via Mudrake - Thomas L. Freidman writing an op-ed for the New York Times
I love the idea of shaking up the two parties, but would Bloomberg take votes away from Obama and enable Romney to win? The gun-rights folks are already not voting for Obama. What do you think?I had to catch a train in Washington last week. The paved street in the traffic circle around Union Station was in such poor condition that I felt as though I was on a roller coaster. I traveled on the Amtrak Acela, our sorry excuse for a fast train, on which I had so many dropped calls on my cellphone that you’d have thought I was on a remote desert island, not traveling from Washington to New York City. When I got back to Union Station, the escalator in the parking garage was broken. Maybe you’ve gotten used to all this and have stopped noticing. I haven’t. Our country needs a renewal.
And that is why I still hope Michael Bloomberg will reconsider running for president as an independent candidate, if only to participate in the presidential debates and give our two-party system the shock it needs.
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We need a viable third (and fourth and fifth) party, to be sure, but Bloomberg is exactly the wrong person to lead it. Don't we have enough Wall Street types in power already? Besides, getting term limits set aside because he wants to keep his job is unseemly.
ReplyDeleteI forgot he's a billionaire. My appreciation of his gun ideas blinded for a minute to the worst disqualification of all, his immense wealth.
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ReplyDeleteDon't forget that Greg Camp has no problem with the billionaire Kochsuckers spending loads of cash to fund ALEC, the SKKKrotalMurKKKinPatriotiKKK Front and other "grassroots" organizations that are behind a lot of the boilerplate state gunzlawz writing AND voter suppression bills.
Bloomberg is a dick but he's not rewriting the law to line his own pockets or allow him to shoot people he doesn't like and claim self-defense because they were dumb enough to come in his house or, in some truly fucked-up places like Florida, just being in the same place and being a "threat".
No, I have no problem with billionaires spending their money. I object to handing them power merely because they have money, and I insist that it's the responsibility of each voter to make informed choices and to hold politicians accountable. We allow people like the Kochs to have influence otherwise. On the question of gun laws, the organizations that you named happen to be in agreement with my position by and large, so I see no reason to raise a stink when they're doing what I want. I take a different stance on other matters.
DeleteIf looking like my right hairy wrinkled nut sack is his only qualification for becoming PotUS, you should run Democommie, You should volunteer give him a run for as his veep, you do look like my left NS.....
ReplyDelete"No, I have no problem with billionaires spending their money. I object to handing them power merely because they have money, and I insist that it's the responsibility of each voter to make informed choices and to hold politicians accountable"
ReplyDeleteBullshit. You are perfectly happy to let the dirty money of the Kochsuckers fund the excresence that is ALEC, the folks who WROTE the fucking gunzlawz changes that encourage asswipes like Zimmergunzman to shoot people and then claim they were afraid they'd be killed.
Tommy, tommy, tommy; every time you get a hall pass you run right over here and type something stupid before returning to your primary occupation of fingerpainting with your own feces. Stick to the fingerpainting, pal, it is more logical than your rants.
You write, and I write, and ALEC writes. Big deal. Legislators have to vote for what gets written, and executives have to sign the bill or at least not veto it. We vote both in or out. Your side just hates applying resposibility where it belongs.
DeleteSmelly, smelly, unwashed hippie; every time your Metamucil kicks in you run to kick granny off of the computer at the home for wrinkly scrotums, type a few words about how you are scarred of teh gunzs!!!!!
Deletelots of boring crap from Dumbasscommie,"....encourage asswipes like Zimmergunzman to shoot people and then claim they were afraid they'd be killed."
But it seems that you missed the latest from ABC.....
http://abcnews.go.com/images/US/ht_george_zimmerman_head_dm_120419_wmain.jpg
It must suck to be you.....
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ReplyDelete"You write, and I write, and ALEC writes. Big deal. Legislators have to vote for what gets written, and executives have to sign the bill or at least not veto it."
ReplyDeleteYou, I and ALEC have equivalent input into the legislative process? When you tell me you're not a LIAR and then write something like that bit above, I can only conclude that if you're not a LIAR, then you're a fucking moron.
If the latter option is the one you choose, being a moron, then educate yourself about what ALEC really is and what they really do OR STFU about something that you're clearly uninformed about. Alternatively you can choose to continue saying things like what you said above--which is a fucking LIE--and we know what that makes you.
A lie would be a statement that I knew to be false. I've told you that I'll go away and never return if you can catch me in a lie. But let's look at what I said. Are politicians not elected by voters? Are voters incapable of making their own choices? I'm aware of what ALEC does. I also know that voters can get rid of the whole legislative and executive branches in one election, if they choose to do so. Laziness is not incapacity. Put the blame where it belongs.
DeleteAnd I'm still waiting for you to prove that I've lied.
Our country is in a state of decay for two primary reasons. First, our government collects way too much money from citizens and flushes it down the toilet on way too many freebies (to U.S. citizens and foreign nations) and on our international police force, er, I mean military. Second, extreme values (on both the liberal side as well as the conservative side) have surged and are bad.
ReplyDeleteFor anyone that doubts my second assertion, explain how it is good for the entire nation when a few boards of directors of large businesses dominate laws and policy for their exclusive benefit? And tell me how it is good for the country when we don't hold people accountable for their choices and actions and encourage them to be deadbeats?
We need a resurgence in the middle. I think of myself as a conservative but maybe I am in the middle. I know people need help at times. I have personally housed a homeless friend for a time (but not forever). And I was powerless to force a giant corporation to spend a couple million dollars in safety equipment that would have averted an environmental disaster.
We the people have to be responsible and accountable and productive. And we need a government that does the same.
Exactly so, Capn Crunch--we need a revolution of the reasonable. I'm with you.
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