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September 29th 2008 Dumbasses, Obama

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None of these people currently in government deserve to be there. It’s time to throw these bums out.

Obama-Biden 2008!

Posted by: Kyle | September 29, 2008 at 05:41 AM

I hope he didn’t break any crayons before he mailed his missive off.

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  • Dave
    September 29th, 2008 | #1

    “None of these people currently in government deserve to be there. It’s time to throw these bums out.”

    But let’s hand promotions to two of the people who are members of the controlling party most responsible for the mess.

  • martinra
    September 30th, 2008 | #2

    Jonah Goldberg shows some heart and spine today in the LAT, with a barnburner “pox on all your houses” rant. Closing graf:

    I loathe populism. But if there ever has been a moment when reasonable men’s hands itch for the pitchfork, this must surely be it. No one is blameless. No one is pure. Two decades of crapulence by the political class has been prologue to the era of coprophagy that is now upon us. It is crap sandwiches for as far as the eye can see.

    Really, how is it possible for the Legislature of a democratic Republic to have such a dismal track record and low popularity for such a long period of time? Who doesn’t suspect that we’d do better picking a random adult citizen from each of the 435 districts every two years, than to allow this to continue?

  • drach
    September 30th, 2008 | #3

    Who doesn’t suspect that we’d do better picking a random adult citizen from each of the 435 districts every two years, than to allow this to continue?

    I have recently been toying with in my mind that we would be better off with a lottery draft as opposed to elections for the federal government. All adults over 35 included.

  • brian
    October 1st, 2008 | #4

    The Legislature of this country arrived at the tipping point where self interest overcame the built in safe guards of the system when incumbency of 2 and 4 year assignments assured 20 to 30+ year careers for monkeys who knew just enough to arrange to keep pressing the reward button.

  • brian
    October 1st, 2008 | #5

    The 6 year assignments were designed to be long term seats for self serving monkeys right from the start.

  • Old Grouch
    October 1st, 2008 | #6

    The 6 year assignments were designed to be long term seats for self serving monkeys right from the start.

    Yeah, except the Senators were originally answerable to the state legislatures, not just a state’s largest cities.

    In any state that had contested elections (where the legislature might change hands), Senators had to be able to work with members of the opposing party. (There are a lot more contested states than you’d think. Indiana, reliably red presidentially for years, currently has a Democrat-controlled House.) The Senate’s seniority system made it advantageous for a Republican-controlled legislature to retain an incumbent Democrat Senator (and vice versa), but only if the Senator behaved himself.

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