Journal smittyoneeach's Journal: Unexpectedly, A Funding Deadline Just Totally Snuck Up On The Republicans 20
Republican incompetence sets the stage for a Sunday government shutdown
Set aside the details of which chamber of Congress is working on which bill for a minute--we'll get to them next. The single basic fact everyone needs to understand is that the federal government will shut down this weekend when the deadline to fund it is missed, and House Republicans are the reason for that.
Those Republicans were really going to get around to doing their fundamental job Real Soon Now. They just totally got distracted by watching Barbie all Summer. Couldn't concentrate. Honest.
Less cheekily, if they left me in charge, I'd put down a simple rule: if Congress doesn't do it's basic job on time, then none of the dickheads and dickheadettes responsible can run for their current seat when next next up.
If these losers can't do the basics, our system should force us to find some officials who will.
Draconian? Sure, but if you want Grace, then talk to the Almighty.
And now, back to the carefully orchestrated farce that is our politics.
"our system should force us to" (Score:1)
See? You just want authority, patriarchal of course. You want the "system" to force us.. to do what exactly? Our "system" is personal choice. That is the only force you need. Or don't you believe in individual liberty?
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You just want authority, patriarchal of course.
I want a simple, clear, enforceable rule to drive the ouster of deadbeat politicians who can't accomplish their fundamental task.
Please, please, please: help me understand the mental gymnastics whereby you transmogrify a needful turning of the compost heap of Congress into some sort of patriarchal authority play.
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I want a simple, clear, enforceable rule to drive the ouster of deadbeat politicians who can't accomplish their fundamental task.
We already have that. Three guesses what it is...
Please, please, please: help me understand the mental gymnastics whereby you transmogrify a needful turning of the compost heap of Congress into some sort of patriarchal authority play.
Because only through the personal choice of each voter can the "compost be turned". You want some external "system" to force them to do it against their will. Very authoritarian of you... "We the People" are supposed to be that authority, nobody else
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only through the personal choice of each voter can the "compost be turned".
Trivially disproven. Put the rule I have suggested in place.
You want some external "system" to force them to do it against their will.
Is this not the very essence of government?
"We the People" are supposed to be that authority, nobody else
It's almost as if, in your tendentiousness, you're arguing against the Constitution itself...
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Trivially disproven.
Not so, you have not "disproven" anything. Try being more specific. Name another way it can be done without taking away rights to vote. Your Article V cannot do it. The only thing that makes "turning the compost" difficult is the individuals' choice to follow the herd. You have to remedy that before you can accomplish anything. So far, the only thing you desire is more concentrated authority, quite contrary to your vociferous quest for more individual liberty. Somewhat similar to your trump v. christ dilemm
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Name another way it can be done without taking away rights to vote.
Who, precisely, would be denied a ballot in this scenario? I mean, if people want to write in their own Congresscritter, sure. But force the parties to hold primaries and find someone else to put on the ballot. Or is this you coming out as a stealth partisan?
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Where do you get these insane ideas of yours? I don't want to force anybody to do anything, that's your shtick. "We the People" (or is it "we the addict"?) already decide how they function. The numbers speak quite loudly the message that you deny.
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I don't want to force anybody to do anything
The RNC and DNC are tantamount to mafia families. You can do something to weaken their deathgrip on power, or not. Chalking you up for: "not".
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You can do something to weaken their deathgrip on power, or not.
I already do. You can't make the same claim, you just make excuses for playing along, doing your part to make sure the right "mafia family" gets in
Chalking you up for: "not".
Obviously you are projecting again. You are part of that 98% that vote for them, definitely chalk you up for "not"
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Waiting for the giant asterisks... (Score:2)
none of the dickheads and dickheadettes responsible can run for their current seat when next next up.
So who gets to decide who is responsible for the problem? I'm sure the folks from Your Team who were responsible for this mess this time will tell you it was actually someone else's fault, and I would not be the least bit surprised for you to spread that message. Two weeks later you'd be telling us that no incumbent Democrat would be allowed to run, because of course in your world they are the source of every problem. Two weeks after the next election then when Your Team begins drafting a bill making it
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So who gets to decide who is responsible for the problem?
Who cares? Cashier the lot of them. They either do their job or face collective punishment. That is the point.
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So who gets to decide who is responsible for the problem?
Who cares? Cashier the lot of them. They either do their job or face collective punishment. That is the point.
Then that allows a couple crazies to nuke all of congress. I can't imagine for a moment you'd accept that. I know you have some conservative darlings who you would protect at all costs.
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Then that allows a couple crazies to nuke all of congress. I can't imagine for a moment you'd accept that.
I have repeatedly called for this nuking. I gather that you think me unserious, but let me ask you: are you arguing that only these 535 risible pieces of work are capable of filling our elective offices, out of a 300+mil population?
Under the bus with them, say I, if they can't do this basic job.
Funnier still is fustakrakitch finding some strange new affection for our Congress over in the new JE.
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Funnier still is that it's like he said, you really do just make stuff up. Voter preference is my affection for congress? That's a good one! Tell us more...
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Hence my
some strange new affection
remark.
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Did you not say "it is serving very well under the circumstances"...?
Yes, I did, and a 95% reelection rate shows that 98% of the voters agree with me. The numbers are indisputable. It hardly indicates my affection for congress. That is just you, making stuff up, to distract from the actual subject of discussion.
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No, you're just being non-responsive and now with weird irrelevant accusations. Of course, that's not trolling, can't be, Mr. Smith does not troll.
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