This is the reason, IMO, Sarah was trashed so vigorously - she demonstrated in Alaska that she wouldn´t put up with corruption from either side of the aisle. The only constituency that mattered to her was "we the people" and the constitution. How quaint. /s

Eyeopener special. It´s worse than you feared in D.C... The government as ever more voracious parasites on the productive in America. Something´s got to give, the sooner the better. Shows like this special help.

And Steve Bannon´s a good man. For those who don´t know, it´s his Citizens United that brought and won the SCOTUS suit last year that successfully rolled back some of the First Amendment problems of McCain-Feingold.

"Rome: center of the civilized world, in the fifth year of the Imperial Reign of Caesar Obamicus"... a paraphrase of the opening lines of the classic movie "The Robe".

It was pointed out that the fiscal cliff was never going to occur and never will. Simply too much money flowing into the coffers from defense lobbyists (among others) to sit back and do nothing. Lots of "professional wrestling" style debate about it, great fodder for the media, but nothing more. Congress in action is a pathetic joke. Someone stands in front of the floor, making his case, while maybe 5 or 6 in the chamber (among the 20-30 who are even present) are listening. The rest have already met with the cognizant lobbying group in the back room and decided their vote. And unless C-SPAN is catching whatever is being said by the member speaking and the alphabet networks opt to put it on the air that evening, the argument is a waste of time and breath.

TERM LIMITS!

We missed it and I don´t see a rerun scheduled. It is available at YouTube, posted in three parts.

Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXV2Y7a-6gE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyi6WQ2XKXI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbfwduvwwdY

The Founders would be apalled at the beltway´s lefty/lib/statist´s reversal in governance to the checks & balances which they provided in the U.S. Constitution! Their tried & true principles in support of Liberty have kept our ship of state historically on course through good times & bad times, ...at least until the unsustainable, radical lefties´ policies intruded throughout the past 40 years.

OP, #´s 1 and 2 right on! I watched most of this. Compare the detail these fellows went into and compare it with the hopeless, behind kissing news coverage we now get in America. Breaux and Lott´s smiling faces on the webste of their lobbyist firm tells you all you need to know. Capitol Hill is corrupt from top to bottom.

We watched - I posted a comment on the Connection before I came to this report. If you didn´t see the program, be sure to catch the you tube videos listed above by #7 - this should be mandatory viewing and curriculum for every student who´s future has been so aggressively compromised by the governmen´ts fiscal madness.

I watched this last night. I thought I´d seen everything when it came to government excess, but this was stunningly hedonistic to the point of insanity.

People handing out cash for half million dollar cars? Wine that cost more than my house flowing like water in restaurants that take days to get into?
No middle class.
Panhandlers down the street from government buildings filled with people who make six figures researching how to help panhandlers.
D.C. is the rabbit hole.
The extreme nepotism...it´s an entrenched aristocracy. No wonder there is no change.

I hope those pigs with their snouts in the trough enjoy their moment because a reckoning of this size will be painful.
Yes. Make this mandatory viewing everywhere.

I also watched last night. Above poster mentioned nepotism which you rarely hear anything about. Just think of Chelsea Clinton´s work career. Not necessarily in politics, but she´s coming. Maybe with her face, she´ll end up as a lobbyist like the others - wives, kids, daughter in laws. Do you remember Trent Lott retiring early so he could get in under the wire to be a lobbyist?

If I were king I´d place the House in Kansas City or Oklahoma City and the Senate in San Francisco, leaving only the executive and its bureaucracy in D.C. That would help to break up the game.

Not to worry, however.

When it all comes to pass the bureaucrats will turn out the lights after they have sucked every last dime from us.

The show provided more than ample evidence of the fact that the government that governs the biggest governs the worst. What goes on in D.C. is an insult to the American people. Makes you feel like a patsy to work hard, live morally and pay your taxes. That must stop.

Thanks for posting the YouTube links #7. Surely a must see for those who haven´t yet.

Thanks for the post, OP.

Just caught the tail end of this last night, so, ditto the thanks to #7 for the YouTube links.

#1, I think you are correct. Bannon and Schweizer credited Palin as an inspiration to them in one of the pieces I read.