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We've Got an FEC
The longstanding vacancies at the FEC have finally been filled. Last night, the Senate confirmed five commissioners to join the only sitting commissioner, Ellen Weintraub. The panel, composed of three Democrats and three Republicans as per the usual, will finally have the quorum it needs to address issues like this and this, and deal with the DNC's newly filed lawsuit challenging John McCain's withdrawal from the primary election matching funds program.
Don't expect the new FEC to usher in an era of reform. Good government groups have long criticized the FEC for being a collection of party loyalists more prone to gridlock and slaps on the wrist than to firm and effective oversight. That said, a weak FEC is better than no FEC, particularly during an election year. So, happy day.
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Well, at least we can rest easy knowing they'll make sure no candidate outside of the mainstream RepubliCrat Party's "onnointed few" will have an icecube's chance in hell of being heard.
We simply can't have those loose cannon's running around, threatening to break the Oligarchy's stranglehold on US politics!
Anyone who suggests there should be an independent or two on the FEC panel must be summarily dragged out and shot.
(the media is obviously safe on that score)
"Week FEC" my ass!
They'll have ALL the Power they NEED to make sure outsiders don't threaten their control of the system!
The late Harry Browne said it well when he labeled them a "Co-Partisan FEC".
I agree with DemoPublicans One And All.
LIBERAL or CONSERVATIVE
Our country needs a shot of innovation.
Obama is thoughtful innovation, wise beyond Saturn and his oysters of Greek mythology. Here are a few descriptions of Liberal and Conservative:
Innovation or Conservation.
CHANGE or SET.
HOPE or MEMORY.
Reform or Establishment.
Adjustable or Fixed.
Flexible or Inflexible.
Abstract or Literal.
Unfamiliar or Familiar.
Establishing or Maintaining.
Building or Preserving.
What Can Be or What Has Been.
Plebian or Patrician.
Figurative or Emotional.
Colony or Parent State.
Accomodation or Old Usage.
Dynamic or Static.
Poor or Rich.
Infinitude or Limitations.
Reason or Understanding.
Future or Past.
Making or Not Making.
POWER of Innovation or Circumstance of Doxy.
Liberal or Conservative.
According to Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself; conservatism is debonnair and social; reform is individual and imperious."
"Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all MEMORY."
"Conservatism NEVER puts the foot forward; in the hour when it does that, it is not establishment, but reform."
Posted by: MarthaA on 06/25/08 at 4:52 PM Respond
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