News and Politics | December 23, 2007 | 8 comments

Federal Elections Commission to disappear in 2008?

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The Federal Election Commission will effectively go dark on Jan. 1 because Congress remains locked in a standoff over the confirmation of President Bush's nominees to the panel. As a consequence, the FEC will enter 2008 with just two of six members -- short of the four votes needed for the commission to take any official action.

The primaries start in January, and there won't be anyone to do any monitoring of anything meaning the whole voting system is open to abuse.

"There is, in effect, nobody to answer the phone," said Robert F. Bauer, a leading Democratic campaign finance lawyer.
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  • iamforchange
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      iamforchange  
    • Interesting stuff here. Want to add a reminder of another quote from dubya (2005 I believe) regarding our constitution " that's just a god damn piece of paper". No wonder things are as bad as they are. Doubtful it will get us where we need this year but there is the Green party or if any others get started for that matter. We really DON'T have to settle for only two choices but much of America has been programmed to believe just that. I'm glad for Current too but also Free Speech TV is refreshing and shares a lot of views I read here.

    • 4 years ago
  • jubal
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      jubal  
    • Cosmo, I agree that they plan ahead. They plan ahead like 50 years and more. They leave no stone unturned when it comes to brainstorming idea. I learned about this when I took a class in "Principled Negotiation."

      Rule 3 is to come up with as many scenarios as possible the more and the "wilder" the better.

      They have come up with some real doozies....

    • 4 years ago
  • jubal
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      jubal  
    • Angelina, I remember that quote, I was shocked when I heard it, but not surprised. I totally agree that we need to be SCREAMING and BRUTALLY HONEST about what we think. Thank god we have a place like this to do it, and that it is now getting so much attention; and that they have a channel on all the distribution systems, except for off air which is too bad. But I am so grateful that we have Current.

      Here is my share of the scream?..?I?M MAD AS HELL AND I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE?

    • 4 years ago
  • ssppeencceerr
  • AngelinaH
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      AngelinaH  
    • Jubal, that's exactly why we must take our government back. Sounds cheesy, but it's exactly what must be done. Only through clear, brutal messages, will we get the attention of today's and tomorrow's office holders. You are right that dems and republicans are often the same. But I think it's because WE ALLOW them to turn our government into nothing mote than an expensive power-grab. They've got their little club, and we let it all go with a blind eye. A little at a time, they have tested the waters. Today, we are at a crossroads. We either scream loud and clear, and send heads rolling, or we cross a point that we may never be able to return from, and sacrifice the American dream...forever. A whistle blower stopped Prescott Bush's first attempt at a fascist overthrow. That whistleblower was the general selected to oversee the fascist shift, a powerful man with lots to lose. Tell me, do you think today's citizens have the integrity to blow the whistle? And do you think the American people can be pulled away from FOX long enough to listen, care, and DO SOMETHING? I fear that we do not...And this Bush has and will successfully convert the US unknowingly into a fascist state. After all, he said it best himself... "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator."

      ? Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000

    • 4 years ago
  • AngelinaH
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      AngelinaH  
    • Not VOTE??? ARE YOU CRAZY??? There has to be another solution, and there is someone who's job it is to see to it. Now, who the hell is not doing their job? And WHY is bush still in office and mucking things up further? We already know that he has his hands in everything, and that he'll appoint those who benefit his administration as wel as his cronies. Why then is he still being allowed to screw things up? Cmon people. IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • 4 years ago
  • jubal
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      jubal  
    • This is so much bull.

      Democrats and Republicans = Two sides of the same coin = politics as usual

      Our self appointed masters sure like to play one against the other and it becomes this mesmerizing dance of death that sucks us all in like a black hole.

    • 4 years ago
  • ssppeencceerr
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