Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[Geowhizzer]

http://wvgazette.com/News/200810180380?page=1&build=cache

This gives me a really sick feeling in my stomach.

There were some major issues with the touchscreens they used down here after the 2000 election debacle.  This year we're using a Scan-Tron type form, filling in the bubbles with a black pen and having it scanned.

[bowzer]

http://wvgazette.com/News/200810180380?page=1&build=cache

This gives me a really sick feeling in my stomach.

As sick as you felt when the Democratic volunteer changed the mentally retarded guy's vote from McCain to Obama.

Seriously, the double standard is this thread is hilarious.   Religious conservatives are mocked for being mindless lemmings, when the same can be said for a great deal voting for Obama. This country is full of mindless lemmings, on both sides.   

Additionally,  both of these candidates are terrible.  I have failed to see any reason to vote for Obama, other than the fact that he's not Bush.

[SD_Eagle5]

http://wvgazette.com/News/200810180380?page=1&build=cache

This gives me a really sick feeling in my stomach.

Was watching CNN earlier and the exact same thing was happening in Florida (suprise! surprise!). They also tried to blame it on the voters but it seems a little odd it's only going from Obama to McCain and not vice versa.

[ATV]

According to Sarah Palin's logic the victims of 9/11 weren't real Americans.

[Diomedes]

Gay marriage being recognized by the state would be a great new source of income for lawyers when they all started getting divorced.

I've read a few news articles about gay divorces in MA.  Turns out their marriages are just like ours.  Unlikely to endure.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Replace them all!

545 PEOPLE
By Charlie Reese


Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.

You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices,545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason.  They have no legal authority.  They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing.  I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash.  The politician has the power to accept or reject it.   No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault.
They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall.  No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget.  He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes.  Who is the speaker of the House?  She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want.   If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility.   I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people.   When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.

If the budget's in the red, it's because they want it in the red.

If the Marines are in  IRAQ , it's because they want them in  IRAQ .

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.

Don't let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power.  Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like 'the economy,' inflation, 'or' politics ' that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

They, and they alone, have the power.

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

[Rome]

I heard somewhere that this country was filled with mindless lemmings.  Is this true?  Anybody??

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I'd need to hear some other people say it before I could follow along.

[ATV]

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

We are. We're going to complete what we started in 2006.

[bowzer]

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

We are. We're going to complete what we started in 2006.

You mean creating a congress with an eight percent approval rating?

[ATV]

Sorry but you don't get to blame eight years of farged up shtein on the Democrats having two years of barely a majority in the Senate - one which cannot stand up to Bush's veto's let alone the 65+ Repubelican threats of filibusters. It just doesn't work that way.

[Diomedes]

Replace them all!

nice

[Magical_Retard]

http://wvgazette.com/News/200810180380?page=1&build=cache

This gives me a really sick feeling in my stomach.

As sick as you felt when the Democratic volunteer changed the mentally retarded guy's vote from McCain to Obama.

Seriously, the double standard is this thread is hilarious.   Religious conservatives are mocked for being mindless lemmings, when the same can be said for a great deal voting for Obama. This country is full of mindless lemmings, on both sides.   

Additionally,  both of these candidates are terrible.  I have failed to see any reason to vote for Obama, other than the fact that he's not Bush.

another trademark RIGHT talking point when the candidate they support is losing. trying to equate equivalency when the white house and congress has been republican for the majority of the last eight yrs.

i do find it hard to believe that you would find any democratic candidate to be worthy over a republican one. and the only reason you consider this republican candidate terrible is because he is losing.

the fact that obama is not bush, while mccain largely supported every move bush made, means he is 100 times better.

[Phanatic]

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

We are. We're going to complete what we started in 2006.

You mean creating a congress with an eight percent approval rating?

...and despite that fun little metric the GOP will LOSE seats in both the house and senate!

The GOP is in dissarray. Well more dissarray then the democrats this time around. Which is an accomplishment for sure.

[Phanatic]

Also... Tracking the approval rating of the house and senate is an entirely new thing with no historical perspective. Most likely no congress has ever gotten a very high approval rating being that it is an overly burdened committee of partisan fools from both sides.