NationStates Jolt Archive

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Now that this frenzy of bill passing has ended, I hope that there will be plenty of gridlock in the Senate, as well as in the House from now on, and that both parties are rendered impotent by rancor and partisanship. (Judging from John Boehner's remarks, I think the rancor and partisanship is already planted.)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,244539,00.html

Now that this frenzy of bill passing has ended, I hope that there will be plenty of gridlock in the Senate, as well as in the House from now on, and that both parties are rendered impotent by rancor and partisanship. (Judging from John Boehner's remarks, I think the rancor and partisanship is already planted.)


I'll be happy if the Castle bill and Obama's Iraq bill are both defeated.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,244539,00.html

Now that this frenzy of bill passing has ended, I hope that there will be plenty of gridlock in the Senate, as well as in the House from now on, and that both parties are rendered impotent by rancor and partisanship. (Judging from John Boehner's remarks, I think the rancor and partisanship is already planted.)

:)

I'm smiling because my student loans' interest rates were cut.

If that one passed. Did it?

:)

I'm smiling because my student loans' interest rates were cut.

Don't smile yet--it still has to get through the Senate and the Republicans there still have the power of the filibuster. Don't think for a second that they'll refuse to use it, no matter how badly they cried like bitches whenever the Dems filibustered bills over the last six years.

Being American must be fun. :rolleyes:

Being American must be fun. :rolleyes:It has its moments. ;)

Don't smile yet--it still has to get through the Senate and the Republicans there still have the power of the filibuster. Don't think for a second that they'll refuse to use it, no matter how badly they cried like bitches whenever the Dems filibustered bills over the last six years.

If I was a senator, I would filibuster everything. It would be awesome. I'd bring the legislative process to a halt.

If I was a senator, I would filibuster everything. It would be awesome. I'd bring the legislative process to a halt.

And wear one of those idiotic powdered wigs, too. :p

If I was a senator, I would filibuster everything. It would be awesome. I'd bring the legislative process to a halt.

I'd so vote for you if you ran for office on a platform of obstructing Congress.

I'd so vote for you if you ran for office on a platform of obstructing Congress.

I totally would. I just need a good way of dodging cloture, and one or two buddies in the senate to take over reading from the phonebook while I sleep.

I totally would. I just need a good way of dodging cloture, and one or two buddies in the senate to take over reading from the phonebook while I sleep.

I'd do the phonebook reading (possibly mixed in with one of my own books when I start publishing, just so I can plug it on C-Span.)

I'd do the phonebook reading (possibly mixed in with one of my own books when I start publishing, just so I can plug it on C-Span.)

By the time I'm elected, I'm sure I'll have more ideas how to kill time, as well.

*begins reading*

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Don't smile yet--it still has to get through the Senate and the Republicans there still have the power of the filibuster. Don't think for a second that they'll refuse to use it, no matter how badly they cried like bitches whenever the Dems filibustered bills over the last six years.

It won't happen...they already look like imbeciles, they don't want us to know that they're hypocrites too, do they?

By the time I'm elected, I'm sure I'll have more ideas how to kill time, as well.

Just start picking long political polemics to read, like Das Kapital, The Wealth of Nations or long novels like Moby Dick or the Bible.

Just start picking long political polemics to read, like Das Kapital, The Wealth of Nations or long novels like Moby Dick or the Bible.

You forgot War and Peace, as well as the LotR trilogy.

Follow it up with a recitation of every Supreme Court decision in the history of the US, and there you go.

"And in the case of Marbury vs. Madison..."

Just start picking long political polemics to read, like Das Kapital, The Wealth of Nations or long novels like Moby Dick or the Bible.

The Odyssey, perhaps ... or War and Peace ...

Just start picking long political polemics to read, like Das Kapital, The Wealth of Nations or long novels like Moby Dick or the Bible.

I'd recommend something by Mises.

The Odyssey

Agh, no, no more "Dawn with her rose red fingers"...

Agh, no, no more "Dawn with her rose red fingers"...

Hey, I liked The Odyssey and The Iliad!

Hey, I liked The Odyssey and The Iliad!

The Ilidas was cool, but the Odyssey was really irritating. I think it's better geared for oral presentation, as opposed to being read.

Heck I'll just bring a Laptop and wireless modem.

I say we just do without Congress. Get rid of it completly. I mean dictatorships are much more efficient

I say we just do without Congress. Get rid of it completly. I mean dictatorships are much more efficient

If you're on their side.

The Democratic party is anti American and John Murtha is another John Kerry. I can't stand there socialistic err i mean there communistic ideas .

It won't happen...they already look like imbeciles, they don't want us to know that they're hypocrites too, do they?

Dude, these are Republicans we're talking about here. Hypocrisy is their golf. ;)

a cookie to whoever gets that reference

The Democratic party is anti American and John Murtha is another John Kerry. I can't stand there socialistic err i mean there communistic ideas .

*eagerly awaits responses to this; makes popcorn in anticipation* :)

Dude, these are Republicans we're talking about here. Hypocrisy is their golf. ;)

a cookie to whoever gets that reference

Damn, I really wanted a cookie...

I'll be happy if the Castle bill and Obama's Iraq bill are both defeated.

Castle bill? :confused:

Dude, these are Republicans we're talking about here. Hypocrisy is their golf. ;)

a cookie to whoever gets that reference

Republicans for a Texas Majority love games of corporate golf.

Republicans for a Texas Majority love games of corporate golf.

I like golf.

I like golf.

Blasphemy.

Blasphemy.

Golf is the sport of middle class white christian people. Like me.

I like golf.

I like it too--I play in such a way as to see the entire course, the woods, the rough, the sand, the lakes... It's like sightseeing in ugly pants.

Golf is the sport of middle class white christian people. Like me.

And its extremely boring for us white middle class agnostics. ;)

I like it too--I play in such a way as to see the entire course, the woods, the rough, the sand, the lakes... It's like sightseeing in ugly pants.

*steals term*

*does not give proper credit as mandated in US code 403.11b*

I hate golf. Unless you count Happy Gilmore. Then I hate most golf.

Golf is the sport of middle class white christian people. Like me.

Untrue. :(

I swear I saw a jew on the course..

Untrue. :(

I swear I saw a jew on the course..

he was 17, a caddie, and working his way through college.

Untrue. :(

I swear I saw a jew on the course..
No way!
You sure he was meant to be there and not just lost and wandered onto the course by mistake?