Text 13356, 40 rader
Skriven 2014-03-30 13:16:13 av Joe Delahaye (39935.fidonews)
  Kommentar till text 13349 av Bill McGarrity (5686.2fidonews)
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  Re: Re: The `Global Warming'
  By: Bill McGarrity to Joe Delahaye on Sun Mar 30 2014 11:54:00

 JD>> Hard to say.  Putin would be just stubborn enough to do that.  He
 JD>> did it to Georgia (I think it was that country)

 BM> Almost a mirror image as I see it.  All driven by economcs and the desire
 BM> for the once held satellite states of the old USSR to join NATO or the EU
 BM> is a thorn in Putin's side which he'll go to all lengths to stop that
 BM> possibility. Russian ties run deep in the eastern Europe and there will
 BM> always be sympathizers.  

As Bjorn stated elsewhere though, there are many customers just waiting to buy
Russian Oil.  Still, the injuctions could, if held to, destabilize Putin.


 BM> Funny how that goes... power is just a tool.  Depends on how one uses it,
 BM> whether to deminish the human spirit and well-being or make it flourish.
 BM> ALL politicians seem to forget that fact.  

That is how dictators are born.


 BM> There are rules governing each house and as such, whoever is in control
 BM> may or may not like the rules as dictated.  For instance, in the Senate, a
 BM> vote of 60 yea's is needed to pass a bill.  This is known as cloture. 
 BM> Although the Dems have a majority rule, it's not what is called a "super
 BM> majority" therfore votes from the GOP are also needed. During the first
 BM> two months of his first term, President Obama had a super majority but
 BM> lost it when a seantor from Connecticut classified himself as an
 BM> Independent. Meanwhile, the cost to the tapayers for them playing their
 BM> silly games is staggering. Wouldn't mind paying that price IF things were
 BM> getting done.

Yeah, playing silly games.  One other thing, and that applies here as well.  If
a politician decides to change his stripes, then he should be made to return
all moneys that the party he ran for, paid out on his behalf.  Just my
thoughts.
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