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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (684679)	6/5/2005 12:04:00 PM
From: JDN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

I happen to agree with you. There was a time when two party system injected ideas and fresh looks. No longer. The Dems only can say NO as they wish Bush to accomplish nothing during his Administration. The Republicans are afraid of angering people thus tipsy toe around accepting this behaviour. We would be better off IMHO with NO PARTIES and EACH PERSON run for himself on his own ideas. Let the govt or the tax checkoff system pay for the costs of running after a person proves him/herself somehow, say by winning a primary or some such winnowing out process. If our politicians owed their allegiance ONLY to the taxpayers that elected them and not to their parties WE THE PEOPLE would get a better deal. jdn

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (684679)	6/5/2005 12:39:26 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

"The SCOTUS responds to the political winds of the times." No doubt about that... but, sometimes, it has a bit of a 'lag time' factored in. "The two party system is working for now." But... is it working anywhere near optimally????? "The problem in our government may be more related to the stage of democracy that to the two party system. Our populous has discovered that the ballot box contains the keys to the treasury. This democracy is destined to implode, the question is not if, but when. It is already one of the oldest governments on the planet, and certainly on of if not the longest running representative government on the planet." Interesting. 'Later days of Rome', eh?