I support a trigger option.

[grantcart]

The next time they want to vote for a war I suggest a 6 year trigger before we start debate.


Want to cut taxes for the rich, lets put in an 8 year trigger to ponder it before we take action.


The next time they want to get an exemption for ethical actions for a Congressman to resign and work for a lobbyist, 12 years trigger and then we will focus on the problem.


As for expanding the federal government power into overseeing the evil practices of the health insurance industry and starting government run options for the sane people in the country, we have had a 40 year trigger and that is quite long enough.


Oh and the trial period for filibuster has run its course. The filibuster is a relatively new tool to frustrate legislation in a body that is becoming statistically less democratic every year, exaggerating the power of the rural states to 3 times it had when the constitution was begun. We should have gotten rid of it when it was used to frustrate civil rights options. Its an experiment that can now be done away with and all legislation in the Senate should be brought to a vote with the same number of votes it takes to pass the legislation - 51.

[slackmaster]

1. I've always been a fan of Trigger

[rhett o rick]

4. Beautiful pose. I think Dale had them both stuffed just like that.

Hi ho Trigger. Ooops mixing cowboys.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

15. yeehaw!

[elocs]

2. I support Trigger:

[niyad]

3. I fully support your options

[niyad]

5. when I first read the title--my mind immediately went to ko-ko's song

[Demeter]

13. Which One? "If someday it may happen that a victim must be found, I've got a little list?

[niyad]

22. yes, that one

[DrToast]

6. So if Canada invaded us, you'd want to wait 6 years before doing something?

Don't let them know that. I don't trust 'em.

[grantcart]

8. If Canada invaded us we immediately sue for peace.

We let them take over and get universal health care. Also the tremendous debt that US has on the books would cease to exist and the Chinese the Arabs and a whole bunch of other suckers would cease to exist.

Sounds like the opening treatment for a Dan Ackroyd movie based on a kind of inversion to "The Mouse that Roared".

[juno jones]

9. I for one, welcome my Canadian overlords

even if they talk a little funny :)

[Sebastian Doyle]

12. Hell, I'd even learn the Metric system, and TRY to learn French

In exchange for real health care and actual sugar in Coca-Cola. Bring on the invasion, Hosers!

[DesertFlower]

7. i agree. nt

[Snotcicles]

10. I thought Trigger was a horse. nt

[Orsino]

11. If al-Qaeda ran the insurance companies, we'd have universal single-payer. n/t

[SKKY]

17. And if worms had shotguns, birds wouldn't fuck with them too much...

...What's your point?

[Orsino]

31. See post #25. n/t

[eridani]

25. Al Qaeda only managed to kill a few thousand Americans

Our insurance parasites kill 45,000 of us a year.

[Tom Rinaldo]

14. I strongly believe in the backlash it will trigger off

If "a trigger to nowhere" gets peddled as our so called public option.

[eridani]

16. We might consider a trigger option in health care, but only if--

--we line the insurance company CEOs up against a wall first.

[davidpdx]

18. Nice

[cliffordu]

19. I support Dale Evans.

One of the most important women of my adolescence.....

[grantcart]

23. Yes well too bad you don't take Dale Evans prayer a little more seriously

http://dpotter.net/David/2008/06/dale-evans-prayer/

The Dale Evans Prayer

Lord, thou knowest better than I know myself, that I’m growing older , and will someday be old. Keep me from getting too talkative; particularly from the fatal habit of thinking I must say something on every subject and on every occasion. Deliver me from the need to try and straighten out everybody’s affairs. Keep my mind free from the recital of endless details; give me wings to get to the point. I ask for grace to listen to the tales of others’ pains; but seal my lips when it comes to my own aches and pains, for they are increasing and my love of rehearsing them gets sweeter as the years go by. I ask not for improved memory, but for a growing humility and less cocksureness, especially when my memory seems to clash with the memory of others. Teach me that occasionally I may be mistaken. Keep me reasonably sweet. I don’t necessarily want to be a saint - some of them are so hard to live with. But a sour old woman (or man) is one of the crowning works of the devil. Make me thoughtful but not moody, helpful but not bossy. With my vast store of wisdom it seems a pity not to use it; but Thou knowest Lord, I want a few friends at the end. So give me, I pray, the ability to see blessings in unexpected trials and goodness in less-than-perfect people. And give me the grace to tell them so, In Christ’s name, amen.

google is taking us all to an entirely new level of kismet.:rofl:

[cliffordu]

24. Welll...

FUCK YOU AND YOUR LITTLE PONY, YA HOSER......

Don't you have to go foreclose on orphan's homes or kick people out of a hospice or something??

[grantcart]

26. This week we are conducting free dental procedures without anesthesia.

[cliffordu]

27. Sign me up.

I need to get my mind off this joint for a while....

[grantcart]

29. well evidently you weren't successful in geting away from here mentally lol

[polichick]

20. I support a trigger option on Congresscritter salaries...

If they can't figure out another way to pay their bills, we'll consider paying them again after a few years.

[RepublicanElephant]

21. how about a trigger for joe lieberman...

...like waiting 1 year before believing he's really going to caucus with you.

[bunkerbuster1]

28. I'm ashamed to say I was thinking of another trigger for Joe

And that's all I'm going to say about that.

[avaistheone1]

30. Yours is one trigger option I fully support