Politics

Your Eminence

Big Developer wants City of White Plains to condemn Bar Building. Lawyers everywhere wonder where to find a drink.

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We're from the Government. We're Here to Help.

• infinite copyright
• Free Speech Zones
• Alien and Sedition Acts USA PATRIOT Act
• taxes for thee, but not for me
• Empire
• content vs. carriers
• the analog hole
• Transportation Security Administration
• all you fascists
• the Reichstag World Trade Center
• What? Me? Worry?

12:14:52 PM # Google It!
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On Alienating the Base

So you want to remove the Bush League from office? There are people who will vote for you, no matter what you do, because you're not Republican. There are others who won't vote for you, no matter what, because you're not Republican. Then there are those who stick with a party because that party has stuck to their one issue. They aren't traditional swing voters, because they have an intense affiliation with one party, but they will consider other options if their issue is taken off the table. These are planks which, when removed from your platform, do not cause the base to collapse.

What are the issues that can be taken off the table? Guns, for one.

10:26:10 AM # Google It!
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What Limited Government?

Novarese points out AOL Presidential Match.

Yet another candidate matchmaker. My best matches, in order, are Bush, Lieberman, Edwards, Clark, Sharpton, Dean, Kerry, Kucinich. I don't particularly like this quiz, as it doesn't allow for any opinion of what policies should be federal and which should be kept at a state level; it just assumes you want the federal government muscling in on everything. [emphasis mine]

That's a huge difference, don't you think? Though it seems there is no longer much difference between the parties when it comes to Federal action. How many citizens voters would understand the difference between arguing for consensual unions of all sorts, and arguing that the Federal government has no business in that sphere?

8:56:39 AM # Google It!
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