Posts Made By: James C Chandler Jr

Dunno anything about the IL situation, but have long been fond of government designs which have the "motion of non confidence" feature.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_of_no_confidence

"Typically, when parliament votes non-confidence, or where it fails to vote confidence, a government must respond in one of two ways:

resign
seek a parliamentary dissolution and request a general election

This procedure is either formalized through constitutional convention, as is the case in Westminster style parliaments such as the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia,[citation needed] or explicitly stated in a written constitution, as is the case with Germany and Spain.[citation needed]"

Doug Matulis said:

Now libs have their very own gene to explain their insanity!

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/10/28/researchers-liberal-gene-genetics-politics/

The article appears to be describing a socially-liberal gene. A gene which expresses as "live and let live", "you do your thing and I'll do mine."

I think that is a beneficial gene.

What we need to identify are the "what's yours is mine" commie gene and the "rigid authoritarian" gene which plagues so many on both the right and the left. Those are the genes for which treatment is sorely needed.

Lee Spain said:
If you find yourself in the voting booth, you can always vote for an independent or a 3rd party candidate. People say you throw your vote away with a 3rd party, but you do get the smug satisfaction of saying, "Hey, I didn't vote for that SOB..."

There is some slight satisfaction in that. I try to vote third party as often as possible, when margins are so large that my vote won't matter or when both major party candidates are equally undesirable.

One advantage in voting third party whenever possible, at least in some localities, is that vote share in the last election can make it less expensive for fringe parties to get on the ballot or get in on debates in the next election.

But if a major party candidate is really obnoxious and has a chance of winning, I'll hold my nose and vote for the other major party candidate.

Or if I'm in a "throw the bums out" mood I'll just vote anti-encumbent between the major parties.

Lee Spain said:

John Boehner is crying on national TV. What a sissy! Who does he think he is Tim Tebow? That's ridiculous. Man up! :S

He learned it from Glenn Beck. Or perhaps Olbermann.

Yes but O'Donnell only has a bachelors degree in English, whereas Greene has a bachelors degree in Political Science, the same educational attainment as the brilliant Pelosi!

In addition, many democrats in SC were still under the impression that they were voting for the R&B singer Al Greene. Given the name similarity, this an easy mistake to make even among sophisticated voters.

BTW, I'm holding you personally responsible for Angle's loss, having early-on put bad ju-ju on her candidacy with your pessimism. (just joking)

Mike Strieber said:

Bachmann To MSNBC's Matthews: That Thrill Isn't Tingly Anymore
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/11/02/bachmann_to_msnbcs_matthews_that_thrill_isnt_tingly_anymore.html

This is great. What is more fun to watch is once they cut away from Bachmann and the MSNBC panel (Matthews, Olbermann, Maddow) seems to be flabergasted that someone might suggest they're "in the tank" for Obama and the Democrats. Listen to Maddow specifically. If this episode doesn't demonstrate once and for all what a bunch of clueless shills these people are on MSNBC nothing will ever convince you. You can also tell Matthews was very offended by Bachmann's comment. They just don't get it there.

I saw that real-time last night. How low in self-insight and high in self-deception would they have to get for those guys not to realize how deep they are down in the democrat tank?

Only watched MSNBC about a third of the time last night, but the game all night was to discuss end-of-the-world doom scenarios and occasionally interview a republican candidate trying to trap them into "extreme" statements they can replay forever. And then talk bad "behind the politicians backs" for entire segments after each interview was over.

CNN had a little of that but not near as much.

The doom scenarios that seemed to get a big percent of their time--

1. McCarthy-style congressional investigations of democrat operatives.

2. Gridlock and lack of congressional "productivity"

3. Tea party new-elected politicians will block raising the debt ceiling, causing the instant economic collapse of the entire world. Or alternately, they will be forced to raise the debt ceiling which would cause the politicians to instantly lose all support from those crazy tea party fanatics who put them in power.

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It is conceivable that the republicans will misread their mandate and cause painful changes which drive all the middle back into the welcoming arms of the socialists. That could happen. Voters are fickle.

On the other hand, voters sided with the Party of No, and therefore maybe the voters would welcome gridlock as a good thing. I certainly think gridlock would be a benefit. But maybe the average voter really did vote for the Party of No expecting that the Party of No will fully cooperate with the socialists in expanding big government.

I doubt if the tea party voters will get mad if the debt ceiling is raised, if it is accompanied by austerity measures. Also I doubt that freezing the debt ceiling would cause the instant economic collapse of the entire world.

On the other hand, as far as I'm concerned, let the gridlock and McCarthy inquisitions begin! Subpoena Soros for several days grilling by each and every committee on the hill!

I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.

We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Change has come to America.

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington.

I never said it was gonna be easy.

We are gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends.

We don't mind the Democrats joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

Mike Strieber said:

Alvin Greene is seriously thinking about running for president in 2012...as a Republican. I don't know why he would change party as on November 2nd nearly 400,000 Democrats thought he would be a good senator.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2010/11/is-alvin-greene-mulling-a-presidential-run-in-2012.html

I especially like it when he says he may run on the "Colbert" model. He's a Dem alright.
Mike

I think Greene should run on a ticket with Basil Marceaux, but dunno who should be at the top of the ticket.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hvaeHllwtw

Greene is a veteran and has a degree in PoliSci.

Marceaux is a Marine veteran with other resume perks. From his website (his personally-written policy platform is very detailed)--

http://politics.freesitenow.com/basilmarceauxforgovernor/

Name: Basil marceaux Sr.
...
Education: 13 3/4 years
Service: U.S.Marine-Force Recon 71-73 L/Cpl
Trade school:
1. General Motor Training center Buick division in New Jersey.
A.Study management,Marketing complate training in auto repair'
2. Tne National Institute for Automotive , Excellence program.
3. World trade Studies of importing,
exporting, Custom Regulations- tariffs and forms,
Quotation Analysis, Sales Agreements of all major countries,Buying and selling.

Home Studies:
1. Evecutive Motivation Program, By Paul Meyer
2. Dynamics of Creative Selling, By Paul Meyer
3. Person Success Planning,By Paul Meyer
4. Seed of Greatness, By Dennis Waitly
5. Marketing Plan workshop,James Makens
6.Human Resource Director, By Mary Cook
7.Executive Time Management,By Thomas Publishing

Anyway, both fellers resume ain't that bad on paper.

Lee Spain said:

GWB looked very comfortable in his interview with Hannity and it was interesting to gain a little insight into his decision making process. I'm looking forward to reading his book.

So far, I think he is the best president of the 21st century! How about you guys?

I desperately hope GWB will be out-classed by each and every president elected after 2012 thru to the end of the century, but so far he is definitely the best president of the 21st century (relative to the competition). Though GWB's performance was pretty dern pitiful in absolute terms. A turtle looks like a speed demon compared to a snail.

Mike Ratcliff said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XihQeZpwqpE

8O 8O 8O 8O

Safe to say he didn't need coffee.

Mike

The fellow will not die of old age, passing peacefully in his sleep.