re: How do you think they compromised Mike Johnson?

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New blood.

Do you think voting for the guy who added 8 trillion to the debt is "change?"

Its not.

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I supported DeSantis. Would he have been better? Who knows. I thought Mike Johnson would be better. I was fricking wrong. What a failure and a disappointment.

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by putting him a terrible position..

"The goverment will close if you don't approve this"

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The same situation that has occurred yearly for about 25 years? The same situation that occurred just a few months ago? Wow, that's a real pickle isn't it?

But why didn't he begrudgingly support it? He openly professed his love for Ukraine funding.

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I want office now to just hit fhe parties and resign

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That's the problem; nobody wants to resign once they've seen all the glitz. It's a system that's been around for a long time and it's been proven. My buddy admitted it's very, very difficult to keep it all from going to your head, and most of them probably don't even try.

This is from a casual conversation and not some formal interview, but the families are there at first to see them get sworn in, so early parties are family friendly. They roll out the red carpet and the traps are there but subtle. As the families leave the parties become more and more closed to where they consist of nothing but politicians and lobbyists, and that's where it gets more blatant. You want to double-team those two cocktail servers who look like Victoria's Secret models (the ones from 20 years ago, not current)? Say the word. Damn the luck, there happened to be a camera in that room.

I wouldn't put it past men in black planting kiddie porn or slipping a roofie to someone to take a picture of them with a minor, but I don't think they typically need to do that. And even the ones who stay "clean" like to get re-elected and need campaign contributions to do that, and they may not screw around but that all-inclusive fly fishing trip sure is nice, and there's nothing wrong with fly fishing, is there?

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Cool. Then don't pretend to be a man of God,

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I believe we found the most likely area of compromise. Dirt held over someone in this realm is damn powerful dirt.

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Cool. Then don't pretend to be a man of God,

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Double post...but worth reading twice!

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Although, I've seen people make somewhat convincing arguments that we should go all the way back to the original representation numbers as set forth in the Constitution (1 per 30,000 people), which would give us like 11,000 House members.

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Would definitely kill gerrymandering

Also would likely kill the GOP

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Although, I've seen people make somewhat convincing arguments that we should go all the way back to the original representation numbers as set forth in the Constitution (1 per 30,000 people), which would give us like 11,000 House members.

Would definitely kill gerrymandering

Also would likely kill the GOP

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I think it could completely upend our whole idea of "parties" on a federal level, which might not be a bad thing. Or, at least, it's hard to see how it could be worse than the path we are on now.

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There is another small government, libertarian-ish faction.

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Seems to be invisible right now.

It was popular a decade ago though.

Our two party system promotes binary politics. And of course the two parties situate themselves as closely as they can together.

All of us to the right and left of center are gonna feel disenfranchised a bit.

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Seems to be invisible right now.

It was popular a decade ago though.

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Because the people associate themselves with other factions that don't represent them, due to a lack of ideological purity.

Rand Paul and Robert Kennedy likely have more in common than Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell; or Robert Kennedy and Chuck Schumer. They all obviously have major disagreements as well.