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Tracy, that's the way it works. (1.00 / 0) (#16)
by jimakaPPJ on Wed May 02, 2007 at 04:52:40 PM EST
You see, to prevent government from turning into a popularity contest, people are elected for a fixed period of time.

What that means is that your Congressman, or woman, or the President, can have a 0/100 rating in either directon. Your option is to vote for/against at the next election.

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You can't talk to me about (5.00 / 0) (#18)
by Militarytracy on Wed May 02, 2007 at 05:00:49 PM EST
popularity contests Jim, cuz I'm forever hung up on elections being popularity contests.  I'm just too silly to understand

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ppj always (conveeeentiently) forgets (5.00 / 2) (#21)
by Sailor on Wed May 02, 2007 at 06:55:40 PM EST
bush said iraq was a soverign government and we'd leave when they wanted us to.

Boy, oh boy, do they want us to! He also said he'd listen to the generals ... then kept firing them until he got a sock puppet.

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Sailor (none / 0) (#36)
by jimakaPPJ on Thu May 03, 2007 at 09:54:18 AM EST
Perhaps you can give me a link where the PM of Iraq has asked us to leave.

Now no "polls." Let's keep the focus on "soverign government....."

You can't??

Why surprise,surprise.

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the PM is not the king of iraq (5.00 / 1) (#37)
by Sailor on Thu May 03, 2007 at 11:12:37 AM EST
Trust ppj to move the goal posts.
And as the President has indicated, if a democratically elected government or the Iraqi people were to ask us to leave, we would do so.

Sadr [who controls six Cabinet ministers and 30 seats in Iraq's parliament] and his followers faulted Maliki primarily for his refusal to distance himself from the current U.S.-led Baghdad security crackdown and the continued American military presence in Iraq.

"They carried out this invasion. Then they supported it with international resolutions. Now they talk about the political process and democracy," Ogaili said. "The invader has to leave and let Iraq live peacefully. The invader is the main problem afflicting Iraq and affecting peace."

Now GFY and advocate the murder of more American students and political leaders as you have previously.


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Tracy, let ne try it this way (1.00 / 1) (#23)
by jimakaPPJ on Wed May 02, 2007 at 08:17:54 PM EST
Do you understand the difference between a Parlimentary Democracy and a Constitutional Republic?

We're not a Parlimentary Democracy.

We're a constitutional republic.

Constitutional Republics are a deliberate attempt to diminish the threat of mobocracy thereby protecting dissenting individuals and minority groups from the tyranny of the majority by placing checks on the power of the majority of the population

You would, for example, love for us to not be a constitutional republic now because a vote of no confidence would bring the government down, and the hated Bush would be gone.

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Why do you Neocons always (4.00 / 0) (#24)
by Militarytracy on Wed May 02, 2007 at 08:23:41 PM EST
go to this place?  It's like your happy place or something.  We have elections, they are popularity contests.  We just had some popularity contests and the popular people won, the public made it known why they were popular and won and what is expected of them in their new popularity!

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Now they are doing it (4.00 / 0) (#25)
by Militarytracy on Wed May 02, 2007 at 08:25:56 PM EST
The unpopular guy isn't going to end up liking this much in the end, the people who made the popular people popular really don't care what the unpopular jerk likes at this point ;)

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Tracy (1.00 / 0) (#28)
by jimakaPPJ on Wed May 02, 2007 at 08:58:15 PM EST
This isn't middle school...

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Adult life is more about (5.00 / 1) (#32)
by Militarytracy on Thu May 03, 2007 at 04:12:37 AM EST
the same old middle school stuff than any of us adults want to admit Jim.  We just use bigger words, have bigger allowances and are capable of larger scale destruction alongside our larger scale successes. Sadly not much else has changed, I guess we're slow learners.

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Tracy (none / 0) (#35)
by jimakaPPJ on Thu May 03, 2007 at 09:52:12 AM EST
No, adults leave the juvenile stuff and go on.

My attempts have been to try and explain to you why polls do not matter under our Constitution, and why there is no such thing as a vote of "no confidence" requiring that elections be called.

I suspect you understand that.

Have a good day.


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With all due respect (none / 0) (#38)
by Militarytracy on Thu May 03, 2007 at 02:45:24 PM EST
most people in the mental health field would tell you that that was your ego talking.  The thing that separates us the most from the little people is our size...body size, entitlement size, and the size of our egos.

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Tracy (1.00 / 0) (#27)
by jimakaPPJ on Wed May 02, 2007 at 08:57:32 PM EST
You either have no understanding at all, or else you are running away and hiding.

Elections, length of terms, etc., are set by the Constitution.

Do some studying on WHY the length of the terms are what they are, and why the Senate is staggered the way it is.

The fact that you suffer from BSD has nothing to do with anything in the real world.

Bush will be Pres until 1/09 unless he is impeached.

The former will happen, the latter will not.

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Keep the faith (none / 0) (#33)
by Militarytracy on Thu May 03, 2007 at 04:14:00 AM EST
you little keeper of the flame ;)

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