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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Monday, January 01, 2007

2 birds, 1 stone

It is a time for new beginnings. Both Saddam Hussein and the Republican Congress are recently deceased, and it is arguable as to which demise will be lamented less. And although the Iraqi occupation remains in the hands of the commander in chief, no doubt the newly empowered Democrats on Capitol Hill will be searching for ways to bring about the end of a democratic experiment that has thus far proven to be a complete failure.

But perhaps we should not be too hasty to throw out the infant Iraqi republic with the Ba'athist. The failure of the neocons' World Democratic Revolution only proves that allowing half-civilized people without a tradition that respects human liberty to vote will result in the election of a half-civilized government that doesn't respect human liberty.


Vox Day

All in all, not a bad idea. Despite the light tone of the article, Vox is completely serious about this.

Maybe a ground swell of grassroots support will get the ball rolling. Write your Congress-critter today!

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