Bushwhacking

[pam]

I agree with both term limits and campaign finance reform. As long as the rule is that ya gotta dance with them that brung ya, campaign finance reform is probably the only real way to go (although, I'm sure someone will find a way to get around it...)
Pam

Originally Posted by Desert_Seg

Plomoh, I disagree with you that the line item veto shows how broken our sytem is. I believe it more aptly shows the politics is a business and the lengths that folks will go to stay elected.

If you look at the system as a whole, it works and works well. What doesn't work is the folks who, for good reasons or not, attempt to hijack a bill by adding their "special" clause. Remember the planes that the Air Force didn't want but had the money authorized anyway, remember the "bridge to no where" in Alaska?

Each one of these little add-ons cost us millions and with folks like Sen. Byrd bragging about how they are able to control the passage of a bill, I think a better solution is term limits, another drastic solution to a problem we shouldn't have.

Steven

[Buckaroo Banzai]

This hole in the ground...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/

Peace please. God bless.

[JohnM]

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

This hole in the ground...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/

Peace please. God bless.

Wow.....

I can't help but be reminded of the lines that Michael Douglas delivered in 'The American President':

We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious men to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, friend, I promise you, Bob Rumson is not the least bit interested in solving it. He is interested in two things and two things only: making you afraid of it and telling you who's to blame for it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you win elections.

Substitute 'George W. Bush' for 'Bob Rumson' and you've summed it up.

JohnM

[citivolus]

The hole is a tribute to the morally vacuous misuse of eminent domain that made the complex possible.

[Buckaroo Banzai]

Another good one...

Republicans Questioning Bush's Iraq Policies

http://news.aol.com/politics/story/_...990001?cid=771


Peace please.