[Deep Freeze] Thursday, November 06, 2008 5:22:41 PM
MM, you have spent entirely TOO MUCH time in your basement...or you just painted. In either case, you need a walk in the fresh air. OR some good drugs. HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have NOTHING to say.
BS, in general, people in the Congress and Senate do vote along party lines. There are the occasional exceptions but, by and large, it tends to work out that way. If I understand you correctly, you are basically asking "how does anything get done?" Well my friend, that is a BIG problem. Bickering and filibusters and whatnot cause a tremendous amount of trouble. Worse, there is so much 'pork' attached to otherwise good bills that they rarely get through in a timely fashion. Politicians have to answer to their constituency and so they tend to try to load up bills with pet projects. Such is the way of the "system".
I have yet to see any one particular politician vote in direct accordance with their party platform in EVERY case. Just does not ALWAYS happen. [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by BLOOD SUCKER Esquire from Thursday, November 06, 2008 4:46:37 PM)
BLOOD SUCKER Esquire wrote:
Here is my reasoning. You have a Republican that is more...Democratic than Right-Wing. And then you have a Democrat that is more Right Wing then leftist. Saying this.....how on earth can anyting be accomplished when you have such strong views as is the Red-stateb Blue-state logic....but yet you have elected individuals that neither represent a soft or hard line on either side. And similar members on this same side.....that are not quite as committed? I'm not sure if my point came accross in an understandable manner. But if you have too many points of view within a given party that are in conflict with each other, how can the party make any headroads? I'm not suggesting that the Majority or Minority whip stifles progress. Nor am I suggesting that independent votes cripple the party's stance and principle. However, what I am concluding is that within a given party, each individual must mainatain some form of allegiance with the party that he has alligned with and has achieved membership with. Otherwise, then he or she might as well walk accorss the chamber floor and align him or herself with the opposite party. I hope I got my point accross.
a. Hammerstein Edited at: Thursday, November 06, 2008 4:56:00 PM
