Well, these cases are in the Federal court system (http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech-Software/wtr_16280,300,p1.html?PM=GO&a=f), so you could argue that they are centralized, in that the Feds overlay the states.
I regularly send abusive letters to my Senator, Saxby Chambliss. I've yet to be sent to a re-education camp. Actually, I've yet to receive a reply that wasn't a lot more courteous than my original message.
On the Republican side the first, and I mean *first* question would be about "Intelligent Design". The next would be about stem cell research. Things would go downhill from there. And the answers would be gone over with a fine tooth comb for items to ridicule, inspire outrage, or generate fear of the Impending Christofascist Regime (TM).
On the Democrat side, there'd be no questions to ask, since the Democrats and MSM are in complete agreement on all the major issues.
So, the Republicans aren't going to play because of the "Gotcha!" factor, and the Democrats won't play because, well, who needs boring TV?
Tinfoil? Why is is that Democrats go foe the ad hominem so quickly? Must be that Vast Left Wing Smear Machine.
Anyway, a couple of things to keep in mind:
The Executive and Legislative branches of our government are in direct competition for power. You can't expect a Democrat President to work in lockstep with a Democrat legislature - in the end, they do have different agendas. Given the record of the Democrats in the House and Senate, a Democrat President might be tempted to make the legislature look even worse, if there's political capital to be mined. Bill Clinton stands out in that regard.
In my original comment, I contrasted the triumphalism of the Democrats after the election with the reality of their attempt at governing. Guess what: it's easier to whine and complain when out of office than it is to actually govern when elected. Since the Democrats were not elected with veto-proof majorities, they should have tailored their legisative strategy. They didn't. Shame on them.
As for GWB as worst President ever, well, I really don't think so. I mean, his instinct to open a can of whoop-ass on our enemies was good, even though the follow through was lacking. In much the same way, Bill Clinton's instinct to follow his penis was bad, but his cover-up was magnificent. No, for worst President ever, I'd have to go with history's greatest monster, Jimmy Carter.
Oh, BTW, as I understand it, most Democrat funding comes from George Soros, or from illegal immigrant Chinese dish washers who take their $2/hour and save up in order to give $2k contributons to "Hillary!"
I'm sorry, what was that you were saying about corruption?
I don't know if you remember, but *I* remember Pelosi and Reid showing up proclaiming a huge activist agenda. Which they have failed completely to deliver.
Politicians exist to deliver on promises, or finesse failures. This rabble isn't delivering, and has shot itself in the foot so many times it has, well, no chance to finese anything.
Meanwhile, Iraq is actually improving (note the absence of any Iraq news, which is actually the MSM failing to find anything shocking it can hang around the neck of the Republican party). In fact, the big news now is the fires in CA, and the really big news there is how Californians in a football stadium don't behave like people from Louisiana - which has just elected a Republican reform governor.
As for the rest of your incohrent rant, well, tell me again: What was your point? Let's face it, in the end you *were* starting to sound like a Carville fax.
Hmmm. I have a sense that I could take that post and use exactly the same verbiage to "prove" that the President is really not responsible for *anything* that happened on his watch.
I've been down on that fascist, John McCain, ev er since he decided to stomp on our First Amendment rights. So, good for Steven Colbert. Let him violate every damn financing law there is and get the FEC to hell and gone out of our political process.
When the Democrats came in in 2006, I was expecting the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to be unleashed on us.
Instead we got Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, two of the most ineffectual politicians of all time. My God! Every time Reid opens his mouth, he makes a little man smaller. Pelosi, having failed to install a carer criminal as Whip, finds herself in an ongoing monkey knife fight with Hoyer. Meanwhile Charlie Rangel's prposing that tax rates be raised, as we try to shrug off the economic effects sub-prime lending fiasco. Oh, and troops out of Iraq? No. In fact, the numbers in-country are up.
End result? Completely stalled government, to the point where we don't even have a budget proposal. Better yet, Democrats are looking so imcompetent, they may just lose massively in 2008.
Come to think of it, you have me dead to rights there.
I love your handle: a nice mix of the brutal and subtle, but all conveying power. I think it's one of the top three all-time scary names, along with "Dick Armey" and "Rod Johnson".
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You obviously don't know anything about the way streets are numbered in the US. Even numbers for one side of the street, odd for the other.
You sir, are ordered to multi-culti-thought-control-reprocessing. And may God^H^Haia have pity on your neurons!
Apple has proved that *anyone* can generate a crappy OS release.
Run Colbert, run!
The people have spoken. The bastards.
This is one of those reverse-psychology things, right?
Well, these cases are in the Federal court system (http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech-Software/wtr_16280,300,p1.html?PM=GO&a=f), so you could argue that they are centralized, in that the Feds overlay the states.
What, ill-tempered mutated sea bass? I mean, you don't want the environmentalists after you.
....Inanimate Carbon Rod!
I can't believe we've overlooked this week's winner for so very, very long.
I regularly send abusive letters to my Senator, Saxby Chambliss. I've yet to be sent to a re-education camp. Actually, I've yet to receive a reply that wasn't a lot more courteous than my original message.
You'll only be able to buy the OS with a credit or debit card (no cash!), and the first service pack will brick your PC.
Will Smith have to return the $25k?
On the Republican side the first, and I mean *first* question would be about "Intelligent Design". The next would be about stem cell research. Things would go downhill from there. And the answers would be gone over with a fine tooth comb for items to ridicule, inspire outrage, or generate fear of the Impending Christofascist Regime (TM).
On the Democrat side, there'd be no questions to ask, since the Democrats and MSM are in complete agreement on all the major issues.
So, the Republicans aren't going to play because of the "Gotcha!" factor, and the Democrats won't play because, well, who needs boring TV?
Tinfoil? Why is is that Democrats go foe the ad hominem so quickly? Must be that Vast Left Wing Smear Machine.
Anyway, a couple of things to keep in mind:
The Executive and Legislative branches of our government are in direct competition for power. You can't expect a Democrat President to work in lockstep with a Democrat legislature - in the end, they do have different agendas. Given the record of the Democrats in the House and Senate, a Democrat President might be tempted to make the legislature look even worse, if there's political capital to be mined. Bill Clinton stands out in that regard.
In my original comment, I contrasted the triumphalism of the Democrats after the election with the reality of their attempt at governing. Guess what: it's easier to whine and complain when out of office than it is to actually govern when elected. Since the Democrats were not elected with veto-proof majorities, they should have tailored their legisative strategy. They didn't. Shame on them.
As for GWB as worst President ever, well, I really don't think so. I mean, his instinct to open a can of whoop-ass on our enemies was good, even though the follow through was lacking. In much the same way, Bill Clinton's instinct to follow his penis was bad, but his cover-up was magnificent. No, for worst President ever, I'd have to go with history's greatest monster, Jimmy Carter.
British schools were also warned off "An Inconvenient Truth".
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Oh, BTW, as I understand it, most Democrat funding comes from George Soros, or from illegal immigrant Chinese dish washers who take their $2/hour and save up in order to give $2k contributons to "Hillary!"
I'm sorry, what was that you were saying about corruption?
I don't know if you remember, but *I* remember Pelosi and Reid showing up proclaiming a huge activist agenda. Which they have failed completely to deliver.
Politicians exist to deliver on promises, or finesse failures. This rabble isn't delivering, and has shot itself in the foot so many times it has, well, no chance to finese anything.
Meanwhile, Iraq is actually improving (note the absence of any Iraq news, which is actually the MSM failing to find anything shocking it can hang around the neck of the Republican party). In fact, the big news now is the fires in CA, and the really big news there is how Californians in a football stadium don't behave like people from Louisiana - which has just elected a Republican reform governor.
As for the rest of your incohrent rant, well, tell me again: What was your point? Let's face it, in the end you *were* starting to sound like a Carville fax.
Hmmm. I have a sense that I could take that post and use exactly the same verbiage to "prove" that the President is really not responsible for *anything* that happened on his watch.
Thanks.
Hillary's a Democrat.
And she gets most of her campaign contributions in $2k chunks from illegal immigrant Chinese dish washers. They like her that much.
Oh, I don't know, a socialist without the stones to run for full-fledged communist dictator?
A Democrat, at any rate, and therefore a small-minded power-worshipper with a little power. Nothing more dangerous, really.
I've been down on that fascist, John McCain, ev er since he decided to stomp on our First Amendment rights. So, good for Steven Colbert. Let him violate every damn financing law there is and get the FEC to hell and gone out of our political process.
Italy has a Minister of Finance.
Well, I know that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are real. Hell I even no a member in good standing: http://youtube.com/watch?v=7XrRyqses5U
When the Democrats came in in 2006, I was expecting the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to be unleashed on us.
Instead we got Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, two of the most ineffectual politicians of all time. My God! Every time Reid opens his mouth, he makes a little man smaller. Pelosi, having failed to install a carer criminal as Whip, finds herself in an ongoing monkey knife fight with Hoyer. Meanwhile Charlie Rangel's prposing that tax rates be raised, as we try to shrug off the economic effects sub-prime lending fiasco. Oh, and troops out of Iraq? No. In fact, the numbers in-country are up.
End result? Completely stalled government, to the point where we don't even have a budget proposal. Better yet, Democrats are looking so imcompetent, they may just lose massively in 2008.
I like it.
Come to think of it, you have me dead to rights there.
I love your handle: a nice mix of the brutal and subtle, but all conveying power. I think it's one of the top three all-time scary names, along with "Dick Armey" and "Rod Johnson".