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Post by Angie on Nov 12, 2016 15:03:00 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2016 15:08:10 GMT -5
Oh, dear. No. No, I don't think this is what we need.
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Post by Don on Nov 12, 2016 15:45:16 GMT -5
What cassandra said.
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Post by Angie on Nov 12, 2016 15:47:08 GMT -5
I'm hoping there will be a huge rumble of dissent on this one.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2016 20:33:02 GMT -5
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Post by tanstaafl on Nov 12, 2016 21:44:59 GMT -5
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Post by Angie on Nov 12, 2016 21:48:49 GMT -5
Remember that Gingrich is an idiot. After the way he treated his wife, no one in Georgia with a lick of sense thinks much of him. FIFY.
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Post by haggis on Nov 13, 2016 0:25:56 GMT -5
Actually, he's very bright. He is an asshole, of course.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2016 0:30:33 GMT -5
Actually, he's very bright. He is an asshole, of course. Yeah, that's my take on him. Alas, when you're bright, you have that much more capacity to be an effective asshole.
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Post by Don on Nov 13, 2016 5:33:57 GMT -5
Gingrich is a bare-bones naked example of the political ego at work. He's just smart enough to know he's smart, but not smart enough to realize the being smart isn't an excuse to tell everybody else what to do.
Which is why government needs to have a hell of a lot less power.
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Post by Vince524 on Nov 13, 2016 9:24:19 GMT -5
Gingrich is a bare-bones naked example of the political ego at work. He's just smart enough to know he's smart, but not smart enough to realize the being smart isn't an excuse to tell everybody else what to do. Which is why government needs to have a hell of a lot less power. Exactly. This election is a great example as well. Our system was built on the idea of checks and balances. That no 1 person or group should ever be in complete control, yet each of the major parties seems to crave that. Hillary talked about how she wanted a supreme court that was going to help her lead. They're not supposed to be another arm of the executive branch, but a counter weight to it. Why is that so hard to understand?
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Post by Don on Nov 13, 2016 9:27:04 GMT -5
Gingrich is a bare-bones naked example of the political ego at work. He's just smart enough to know he's smart, but not smart enough to realize the being smart isn't an excuse to tell everybody else what to do. Which is why government needs to have a hell of a lot less power. Exactly. This election is a great example as well. Our system was built on the idea of checks and balances. That no 1 person or group should ever be in complete control, yet each of the major parties seems to crave that. Hillary talked about how she wanted a supreme court that was going to help her lead. They're not supposed to be another arm of the executive branch, but a counter weight to it. Why is that so hard to understand? Your assumption that they don't understand how it's supposed to work may be erroneous. That may, in turn, be based on an erroneous assumption that those who seek to capture the One Ring have any interest at all in playing fair, or in doing what's best for society as a whole.
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Post by Vince524 on Nov 13, 2016 11:14:07 GMT -5
I have no doubt the ones running for power understand it, it's the general population who seems to have forgotten.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2016 11:32:12 GMT -5
I have no doubt the ones running for power understand it, it's the general population who seems to have forgotten. I agree completely, Vince. Before the election, a ton of my liberal friends were exulting (and conservative friends were fretting) about the possibility of Hillary's victory sweeping both houses and the Supreme Court with her. Now that the Donald is about to do that, of course, their positions are reversed. Me, I'm pretty unhappy that Trump now has a blank check. But I didn't want Clinton to have one either. It's not that I want nothing but gridlock. The increasing tendency in recent years for the parties to block each other for the pure sake of blocking each other is ridiculous and damaging. Merrick Garland should be confirmed, for pete's sake. But when the system is functioning in a healthy way, the branches check one another, not rubber stamp one another. Alas, they haven't been functioning in a healthy way for quite a while. And that's not going to change now, I fear. Only now, instead of blocking the president's every move, I'm afraid they'll let him do whatever the hell he wants. I'd give a lot to feel that Congress would act as a check on Trump's power.
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Post by Vince524 on Nov 13, 2016 12:02:55 GMT -5
How much will be a blank check for Trump as opposed to Ryan? Trump doesn't care about policy all that much I suspect.
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