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2016 Postmortem

Igel

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13. They were in 2012.

Reply to niyad (Reply #4)

Sun Sep 29, 2013, 09:53 AM

Sep 2013

And if their constituencies don't like them, they'll be held to account in 2014.

Now, I know that a lot of people would like to hold other people's representatives to account, but that's not typically how things have been done in the US. Unless those "other people" are outside the US, then we're really, really good at holding them to account.

Come to think of it, it seems that a lot more people are really into coercion and compulsion in politics than there used to be. Perhaps it's just I'm noticing more.

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too bad we cannot charge them with treason--I truly wish it were possible to charge each and [View all] niyad Sep 2013 OP

But we might be able to charge them with sedition, insurrection... meow2u3 Sep 2013 #1

Actually, I am glad that treason is not on the table. longship Sep 2013 #2

you are correct, of course. but, sadly, even the repeated scandals don't seem to be having any niyad Sep 2013 #5

how can "we" charge them with anything? bunnies Sep 2013 #3

not missing anything--just frustration with a congress that seriously needs to be held to account niyad Sep 2013 #4

I feel exactly the same way. bunnies Sep 2013 #8

They were in 2012. Igel Sep 2013 #13

How is that treason? bowens43 Sep 2013 #6

Perhaps "enemy combatants"... Blue Meany Sep 2013 #7

except I cannot see him declaring the pukes as such niyad Sep 2013 #10

Another stunt to extort vast concessions out of a weak, fickle Democratic Party. And it works EVERY. blkmusclmachine Sep 2013 #9

+1 Scuba Sep 2013 #12

Yes, everyone who disagreed with Bush JayhawkSD Sep 2013 #11

Yes. The meaning of "democracy" is unclear. Igel Sep 2013 #14