September 2008
Bailing Out - Too Little Too Late
We need less CYA and more TBC in Congress
About the only good thing you can say about the bailout debacle of the past week is at least it was a bipartisan failure. Two thirds of House Republicans and more than a third of Democrats rejected the $700 billion bill. But the fact that lawmakers from both sides of the aisle spit the bit and defied their party leaderships does not mean they did the right thing, or that 228 habitually spineless politicians all magically evolved backbones over the course of one weekend. As the AP pointed out, many of the…
September 30, 2008 | Read More
A winning third-party strategy should target U.S. House
Lee Brandenburg’s opinion piece that appeared in today’s Mercury News.
September 17, 2008 | Read More
Independent Americans for Change:
The War of Independents and a Plan of Action to Retake our Country
Let me ask you a question: do you know who represents your congressional district in Washington? If you don’t, you can forgive yourself. Almost no one I ask has any idea. It’s just another sign of how distanced we have become from the political process. We see the problems everywhere in our lives, yet the leaders who are supposed to be representing our interests, the ones who are actually supposed be making a difference, are like ghosts, flitting apparitions appearing around election season, before vanishing again.
September 1, 2008 | Read More
