Rithrandil
SasqWatch
Haha, I was confused for a bit. I don't really like special interest group contributions either (esp. from oil companies), but I'm not sure how you could reform the situation w/o running into constitutional issues.
I agree with you on both points. Yeah, that hurt a little bit.I just don't think we should be giving companies the same rights as individuals. The current laws doing so are not in the constitution.
To those millions of Americans who have finally begun paying attention to politics and watched with exasperation the tragicomedy of the debt ceiling extension, it may have come as a shock that the Republican Party is so full of lunatics. To be sure, the party, like any political party on earth, has always had its share of crackpots, like Robert K. Dornan or William E. Dannemeyer. But the crackpot outliers of two decades ago have become the vital center today.
Republican Party would use the debt limit vote, an otherwise routine legislative procedure that has been used 87 times since the end of World War II, in order to concoct an entirely artificial fiscal crisis. Then, they would use that fiscal crisis to get what they wanted, by literally holding the US and global economies as hostages. The debt ceiling extension is not the only example of this sort of political terrorism. Republicans were willing to lay off 4,000 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees, 70,000 private construction workers and let FAA safety inspectors work without pay, in fact, forcing them to pay for their own work-related travel - how prudent is that? - in order to strong arm some union-busting provisions into the FAA reauthorization.
Yep, Repubs say government doesn't work. Then get elected and fuck up. Imagine that.A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this obstruction and disruption. Should Republicans succeed in obstructing the Senate from doing its job, it would further lower Congress's generic favorability rating among the American people. By sabotaging the reputation of an institution of government, the party that is programmatically against government would come out the relative winner.
Since Rick Perry is still favorite it seems that your plan isn't working Jhari is it? Or do you think that he IS "better of the bad"?It looks like it's going to be another "choose the better of the bad" candidates presidential election.
I just don't think we should be giving companies the same rights as individuals. The current laws doing so are not in the constitution.
leaning toward being fiscally conservative and socially liberal.
Stimulus v1.0 had limited (at best) success