which is a bigger problem in Washington: partisan bickering or corrupt, business owned politicians?

yurbud

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Tue Jun-15-10 07:59 PM
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Poll question: which is a bigger problem in Washington: partisan bickering or corrupt, business owned politicians?

Every time I hear that stupid ass crap about partisan bickering, it seems like the subtext is ''we should all be bought by the same business interests and carrying their water together.''

I'm wondering if anyone else feels the same.

So which is a bigger problem in Washington?

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TexasObserver

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Tue Jun-15-10 08:01 PM
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1. It isn't bickering! It's disagreements over important laws and policies.

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amborin

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Tue Jun-15-10 08:01 PM
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2. partisan bickering is kabuki theater; the elite pits peon versus peon; never fails to keep them in p

ower

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patrice

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Tue Jun-15-10 08:03 PM
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3. Partisan bickering enables business owned politicians to be corrupt.

We're never going to get to do anything about campaign finance reform BECAUSE of the bickering amongst, inter- and intra-party, factions.

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rucky

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Tue Jun-15-10 08:04 PM
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4. I think they're bickering over which party gets to be more corrupt.

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yurbud

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Wed Jun-16-10 01:24 AM
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11. Rahm & the DLC are giving the GOP a run for their money

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havocmom

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Tue Jun-15-10 08:21 PM
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5. Partisan bickering is just the deversion to keep us from noticing that most (both parties) pol suck

and work for the corporations.

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Laelth

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Tue Jun-15-10 08:23 PM
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6. I'd like to see a lot more bickering. n/t

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readmoreoften

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Tue Jun-15-10 08:42 PM
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8. I'd like for the bickering to become an honest slugfest instead of political theatre.

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Laelth

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Tue Jun-15-10 08:50 PM
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10. Right on! n/t

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-Laelth

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PoiBoy

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Tue Jun-15-10 08:40 PM
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7. Get rid of the corrupt, business owned politicians...

and you put an end to most of the partisan bickering...

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Fumesucker

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Tue Jun-15-10 08:43 PM
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9. When DC is depopulated there won't be anyone to bicker..

Get rid of the corrupt, business owned pols and there might be ten left in Washington..

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yurbud

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Wed Jun-16-10 11:58 AM
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13. If you've ever been a member of a group with elected offices that aren't popularity contests or

don't give a clear opportunity for corruption, you'll notice that most candidates are unopposed and some positions even have no candidates who want them.

That is the case in my union, where we actually have to go out and recruit candidates for some positions.

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EXneoCON

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Wed Jun-16-10 08:20 AM
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12. Yes...

...!

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truebrit71

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Wed Jun-16-10 11:58 AM
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14. Both.

n/t

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Unvanguard

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Wed Jun-16-10 12:05 PM
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15. "Partisan bickering", i.e. rational political behavior in the context of a dysfunctional system.

Edited on Wed Jun-16-10 12:06 PM by Unvanguard

It makes it nearly impossible to address issues like the budget deficit and the recession when forty-one members of the opposition party can block everything.

Congress is not as corporate-owned as people think it is. Corporate money matters on the margins, but ideology and party matter far more. I think a lot of people just haven't grasped how intensely and often other people in this country disagree with them; it is not an elite conspiracy. The tens of millions of Republican voters are not each individually paid by the corporate interests they protect: they are just deeply and usually foolishly wrong in their policy judgments.

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