Quote Originally Posted by Koga No Goshi View Post
Telco wasn't brought up before, weren't we talking about the Patriot Act? Yes, agreed, bad law.

RE: Independent, what do you do when you spend all your time arguing both parties are crap and just as bad at everything? Not vote? I don't feel that will help this time around, but of course it's your vote and perogative.
That is the perennial dilemma for the "decline to state" crowd. a) Hold your nose and pick the lesser of 2 evils, b)throw your franchise away on a non-winning 3rd-ee, or c)just stay home.

You didn't ask me directly, but the question was posed in a public forum, so: sometimes I've done a, more often I've done b, and though tempted to choose c, my upbringing won't let me avoid my duty to vote. This year, I haven't decided yet.

But you make a pursuasive case for the Senator from Ill, I grant. Given the times, and the current configuration of the legis bodies, maybe we gotta give the Dems what the Repubs had, a Royal Flush, as it were, to get us through this next bit, though I flinch naturally, granting that. That said ,it looks like it's gonna be that way anyway. I hear rumbles from the right that my Repub friends are gonna wash their hair Election Day, and start planning for '12.

So he might only have 4 years to do his thing vs eight. You think he can do it?