Fix Congress Wrap Up Correction

Brian, also of my area, noted that Tom Perriello is opposing Virgil Goode. I knew that but my mind must have been in neutral on my last post. What I didn't know is that Perriello has taken a pledge not to accept PAC or lobby money. Thanks Brian.

One of my problems with the Change Congress site, is that access to their database of candidates is limited. I tried to locate Perriello and couldn't find him in their database. Perriello might have made his pledge but not at the Change Congress but that site should still know about him. I sent an email to Change Congress asking for better access to their database and some clarification on how to help with their research.

Visiting Change Congress reminded me of an item of note. Most of us know that Obama says he will not accept special interest money of any kind. Few know that the DNC has also pleldged to "not take a dime from Washington lobbyists or special interest PACs..."

That's good but we'll see how far that pledge goes with the candidates for Congress. The Democratic Party is known as, among many other things, a party with little centralized control - perhaps the exact opposite of the Delay/Rove gestapo.

I, for one, would hope the candidates do oppose the DNC, except for the special interest pledge. Democrats have, since the late 1960s, become identified with special interests of just about any minority (gays, etc), but at the expense of the non-special interests of the majority. Democrats also lost their moral compass long before the Republicans did during the Pharaoh Bush years.

In order to get my vote, Democrats needs to regress (as we've blamed Republicans for doing). They need to study FDR, Truman, and Kennedy. They need to remember that addressing the needs of the majority of Americans was once the Democratic platform. And, most of all, Democrats need to remember that the Democratic platform was once a moral one.

Even so, as a retired military guy, I have other issues with Democrats, but that's for another post.