21 January, 2012
It may sound unconventional, but there are no more reliable votes than those who don’t get to cast them themselves. The felons may get the reprieve, but they may maintain their criminal standing and not vote for their pardoners – unreliable. Therefore, the most reliable voters need to be protected.
Is president 0 courting the dead vote?
7 June, 2011
Just a taste:
“In other words, teachers and schools that are failing to provide the basics of education are branching out into all sorts of other areas, where they have even less competence.
Why are teachers so bold when banks are so cautious? The banks pay a price for being wrong. Teachers don’t.”
1 November, 2010
But ultimately, we have elections so that we do not have wars. When you discredit the former, you invite the latter.
(Update) I mentioned to siblinginbox that this country has a 2nd amendment and that might be a deterrent to a civil war (oxymoronic term). However, what outlet remains to the population feeling their votes no longer mean anything – the rule of law finally lost. It is blatantly apparent that the individuals infesting Washington DC look at the nation as a bunch of children needing to be led, fed, coddled, and occasionally spanked. It is sad to say, but needful, that the same ‘bunch of children” are the ones that kept voting these elite minded individuals into those positions, so ultimately the fault remains with the population, though noting the origin will hopefully bring light to the solution.
8 October, 2010
And here comes the Daily Kos on the back end of that. They are, by their own admission, searching out the most damaging stories on Republicans and then going to work to drive them higher in Google search rankings so that unsuspecting voters will stumble upon them when seeking out information about their local candidates. This makes DKos and its readers activists, as opposed to bloggers or blog readers. And they are engaging directly in the politics of personal destruction.
Read the rest.
h/t Jawa report
