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There's an opposition here too of course.
And I don't think our system is much better or worse than the American system, just different.
Both systems have their flaws and stupidity.

Ok. But where any of those statements made during the Kagan hearings? If not, then what is the relevance to mentioning them?

As someone else pointed out, both sides engage in rhetoric. It's an unfortunate fact of politics that rhetoric influences the public more than rational reasoned debate. We could just as easily (and just as irrelevantly) talk about how any talk of reducing the tax burden gets turned into a a diatribe about the rich stealing from the poor. And anytime the right opposes spending they're greeted with a chorus of claims about us wanting to starve poor people, and make grandma die in a shack somewhere. And concerns about the constitutionality of forcing people to buy health care is met with angry claims that we're just being greedy and not willing to help sick people.


There's plenty of rhetoric to go around. It's a bit misleading to list off only the stuff coming from one side.

So does Cat. That was the point.

Er? I'm playing the "all politicians do it cause it tends to work" card Joph.

Republicans will argue that their claims about the wrongness of Dem policies are just as true as Dems will argue about their claims about GOP polices. Which makes your earlier post kinda pointless. You might as well have just replied with "I'm a democrat!"

I also believe that sticking a hot poker in your eye is "bad". What's your point?