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Comment Re:Gonna miss Snidely Whiplash (Score 1) 31

And you only want to "rein in" the feds to extent that your corrupt local authorities have more power to practice their bigotry and demand conformity to your culture/religion/whatever. It is your own disregard for the truth that is on display here. I don't care how much you deny it. I know what "southern conservative" means.

Wow, I think you've reached damn_registrars levels of making stuff up out of whole cloth. Everything I say underscores disregard for truth? You've moved past strawmen to a comprehensive sort of Dyson sphere of tautology surrounding me now. Let me give you a golf clap. [clap]. Does the sound penetrate this bubble in which you've encapsulated me?
Can I ask where this bubble is going, since you're doing all the driving?

Comment Re:Gonna miss Snidely Whiplash (Score 1) 31

So, other than strawmanning and boorish browbeating in the face of reasoned responses, and projection, do you have anything? Anything at all?

Your "concentration of power" nonsense is exactly that. The real complaint is its proximity, or rather, the lack thereof. You want your people to impose the rules.

What I actually want is to constrain the Federal government to its original enumerated powers. But the truth doesn't seem to amount to much with you anymore.

Comment Re:Gonna miss Snidely Whiplash (Score 1) 31

You believe your elected officials actually have their own power and act by their own "conscience", if you can call it that.

What I actually think, not that it amounts to a fart in your thunderstorm of stereotype, is captured nicely here:

Before delving into what this means, let us take a brief detour into theories of representation in a democracy. The "delegation model" holds that a legislator should reflect the interests of his constituents. The "trustee model" holds that a legislator should act in the best interests of his constituents, rightly understood. Since his constituents might not have the time or ability to understand how a piece of legislation will affect them, the elected representative must act to advance the people’s true interests. He may vote against their express preferences, but only because he knows better.

Let's stipulate that this is an 80/20 ratio in favor of delegation, and that when we say "delegation", we mean, "what the large-frogskin donors want".
But shag all that. Let's focus on what matters: your strawman collection.

Comment Re:Gonna miss Snidely Whiplash (Score 1) 31

You exhibit total partiality.

No, I don't. For instance, while I don't agree with much of anything BHO does foreign-policy wise, I'm the first to admit it's (a) an NP-complete problem, and (b) absolutely no one else has any clear, simple, repeatable foreign policy framework that is met with general support. But the facts of what I actually think and have said would crash your little ice cream truck.

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I had said

Maybe we can agree that, as is nearly always the case, there was a spectrum of motives [for/against slavery]. If boiling it all down to "plain old economics" was the sum, then the 3/5ths Compromise would not have been as contentious in [debates about the Constitution in] 1787.

Comment Re:Gonna miss Snidely Whiplash (Score 1) 31

Obama will never be able to place another justice on SCOTUS

I wouldn't have counted on his re-election, either, but we've acquired a taste for "daft" of late.

Obama also lobbed that asteroid when he could have just as well used the nuclear football and used the ensuing situation to claim eternal power as supreme ruler of all mankind.

I stand pwned.

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