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Originally posted by techweenie
The traditional means of Pork-ufying a bill is to add a rider on to it that's unrelated (some of the Iraq defense spending bills had egregious pork added) and that gives future political campaigns the ability to say the other side "didn't support (motherhood/apple pie/supporting troops)". As long as the electorate is more interested in national sports teams than in informing themselves about politics, this will continue.
How do we make politics important to Joe Sixpack?
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I wonder how many of you understand how insightful Techweenie really is. I have enjoyed very much his input here for quite a long time, and he's WAY more informed than any of the rest of us. This post is an illustration of that insight.
And to answer, Tech....I don't know. But I do still hold out hope (it's a sickness I have.....this faith in the country Mul thinks I hate). And I wonder if the Web will change my country's cycle of politics/power/propaganda. Those many of you who regurgitate the "liberal media" propaganda will not get this at all, but frankly the media is incredibly soft on Dubya and all of politics. A real impartial media would hold those folks (including and especially Dubya) responsible and it would look to many of you like a crucifiction. An actual liberal media WOULD BE a crucifiction. It'd be WAY different from the kind of reporting you see now. And you wouldn't like it during times when your party is in power.