Cain Out

[Sheilbh]

It's a dickish thing to do. These are the peoples' representatives, not a freshman English Lit class.

They're representatives of the people, so it's probably best to keep them well informed and the like.  Personally I don't mind it, but I'd respect Cameron more if he just set one interesting book rather than a series of tediously predictable ones.  Why not read, say, Claire Tomalin's 'Dickens' instead of whatever Malcolm Gladwell's written this year.

Well, to be candid, I would prefer that the Republicans nominate a completely unelectable moron, so in such wise, I approve.

I want the best candidate to win the nomination, I just want the way there to be fun.  Also I can't stand Romney and actually think he's a very, very weak general election candidate.

[Razgovory]

I think it's their own damn job to keep themselves informed.  They're fucking Congressmen, not preschoolers.  Besides, they don't really need to be molded ideology anymore then they have been.

[Sheilbh]

I think it's their own damn job to keep themselves informed.  They're fucking Congressmen, not preschoolers.  Besides, they don't really need to be molded ideology anymore then they have been.

Well of course it's their job to keep informed and this is just part of it over the summer recess.  I think one useful feature could be that I imagine it's easy for legislators to get bogged down in the details and in wonkery think tank reports.  In that context I like the idea of the leadership saying 'go read Lords of Finance over the summer'.

Very few books of the type that get recommended are that ideological - at least from what I remember of David Cameron's list.

[Viking]

That assumes literacy.  Not likely to succeed.

sad but true... Verily the Great Bat of Harrenhall dropped a big pile of dung on the G.O.P.