In spite of all the Tea Party hype I don't see any real sign of change in the US. What wins elections in the US is money and unless Tea Party candidates are financed at the same level as incumbents there is not much hope of change. Currently the average incumbent in the US outspends the average challenger by a ratio of 12 to one. Unless that changes there is not going to be much in the way of change. It is the main reason why turnover rates in the US elections are the lowest in the democratic world at just under three percent. I expect at election time it will be pretty much business as usual.
The political landscape right now favors the underdog though. The lack of money can be seen as an advantage. Most independents are voting people out, not in. You don't need to campaign with heavy finance in that climate.
Tea Party Patriots Gets $1 Million to Fund Local Groups - The NoteABC News’ Huma Khan reports: Tea Party Patriots today announced that it has received $1 million from an anonymous donor to disburse to local organizations before the mid-term elections.
Tea Party Patriots is an umbrella group for local Tea Party groups that, unlike its counterparts, doesn’t directly endorse candidates. At a press conference today, organizers insisted that none of this new money will be used for direct endorsements or go to PACs.
That’s not to say the money won’t be going toward election efforts. In fact, it has to be fully disbursed before the election and will be used for “Get out the Vote” efforts.
An overwhelming number of Tea Party-backed candidates are Republicans, and some like Joe Miller, Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell have risen on the back of Tea Party support. Yet, Mark Meckler and Jenny Beth Martin, founders of Tea Party Patriots, today insisted they don’t back specific candidates.
“We want to make sure people are out there voting for fiscal responsibility,” Meckler said.
The political landscape right now favors the underdog though. The lack of money can be seen as an advantage. Most independents are voting people out, not in. You don't need to campaign with heavy finance in that climate.
Ever been in a company where bad people took over and fired all the good ones?
Sort of like in a company where a dumb one took over and fired all the smart ones.
In government, when you guys vote for the Harpers who keep you distracted from what they're doing with such idiotically small things like the gun registery and the census thing that can only scare dummys who don't read and have no education, he's setting it up for Canada to be taken over by voracious resource consumers wherein the people living here don't get a cut of what our ancestors moved here for.
Anyone. A junkie off the streets can be pimped by big busines just as easily and cheaply too. What does a couple of points of smack go for these days? $50-$60?Right now, who would you have replace Harper?
Right now, who would you have replace Harper?
I'm doing my best to be fair here....
The ONLY possibility of replacing Harper is with a Liberal/NDP coalition.......that means Iggy as PM (shudder), Jack Layton as deputy PM (double-shudder) in a government completely dependent on the Bloc for its survival. (Dig up the rifles and clean 'em)
That would be a nightmare..........
The Conservatives are going to run their next campaign on one single fulcrum..........their message will be......
"In this election, a majority government is inevitable.......the choice of the people of Canada is simple......a Liberal/NDP/ Bloc coalition majority.....or a Conservative majority."
It is a good strategy, IMHO.
It is too bad Gilles Duceppe is a separatist because he is one of the most capable, passionate, honest, well spoken of all the leaders. I used to like Levesque for the same reason. Too bad.
That is why I said "too bad." By the way, if you look at the BNA act it states that the provinces were given sovereignty and a right to form a central government to deal with foreign affairs and inter provincial trade. The whole separatist issue is a smoke screen because Quebec, like all the provinces, are in a sovereignty association arrangement already called Canada. The only thing I can't pin point is why this is going on. What are they trying to hide behind that smoke screen?I agree whole heartedly with everything you said, but there is one eensy, weensy, teensy thing you didn't say. He's trying to tear the F'n country apart.
It is too bad Gilles Duceppe is a separatist because he is one of the most capable, passionate, honest, well spoken of all the leaders. I used to like Levesque for the same reason. Too bad.
That is a right wing opinion. Leftists would, of course, disagree. Marx was an intelligent man. Too bad his ideas were bastardized by the Bolsheviks. There never has been a true communist country, just totalitarian dictatorships capitalizing on a name. It may have had something to do with Wall Street financing the Russian revolution (probably the Chinese revolution too).I agree coompletely with this: " passionate, honest, well spoken of all the leaders. I used to like Levesque for the same reason. Too bad"
Capable, however, is another matter.
A former Marxist may be capable, at being a leftist, but that is all the more reason to keep him at least a light year away from the levers of national power.