Hero of the Day
David Obey on the Senate: “Frankly, I do not know what I will do next. All I do know is that there has to be more to life than explaining the ridiculous, accountability-destroying rules of the Senate to confused, angry and frustrated constituents.” On the press: “I also am increasingly weary of having to deal with a press which has become increasingly focused on trivia, driven at least in part by the financial collapse of the news industry and the need, with the 24-hour news cycle, to fill the airwaves with hot air.” On SCOTUS: “Despite the misguided and disastrously destructive decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court that have put the system of American elections on the auction block, I have worked to limit the influence of private money in elections that by definition should be public events. But the inability to achieve public financing of political campaigns represents “the biggest disappointments of my public life.”
Go in peace, David Obey. We will miss you.
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