<p>Congratulations katelyn! Must be really relieving to get the interview done with…</p>
<p>Anyone remember when the Spice Girls made those huge platforms popular? Or was it the other way around?</p>
<p>I think Harriet was used to try to make Alito look better. Like, “Harriet was AWFUL, and you know there’s no way you want to go down as being strongly against BOTH of my nominations…”</p>
<p>I think we need a system where third parties play a part, because the partisanism is getting disgusting.</p>
<p>I miss the Spice Girls. Randomness award goes to Por</p>
<p>alito is a brilliant man. no one is questioning his credibility.</p>
<p>alito does not change the tide in the supreme court. kennedy, who has now become the swing man, is fiscal conservative and social liberal.</p>
<p>alito should not change the court.</p>
<p>my only fear is if old man stevens dies in the next 2 years.</p>
<p>If the Dems can’t take advantage of the political atmosphere right now, develop their own platform (as opposed to ‘We like what the Republicans dont’), and don’t get elected in '08, I will be mad. </p>
<p>Unless they lose to John McCain :)</p>
<p>Yeah you’re probably right about Harriet. And I don’t think third parties will help because they’re just as partisan as the major two. 
And the independent comitees are all made up of mixed partisan legislators that still vote down the line… jeez, it’s all so screwed up.</p>
<p>And then there’s the vote sal- erm, lobbying process. Ugh.</p>
<p>Oh, and thanks for the award.</p>
<p>I want to carry a Spice Girl’s child.</p>
<p>I want to be a lobbyist when I grow up.</p>
<p>yeah, we need more parties. in India and maybe other countries, there are much more than 2 main political parties. i’m not sure it’s effective in the sense that the party needs fewer votes to win the majority vote, etc. but then again, more ideas are allowed to be represented…</p>
<p>If you were a lobbyist and I were an emergency room surgeon operating on you, I’d deliberately mess up. With all due respect.</p>
<p>yeah seriously, dems need to get their act together…</p>
<p>Israel has a system where the number of seats given to members of that party is proportional to the number of people voting for that party. I think that’s a sweet system.</p>
<p>And you know, I’d argue that the Republicans are looking a lot worse than the Democrats right now, suman. All that corruption stuff is… um… kinda bad. :p</p>
<p>k, i’m out for the night guys…gotta remember 200 words when the teacher will choose only 15 of the 200…so intimidating…</p>
<p>Por, my interviewer and I talked about the lobbyist assumptions, and she said a friend of hers is currently a lobbyist for Catholic Charities and it was really rewarding.</p>
<p>Corporate lobbyists screw it up for all of us :(</p>
<p>Oh a good lobbyist. The type that would bake me a chocolate chip muffin, right?</p>
<p>I’d buy you a chocolate chip muffin ;)</p>
<p>but make you chocolate chip cookies.</p>
<p>lobbyists are so freakin rich its insane…the best ones though are former congressmen.</p>
<p>yup, congressmen are masters of screwing us all over…</p>
<p>I hate lobbyists, they’re the only one with voices in our “democracy” No wonder we’re becoming extreme in our views. Ever here of a moderate lobbist? Well, none exist! Hate em as much as the commies</p>
<p>whatev. I’m going to graduate from college, do a year or two on Capital Hill as an aid of some sort, go to law school in DC, then become a lobbyist.</p>
<p>and then i shall hunt you down eckie…all lobbyists must hate themselves at night knowing that their life is up to the highest bidder.</p>
<p>I have a soul and I’m willing to sell it if personal apathy means personal gain.</p>
<p>crap. Belle and Sebastian are playing two night in DC and theyre both sold out, already.</p>