Amen

Elizabeth Warren Convention Speech - Charles P. Pierce on Elizabeth Warren at DNC 2012 - Esquire

I'm here tonight to talk about hard-working people: people who get up early, stay up late, cook dinner and help out with homework; people who can be counted on to help their kids, their parents, their neighbors, and the lady down the street whose car broke down; people who work their hearts out but are up against a hard truth — the game is rigged against them.

As it happens, civic duty called me to vote for Elizabeth Warren this very day in a Democratic primary (she ran unopposed). This was the fourth election we've had here this year so far (yet one more, in November, to go), so I'm wondering why, when we are talking about not being able to pay police and firefighters, the pols can't get their acts together well enough to have just two freakin' elections in any given year. It's just too much to ask, I guess. Still, it was worth the trip to vote for Warren, the only Democrat with any guts as far as I can tell. Certainly the only one on the national scene. And there's a real danger she'll lose this election to Scott Whatzisname and Wall Street money. The game is rigged against her too. Click the link. Read the whole piece.

Meanwhile the great irony of the last 24 hours (in a year full of ironies one has to take things a day at a time) is the trotting out of Bill Clinton to talk about what a great job Obama's done with the economy–Bill Clinton, the guy who presided over the dismantling of Glass-Steagall. The house may have collapsed under the Bushies but it was the Clintonistas who cut away the supports. 

The game is rigged, alright. The question now is, why play at all?