neocon's Journal: Some Recent Threads

So here are a few recent threads of interest:

• A somewhat interesting thread sprang out of my last Journal Entry as well. I'll probably devote some more journal space to this one in the next day or two.
• In this thread, we get a good look at how badly reflexive anti-Americanism clouds the thinking of many on the left, to the point where several posters can't even make up their mind as to whether Iran getting nuclear weapons would be a bad thing.
• This thread, on the Jack Abramoff scandal is kind of interesting. Don't miss, in particular, the lists of Democratic legislators who, like some of their Republican colleagues accepted money or gifts from Mr. Abramoff. This guy is particularly amusing to watch as he tries to wriggle out of his earlier claim that anyone who says that Mr. Abramoff gave money or gifts to any Democrats is `lying'.

For those who are curious, my own take on the Abramoff scandal is that:

• All members of both parties who are involved should be investigated
• I wouldn't mind some shakeup of Republican leadership in the House and Senate, if only because I don't think the people we have there today are fighting for Republican and conservative issues enough, and if this is what makes it happen, well, `bonus'.
• As long as congress reserves to itself the right to `earmark' money for specific projects at a micro-management level, corruption will always be present in Washington -- there's just too much at stake. This is why attempts to exploit this one along partisan lines annoy me so much: they take focus off of the systemic problems which make corruption so rewarding.

What do y'all think?

Same old

[Red Warrior]

Just like ya never took a holiday, huh? :-)

All politicians suck

[Com2Kid]

We shouldn't trust any of them.

I just tend to think that, on average, the democrates will stab me in the back a bit slower than the republicans will.