Category: Edgewise
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The Pro-Life Party: Us, Goddammit!
“Are you pro-life or pro-choice?” “Yes.” That’s not an original “joke,” but it’s one that bears repeating. This morning on Democracy Now, Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez were interviewing a woman from NOW and a man from the Democratic Senatorial (?) Council about the latter group’s policy of encouraging pro-choice senatorial hopefuls to step aside…
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A Mockingbird for our times
Hush little baby don’t you cry, Daddy’s gonna buy you an alibi. If that alibi don’t work, Daddy’s gonna bribe the county clerk. If that county clerk don’t bribe, Daddy’s got Congress on his side. If that Congress still don’t budge, Daddy’s in tight with a Supreme Court Judge. – The Mammals, “The Bush Boys”
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The made-for-TV war
According to this report (Ex-Marine Says Public Version of Saddam Capture Fiction), the much-vaunted capture of Saddam in his spiderhole was fictitious. If true, it might be time to add your sense of what’s real to the list of collateral damage from the propaganda war.
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That nuclear option: building a better House
Xian beat me to it; I was going to post about the idea to stop electing Representatives from districts and have each state choose its electors as a bloc (thus, California would send 53 Democrats). Kleiman was talking about only amending California’s constitution, and thus producing a Democratic-controlled House. Such a change won’t happen, but…
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California über Alles
Mark A. R. Kleiman proposes a nuclear option for the Democrats: changing the state constitution to elect a congressional delegation on a winner-take-all basis, take over the Congress, and elect Speaker Pelosi. Sounds cool, but what happens if other states do it too?