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Re: Lieberman Says Again He'll Join Filibuster -- Political Wire

jrisken — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:22:10 -0000

Thanks you. I've never been able to resist a good pun. Or a bad one, for that matter.

Re: Ensign Leaves C Street House -- Political Wire

jrisken — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:14:11 -0000

"These people don't make decisions for politicians..."

Of course they do! Any belief system that survives does so by fertilizing the minds of its followers so that their decisions are highly predictable. And when you start whispering in people's ears that they're special and that special people do x and y and z, it's a surprise if people don't do x and y and z.

Re: Ensign Leaves C Street House -- Political Wire

jrisken — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:09:53 -0000

Well, I can't speak for Judaism; but I know enough of the history of Christianity in general and Roman Catholicism in particular that "no more conspiratorial than..." is pretty damning!

Re: Ensign Leaves C Street House -- Political Wire

jrisken — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:04:13 -0000

Really? You've seen somebody on this forum suggest that Clinton was impeached because he had sex? I never have. And neither have you.

It's a straw man - without any straw. Sort of like R talking points.

Re: Ensign Leaves C Street House -- Political Wire

jrisken — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:00:08 -0000

Yep, I intend to read that book. Much as I hate conspiracy theories (because they're so seductive), there are times when a little more knowledge lends a little more perspective.

Re: Lieberman Says Again He'll Join Filibuster -- Political Wire

jrisken — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:50:47 -0000

He didn't mean "conscience - following your inner sense of right and wrong," he meant "con science: the science of the con - tricking people into giving you what you want."

Re: Quote of the Day -- Political Wire

jrisken — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:46:17 -0000

Imagine a gigantic, hollow sphere - say a mile across - made of very hard material. Whatever you utter inside it will come back to you from all directions: you begin to believe that there's a world out there that agrees with you.

Re: Ensign Leaves C Street House -- Political Wire

jrisken — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:41:10 -0000

If he had, that would have been very David-like of him, thus God-favored, thus allowed to stay.

Re: Quote of the Day -- Political Wire

jrisken — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:04:56 -0000

The more elegant and original your insult, the more likely people are to attend to it. Anybody can call Sarah a bitch.

Re: Quote of the Day -- Political Wire

jrisken — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:02:38 -0000

If by 'leftists' you mean the majority of the electorate that voted against her for VP, I'd agree.

In fact, regardless of your definition, I'd agree. She will serve as a constant reminder to Independents, in the midterms and beyond, of the dangers of voting Republican. In that role, she provides an invaluable service, and we should all do everything we can to make sure she's recognized as the voice of her party.

Re: Health Care Reform Passes the House -- Political Wire

jrisken — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:56:39 -0000

"biggest pro-life supporters"

No. "biggest anti-choice supporters"

We're all pro-life.

Re: Ensign Leaves C Street House -- Political Wire

jrisken — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:27:11 -0000

and it's been the ruin of many a legislator, and Ensign, oh Lord, for one.

Re: Health Care Reform Passes the House -- Political Wire

jrisken — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:25:14 -0000

Nice talking point, wrong forum, troll.

You pretty much destroy your occasional credibility when you mouth garbage like this.

Re: The Democrats Who Opposed the Health Care Bill -- Political Wire

jrisken — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:26:42 -0000

Aim for 70. Settle for 51.

Re: The Democrats Who Opposed the Health Care Bill -- Political Wire

jrisken — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:40:12 -0000

I think a legislature in which women predominated (assuming they didn't have to act like bimbos or like men to get elected) could be a far different place. More decisions would be based on information. More decisions would embody empathy for people instead of for institutions. I honestly think that there would be less corruption.

But I assume that women who aspire to that kind of power would be more likely to try if there were a larger community of women once they got there. It's a 'tipping point' kind of thing, don't you think?

Re: Health Care Reform Passes the House -- Political Wire

jrisken — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:28:12 -0000

Well, it's your local anti-choice group, but ...

Women don't lightly choose to have abortions - the occasional over-hyped anti-choice advertisement to the contrary. When they choose to abort it is for overwhelming reasons.

Does your group also provide jobs for the woman who will lose theirs if they take three weeks off? Does it provide safe houses for the wife who will be beaten by her husband if she has another child or won't please him in bed for a couple of months? Does your group provide supplemental income for the family that can just barely make it with the number of children they have now? I could go on.

I applaud your group, but they are NOT addressing the issues.

Re: Health Care Reform Passes the House -- Political Wire

jrisken — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:22:16 -0000

"pro-life evangelicals"

No. Anti-choice evangelicals.

We're all in favor of life.

Re: Health Care Reform Passes the House -- Political Wire

jrisken — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:20:58 -0000

"passionately pro-life"

No. Passionately anti-choice.

We're all in favor of life.

Re: Health Care Reform Passes the House -- Political Wire

jrisken — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:14:34 -0000

I wasn't aware that employment changed instantaneously. I thought that today's employmnet was the effect of causes many years older.

If you really believe what you just wrote, you're stupid beyond words.

But you don't really believe it, so you're just an opportunistic cynic who's pissed off because he's out of power.

Re: Health Care Reform Passes the House -- Political Wire

jrisken — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:04:36 -0000

Just a reminder about whose watch the economy went sour on. I don;t recall you complaining back then.

Re: Health Care Reform Passes the House -- Political Wire

jrisken — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:03:50 -0000

Hmm. Well there was a vote from more than one party. By definition that's at least bipartisan.

Or are you proposing a new dictionary?

Re: Health Care Reform Passes the House -- Political Wire

jrisken — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:01:38 -0000

It's Louisiana. Political corruption down there is soul-deep, regardless of party.

Re: Pelosi Has the Votes -- Political Wire

jrisken — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:40:26 -0000

Yeah, Andrew should have been nicer to Dment-ed who obviously is living up to his name. I mean, it's hard to imagine one sentence with more internal contradictions than he managed to include.

And, sanecitizen, people who hang out here are equal-opportunity-mean to all incompetent posters, regardless of political stripe. You just don't see much attacking of the regulars by the regulars 'cause most ot the regulars are sensible most of the time.

Re: On Moderate Bias -- Political Wire

jrisken — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:15:50 -0000

Since you 'knew' it before you got here, why did you bother to come?

Re: House Leaders Strike Deal Over Abortion -- Political Wire

jrisken — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:00:44 -0000

"they should have just passed legislation making abortions illegal in this nation and this would all be a mute point"

A moot point? Sort of like making alcohol illegal put an end to drinking during Prohibition? Or making pot illegal put an end to demand for pot?

Making an activity illegal does little to reduce the demand for an activity, but it does guarantee that a whole new criminal economy will arise to service that need.

So, aside from the probability that making abortion illegal would only benefit criminals and endanger women, what other 'benefits' do you see?

Would it make us a more moral society? If we were a Roman Catholic theocracy it would. But - and don't forget that the whole anti-choice thing arose because of RC activists - with abortion made illegal for reasons of 'faith', the next steps would be to make all contraception illegal, and then all masturbation.

There is no settled law on the definition of when life begins: there's a lot of theology on one side of the issue, and a lot of science on the other side. And when you start allowing laws to made on purely theological grounds, you have destroyed our freedom of religion and our country.

I know no woman who would chose to have an abortion - unless there were no other viable option. And if there were no other viable option, experience has shown that illegality is not a consideration.