...on the flipside

[risty77]

Partly in the interests of balance, partly because I'm bored and my (always decent) procrastination tendencies are currently spinning out of control, and partly because since the writers' strike is denying me the Daily Show and Colbert Report, and thus my weekly dose of outraged/hilarious political ranting, I have an urge to point out one place

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[quenya_tattoo]

Yeah voting on party lines is usually something people do when they have no real opinion of their own-- I do rather like that myself. (And thank god, or my mum would vote Republican... which I don't think she's done as long as I've been alive...) Now if only we could get rid of the two-party system in general, this might go somewhere!

Also, that campaign funding thing is awesome. Our campaign funding issues are so horrible (and prove my theory that no one remotely intelligent would ever go into politics, since all the power is clearly in lobbies and campaign donations-- predictably enough, in private funds) that I quite like the idea of that! But more particularly, the idea of them fighting over it.

... I kissed the baby first, so clearly he's a point to MY team.

[risty77]

Yeah, the campaign funding thing is a really good thing to have - if any kind of reform could be pushed through in the US, you'd get big improvements in the whole political system in general, I'd imagine.

But yeah... random fighting about nothing in the house is always fun! We're pretty good at it, too. I have friends who work there that go along to Parliamentary sessions just to watch the pointless insult trading...