Question from Canada for THE EXCITED STATES: when you travel to Canada, for example BC where I live on Vancouver Island and lots of Americans visit, usually in summer!, does the place strike you as all fucked up, anarchic. not governed well? If the answer is 'no' then here is the question: how does BC soldier on with no elections for: Upper House, or provincial Senate. no governor, no Secretary of State, no Attorney General and a whole bunch of lesser elections for Judges. Prosecutors etc., etc. Now, there is a position of Lieutenant Governor. aka the Queen's and now King's rep that is almost completely ceremonial. The Federal version is called the Governor General and is also ceremonial EXCEPT in the case of a complete deadlock. This hasn't happened in many decades but did happen once in OZ in the last century.
The UK House of Commons faced down the UK Upper House, or Lords, before WWI. and like the Canadian Senate is now advisory only, but not without influence. Of course, although Sarah Palin didn't know it, the UK Monarch and Canadian Gov General play no role whatever in governing.
But, when the US Founders wrote the Constitution, the UK DID have government divided three ways: the Monarch had close to a veto as did the House of Lords. The point: how successful has the US version of this system been in achieving the Founder's intent to avoid factions? BTW: George Washington refused to run for President because he didn't believe in political parties.
There was just quite a kerfuffle in the UK. The new PM. Ms. Truss, elected as PM by the Party, screwed up, created a currency crisis and Gov bond crisis and had to resign in 44 days. The new PM. chosen by the Party. was sworn in by the new Monarch, Charles. Both PM's were elected by the UK people as MPs before their Party elections to PM.
Given the situation, isn't that a pretty smooth transition?
1282K active registered voters in Iowa. 597K (47%) are Democrats. 685K (53%) are Rethuglicans. The old white farts have been complaining about their (college-educated) kids fleeing the state since WW1, because they are not wrong about that.With 10,000+ 'official' covid deaths (& roughly 4/day currently), it may take doG a while to get things to change here.
"This was the asteroid that ended the reign of the dinosaur, and in this case, the dinosaur was the Republican Party.”
I get the analogy, but find it inadequate. It wasn't an asteroid; it was another eight-letter word which also starts with "a"--abortion, which kind of just fell out of the sky for reasons that defy the laws of physics and far beyond the ability of pollsters and pundits to predict. And the victims aren't majestic dinosaurs; just MAGATS.
In other 'electron' news, glad tidings from GA: This past week, only 88% of evangelical Christians voted for Walker, whose understanding of Christianity is him never having committed any crimes or sins in life, and is automatically saved by Jesus and forgiven by God, for all of them. Down from the usual 94%+ for GOP candidates.
Question from Canada for THE EXCITED STATES: when you travel to Canada, for example BC where I live on Vancouver Island and lots of Americans visit, usually in summer!, does the place strike you as all fucked up, anarchic. not governed well?
The Democrats have been terrible for twenty years ignoring the importance of local races as a bullwark against Republicans messing with everything. This was a important series of wins, but they can't let up. By 2030, Democrats must control redistricting or at least put in non-partisan districting plans where ever they can.
So 6% of them could not tolerate his paying for an abortion.Listening to them preach about the "sanctity of human life," you'd think it would have been 100%, but there you are.
Stitch this on a sampler and hang it on your wall:A government that usurps your right to decide whether to continue a pregnancy will inevitably usurp your right to decide whether to start one.
work harder isn't really an option when the districts are so gerrymandered that you can win 56 percent of all votes in the state and only get 34 percent of the seats in the legislature. they'd need to carry the statewide vote by 70+ percent, which isn't gonna happen. too many backwoods bobbies up there in the north.
Our biggest hope is a statewide vote on a state Supreme Court seat next April. that could conceivably change the balance of power in that body, which might declare the maps unconstitutional. but even then, we'd have to get new maps drawn, get them approved, and then have the votes. not likely in just 4 years.
Land doesn’t vote.
Lesbian governors in two states?
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Question from Canada for THE EXCITED STATES: when you travel to Canada, for example BC where I live on Vancouver Island and lots of Americans visit, usually in summer!, does the place strike you as all fucked up, anarchic. not governed well? If the answer is 'no' then here is the question: how does BC soldier on with no elections for: Upper House, or provincial Senate. no governor, no Secretary of State, no Attorney General and a whole bunch of lesser elections for Judges. Prosecutors etc., etc. Now, there is a position of Lieutenant Governor. aka the Queen's and now King's rep that is almost completely ceremonial. The Federal version is called the Governor General and is also ceremonial EXCEPT in the case of a complete deadlock. This hasn't happened in many decades but did happen once in OZ in the last century.
The UK House of Commons faced down the UK Upper House, or Lords, before WWI. and like the Canadian Senate is now advisory only, but not without influence. Of course, although Sarah Palin didn't know it, the UK Monarch and Canadian Gov General play no role whatever in governing.
But, when the US Founders wrote the Constitution, the UK DID have government divided three ways: the Monarch had close to a veto as did the House of Lords. The point: how successful has the US version of this system been in achieving the Founder's intent to avoid factions? BTW: George Washington refused to run for President because he didn't believe in political parties.
There was just quite a kerfuffle in the UK. The new PM. Ms. Truss, elected as PM by the Party, screwed up, created a currency crisis and Gov bond crisis and had to resign in 44 days. The new PM. chosen by the Party. was sworn in by the new Monarch, Charles. Both PM's were elected by the UK people as MPs before their Party elections to PM.
Given the situation, isn't that a pretty smooth transition?
True, but the more they lose the more of the flakes peel off and drift away to some other conspiracy
1282K active registered voters in Iowa. 597K (47%) are Democrats. 685K (53%) are Rethuglicans. The old white farts have been complaining about their (college-educated) kids fleeing the state since WW1, because they are not wrong about that.With 10,000+ 'official' covid deaths (& roughly 4/day currently), it may take doG a while to get things to change here.
"This was the asteroid that ended the reign of the dinosaur, and in this case, the dinosaur was the Republican Party.”
I get the analogy, but find it inadequate. It wasn't an asteroid; it was another eight-letter word which also starts with "a"--abortion, which kind of just fell out of the sky for reasons that defy the laws of physics and far beyond the ability of pollsters and pundits to predict. And the victims aren't majestic dinosaurs; just MAGATS.
In other 'electron' news, glad tidings from GA: This past week, only 88% of evangelical Christians voted for Walker, whose understanding of Christianity is him never having committed any crimes or sins in life, and is automatically saved by Jesus and forgiven by God, for all of them. Down from the usual 94%+ for GOP candidates.
Question from Canada for THE EXCITED STATES: when you travel to Canada, for example BC where I live on Vancouver Island and lots of Americans visit, usually in summer!, does the place strike you as all fucked up, anarchic. not governed well?
Does your question include Air Canada? 😎
Maybe.But voter cynicism is a real thing, and arguably hurts Democrats more.
I have a feeling Pennsylvania is going to come down to the dead guy’s seat and how long republicans can put off the special election to fill it.
The Democrats have been terrible for twenty years ignoring the importance of local races as a bullwark against Republicans messing with everything. This was a important series of wins, but they can't let up. By 2030, Democrats must control redistricting or at least put in non-partisan districting plans where ever they can.
So 6% of them could not tolerate his paying for an abortion.Listening to them preach about the "sanctity of human life," you'd think it would have been 100%, but there you are.
Stitch this on a sampler and hang it on your wall:A government that usurps your right to decide whether to continue a pregnancy will inevitably usurp your right to decide whether to start one.
Pennsylvania GOP had a 23 seat edge before the election and has lost almost all of it? I'm impressed.
I'm sure Biden had to not piss off Manchin as they were working on the skinny BBB which did pass.
Work harder, do it in 4 years.
work harder isn't really an option when the districts are so gerrymandered that you can win 56 percent of all votes in the state and only get 34 percent of the seats in the legislature. they'd need to carry the statewide vote by 70+ percent, which isn't gonna happen. too many backwoods bobbies up there in the north.
Our biggest hope is a statewide vote on a state Supreme Court seat next April. that could conceivably change the balance of power in that body, which might declare the maps unconstitutional. but even then, we'd have to get new maps drawn, get them approved, and then have the votes. not likely in just 4 years.