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Behold, a Democrat with a steel scrotum.

GreatTeacherMacRossGreatTeacherMacRoss
edited August 2010 in Politics
NY Rep. Anthony Weiner tears into Republicans for coming up with more and more delaying tactics in order to deny giving medical coverage to survivors of September eleventh.
More like him please.

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  • AprecheApreche
    He used to be Jon Stewart's roommate. One of the only non-corrupt congresspersons.

    http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-february-4-2010/anthony-weiner
  • theknoxinatortheknoxinator
    It's people like this that keep my hope in politics from completely being snuffed out. We definitely need more people like this who are willing to just call people out for being assholes.
  • HMTKSteveHMTKSteve
    Question: Why did this bill need two-thirds and not a simple majority?
  • bugmenotbugmenot
    I could be wrong but I remember it being because of a procedure about the bill. This procedure was to make sure that no irrelevant amendments would be added to the bill, so this procedure blocks all amendments to the bill but in doing so it requires two thirds of the house to pass.
  • AprecheApreche
    I could be wrong but I remember it being because of a procedure about the bill. This procedure was to make sure that no irrelevant amendments would be added to the bill, so this procedure blocks all amendments to the bill but in doing so it requires two thirds of the house to pass.
    This is correct.
  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    edited August 2010
    I take it that was to stop a repeat of the addition that sacked teachers if they'd had something to do with porn.

    Man, I'm shagged. Excuse my thoughts trailing off into nothing.
    Post edited by Omnutia on
  • George PatchesGeorge Patches
    Where's NY's 9th district, I want to move there and vote for this man.
  • WyattWyatt
    Where's NY's 9th district, I want to move there and vote for this man.
    IT'S A MAP!!!
  • George PatchesGeorge Patches
    IT'S A MAP!!!
    WOAH!!!! You sir just blew my mind.
  • RymRym
    WOAH!!!! You sir just blew my mind.
    Ahh, gerrymandering. Districts should be deterministically computer-generated in a pseudo-random fashion.
  • CremlianCremlian
    Ahh, gerrymandering. Districts should be deterministically computer-generated in a pseudo-random fashion.
    Yeap, guess who gets to do all the gerrymandering! The state houses, guess who's going to pick up a crap ton of state house seats... welcome to even crazier gerrymandering.
  • George PatchesGeorge Patches
    "Did you just accuse me of redistricting my clips?" -Jon Stewart
  • AprecheApreche
    edited August 2010
    Ahh, gerrymandering. Districts should be deterministically computer-generated in a pseudo-random fashion.
    I don't know how you would do it, but it would be way cool if there were some way for people to declare their district? All the geeks could decide to be district 42, and then vote together. Obviously impractical for real elections, but could be a good board or role playing game.
    Post edited by Apreche on
  • GreatTeacherMacRossGreatTeacherMacRoss
    Ahh, gerrymandering. Districts should be deterministically computer-generated in a pseudo-random fashion.
    I don't know how you would do it, but it would be way cool if there were some way for people to declare their district? All the geeks could decide to be district 42, and then vote together. Obviously impractical for real elections, but could be a good board or role playing game.
    Burning Districts: The Gerrymandering RPG?
  • AprecheApreche
    Burning Districts: The Gerrymandering RPG?
    No, it would probably be a wooden cube game, probably very similar to El Grande.

    Basically you would have some number of cubes, n. Then you would have some number of districts, d where d is a factor of n. Cubes would be in groups of varying size, but each group would all vote in a block. The game would be about trying to distribute the cubes to have the most districts go in your favor.

    Right now with gerrymandering, the politicians move the borders of the districts to choose which people are in which district. What if instead the people chose which district they were in, and there were no geographical borders other than the state borders.
  • trogdor9trogdor9
    The Redistricting Game exists as a flash game.
  • CremlianCremlian
    A person we don't want in the senate...Cameron: There was a tremendous amount of discussion about Sharron Angle’s taking the defensive posture.

    Angle: We needed to have the press be our friend.

    Cameron: Wait a minute! Hold on a second… to be your friend?

    Angle: Well truly…

    Cameron: It sounds lame…

    Angle: Well, no, no, we wanted them to ask the questions we want to answer so that they report the news the way we want it to be reported and when I get on a show and I say send me money to SharronAngle.com, so that your listeners will know that if they want to support me they need to go to SharronAngle.com.
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