Much of the Same

So as I'm listening to my daily news broadcast from DemocracyNow.org (I highly recommend listening to their news broadcasts, they're pretty accurate as to what's going on in this country) and the three guests Amy Goodman had on (Naomi Klein, Melvin Goodman & Michael Ratner) basically said: Obama has chosen people that aren't going to change anything. DemocracyNow! is an almost mainstream news source, and they're saying Obama is picking the wrong people for the problems at hand.
Go there and DL there broadcast for 11/17 and listen to it. Or read what Naomi Klein has to say, she's fucking brilliant.
Originally I posted it, but it's very long.
To sum it up: She says we don't need a smooth transition, that is only going to offer more of the same. We need to shake the boat, these companies need to be held accountable for what they're doing and the money they're using should be going to where it was intended: Freeing up the credit market and resuming lending, not being used for bonuses and buying up other banks as it has been. Essentially what these banks are doing is violating the terms of the bailout and Congress isn't standing up to them.
Barney Frank has even stated that what they're doing violates the terms of the bailout agreement. AND NO ONE IN OUR LEGISLATURE IS DOING ANYTHING. Essentially they're saying this credit crisis is so profound that legality no longer matters. This is absolutely absurd!
Then, compound on to that Obama picking people who backed the bailout, who aren't calling for the oversight committee that is supposed to be there, and also picking people for his foreign policy advice that BUSH used to lie us into the war!
From the broadcast:
"..John Brennan and Jami Miscik, both former intelligence officials under George Tenet, are leading Barack Obama’s review of intelligence agencies and helping make recommendations to the new administration. Brennan has supported warrantless wiretapping and extraordinary rendition, and Miscik was involved with the politicized intelligence alleging weapons of mass destruction in the lead-up to the war on Iraq.."
Nothing is going to change unless we, as Americans, demand that change. Democrats controlling congress isn't going to do anything if the people are still on the same agenda of corporate control.