tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post311042812282822720..comments2024-03-28T00:02:35.850-05:00Comments on driftglass: How To Fix The United States House of Representativesdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-78997712046408369382015-10-08T19:41:37.312-05:002015-10-08T19:41:37.312-05:00Aaaand...you win the comments section for this pos...Aaaand...you win the comments section for this post right out of the gate. Thank you for the belly laugh! đJenonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08962447894888626302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-18336901484785191382015-10-08T19:41:33.920-05:002015-10-08T19:41:33.920-05:00"Moderate Republicans".
Assumes people ..."Moderate Republicans".<br /><br />Assumes people not in evidence. There are the insane, screeching psychopaths, and there are their enablers. Chan Kobunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14002224390133771585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-20113536546987048352015-09-30T07:10:25.782-05:002015-09-30T07:10:25.782-05:00"...industrial-scale vote fraud via electroni...<i>"...industrial-scale vote fraud via electronic voting machine rigging..."</i><br /><br />That, plus gerrymandering and voter suppression.<br /><br />Why does anyone with a functioning brain take any election in this country seriously any longer?<br /><br />The only consolation which I can find here is the fact that the oligarchs apparently still feel it necessary to simulate democracy in the USA, meaning that they still fear us peasants enough that they do not yet feel they can rule nakedly as aristocrats.Ivory Bill Woodpeckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01318699512583970467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-8427179747652391402015-09-30T00:35:27.147-05:002015-09-30T00:35:27.147-05:00Or conversely, we could institute Gowachin law (fr... Or conversely, we could institute Gowachin law (from Frank Herbert's "The Dosadi Experiment") and simply fact check all speakers real-time, and execute any found to be lying on the spot. I've been wondering whether any of the Tea Partiers (yeah, I know, there is no tea party) believe they've been elected to the Bureau of Sabotage instead of congress, then I remember that they probably don't read much.<br /><br /> -Doug in Oakland dinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-58774302858671122992015-09-29T21:27:39.374-05:002015-09-29T21:27:39.374-05:00Moderate Republicans look at the wilderness the De...Moderate Republicans look at the wilderness the Democratic party is in, being outspent in the post-Citizen United spending spree, blockaded from political TV, even on "their" MSNBC, by the 1% oligarchs-in-waiting, and too naive to suspect industrial-scale vote fraud via electronic voting machine rigging, and figure they're better off kowtowing to the Tea Party anarchists. Expect a carefully orchestrated Constitutional Convention within the next decade, to do away with checks and balances and substitute government by Fox call-in show. Brad in Dallashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06823123535800923865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-41682782105522445652015-09-29T18:42:21.355-05:002015-09-29T18:42:21.355-05:00Felt the need to make a quick interpretive clarifi...Felt the need to make a quick interpretive clarification: "Once again, the battle is between Republicans who want to govern and those who donât."<br /><br />That should be: "...between Republicans who want to govern and those who intend to rule."<br /><br />And then I'll leave you with this line I heard last nite on a PBS thing looking at the history of the British Parliament: "A shiver went thru the entire chamber, looking for a spine to run up."<br /><br />Keep doin' good, DG.eVille Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06629360843038524763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-66209424742298842022015-09-29T17:26:05.333-05:002015-09-29T17:26:05.333-05:00Tengrain ponders the possibiity of a Scalise speak...Tengrain ponders the possibiity of a Scalise speakership:<br /><br />http://mockpaperscissors.com/2015/09/29/scalise-throws-his-hood-into-the-ring/<br /><br />Here's your chance, DG, if you want to sell your soul. You could enjoy a lucrative career crafting "Both Sider" euphemisms Toddler & Company can employ while hosting The Hood Head.<br /><br />For example, picture Chuck Todd introducing Scalise on Meet the Press thus: âViewed by liberals as a somewhat controversial figure, Scalise is nonetheless a passionate advocate for promoting conservative American values like self pride, self reliance, and safe communitiesâ.<br /><br />Let's face it, you've got the lingo down. Get your business plan together. I will subcontract, and only require compensation in the form of home cooked meals or freshly baked cakes and cookies.<br /><br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08141640791663745884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-18636513788628385792015-09-29T16:51:22.276-05:002015-09-29T16:51:22.276-05:00It will never happen. They value their future pros...It will never happen. They value their future prospects as K Street lobbying hacks too much to risk their current employment by being primaried from the right. From where they sit it's preferable to mumble into their oatmeal than have to stand up to the wingnuts both in the chamber and in their own district.<br /><br />Cowards, all of them.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16128460666564857113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-55718586135819856092015-09-29T15:23:22.425-05:002015-09-29T15:23:22.425-05:00It would be nice to think the "moderates"...It would be nice to think the "moderates" that remain in the GOP can stand up and deal with the Democrats to break the wingnut hold on the House.<br /><br />But while the Lord hates a coward, the fanatics hate betrayers, which is how the Teabagger wingnut side of spectrum will view the moderates who make ANY deal with a Democrat.<br /><br />A good number of Republicans happen to serve in wonderfully gerrymandered districts that's safe for the Far Right but never safe for a moderate/indy candidate. Some of them are barely clinging onto their jobs as they dread facing a Far Right primary challenger that could unseat them (hi, Cantor!).<br /><br />We really won't see any sane responses from the Main Streeters until it gets to the wire, when/if the race for the Speakership turns into a battle between the various sociopaths that have blocked those moderates out of any contention. Or when we're five weeks into a government shutdown that's clearly a grandstanding effort to make Obama look bad.Paul Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13092023794397583036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-88613851076098789552015-09-29T14:16:24.471-05:002015-09-29T14:16:24.471-05:00I'm more partial to the Ellen Ripley solution:...I'm more partial to the Ellen Ripley solution: "Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."Martin Pollardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16447696057495466243noreply@blogger.com