Its time to send the children home and put some adults back in charge

Cos the GOP are more mature than the Dems?

FTA: Democrats objected when Thomas brought up a 90-page substitute measure that had been released shortly before midnight the night before. Democrats said they needed more time to read it. Thomas disagreed.

In response, Democrats objected to a normally perfunctory motion to dispense with the reading of the dense legislation. A clerk obligingly began reading it line by line.

Democrats departed to a library just off the main hearing room, leaving only Rep. Fortney "Pete" Stark (D-Calif.) to prevent the Republicans from obtaining unanimous consent to skip the reading. After a few minutes, Thomas asked again for the unanimous consent, and instantly brought down his gavel. Stark told reporters he had objected, but Thomas had replied, "You're too late."

Even before Thomas gaveled the reading to an end, he had directed staff to call the Capitol Police to remove the Democrats form the library.

Sounds like both sides are acting pretty childish to Spud.

Sounds like both sides are less interested in the truth than in only revealing things to make the other side look bad while scrambling to cover up anything that makes themselves look bad.

Both parties talk about tranparency but then both deliver secrecy.

But in Spud's considered Dems remain the lesser of two evils by a wide margin.

Be Well.

Spud: But in Spud's considered Dems remain the lesser of two evils by a wide margin.

Axiom: Why we're in the shape we're in. Because idiots think "the lesser of two evils" is a perfectly acceptable situation.

Who thinks this?

Maybe 30 or 40 years ago "vote the bums out" would have been the solution to the issue people like you created with your philosophy, but now the place is full of the "lesser of two evils".

Wot pray tell is Spud's "philosophy" in yer mind?

Accepting that things are the way things are is a necessary first step in changing how things are.

It doesn't mean "accepting" as in being completely okay with the inequalities and injustices that exist in some fatalistic "can't change it so why not just give up" kinda way.

Quite the contrary, in fact.

"Disillusioned" is a good word.

Freed from illusion we are able to see reality.

And change it.

If we as a species wish to survive in the long term much change is necessary.

Only an informed electorate can make participatory democracy work.

As it stands today in our so-called information age the powers-that-be make sure the airwaves are filled with misinformation, disinformation, lies, distractions, deflections and think tanked sound bytes.

Spud's purpose in blogworld (aside from amusing hisself, of course) is to cut through the bullshit, deconstruct the spin, hold feet to flame, demand accountability and present the underlying moral arguments in an easily comprehended way.

This is not because Spud philosophy dictates a blind acceptance of the way things are.

The corporate Dem/Rep duopoly that functions for the elites of not only America but around the world is a sham.

America needs a third party unbeholden to the corporate slimeballs who are mostly responsible for the direction the American government has gone over the last sixty years or so.

Till then the lesser of two evils is still the best choice you can make realistically.

Now, splain again how yer philosophy is an improvement over Spud's.

If you can.

Be Well.