New American Political Landscape

[prole]

So, let me get this straight. Lawmakers employ lobbyists and think tanks to help them write legislation and provide them with talking points and position papers????!!!!!!!

 

I think the author may be attempting to transform a Poli Sci 101 text into an Tom Clancy flick.

 

Yes, we know that undue corporate influence, pandering and peddling is sooo passé for the Democratic Party. Thanks for the reminder. Please continue to keep us informed as to what we should find important and worthy of studying more closely as those Party talking points and position papers hit your inbox!

I start to wonder if your beef with the piece has rather more to do with its criticism of Obama than anything else. Or maybe an overweening desire to "keep the flock in line", after all, election season is always just around the corner.

[tvashtarkatena]

I guess my take away from all this is: the GOP's mouth is filled with corporate cock - this is news?

 

Oh, and I never got to the Obama part, on account athefact I don't read so good, but now that you've told me...I AM SO OUTRAGED.

 

My question is: what's the proposed change or action being recommended?

 

Summarized, of course.

Edited February 26, 2013 by tvashtarkatena

[prole]

I guess my take away from all this is: the GOP's mouth is filled with corporate cock - this is news?

 

As if the Democrats isn't? You're a tool.

[tvashtarkatena]

This is, indeed, a slow news day.

[tvashtarkatena]

My posting about Republicans supporting gay marriage was way, way more surprising and interesting.

 

Yours was more for people who wish to discover that second, translucent set of eyelids, like the kind birds have.

Edited February 26, 2013 by tvashtarkatena

[olyclimber]

I guess my take away from all this is: the GOP's mouth is filled with corporate cock - this is news?

 

As if the Democrats isn't? You're a tool.

 

you sound non-partisan! clearly you're someone we can all trust.

[prole]

Meanwhile, another round of austerity is set to go down as a result of yet another spectacular miscalculation to realize how batshit crazy his opposition is. Obama's answer: barnstorming tour across America to save military spending. Boing!

 

[rob]

My question is: what's the proposed change or action being recommended?

 

 

Clearly, you're not familiar with the author's work. I'm not sure he's capable. He has a special genius that makes him capable of simultaneously criticizing both sides of an argument (quite lucidly) without actually presenting any suggestions of his own.

[olyclimber]

can you summarize this into a short series of grunts and hand gestures?

[tvashtarkatena]

Meanwhile, another round of austerity is set to go down as a result of yet another spectacular miscalculation to realize how batshit crazy his opposition is. Obama's answer: barnstorming tour across America to save military spending. Boing!

 

This has what to do with this discussion, exactly?

 

Actually, I'm no longer sure what this discussion is about. It was never summarized for me. I shouldn't even be here. I'm admittedly not familiar with the author's work, in the same way I'm not familiar with James Joyzzzzzzzz.

Edited February 26, 2013 by tvashtarkatena

[prole]

My posting about Republicans supporting gay marriage was way, way more surprising and interesting.

 

Yours was more for people who wish to discover that second, translucent set of eyelids, like the kind birds have.

 

Actually, it was about as surprising as Michael Steele being appointed as chairman of the RNC right after Obama was elected. Whatever.

 

The second part I didn't really get. Pass me the 'medicine', bro...

[tvashtarkatena]

That's OK. I got the second part - actually, the first and second go together - and that's all that matters.

[prole]

Can we please talk about an officially sanctioned subject, please!!!

[tvashtarkatena]

You may discuss poo, your Mom, or ballz.

 

Pick one.

[prole]

Actually, it was about as surprising as Michael Steele being appointed as chairman of the RNC right after Obama was elected. Whatever.

 

Shit, is that considered name dropping? If so, my bad.

[rob]

Can we please talk about an officially sanctioned subject, please!!!

 

I don't think you're being oppressed, I think people just didn't think that article was as fresh and original as you did.

[olyclimber]

Guys, how do you tell if a politician is lying? His mouth is moving!

 

LOLAMIRITE!!!???!!

[prole]

You may discuss poo, your Mom, or ballz.

 

Pick one.

 

Ivan already covered those in his response to the piece along with 'cuntz' and 'bitches bobs'. He is to teachers unions as Kevbone is to universal suffrage.

[tvashtarkatena]

I'm more familiar with his wife, Samantha.

 

I'll read the piece - it may take a year, or 10, I may need a defibrillation, but, as Dog is my Witness, I shall wade forth.

 

After that, I'll be staring down a fresh copy of Syntactic Structures.

 

Hard cover.

Edited February 26, 2013 by tvashtarkatena

[olyclimber]

I'll be here all week, unless I can find a better gig.

[tvashtarkatena]

Regarding Ivan, I've seen him in action. He's a good teacher - but I say that mostly because he invites me to speak to his classes.

 

That's not Ego talking.

 

It's Talent.

[ivan]

since there's no summary, and like everybody else, i didn't come to spray to do no fancy book-learning, i'm assuming, given the grandiose title of the thread, that the article is predicting an end to the "old" political landscape of liberals vs conservatives. for any who read the whole thing, is that the point?

 

and if so, has there ever been a moment in history when one of those classic antipodes was succesfully banished? indeed, can one even exist w/o the other.

 

the republican party might well die tomorrow - the cranky fucks that typify it, however, are eternal.

[tvashtarkatena]

Yes, populations are split between Conservative Brain and Librul Brain. That may be news to the replicants, who don't do Science, and Ultra Progressives, who don't either, but that is apparently the way of the Hairless Monkey, like it or not.

 

Societies probably need both to keep going. I would say we've had a bit too much of conservative brain in the past decade or more - given the string of avoidable disasters of late, but then, is abject stupidity and unbridled avarice really avoidable?

[ivan]

 

Ivan already covered those in his response to the piece along with 'cuntz' and 'bitches bobs'. He is to teachers unions as Kevbone is to universal suffrage.

your contempt for a curiously crafted quip is criminal, sir, criminal.

 

your spray-fu is fucked for sure - you're not here to win hearts and minds, monseigneur, but to make art by the mangling of words and memes

 

keep fighting the good fight though

[tvashtarkatena]

I was elevated from Retard Bully to Gay Top Party Operative today, so there's that.

 

You should have just given us that summary, Prole, like Pink should have just defined 'special rights'. Both were honest, relatively non-combative, reasonable requests, no?

 

Now look at the mess you've made.

 

Mr. Paul! Paging Mr. Paul!

Edited February 26, 2013 by tvashtarkatena