ONE TWO PUNCH
"I'm getting tired of the blues."
Pudinhand Wilson
Pud wants me to the help Democrats by telling them a useful word to use in the upcoming campaign. He wants me to write it a hundred times.
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So I'm thinking: why don’t the Dems press the Repubs on this? It’s so obvious. Nobody on the face of the earth is opposed to wiretapping. Equally, none of us wants to give the cops blanket permission to enter our homes without a warrant, which is Bush’s program exactly. The administration has never explained why FISA warrants can’t be obtained.
So I'm thinking, What IS the relationship between the Democrats and the Republicans? Finally, after watching my five-millionth episode of Law and Order, it dawned on me—good cop/bad cop.
The Republicans are the bad cops, the Democrats the good cops. They work together to extract from the citizenry not a confession but their consent to be governed, and of course, taxed. That consent is expressed in the vote.
By this logic, those who don’t vote, at least here in America in 2006, are the one’s who have wised-up
Alexander Cockburn’s recent piece deals with the pathetic hope that electing democrats will somehow do some substantial good.
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So I'm thinking: why don’t the Dems press the Repubs on this? It’s so obvious. Nobody on the face of the earth is opposed to wiretapping. Equally, none of us wants to give the cops blanket permission to enter our homes without a warrant, which is Bush’s program exactly. The administration has never explained why FISA warrants can’t be obtained.
So I'm thinking, What IS the relationship between the Democrats and the Republicans? Finally, after watching my five-millionth episode of Law and Order, it dawned on me—good cop/bad cop.
The Republicans are the bad cops, the Democrats the good cops. They work together to extract from the citizenry not a confession but their consent to be governed, and of course, taxed. That consent is expressed in the vote.
By this logic, those who don’t vote, at least here in America in 2006, are the one’s who have wised-up
Alexander Cockburn’s recent piece deals with the pathetic hope that electing democrats will somehow do some substantial good.
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