The news for liberals and Democrats is depressing in the first year of the meek Obama Administration and filibuster-crippled Congress culminating in the election of Scott Brown and the Supreme Court free speech decision announced today rolling back restrictions on corporate spending on federal campaigns. Wall Street and the bankers are drooling as this week they doll out $144 billion in bonuses. Both Obama and the Congress have shown they will not restrain, let alone seriously punish, those who have heavily damaged the U.S. and world economy.

The last year has made clear that the Corporate Communists, as Dylan Ratigan has labeled them, hold far too much power. The CCs, just as earned or stolen money is never enough, have no desire to rein in their ever increasing money-power. The voice and power of the people is being drowned out.

As usual, the M$M seems to have missed the major lesson from the Mass. Election. This was not a triumph for the Republicans and a disaster for the Democrats. It actually was a disaster for both and a triumph for the people.

Independent voters make up 51% of Mass. voters. They were sending a message to both parties and the Obama Administration. They want leaders who are as angry as they are about Wall Street and the insurance companies. Someone like Scott who claims he will get tough with both. That’s why they voted for Barack who promised he was an outsider bent on cleaning up Washington. Much was promised; little was delivered when all those insiders became his key appointments. Obama has been unwilling to fight for the few outsiders he nominated. Even with the Christmas bomber, Obama let his nominee to run the TSA languish until this week he quit in disgust. 176 other White House appointees are still unconfirmed. The Republicans put up a fuss and Obama caves issue after issue.

Mass. voters are very familiar with health reform and all its incumbent problems due to heartless insurance companies because they bravely voted for serious reform to provide universal health care in their state. They watched Obama and Congress give away a very modest public option that would have only affected five percent of Americans. They know and have felt the impact of a severe recession thanks to the CCs. In his victory speech, Brown never said the word Republican once. The movie character who yelled “I am mad as hell and won’t take it any more!” worked for a Boston TV station.

If you examine the character and beliefs of national guard, Lt. Col., judge advocate Brown, he is unlikely to be the spokesperson for all those independent voters across America who are also extremely angry. Independents make up a third of more of the U. S. electorate and they are desperately seeking a real leader. No Republicans have emerged especially when it has Beck and Limbaugh as the nominal spokepersons. There is one Democrat who could fill the void.

A man born of teacher-parents who grew up in the tenements of the Bronx working his way through Harvard graduating summa cum laude in three years. A man who earned a Harvard law degree and worked as a law clerk for two very different supreme court justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia as well as two other opposite-poll judges, Abner Mikva and Robert Bork. A man who then obtained a masters in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and has passed the exams for a Ph.D. in government.

A man who teamed up with a fellow Bronx High School of Science graduate and started an innovative telecom business that began on the second floor of a funeral home and grew to be a $2 billion-a-year business, on the Fortune 1000 list, and traded on the New York Stock Exchange. A man who reported a worth of $31 million as a freshman U.S. Representative.

Yes, if you haven’t already guessed, I am talking about outspoken Florida congressman Alan Grayson. After just a few years amassing considerable wealth in business, Grayson decided to leave in 1994 and return to law representing whistleblowers, who witnessed fraud against the Government. After the war in Iraq began, Grayson was the only attorney who was willing to pursue such cases, in the face of hostility from the Bush Administration. Congress called on him four times to testify about contractor fraud in Iraq.

Grayson shot into the national limelight last October when with only a few Republicans within earshot, dramatically declared the GOP health care plan is “Don’t get sick, and if you do get sick, die quickly.” No matter how much the media or the right wing has attacked him, he has not backed down. He is impervious to anything but what he believes. He can’t be bought because he has substantial wealth. He came from modest roots and understands the pain Americans are currently undergoing. He is a very effective voice of the people who could lead them in a very needed uprising.

Below is a list of YouTube videos where you can see him in action. If you know of a potential leader who can energize the people in a positive fair way devoid of ideology as effectively as Grayson, tell me who it is. Elizabeth Warren could be another candidate so there are others out there.

YouTube videos

$1.2 Trillion Slush Fund: Congressman Alan Grayson Grills Fed Vice Chair Donald Kohn 1-13-09

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj0JAfq4esk&feature=channel

Alan Grayson on the Worst Deal Since Manhattan Was Sold for $24 in Trinkets 2-11-09 Deal with Citigroup 306 billion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-DOwLnQ4nk&feature=channel

Alan Grayson: Is there any way to save the system other than showering taxpayer money on banks? 3-5-09

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jO5Z-9yy54&feature=channel

Grayson to Geithner: What Rules Do We Need to Prevent the Taxpayer from Being on the Hook? 3-26-09

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZLiu_9Q2FE&feature=channel

Alan Grayson: “Which Foreigners Got the Fed’s $500,000,000,000?” Bernanke: “I Don’t Know.” 7-21-09

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0NYBTkE1yQ&feature=channel

Rep. Alan Grayson on Rachel Maddow: No One Cares About Bipartisanship 10-20-09

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWbTzbadG0I&feature=channel

Alan Grayson Introduces Amendment to Stop People From Going Broke or Homeless 10-20-09

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCylyNv-RHw&feature=channel

Grayson v. Broun on the Constitution ACORN 10-21-09

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKz5ZHM8kFM&feature=channel

Alan Grayson on Hardball: Is Dick Cheney a Vampire? 10-22-09

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0sgwv0rNUA&feature=player_embedded