Should the US have a third party?

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by classicman

Yeh, I read about and understand. I was thinking more of a 2-3 guys run for pres from each party and the runner up from the winning gets the VP nod or something.

That could end up with a prez and a VP who hate each other's guts and have completely opposite positions. Nothing would get done except the hurling of childish insults. As a team it would be disfunctional.

You already have that. It is called congress.

[tw]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

That could end up with a prez and a VP who hate each other's guts and have completely opposite positions.

It's called learning from history. We already made that mistake long ago. And stopped doing it that way.

[infinite monkey]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

That could end up with a prez and a VP who hate each other's guts and have completely opposite positions. Nothing would get done except the hurling of childish insults. As a team it would be disfunctional.

You already have that. It is called congress.

On CBS Sunday Morning last week Ben Stein said the current zombie craze is due to Congress.

Originally Posted by Ben Stein

A few weeks ago, a close friend came to me and wanted advice about putting iron bars in front of his windows. I asked him why he needed bars on his windows in Beverly Hills in the first place. "So the zombies try to come into my house, I can keep them out," he said. "You just need the right kind of iron."

My friend is a bit scattered, so he never quite finished the conversation.

But here's the amazing part: When I tell other friends about this, they say things like, "What kind of iron bars did he get?" Or, "What did he do to make the zombies mad at him?"

No one except my sensible wife said, "What's he talking about? Zombies? The walking dead? There is no such thing. That's voodoo, it's not real." But my wife is in the minority (at least in my crowd).

The Internet is jammed with stories and survival guides about how to deal with zombie attacks. My son reads them avidly.

Where did this belief in zombies suddenly come from, exploding and growing upon the nation?

I think I know.

The first branch of the United States government, the most important deliberative body on the planet, the United States Congress - THEY are the inspiration for the zombie craze.

Now obviously, no one but a madman would REALLY think that iron bars could keep a Member of Congress out of a taxpayer's home. That's not what this story is about.

It's about the congressional walking dead.

They get elected. They might LOOK as if they're alive, might LOOK as if they respond to stimuli like living people, but they're actually in another realm, where crises present themselves and the zombies just stagger past them, accomplishing little or nothing. The debt crisis doesn't get resolved on time? So what? Time doesn't mean a lot to a zombie.

Again, I don't really want to talk about bars and senators in the same breath, but maybe they need a little something - a little pick-me-up, just something that would give them a ZAP so they actually get something done about the deficit or mortgages or jobs.

But I'm not sure you CAN wake them up, because they're not sleeping. They're, well, not quite in the land of the living. And they keep coming at us ... and getting closer and closer and ... I'm scared!

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3445_162...sional-undead/

[classicman]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

That could end up with a prez and a VP who hate each other's guts and have completely opposite positions.

I think the selection of VP is done more so for political benefit (read getting elected/carrying that particular state or area) than it is for anything else.

Aside from that, I pretty much agree.

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by classicman

I think the selection of VP is done more so for political benefit (read getting elected/carrying that particular state or area) than it is for anything else.

Aside from that, I pretty much agree.

Do you think GWB used that reasoning to chose Cheney ?

Wait, that's not right

Do you think Cheney used that reasoning to chose Cheney ?
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