Do you not see the extremely lofty wishlist that has no chance of being fulfilled at all? Maybe halfway on one or two of them, but that's it. When are people going to realize this president is more of the same? This is going to be a damage control press conference filled to the brim with buzzwords and weasel phrases.
You want real actual measurable change? Get your fucking congressman out of office.
It's a system of checks and balances. It is getting weighted towards the Executive branch and Federal government, but that started in the early 1900's and hasn't stopped.
I suspect that's the point. When the reforms score somewhere in the 0-2 range, as you know they will, it's another factor to use in the campaign against illegal spying.
It seems the point of the wishlist is explicitly to demonstrate how far short the actual announcement will fall. The reason it's so "lofty" is to set Obama up to fail - even if he announces some real reforms, it's completely unrealistic to demand all this at once.
So, another words, you have no realistically achievable plan either, but you're angrier and more pessimistic. How about this: if you want measurable change, start with a goal that has somewhere greater than a 0 percent chance of succeeding.
It also might help if you could point to why some particular congressperson was objectionable, like if you actually had metrics for what you were trying to achieve so we would all vote in bunch of people that were worse that the status quo. Like a scorecard.
So you're saying we should grade him on a curve? I think an objective list of necessities, leaving our experience with Obama (or any previous presidents) out of it, is the only way to look at this reasonably without getting all political about it.
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I don't understand your frustration here, as I don't see any Obama sympathy in this posting. Was the title different previously?
Do you not see the extremely lofty wishlist that has no chance of being fulfilled at all? Maybe halfway on one or two of them, but that's it. When are people going to realize this president is more of the same? This is going to be a damage control press conference filled to the brim with buzzwords and weasel phrases.
You want real actual measurable change? Get your fucking congressman out of office.
My congressman is voting the exact way I like, its the rest of your congresspeople that are screwing it up.
// truth and the actual situation for many in one statement
The system works?
It's a system of checks and balances. It is getting weighted towards the Executive branch and Federal government, but that started in the early 1900's and hasn't stopped.
I suspect that's the point. When the reforms score somewhere in the 0-2 range, as you know they will, it's another factor to use in the campaign against illegal spying.
It seems the point of the wishlist is explicitly to demonstrate how far short the actual announcement will fall. The reason it's so "lofty" is to set Obama up to fail - even if he announces some real reforms, it's completely unrealistic to demand all this at once.
So, another words, you have no realistically achievable plan either, but you're angrier and more pessimistic. How about this: if you want measurable change, start with a goal that has somewhere greater than a 0 percent chance of succeeding.
It also might help if you could point to why some particular congressperson was objectionable, like if you actually had metrics for what you were trying to achieve so we would all vote in bunch of people that were worse that the status quo. Like a scorecard.
So you're saying we should grade him on a curve? I think an objective list of necessities, leaving our experience with Obama (or any previous presidents) out of it, is the only way to look at this reasonably without getting all political about it.