True. The expiration date on a conservative politician in D.C. is no more than six years before they effectively become entranced with power and believe the federal government is the proper answer to all possible questions - with of course as much reward for themselves and their major contributors as possible along the way. People vote for incumbents who have "R" next to their name not suspecting that he or she long ago effectively became a Democrat. Conversely, the longer a politician remains in D.C. the more out of touch with reality he or she becomes. The net result is that politicians increasingly want to use government to solve society's problems even as they increasingly lose touch with society outside of the Beltway, so they are trying to solve problems they cannot possibly understand.Its pretty true though Werepossum, but its true of all government. Most people don't care to inform themselves. Much of that was proven when both senate candidates for Delaware didn't know the minimum wage there. They just know whats fed to them from other people and never care to learn it themselves.
Progressives always assume that if what they do isn't popular, then either people don't know about it, or people are defective.
"Larry Summers... you're doing a heckuva job."
/Jon Stewart facepalm
It was a failed recovery attempt.And directly after that, Obama said it was "Pun intended"
http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...says_democrats_have_been_fixing_gop_problems/What you always do is assume that.
Always. If progressives don't get their way with the electorate, it is always because the public is defective. (And that is always because of those wascally Wepubwicans.) Progressives consider themselves incapable of proposing, formulating or implementing a policy that is unpopular or Heaven forbid fails, if only the public were smart enough to understand it."It's absurd. We've lost our minds," said a clearly exasperated [John] Kerry. "We're in a period of know-nothingism in the country, where truth and science and facts don't weigh in. It's all short-order, lowest common denominator, cheap-seat politics."
True. The expiration date on a conservative politician in D.C. is no more than six years before they effectively become entranced with power and believe the federal government is the proper answer to all possible questions - with of course as much reward for themselves and their major contributors as possible along the way. People vote for incumbents who have "R" next to their name not suspecting that he or she long ago effectively became a Democrat. Conversely, the longer a politician remains in D.C. the more out of touch with reality he or she becomes. The net result is that politicians increasingly want to use government to solve society's problems even as they increasingly lose touch with society outside of the Beltway, so they are trying to solve problems they cannot possibly understand.
Politicians, like diapers, need to be changed regularly, and for the same reason.
We haven't heard a peep about them. Must be working as expected.How are those death panels coming long?
Politicians, like diapers, need to be changed regularly, and for the same reason.
Have you seen this?The whole time I was thinking "Just imagine if Bush had the balls and the wherewithal to go on the Daily Show, that would've been some epic TV."
You mean i cant trust those RNC and DMC ads in my mailbox and on the tv as reliable forms of poliical news?
/facepalm
Sometimes i wish it were necessary to pass a civics test or psychiatric evaluation in order to vote
"People don't truly know the track record..."
Massive deficits, ongoing wars, increased budget for DoD, and "prolonged detention."
Yeah, I know all about your track record.
Pardon me for saying so, but it sounds more like you're referring to Bush than Obama.
Weird, huh?