The House Republicans in U.S. Congress are pathetic.

[MrFun]

nvm

[Dinner]

It was kind of funny to hear Boehner blame Obama for Boehner's inability to pass his own unamended legislation.

[MrFun]

It was kind of funny to hear Boehner blame Obama for Boehner's inability to pass his own unamended legislation.

I know, right?

24 hours ago, Boehner got House Republicans to pass resolution to sue President Obama for circumventing U.S. Congress, and now Boehner is asking President Obama to intervene in this current congressional mess.

[Ben Kenobi]

The neat thing about MrFun is that if you're quick on the refresh key you can know his opinions before he does.

[MrFun]

BK, I still have you on Ignore.

[Elok]

I'm interested in hearing what you think an alternative system should be.

Preferential voting, I think it's called. They do it in Australia; instead of checking a box, you rank the candidates in order of preference. If no one candidate has a sufficient majority of #1 rankings, the weakest candidate gets knocked out and those votes go to their second preference. Still not enough? Second weakest candidate goes, and so on. It lets you vote for a minority party without completely throwing your vote away, thus encouraging a variety of opinions instead of Biggest, Second-Biggest, and Don't Even Bother.

[Ben Kenobi]

Preferential voting, I think it's called. They do it in Australia; instead of checking a box, you rank the candidates in order of preference. If no one candidate has a sufficient majority of #1 rankings, the weakest candidate gets knocked out and those votes go to their second preference. Still not enough? Second weakest candidate goes, and so on. It lets you vote for a minority party without completely throwing your vote away, thus encouraging a variety of opinions instead of Biggest, Second-Biggest, and Don't Even Bother.

It's a slick way to eliminate regional representation, and replace it with party drones.

[Berzerker]

There is checks and balances, and then there is dysfunction. Two different things, and I think in this instance, we're talking about dysfunction, when the party's own leaders cannot muster enough support within its own party for something like this. It just seems like there's widening cracks within the Republican Party.

thats a good thing, we need more dissent and resistance to what the party bosses want

Preferential voting, I think it's called. They do it in Australia; instead of checking a box, you rank the candidates in order of preference. If no one candidate has a sufficient majority of #1 rankings, the weakest candidate gets knocked out and those votes go to their second preference. Still not enough? Second weakest candidate goes, and so on. It lets you vote for a minority party without completely throwing your vote away, thus encouraging a variety of opinions instead of Biggest, Second-Biggest, and Don't Even Bother.

I like it

[The Mad Monk]

There is checks and balances, and then there is dysfunction. Two different things, and I think in this instance, we're talking about dysfunction, when the party's own leaders cannot muster enough support within its own party for something like this. It just seems like there's widening cracks within the Republican Party.

Checks and Balances = they did what you wanted

Dysfunction = they didn't

[MrFun]

Checks and Balances = they did what you wanted

Dysfunction = they didn't

Nope, that's not what I think dysfunction is.

[MrFun]

Preferential voting, I think it's called. They do it in Australia; instead of checking a box, you rank the candidates in order of preference. If no one candidate has a sufficient majority of #1 rankings, the weakest candidate gets knocked out and those votes go to their second preference. Still not enough? Second weakest candidate goes, and so on. It lets you vote for a minority party without completely throwing your vote away, thus encouraging a variety of opinions instead of Biggest, Second-Biggest, and Don't Even Bother.

I'm not familiar with that voting system. Interesting.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Of course you are not.

You are insular as any conservative you criticize here. Your tone deaf linking of a Rachel Maddow MSNBC article indicates this.

[Dinner]

I've always been fond of proportional representative voting. Some where there is even a video on mixed proportional representative voting which solves gerrymandering all together. IMHO gerrymandering is the worst affront to democracy out there with corruption by elected officials being a close second.

[Dauphin]

My complaint against PR is that you get little chance to pick a candidate, the party has a bigger say over who is on the list. This is true for FPP, where people can be parachuted in, but it is easier to get a groundswell against such activities or people who piss off the local electorate on a personal (not party) level.

I prefer STV.

[Sava]

This all seems complicated. You guys should put me in charge.

Then things will get done!