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I'm headed down the highway, how we doing tonight. Quite a lot to think about as to what you said. I think you had some good points, but I am an old foggie who doesn't care for that much change. At least all at once.
There's quite a lot I agree with there. However, some changes can't just be rolled back but rather entrench power. In particular judicial appointments. We're stuck with those yahoos until they die or get caught with a live boy or dead girl.
I'm as much an old fogie as anyone else here. Maybe that gives me courage, since I can conveniently die if things don't work out so well. Ha!
There are plenty of safeties built into the system. The SCOTUS is a perfect example. Some of our SCOTUS fogies have dementia or worse but they will sit there until they die. So, particularly in the present era where we have an extreme(ly) balanced court, some things can only be taken so far.
With the exception of Robertsons complete surprise vote, I probably could call 98% of the rulings in advance. Most of them neutralize each other. For each crazy rightie, there is an equally crazy lefti. In those 98% cases, if they all went to the moon and Kennedy was the only one on Earth, you'd simply have to peek inside his head. Before him, Sandra Day was the only justice who made an effort to do the correct thing without being totally mesmerized by their own political party.
So, with that in mind, isn't it time to get the show on the road? Lets be run by the left or the right - just let it run and let us see who accomplishes (not promises) more. How much more time do we need to waste on the 2nd amendment? You can have this but you can't have that. This barrel is too long, this is too short. Good grief. Nobody can take guns away. They can just dick around with technicalities.
See, I heard Obama singing about his shovel ready jobs and the only jobs that were created were printers jobs at the mint. Has our infrastructure healed itself in the 5 years of this boast. **** no. Why? How can you explain why in a recession nobody actually created these jobs and did this desperately needed work? Was it because Obama was just making empty promises or was it Republican lack of cooperation? Don't even try to answer that question - it's rhetorical. We can never actually know. If it was all Obama all day all night, we'd be saying "wow, you were a big, fat liar - you're fired" or "like wow man, Obama is totally frosty". Now, it's just a giant shrug.
I don't usually advocate fixing things that work. But I do want to see things that badly need fixing being fixed and there is just too much excuse potential on the plate.
Now, we'll find out. Maybe too late this time but we might make better decisions in the future.