I wasn't aware that the Dems had a lot of vocal support.

Post #270,434 by hnick 10/16/06 7:28:19 AM Reply	I wasn't aware that the Dems had a lot of vocal support. The large majority here just really hate the Reps... What would be even nicer than platform speeches would be if voters could force each politician to lay out, on paper, a detailed explanation of his plans, with funding requirements and means, and with risk/benefit assessments. Kind of like what we have to do at the beginning of a project here in the real world. Then do quarterly performance reviews (like what happens to us in a real world project) and have the capability to fire the useless wretches when they don't perform like they said they would. Unfortunately, until there is some means of voter oversight, we will have to put up with the usual grabassing. <sigh> They are all such a waste of skin...
Post #270,464 by lincoln 10/16/06 2:33:08 PM Reply	Re: I wasn't aware that the Dems had a lot of vocal support. The large majority here just really hate the Reps... I wouldn't say "hate" - I'd say that most here intensely dislike the policies that the Republicans are pushing instead. In the case of individual Republican Congressmen, many IWETHEYers hate the bald-faced lying, obfuscations, distortions, double-talk, etc. from many of them because they're the party in power right now. When the Democrats become the party in power, I have no doubt that this community will nail them to the wall when they do the same thing. lincoln "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem. I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a *Citizen* of the United States. [link\|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net\|contact me]
Post #270,472 by hnick 10/16/06 4:54:44 PM Reply	Re: I wouldn't say "hate" While it might not be hatred, it is probably against the law for most of our regulars to be in the same room with a Repo pol when said regular has access to firearms knives or sharp kitchen implements gasoline, kerosene, lighter fluid, or pretty much any energetic chemicals that can be found in a kitchen, lab, armory, or kindergarten chain saws, axes, and pretty much any thing that could cut angle food cake just a really irritating day and nobody to take it out on. If not, it probably should be... A really dirty Demo pol, they would probably just set fire to, and neglect to piss on it. They probably wouldn't stay to finish the job. There's a slight amount of predjudice here...

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