Potomac Fever

By David Sirota, Creators Syndicate. Posted May 2, 2008.

Washington has been debilitated by a horrible disease -- one that inhibits emotions like compassion and integrity.

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David Sirota is a nationally syndicated weekly newspaper columnist for Creators Syndicate. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Hostile Takeover: How Big Money and Corruption Conquered Our Government and How We Take It Back (Crown 2006). He is also a senior fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and a board member of the Progressive States Network. His second book, The Uprising, is due in the Spring of 2008.

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Word to states rights! [Report this comment] Posted by: jwhitneywise on May 2, 2008 6:38 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] I've been saying for years that there will be forty states that have emission caps, wage equality and universal healthcare before we get it on the federal level. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Washington is out of touch [Report this comment] Posted by: badkitty on May 5, 2008 3:44 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Washington is so far behind the Bay Area I wonder what we are paying taxes for. And when I heard that Greenberg Kansas was rebuilding using "green" methods, with wind, solar, and passive solar as energy sources, it was clear that not only are Washington/Bush/Cheney/big business decades behind the Bay Area, they're 10 years behind Kansas! No wonder we're no longer the world leader in anything except military (not defense) spending. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Just a Question: [Report this comment] Posted by: talkville on May 6, 2008 3:17 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Are Empathy ("Compassion") and Integrity to be equated with emotions or inclusive of emotions? Are each and both of these not principles of individual and social conduct in an absurd and corrupted world, not only locally but globally, not only politically but economically, socially and culturally? Are these not intellectual and ethical values in our social relations with one another? The pressures of existing conditions on our own and other societies far exceed only the emotional level. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Terrorist [Report this comment] Posted by: HeKnew on May 7, 2008 3:16 AM Current rating: 1 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] The truly scary part is that Americans' are just now starting to notice it. Direct Democracy [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

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