Funny politics - absurd

[Pat McCotter]

I know this is political but it was so absurd it deserves mention.

It seems Wisconsin has a law that allows the governor to make changes to bills that change them completely.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=751861

Doyle's vetoes were the first since voters slightly limited his powers on April 1. Voters approved a constitutional change that ended the "Frankenstein veto" by saying that governors could not strike words from two or more sentences to make new sentences.

But the governor still may strike individual sentences or parts of sentences and erase individual digits and string numbers together in one sentence. On Friday, Doyle used the 2, 7 and 0 from a reference to the years 2007-'09 to order $270 million in spending cuts by July 1, 2009.

[dalebert]

I think it's a great example that shows the absurdity of the whole notion of law-making. It's an incredibly contrived concept that most people accept only because we've all been so thoroughly indoctrinated from a young age.

[Russell Kanning]

I know this is political but it was so absurd it deserves mention.

the current policy of this forum is .... posts making fun of political solutions ... good

[Pat McCotter]

Thank you, Russell.

[JJ]

Wisconsin is the dark horse in contention for the Statyest State of 2008 award.

[Russell Kanning]

Wisconsin is the dark horse in contention for the Statyest State of 2008 award.

they were in the running for the Free Lunch Project .... you could bring up their progress with the committee.

[John Edward Mercier]

I think it's a great example that shows the absurdity of the whole notion of law-making. It's an incredibly contrived concept that most people accept only because we've all been so thoroughly indoctrinated from a young age.

It was originally common law... meaning whatever the local custom was. As people move about it does get pretty absurd.