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@Whitehouse Hosting Twitter Town Hall On Wednesday
CWmike writes "In another milestone, the White House will hold its first Twitter town hall forum on Wednesday. President Barack Obama, known for using technology and Web 2.0 tools since his presidential campaign, will answer Twitter users' questions (submit them here) in a live webcast about the U.S. economy and jobs at 2 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday. Twitter co-founder and Executive Chairman Jack Dorsey will moderate a conversation between Obama and Twitterers across the country. Twitter users can submit questions using the hashtag #AskObama. Some questions will be taken up in advance and others will be grabbed real-time during the event, Twitter said. In a blog post, Twitter executives said a conversation about the U.S. economy will fit right in with regular Twitter activity."
The Republicans, on their own, are pushing the country into a default? And failure of the Democrats to agree to cuts has nothing to do with it?
Nobody ever held the Senate, the Senate is completely dysfunctional. They've decided they need a 60-vote supermajority to pass anything that isn't the budget, so almost nothing gets passed, because neither party has held 60 seats in decades. (If you're about to post that the Democrats did for like six months between when Franken finally got seated and when Ted Kennedy died, you're wrong, because you're counting Joe Lieberman. He isn't a Democrat, he's an independent and he campaigned for John McCain in 2008.)
This is aside from the point that it isn't proportionally representative, so a citizen in Bumfuck, Montana gets a thousand times more representation, proportionally, than one from California or Texas or New York. (State legislatures are not even legally allowed to do this, so why the fuck is our federal government still working this way?)
The House version of the health care bill was simple and effective and went to a vote after a couple months of debate. By the time it got through the Senate it took fourteen months and was two thousand pages long, and almost all of the good parts were taken out, leaving little more than some half-assed bullshit and a bailout to the health care middlemen (sorry, I mean "insurance providers").
I'm not a Republican, I'm not even an American.
In Europe our main stream political parties are all more left-leaning than either of the US parties. In essence the US has two right-wing parties who are, in all the important ways, indistinguishable to anyone outside of the US.
As far as I can tell the only difference between the Democrats and Republicans is that the latter includes witches. ;)
Bad analogies are like waxing a monkey with a rainbow.