re: #200 Obdicut

I don’t see the people of America as acting much better than the politicians. They’re electing them. Sure, there’s propaganda and misinformation and disinformation, but at the end of the day, someone sees Michelle Bachmann, hears her hateful lunacy, and still votes for her.

We can’t blame politicians without blaming ourselves.

And both sides may have jackasses and self-serving dweebs on them— in all my time meeting with state Senators, I’ve yet to meet one who didn’t seem like he/she wasn’t acting under the assumption that they were incredibly important and destined for great things— but that doesn’t mean both sides are having an equally detrimental effect on politics in this nation.

I’d also note that in this case, it’s Eric Holder— a Democratic appointee— working to clear the indictment of Stevens, a Republican, and numerous R and D’s agreeing that the process was screwed up.

So as “Both sides just trying to slam each other” examples go, this actually shows the exact opposite.

Did I miss something?

You didn’t miss anything. My “idiocy” comment was reserved for this incident, no further comment. I was not trying to do an equivalency thing, regardless of your attempt to portray it that way. Whichever party is not holding the office of the Presidency is worse during that period, for some reason.

I have little faith that anything any major league politician does is for the purpose of doing the right thing rather than for the purpose of showing up the other side.
Doing the right thing may be part of it; but mostly? It’s mostly all calculated to make some sort of point.