td,dr.

Going into the next election cycle the Republicans don't want to appear too soft on nations using chemical weapons. After all they took years to recover from Reagan's cowardice in Lebanon.

I hope they aren't already thinking about the next election cycle.

First thing an elected politician does is start getting money for his next election. A hundred years ago it was to do his job.

Yeah, Reagan should've just kept sending more marines in until we had a full-blown Vietnam-sized conflict and hundreds of Americans coming home in bodybags every week while the whole country scratched its collective heads and wondered what, exactly, we were trying to accomplish there. What a pussy!

"I hope they aren't already thinking about the next election cycle."

NAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH.....NEVER!!!

"First thing an elected politician does is start getting money for his next election. A hundred years ago it was to do his job."

Please...the Greeks and Romans had the same shit.

Politicians have been this way since their inception.

Yet we still trust them to rule.

tooDutch;couldn'tread

LOL, I thought that was just a typo.

HA HA HAH !!! Boehner *always* eventually supports Obama. There is no difference in the political parties anymore...it's just a mutual stroke society in DC these days.

FUCK Beohner. FUCK Obama. FUCK THIS MARCH TO WAR!!!!

Yup..

"Yet we still trust them to rule."

1. They rule, that doesn't mean we have to trust them to.

2. Well...yeah...we elected them...that's kind of what elected officials do...

3. I'm curious, for the Obama (and even Boehner) haters here--do you think it would be better with someone else in charge? That is, do you honestly believe Politicians X and Y could do a better job and/or avoid all the problems you complain about? If so, pray tell--who? (First one to shout "Ron Paul!" gets a pie in the face for being as pie-in-the-sky as they come.) If not...well, if power's going to corrupt anyway, what's the point of getting on their cases--after all, if being corrupted is part of the natural outcome of the job, what's the point in protesting a natural outcome?

@Obi,
I keep trying to get non-politicians to run for things, but for some reason the minute they get nominated, they turn into politicians, the sons-a-bitches.

Yes, Obi, I do thing they could avoid these problems. I do think they could avoid corruption and I do think they could do their jobs and make everyone (not just companies) happy.

I KNOW...

It's ALMOST like ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY.

Hm. That's kinda catchy! And totally original!

I should get that trademarked before anyone steals it...

How, bo_sox?

I think I've made my position clear insofar as I think that's a naive position and incorrect, and that most if not all politicians will have to practice Dirty Hands Politics in one form or another to get anything done (either for themselves or their constituents.)

So how can that be avoided...especially when we've done an exceptionally-poor job avoiding that element of human nature so far?

Abolition of political parties. Everyone runs as an independent on their own ideas.

Still requires obi's Dirty Hand Politics to get things done. I once knew a great man who wanted to do something great for our country so he got himself elected and went to DC where he discovered his conscience wouldn't let him do what it took to get the job done. His friend, on the other hand, hadno problem with Dirty Hands Politics and became Speaker of the House. I'm talking about Tom Kindness and John Boehner.

Ironically the boner becomes Speaker. And kindness is uhh, forgotten.

Yes, what I say is unrealistic. If at least the majority of them did that, though, we'd be set to go.

Well, it's pronounced "bane-r" not "bone-r" like the Batman villain.

If there is one thing guaranteed to bring the Right-Wing & the Ultras in America it is killing those damn A-rabs, you can't seem to get enough of it.
But that arms industry of yours won't grow unless you use the stuff you've already got, it would seem Un-American not to.

Guyzguyzguyz

I didn't mean it was a bad or a good thing whether Boehner supported Obama in his quest, just mentioning it as conversation starter

as for the rest

ta;dr

And to those who say "I thought you said you were poor"... Knowing a Congressman or two means you have connections in politics, not money.

I know, Draug. It's called "humour" as Sbyvl says.

I know, that was why I made a point of pointing out Bane-r, like the villain in the Batman universe. See. I can make a joke too.

That was a joke? You must be the new Nigee.

For the record, I would like to state my position as being against the Obama intervention.

I want to be taken serious on this forum ...... I demand respect

+1 ghug.. exactly my thoughts.

Bo, he may have been saying yours wasn't funny ot neither of ours were. You may be +1ing him for insulting you.

Yeah? I am not the funniest guy ever. At least I don't make pathetic Batman jokes.

You are the Bane of my existence anymore. So stop Robin my spotlight.

There's no DisPutin, you're just Stalin. So stop your grinnin' and drop your Lenin for me.

Batman is a serious guy, he's no joker ..........Kapow
First guy I know who owned a mobile .........Kaboom
Although Bruce Wayne was a millionaire, in his spare time there was nothing he enjoyed more than doin' a little robbin' ............ Thwack