I reallly don't have a problem with them being exempt. By their election we are putting our full faith and support behind them in running the country. If we can't we trust that they won't blow up the Capitol Building then we're screwed.

And while I find Cynthia McKinney to be an embarrassment (not for her politics but for her or personality) it does raise an interesting question if she indeed does have more problems than other Congress(white)men in using her privilege.

That said, I'm surprised there isn't some form of gate for people exempted through the metal detector that requires swiping an ID. We had a swipe key gate to go through at work and while our CEO could go anywhere he wanted to without question he still had to swipe his badge to get in.

OK....she just keeps upping the racial component of this.....

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/03/31/D8GMPKR81.html

"Ms. McKinney is just a victim of being in Congress while black," Myart (her lawyer) said.

"Members of Congress wear identifying lapel pins and routinely are waved into buildings without undergoing security checks. McKinney was not wearing her pin at the time "

I watched her portion of that press conference. You have to love the kids dragged in to stand behind her with hand-written signs (most likely by some unpaid congressional intern, not the kids themselves) saying "Is Cynthia Being Targetted?"

Again, her basic claim may be correct but it would have her cause if she weren't a kook and didn't walk around looking like she was recently surprised to discover the extent of her own craziness.

Heheh, this has turned into the 'Random Political Thoughts' thread that I tried to prevent once before.


Oh well, there's no stoping a juggernaut.

Oh sure.....close the one I started, but let this one continue. :p

Precisely! You catch on quick. :)

I wasn't sure where to post this. It's more of a tongue in cheek thang than a serious thang.

Do you ever think that the Republicans and the Democrats just take turns? I mean, once the GOP sees that their debt is so huge and that there's not much they can do about it that they just hand things over to the Dems? Then the Dems tax the crud out of everyone until there's enough money for the Repubs to spend?

If anything, that would make a funny film.

:D

Except it hasn't worked that way. You had one Republican president who spent a whole lot of money and cut taxes, then the next spent not so much money (and in one famous instance slightly raised taxes when submitted to abominable legislative blackmail). Then a Democrat who did pretty well with spending (and submitted to the most successful and only significant alteration of a major entitlement program in 40 years) and left taxes mostly flat, and then another big spending Republican who apparently never saw another person's dollar he didn't want to spend.

Well, if we only count two-termers ... then G.C.'s pattern works just fine.


Let's do that, then.


(It also works if we delete the redundancy of presidents with the same last name, and make the disqualification apply to the one who seved less time. I wonder if that would make the pattern work if we go way way back and eliminate one Roosevelt and one Adams?)

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Bleh.
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