Partisan Politics

[Kid Shelleen]

They might want to listen in on a few Town hall meetings where the unAmerican, nazi, astroturf racists are allowed in before they do that. They might just get their bluff called.

If they pass Crap & Tax or ObamaCare, they WILL get their bluff called. Guaranteed!!!

[tombogan03884]

http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_08_16-2009_08_22.shtml#1250469055

Althouse criticizes what she calls the [1]Orwellian use of
   "conversation" in current national debates:

     Man, "conversation" has become one of those Orwellian words. There
     it is in Obama's NYT interview, where he's saying something that
     invites the relabeling that Sarah Palin so effectively slapped on
     it â "death panels" ...

     Conversations! Damn! As if the government does not have power! Oh,
     but it's "not determinative," you say. It's just "some guidance."
     He said that, see? Ugh! Spare me! We're right to be afraid now,
     while the man is burbling about conversation. You know damned well
     he's about to say and now the time for conversation is over, and we
     must pass legislation. Before, he was all quick, shut up, it's an
     emergency, pass the legislation. People freaked, so then he deemed
     the period of freakage part of the conversation, and there, it has
     occurred, and now: shut up, pass the legislation.

   This makes me recall - perhaps not too surprisingly - a bit of a
   [2]book review I wrote in the TLS in the 1990s of Hillary Clinton's It
   Takes a Village, which also begins by calling for a ... conversation:

     Clinton begins by saying that "whether or not you agree with me, I
     hope it promotes an honest conversation among us". It is quickly
     evident, however, that she intends a conversation with the parents
     of America in much the same way that my mother, when I was a child,
     intended many conversations with me - the conversation was not
     "honest" or "over" until I came to agree with her.

References

   1. http://althouse.blogspot.com/2009/08/are-we-having-conversation-yet.html
   2. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=935782

[504Devil]

One of these days people will wake up to the fact that none of these bastards are worth the tar and feathers it would take to coat their misserable asses.  That is why I will never vote for another incumbant at any level of government, they all  started at atleast the state or county level.  If available I will vote Constitutional or Libertarian Party, and I don't want to hear the crap about throwing away a vote -- if we haven't been throwing away our votes for the last 100 years on political hacks that do what the hell they want once they get elected I don't know what we have been doing.  Even Regean signed anti-gun legislation durning his time.  I'm just saying I am loosing faith in all of humanity one piece of crap at a time.

[tombogan03884]

 One major problem is that both major parties have become obsolete They are run by old hacks with old ideologies.