Vote For Gridlock

**Proletariat** · 11-01-2006, 04:47

I'm all for it. We've had nothing but Republican rule for more than enough time for them to show their value, and it's been a pathetic failure. I'm not gonna bother to vote, because I'll be damned if I vote for the party of 'We aren't them!' or the party of 'We're not actually what we're billed as, either.'

**Xiahou** · 11-01-2006, 04:51

*cough* vote 3rd party *cough* ahem... excuse me

**Divinus Arma** · 11-03-2006, 21:27

Originally Posted by Xiahou

*cough* vote 3rd party *cough* ahem... excuse me

Only if you are a leftist liberal. Anyone else should vote down party lines. Especially for Mark Foley and Tom DeLay, since their names are on the ballot against their will and they aren't even running.

ONLY FOUR MORE DAYS!!!!I don't know about all of you, but I will have a case of beer, a few friends, and a bunch of snacks while I watch the game all day and all night on my big screen TV. I even have a big "we're #1" hand and an Elephant hat. My team is going to bring it and smash the Jackasses with a victory upset that will stun the nation. Out turnout machine will prevail over the mass media tool of the left.

NOVEMBER 7TH: The Showdown

**Lemur** · 11-03-2006, 21:33

Originally Posted by Divinus Arma

My team is going to bring it and smash the Jackasses with a victory upset that will stun the nation. Out turnout machine will prevail over the mass media tool of the left.

Dude, you are so pumped!

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That is to say, your G.O.P. has real, ultimate power!

**Goofball** · 11-03-2006, 23:14

Aside from maddox, that may be the coolest website I have ever visited. The only thing cooler than being a pirate, is being a ninja.

**Lemur** · 11-05-2006, 04:38

Just had to share this quote:

People in power simply can’t be trusted. If we’re going to have a Republican executive branch, we need a Democratic legislature to hold its feet to the fire. And vice-versa. So on Tuesday, I’m neither voting Democratic or Republican. I’m voting for the oldest party in the republic. Its name never appears on the ballot, but it’s always there and it has always served us well. Divided government.

Millions of other independents and moderates around America are going to do the same - along, I suspect, with millions of genuine conservatives who recognize that divided government would be far more “conservative” than the New Dixiecrats currently running the GOP down in Washington.

Real conservatives, after all, believe in smaller government, lower spending, balanced budgets, individual freedom, checks and balances, political restraint, states’ rights, a prudent foreign policy, and a deep respect for the Constitution. Seen any of that recently?

**Divinus Arma** · 11-05-2006, 04:47

I would prefer the breakdown of the Democratic party where the liberal point of view is removed to the sidelines of history. Then I would like to see the formation of multiple parties within the United States so that the electorate has a political system as diverse as they are.

**lars573** · 11-01-2006, 05:06

This guy proved he's talking out of his arse with the one paragraph.

It is critical to remember that the Founding Fathers explicitly rejected a parliamentary form of government. In such systems, the prime minister is elected by the legislature. Therefore, the head of government will necessarily always have a majority in the legislature.

He knows nothing about how a parlimentary government works. The head of state (sovergin or president) asks (this term would vary depending on how the constitution is written) the leader of the majority party to form a government. They are only elected to sit in their parlimentary seat.

Also the French though up a better term. Rather than "gridlock" they say "co-habitation". It also has a less than positive connotation. That the cost of having the PM and President at odds out wight any gains.

**Lemur** · 11-01-2006, 22:50

Here's another essay by a conservative about the state of affairs in one-party land. Vladimir, just to be clear: I am not the author of the article below.

Frank Schaeffer: I should be supporting Allen. Instead, I'm leaving the party.

07:52 AM CST on Wednesday, November 1, 2006

I'm a Christian, a writer, a military parent and a registered Republican.

On all those counts, I was disgusted by an e-mail I just received that's being circulated by campaign supporters of Republican George Allen, who's trying to retain his Senate seat in Virginia.

The message goes like this: "First, it was the Catholic priests, then it was Mark Foley, and now Jim Webb, whose sleazy novels discuss sex between very young teenagers. ... Hmmm, sounds like a perverted pedophile to me! Pass the word that we do not need any more pedophiles in office."Democrat James Webb is a war hero and former Marine, wounded in Vietnam and winner of the Navy Cross. He was writing about class and military issues long before me and has articulated the issue of how the elites have dropped the ball on military service in his classic novel Fields of Fire. By the way, that's a book Tom Wolfe calls "the greatest of the Vietnam novels."

Mr. Webb's son is a Marine in Iraq. That's an uncommon fact in this era in which most political leaders' children act as if it is only right and proper that it's someone else's war to fight.

Mr. Webb also happens to be running against a desperate opponent supported by people who circulated the stupid e-mail, something that reminds me of a 2000 smear campaign aimed at another war hero, John McCain.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

I never served in the military. It was my son's unexpected volunteering that connects me to the military family and to my country. And I've been voting Republican for years. My late father – Dr. Francis Schaeffer – was an evangelical theologian, friend to Jerry Falwell and White House guest of Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and the first President Bush.

I have nice handwritten letters from various members of the Bush family, including Barbara, thanking me for my books on military service. So I have every reason to stay in the Republicans' good graces. (It's nice to be complimented on television by the First Lady.)

But enough is enough. I've had it with Republican smears.

The Webb e-mail is the embodiment of the cynical Republican strategists, some of whom must know the difference between fiction and nonfiction. Was Agatha Christie a murderer because she wrote about murder?

According to the Allen camp's logic, God would be a pedophile, too. After all, we Christians believe God inspired the Bible. And God-the-author chose to include the "sleazy" story about Lot offering to send out his young virgin daughters to be raped by the men of Sodom.

The Bible has masturbation scenes, rape, pedophilia and God's favorite man – King David – warming himself with a young virgin in his old age. He's the same man God tells us committed murder after he indulged his peeping Tom fantasies.

Lucky for God-the-author that He's not running against George Allen.

I just got back from a visit to Parris Island and was struck again – as I was on the proud day of my son's boot camp graduation there as a Marine in 1999 – by the moral credibility of the drill instructors and selflessness of the recruits.

Our political leaders should learn from them. In fact, our future leaders should be them. We need to compare today's leaders to those of the past, who earned credibility beyond the reach of cynicism and irony – and cheap smear tactics.

People like Mr. McCain – who is "for" the war in Iraq – and Mr. Webb – who is "against" the war – should be respected no matter one's politics or ideas about the war. Why? Because they paid their dues.

My wife and I have reached the tipping point. We plan to go to town hall to dump our Republican voter registration and reregister as independents. I don't care anymore what party someone is in. These days, what I care about is what they're made of.

Wartime demands leaders with character and moral authority. The political party smearing Mr. Webb proves it has neither.

**Vladimir** · 11-03-2006, 02:50

Oh no! Everything I belive is based on a lie

. Oops, oh well. Breaking up the article threw me off.

I'm sorr...no, wait: I deeply apoligize to those who might have taken offense to my comments. I simply mistated a joke, the real ones who owe an apology are George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (Lemur

) who mislead me. My remark was mearly a botched joke against the President and was taken out of context!

**Lemur** · 11-03-2006, 03:39

Well, if we're going to go that route, you're going to get a lot of airplay for two days, but now you'll never get to be President.

**Big King Sanctaphrax** · 11-03-2006, 12:03

The head of state (sovergin or president) asks (this term would vary depending on how the constitution is written) the leader of the majority party to form a government.

I think he's refering to the fact that the majority party elects their own leader, who is then invariably made Prime Minister. Perhaps the way he expresses it isn't technically correct, but it fairly closely parallels how it actually works.