Not this again. Could y’all please not play Russian roulette with the global economy over petty partisan bullshit? Maybe we could gift you a nice Westminster style parliamentary system where this kind of thing can’t happen.
So, who is more evil, a serial killer that raped and killed 25 children, or a person who has never done anything wrong, but drove drunk one time and got into an accident resulting in one person dying? Both crimes, both deserving of prison time, but are both equally as evil in your eyes? Be honest now. Are both equally evil?
Do you actually want to understand what you’re not getting here?
The filibuster isn’t running kids over. It’s an emergency valve. It’s designed to be something the minority can use, in extreme circumstances, to stop the majority.
Its use sparingly isn’t a huge problem. The huge problem, is when you decide that nearly everything gets it. That turns an emergency valve into an emergency brake, and it means the engine of state can’t do anything.
So, the reason you’re being stupid, is that you don’t understand the underlying fact that a few filibusters are a good thing, and too many are bad.
I’ll try to explain it, so even Clothy could get it: One slice of delicious bread is tasty. Eating nothing but bread every day will give you backwards bending knees and make your teeth fall out.
Oh my god, I called it on like page one, and here we are, 100 posts later. Clothahump: never one to disappoint. Well, actually wait. Can you still say that if what he never fails is to disappoint us?
Dear Clothahump: please leave and come back with something known as a “fucking clue what you are talking about”. Thanks.
While you do get a tip 'o the hat, I’m afraid that you cannot get a rousing cheer. It sort of like if you predicted that it would rain sometime next year, or that it is currently dark somewhere in the world.
Your view might be colored by the politicians you tend to vote for.
Wow!!!:eek::eek::eek:
You’ve been on doomsday preppers haven’t you?
At least there’d be plenty to eat (soylent green is people)
The genius of our nation is that everything is reparable in time. You just don’t have any faith in democracy unless it produces results that make you perfectly happy.
Because they already agreed to spend the money but don’t want to produce the money.
So… does that mean its not duct tape either, or boosting cars? Im laughing at you, not with you
Interesting phraseology you have used. You label it a problem. Maybe that is why your having difficulty with your understanding. You see it as a problem.
Before you try and understand what I am about to say, maybe you should check your health plan to see of getting a gastrovisual implant to correct your renal cranial impaction is covered.
This is YOUR measure. What your kool aid induced coma wont let you see is that youre defaulting that the stonewalling is based on who you voted for. The possibility that the filibuster stopping bad legislation never occurred to you. Just because it is Dem sponsored, youre lock step cheering. Tell ya what son, get the surgery before posting again.
What does bread have to do with it? You do realize your first response rebukes this one, right?
What is over the top fucking hilarious is the Debt Ceiling wasnt even filibustered, and Obama couldnt even get Liberal support on his budgets, much less a filibuster.
Oh wait, you missed that didnt you?.. Damn, see, I told you the surgery is imperative. Now put down the glass of kool aid son and try thinking for yourself.
It’s sort of like if I have house payments and car payments that I’ve already agreed to make… and then I refuse to pay them unless my wife lets me cut my work hours back to half time, so that our income is less. And at the same time I demand that we cut out unspecified expenses to balance our budget. Maybe we’ll cut wasteful stuff like school supplies or breakfast for the kids. And then I threaten my wife with bankruptcy if she doesn’t agree.
But at the same time, youre also out gambling, giving large amounts of money to your friends who support your side of the story to your wife. You also got rid of the dog to save the money on feeding it, and now people are robbing your blind because you have no security.
The thing is, absolutely independent of your political views, you’re a fucking idiot.
While posters are laughing at you, the twin mistresses of logic and rhetoric are weeping for you.
Again, this has nothing to do with your inclinations or hoped end results. There are people on the board that concur with you. Those people are not fucking idiots. You, on the other hand, are. A fucking idiot.
I’d normally do a line by line refutation, but you don’t seem to warrant it. So, here goes: Bread is an example of something that is good in moderation, but very bad if it’s all you ever eat. Like the filibuster.
Also, the debt limit is normally raised separately from the budget, as I recall. And the Republicans held its raising hostage, the bargaining of which lead to the super-committee. You may have heard of it.
In any case, I think that’s all that needs rebutting, now step off and cringe from your betters, you fucking fringe.
I can insult you because you demonstrate stupidity and an inept grasp of the issues. I have done no such thing, so it hardly seems warranted to attack lil’ ole me.
I, personally, don’t eat or drink food that has been handled by drooling cretins.
Again, utterly lazy. You can’t be bothered to inform yourself, so you assert sour grapes on both houses.
(soylent green is people)