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2009-11-25 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2009-11-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 The quality of the rest of the Senate has increased Byrd's standing in my eyes. Oddly, he seems to be one of the few with at least some scruples, some degree of a moral compass. This sounds like damning with faint praise, and it is in a way. When everyone around you is an obvious felon and you are just a scoundrel, you win by default.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2009-11-25 06:01|| 2009-11-25 06:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Mentioned Video:

Don't forget Robert Byrd was the old Grand Dragon of the Klu Klux Klan. Is there anything in W. Viginia which hasn't been named after this turd?

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-11-25 08:27|| 2009-11-25 08:27|| Front Page Top

#3 What? This article isn't about Don Garlits?

Posted by Parabellum 2009-11-25 08:38|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]">[http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/] 2009-11-25 08:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't forget Robert Byrd was the old Grand Dragon of the Klu Klux Klan.

:)

Not that there's anything wrong with that of course.

Posted by Perry Stanford White 2009-11-25 08:39|| 2009-11-25 08:39|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm torn on this. It's not clear that the ignorant people of West Virginia would send us a better senator if we made them pick a new one every two terms. But the people with the seniority in Washington would become the staffers and lobbyists. Term limits has not worked well in Caliphornia.

Vigilant control of elected officials by the electorate is what is needed. Term limits won't provide it. Perhaps Tea Parties will.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-11-25 09:36|| 2009-11-25 09:36|| Front Page Top

#6 In states with term limits the various politicians just switch chairs every few years.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-11-25 09:45|| 2009-11-25 09:45|| Front Page Top

#7 But the people with the seniority in Washington would become the staffers and lobbyists.

Note that your uniform services usually 'rotate' people in and out of assignments every 2 to 4 years and senior civilian people rotate with each change of administration. While the services do suffer a mark degree of institutional entropy, it also has shown a remarkable degree of adaptability to change that other Beltway bureaucracies have not.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-11-25 12:16|| 2009-11-25 12:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Nimble Spimble is right. Term limits have not worked in Kaliphornia. All it means is that politicians are inexperienced and incompetent on top of being crooked and irresponsible. We can turn these people out whenever there is an election but the problem is that we don't. Part of the problem is the special interests who find candidates who will do their bidding and then finance their campaigns. When a politician gets termed out the special interests will find some new fool. But in the end, somebody has to vote for these clowns and so the root of the problem is the voters. We get the government we deserve.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2009-11-25 12:24|| 2009-11-25 12:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Just look at WV's other senator; he makes Byrd look like a tower of intelligence and integrity. And just in case anyone thinks I like Byrd, I do not.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2009-11-25 12:29|| 2009-11-25 12:29|| Front Page Top

#10 Yeah but at least the shitbags will have to get real jobs eventually.

Posted by Hellfish 2009-11-25 12:34|| 2009-11-25 12:34|| Front Page Top

#11 Don Garlets IS the Big Daddy. He, unlike Byrd, is God fearing, honest and hard working....

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