1 -28 Binary Politician Manifesto http://friendfeed.com/citizen... {{{{{{ http://spockisnotimpressed.tumblr.com/post..., 10 -29 {{{{{ http://xkcd.com/1127/large/ }}}}} !!!!! , 11 -7 http://grist.org/politic... , 11 -21 Power of Purse - Process Control ( industrial type model ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ) , Filibuster rules adjusted to limit sedition intent ? 11 -22 edited http://friendfeed.com/citizen... , 11 -25 The Senate’s Long Slide to Gridlock http://www.nytimes.com/2012...& , 1 -26 http://www.nytimes.com/2013... http://www.motherjones.com/mojo... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://www.salon.com/2013... 1 -28 Binary Politician Manifesto http://friendfeed.com/citizen... edit > Warren Buffet - I could end the deficit in 5 minutes http://www.youtube.com/watch...! - Thomas Page

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program... Rep. McMorris Rodgers to serve as Romney's liaison to the House http://thehill.com/blogs... Cathy McMorris Rodgers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 10 -18 Rich Cowan is best choice for US Congress | Walla Walla Union-Bulletin http://union-bulletin.com/news... "Congress is broken. The Democrat-controlled Senate and the Republican-controlled House are so entrenched in their partisan views that compromise is seen as evil. As a result, the two political parties have brought the country to the edge of fiscal disaster as they bicker over budget cuts and taxes. This can’t continue. Change is needed. That change has to come one lawmaker at a time. We believe Rich Cowan, a Spokane Democrat, is what this nation — and the 5th Congressional District — need. Incumbent Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a Republican, has done a solid job in her 10 years in office. But McMorris Rodgers is a rigid conservative and highly partisan. She has worked across the political aisle on district issues like keeping the VA Medical Center in Walla Walla, but she isn’t willing to compromise on major national issues. When the nation was on the brink of a financial disaster when the housing bubble burst and banks were at risk, McMorris Rodgers would not vote for the bank bailout or the economic stimulus package. Nor did she offer any alternative. Her lack of action made it clear she was willing to accept economic collapse. We have great respect for McMorris Rodgers and the hard work she has done. If America was not in such dire fiscal shape, we might think it reasonable for McMorris Rodgers to remain in Congress. That, however, isn’t the case. Cowan’s moderate views and pragmatic approach are refreshing. Sure, he will be on a steep learning curve and it will take some time until he is going full speed. The wait will be worth it. Cowan has the type of business experience that is needed in Congress. He started his own company, North by Northwest Production, from nothing and built it into a thriving and profitable film company. Cowan understands the burdens put on small businesses by government and he knows how to make tough decisions. He is extremely bright and knowledgeable about all the major issues facing Congress. His stands on most issues are sound. He believes the Bush tax cuts about to expire at the end of the year should be maintained for all but those who earn more than $200,000 a year, although he isn’t so entrenched on that dollar amount that he wouldn’t at least listen to other views. Cowan also believes bailouts prevented economic collapse and that Obamacare isn’t the final solution but merely a step toward improving the nation’s health care. Again, he’s willing to explore options to find the right solutions to problems. We recommend voters elect Rich Cowan to Congress." - Thomas Page

Chart: GOP Votes on Healthcare Versus Jobs Legislation http://www.thenation.com/blog... , 7 -13 , 14 reasons why this is the worst Congress ever http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs... , 8 -4 The GOP Economy and Scorched-Earth Obstructionism http://www.commondreams.org/view... , 8 -17 http://www.gallup.com/poll... , 8 -21 http://friendfeed.com/citizen... - Thomas Page

United States Congress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Effectiveness of lobbying http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Metrics of performance for legislative effectiveness ? Accountability for legislative quality? Greater good use of power of purse ? The power of the purse plays a critical role in the relationship of the United States Congress and the President of the United States, and has been the main historic tool by which Congress can limit executive power. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Oversight of Executive. Oversight of Congress ? Piss poor power of purse performance. , 11 -7 analyze framing ? http://www.c-span.org/Events... , quant analysis of congress power of purse performance ? - Thomas Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... The Constitution does not spell out the political role of the Speaker. As the office has developed historically, however, it has taken on a clearly partisan cast, very different from the speakership of most Westminster-style legislatures, such as the Speaker of the British House of Commons, which is meant to be scrupulously non-partisan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... instigator of you lie Outburst during 2009 Presidential address http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , boehner chickenshit http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008... http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-kl... - Thomas Page

Rep. McMorris Rodgers to serve as Romney's liaison to the House http://thehill.com/blogs... Cathy McMorris Rodgers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 10 -18 Rich Cowan is best choice for US Congress | Walla Walla Union-Bulletin http://union-bulletin.com/news... "Congress is broken. The Democrat-controlled Senate and the Republican-controlled House are so entrenched in their partisan views that compromise is seen as evil. As a result, the two political parties have brought the country to the edge of fiscal disaster as they bicker over budget cuts and taxes. This can’t continue. Change is needed. That change has to come one lawmaker at a time. We believe Rich Cowan, a Spokane Democrat, is what this nation — and the 5th Congressional District — need. Incumbent Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a Republican, has done a solid job in her 10 years in office. But McMorris Rodgers is a rigid conservative and highly partisan. She has worked across the political aisle on district issues like keeping the VA Medical Center in Walla Walla, but she isn’t willing to compromise on major national issues. When the nation was on the brink of a financial disaster when the housing bubble burst and banks were at risk, McMorris Rodgers would not vote for the bank bailout or the economic stimulus package. Nor did she offer any alternative. Her lack of action made it clear she was willing to accept economic collapse. We have great respect for McMorris Rodgers and the hard work she has done. If America was not in such dire fiscal shape, we might think it reasonable for McMorris Rodgers to remain in Congress. That, however, isn’t the case. Cowan’s moderate views and pragmatic approach are refreshing. Sure, he will be on a steep learning curve and it will take some time until he is going full speed. The wait will be worth it. Cowan has the type of business experience that is needed in Congress. He started his own company, North by Northwest Production, from nothing and built it into a thriving and profitable film company. Cowan understands the burdens put on small businesses by government and he knows how to make tough decisions. He is extremely bright and knowledgeable about all the major issues facing Congress. His stands on most issues are sound. He believes the Bush tax cuts about to expire at the end of the year should be maintained for all but those who earn more than $200,000 a year, although he isn’t so entrenched on that dollar amount that he wouldn’t at least listen to other views. Cowan also believes bailouts prevented economic collapse and that Obamacare isn’t the final solution but merely a step toward improving the nation’s health care. Again, he’s willing to explore options to find the right solutions to problems. We recommend voters elect Rich Cowan to Congress." - Thomas Page

On November 14, 2012, McMorris Rodgers defeated Rep. Tom Price of Georgia to become chairwoman of the House Republican Conference. [13] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://www.csmonitor.com/USA... , 11 -16 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs... , http://thehill.com/homenew... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

1994 In the 1994 election the NRA is often credited with defeating Congressmen Jack Brooks and Tom Foley (the first Speaker of the House to lose reelection since 1862). Bill Clinton wrote: “ The NRA had a great night. They beat both Speaker Tom Foley and Jack Brooks, two of the ablest members of Congress, who had warned me this would happen. Foley was the first Speaker to be defeated in more than a century. Jack Brooks had supported the NRA for years and had led the fight against the assault weapons ban in the House, but as chairman of the Judiciary Committee he had voted for the overall crime bill even after the ban was put into it. The NRA was an unforgiving master: one strike and you're out. The gun lobby claimed to have defeated nineteen of the twenty-four members on its hit list. They did at least that much damage and could rightly claim to have made Gingrich the House Speaker. ” —Bill Clinton, My Life pp 629–30 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... The Federal Assault Weapons Ban was only a small part (title XI, subtitle A) of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Gun politics in the United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Political arguments of gun politics in the United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Unwillingness to deal with complexity or shades of gray ? , 12 -14 http://thismodernworld.com/archive... http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/researc... http://www.forbes.com/sites... http://m.motherjones.com/politic... http://www.kevinmd.com/blog... - Thomas Page

But we could also start in 1994, when the Republicans took control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 50 years, and began rewriting the chamber’s rules to take power away from the Speaker of the House and committee chairs and instead create an institution where operations were determined by a “majority of the majority,” an approach that continued in subsequent Congresses when the House returned to Democratic control. In the Senate, meanwhile, a procedural tool called the filibuster, which allowed minority parties to block legislation, became far more prevalent than ever before, creating the need for a super majority to pass almost any legislation. Over this same 20-year period, America’s two major political parties were completing a realignment, away from the regional coalitions they once represented and toward more purely ideological coalitions on the left (Democrats) and the right (Republicans). All of these trends—more ideological parties, procedural rules that reduce the possibilities of compromise, and a history of lax fiscal policy—collided in Obama’s first term. As American political parties behaved more like those in Europe and other countries boasting parliamentary systems that allow governing parties to enact their agendas, US institutions, with their numerous veto points, became more ineffective. http://finance.yahoo.com/news... - Thomas Page

Dennis Hastert http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://www.nytimes.com/2013... http://www.slate.com/blogs... http://www.rollingstone.com/politic... , 10 -11 Hastert Rule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Discharge petition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Meet the GOP’s “Young Guns” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh... , 2 -13 "crown prince of the Tea Party movement" Marco Rubio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Rand Paul http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 2 -15 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Ted Cruz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 2 -18 House GOP And The Budget: It's Not My Job http://capitalgainsandgames.com/blog... , http://www.salon.com/2013... , 2 -23 http://www.newyorker.com/online... , 2 -24 "Dangerous Convictions: What's Really Wrong with the U.S. Congress" http://www.booktv.org/Program... http://www.salon.com/2013... , 3 -4 finger pointing demagogic bs, fact check of actual proceedings? http://www.youtube.com/watch... legislative performance? , 3 -6 "Voight-Kampff" http://swampland.time.com/2013... - Thomas Page

"Dangerous Convictions: What's Really Wrong with the U.S. Congress" http://www.booktv.org/Program... http://www.salon.com/2013... , 3 -4 finger pointing demagogic bs, fact check of actual proceedings? http://www.youtube.com/watch... legislative performance? , 3 -6 "Voight-Kampff" http://swampland.time.com/2013... [[[ 9 -30 They're the ones playing games. They need to act. They're the ones that are truly threatening a government shutdown by not being here and acting. http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2013... My proposed solution is to get rid of the entire law.” That has been tried unsuccessfully nearly 40 times in three years. Doing the same thing over and over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. It’s time to quit whining and find a way to live with it. This time, Congress will have to live with it too.http://union-bulletin.com/news... [[[[[[ http://ourfuture.org/2012042... -> 10 -1 http://www.usatoday.com/story... , 10 -4 http://www.spokesman.com/stories... http://union-bulletin.com/news... - Thomas Page

[[ 9 -30 PISS POOR POWER OF PURSE PERFORMANCE ]] http://www.theatlantic.com/politic... http://www.brookings.edu/researc... Failure mode, effects, and criticality analysis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... . [ http://www.youtube.com/watch... , [[[[ 9 -11 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://www.nist.gov/baldrig... , 11 -7 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

House Republicans are making demands largely unrelated to budgetary matters. http://www.usatoday.com/story... , [[[ 10 -5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers Today the US House of Representatives voted to provide certainty and fairness to the hundreds of thousands of federal workers who have been furloughed because of this government shutdown. They will be fully paid once this ends. We ask -- once again -- for the President and Senate Democrats come to the negotiating table and put people above politics. Bob Dylan - Times They are a-Changin http://www.youtube.com/watch... [[[[ also dylan song about words ( certainty and fairness ) maybe this maybe not [[[[[ ~ Using ideas as my maps "We'll meet on edges soon" said I Proud 'neath heated brow ~ Lies that life is black and white Spoke from my skull, I dreamed Romantic facts of musketeers ~ To memorizing politics Of ancient history Flung down by corpse evangelists Unthought of, though somehow ~ A self-ordained professor's tongue Too serious to fool Spouted out that liberty Is just equality in school Equality, I spoke the word As if a wedding vow ~ My existence led by confusion boats Mutiny from stern to bow ~ Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats Too noble to neglect Deceived me into thinking I had something to protect Good and bad, I define these terms Quite clear, no doubt somehow ~ , [[[[ 10 -9 http://www.nytimes.com/2013... http://www.newyorker.com/online... , 10 -17 https://www.facebook.com/mcmorri... - Thomas Page

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5 -2 Lackeys http://www.urbandictionary.com/define... http://www.merriam-webster.com/diction... , flunkys http://www.thefreedictionary.com/flunky http://www.thefreedictionary.com/lackey http://www.urbandictionary.com/define... - Thomas Page

6 -29 Oversight of Congress by Press , Checks and Balance on Congress performed by Electorate ] [ Process Corruption ... Why? }}}}}}}} {{{{{{{{ sort, People >> Congress >>> < Executive >> <<< Judicial <<<< Lawmaking ?????? Troubleshooting ... - Thomas Page

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This is too hard ... http://www.politicususa.com/2014... [ sort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://prairieweather.typepad.com/the_scr... http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs... http://prairieweather.typepad.com/big_blu... - Thomas Page

6 -29 Tom Foley http://www.spokesman.com/stories... http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific... , Warren Magnusen , Scoop Jackson [[[7 -10 statesmen legislators Howard Baker, George Mitchell, Bob Dole - Thomas Page

7 -10 Ability of the Press to call BS on Congress? Willingness? Corrupted system? Voice of Truth ? The Emperor has no clothes ... [ Oversight - Thomas Page

7 -3 Nothing ain't worth Nothing 2 -10 Get over your nostalgia: Congress has never been more than a sausage factory. The point here isn't to make us something we're not. The point is to get us to make sausage again. But for that to happen, the people have to rise up and demand better. http://www.vox.com/2015... - Thomas Page

6 -29 Officials and representatives who are operating according to an agenda based on political zealotry, religious ideology, or similar extreme views are not likely to really care about highly nuanced technical issues. Or Fiscal Responsibility! https://friendfeed.com/citizen... - Thomas Page

Doh [ 7 -5 ) < 0 [[ 7 -6 sort Flowchart: Is it f*cked up? http://boingboing.net/2007... [[[ 8 -1 sort Earned_schedule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Traditionally, EVM tracks schedule variances not in units of time, but in units of currency (e.g. dollars) or quantity (e.g. labor hours). Of course, it is more natural to speak of schedule performance in units of time, but the problems with traditional schedule performance metrics are even deeper. Near the end of a project -- when schedule performance is often a primary concern -- the usefulness of traditional schedule metrics is demonstrably poor. To correct these problems, Earned Schedule theory represents the two measures SV and SPI in 2 separate domains: currency and time. Earned_value_management http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

11 -6 Boehner says nothing will happen with immigration if something happens on immigration http://www.dailykos.com/story... sot weed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 11 -7 http://friendfeed.com/citizen... http://friendfeed.com/citizen... "Possitively 4th Street" - Thomas Page

Spock music [ playing instrument Vulcan_lute http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki... The description of the Vulcan Lyrette from the original Star Fleet Technical Manual reads that this is "An unusually harmonious and melodic accompaniment or solo instrument, whose origin is lost in Vulcan antiquity. It combines the tonal qualities of a harp, lute, sitar, and to some extent, violin." They were usually made of Li'Pon and Sher Skah woods, with a Bahun'ahb inlay. The lowest pitch it can reach is 60 cps, and the highest is an astounding 3180 cps.https://www.youtube.com/watch... http://youtu.be/xRfbWrI03gc 2 -5 http://io9.com/the-tru... - Thomas Page

Vote early and vote often http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... https://friendfeed.com/citizen... [[ 11 -1 Public_choice_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Journalism [ Local Journalism [[ Free rides take it easy ... Foghat http://youtu.be/GcCNcgoyG_0 Edgar Winter http://youtu.be/Ek_4ADcA_Ik - Thomas Page

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Local paper Labor Day feature one year, professionals Ect , tell about their lousy first jobs. On the one hand I get it. Yeah been there done that, hummblebrag, I did it you can too. On the other disrespect for people that do humble dirty jobs to varying degrees of reward ... All their lives ... [[ a lot of those jobs went where??? Expeditious https://friendfeed.com/citizen... Social Contracts https://friendfeed.com/citizen... - Thomas Page

Bakersfield http://friendfeed.com/citizen... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... sort The_Warren_Court http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://www.newyorker.com/magazin... - Thomas Page

more of the same approach that has failed the middle class for decades,” Boehner said in a news conference on Wednesday. “Veto threats and fantasy land proposals from the White House will not distract the people’s House from the people’s priorities,” Boehner said. [ Dirty rotten jobs ... [ http://www.rollingstone.com/politic... 1 -25 Dirty_Rotten_Scoundrels http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 1 -26 Last refuge of scoundrels = _ , Isaac Asimov - Wikiquote “Violence,” came the retort, “is the last refuge of the incompetent.”. 1 -27 Manifestos trump performing policy https://friendfeed.com/citizen... [[[[[[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 1 -31 Dirty, lousy, rotten, stinkin', freaks. - Thomas Page

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Don't be no fool , mind the rules [ 365 days fools , 24/7 - Thomas Page