Politics & Government - 8 July 2007

i am born and raised here in the u.s. but recent events and our idiotic president are driving me crazy!!!!!! no wonder other countries hate us!! and i don't blame them!!!

2007-07-08 14:23:30 · 50 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Lock them up forever or try to rehabilitate them?

2007-07-08 14:21:42 · 17 answers · asked by Scott 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

why the hell are we doing there???

2007-07-08 14:21:23 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Im an LEGAL immigrant orginally from Iran. I really apperiate this country and I really hate the illegals for cheating thier way into this country. I was wondering how to thank those guy. I figured the best way to thank them is by joining the Minuate Men. Can anyone help me on how I can join?

2007-07-08 14:20:08 · 11 answers · asked by Ali 1 in Immigration

I lost my virginity

2007-07-08 14:18:37 · 7 answers · asked by esteban 1 in Military

I mean, I know it's going to be hard not to bash conservatives but give it a shot.

2007-07-08 14:17:26 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

president bush took a stand against terrorism , the democrats couldnt produce a president with enough backbone to stand up against terrorism . they are too busy being politically correct . the same crowd that complains about the war , would be complaining if we had done nothing about the 911 attacks !

2007-07-08 14:15:11 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

They try to make evrything so big when it's not, they all think that Bush is a Nazi when they are, and they think that they are the victims of everything that goes on in this country. Plus, they think that Bush caused 9/11. WTF? My fellow Conservatives, are you getting tired of this?

2007-07-08 14:12:11 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

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2007-07-08 14:10:38 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Is there a simple way to hold Congress & Senate accountable for a straight 'up or down' vote instead of political wrangling?

Democrats playing trump card more often
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, Associated Press Writer Sun Jul 8, 12:40 PM ET
WASHINGTON - It is the closest thing that Senate leaders have to a trump card, the only way to wrestle the famously balky institution into predictable action.
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Lately, though, the nearly century-old tool known as "cloture" has become more of a routine way to score political points. Once, it was a carefully wielded ace used to push a difficult bill past a parliamentary hurdle and into law.
That is because cloture — a way of cutting off debate and setting a final vote in the otherwise ungovernable Senate — has lost much of its potency as a legislative tactic.
Cloture votes were conceived to free the Senate, in exceptional cases, from the whims of a tiny minority. Such votes now serve to showcase the majority party's agenda and the lengths to which the opposing party will stand in the way.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is on track to shatter the record for cloture motions filed. He highlighted that statistic recently to illustrate what he called "Republican obstructionism."
The strategy mirrors the one Republicans used against then-minority Democrats three years ago in a closely divided Senate. Many believe the GOP's portrayal of then-Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., as an obstructionist cost him his seat.
Reid has turned to cloture early and often — 42 times since January. He says it is out of necessity because Republicans — sometimes just a small band of conservatives — have sought to block not only Democrats' priorities but also some initiatives that enjoy bipartisan support.
He used it repeatedly, with disappointing results, on the immigration measure that just collapsed amid bipartisan opposition.
Reid, however, also has used cloture votes to put Republicans on the record on hot-button issues. They include opposing President Bush's Iraq policy, expressing "no confidence" in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and backing a bill that would unionize workplaces without secret ballot elections.
"We have spent a lot of time on the Republicans delaying what the American people want us to do, and that is legislate," Reid said in a testy exchange with Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the minority leader.
McConnell said Reid's use of cloture votes was "a power grab."
"The Senate isn't a factory. We don't push things down the line," McConnell said. "There is a saying about courtship: Shoot for two, end up with zero. So far, this would be a fitting epitaph for a Congress that has sought to do much but has accomplished little."
Cloture emerged in 1917 as a way to limit filibusters, the tactic by which senators use their rights of unlimited debate to delay or block legislation.
President Woodrow Wilson, frustrated by a 23-day filibuster that stalled his proposal to arm merchant ships in World War I, called a special session to consider a cloture proposal.
The Senate, he said, is "the only legislative body in the world which cannot act when its majority is ready for action. A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible."
The resulting rule held that if two-thirds of the Senate's 100 members agreed, debate on a measure could end and a vote on passing or rejecting the proposal could take place after each senator had an opportunity to speak for another hour.
The high bar for cloture meant it was seldom used and almost never successful. Senate historians say cloture was invoked in only five cases over the next 46 years.
Cloture rules have been revised a number of times, most significantly in 1975. That is when the threshold for ending debate was lowered from two-thirds of the Senate, or 67 senators, to three-fifths, or 60. In 1986, the cap for debate after cloture was shortened, from 100 hours to 30 hours.
Robert B. Dove, the Senate's parliamentary referee between 1965 and 2001, said cloture lost some of its power as political divisions in the Senate became more prominent.
"There used to be a difference between how you voted for cloture and how you felt about the underlying bill. That has all gone by the boards. With the Senate in an incredibly partisan position now and the margins so tight, cloture is really not a great tool," Dove said.
Former Sen. George J. Mitchell, D-Maine, was majority leader in the early 1990s. He said he became accustomed to seeking cloture on matters large and small when he realized that Republicans would object to virtually any action he tried. Both parties are equally guilty of that practice, he added.
"It was more or less in anticipation — and probably based on some specific threat — of filibuster," Mitchell said. "It's common on both sides now that people use it when they think it will advance their political goals and to block legislation that they don't support."
During Mitchell's last two years as majority leader, cloture was sought 80 times, just short of the record of 82 set during the next Congress under Republican Sens. Robert K. Dole of Kansas and Trent Lott of Mississippi.
Some Republicans suggest that Reid's pace toward eclipsing that record might be intended to portray GOP lawmakers in the 2008 election as blocking the nation's business.
"You artificially run up the number of cloture votes and then set out on a search- and-destroy mission to tarnish incumbent Republicans as obstructionists," said Eric Ueland, who served as chief of staff to former Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.
Still, with Republican objections coming fast and furious, cloture may be among Democrats' only options. GOP lawmakers spent the last few hours of Senate business before the Fourth of July break blocking final negotiations on broadly supported lobbying overhaul and anti-terrorism legislation.
"It's the only way to manage the floor," said Reid's spokesman, Jim Manley. "The alternative is to do nothing, and that's absolutely unacceptable."
Besides, Mitchell said, campaigning on a theme as obscure as a slew of failed cloture votes would be a tough feat.
"The public's view is, 'You're in charge — you produce,' " he said. "If you don't produce, it's your fault — even if it's the other guys who prevented you."
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On the Net:
Senate background on cloture: http://tinyurl.com/333udm

2007-07-08 14:10:26 · 4 answers · asked by trevathantim 2 in Law & Ethics

http://www.americanresearchgroup.com/

Isn't it time for congress to do something?

2007-07-08 14:10:15 · 6 answers · asked by GuyHouston 1 in Government

so why all the hype ?
she is unelectable.
maybe she could run for dog catcher ?
are we ready for the scandals of the 90s to be brought back ?
wasnt her husband impeached ? didnt he lie to the country ?
so why even consider her ? out of the question !

2007-07-08 14:09:52 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

For resisting changes that could have stopped it?

2007-07-08 14:08:45 · 27 answers · asked by flushles 3 in Politics

PLEASE HELP!! I often help out here with homework so plz do a good deed, i think im on the right path yet idunnno much about this topic...

2007-07-08 14:05:24 · 3 answers · asked by felina_rebulera 1 in Law & Ethics

...and you are going the speed limit? Now, if you are going UNDER the speed limit that's one thing. But when you are AT the limit?

I live in Colorado and you can't go more than a few miles on a two lane road without someone PASSING you because they want to speed. Some will even do it when it isn't a legal passing zone.

Not only are they ILLEGALLY behind you (wouldn't be there if they weren't speeding) but then they risk YOUR safety by passing you by breaking the legal limit.

I cant see how they can have ANY concern for their own well being pulling stuff like that.

I just hate that humans can be so brazen and snide like that?

What do the rest of you think when this happens to you

2007-07-08 13:59:47 · 11 answers · asked by fel123_2000 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

Enough Already!

Even in Iowa -- or maybe especially in Iowa -- American voters are saying it.

Enough with the candidates, the money, the television commercials, the talk of the campaign on the newspapers in the nightly news, Monday's NEW YORK TIMES will report.

According to newsroom sources, many Iowans tell the paper's Adam Nagourney how all of this is just too much, too soon, and a little overwhelming.

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"I'd like a two-week moratorium on this," Scott Roberts said in Clear Lake as he observed what normally is modest if energetic Independence Day parade crammed with observers, reporters and Secret Service agents as first Bill and Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney came through.

Several said they were worried that people would lose interest by the time the campaign actually started. In Pennsylvania, voters are braced for much the same thing in the coming weeks and months

2007-07-08 13:59:20 · 10 answers · asked by Dina W 6 in Elections

Just read that 300 litres of sarin gas were found in Iraq after the initial invassion but it was hushed up. Bush has been so discredited by the fact that no WMD were found I think if that were true it would be displayed on every tall building in U.S. and restated every night on national television.

2007-07-08 13:59:14 · 5 answers · asked by Ted T 5 in Other - Politics & Government

then who did?? I was born in 1991, so i was not old enough to know what was going on. But I have recently read about it and when they found him not guilty, why did they just stop trying to find who did it then (even though in MY personal opinion, he DID do it). If they honestly believed he was innocent, why not try to bring the death of Nicole and Ronald to justice??

2007-07-08 13:54:53 · 12 answers · asked by scape.squad.story 3 in Law & Ethics

He was in DC earlier in the day.

2007-07-08 13:54:52 · 5 answers · asked by Matthew Z 1 in Other - Politics & Government

Please help!!

2007-07-08 13:53:01 · 11 answers · asked by l_sweatt 1 in Elections

2007-07-08 13:51:42 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

When we have clearly demonstrated that it will not? We defeated amnesty not once but TWICE now. Yet they keep thinking that it's gonna happen. Are they in denial? Do they not realize that no matter how many times an amnesty bill is presented we will be there to ensure it never sees the light of day?

Here's a good example.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjirvbERK6i6MpT0LEr5LdTa7BR.?qid=20070708173540AADNfQP

2007-07-08 13:49:32 · 25 answers · asked by ICE raider 2 in Immigration

2007-07-08 13:48:53 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

1. People who usurp their own religious beliefs to defend their policies. Which is a sin.
2. People who wish to force their religion upon others while simultaneously not living up to their religion's expectations. Which, according to Jesus, is a sin.
3. People who support war and then use "thou shalt not kill" as a reason against abortions.
4. People who say they are for less government control over the individual, and then enforce the PATRIOT ACT, the sanctity of marriage amendment, and other civilian intrusions.
5. People who lower taxes for the wealthiest one percent.
6. People who get in to office thanks to the less educated population states. (A proven fact)
7. People who accuse Democrats of being spendthrifts while bankrupting our economy.
8. People who accuse Liberals of being whiners while b*tching about: Gay People, Public Displays of the Ten Commandments, and Civil Rights.

I ask you...
Is this a PERFECT description
of a Republican Hypocrite?

2007-07-08 13:46:39 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Not to defend him or anything, but he was just an actor who was given the role of the idiot president while the globalists executed their false flag tactics. He most likely did not mastermind, bankroll, or really have anything to do with the execution, though he was definitely a huge part of the coverup.

2007-07-08 13:44:50 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070708/ap_on_el_ho/cindy_sheehan_pelosi

2007-07-08 13:42:05 · 22 answers · asked by Enigma 6 in Politics

It may well be in the constitution but I believe it is like a King would do, not like the head of a democracy. If someone is guilty and convicted then they should have to serve their time. I didn't approve of any of the pardons so don't try to tell me I am a just a lame lib.

2007-07-08 13:41:36 · 11 answers · asked by Cindy P 4 in Law & Ethics

2007-07-08 13:39:03 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

In 1986 in Midland Texas my grandfather saw Bush kill a man in a bar fight and his father made it all go away. Think I'm lying? That's your problem.

2007-07-08 13:36:32 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Have they been brainwashed by the left wing 'class envy' propaganda so much, that they believe that the so called 'greedy' white christians are exploiting the poor of the world to get filthy rich all the while creating the empire of America?

2007-07-08 13:31:27 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics