IS KARL ROVE, MASTER MANIPULATOR, FAILING THIS TIME?

Karl Rove had had a book written about him during Bush's presidency, as Bush's Brain.  That didn't come as a surprise because the lack of substance in Bush was quickly apparent in his oral output and all the decisions that were bad for the economy and the country that he was talked into supporting.  His goal has never been made clear to me other than the power he held and the company he kept.  Clearly, Mr. Rove is not for the middle class but sustained by very large dollars which he has been able to wrest for those willing to 'invest' in his vision of the US 'future government'.  He has set up the Super PACs though he still is not getting the results he wants.

Craig Unger has written a thought provoking article on Rove  The Tea Party and the Right: Is Karl Rove Losing it?  

It is strange to hear just who has really been running the country behind the scenes on so many aspects.  We have heard much about the Koch brothers, Sheldon Adelson, Grover Norquist, and some others.  0Naive people think that Obama is in control of whatever should, does or does not happen.  That is so far from the truth.  Apparently the average person is totally out of the sphere of the real powers that make decisions. That makes most voters totally unaware of exactly what they really get when they vote. 

Please do not waste your vote for more of the years when people are lied to and left powerless.  Vote for Obama,,,he may not be perfect but he is the best of the choices available to us with his goal to make a better America for all and a level playing field.

NO ONE CAN PLEASE THEM ALL

Chief Justice Roberts certainly comported himself more reasonably on his judgement of the ACA ()Affordable Care Act).  However, it is too late to save much of the election which is being bought because of his abandoning what had been ruled for 100 years to new interpretation.  The Supreme Court refuses to reconsider the Citizen's United finding.  Perhaps IO misunderstand that it was under the right to free speech that he allows corporati9ons to act as one person.  I do not know a healthy family that allows any one member to cast them as one thought representing them all.  That money expenditures can be represented as free speech boggles my mind.  I've heard of 'put your money where your mouth is'  but understood it as a euphemism for back your words up with something of value to you, like money.  It hardly seems applicable here.

The ACA, Citizens United, and Unfair Public Perception of the Supreme Court posted by Erica Goldberg
She i8nsists that the people are misinterpreting their decision.  Perhaps that is true but the effects of the decision are not being misinterpreted.  Mr. Sheldon Adelson offering  $100,000,000 for his candidate/party in the campaign should be clear enough that something is wrong whether it was the rule of law held for a hundred or more years or this new verdict which makes a mockery of fairness in the populace having an equal voice with their vote.  When a law, whether constitutional or not, does not serve the people, it is not up to the Supreme Court to rule for it if they simply want to do so.  They have their own Court legacy to uphold.  It is now up to the Congress to write the law to cover what used to be fair or rewrite it anew in a way that is acceptable to the Constitution as it had been for so very many decades.  Insulting the Court will not be helpful nor change anything.  Judge Roberts must live with his own legacy  The better good of the people won one and lost one.