House of Eratosthenes

Instead of coming up with dumbass laws to pass to “honor his memory,” I thought it would be a much better idea to figure out what we can bury forever right now, sort of toss into the hole with Uncle Ted’s carcass…then pour concrete on the whole thing.

I cut it off at ten. I don’t think there’d be much difficulty involved in pushing it out to a hundred, so leave some ideas in the comments section if you’re so inclined.

1. The idea that a senate seat should belong to a family dynasty, according to any rule written or not, hard or soft. We were supposed to have done away with this way back at the Battle of Yorktown.
2. The idea that if you come from a prominent family, you should be able to get away with killing people.
3. Politics of personality in general. From this point forward, a politician with a boring personality who promotes good ideas, should enjoy a longer, fuller career than a “charismatic” blowhard who promotes stupid ideas.
4. Death taxes, exit taxes, capital-gains taxes…and progressive taxes. Progressive taxes are actually as anti-American as any of ’em.
5. Rich people using poor people as poker chips to push bad laws. If it’s a dumbass idea, some sob story about some guy who had it rough, doesn’t suddenly make it into a wonderful idea.
6. The practice of re-electing people just because they happen to have a narcissistic streak a mile wide.
7. Borking.
8. That thing where you “reach across the aisle” and write legislation with that guy from the other party, and then as soon as he can’t do anything to benefit you politically anymore, turn on him, calling him every dirty name in the book in front of the microphones and cameras. That whole “scruples of an alley cat” thing.
9. That sick, sick custom of old, bloated, drunken sot politicians keeping themselves popular through hedonistic lifestyles, dishonoring, mistreating, and exploiting women.
10. Last but not least: Liberal politicians who promote abortion while claiming to be devout Catholics!

Cross-posted at Right Wing News.

Politicians going outside their own field of expertise while trying to prove a point: like attempting to float a car on water.
- tim | 08/28/2009 @ 06:12
11. (variation on #2) The concept that, in a country where trial by jury is used to establish guilt or innocence in a vehicular manslaughter case, you can somehow work out a penance in the Court of Public Opinion by being the Liar of the Senate or something.
12. That you can be morally superior about all things modern liberal, e.g. alternative energy, and reach across the aisle to a fellow scumbag to have a windfarm cancelled.

Also, I’d like to note that I posted OediPOTUS Wrecks last weekend, and the fact that a Kennedy dies in it is purely coincidental.
OediPOTUS Wrecks
- smitty1e | 08/28/2009 @ 06:53
13. Collaborating with the Commies when convenient.
- smitty1e | 08/28/2009 @ 07:13

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