I attempted to take over a right-to-life protest today

There was only three of them today. First, I told them that I was Catholic to keep from discussing their issue. If I went into a Catholic church, heads would turn. They'd turn all the way backward like the Exorcist and the roof would collapse.

Then I told them they should attack the people stealing their voice with big bucks by forming a "T" party, if the T stood for "term limitations in the House.

Then I asked how they felt about the Gulf Catastrophe. WE all agreed on that issue too.

We also agreed that we need Caps on contributions. So I guess we'll get signs and paint "TC" on them next week.

Most likely, however, they'll still be carrying the same dumb signs next week. And, instead of grumbling under my breath, I'll have to speak to them.

I think it's time for the left and right to come together on these key issues. It can happen only after we dispense with the bullshit.

Sounds like a fun hobby you got there...

I wanted to see how the far-right would receive those notions. I wrote a recent OP on trying to organize a group focused on only "T" and "C" here at DU. But I wrote this OP to give my DU friends like you a smile.

You gotta pretend that you ARE Fox News and trick them into protesting something else.

I've had a fantasy about setting up a big motor home with an even bigger sign.

What it would say? I'm not sure.

by depriving it of the members who have the experience necessary to resist the pressures of lobbyists and the bureaucracy.

When the politicians the people elect don't understand the way the system works, it naturally tends toward oligarchy.

But the House needs regular transfusions of fresh blood. The Caps on Campaign contributions should take care of corruption. These people need to live under the laws that they pass.

because it is a smaller body that tends to attract more experienced politicians. The House would be a mess without experienced leadership.

The major source of corporate influence on government is not campaign contributions, which have effects only on the margins, but the reliance on corporate expertise when it comes to public policy dealing with complex issues. More experienced and knowledgeable legislators would improve that problem; imagining that a complex society can be effectively governed by "citizen politicians" is, unfortunately, a fantasy, and one that would only increase the power of unelected and undemocratic players.

And now we have the Right to Life license plates in MA.

peace~