Now watta we do...

Tick... <:

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), December 14, 2000

Answers

pick on republicans, of course...

-- Uncle Bob (unclb0b@aol.com), December 14, 2000.

Hey Sysman,

How ya doin'? Hope all is well. Are your injuries healin' allright? Long time no hear from(mayhaps?)

Give'em both the hell and irreverance they deserve,spoiled rotten, silver spoon shits.

-- capnfun (capnfun1@excite.com), December 14, 2000.

Georgie Porgie Pudding Pie, can never look a camera in the eye.

(um ok I started it....someone else wanna help me out here?) :-0

-- sumer (shh@aol.con), December 14, 2000.

...hogged the bong and made me cry,

Georgie Porgie Pudding and Pie ;)

-- Peg (pegmcleod@mediaone.net), December 14, 2000.

Under the circumstances, who would want this presidency?

-- Tarzan the Ape Man (tarzan@swingingthroughthejunglewithouta.net), December 14, 2000.

>> Under the circumstances, who would want this presidency? <<

The Republicans. And the Democrats.

Look at it this way: with control of the Presidency and both houses of Congress, the Republicans now have substantial control over how 1.6 trillion dollars of tax revenues are spent. That is power. The real substance of power. Massive, overwhelming, giddy-making power.

By channeling all those dollars to the correct constiuencies, the party can enrich their patrons, who will kick money back into the party and thereby perpetuate their control. They now believe they have assembled the parts required to build something like a perpetual motion machine. The Republicans have been dreaming of this moment since Hoover left office. They have watched the Democrats turn the crank on this machine for most of the past seven decades. They are hungry for this presidency. Obscenely so.

Incidentally, both political parties and their patrons understand this arithmetic extremely well. That is one reason why so many powerful people and CEOs patronize both parties simultaneously. They also understand that a primary piece of this powerful machine is keeping their near stranglehold on the mass media of the country and consequently clamping a nearly-universal filter upon the information we receive about what our government is doing.

Just watch. Listen. Read between the lines. Pay attention. It is all about the money. Everything will be business as usual.

-- Brian McLaughlin (brianm@ims.com), December 14, 2000.

cap,

What injuries? I've been back to normal since last summer!

<:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), December 14, 2000.

I always wondered what normal was like...... and now I'm sorry I wondered, it's scary!

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 14, 2000.

Brian:

While I think that on the whole the feedback is more negative than positive (hell, even the PRI finally lost in Mexico), I agree the Dems have been in the driver's seat for a long time. During that time, I hazily remember reading that government has gone from spending about 4% of GDP to over 40%. That's decent implementation of an agenda right there, that is. Gotta admire it, an an abstract sort of way. That kind of control over national spending buys a lot of respect, it does. And it'll likely take 70 years of Republican control to get things back in balance. We can only hope, pray, and vote.

-- Flint (flintc@mindspring.com), December 14, 2000.

Hell Sysman,I thought it was gonna take ya a good long while to rehab yourself or I guess I could blame it on the holidays drivin' me fuckin' crazy.

Oh well,glad to hear you're doin' ok.

-- capnfun (capnfun1@excite.com), December 15, 2000.

>> And it'll likely take 70 years of Republican control to get things back in balance. <<

I dunno. So far the most corrupt administrations in US history have been: Grant, Harding and Nixon. All Republicans. So, they may be able to balance things a bit more quickly, since they always seem to be in a bigger hurry than the Democrats to reward their backers.

-- Brian McLaughlin (brianm@Ims.com), December 16, 2000.