Democracy in action

[kallend 2,184]

US Senate style:

www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/09/100809fa_fact_packer?currentPage=1

(Long article).

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[rushmc 23]

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US Senate style:

www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/09/100809fa_fact_packer?currentPage=1

(Long article).

Too much is getting done in Washington these days
I wish they had a harder time doing anything
We all would be better off

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[airdvr 210]

If you read all 12 pages of that without nodding off I salute you. I got 'it's incredibly boring to be a representative in DC'. SIUCC

Please don't dent the planet.

Destinations by Roxanne

[Amazon 7]

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US Senate style:

www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/09/100809fa_fact_packer?currentPage=1

(Long article).

Too much is getting done in Washington these days
I wish they had a harder time doing anything
We all would be better off

Did you know that the rule change they "say" they are going to make is....
1 Every nominee will make it out of committee. They can no longer be stopped there and
2 Debate will be allowed to go on for 100 hours!
3 After 100 hours all nominees get an up or down vote.

What is wrong with that?

[billvon 3,133]

>Too much is getting done in Washington these days

While there are exceptions, in general I agree. In some ways the "ideal" government would be a democratic house, a republican senate and a third party president (libertarian? whig? green party? whatever.) Nothing would get done unless it really had to get done.

[lawrocket 3]

This is the funny sort of stuff one can expect. It's laghable. Both sides are juvenile - using rules to their advantage means the other side points to them as bad guys. Roles reverse and accusations reverse.

Political grandstanding.

My personal thought is that I'd like to see the Seventeenth Amendment repealed and return to a system wherein the senators were appointed by the state legislatures. This would further insulate the Senate from campaigning to the population and pulling the crap we see.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[Lucky... 0]

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>Too much is getting done in Washington these days

While there are exceptions, in general I agree. In some ways the "ideal" government would be a democratic house, a republican senate and a third party president (libertarian? whig? green party? whatever.) Nothing would get done unless it really had to get done.

Yea, status quo is pretty good; wealth disparity growing, limited HC, debt growing, yea, I see your point, all is good now so let's not change.

[Lucky... 0]

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This is the funny sort of stuff one can expect. It's laghable. Both sides are juvenile - using rules to their advantage means the other side points to them as bad guys. Roles reverse and accusations reverse.

Political grandstanding.

My personal thought is that I'd like to see the Seventeenth Amendment repealed and return to a system wherein the senators were appointed by the state legislatures. This would further insulate the Senate from campaigning to the population and pulling the crap we see.

Oh, like the reconcilliation bills to pass GWB's tax cuts? Oh wait, I get it, that was good, you mean all teh bad stuff.

[billvon 3,133]

>Yea, status quo is pretty good . . .

I didn't say that. I _did_ say that a government that does less is, in general, better than a government that does more. And as always there are exceptions.

Let's put it in terms you may better understand. Let's say that in 15 years republicans control the house, senate and presidency. Do you want them to get a lot of new laws passed?

[Amazon 7]

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>Yea, status quo is pretty good . . .

I didn't say that. I _did_ say that a government that does less is, in general, better than a government that does more. And as always there are exceptions.

Let's put it in terms you may better understand. Let's say that in 15 years republicans control the house, senate and presidency. Do you want them to get a lot of new laws passed?

Gee at the time.... rushmc was certainly good with it...Up or down vote for for us special and beautiful flowers with the pungent odor