Fuzzy math: When 37 is greater than 63 -- today's open thread
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Fuzzy math: When 37 is greater than 63 -- today's open thread
His name is James Fallows, and these are "the brakes":
Let's round the figures to 63/37 and apply them to the health care debate. Senators representing 63 percent of the public vote for the bill; those representing 37 percent vote against it. The bill fails.
This is just as a point of information. The Constitution was designed as a system of checks and balances. As explained in my article, that image is being replaced by one of brakes:
Just about the only positive -- and it's a small one -- to come out of the recent crisis of confidence in America, which now spans broadly across both parties, is that people are re-thinking the big picture on things such as the filibuster, which have created a situation that, as Fallows writes, goes well beyond the "checks and balances" that most of us have come to appreciate.
Another Fallows post explains this map, which divides America into 50 new states of roughly equal populaton, including, I'd note, the state of "Philadelphia," which presumably would declare Ed Rendell as governor for life right after it named scrapple as the official state meat.
As I warned you at the start of the yeat, the daily open thread rule is in effect until April. The time's yours.
health care would still pass if democrats would vote for their own bill. the filibuster has little to do with it.— bobbyd24
Comment removed.- McCain won more counties throughout the country than Obama. Counties are even more representative than states. McCain should therefore be President, right Wilbur??????????— WriteWinger
- If that were the case WriteWinger then Gore should have been President in 2000.— samtheshampharaoh
- Comment removed.
- What? A map?- did the liberals and democrats miss the VOTE in Mass.? You know- the most Liberal state in the U.S. went to a republican?— Manny Trillo
- Smells like teen hypocricy. Remember William Pryor Jr. or Charles Pickering or Priscilla Owen or Miguel Estrada? Of course not.— A Friend
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"The American people wholeheartedly reject this government takeover of healthcare." . . . . . No wonder. 54% of them want a public option. (CNN/ORC 1/10/10)- Obama- "Children this is called a Teleprompter- hopefully you will not need to read from one when you are president like I do. Even though I was touted as an Ivy league genius by the Liberal MSM- I cannot give a speech without my Teleprompter."— Manny Trillo
The byproduct of the federal government not getting anything done is liberty, and I'm fine with that.— jmc- Comment removed.
- Where is the "Marginalized Minority" guy? Have not heard from him since Scott Brown spanked Obama's candidate......— Manny Trillo
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- "The problem Will is those senators who represent the public are not voting the public's wishes." . . . . . . Corporations are the "public", didn't you hear?
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