Post subject: Re: What books have you recently purchased?
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 4:48 am
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Recommend all the non fiction you want. I have the new Bob Woodward sitting on my coffee table, and that IRA book should be in tomorrow. Then I have the two recommendations you just gave me.
I just finished reading that it's worse than it looks book stip is always talking about.
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Post subject: Re: What books have you recently purchased?
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 5:01 am
Red Mosquito, my libido
Joined: Sun May 21, 2006 2:02 am Posts: 91597 Location: Sector 7-G
Everywhere I turn I'm hearing tit for tat arguments of left vs right, republican vs democrat. Whenever someone on the left criticizes the right for being obstructionist, the right turns around and gives anecdotal stories of the left doing the same thing. But this book spelled it out with numbers, and the right far outweighed the left on refusing to govern, whether it be refusing to compromise, abusing the filibuster, or blocking nominations. Now, I really hate framing issues that simply, and I've in recent years rejected the "lesser of two evils" method of voting.
But from what this book says, when it came down to debt/deficit negotiations last year, there really was a much greater of two evils going on. People like Paul Ryan and his "young gun republicans" (term they used on themselves) refused to even sit down and talk things out like adults if there was a single mention of revenue increases. It was pure, obstructionist, ideologues at their worst. I'm not saying Democrats were perfect in the negotiations, but at least they were willing to talk about meeting somewhere in the middle, and while whatever plan they came up with probably would have still left us fucked, at least we wouldn't have defaulted on our debt or simply passed the buck until after this election. It's infuriating.
And what's even more infuriating is that I don't want to play a game I know I can't really win, but a strong case was made for revisiting the lesser of two evils thing.
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