Are there any Senators or Representatives of either party, who don't have several corporate

[Atticus]

logos tattooed on their ass?

"Health Care Reform" without a public option---

Banking reform legislation that does diddly squat to rein in the surreal casino atmosphere on Wall Street---

Union auto workers FORCED to accept drastic wage cuts before getting "bailed out" while investment banks got more taxpayers' money and continued handing out multi-million dollar bonuses to managers who helped tank the economy.

EFCA sidelined until---when?

And, WHO is paying for the growing ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico which was directly caused by corporate greed and arrogance?

Forget the tattoos. I'd settle for a handful of Congressmen who still have some vestigial sense of shame.

[napi21]

1. Probably not. Elections have become sooo very expensive,

the only ones rich enough to finance them are the corps, thus they all, to some degree, solicit their money. ALL elections are won or lost via TV ads, and they are the most expensive kind of advertising there is!

I cant see any solution to this other than publically financed elections.

[Angry Dragon]

2. Franken from Minnesota

seems to be doing okay.

[cali]

3. yes. and it's not hard to find out who they are.

you can do the research.

[RandomThoughts]

4. Shame can get a person to think on things.

But it seems the choice to do what is best can not just be by influenced by shame, because people find ways to assuage shame with rationalizations.

Sometimes shame does lead people to do better, but they are the ones that know they do wrong, there is also education, the idea of thinking and feeling about it.

Shame only works if someone thinks they are doing wrong, so education becomes a huge component, and why so many good teachers in things like song and story are so fun to listen to, and unfortunately why some things like people teaching bad values create so many problems, as do training systems that break down feeling.

It does depend what you think is good and bad, and their is legitimate discussions on much of that. But shame does not help if someone is in denial or rationalizing what they are doing without feeling and thinking about it.

[Scuba]

5. Russ Fiengold