More like this.
Look out for the hubris, boys. While I doubt that the McCain campaign has any more arrows in its quiver, or mud-balls hidden behind its back, things can still go terribly wrong and the forces of ignorance, viciousness and “I’m all right, Jack, screw you,” can conceivably pull this one out of the toilet. I want to believe it’s all over but the gnashing of teeth, but I won’t really believe it until Fox News says so the Tuesday after next.
Last week, between bratwursts on the courthouse lawn, I had a chance to visit with our US Senator about the election (we still do stuff like that in Iowa). He says that getting 60+ Democrats in the Senate is not critical. There are, he says, enough fair minded and progressive Republicans that 55 or 57 will do the job and allow the caucus to send Sen Lieberman into the outer darkness.
We will see. Fingers crossed. Go vote!
I really agree with this.
I want to jump on this bus and say I agree as well.
Ahem. No busses for Republicans! This is a limo! Now with the 3 of us we can have Jeeves use the HOV lane as well!
Scotch anyone?
Yeah-the butter is like lipstick on a pig…
Uh, “busses” is slang for “kisses.” The vehicle you ride on, and is driven by a certain Doper, would be “buses.”
Um. Don’t fuck with the bus guy.
Can I get Jack on the rocks or is that too middle class?
Hey, wow! Maybe there’s some hope for this bipartisan business after all!
Once upon a time, the RNC LIKED the middle class.
Got a bottle right here.
(busses for the bus driver? I need a drink.)
The future of our nation requires that we drink together. A lot. Please.
yes, let’s remember we’re spectacularly able to fuck things up. I’m taking the day after election off 'cause I figure no matter what the results are, alcohol will be involved.
[President after a bunch of Johnny Walker] I’m bored. Fuck it…let’s give $700 billion back to ordinary citizens! …or… Lets blow shit up!![/PAABOJW]
…or approval voting. Or anything other than plurality voting, AFAIK.
Pure PR systems give too much power to small squirrely, single-issue parties, who need to be bribed in order to join the wider coalition. Witness Israel and Italy. France may have this problem to a lesser extent.
I’m not sure how to work out the optimal super-proportional formula though.
To the extent that’s true ( and the Republicans have historically been known for their lockstep obedience, as opposed to the Democrats ) they don’t matter to my point. THEY aren’t the ones deciding what the Republican Party will and won’t do; it’s the Republican leadership. And as long as the Republican leadership is composed of the kind of people that it is, there’s no point in trying to cooperate with them.
And an unhappy Republican voter’s vote puts a Republican in office just as effectively as a happy one.
The ideals of your organization intrigue me and I wish to buy and wear shirts and hats emblazoned with your slogans.
Or? Both is not an option?
I agree with the man found in his own underpants.
Cheers!
[Homer Simpson]TO ALCOHOL! The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems![/Homer Simpson]
Weed is better for that sort of thing. You don’t get anything done, true, but you weren’t anyway. Plus, a lot less fistfights and nobody pukes.