Comments on: Corruption, ethics, and party brands http://sorendayton.com/2007/07/30/corruption-ethics-and-party-brands/ Merely an aggregation of a dispersed life online Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:32:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: sampo http://sorendayton.com/2007/07/30/corruption-ethics-and-party-brands/comment-page-1/#comment-1126 sampo Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:27:36 +0000 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/07/30/corruption-ethics-and-party-brands/#comment-1126 we're not off to a good start eye. http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0707/Ted_Stevens_home_being_raided_by_FBI_and_IRS.html we’re not off to a good start eye.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0707/Ted_Stevens_home_being_raided_by_FBI_and_IRS.html

]]> By: neil http://sorendayton.com/2007/07/30/corruption-ethics-and-party-brands/comment-page-1/#comment-1125 neil Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:19:40 +0000 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/07/30/corruption-ethics-and-party-brands/#comment-1125 This makes it sound like the Democrats could reap substantial benefit from a Republican filibuster of the ethics bill. Of course, they probably won't. It's mysterious to me how the Republicans have such an easy time scoring political points by having their initiatives blocked, while Democrats seem eager to take the blame when stymied by filibusters and vetoes. I also note that before the last election there were a lot of articles about how Americans wanted partisan gridlock, that they preferred to have the White House and Congress held by different parties. How quickly that has turned into "Americans want a Congress that gets lots of stuff done really quickly," hmm? This makes it sound like the Democrats could reap substantial benefit from a Republican filibuster of the ethics bill. Of course, they probably won’t. It’s mysterious to me how the Republicans have such an easy time scoring political points by having their initiatives blocked, while Democrats seem eager to take the blame when stymied by filibusters and vetoes.

I also note that before the last election there were a lot of articles about how Americans wanted partisan gridlock, that they preferred to have the White House and Congress held by different parties. How quickly that has turned into “Americans want a Congress that gets lots of stuff done really quickly,” hmm?

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