It’s past time for one. It would have to be pretty big, though, after the past few decades. It would include not just Schumer, but Dodd and Frank, and Corzine.
I’d also like to bring back the stocks. Pelting would be allowed, as long as it was restricted to rotten fruit and eggs.
Pelting would be allowed, as long as it was restricted to rotten fruit and eggs.
I recommend rotten coconuts thrown with great velocity.
I recommend canine feces, the fresher the better.
Ah, a Tea Party vision of the future of America!
As opposed to those mayors who wanted to shut down Chick-Fil-A franchises because the founder dared to speak an unapproved personal opinion. How dare he! He must not only be punished but all of the people working at and owning those restaurants must lose everything.
You want to see a fascist, look in the mirror.
If you could point to just one thing that is the cause of all our troubles today it would be the elimination of shame.
Public humiliation is a very effective way to discourage bad behavior.
There was a time when corruption or something like the St. Valentine massacre was shocking. Now much worse is done and doesn’t even turn heads.
They don’t even try to hide political corruption anymore. Discovery is a dead end with little repercussion.
How bad does it have to get Thomas before you start considering a bit of tea?
Ken,
Actually that is why I don’t buy into the Tea Party. Its just more of the same with a fancy new cover. As for political corruption and the Tea Party, just follow the money from the super PACs.
just follow the money from the super PACs.
I’m sure you have something in mind here, but it sure ain’t obvious to me what it is.
Which super-PACs? Lefty ones? Righty ones? Follow it where? Backward? A lot of it, regardless of political orientation, seems to originate in the pockets of the wealthy and super-wealthy. Not exactly a shock either way.
Follow it forward? Super-PAC money, again, regardless of the ideology being espoused, goes mainly to buy ad blitzes on TV. So the money ends up in in the coffers of major media outfits, far more of which have CEOs of left- than of right-wing persuasion. Super-PACs, in short, seem to be a mechanism that, on net, transfers money from right-wing political advocates to left-wing media corporations.
Corruption has to do with paying politicians for favors. Is it your contention that when Super-PACs promote particular political figures that those people are, per se, corrupt if they don’t noisily repudiate the super-PAC support? By that standard, Barack Obama would be the most corrupt man in America, with Mitt Romney a distant second but catching up.
Or did you have something completely different in mind? I don’t get it.
Dick Eagleson,
as usual TM is rattling his head to see what kinda parc will fly out. He has nothing new, nor different, to say, just the same old ‘Rich White Republicans Suck’ rhetoric.
Oddly he never bitches about Rich(er) just as White Democrats.
(Buffet & Heinz – Kerry, THAT’S who TM, that’s who…)
As usual Der Schtumpy spouts the party line against anyone who dares to look behind the curtain. Do you honestly think that the politicians elected by the PACs will not be beholding to them? Not have to dance to their tune?
I’m not voting the party line.
The party line is the old guard McCain crowd. In case you hadn’t noticed, Ryan, Issa, Allen et al, is the NEW guard. To get to them, we’ve got to get Romney in and out. Believe it or not, there ARE people on the non-left side who see the PACs as a bad thing as you do. BUT we don’t want the government that the current WH wants. If we did, we’d learn Portuguese and move into a house down the street from Hugo Chavez!
And I’d vote for my wife’s Schnauzer over Obama. At least when the dog drops a load he confines it to the ditch in front of my house, not into my LAP.
As to PACs and big money, partner it was YOUR candidate that boasted that he’d have a BILLION dollars to use to get re-elected. WhereTH was that going to come from if NOT from (D) supporting PACs? His main supporters are TAKERS not GIVERS. And he’s finding that out because they are WAY behind on fund raising.
You seem to think that anyone who gets money from a right side PAC is evil and beholding to that PAC, but anyone who gets money from a left side PAC is not in the same boat.
In 25 words or less, explain HOW that works. Because thus far the WH has taken money from donors who DID get favors. Or is that whole Solyndra, SEIU, UAW kind of $$$ swap a coincidence?
Der Schtumpy,
So you are willing to make a PAC with the Devil to get what you want 🙂
[[[As to PACs and big money, partner it was YOUR candidate that boasted that he’d have a BILLION dollars to use to get re-elected. ]]]
Reference? I don’t recall Governor Romney bragging about that. Also I think you mean elected, since he isn’t President yet.
TM,
are you KIDDING me?!
Someone, NOT from the Left, called for stocks and pelting (no one here took it seriously) and you go with a ‘typical’ Tea Party kinda phrase. Yet I don’t remember you bitching when those FROM the left call for killings, burnings, God knows what else.
THAT seems typical of the Left, at least to me.
You have to remember, he believes the Tea Party is part of the John Birch Society. How stupid is that?
Evidence Thomas? Let’s assume you are right about rich corrupt backers. How in the world can you then ignore the actual people of the tea party? A tree is known by it’s fruit. Do you not see the contrast with OWS?
I understand that you see money and corruption going hand in hand. But how does that justify slandering decent people that just want us to stop spending our country into third world status?
Thomas, prove you’re a reasonable decent guy and tell me you can see the decent people in the tea party that want fiscal responsibility from our government?
Ken,
I see decent folk in the Tea Party that were sold a bill of goods and taken advantage of by opportunistic political insiders out to line their pockets. That is what is so sad about the Tea Party.
TM, the TP is voting those people out. If the new crop is like the last then they get the boot too.
Wodun,
Really? Like Paul Ryan who started as a Congressional intern in college and who, after trying to hold a real job in his family business for a couple of years decided to become a professional politician? Or Sarah Palin who spent her life as a professional politician? Who quit as governor as soon as she smelled the money she could make as a Tea Party spokesperson? Or any of the many other Tea Party favorites who spent most of their lives as professional politicians, generally unsuccessful ones, until they jumped on the Tea Party bandwagon?
Carl Pham once made a very insightful point in this very forum about the wrong-headedness of protracting the justice system’s punishment cycle well-beyond the time horizon of the average criminal.
Well, why does the government need to do this? A private organization could, an it would be less likely partisan, or more easily dismissed if it became so. Also, defamation laws would limit abuses somewhat.