Don't buy the propoganda coming from the DLC lately

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32. I love it when exact quotes are miraculously "out of context".

ETA: You can't take something out of context when the original post is still right up there, for all to see.

There are many ways to raise money for road maintenance. You are arguing that is the best way and only way to do so?

If there were so many other ways that can pass the House, how come you didn't manage to mention one?

Gas tax increase? Not gonna happen. Cuts to DoD? Not gonna happen. Cuts to welfare programs? Would pass the house, but not a trade-off we want to make.

You can't argue the Republicans have all this power because our government is designed to have checks and balanced by default. If the Democratic party needs complete control to accomplish anything then they need to hand in their resignation letters right now!

How, specifically, do you get your proposal past the House?

No hand waving bullshit like "push for it!". What, specifically, do the Democrats do that will cause Eric Cantor to allow the bill to come to a vote? What, specifically, do the Democrats do so that the bill gets 218 votes?

"Push for it?" Republicans in the House have no reason to fear Democrats, thanks to gerrymandering. Their fear is of Teabaggers.

Nestle started decades ago but no one in the Democratic party had the courage to stand up against this.

And since Democrats were not in control of the legislature, they should have done................?

Most U.S. residents have static IP addresses.

Utterly and completely false.

Internet providers hand out addresses with DHCP. When the DHCP lease expires, you are likely to get the same address again. But not always. In fact, most of them will routinely hand out new addresses on a schedule to ensure you pay them more money for a static IP.

But don't just listen to me, listen to the ISPs themselves. Or these folks. Or these folks.

And online ID is simply a bad idea because the government websites are fairly easy to hack.

Yeah, that's why we keep hearing about the hacks at Target, RSA, Microsoft, Amazon, and all those other government websites.

You are posting about how terrible the Democrats are for "the little people", but you're thrilled to ensure only the rich can protect themselves from identity theft.

People don't want to be identified on the internet

Yeah, that's why everything asks for a username and password......oh wait, that makes no sense.

Again, the idea is to prevent identity theft. You don't want someone else logging in to your bank's web site and transferring all the money out.

Fixing that requires going beyond "something you know" security, such as passwords. That requires handing out tokens or similar devices and setting up the back-end infrastructure to implement them. That costs a lot of money. So instead of it not being affordable, the government does it.

Would a site like DU use that government ID? Probably not. Stealing your DU account is pretty meaningless. But I'd really like my bank to use such a system.

The FCC is utterly useless. Look no further than the shenanigans going on with high-frequency trading.

The Federal Communications Commission has nothing to do with the stock market. That's regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission.