Reply #7: In a world swimming in media and political "nuances,"... [View All]

[punpirate]

... I only pay attention to votes. If you pay attention to rhetoric, you will likely always be deceived.

I'm not going to be baited for speaking the obvious (and I have no ambitions whatever for Congress). Votes count. Rhetoric does not. That's the way the system works. I can rattle off the names of politicians who, throughout the ages, talked a good game, but then voted against the interests of their constituents (Biden comes to mind, immediately, in that regard, along with any number of other so-called "good Democrats").

If you believe that rhetoric is more important, I fear you'll go through life being disappointed.

What determines the course of the country is how our representatives vote. Feingold voted against the IWR, when many others voted for it.

We are in the fix we are in today because enough people believed in Bush's empty rhetoric to get him close enough to steal the election(s).

Votes count--at all levels.

Cheers.