[Kiariitf]

People in a supervisory capacity realize how difficult it can be when the lines between friends and the task at hand become blurred... It's just difficult to manage friends.

You worry about how they will view you. You worry about the loss of their friendship. It's just a very difficult thing to do.. MANY PEOPLE simply DO NOT have the capacity to manage friends and acquaintances AT ALL. I know, I've seen it.

It's a bit like the "buddy mom" problem in some respects... Ceding authority to buy, or maintain, a friendship.

Is that what's wrong in Washington?

Something is fucking wrong here, and it goes beyond simple mismanagement, or a disagreement.

Could it be that you're dealing with a bunch of people who go to the same schools, live in the same neighborhoods.. basically turn in the same circles for their entire lives.. and they have more in common with each other than they do with their constituents? And they fear a loss of prestige as a result of properly representing them?

I just thought it was odd the way John Kerry said "America is losing any sense of what's real, of who's accountable, of who is not accountable, of who's real, who isn't, who's serious, who isn't?"

Limbaugh has stated many times that the pro-life movement gets the shaft not because of the numbers (Actually, over half the country agrees with lifers on the fundamentals, so it's not a losing proposition numerically) but because of the chattering class on the beltway. They catch shit for it at dinner and gatherings.. Their wives nag them. He swears it's as simple as that.

And to compound this problem, you have a party apparatus that only nurtures and installs members of this group.. They groom them. Even scout them. Therefore, we end up with politicians that strongly resemble one another, regardless of their party affiliation?

Harvard touts "Peer pressure" as a "Powerful ally to change" stating:

Whenever significant numbers of peers interact formally or informally, they constitute a force to be reckoned with. When they share mutual respect, they will listen to, learn from, and secretly support one another in ways that can shape opinions, create resistance, or generate energy. Could the crisis in government be as simple as peer pressure run wild?

[casinobonyanes]

Speaking of Kerry.. Notice the anger as their peer pressure tactics fail on the Tea Partiers.

Kerry is speaking of and to a group.. and they are angry that group pressure isn't bringing about the desired result.

[Galinastva]

well........ yes.

[Fellionas]

well........ yes.

Alrighty then!

[karaburatoreror]

of course, grown men wouldnt ADMIT to such a thing as peer pressure. but in every sense of the word, it is in fact pressure.

they just dont know how to or have the balls to handle the peer pressure.

[XiWm9O9S]

I mean, because I don't think they all run around DC conspiring to fuck us over.. So it has to be something else.

I wonder if this is it?

[asharbiq]

And the way they brush aside ideas and concepts as "un-serious" etc.. That's the decision of a group, and that group is who they are addressing.

They are pledging fealty to the group.. They are attempting to elevate themselves within the group.

[wllsqyuipknczx]

I mean, because I don't think they all run around DC conspiring to fuck us over.. So it has to be something else.

I wonder if this is it?

one thing it WOULD be is the chance to line their own pockets. greed.

[23tommy]

I just thought it was odd the way John Kerry said "America is losing any sense of what's real, of who's accountable, of who is not accountable, of who's real, who isn't, who's serious, who isn't?" I just read that in FrankenKerry's voice.

Too much time in DC and among the controlling elites.
THEY are not like us.

[DadaSeeva]

one thing it WOULD be is the chance to line their own pockets. greed.

I'm sure there's some of that too.. But I'm not convinced that everyone is a part of some grand conspiracy.

They attend gatherings.. They get lauded when they say something that pleases the group.

OTOH, you could be cast out by the group as "unserious" if you blaze your own trail..

[MilenaJaf]

Real adults understand there has to be a chain of command in a business or any other serious organization

[glazgoR@]

Real adults understand there has to be a chain of command in a business or any other serious organization

In practice, this isn't always the case. I've seen it too many times..

I wonder if this is the problem in DC?

[NumDusthouh]

You mean THIS GROUP?
Scroll down and you'll find FrankenKerry on the membership roster.

I remember a factoid from during the Reagan Administration that most of his advisers and cabinet were from that particular group. Seems it wasn't just Reagan that consults and employs heavily from that group.

Look into the history of that group.
The earliest origin of the Council stemmed from a working fellowship of about 150 scholars, called "The Inquiry", tasked to brief President Woodrow Wilson about options for the postwar world when Germany was defeated. Through 1917–1918, this academic band, including Wilson's closest adviser and long-time friend "Colonel" ****** M. House, as well as Walter Lippmann, gathered at 155th Street and Broadway at the Harold Pratt House in New York City, to assemble the strategy for the postwar world.

[wJswn5l3]

Are we still friends, James?

[Alexunda]

You mean THIS GROUP?
Scroll down and you'll find FrankenKerry on the membership roster.

I remember a factoid from during the Reagan Administration that most of his advisers and cabinet were from that particular group. Seems it wasn't just Reagan that consults and employs heavily from that group.

Look into the history of that group.

That is PRECISELY the sort of group I am thinking of..

Nothing overt.. It's not like they sit around cackling and wringing their hands.. But, still.

[Voitramma]

Are we still friends, James?

No.. URANIGGER.

[inilbowly]

Are we still friends, James?

who the FUCK would want to be friends with such a whiny bitch like you?

but he said *sniffle*

but she did *sniffle*

but he posted *sniffle*

when do you shut the fuck up, jason?

its like having hoffa breastfeed your ass daily.

[zibTefapparia]

its like having hoffa breastfeed your ass daily. Yeah, he's getting a bit big for this..

[Efonukmp]

he's a late latcher.

but i am sure his tits are bigger than yours.