Stupid voters enable broken government - CNN.com
Stupid voters enable broken government - CNN.com:
" This is one of a series of CNN Opinion articles on the question, "Why is our government so broken?" LZ Granderson, who writes a weekly column for CNN.com, was named Journalist of the Year by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and is a 2011 Online Journalism Award finalist for commentary. He is a senior writer and columnist for ESPN the Magazine and ESPN.com and the 2009 winner of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation award for online journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @locs_n_laughs. Watch him on CNN Newsroom Tuesdays at 9 a.m. ET."
"...Newt Gingrich, who cheated on two wives and is the only speaker of the House to have been disciplined for ethics violations. And yet somehow he is running for president of the United States as a religious conservative and managed to get 8% of the votes during last week's straw poll in Florida.
Are you freaking kidding me?"
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"Each time Rep. Michele Bachmann insinuates falsehoods into her arguments, as she did earlier this month on the "Today Show" by suggesting HPV vaccinations cause mental retardation, I think: A group of people on auto-pilot in Minnesota did this to us."
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We need a way to put the usually uninformed (Because unless something has awakened them, they really, really, really don't give a flying rat's ass) public back to sleep, so that we can get something done and get this country back on its' feet. Every time there is a major catastrophe or major downturn in the economy, the fear mongers hungry for power take advantage of the sleeping idiots who are awakened by all the hub-bub.(See Germany pre WW II). Sure wish there was a way to put the cork back in the bottle.
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