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Tuesday
Aug112009

When We Want Your Opinion, We'll Email Your Congressman And Pretend That We're You

Thanks to reader and blogger Mark McHugh for watching and transcribing this clip while I was away last weekend.

Money quotes from Dylan:

  • "I can't think of anything that would be more important for the American people, going into the mid-term elections of next year, than to be able to see clearly the veins of money that run from (banks, health ins., corn lobby, trial lawyers) to congress, I don't care what it is. But at a time when we are dropping trillions of American wealth to benefit special interests effectively, and we still can't see how it works...is beyond me."
  • "What if we covered Congress as a 7 or 8-party system: the banking party, the energy party, the insurance party, the corn party, etc..."
  • "The American people feel so betrayed by the way the government dealt with the banks, in not demanding terms, in allowing no clawbacks, no discounting of the AIG payments to Goldman Sachs...So to lobby behind closed doors, or to lie about lobbying efforts, is quite frankly a betrayal of democracy."

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Reader Comments (3)

Thanks, Mark. Nicely done.
Aug 11, 2009 at 4:04 PM | Unregistered CommenterJames H
DB is giving me more credit than I deserve, I only transcribed the first quote. And I wanted to name the post, "When we want your opinion, we'll pretend that we're you and email your congressman"

Which I still think is a hoot, but seriously, what the hell do I know.
Aug 11, 2009 at 4:12 PM | Unregistered Commentermark mchugh
Mark...you're right...yours is a way better title...i'm gonna change it...

I read your email once and didn't copy/paste the title and forgot about it...
Aug 11, 2009 at 9:29 PM | Registered CommenterDailyBail

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