jaybone
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Do you know how royally fucked we would be if McCain was president and bun hair was Vice? Think Spain.
Do you know how royally fucked we would be if McCain was president and bun hair was Vice? Think Greece with a little Weimar Germany thrown in.
I think it makes perfect sense that Congressional rancor is at thirty-year highs at the end of a thirty year Great (economic) Moderation. Don't see why anyone would come to the conclusion that Obama caused it or that anything other than economic expansion would end it.
RJ is completely overusing "FIFY" these days.
WDYL
That's talking about public political discourse, not effectiveness of government. I'm not surprised that "today’s level of polarization in public (i.e. non-Congress) political discourse" has been worse than it is now. The article mentions Reconstruction as an example. I think that's pretty obvious. More pertinent to government functioning, I think, is this: "the authors find that Congress itself has polarized considerably to historically extraordinary levels in recent years." So public discourse is very polarized, and Congress is absurdly polarized. That seems pretty accurate to me.
Seems accurate to me as well. Why can't centrists convince their parties that the vitriol has gone too far? Why are there no more centrists, period, on the right?
Hasn't the Brown-Warren race in Mass. been very vitriol-free? Fairly high-profile race, but that hopefully that will spread to more states.
Hasn't the Brown-Warren race in Mass. been very vitriol-free? Fairly high-profile race, but that hopefully that will spread to more states.
Why are there no more centrists, period, on the right?
I know quite a few centrists on the right and left. Perhaps you're just not as centrist as you think if you don't see any?
list some of these right-leaning centrists
Seems accurate to me as well. Why can't centrists convince their parties that the vitriol has gone too far? Why are there no more centrists, period, on the right?
The Tea Party is driving the GOP into a ditch. Most of the centrists on the right that I know tend to agree.