HK wrote:
BAR wrote:
jps wrote:
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:31:20 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould
wrote:

On Dec 19, 4:17?am, "Eisboch" wrote:
I am sitting here on the boat, sipping coffee and laughing at the
news.

Regardless of your political persuasion, you have to admit that the
Democratic candidate selection process is boring and bland compared
to the
antics on the Republican side.

Rudy's ad (response to Huckabee's) has got to be a classic. ?I
don't know if
he's serious or if it's a parody.

LOL

Eisboch
The problem with the whole process, from beginning to end, is that the
folks willing to sell out enough and do all the dirty crap required to
win either the primary or the general election are *not* the sort of
people who should be leading anything, except maybe the inmate's glee
club at the appropriate penal institution.

Our representative republic isn't all that much different from the
parliamentary system the New England colonists rebelled against. Major
difference is that our aristocrats have to steal more and much faster
because they are subject to recall by the people. Other than that,
once in office politicians all behave about the same.

Sorry, but neither party has a shred of moral credibility anymore; and
the more that each side insists its the One True Political Faith and
the other side is a bunch clueless and devious idiots the farther from
moral credibility each side moves.

The Chuck of yore re-emerges! Well said.

It's astounding that only one senator was really willing to put his
nuts on the line when telecom immunity was about to pass.

It's the system. It takes so much money to run a campaign that they
have no choice but to align themselves with powerful interests -- who
will no doubt extract a price for the support.

Broken system that needs to be replaced.

Let us return to the days when Senators were approved by the several
states legislatures. This would remove the Senator(s) for life, and
return the Senate back to its original state.

And after that, we can reserve the vote to white men with property only.

I was teasing my daughter about that the other day when she was showing
me her 19th amendment project.