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– Why a spoon cousin? Why not an axe?

Because it’s dull, you twit, it’ll hurt more.

The trick is finding a way to keep people engaged. The open forum is what our founding fathers envisioned. The advent of radio and TV took the forum out of the hands of the people as we didn’t have access to the medium to share our views the same as we did for many years with only newspapers available. The internet has brought the forum back into the hands of the people. We can now debate openly again and let our representatives know how we’ve concluded. I’ve emailed my representatives. It’s easy to do.

I don’t claim PK will solve all of society’s ills, but getting people talking, here and in other places (hopefully that don’t just serve as echo chambers) can only be for the good, especially if we can get people engaged.

(We can thank George W. for failing so miserably he motivated the country to rise out of apathy, does that count for anything?)

And still aren’t to this day. The Republicans can’t understand how they lost “control” after 1994, and the Democrats are likely to be asking themselves that same question before too long.

Part of it is that what these people see as their job, largely is to stick it to whoever was sticking it to them the past N years. It’s a slightly more civilized version of the tribal warfare that has gone on for millennia around the world; after a while, you forget what it was you were fighting about in the first place. And you certainly forget who put you there to do the fighting.

I don’t expect much different to come out of this Congress, of the next N of them — it’s largely the same full diaper with a slightly different smell. Until We The People stop shouting at and scapegoating each other, how can we expect our elected representatives to do the same? After all, we deserve the government we get, right? Just look around these comments threads — you can see why Byrd was asking that question. The rot starts at the bottom.

BUT I also imagine how much larger a turd Lieberman would look if he goes back on the magnanimous gesture on the part of the PE. Seriously, to get along now, Holy Joe has two choices: stay in line with Senate Dems and keep his plum chair, or go his own way (again) and lose it for reals. SO he either 1- does what them dems want or 2- does what those dems want. Barry gots his ballz fo’shizzle!

Why was the Senate silent?

In describing the empty chamber the way he did, Byrd invited a specific version of the same general question millions of us have been asking: “Why do reason, logic and truth seem to play a sharply diminished role in the way America now makes important decisions?” The persistent and sustained reliance on falsehoods as the basis of policy, even in the face of massive and well-understood evidence to the contrary, seems to many Americans to have reached levels that were previously unimaginable.

A large and growing number of Americans are asking out loud: “What has happened to our country?” People are trying to figure out what has gone wrong in our democracy, and how we can fix it. ”

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Nobody is doing their job. It doesn’t matter who’s in the majority. This is a quote from Assault on Reason. I really like some of what it has to say.

If I wanted a man, I would look up Tego.