I would beg to differ, but the hold is almost full to the main deck, and the angle on the bow is increasing.
And they are rearranging the deck chairs.
You talkin' Hindenburg or Titanic?
Posted by Flamethrower at May 28, 2006 09:51 PM" their belief that election outcomes are not very important to their lives."
If this pResident hasn't shown the importance of voting and the results of not voting, then we truly deserve what we get. It is pure ignorance and stupidity to believe that election outcomes are of no importance. They say that the average IQ 100. I think they need to adjust that number to 80.
Posted by Judith at May 29, 2006 01:39 AMPrediction: We have a serious third party challenge for the Presidential election in 2008 as a springboard to replacing one of the 2 parties or permanently wedging itself into power. (I think the latter is more likely)
You can smell it in the air. Republicans unsatisifed with their leadership, Democrats VERY unsatisifed with their beltway representatives. Dick Meyer at CBS News has been on a column topic about this for the last 3 weeks, beliving that a moderate independent party could grow up out of this. He thinks moderates of both parties with a large faction of so-far unpolitical leaders and candidates will align under simple platform of a large tent. The unwritten assumption on his part is that the Democrats will be dragged leftward by its netroots and the Republicans will continue that flaming wagonride to John Birtcher martyrdom.
I think Meyer's greatly underestimating the will of long-time Republicans to quit their party (lock-step unity and all that) and greatly overestimating the power of liberals to drag the Democrats far enough that their own moderates quit.
Posted by idiosynchronic at May 29, 2006 05:49 AMAgain, more evidence of irreversible national decline. The fact that, after more than five years of Republican misrule and corruption, voters think election outcomes are "not very important to their lives" demonstrates that our system has utterly and completely failed.
It's back to the drawing board, or at least it should be. Democracy cannot function with imbeciles who (a) know nothing, and (b) don't think government matters to their lives in the 21st century. Other democracies are still functioning, but ours is not.
The Founders would ask: "Why are you persisting with this charade?"
Posted by euzoius at May 29, 2006 07:57 AMCSPAN 2 this morning on their Book Tv ran an hour I would highly recommend. It was a replay of a March 2 forum with Norman Mailer and his son John Buffalo Mailer interviewed by Dotson Rader about their new book "Big Empty". Mailer has lost even more of his hearing and thus speaks only to the topics of his choosing but is superb in his analysis of who were are as Americans and what BushCo has done to our moral fibre. Highly recommend if there is a replay that all try and catch it. Of the many topics he argues is that living with terrorism is like living with vermin in your house. You do your best to keep the varmits at bay but you don't burn the house down to get rid of them, thus he argues our civil liberties are the roof over our heads.
Posted by mainsailset at May 29, 2006 08:24 AM