I am not a member of any organized political party, I’m a Democrat. -Will Rogers

That could be the tagline to any number of stories about the Democratic party here in southwest Colorado. I generally prefer to be registered as an Independent or Unaligned voter, because half the time I agree with one party or the other and half the time I don’t agree with either of them. But when it looked like there was going to be a real choice between the two parties I signed up as a Democrat so I could help pick this year’s candidate.

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Congress gave $700 billion dollars to the Treasury Secretary ten days ago, with instructions to use it to restore liquidity to our banking system. To date nothing has been done. Secretary Paulson seems to be unable to break away from the discredited free market ideological straight-jacket of the Bush administration. The situation worsens with each day that passes. There is only one workable option on the table: the government must buy stock in our banking institutions in quantities sufficient to restore their balance sheets. Only then will the banks be able to resume lending.

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