Is the U.S. Senate bought and paid for by bank lobbyist? Seems that way judging by the weakened financial reform bill?

1 The Congress is full of lilliputians who don't have a clue about what they are doing. It is hard to have any confidence in a bill written by Chris Dodd. He voted against requiring people to put 5% down payment to ob>>Gee, isn't that what got us into the housing mess to begin with?

2 Only the GOP side of the house and senate.

3 Schelli. What a parochial outlook. Trying to figure out the 5 smartest people in Congress is like finding the 5 tallest midgets in the circus.

Both parties have their share of people in over their heads.

4 Read Matt Taibbi's Rolling Stone article. It will make you want to club the lobbyists like baby seals - after you club the Senate, first. rollingstone.com/politics/news/;kw=36899... .

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.