From the "Me too" file.

Jonathan Bernstein...

At any rate, I completely agree with (Steven) Taylor: "In terms of contemporary usage, especially from a political science point of view, the formulation 'we have a republic, not a democracy' is almost nonsense."

Me too.

Gambling? In Casablanca?

Paul B. Farrell "exposes" one of America's worst kept secrets at Market Watch...

Yes the GOP, the party of big business and billionaires, secretly hates democracy, it’s too inefficient for the rich class.

Surprise, surprise.

Maybe we can petition for reparations.

After all, if anyone's democracy needs a little repair these days, it's ours. Fixer...

Like I've said since I began blogging here (6 years so far), the War on Terror was won on 12 September 2001 by Al Qaeda. They managed to turn the United States into a cowardly, bankrupt, quivering gelatinous mass. In our quest for "safety", we've willingly given up our civil rights and given the government almost complete control over our lives. We've thrown away our money in two theaters of war and given the rest to billionaires and corporations, yet we can't help out the worst off among us.

Back in the day there was a patch popular among Vietnam vets that read 'Second Place - SE Asia War Games.' Time to whip up something like that for the WOT.

Well, yeah…

…President Obama's right...

"If there's uniform opposition because the Republican caucus doesn't get 100 percent or 80 percent of what you want, then it's going to be difficult to get a deal done, because that's not how democracy works."

…but it seems pretty clear that the Republicans don't want democracy to work, because when democracy works, Republicans lose.

You want democracy to work? It's simple…

It's time for...

It's time for...

Good point…

…good question, from Berry Craig...

The Canadians and British vote in and vote out their government leaders, like we do. So why haven’t they elected majorities to their parliaments who would ditch “socialized medicine?”

Not to mention the Swedish and the French and the Germans and the Dutch, etc., etc., ad naseum.

The bumper sticker version...

Universal Health Care: Those who have it like it!

It's time for...

Dear World…

We, the United States of America, your top quality supplier of ideals of democracy, would like to apologize for our 2001-2008 interruption in service. The technical fault that led to this eight-year service outage has been located, and the software responsible was replaced November 4, 2008.

Early tests of the newly installed program indicate that we are now operating correctly, and we expect it to be fully functional on January 20, 2009. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by the outage. We look forward to resuming full service and hope to improve service in years to come. We thank you for your patience and understanding.

Sincerely,

The United States of America

A hearty Heh™ to Mr. Natural.

And again…

…yep. Devilstower this time...

Every step that any government takes in providing either recognition or authority to any religion, is a step away from democracy. That's unavoidable, no matter the religion involved. The moment you have a government that acknowledges any religion as the true religion, you have a government in which some animals are far more equal than others.

Lotta truth out there today.

Jefferson?

“The people’s decision will be upheld in respect of the basic rule of democracy: the winning option is the one that gets most votes.”

Nope. Not Madison, either.

Hugo Chavez is schooling us on democracy.

Damn.