PLUTOCRACY BARKS, REPUBLICANS OBEY

Rep. Connie Mack pushes bill benefiting big donor  Rep. Connie Mack, head of a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee, has scheduled the panel's first markup of the year – on a bill that would benefit a big donor to his campaign. www.usatoday.com

If only Republicans were this tough on their good friends, the offshore American companies that evade paying taxes. In the House of Representatives too...their special stronghold where the Republicans do much to hold back American progress and protect the plutocracy that owns them "lock, stock and barrel" as the saying goes. The plutocracy barks and the Republicans leap, asking first, "How high, boss man?" If only their boss were the average American Joe.