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that's politics folks!

7 and 1/2

Just get it all out of your system in this thread, ortho. Post "macaca" over and over, make tons of the same joke about deer heads, etc. You're frustrated, and that's ok. Just try not to take it out on the rest of us.

Eid, we just have differnt interests. I'm not taking it out on anyone, anymore than a football fan is "taking it out" on anyone by talking about the game last Sunday or the propects for next Sunday.

I think one reason people don't like political threads is that they cause (or have the potential to cause) acrimony.

We need threads that unite us, not divide us. (Sorry, the memos don't arrive down here until a loooong time after you get them).

It's cool in political threads, but it just seems tired in non-pol threads (the Halloween costume one), esp. when it's just flogging the same thing and not adding anything new.

Dude, you can find my sense of humor unfunny, but you can't lambast me for having whatever sense of humor I have. Or, "de gustibus non est disputantum."

I've been following politics pretty closely the last few days, reading hundreds of stories a week in my RSS reader. But I don't post much to metafilter since I know political stories get a lot of flames.

You know, in July of 2004, the World Health Organization said it needed $280 million dollars, from August to December of that year, to eradicate polio from the world. It asked the U.S. and other donor nations for that funding, but ultimately, the money didn't make it in time, due to legislative delays, and disbursement issues.

As a quixotic idea, in August of 2004, I called upon Bush and Kerry to spare us all the public yammering they were hell bent to do all fall, which was going to cost them, together, more than $500 million, and to donate the money from their campaign coffers, fast, to the Polio Eradication Program, in lieu of beating us all about the ears for months, via the public airwaves. Obviously, they didn't heed my modest proposal, and the 2004 campaign went down as both the most expensive and one of the least creatively memorable political campaigns in history. Those two men could have done something lasting and noble for all humanity, and still conducted a $200 million public debate, and didn't, because they couldn't imagine anything was more important than buying more radio and TV time to assail one another.

And polio has claimed another 1306 victims, to date, in 2006. There is nothing about American politicians that is worth discussing, in my book.

So I say, quite literally, a pox on all their houses. I think until a lynch mob 100,000 strong storms the Capitol steps with Congress in session, and hangs a few dozen incumbents out of frustration, that Washington will be Washington, and the rest of us will be lucky to continued to be referred to as taxpayers.