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(Wall Street Journal)   If elected officials were half as imaginative at solving real problems as they are at perpetuating themselves in office, we'd see real confidence in government restored   (opinionjournal.com) divider line
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Angry Drunk Bureaucrat [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2006-08-14 9:19:48 AM  
But if they *solved* real problems, they'd be out of a job, would they?
 
Skleenar
2006-08-14 10:04:35 AM  
Search string: "Contract with America"


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Tjos Weel
2006-08-14 10:30:27 AM  
People who think we will see confidence in government restored havent read enough Acton.

The only way to get competent government is to remove enough power from them that power-grubbing assholes wont want the job. And, based on things like local politics, school boards, and homeowners associations, you have to remove a hell of a lot of power because this nation is filled with power-grubbing assholes.

Which, referring to above, is what Lord Acton says will happen.
 
Theobold Holsopple
2006-08-14 10:50:44 AM  
[image from jimloy.com too old to be available] elected officials were half as imaginative at solving real problems as they are at perpetuating themselves in office, we'd see real confidence in government restored

An appropriately proportionate if: big and mighty
 
Unwonted
2006-08-14 11:46:52 AM  
The tree of liberty needs to be refreshed.
 
BooBoo23
2006-08-14 12:00:18 PM  
i'm gonna hold my breath on this one.
 
NightSteel
2006-08-14 12:27:05 PM  
From TFA:

But if legislators want modifications, they should ask voters to make the change with an initiative written in plain English that isn't tied to the fate of other reforms they should have passed years ago.

Hear hear. See: Repealing the estate tax being attached to the minimum wage bill.

(Yes, I know we don't have national initiatives. The point stands for tying a legislatively desired 'reform' to one that is long overdue.)
 
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