Hey Americans! Do you like governance by snit? OF COURSE YOU DO. What country wouldn't want its fate determined by petty grievances and your leaders generally acting like whiny little bitchcakes towards one another? We sure do love it! USA! So what is the latest crucial thing that is being blocked by someone having a sad? Chuck Hagel's nomination, of course! Who is doing the sadblocking this time? Good old....actually,
Of course. I'd forgotten about Karl's dirty tricks in SC in 2000. Makes Panamanian strongman Juan McCain's justification for his attack on Hagel all the more hypocritical.
Thank you for the correction. My memory of the 80's is evidently unreliable. I knew he was rejected by vote, but I thought he was filibustered first. Perhaps because the debate took four months (I had to look that up).
In any event, I don&#039;t dispute your overall point that the filibuster has been used more by conservatives, and has been substantially abused during the <strike>black guy&#039;s</strike> Obama administration. This is not really surprising -- the filibuster is inherently a conservative (slow down change) concept.
I tend to think that having a bit of a governor on the rate of change is a good negative-feedback idea. The problem, of course, is that the Founders&#039; stupid two-Senators-for-every-unpopulated-rural-state compromise <i>already</i> biases the Senate towards slow change, and has a far greater effect on our inability to have a coherent government than does the filibuster.
As long as North Dakota gets the same number of Senators as California, I&#039;m reluctant to let the filibuster vanish.
You&#039;re not the first to think of it. Even I was pitching Powell as a possible replacement for Hagel (in the Kerry for Rice vein), back at the start of the process.
I think you&#039;re right that they asked (how could they not? Who was going to object to him?) and he declined. I&#039;m not much of a Powell admirer, but he&#039;s certainly no dummy. He was the fucking Chairman of the JCS -- he KNOWS how fucked up the politics are in the upper levels of the military establishment. Who needs the aggravation?
I actually liked John Dougherty. Carmona managed to alienate some of the women&#039;s vote, plus all the olds voted for that asshat Flake- the same demographic that keeps shurf Joe in power- a bunch of scared, ignorant and quite selfish retirees who infest places like Sun City and only give a shit about themselves...
Of course. I&#39;d forgotten about Karl&#39;s dirty tricks in SC in 2000. Makes Panamanian strongman Juan McCain&#39;s justification for his attack on Hagel all the more hypocritical.
you know well enough i NEVER crow. i cower under the covers. i&#039;m still stunned bamz won in nov.
i&#039;m merely noting that actions often have unintended consequences.
but yeah, i&#039;m all for taking out some fuckers.
Then there&#039;s the Jon Stewart chip- from besties to hating his guts.
William Henry Harrison never got a chance to show on the national stage what a total dick he was.
Phhht. Fist fights. <a href="http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/vtour\/sumner.htm" target="_blank">Pussies.</a>
Since I fully expect Hagel to be confirmed, I would suggest Powell as a replacement for Brennan.
This is good news for
a r****d?
Flake got hisself elected anyway as Kyl&#039;s replacement- a bit of a lateral move for us...
Thank you for the correction. My memory of the 80&#039;s is evidently unreliable. I knew he was rejected by vote, but I thought he was filibustered first. Perhaps because the debate took four months (I had to look that up).
In any event, I don&#039;t dispute your overall point that the filibuster has been used more by conservatives, and has been substantially abused during the <strike>black guy&#039;s</strike> Obama administration. This is not really surprising -- the filibuster is inherently a conservative (slow down change) concept.
I tend to think that having a bit of a governor on the rate of change is a good negative-feedback idea. The problem, of course, is that the Founders&#039; stupid two-Senators-for-every-unpopulated-rural-state compromise <i>already</i> biases the Senate towards slow change, and has a far greater effect on our inability to have a coherent government than does the filibuster.
As long as North Dakota gets the same number of Senators as California, I&#039;m reluctant to let the filibuster vanish.
You&#039;re not the first to think of it. Even I was pitching Powell as a possible replacement for Hagel (in the Kerry for Rice vein), back at the start of the process.
I think you&#039;re right that they asked (how could they not? Who was going to object to him?) and he declined. I&#039;m not much of a Powell admirer, but he&#039;s certainly no dummy. He was the fucking Chairman of the JCS -- he KNOWS how fucked up the politics are in the upper levels of the military establishment. Who needs the aggravation?
1. He ate that shit in order to ensure he was next man up.
2. John (my entire life is based on the fact I was a POW) McCain.
I actually liked John Dougherty. Carmona managed to alienate some of the women&#039;s vote, plus all the olds voted for that asshat Flake- the same demographic that keeps shurf Joe in power- a bunch of scared, ignorant and quite selfish retirees who infest places like Sun City and only give a shit about themselves...
HuffPoo&#039;s sideboob section or GTFO! She can take her place with Miley and Kristen Stewart...
Unfortunately, <a href="http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gruinard_Island" target="_blank">Gruinard</a> has been decontaminated.
Still laughing at Colbert&#039;s line: What was W thinking? &quot;Faces are hard.&quot;