I thought this was going to be about the 22-year-old staffers who write all the legislation.
Do you people just ignore your State Legislatures or something? As bad as the US Congress is, they look the model of democratic efficiency in comparison. We may have children for congressmen, but we have evil for our city counselors … if you see my name, give me your vote, please … I promise not to eat anyone …
If that promise should prove too burdensome, I have some suggestions.
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The continuing breakdown in Washington’s ability to govern seemed to spread like a contagion Thursday through all three branches of government.
The Supreme Court, left short-handed by a Republican refusal to act on President Obama’s nominee in the final year of his presidency, deadlocked …
House Republicans approved … a bill to address the Zika health threat months after the White House sought the money. But the package, assembled with little Democratic participation, contained elements they knew Senate Democrats would oppose. The calculation appeared to be that if Democrats now block it, they will [be] the ones blamed rather than Republicans.
Even normally staid C-Span engaged in guerrilla video warfare, streaming a feed from a House member’s phone on its House channel … Republicans said that some of their members urged the leadership to employ a cell-signal-jamming device to cut off the coverage, but that was deemed a bad idea.
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But don’t worry! Rejoice that “both sides do it.” :smack:
He was a hero. Was.
Now he’s taking the tactics that he once used to protect and expand freedoms and using them to try to limit and destroy freedoms. No Fly = No Due Process, and those supporting it are the enemies of freedom: more so if they are trying to extend it to other freedoms.
The no-fly list is a genuine freedom that matters to me but that’s not what this action is about. Stopping suspicious people from acquiring firearms violates no great freedom that I care about. His use of extraordinary means to fight the firearms industry is heroic in my eyes.
Better people aren’t running. Look at the two turds we have to pick from in November.
What about when a great freedom you do care about gets violated? :rolleyes:
Hillary Clinton is possibly not one’s dream candidate, but no one is. She’s certainly not a turd. Almost all her negatives are due not to her personal qualities but the result of 25 years of relentless substanceless propaganda and demagoguery applied against her.
I think the Second Amendment ought to be repealed entirely, so so far as I’m concerned it’s not comparable at all to freedoms I care about.
Not all freedoms are the same. I don’t care whether public officials fail to fight for individuals’ right to rape, pillage, and murder. The freedom to easily acquire weapons capable of killing a lot of people in a short amount of time is closer to that kind of freedom than it is the kind of freedom I want my officials to care about protecting so far as I’m concerned.
Not getting shot by someone who shouldn’t have been allowed to acquire a firearm is a pretty important freedom. Being able to stem the availability and unnecessary proliferation of firearms to benefit the public health is a pretty important freedom. (The right to not get shot for no good reason.)
Bear in mind that before you walk into the polls, a lot of things in which you have no input whatsoever have happened to determine what candidates are or are not on the ballot. Many if not most of those things involve money, and none of them should.
Technically, you’d want the 2nd Amendment replaced … otherwise the 10th Amendment kicks in and we’re no closer to banning guns in the USA, just those few States without gun rights in their own Constitution.
But I understand … “Go ahead and take my rights away, I wasn’t using them anyway.”
In that case, let’s have a Congressional vote on abolishing the no-fly list. Surely the Republicans will vote to get rid of it, right?
There were 17 on the Stage of Clowns and 5 running for the Democratic nod. How do you think the winnowing-down was done? A paper-rock-scissors tournament?
Since your post was unusually ignorant, just for fun I did a search on “Gatopescado Obama.” Most of the results were from 2008. (Cat got your tongue?)
(Standing O for this!)
Would it have been okay if Davis said it like Flava-flav? “That Boyyyeeeeee!”
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Those who blame the deficiencies in our political system on voters need look no farther than you for an example.
Until it’s repealed, it has the same force as the rest of the Bill of Rights.
Do you really want to lose freedom of the press, no state religion or losing free speech?
Trump wants to limit or curtail the press. Cruz and Huckabee wants Christianity established as a state religion.
If one right is threatened, they all are.
Quite right. The OP insulted at least 65% of all preteens.
There’s a line in a movie somewhere like that…
Constitutional law does not work that way.
I was talking about the attitude of “I don’t like that right so it’s OK to eliminate it by any means possible.”
Don’t be silly.
It was, “Eenny, Meeny, Miinny Moe”.
Considering that nearly 90% of the American population favors background checks and denying guns to terrorists, Ryan dare not allow a vote in the House on those measures. Since the will of an overwhelming majority of Americans would then be plainly thwarted by the GOP. Better to just deny, deny, deny the vote.
GOP
Better start shakin’
Today’s pig
Tomorrow’s bacon.
- Bernie Shave
Funny …
The Dems took the Reps to task over gun control legislation … they’d of had better success pushing through this Supreme Court nomination … Dems lost a BIG one today over immigration, 4-4 tie at the highest court …
Dems’ hearts are in the right place, but execution has always seemed to elude them.