Second of three parts.

First of three parts.

John Boehner could be defeated in his house seat. We ‘can’ hold the house! Fight the crazy! Spread Some Enthusiasm! If anything goes on the right, anything’s possible for the left etc.

Without Funding, True Activist Progressive Leftists Are Challenging Progressive Democrats in Mass — by NormanB (Deviations from the Norm”)

I’m no longer interested in a political system bereft of choices

I watched Sarah Palin’s Tea Party Rally speech at Searchlight, Nevada this afternoon, and I am sorry to report that she still doesn’t get basic economics. While she talked a great deal about the Federal Budget Deficit and cutting spending in Washington, she also dusted off the Conservative “cut taxes so people, mom and pop businesses, can keep more of their hard-earned money and hire more people” plaque. What an entirely wasteful thought. With over forty percent of Americans already not paying taxes, if you REALLY mean it when you say you want the deficit reduced, then you have to stop the nonsense of cutting taxes.

You lost my vote, hoss, I’m done with you, and Feinstein, Boxer and Matsui, too.

Across the width and breadth of the internet, from time to time, you’ll come upon a conversation which just screams at you to say something, even if it means that everyone on that blog will shoot you with a rusty spear if they can see you. Just such a thing happened to me the other day. One of my favorite conservatives to debate was there, and he was all “you’re just a wealth-redistributing LIBERAL!!!” and everything. So, I responded by telling him that the only people in America who had their hands out was the wealthy, and I also told him, “You better be ready to dig in those pockets deep, boy, because they are about to need another bailout.”

It was at this point that he “reminded” me of all the welfare cases, the unions, the unemployed with their hands out, blah, blah, blah, blah…

So, I curved the debate around to the one place where I knew he could not escape from the truth. I asked him five questions. Here they are:

Could the culture war itself, rather than the incessant debating of issues within that war, be the real reason our electoral system – and thereby our government – sucks?

A brief discussion of the need for ballot access reform