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Nicholas Ruiz III
for U.S. Congress 2012
FL District 24
for U.S. Congress 2012
FL District 24
| For the new wave of American progress. |
| Big Yellow Taxi By Nicholas Ruiz III When a corporation called S&P (Standard and Poor’s) ‘scares’ legislators into legislative debt-cutting submission – you have to know the American people have been had. The S&P downgrade is political theater and should not be taken seriously. Wall Street will profit enormously by trading both the long and short side of the market's swell of volatility. Main Street should profit too - via the establishment of a Public Trust. The S&P fiasco creates a double hostage situation, where Republicans and fake Democrats can collude to cut everything in sight, except for sacred cash cows like defense and loopholes for the unconscionable practices of the transnational corporate class. Hop in the cab – or brace for the Austerity SuckerPunch. Americans: we cannot waste our precious resources on the misguided election or reelection of representatives, senators and presidents that would offer the American people and their way of life for slaughter on the fiscal altar of cheap and crooked austerity. People ask me all the time – isn’t the reelection of President Obama the most important thing for 2012? I say to you – it is the least important thing for Democrats in 2012. The President has already proven he will not fight for the middle and lower classes. Therefore, he should be primaried and defeated by a truly democratic advocate for the majority of Americans. Someone with minimal fundraising infrastructure and national name recognition could carry out such a primary challenge. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) could do it. So could Dennis Kucinich (OH-10). And Alan Grayson (D-FL) could as well. Perhaps they don’t have the stomach for it. Why the reluctance to step up? I don’t know. When Ted Kennedy primaried Jimmy Carter in 1980, Kennedy said he wanted "to put a real Democrat in the White House." Americans are still waiting for that day. But the political reality is this: if we obsess on this presidency in this cycle – unless we have a truly democratic contender, we will gain nothing but more of the same. However, if we focus our efforts on representative and senatorial seats we can ensure that legislation worth having gets written into law. It’s that simple. Further, we can block bad bills and write better bills and pass them over and above the executive branch, regardless of who occupies the White House. Checks and balances. The executive branch is only one branch – never forget it – nor let the media lull you into forgetting the power of checks and balances. It matters little who is in the White House, if we have a strongly conscientious and Democratic Congress. There is no greater example of congressional will than that of today’s Republicans stepping all over the executive branch this year, getting everything they want. You have to keep your eye on the ball. At this point in the game for Americans – the casino quest for the office of the presidency is better obsessed over by conservatives. They already have it in the bag. Democrats have to step out ahead of conservatives – and retake the House and strengthen the Senate against what will in effect, be a conservative White House, regardless of whether it’s occupied by Obama, Bachmann, Romney or someone else. The only exception being of course, should Sanders, Kucinich or Grayson step into the mix – which they seem totally unwilling to do. Put a progressive Democrat in Congress. Please contribute now to help NRIII unseat Republican Sandy Adams in 2012 - and work toward keeping a truly Democratic tradition alive in America: and please endorse, and invite friends to endorse his campaign here: Endorse Nick! Many thanks for your support! |
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