@cicerone imposter,
cicerone imposter wrote:
It doesn't matter to me whether Pelosi is a liar or not; I don't take the time to investigate such time wasting issues. In the first place, I never cared for Pelosi. In the second, there are enough people like you to keep track of her record to lambast whatever you think she does wrong. Waste all the energy on such trivia; no skin off my nose.
The only reason it should matter is that we must trust so few with so much, and while their honor may mean nothing to them it must mean everything to us... I think that if we had representation in the house at the same ratio to citizens as our founding fathers seemed to expect was their right, that we would have perhaps 7K+ reps... It would first price each one below the value of his virtue, and force each to represent districts themselves united in their concerns... Today the districts are divided by the parties so that reps might find any excuse for any vote on any subject... He can vote for the majority of his district, or stand on principals if he has any, based upon is claim of honor, and ask our trust... I am not very good at trust... I think few should send many, and that the reps should have no choice but to follow those who elected them in every vote, and to resign if they decline to do so... Fck Trust.
Try to understand... Districts are cut to deny people their votes year after fckin year... Those people then must count on party to represent them even though the person that casts a vote to give them relief is from another district entirely... Districts should be small, and parties should be ad hoc, if they exist at all, and those who elect should be certain that every vote cast by their official will have only their best interst at heart... Anyone voting a party line is a traitor... The way the house voted on the health care, for example, was treason... There is no way in hell that some few of them could not have joined in the debate, added to it, or broke with the ranks...
The parties have cut us like so much cheese, and now they are cut by us, divided by the division they have made certain, cut off from the center by a chasm of their own creation... The jokers posting here, and pointing the finger of enmity and calumny at their fellow citizens are victims well enough, but they are not the victims of their fellow citizens...The parties have brought this situation about, and only they benefit... Turn them out...