Dude, who even knows.
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Politics is what happens when you have a difference of opinion that cannot be solved by fighting or by walking away. Politics is the continuation of war by other means. Politics is how we divide up the spoils. Politics is how we decide what’s yours and what’s mine. Politics is how we justify what we’re going to do and how we rationalise what we just did. Politics is how we compete and how we cooperate. Politics is how the bully maintains their power and how the weaklings overthrow the bully. Politics is the central nervous system of humanity. Politics is life and death. Politics is self-interest masquerading as principle. Politics is that which pretends it isn’t politics. Politics is the art of assembling and exercising power.
tumblr user argumate, may I use this as an epigraph in my cdrama slash erotica
nothing else would justify the time I spent writing it
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So for the record I’ve voted in 3 presidential elections
In 2004 I wrote in for Condoleeza Rice because she seemed competent and it would be funny if the first black president were an atheist lesbian Republican professor
In 2008 I went Obama because I believed the hype
In 2012 I went Romney because I estimated him at 6.2 against Obama’s 5.7
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I wonder when some Republican presidential (primary?) candidate is going to be clever enough to decry the DoJ Civil Rights Division as racial witch-hunters and promise to reorient it to focus on the real modern civil rights challenge: blue state/city gun control
Budget appropriations and borrowing authority are real asks on behalf of the institutional government as embodied in the POTUS, and to claim that they should be obligatory or disqualified as a bargaining chip is to endorse executive supremacy over the legislature.
If Bush the Younger got you angry about an overreaching executive the House Republicans should be your heroes.