That was when the US had a considerable population of "men."
Posted on 11/03/2014 4:12:18 AM PST by Jim Noble
By Tuesday night about 90 million Americans will have cast ballots in an election that’s almost certain to create greater partisan divisions, increase gridlock and render governance of our complex nation even more difficult. Ninety million sounds like a lot, but that means that less than 40 percent of the electorate will bother to vote...
The main impact of the midterm election in the modern era has been to weaken the president, the only government official (other than the powerless vice president) elected by the entire nation. Since the end of World War II, the president’s party has on average lost 25 seats in the House and about 4 in the Senate as a result of the midterms...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
“Oh oh we are about to get clobbered. Help us O B 1 deBama, you are our only hope!”
Black ‘true believers’ talking support for Obama... (this might be a touch racist... but the first part’s funny..)
If you really want consensus, compromise and cooperation then follow and honor the Constitution.
The authors apparently have a definition of "accountability" that is different from mine. Where is their evidence that majority disapproval has changed 0bamacare, for example? The administration's disastrous Middle East policies? Where is the evidence that a country whose electorate considers Global Warming an interest slightly less compelling that toenail fungus will find it taken off the front pages?
This adjustment would also give Congress the breathing space to consider longer-term challenges facing the nation — such as entitlement spending, immigration and climate change — that are either too complex or politically toxic to tackle within a two-year election cycle.
Um...perhaps they're politically toxic for a reason? And what, pray, happens to that "accountability" when elected REPRESENTATIVES have no reason to listen to their constituents? There is a real disconnect here: we do not elect a ruling class. We do not elect "leaders" and one single look at the current occupants of the White House and Capitol building will immediately disabuse the observer of any such quaint notion. We are not sheep in search of a dog, cows safely guided by kind, knowing herdsmen with cattle prods. It is fairly obvious that both of the current establishment parties view the electorate that way, and what does a herd need a vote for, anyway?
The authors are welcome to suggest such a Constitutional amendment to anyone who will promote it and find out what happens when the voters are told they're talking too much by people who cannot be bothered to listen because they know better. King George III had some people around him who believed that sincerely. They're no longer in charge.
Basically, what these progressive-facsists want is rule by an unencumbered, permanent government bureaucracy.
Long terms of office, combined, wave-style elections, term-limits and changes towards parliamentary style elections all enforce the rule of the party and the rule of the government apparatus.
Ping. Note that the professor and student are from Duke University.
And they're getting it, just not fast enough.
Liberals love to rewrite the constitution...unfortunately, they want to make it look like a communistic constitution.
A hundred years ago, MEN got into FIGHTS IN BARS over their political beliefs. The Left thinks the only thing that is “fair” is if you give up YOUR beliefs and go along. SCREW THEM.
This is not new.
That was when the US had a considerable population of "men."
“The framers included an amendment process in the Constitution so our nation could adjust the system to meet the demands of a changing world.
Surely they would not be pleased with the dysfunction,..... partisan acrimony and public dissatisfaction that plague modern politics.”
THEY WULD HAVE RUN OBUMMER OUT OF TOWN ON A RAIL severla years ago!!!..and Hairy Reed...and Bela Pelosi...and all these modern democrack jerks
“The issue is never the issue. The issue is the revolution.”
—David Horowitz, quoting unnamed SDS leader.
Ahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahhahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaha.
The slimes out does it self, their solution to the rat party suffering during midterms of rat Presidents, abolish midterms, extend House terms to 4 years, make Senate terms 8 or 4 years. Better yet, have a Parliamentary system, better still just crown Obama the ****ing Emperor for life.
The paper is officially not worthy of lining birdcages anymore. Not worthy of being burned in garbage cans to warm the homeless.
I just hope the Levinites and leftist media elites don't get together someday and unite for that unholy cause.
Well if we had one in 2012 using current House districts, Romney would have won, (he took 226 districts I believe), but what seat would he have run in personally, my money is on NH-1, he would have lost to Che Porter.
So to take office Prime Minister Romney would need someone from a safe seat to resign so he could win the special election, sounds like a job for Jason Chaffetz!
;p
For anyone who believes, sincerely, that the American left is on morally (and intellectually) solid ground; and that those who would attempt to derail its agenda are merely "obstructionist"; the likely results of Tuesday's election is surely a cause for alarm...
>> make Senate terms 8 or 4 years. Better yet, have a Parliamentary system <<
I just hope the Levinites and leftist media elites don’t get together someday and unite for that unholy cause.
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