tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post8939771232918658..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-77266482453576723462012-01-27T13:05:11.724-05:002012-01-27T13:05:11.724-05:00It usually (although not always) votes right compa...It usually (although not always) votes right compared to most of my infuriating state, but Austin has become so damn self-regarding that I can't stand it. SXSW is a prime manifestation of that: moneybag yupsterism rampant.BHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12991272246814476124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-6116539766222574932012-01-26T20:39:21.886-05:002012-01-26T20:39:21.886-05:00About a week ago I had about an hour to kill &...About a week ago I had about an hour to kill & thought I'd do my part to skew AE's numbers by answering their online list of questions. It turned out that I wasn't the first one: there's a libertarian element that boost the "more freedom leg regulation" questions, but overall I found myself in or near the majority on taxation (rich should pay more), healthcare (national system), jobs vs deficit, etc. A lot of the folks that have taken the poll over on their site are progressive/hard left, which should make it interesting when their financier owners decide to nominate some turd like Bayh.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06396740783936533516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-22250717079389758562012-01-26T17:54:37.785-05:002012-01-26T17:54:37.785-05:00"Americans Elect is on the cutting edge of po..."Americans Elect is on the cutting edge of political reform - changing the way we nominate a President of the United States, and also emerging as one of the best new websites in the marketplace today."<br /><br />No.<br />No, you're not.<br /><br />If it were one the cutting edge, the Republican, Obama, and their polling numbers would tell us.<br /><br />We know you want to insert an even more Centrist candidate than our already centrist President Obama, only in a lighter shade of pale - but no one is really clamoring for it.<br /><br />YOU want to create the market! And be the ones to fill it. For money, access, and power, of course!<br /><br />Can it work?<br />Sure.<br /><br />But, you'd better have some choices that people want.<br /><br />Ross Perot wasn't the creation of some political lobbying firm. Neither was John Anderson.<br /><br />You need to come up with better candidates that Bayh, Bloomberg, and the other assorted people like Huntsman, who have NO chance in the general.<br /><br />Except, of course, if you what you want is to take votes away from President Obama.<br />In which case, why not Ralph Nader? <br />He was successful in making Little Boots' the most disastrous Presidential Administration in history - with the possible exception of the one(s) right before The Civil War. <br />And it was Nader, the SCOTUS, and the voting machines, that gave W an 8 years head-start on de-evolving this great country.<br /><br />Why don't you spend you money getting better Democrats in office?<br /><br />Oh yeah. The pay-off sucks.<br /><br />So, FUCK YOU!c u n d gulaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00875369227763250574noreply@blogger.com