That sentence smells of weasel.

“Obama’s 28 male staffers divided among themselves total payroll expenditures of $1,523,120. Thus, Obama’s average male employee earned $54,397. Obama’s 30 female employees split $1,354,580 among themselves, or $45,152, on average … on average, Obama’s female staffers earn just 83 cents for every dollar his male staffers make …

McCain’s payment patterns are the stuff of feminist dreams. McCain’s 17 male staffers split $916,914, thus averaging $53,936. His 25 female employees divided $1,396,958 and averaged $55,878. On average, according to these data, women in McCain’s office make $1.04 for every dollar a man makes.”

Note to John McCain: the oodG-ay ldO-ay oy-Bay lubC-ay would like to speak with you.

You didn’t even vote for Al Gore.

Oh wait, that was you.

Now how about a nice piece reconciling your faith with your party’s commitment to infantracide?

Sweetie, don’t do that to yourself.

On all counts.

I think everyone just kind of knew that already.

hahahaha. true dat.

As for your complaints about voting, it was voting that got arnold into office…strange weird california voting, i’m sure with more voting, not less, you’d be able to change whatever beaucracies remain in california. You guys, after all, unseated a sitting governor and replaced him with an actor.

I think everyone just kind of knew that already.

Here’s the problem with voting: It doesn’t seem to have much effect on what actually happens. In California we have the initiative process. We have legislators. We have a governor. See, there’s lots of opportunities to vote.

But the legislators are all in rock-solid safe seats. So, while you can traipse down to the polls and pull the lever for your guy, everyone already knows with absolute certainty who’s gonna win. In lots of districts the opposition party doesn’t even bother to field a candidate, or if they do he’s like your crazy uncle everyone in the family pretends not to know. And he can’t raise enough money for bus fare since everyone knows he’s gonna lose.

Our governor is virtually powerless. When Ahnold got elected he was wildly popular, but every one of his goals bogged down in the swamp of bureaucratic inertia. I suppose if we have a tsunami or something he may be useful, but really, he’s just wasting gas driving the hummer to work. He would get far more accomplished spending his time making money and then spending the money in politics. In a swing state.

Then there’s the initiatives. Lots of popular initiatives on the ballot every election. But if an initiative might actually change the status quo the factions on the losing end can tie it up in the courts for decades. So, even when we pass something it doesn’t ever seem to actually make it onto the books.

It’s not really democracy. It’s more like the illusion of democracy.