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Let me guess, this is another victory of the McCain-Fiengold campaign finance reform legislation? |
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jpm100
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This has nothing to do with McCain-Feingold. If you belong to a union, they can and will take your money to support the candidates they like (read Democrats.)
You have the right, under law, to request that your dues be reduced so as not to fund this politicking (Beck.) If you are silly enough to assert this right, expect a very hard time.
Neitherr unions nor companies should be allowed to contribute in any way to politics. No private jets, no campaign workers, no money, no advertising, nothing. Public employees should not be allowed to vote. It is a conflict of interest. |
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MarkD
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"Card check" seems to be the biggest stealth issue in this campaign... |
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shark
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MarkD,
Actually the rules about not coercing donations to PACs is part of campaign legislation. Normally when such legislation is drafted, there’s an attempt to comprehend possible methods to circumvent such rules.
Just the fact that ’voluntarily’ donating to a PAC give financial relief elsewhere is something that should be covered.
There’s a reason new legislation is often the size of a dictionary. |
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jpm100
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Good thing we voted those Republicans out in 2006...right McQ? I mean, they would have been far worse.... |
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Joe
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Good thing we voted those Republicans out in 2006...right McQ? I mean, they would have been far worse.... Yeah, because, you know, they’d been soooo effective up until then (Medicare D, No Child Left Behind, McCain-Feingold, 25% total increased in overall spending) hadn’t they? |
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McQ
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So instead we’re looking at FAR worse and now you’e worried...little late on that don’t you think? |
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Joe
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So instead we’re looking at FAR worse and now you’e worried...little late on that don’t you think? Single party - whether Dem or Rep - is always the worst case scenario, as the Reps proved when they had it all.
Far worse? No - just different in their priorities with the same sort of result - profligate spending, no oversight, favored constituencies get the spoils of victory.
As you might have picked up by now, I like divided government - like we have now. I’m actually happy when Congress has a 9% approval rating and can’t move legislation and the president actually vetoes things.
Thus the point of the post. |
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McQ
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Divided government is the least bad form of government, but it’s still bad...
NOTHING gets done, yet week after week you caterwaul about entitlements this and entitlements that and the unsustainable other thing...
You can NOT address issues you find "vital" in divided government...
Essentially you have given up on government and the US, because it’s obvious the solutions you favour can’t get elected. And since they can’t come to power you push for a do-nothing government...that does not address issues you say are "vital."
You can not be a fan of divided government, in the long-run, and have vital issues that need addressing...divided government is for someone who is essentially satisfied.
Somewhere along the way, McQ, you are going to have to reconcile your tactics, divided government, and your strategy, some form of libertarianism....
Some will say, "Good on giving up on government"...just because McQ has given up on government means that government has given up on YOU. Ask folks in Weimar, Zimbabwe or any where government went south in any demonstrable way...the Belgian Congo, or Zaire, or the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or whatever it’s called these days. Bad government, broken government, dysfunctional government will find you and make your life He((.
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Joe
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Help me Joe...
Are you saying Zimbabwe has divided government? |
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Greybeard
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Yeah, because, you know, they’d been soooo effective up until then (Medicare D, No Child Left Behind, McCain-Feingold, 25% total increased in overall spending) hadn’t they? These things are not so much signs of Republican control, they are signs of a narrow Republican margin, and a percieved need to pander to voters.
One of Bush’s key ideas was social security reform, which we never got. Another was tort reform to protect firearms; we didn’t get that either. Why did these things fail? Insufficient Republican margin.
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NOTHING gets done, yet week after week you caterwaul about entitlements this and entitlements that and the unsustainable other thing... And again, when the party that says they want to stop entitlement spending had the chance to do something they did what?
Nothing.
Instead, the increased spending by 25% and added new entitlements.
So tell me again - what’s the difference?Somewhere along the way, McQ, you are going to have to reconcile your tactics, divided government, and your strategy, some form of libertarianism.... I’m quite reconciled to the fact that the current crop of Republicans aren’t at all what is necessary to advance libertarianism. That should be obvious even to you by this time. So divided government works just fine for me until, at some future date, Republican grow a pair and stand up and actually do what they claim to be all about. |
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McQ
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So tell me again - what’s the difference? Alito and Roberts on the bench is one difference.
An AWB that passed into the night is another.
A slightly more moderate prescription drug bill is yet another—don’t like it? Neither do I, but I suspect I’d like a Democrat one even less.
The country is divided 50/50, essentially, between the Democrats and the Republicans. Essentially, Americans are getting what they want (good and hard?). |
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Alito and Roberts on the bench is one difference. [etc., etc.] Uh, yeah, Don ... that’s why I want "divided government". That would put McCain in the WH.
The Reps aren’t going to get Congress back until the Dems have screwed it up about as badly as they did (and they’re doing a rather neat job of that right now) and the "disgust vote" swings it back the other way again. |
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McQ
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This must be the same SEIU that ran commercials in the run up to the Pennsylvania primary touting that Obama had a plan for “gas pump relief”.
Since a review of Obama energy policy web page offers no such plan (unless some how future “alternative energy” applies), we are left of believe that SEIU makes what Beano cures. |
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This is a nit, but I believe the word you’re looking for is flaut.
More generally, your outrage at people spending their money to influence elections seems a bit one-sided. McCain-Feingold anyone? |
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Or more likely it’s flout. :) |
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Retief,
Spending money isn’t the issue, having dues forcibly taken is another. I have no problem with my employer donating money. If he duns my paycheck regardless of my desires that is another. The same with unions. If I am a member of a union for collective bargaining purposes (especially if required to join a union) that does not mean I have to support with my money whatever political hobby horses the union leadership may have. It isn’t one sided, it is making it evenhanded. |
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Lance
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More generally, your outrage at people spending their money to influence elections seems a bit one-sided. McCain-Feingold anyone? No, clownish person, the outrage is that people aren’t spending THEIR money to influence elections, they’re spending OTHER PEOPLES money to influence elections.
Why am I not surprised you can’t tell the difference. |
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So tell me again - what’s the difference? What are you bringing me into this for?
;-)
Get it? |
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Public employees should not be allowed to vote. So who you work for is grounds for an abridgement of fundamental civil rights? Yeah that’s a great idea. |
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Jeff the Baptist
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I would like to see numbers on corporate donations versus union donations. I would be willing to guess that the corporate donations actually go to both parties with a small skew to the right, while the unions only give to one party, the Dems. |
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One of Bush’s key ideas was social security reform, which we never got. Another was tort reform to protect firearms; we didn’t get that either. Why did these things fail? Insufficient Republican margin. I don’t know if having more Republicans in Congress could’ve helped Bush with SS.
The reason privatized social security failed is because the vast majority of people were against it.
And the Republicans in Congress knew it.
And good luck on getting that idea any new steam thanks to recent economic events.
Cheers. |
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PogueMahone
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Lance, nobody has to join a union. There may be places one can’t work if one chooses not to join, but all choices come with constraints.
Solidarity! |
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Retief
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So who you work for is grounds for an abridgement of fundamental civil rights? Yeah that’s a great idea. Yes. Try being a soldier. Kiss your right to political speech goodbye. Kiss your Fourth Amendment right to be free from having your living quarters searched with dogs at the whim or suspicion of the commander.
Soldiers give up basic civil rights when they sign their contracts, voluntarily - I might add. |
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Jeff
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Lance, nobody has to join a union. There may be places one can’t work if one chooses not to join and that says it all, right there....that a group of people who don’t OWN a business can tell the owners who they can and can’t hire by virute of their ability to control the legislators of the area enforcing Union closed shops.
Do you live in a Right to Work state Retief? Or do you live in a legislated closed shop state.
Never had to make the choice of joining the union or remaining unemployable have you. You probably don’t really understand the difference anyway. It’s all just a choice to you.
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