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How Pledges Can Work

Posted on May 1, 2012 by johnrachel

How will candidate pledges for progressive positions on key issues be effective? How will this work? Intimidation! We will either make the toadying hypocrites sign the pledges out of fear that they will lose the election, or we will run them out of office by instigating voter outrage for voting against the laws the vast majority of Americans want. Continue reading →

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Pledges: Candidate Contracts

Posted on April 28, 2012 by johnrachel

The candidate pledge, now deployed to such grossly destructive ends, can be used to an opposite effect, that is, as a means of restoring some sanity to what comes out of the U. S. Senate and Congress. Candidate pledges can result in legislation on a host of crucial issues and pull the country out of the death spiral we currently find it in. I’m referring to familiar measures supported by large majorities that reflect the stated values and express wishes of the American people. Continue reading →

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Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?

Posted on July 19, 2011 by johnrachel

One of my friends on Facebook is a chicken and he has been living at the Colonel Sanders Happy Farm For Chickens for several weeks. He says that everything is great! Continue reading →

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