stupid com.. no, just stupid

[davemerrill]

Been following the narrative of the upcoming midterm elections with interest and amusement as the Republicans attempt to wipe the memory of eight years of failure out of the minds of the American voters. And you'd think that after the spectacular train wreck of their governance (see: 2000-2008), they would dust themselves off, look at what they did wrong, and try to fix things, to try to get some smart, principled candidates with the best interests of the nation at heart. But instead, they're determined to saddle America with an even more brain-damaged,fraudulent, looney-tunes gang of screwheads. Thus demonstrating their contempt for the intelligence of the American voter. And who knows? Maybe the American voter deserves it. I mean, they gave the Bush gang the full eight years to screw things up. Do I think the Dems are perfect? Oh hell no. But if it's a choice between a wishy washy Dem and a R who thinks America is under Sharia law, I'll go with the wishy washy every time. Better than insane.

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[(Anonymous)]

Playing the time-machine game for a moment, I'd head back to the Constitutional Convention and get them to enact "Government Duty." It would work exactly like jury duty, except it would be for six months to a year in congress. Coupled, of course, with a ferocious enhancement of general education with a heavy duty focus on Social Studies. The other branches of government would work essentially as they do now, but Legislative would be stocked with real citizens who weren't required to be rich and/or pandering to get their job. Plus, built-in term limits.

Could it happen today? Only if congress was willing to vote itself out of office. P'shit.

-Tim Eldred

[davemerrill.livejournal.com]

I think that would be a swell idea. I'd love to have a Congress full of the middle class rather than millionaire lawyers.

I have a similar idea for professional sports - every city has a lottery and every year they pick nine local people to play baseball, however many guys to play basketball, football, etc. Locals only. Certainly would make the games more interesting.