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US House Limits Constituent Emails
Plechazunga passes along this note from The Hill: "The House is limiting e-mails from the public to prevent its websites from crashing due to the enormous amount of mail being submitted on the financial bailout bill. As a result, some constituents may get a 'try back at a later time' response if they use the House website to e-mail their lawmakers about the bill defeated in the House on Monday in a 205-228 vote."
Are you also proud of being in the party of the deregulators then led us to this mess?
Actually, to extend the analogy, the company (country) hired me (the legislature) because they thought that I (they) knew what I (they) were doing.
It is too late, when the shit hits the fan, to try to jump in and take control. You have to hope that you made the right choice when everything was going well.
That's what pisses me off about government in general. When I vote for someone, I'm imagining nuclear fucking war, and I want my guy to be there making decisions. Other people vote for someone they'd want to hang out with in a bar.
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
Don't worry, the left-wing media is spending time talking about how laws passed by a Democrat controlled congress are all Bush's fault.
Face it, the guy in the hot seat, right behind the "The Buck Stops Here" sign gets the blame or credit for whatever bad or good happens, even when it's not especially his fault. I note that, as an example, Clinton got a fair amount of heat for a recession that was really the fault of the previous Bush Administration.
But do remember that everything that goes before Congress now does so with the approval of the Democrats, who have been in charge there for most of Bush's presidency.
Note, by the way, that the author(s) of a Bill aren't nearly so important as the people who vote for it. There hasn't been a bill before Congress in the history of the country that was passed because all the authors voted for it, and everyone else voted against.
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
"You deserve/have the right to [item] regardless of your ability to pay." This is not a capitalist catchphrase. This is socialism at work.
No, that is not *necessarily* socialism at work. It depends entirely upon who the "deserving" party is.
If it's some poor entity, then it's socialism.
If it's a rich entity then it's fascism.
That's the difference between the left and the right. Whose benefit they want to use the state to fuck everyone else over in favor of.
So, when you see somebody claiming some big government bullshit is necessarily "socialism" without paying attention to the details which make all the difference, you can easily recognize them as a big government ninny state right wing extremist fascist shitbag.
Oh, and that's you, by the way.