Comments | senselessviolnz: To Label What's Going On In D.C. This Week a "Power-Grab" Would Imply That It's In Any Way Difficult

senselessviolnz

To Label What's Going On In D.C. This Week a "Power-Grab" Would Imply That It's In Any Way Difficult

Mar 24, 2009 19:25

I find it ironic that so many people who are all in a huff about the AIG thing have pretty consistently staked out an anti-free-market position, given that their "outrage" is a wholly manufactured consumer product. It's a lesson for people like me, who would normally posit the belief that government doesn't make anything. This, of course, is untrue ( Read more... )

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gunguru16 March 25 2009, 00:56:57 UTC

My theory-
Don't vote, don't bitch.

allah_sulu March 25 2009, 01:33:19 UTC

flyswatter March 25 2009, 01:45:48 UTC

Eh, I like my friends to have different opinions than I do. It's my way of poking folks to see if they are awake. Your results may vary, though.

It keeps me on my toes.

senselessviolnz March 25 2009, 01:50:53 UTC

And please don't mistake my exasperation for not loving my friends; you are a wonderful person, and I'm glad to know you.

flyswatter March 25 2009, 01:58:07 UTC

Heck, you know I love the stuffins and the Neil Boortz out of you (by the way old friend/former fellow Kinkoid Oze on Facebook has Boortz on his friends list. I am so tempted to friend him, though he doesn't know me from Adam, especially since I used to spar a bit with Boortz when we were both on a BBS in the '80s).

imrygels_ho March 25 2009, 12:51:50 UTC

i have mixed feelings about the bailouts - mostly i think, "fuck them if they can't keep their shit together. it's sink or swim in this country as far as businesses go." then i also think of how fucked up things could possibly get if we just let all these huge-ass business take a nose-dive. but then i also think, why the fuck do these assholes have so much sway that their failure could have such sucky repercussions? but then deregulation never works as seen by the fact that we only have one "choice" for our tv services if we don't want to have a satellite dish (and only one "choice" for that too even if we did). basicaly, it's all bullshit ( ... )

explodingalice March 26 2009, 00:27:27 UTC

What she said ( ... )

imrygels_ho March 26 2009, 12:32:24 UTC

plus, let's be honest here - the libertarian candidate wouldn't have done any better or worse than obama has or mccain would have. to think that a libertarian or any other third part who may have won could somehow pull rainbows and puppies out of his/her ass any better than a democrat or republican is delusional. the president is limited by checks and balances just as the senate and house and court are and every poilitician, regardless of political affiliation, has his or her own agenda that sometimes gets in the way of good stuff (tacking on stuff to bills that inevitably prevent them from being passed and so forth). it's how politics works, that WHY it's called politics. no single person be she/he libertarian, communist, democrat, green , republican, etc etc can magically fix all our problems in four years let alone in two months. i'm happy with what our current president has done so far in terms of stem cell research and a few other things. i DON'T expect to be happy with everything he does and unless he suddenly decides to start a ( ... )

splunge March 25 2009, 13:19:44 UTC

The problem with your last line is that people are still gonna bitch.

And they will complain they didnt have any better choices.

At which point i will shoot them. All. In the face. With a bazooka.

Twice.

explodingalice March 26 2009, 00:20:37 UTC

I guess I'll be ducking bazooka-fire, but are you actually suggesting Bob Barr was a better choice?

imrygels_ho March 26 2009, 12:40:07 UTC

i've voted independent and green in the past myself. this time i just happened to vote for a democrat. what's adorable about geena and rob is that they are quick to criticize anyone who voted democrat or republican for having these loft expectations and for expecting perfection from their candidate. however, they glorify libertarians far more than most poeple have ever glorified a democrat or republican. when i've voted green or independent, i never expected that, had they won, they would be any more (or less) productive and effective than a democrat or republican. r and g seem to think that libertarians are able to work miracles and bust through all the checks and balances in our government. i don't know how i missed bob barr's amazing feat of farting puppies and belching kittens. in the end, r and g are ust as guilty of grandstanding and glorifying their political party as anyone. it's annoying, but adorable in its own twisted way. i hope one day that a libertarian does win, at which point we will all be sure to point out even ( ... )