-=> Ed Hulett wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-

 RS>> Today's GOP is obstructing EVERYTHING.

 EH>> No, they had their own plans, but the Democrats didn't want to even
 EH>> consider them.

 DD> Oh, they considered them. And snickered. Rightly so, IMO.

 EH> So, in your narrow world view, only Democrats have good ideas? Got it.

Hardly. You're trying to leap that chasm in your logic in two bounds again.
But, Democrats and Moderates do have a sense of the absurd and a sense of
humour ... something that the extremes of both left and right seem to lack.
 
 DD> The problem is that BOTH the elephants and the jackasses are manoeuvring
 DD> for
 DD> political advantage in a non zero sum game instead of doing the people's
 DD> business which is what they were ostensibly sent to Washington to do.
 DD> Fuck 'em
 DD> all, the long, the short, and the tall.

 DD> No incumbents in 2010 is my cry!

 EH> Which means you support a Republican majority for the next 2 years. How
 EH> does that square with your narrow world view?

Not fucking hardly, sport. You, like many, are stuck into the narrow two party
political view of politics. I merely meant that the electorate should rise up
and throw the bums out. Then install a different set of bums pledged to do the
business of the people who sent them there instead of spending all their time
playing politics and building a cozy little sinecure and trying to make a two
(or four, or six) year term into a lifetime job.
 
 EH> I'm a supporter of term limits for all elected offices. That would get
 EH> rid of these career congress critters who gain wealth off the backs of
 EH> the people. 
 
I posted just such a proposal in these precincts not long ago. Where were you?
 
 EH> I also support a 60% reduction in pay for Congress and the
 EH> President and VP. If a private citizen has to live off of $100,000 or
 EH> less a year, so should our elected representatives. Plus, government
 EH> bureaucrats should be paid the same as the private sector pays and they
 EH> should be easily fired if they don't do their job right. As it stands,
 EH> they can sit and browse through porn all day and still keep their jobs.

I don't support pay reductions for the president - especially if you want to
pay bureaucraps the same as the private sector pays for similar jobs. Put that
way the Prez would get an immediate and obscenely large pay raise - along with
unearned bonuses for accomplishing very little or nothing. Pay him, say, like
Lloyd Blankfein over at Goldman-Sachs (who the pundits like to tie the current
prez to) and he'll get over 10 million bucks as opposed to the current
presidential pay of 400 grand (not counting perks like Air Force One and the
huge security apparatus).

Congresscritters pay should come from and be set by their home district. Or
their own pocket - except that would open a whole new keg of nails as only the
uber-rich would be able to afford to be a congress critter. And we all know
what sort of oligarchy that leads to, don't we?

ENJOY!!!

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