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This Exists: Iceland Rewrites Their Constitution Using Suggestions Through Twitter

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Fareed Zakaria spoke today on his CNN show about how he was intrigued by Iceland’s decision to throw out their Constitution and create a new governing document for the nation. Even more exciting and unique, was Iceland’s decision to accept suggestions for the new Constitution through social media applications like Twitter and Facebook, from all of its 320,000 citizens.

Zakaria was not only impressed with the transparency of the process, but the willingness to engage in the process at all. By contrast, in America, Zakaria noted “any talk of revising or revisiting the American Constitution is of course seen as heresy.” Yet Zakaria believed our Constitution could use some modernizing, particularly Amendments addressing the Electoral College and the unfairly disproportionate representation of Senators.

The coolest part though is kids in Iceland now have a legitimate excuse to spend all day sitting in front of the computer: they are helping to shape the government and could potentially be a “founding father!”

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  • Dem4Ever

    Why does Fareed always dis America while praising both India and China…oh…wait…I just remembered…I forgot…never mind…he’s already answered this question…he’s an Indian first and a naturalized American citizen second.

  • Glackin

    Dem4Ever said:
    Why does Fareed always dis America while praising both India and China…oh…wait…I just remembered…I forgot…never mind…he’s already answered this question…he’s an Indian first and a naturalized American citizen second.

    WHAT? He didn’t mention China or India! It’s early in the day to be that sh#tfaced.
    He brought up serious points that are constitutionally vague, like the powers of SCOTUS, and invited discussion.
    If you just don’t like the guy, say so.

  • LOGICandREASON

    Fareed Zakaria fits the perfect description of a Progressive; I can tell you that the US would be better off without progressives like Fareed.

    What’s really interesting here is that he did not actually point out significant issues that are wrong with the worlds greatest Constitution; he seems to have a problem with the Document’s age rather than substantial flaws in it, which he could have pointed out. He brought up the issue of the US Senate and ignored the more significant body of Congress: the People’s House of Representative, with the Speaker of the House 3rd in line to the Presidency rather than the Majority Leader of the Senate.

    It was the his fellow Progressives like Woodrow Wilson who brought about the 17th Amendment in 1913, which required the election of senators by popular vote rather than appointment by the state legislatures, thereby significantly diminishing the rights of the States.

    If Left-wing Progressives like Fareed Zakaria had their way, they would obviously like to create a new Constitution that particularly leaves out the 2nd and 4th amendments, so the entire US population could become like “masses” and Zombies without the courage to question their government as it is in China, Russia,North Korea and Cuba.

    Every “sane” American should be grateful to the founders of the Republic for the genius that they were by creating the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. Single Global government is what progressives want, but the US Constitution is their greatest obstacle.

  • LOGICandREASON

    Correction:

    *he seems to have a problem with the Document’s age rather than pointing out substantial flaws in it if he found any.

  • Dem4Ever

    Glackin said:
    WHAT? He didn’t mention China or India! It’s early in the day to be that sh#tfaced.
    He brought up serious points that are constitutionally vague, like the powers of SCOTUS, and invited discussion.
    If you just don’t like the guy, say so.

    Your tiresome personal attacks are typical of your Lib/Prog Party, but just because they are unable to control their hate doesn’t mean you can’t.  You need to calm down and get some self respect.  Oh…and…BTW…Fareed is a demagogue…plain and simple!  Get used to it , Pal.

  • Glackin

    LOGICandREASON said:
    Fareed Zakaria fits the perfect description of a Progressive; I can tell you that the US would be better off without progressives like Fareed..

    It was the his fellow Progressives like Woodrow Wilson who brought about the 17th Amendment in 1913, which required the election of senators by popular vote rather than appointment by the state legislatures, thereby significantly diminishing the rights of the States.
    .

    Glad you didn’t claim truth and facts as your name.
    The final states passed the XYIIth in April, 1913, ONE MONTH after Wilson became Pres. It passed the House and the Senate under Taft(R), in 1912.
    If you depend on Beck as your authority, you should be used to being proven a fool.

  • Glackin

    Dem4Ever said:
    Your tiresome personal attacks are typical of your Lib/Prog Party, but just because they are unable to control their hate doesn’t mean you can’t.  You need to calm down and get some self respect.  Oh…and…BTW…Fareed is a demagogue…plain and simple!  Get used to it , Pal.

    If you are going to make things up to attack the person in the story, you should be moderated for character assassination.
    “Fareed is a demagogue”? Look up the word, D-four. BECK is a demagogue.
    What I hate is insidious personal attacks with no proof. I hate blind xenophobia from greedy immigrants.
    In other words, the Reactionary Toilet Paper Crowd and the white-sheeted “Guardians of the Real Amerikkka.” that spew their venom on these pages.

  • Dem4Ever

    Glackin said:
    If you are going to make things up to attack the person in the story, you should be moderated for character assassination.
    “Fareed is a demagogue”? Look up the word, D-four. BECK is a demagogue.
    What I hate is insidious personal attacks with no proof. I hate blind xenophobia from greedy immigrants.
    In other words, the Reactionary Toilet Paper Crowd and the white-sheeted “Guardians of the Real Amerikkka.” that spew their venom on these pages.

    You, sir are bereft of logical thought.  You claim to be an old man, yet you lack the wisdom and self restraint of someone of your alleged advanced years.  Perhaps your blind acceptance of the Lib/Prog religion has rotted your brain.  However, there is no excuse for your ignorance (the lack knowledge or education).  Peace be with you and all that you attack.

  • Glackin

    Dem4Ever said:
    You, sir are bereft of logical thought.  You claim to be an old man, yet you lack the wisdom and self restraint of someone of your alleged advanced years.  Perhaps your blind acceptance of the Lib/Prog religion has rotted your brain.  However, there is no excuse for your ignorance (the lack knowledge or education).  Peace be with you and all that you attack.

    You have yet to post one (1) comment with evidence to substantiate it.
    You claim to be human, but show no evidence thereof.
    You practice the “Big Lie” tactic ad nauseum.
    Repeating nonsense does not make you right,
    it just shows you are a right-wing parrot.
    WHY IS ZAKARIA DEEMED A “DEMAGOGUE” BY THE LIKES OF YOU?
    What is your evidence?
    Relax, I know you have none.
    Want a cracker?

  • Dem4Ever

    Maybe you are as aged as you claim to be because your ramblings are reminiscent of an old fool.  And as the saying goes there’s no fool like an old fool…lol  Now why don’t you be a good little man and eat your strained peas and go to bed.  You’ve had a long day.  Don’t forget to take your teeth out first…lol.

  • Glackin

    Dem4Ever said:
    Maybe you are as aged as you claim to be because your ramblings are reminiscent of an old fool.  And as the saying goes there’s no fool like an old fool…lol  Now why don’t you be a good little man and eat your strained peas and go to bed.  You’ve had a long day.  Don’t forget to take your teeth out first…lol.

    STILL NO EVIDENCE! NOTHING BUT INSULTS!
    As you are incapable of backing up anything you say, I will add that to your attacks on the subject of the story (without foundation) when I submit your name for moderation/removal.

  • Dem4Ever

    If you don’t start playing nicely with your neighbors, your radio privileges will be taken away and you won’t get a second bowl of ice cream at supper…lol

  • Glackin

    Dem4Ever said:
    If you don’t start playing nicely with your neighbors, your radio privileges will be taken away and you won’t get a second bowl of ice cream at supper…lol

    Go away little phony. Hope your wit goes over better tomorrow in the sandbox.
    If you can’t answer a simple question, you should be in bed by now.
    Typical Contrash ToiletPaper Reactionary.
    Nothing but Kool-Aid and talking points.
    Seig Heil!

  • Dem4Ever

    You are repeating yourself…not good.  Senility is an on going and tragic affliction.  Try to think before you attempt to communicate with others.  There are enough pet names for you without adding imbecile to the list…and calm your little self down.

  • George C

    Dem4Ever said:
    There are enough pet names for you without adding imbecile to the list…and calm your little self down.

    Glackhole ™

  • Dem4Ever

    George C said:
    Glackhole ™

    LOL

  • Glackin

    George C said:
    Glackhole ™

    Your usual brilliant contribution, Hor-hay.
    Want to cover D-4′s @ss with that “Zakaria is a Demagogue” crap?
    Or. just call names, like always?
    Tits on a bull, that’s our GC!

  • George C

    Glackin said:
    Your usual brilliant contribution, Hor-hay.
    Want to cover D-4’s @ss with that “Zakaria is a Demagogue” crap?
    Or. just call names, like always?
    Tits on a bull, that’s our GC!

    Why so serious ?

  • Glackin

    Dem4Ever said:
    LOL

    FOUR TIMES you could have been an adult and answered the challenge.
    BUT, I knew you weren’t capable of it.
    You are SO ‘EFFING easy to predict!
    DUMB TWIT!

  • Glackin

    George C said:
    Why so serious ?

    Talk to your soul-mate, cuddles.

  • Dem4Ever

    Glackin said:
    Your usual brilliant contribution, Hor-hay.
    Want to cover D-4’s @ss with that “Zakaria is a Demagogue” crap?
    Or. just call names, like always?
    Tits on a bull, that’s our GC!

    You are displaying classic symtems of a persecution complex.  
     

  • George C

    Dem4Ever said:
    You are displaying classic symtems of a persecution complex.

    Commonly known as ” bunched panties ” .

  • Thelonious Funk

    Why change the Constitution? It was given to us by God.

    Except for those pesky amendments I don’t like. Those ones weren’t.

  • Dem4Ever

    Your lack of respect for others is a result of your lack of respect for yourself.  

    Oh…and don’t forget what I think of Fareed.

  • Glackin

    Dem4Ever said:
    Your lack of respect for others is a result of your lack of respect for yourself.  

    Oh…and don’t forget what I think of Fareed.

    You haven’t proven you think, period.
    Just hate.
    I respect myself and all other members of the human race.

  • tws258

    Dem4Ever said:
    Your lack of respect for others is a result of your lack of respect for yourself.

    He hates therefore he is .

  • Dem4Ever

    Glackin said:
    You are displaying classic symptoms of a dumb sh#t caught running out hate without thinking, who can’t admit they are a bigoted ignorant @sshole.
    Just admit you can’t back up what you said and go away.
    All that takes is honesty.
    Got any?

    Your lack of respect for others is a result of your lack of respect for yourself.  

    Oh…and don’t forget what I think of Fareed.

  • Glackin

    Dem4Ever said:
    Your lack of respect for others is a result of your lack of respect for yourself.  

    Oh…and don’t forget what I think of Fareed.

    Now you are repeating yourself.
    I see you dug up a couple to drones to build up your gang.
    As the instigator of the hate on this thread, you should be loving it!
    If the right didn’t have hate, they’d be out of business!
    Hate the gummint! Hate the immigrants! Hate the coloreds! Hate all Muslims! Hate the French! Hate the gays!
    Anybody I left out you hate?

  • Dem4Ever

    tws258 said:
    He hates therefore he is .

    Agreed…he’s a piece of work and should be pittied.

  • tws258

    Dem4Ever said:
    Agreed…he’s a piece of work and should be pittied.

    Has he called you notsofast yet ? LOL

  • Dem4Ever

    Glackin said:
    You haven’t proven you think, period.
    Just hate.
    I respect myself and all other members of the human race.

    You need to learn to at least like yourself even if your actions are a disgrace and embarrassment.

  • Dem4Ever

    tws258 said:
    Has he called you notsofast yet ? LOL

    Not yet…it seems to take him a while to formulate a sentence.

  • Glackin

    Dem4Ever said:
    Not yet…it seems to take him a while to formulate a sentence.

    It’s called thinking. People do it…….NEVERMIND!
    IF you did it, you would not have thrown out that hogwash talking point with China, India, and all that crap in it.
    You would have found a way over six answers, to say you ‘effed up.
    BUT, you didn’t. Because you CAN”T.
    Always a pleasure to communicate with stumps.
    But you aren’t the brightest one on here.

  • Dem4Ever

    Glackin said:
    It’s called thinking. People do it…….NEVERMIND!
    IF you did it, you would not have thrown out that hogwash talking point with China, India, and all that crap in it.
    You would have found a way over six answers, to say you ‘effed up.
    BUT, you didn’t. Because you CAN”T.
    Always a pleasure to communicate with stumps.
    But you aren’t the brightest one on here.

    You’re really quite emotional aren’t you?  You conjure up the image of befuddled individual running in circles banging with a stick the pot that’s been placed on your head…lol.  You’er hilarious!  You truly are.

  • Dem4Ever

    Your inane platitudes are a poor attempt to divert attention away from the fact that Fareed is a demagogue whose access to the Oval Office and this president is mysterious and begs for an explanation.  But keep it up.  I always enjoy a good joke.

  • Glackin

    Dem4Ever said:
    Your inane platitudes are a poor attempt to divert attention away from the fact that Fareed is a demagogue whose access to the Oval Office and this president is mysterious and begs for an explanation.  But keep it up.  I always enjoy a good joke.

    Demagogue: noun
    A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular

  • Dem4Ever

    Glackin said:
    Demagogue: noun
    A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular

    Can’t finish a sentence? LOL

  • Dem4Ever

    Awwwww…there you go again with the name calling.  How very trite you are and not nearly as amusing as you were earlier.  Has your little engine run out of steam?  I must insist that your ramblings be more original…lol

  • Glackin

    Dem4Ever said:
    Awwwww…there you go again with the name calling.  How very trite you are and not nearly as amusing as you were earlier.  Has your little engine run out of steam?  I must insist that your ramblings be more original…lol

    I think “demagogue” is a perfect title for Beck’s new show. Thanks for the idea.
    As for original, you wouldn’t know it and wouldn’t accept it.
    Ein, zwei, ein, zwei.
    Stay in step like a good little brown-shirt.
    Just keep telling yourself how smart you are.
    When the goat turns left, just follow the other sheep.

    “I can pay half of America to kill the other half of America.” Jay Gould

  • Dem4Ever

    Glackin said:
    I think “demagogue” is a perfect title for Beck’s new show. Thanks for the idea.
    As for original, you wouldn’t know it and wouldn’t accept it.
    Ein, zwei, ein, zwei.
    Stay in step like a good little brown-shirt.
    Just keep telling yourself how smart you are.
    When the goat turns left, just follow the other sheep.

    “I can pay half of America to kill the other half of America.” Jay Gould

    Nice try, but you lost all credibility with me a long time ago.  I keep you around purely for entertainment purposes.  What kind of magic tricks can you do?  It’s getting late…so if you want to make yourself disappear feel free to…lol

  • George C

    Thornton Melon: [chuckling to his classmates] That Glackin. He really seems to care. About what I have no idea .

    And…… scene .

  • tiredofbs

    Dem4Ever said:
    Nice try, but you lost all credibility with me a long time ago. I keep you around purely for entertainment purposes. What kind of magic tricks can you do? It’s getting late…

    so if you want to make yourself disappear feel free to…lol

    Awww don’t shoo it away yet
    It’s fun watching lefties implode

  • Glackin

    Dem4Ever said:
    Nice try, but you lost all credibility with me a long time ago.  I keep you around purely for entertainment purposes.  What kind of magic tricks can you do?  It’s getting late…so if you want to make yourself disappear feel free to…lol

    There’s the difference. You had no cred on jump street.
    I’ll stick around and make an @sshole disappear.

    George C said:
    George C says:
    June 20, 2011 at 12:33 am  (Quote)

    Wassup? tws258 kick you out?

  • Dem4Ever

    tiredofbs said:
    Awww don’t shoo it away yet
    It’s fun watching lefties implode

    LOL…I could sense the blood vessels in his head pulsing faster and faster.  

  • George C

    Glackin said:
    Wassup? tws258 kick you out?

    I thought he/we were notsofast ?

  • Glackin

    George C said:
    I thought he/we were notsofast ?

    If you can’t keep track of your personae, don’t expect me to.
    Practice safe sex!

  • George C

    Glackin said:
    Practice safe sex!

    Sage advice. I pity your keyboard .

  • Dem4Ever

    Glackin said:
    I’ll stick around and make an @sshole disappear.

    You’re going to make yourself disappear?…lol…go ahead…I don’t think you can…lol

  • Glackin

    Dem4Ever said:
    LOL…I could sense the blood vessels in his head pulsing faster and faster.  

    That’s the jungle drums. When they stop. we’re serving up broiled sheep. D-4 is the house special.

  • Glackin

    George C said:
    Sage advice. I pity your keyboard .

    Not to worry. The scum doesn’t get through the screen.

  • tws258

    Dem4Ever said:
    LOL…I could sense the blood vessels in his head pulsing faster and faster.

    Do not touch the glass. Do not approach the glass. You pass him nothing but soft paper – no pencils, no pens. No paper clips or staples in his paper. Use the sliding food carrier only, no exceptions. If he attempts to pass you anything, do not accept it. Do you understand?

    ~SotL~

  • Glackin

    tws258 said:
    Do not touch the glass. Do not approach the glass. You pass him nothing but soft paper – no pencils, no pens. No paper clips or staples in his paper. Use the sliding food carrier only, no exceptions. If he attempts to pass you anything, do not accept it. Do you understand?

    ~SotL~

    A sign from the Bronx Zoo comes to mind.
    It’s on a window to the habitat of several cobras.
    “Do not tap glass. What would you do if it broke?”
    Break my glass and the truth gets out.
    Be afraid. Be very afraid.

  • Dem4Ever

    Glackin said:
    I’ll be here. You won’t. A little Prep-H and you’ll be history.

    Yep, you’re just like a case of herpes aren’t you?…not going away…

  • tws258

    Glackin said:
    A sign from the Bronx Zoo comes to mind.
    It’s on a window to the habitat of several cobras.
    “Do not tap glass. What would you do if it broke?”
    Break my glass and the truth gets out.
    Be afraid. Be very afraid.

    You still wake up sometimes, don’t you? You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.

  • George C

    tws258 said:
    You still wake up sometimes, don’t you? You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.

    Go now, I don’t think Glackin could manage again quite so soon, even though he is crazy. Go now!

  • Glackin

    George C said:
    Go now, I don’t think Glackin could manage again quite so soon, even though he is crazy. Go now!

    Not to worry, GC, you’ll show up from time to time in the book. It’s called comic relief.
    (Keep your nose clean. No tweets of your schlong).

  • Glackin

    tws258 said:
    You still wake up sometimes, don’t you? You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.

    Not a music lover?

  • George C

    Glackin said:
    Not to worry, GC, you’ll show up from time to time in the book. It’s called comic relief.
    (Keep your nose clean. No tweets of your schlong).

    You fly back to school now, little Glackin. Fly, fly, fly. Fly, fly, fly.

  • Dem4Ever

    Glackin said:
    I’m still waiting for your evidence that Zakaria is a “demagogue” with secret influence in the WH.
    You don’t even know what the word means, but you think it’s evil.
    You are a flip little chancre with all the charm of a wart.
    You’re VD, an annoying little drip.
    You’re a hemorrhoid, a bloody pain in the @ss.
    I love you. You are the perfect example of the idiots that drink the Right wing-nut Kool=Aid.
    I’m collecting these exchanges to write a book about how dumb you suckers are. I think you’ll get your own chapter.

    I know you…you’re that strange little man that lives at the end of everybody’s street…the guy who’s house the kids throw eggs at every Halloween, aren’t you?  So, your going to write a book, eh?  Well, is that before or after you do all of the other delusional things you’ve blathered about?  You’re quite the guy aren’t you?  You’re either an idiot or a masochist…or both.  But I’ll keep slapping you around if that’s what you want.

  • Glackin

    George C said:
    You fly back to school now, little Glackin. Fly, fly, fly. Fly, fly, fly.

    And miss all this? Fuggedaboudit!
    I’m waiting for D-4′s answer.
    Anyway, whatsittoyabub?

  • Dem4Ever

    Glackin said:
    And you are the pathological liar that couldn’t tell the truth if her life depended on it. I’ll be here until you say, “I was Wrong.”

    What do you think I’ve been saying, geesh…okay I’ll say it again, “You are wrong”.

  • Glackin

    Dem4Ever said:
    What do you think I’ve been saying, geesh…okay I’ll say it again, “You are wrong”.

    About what I expected. Chapter III, Para.4, Sect.b of:
    “Wise-Ass for Dummies”.
    Just get into town on a wagonload of punkins?
    YOU verry funny!

  • Dem4Ever

    Glackin said:
    About what I expected. Chapter III, Para.4, Sect.b of:
    “Wise-Ass for Dummies”.
    Just get into town on a wagonload of punkins?
    YOU verry funny!

    You’re starting to slip again.  Your posting is sophomoric.  Pick it up…up…up!

  • Dem4Ever

    Glackin said:
    Nothing about you is original.
    Why should I waste “10″ material on a “1″?

    There you are…good boy…I knew that you could do it…the little engine that could…lol  Stop underestimating yourself.

  • Glackin

    Dem4Ever said:
    Dem4Ever says:
    June 20, 2011 at 2:59 am  (Quote)

    While we wait, have you thought about a dictionary app for your computer?

  • Dem4Ever

    Glackin said:
    While we wait, have you thought about a dictionary app for your computer?

    Why you going to buy me one for my birthday?

  • Glackin

    Dem4Ever said:
    Dem4Ever says:
    June 20, 2011 at 3:21 am  (Quote)

    Nah, I don’t patronize pros.

  • Dem4Ever

    lol

  • Glackin

    Sorry, the Nikkei got my attn.
    Backatachalada.

  • Dem4Ever

    No worries

  • malikov

    I am building a system for online law-making. It’s http://lawdelta.org, and it’s almost done. What do you guys think?

  • LOGICandREASON

    Glackin said:
    Glad you didn’t claim truth and facts as your name.
    The final states passed the XYIIth in April, 1913, ONE MONTH after Wilson became Pres. It passed the House and the Senate under Taft(R), in 1912.
    If you depend on Beck as your authority, you should be used to being proven a fool.

    When I say Social Liberalism is a mental disorder most people don’t understand, but you have just exhibited one of the symptoms: IGNORANCE

    I stated clearly: “It was his fellow Progressives like Woodrow Wilson who brought about the 17th Amendment in 1913″

    A US President DOES NOT have a constitutional role in the amendment process; the joint resolution does not go to the White House for signature or approval. I clearly stated “his fellow Progressives” like Wilson, taking into account the fact that the 17th amendment was the work of the Progressive Movement, which Woodrow Wilson was its leader. The time Wilson took office as US President is of no significance; he was a Progressive, the President of Princeton University, and a Governor before he became the President. He is the only US President to hold a Ph.D. degree, and he was not merely the leader of the progressive movement, but played a very vital role in the movement as an Elite from the Academia. Among his many progressive ideas, Woodrow Wilson personally secured passage of the Federal Reserve Act in late 1913, thereby implementing the Federal Reserve System.

    You sound as if Wilson’s “presidency” was of any significance to the 17th amendment. It is only an ignorant liberal that will associate the name Woodrow Wilson to ONLY his role as President of the US. Go and read about the Progressive Movement, and never be so IGNORANT to think the term “Progressives” applies to Democrats alone. There are Progressives in the Academia, Media, Business, Science, Religion, Military, and Politics (in most political parties in the US that includes Republican and Democrat).

    Wilson was able to do a lot of damage to the Republic as President, due to the fact that Democrats controlled both houses (Senate and House of Representatives.) of the 63rd, 64th, 65th United States Congress (March 4, 1913 – March 4, 1919). Republicans gained control of both the Senate and House of Rep. during the last two years of Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, after a lot of damage had been done to the Republic for 6 full years of his presidency. The US Constitution was literarily assaulted by him, if one compares it with the intentions of the Founding Fathers. Read the Federalist Papers.

    If you want to understand what I mean by “damage to the Republic”, go and read about Wilson’s domestic and foreign policies respectively, and the federal agencies he introduced, then perhaps hold the US Constitution on your hand so you could do a better assessment. The US completely veered into the wrong track from that point onward, and the US constitution became less relevant with each President after Wilson. Ronald Reagan managed to steer the train on the right direction the best he could, although his party did not later live up to his expectations as we have seen.

    While this is not relevant, the 17th amendment was indeed ratified April 8, 1913, which was during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson (in office March 4, 1913 – March 4, 1921); as I said, this is not relevant!

    What is relevant is that in the summer of 1912, the House passed the 17th amendment and sent it to the states for ratification. 1912 had the 62nd United States Congress, and the Democrats controlled the House of Representatives with an overwhelming majority (Democratic (D): 230 Republican (R): 162)

    Forget Glenn Beck and stop using talking points from the Liberal media and their TV talking heads; otherwise you might fall victim to their misinformation/propaganda campaign. Instead go and read history and look for facts yourself.

    “Ignorance” is not something anyone should be proud of, but it happens to be the most significant symptom of “Social Liberalism mental disorder” which you have just exhibited. You might have to see a Libertarian physician for treatment before you spread it. Ignorance is contagious.

  • TfT

    Fareed Zakaria, advisor to the sitting President, sits in an anchor positionon CNN. Nothing he says can be trusted or seen as objective, nothing.

  • lane

    Gee, Fahreed, WTH? We are a nation of 340M people, iceland is a tiny nation. What a bizarre analogy!

    Our constitution is set up to be difficult, but not impossible to modify to allow for only slow, methodically, incredibly well thought-out change. It’s supposed to be a massive hurdle to prevent our government from itself. Thankfully.

    The electoral college is flawed, but will always be around because our constiution is designed to create the power at the state level, and limit the federal government. He really should have mentioned that in his piece, the electoral college is not just a process, the power comes from our state level and our federal government is meant to be limited. Being liberal doesn’t allow you to rewrite history.

  • Glackin

    lane said:
    Being liberal doesn’t allow you to rewrite history.

    But you seem to think being conservative does.

    LOGICandREASON said:
    I stated clearly: “It was his fellow Progressives like Woodrow Wilson who brought about the 17th Amendment in 1913″

    An accurate statement would be that Progressives like TR brought about the XViith Amendment.
    Wilson won in 1912 because TR ran against Taft and split the GOP. Wilson was the first Dem. to win since Cleveland.

    LOGICandREASON said:
    Republicans gained control of both the Senate and House of Rep. during the last two years of Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, after a lot of damage had been done to the Republic for 6 full years of his presidency

    That sounds a lot like 2000 to 2006, when W & Darth did their Joe Hazelwood on the economy, foreign relations and the national debt.
    The difference? Wilson won his war. We are still fighting W’s.
    Reagan should be gratefully dead. W made him “not the worst since Buchannon”.

  • Glackin

    LOGICandREASON said:
    Forget Glenn Beck and stop using talking points from the Liberal media and their TV talking heads; otherwise you might fall victim to their misinformation/propaganda campaign. Instead go and read history and look for facts yourself.

    I’ve been reading primary source history since Eisenhower.
    You have more talking points in your rant than Heinz has pickles.
    Physician, heal thyself.

  • GovTogether

    This is similar to what we at GovTogether are trying to accomplish for America. Under our proposed system, we would uphold our current constitution, but in a much different way. In addition to voting for our elected officials themselves, we want to set up a web-based voting system that would enable ordinary American citizens to have a say on each individual issue as they came up.

    If you like our idea, visit our site for greater detail and maybe even cast a vote. The more votes we get, the more of a chance we have to make this new system into a reality for America as well.

    GovTogether.com

  • JR

    GovTogether said:
    This is similar to what we at GovTogether are trying to accomplish for America. Under our proposed system, we would uphold our current constitution, but in a much different way. In addition to voting for our elected officials themselves, we want to set up a web-based voting system that would enable ordinary American citizens to have a say on each individual issue as they came up. If you like our idea, visit our site for greater detail and maybe even cast a vote. The more votes we get, the more of a chance we have to make this new system into a reality for America as well. GovTogether.com

    Web based voting, are you kidding? Something that either can be controlled by the government or hacked?

    No.

  • Glackin

    GovTogether said:
    GovTogether says:
    June 20, 2011 at 4:23 pm  (Quote)

    Sorry, between multiple personae, hackers, and the outright scum that post here, the last thing this country needs is to give them actual power.

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