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I will not go there at all. While she isn't a crazy her politics has been detrimental to the country. What the Cheney's have done is a direct lead to Trump and his authoritarianism.

Oh and that does not include days where a member is sick or just does come to work. Remember Matt gaetz missed a vote bc he went to Wyoming to do a rally against Liz Cheney.

A couple yrs ago they were in session less than half the yr.

Have you seen the congressional attendance record?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.3251520

We got a conviction so thats good. The thing is you could see the everyone in Min was willing to throw Chauvin under the bus. I cannot think of an excessive force case where so many cops testify against the perpetrator. It is a one off in my eyes.

Its not compromise that is the issue. It is corporate bribes/contributions to politicians, They are paid to not get along.

When you have authorities that leap to violence what do you expect?

The problem is its the united states. There is unfettered travel from state to state, A straw purchase in arizona and that gun is in say chicago within the weak. That kind of thing has to stop.

I still think close to 78 wins. I do think that CY should be tweaked to no be so HR friendly. I would rather see the team built for small ball.

Just dh mountcastle already. When mancini needs a day off at 1st mountcastle can fill in.

On an adjacent note. T9 bad we couldn't get the all star game.

Normally I wouldnt but the centralized power that can never be allowed to go to someone else has to stop.

They just need to not use the BP so hard all the time. If they can get 7 like yesterday on the regular that should be good.

There are chips that are owed so old legislators stick around to keep cashing them. It is not like they bring a damned thing to the office now. Diane Feinstein is #1 for that now. In the past it was Strom Thurmon. What does a 100 yr old senator bring to help the electorate?

Parties box out some of their own. The progressives are. Look how they took Katie Porter's committee seat after she skewered business leaders. Then I look at what Beohner is saying in his book about many in his caucus dont want to do any work.

They won't contend but they should be interesting.

Def popular vote. Prob 75 is the age limit. If you are elected at say 73 you can fill out that term. Past that you cannot be on the ballot. An addendum to this is at a certain age like 70 some cognitive tests are begun. If you fail you have to resign. Diane Feinstein has some kind of dementia. Now reporting has come out that she had it the last time she ran for office. The hangers on kept quiet bc she is their meal ticket. I would like to add another couple ideas. The person running for office, their spouse, kids, siblings, and parents need to divest or put their holdings in a fully blind trust. No more using your office to shoot contracts to yourself. No more taking Intel from office and buying and selling stock that help you. That is insider trading and justice should find them and throw them in prison. No more revolving door from govt to industry. You take being a senator and then go the npaa to use your contacts to get stuff for your new employer as an example. Also no treasury sec to go back to Goldman.

Glad you have come to your senses. The way I understand it the dems went to the dark side of pro oligarchy in the 70s when they decided we can get that no at too. At times we have had elected officials who work for voters. Most of the time ike did. Fdr did. Teddy did. Some in Congress have. The enrichment from elected office thing is relatively new. What I want to see is the effective end of the electoral college. I want either a mechanism to allow a min of 5 parties to be relevant or my preference no parties at all. I also want term limits in Congress and scotus. I want age limits in all 3 branches. I want money out of politics and biblically financed elections. With these changes all the problems will be settled out on their own.

Hope she find a herself in federal prison. Maybe she can find a girlfriend.

You can't fix that. You have to allow Darwin to take his wards.

Wouldn't it be antipsychotics? They are completely insane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK9dlmYvB-Y

That was a hell of a game for Gurly. Great win. Maybe next yr.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuUDRU9-HRk