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2010-07-31 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by tu3031 2010-07-31 13:23|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 ayuh, that'd be encouraging if the GOP were any more trustworty than the Donks. At least the Dems don't lie to you - they come right out and tell you they're going to screw you.

Posted by Knuckles Hupeque1061 2010-07-31 14:17|| 2010-07-31 14:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Shooting one's self in the foot is potentially survivable. Shooting one's self in the head.... well that's an entirely different matter.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-07-31 14:22|| 2010-07-31 14:22|| Front Page Top

#3 So you'd recommend the less of two weevils, B?

/hat tip to PO'B/

Posted by Black Bart Gloling6215 2010-07-31 15:04|| 2010-07-31 15:04|| Front Page Top

#4 B. I understand what you're saying - but voting in this election is like skydiving - when the chute doesn't work, you'll be kicking yourself in the butt all the way down, saying " I just KNEW this was going to happen!"

Posted by Knuckles, etc 2010-07-31 15:06|| 2010-07-31 15:06|| Front Page Top

#5 We cannot generally be held accountable for the roster of candidates, but we certainly are held accountable to vote. I believe we are nearing the first of four major political tipping points. The first is of course the upcoming November elections, thence January 2011, followed by the same in 2012 and 2013. Better days are coming. We just somehow stop the bleeding and hang on. This is a great land and a great people. What we are seeing is a wicked and deceitful aberration. This too shall pass.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-07-31 15:28|| 2010-07-31 15:28|| Front Page Top

#6 From your keyboard to God's ear, Besoeker.

Knuckles, etc, if you do not vote in an election you agreed to the outcome, whatever it might be. Do you trust the people around you to vote in your interest instead of theirs?

Posted by trailing wife 2010-07-31 16:19|| 2010-07-31 16:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Never said I wasn't going to vote straight-No-Dem, TW, just said I don't think it will do a hell of a lot of good.

Posted by Knuckles 2010-07-31 17:09|| 2010-07-31 17:09|| Front Page Top

#8 That's ok then, Knuckles dear. As long as you vote your conscience, whatever that might be, I can't complain. And I am quite sure there will be problems with the voter lists again this fall -- the Soros people worked hard to get Secretaries of State in position to ensure that. Nobody said taking back our country would be easy.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-07-31 17:15|| 2010-07-31 17:15|| Front Page Top

#9 The problems are political parties and professional politicians, neither of which were contemplated by the Founders. Partisanship is superceding patriotism. The only person I'd really trust in office is the independent who was dragged in, screaming and kicking... and I'd watch him like a hawk.

Personally I think we reached the game-fail stage. For any set of rules, people will game the system to achieve their ends in fashions the rules don't normally allow or contemplate. US politics is at that stage with the political class building on 200+ years of gamesmanship. It's reached the stage where the gaming prevents the system from doing what it was designed to do.

Time for a game-changer. As bad as O is, he's just one man. I think the larger problem is the half-a-thousand in the Boarding School for Kleptocracy we call Congress. The recent Rangel business proves they can't/won't police themselves, so we need to do it for them.

I've long thought that the checks and balances system breaks down w/r/t Congress. If I were appointed Czar of Fixing Everything That's Wrong, I'd appoint a permanent Inspector General or Independent Prosecutor, reporting to the Supreme Court with powers including subpoena, recommending dismissal from Congress and filing of criminal charges in Federal Court. Yes, this conflicts with the Constitution but that's what we have Amendments for.

Posted by Mercutio 2010-07-31 17:33|| 2010-07-31 17:33|| Front Page Top

#10 The only person I'd really trust in office is the independent who was dragged in, screaming and kicking..

Speaking of which.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-07-31 18:42|| 2010-07-31 18:42|| Front Page Top

#11 Point taken, Procopius2K, an independent who doesn't have a wife like Messalina.

Posted by Mercutio 2010-07-31 22:49|| 2010-07-31 22:49|| Front Page Top

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