campaign finance reform

~terry Tue, Oct 28, 1997 (00:00) seed

Why do these politicians keep recording themselves and then get nailed for stuff they did. You think they would have learned from Nixon. Now, we have the brouhaha over campaign finance reform and it is fueled by the self immolative video tapes that Clinton had to make. What's up with campaign finance reform?

~pmnh Tue, Oct 28, 1997 (23:27) #1

As it exists now, campaign finance reform is a buzzword used to advance other, invariably antithetical objectives- and, of course, to fatten political warchests. It is an issue easily spun, and as such there's nothing close to a consensus anywhere concerning what it's objectives ought to be, much less how to achieve them. Unless and/or until something compelling occurs (and Whitewater, and the Thompson hearings combined ain't close, tapes or no tapes) to define this issue, and begin the processes necess ry for consensus (which, for a politician, begins with the prospect of losing his job)- there will be no reform.

~ledfords Wed, Oct 29, 1997 (00:05) #2

~KitchenManager Wed, Oct 29, 1997 (00:34) #3

~pmnh Wed, Oct 29, 1997 (01:18) #4

~legaffe Sat, Nov 8, 1997 (17:43) #5

What's this about the dope smuggling queen?

~pmnh Sun, Nov 9, 1997 (03:55) #6

I was kidding- Lyndon LaRouche (Libertarian extraordinaire, author of Libertarian thought, such as it is) long asserted that Her Supreme Uselessness Elizabeth, of Britain, was the mastermind behind the world's heroin trade... (I think she inherited the mantle from Shirley Booth- Lyndon has unique insights into these matters)

~terry Sun, Nov 9, 1997 (09:35) #7

Is he still in prison?

~pmnh Sun, Nov 9, 1997 (23:02) #8

Don't know- if memory serves, he bunked with Jim Bakker (in the joint). Can you imagine the scintillating level of conversation maintained by those two?

~KitchenManager Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (02:18) #9

I might almost rival ours here.

~pmnh Thu, Nov 13, 1997 (03:20) #10

Hey, based on certain conversation overheard on the front porch recently, KitchenManager's got 'em both licked...

~KitchenManager Fri, Nov 14, 1997 (00:29) #11

Can I count that as one vote?

~pmnh Fri, Nov 14, 1997 (00:52) #12

Most emphatically...

~pmnh Mon, Jan 12, 1998 (04:05) #13

~KitchenManager Mon, Jan 12, 1998 (09:53) #14

~pmnh Mon, Jan 12, 1998 (12:08) #15

~KitchenManager Mon, Jan 12, 1998 (12:49) #16

maybe they should do a movie entitled, First Contract

~pmnh Mon, Jan 12, 1998 (20:24) #17

actually, it's even money regarding whether "contract" or "contact" occurs first (bet on the latter, though, and give points if you hafta...)