direct result of public campaign financing.

Politicians have no shame (that's their nature). Public campaign financing might teach them a bit of humility, and that would be a very good thing.

By: JoMa

JoMa — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:39:20 +0000

Many many years ago. when I was in the Army, I tried a line similar to this on a girl I was dating while home on leave.

Didn't work then either.

By: Dr_Benway

Dr_Benway — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:08:47 +0000

Regards Health care, a new collaborative investigation between the Sunlight Foundation and Center for Responsive Politics shows that since January 2007, more than 500 individual lobbyists donated roughly $2.8 million to 61 members of Congress who took money from at least 10 lobbyists and also received money from their clients' PACs or employees. Among the recipients were 11 senators who sit on the Senate Finance Committee. Check out what it cost to buy their votes at http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2009/10/senate-...

By: Gnarlodious

Gnarlodious — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:44:06 +0000

LOL, the modern government will be staffed by religious fundamentalists who believe in THE RAPTURE. That is to say, Jesus will return and all things will be made whole. So what is the point of NOT borrowing? After all, money will be irrelevant during Armageddon. Might as well borrow up the yinyang and party hearty!