The Seattle Times Discovers It's Inner Plutocrat

Even Esquire Magazine is calling for a Democratic Congress but not the Seattle Times. It is calling for voters to throw away their hope, their future and whatever is left of their fortunes and vote Republican.
They believe that Dave Riechert, a Bush-man all the way, belongs in Washington because a “compelling case for change” has not been made. Their point of view is anti-voter at the outset. Voters don't deserve the best representative they can get. Incumbents deserve their incumbency unless their murder their grandmothers.

One party government has never been a model for success. When that party consists of most of the nation’s supply of amoral opportunists, it’s life threatening.
Everything that can go wrong has gone wrong since the Bush ascendency. The amoral opportunists in the White House are simply too busy plundering the treasury, running up the national debt and plundering thrid world nations to govern.
It is the job of congress is to provide a check on gross abuses of power and lawlessness.
Reichert is a charter member of the rubber stamp congress that protects the White House's ability to abuse power and leaves the American people twisting in the wind. The Times doesn't think the many this is a compelling case for change.

Anyone voting for a Republican in this election cycle is voting for more corruption, more illegal wars and hundreds of thousands senselessly murdered, war profiteering, a crippling national debt, dramatic increases in poverty, spiraling health care costs, healthcare rationing, no retirement security, unimaginable graft and corruption, no government accountability, rigged elections, an economy on life support, institutionalized energy price gouging, misogyny, homophobia, racism and for sexual perversion and torture. They are voting against the US constitution and the Bill of Rights, against educational and job opportunities, against national security and for America as a dangerous rogue nation. They are voting against a hopeful future. Not a compelling case for change?

There is nothing in the Bush agenda that will give the vast majority of Reichert’s constituents a dime’s worth of benefit for shouldering the majority of the tax burden while the ultra rich have a party.
Reichert has soiled himself both by voting the Bush agenda and by taking dirty money: $25,000 from Tom Delay and Jack Abramoff. Still not a compelling case for change?

What you read next may convince you that it's time for you to change your reading habits.
According to the Daily Kos, the Times is a fourth generation family owned newspaper that has amassed enough wealth to be asked to give something back to a generous nation that has supplied them with the infrastructure, education and healthcare systems, transportation and energy networks that allowed them to be so successful, should one of them die.

In other words, the Seattle Times want to avoid paying estate taxes. Devolutionary Dave Reichert is their man. He has all ready voted for the repeal of this most progressive tax as well and the Times is counting on him doing it again.
They didn't tell us this on the pages of their newspaper. Instead they chose to repeat the mendacious campaign rhetoric that mischaracterizes Reichert’s bright, young and ethical opponent, Darcy Burner.

Their treachery is worse than the ordinary garden-variety.
The press is the only profession to have special protections in our Constitution. In exchange for the privileged status they have a responsibility to serve their readers and constitutional democracy.

The owners of the Times have made an unprincipled decision to not do their job, to poison the public discourse and to do their best to subvert representative democracy. They want to increase their personal wealth not by free market competition or innovation but by not paying their fair share.

Their support of Reichert not for personal and business reasons is a compelling case for change.
The demonic and illegal waltz between elected representatives (almost all Repbulicans) whose votes are for sale and the businesses that buy them has to stop. Vote for change. If you have been sending crooks to Washington, change the way you vote.

Carol DW