Comments on: An Explanation

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:45:47 +0000

Pelosi and Reid act like they are minority leaders and need to compromise. If they can’t act like they are in charge, they aren’t.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:01:32 +0000

My Mother… actually, no, my Founding Fathers… told me there would be days like this.

To an extent, they foresaw some of the problems and did their best to preempt them. None of them could foresee our King George, but they had their own to contend with, and I think that what we have experienced lately would not surprise them very much. They might, though, be aghast at the weakness of opposition leadership in its puny non-defense of basic American Constitutional principles.

whig, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the design that would not sustain a far better implementation than this one. If elections still work, I wouldn’t mind seeing a “throw all the bums out” election, a more or less fresh start under the same framework. If they don’t still work, or if we don’t succeed in an effective restart of constitutional government, we may have to retake ownership of that other founding document, the one that predates the Constitution by about 11 years or so.

(Now my head aches…)

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:14:47 +0000

Unless these people start doing some real work, no one who is currently in the Congress may have an easy run for their seat.

By: whig

whig — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:48:37 +0000

It’s still an open question whether we will be allowed to fix the federal government by electing a new administration and candidates for congress, or whether the whole organization is so far beyond repair we will have to repudiate it and start over.