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Widespread Support for Sending Politicians to Prison for Ninety-Nine Years
 

[url]http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/25400-widespread-support-for-sending-politicians-to-prison-for-ninety-nine-years[/url]

[QUOTE]Last week’s indictment of Texas Governor Rick Perry has sparked widespread bipartisan support for the concept of sending politicians to prison for ninety-nine years.


While Americans are divided about the merits of the specific charges levelled against Perry, there is near-unanimous agreement that imprisoning politicians for ninety-nine years is an idea worth exploring further, a poll released on Monday indicates.


According to the poll, eighty-seven per cent of voters from both parties agreed that sending politicians to prison for such a lengthy period would “solve a lot of problems” and “make the country safer.”
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[QUOTE=kladner;380682][url]http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/25400-widespread-support-for-sending-politicians-to-prison-for-ninety-nine-years[/url][/QUOTE]The problem is that it would be those same politicians that would vote to enact such laws. So basically it has no chance of ever happening.

[QUOTE=retina;380684]The problem is that it would be those same politicians that would vote enact such laws. So basically it has no chance of ever happening.[/QUOTE]The use of pardons could also defang such laws. Politicians have a lot of control over things intended to reign in politicians.

[QUOTE=retina;380684]The problem is that it would be those same politicians that would vote to enact such laws. So basically it has no chance of ever happening.[/QUOTE]

This is one of the rare Borowitz pieces which is not prominently labeled as satire, which is what his gig is.

Fighting Words From Rick Perry
 

Now here is a Borowitz bit which has the usual disclaimer. Unfortunately, it sounds all too real.

[url]http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/25454-fighting-words-from-rick-perry[/url]

[QUOTE]
Lashing out at what he called the “Soviet-style” tactics of the indictments against him, Texas Governor Rick Perry said on Tuesday that the government had “grossly overstepped its traditional role of mandating transvaginal ultrasounds.”
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-28929626[/url]

[QUOTE=xilman;381387][URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-28929626[/URL][/QUOTE]

I thought it was rather funny.

[QUOTE=kladner;381389]I thought it was rather funny.[/QUOTE]Truth be told, so did I.

[QUOTE=xilman;381387][url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-28929626[/url][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=kladner;381389]I thought it was rather funny.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=xilman;381394]Truth be told, so did I.[/QUOTE]
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