For folks that like politics and discussing policy

Nomo, you'll like this one.

The Bipartisan Bridge

Looks interesting, but I've only read a few items from their 50 bipartisan ideas.

There's also a format for submitting your own, sadly no forums (yet?) to discuss these thought provoking ideas, but it's not like the internet is not starved for forums :p

Let me know what you think.

 

I looked around the site at the 50 ideas.  I've read 2 completely and skimmed 2 others. It looks like there's a lot of food for thought there. I look forward to more investigation of the site.

OMG i didnt want to start a thread on this topic b/c I didnt want to start a war on cc.....

tonight I saw a thing on CNN about the rapper/musician Ludacris (dont know how to spell his name) 

anyways, he had a video on Youtube talking/rapping about Obama into the white house, and "Lets paint the Whitehouse Black"

I think this is highly offensive to all Americans, white or black.  Sorry if this post was not relative to your OP, just had to rant somewhere.

Iggy, you are right!  That looks awesome!

I have added it to my favorites so I can come back to it and read in depth - very busy today - will definitely share my thoughts once I've read more.

*sticks a gold star on iggy*

Have looked this over and realized something. Very few Americans do not complain about partisan politics. Shouldn't a bipartisan political party be the strongest? The Independant platform should be have bipartisanship as its largest plank.

I have to say is what I find most frustrating about partisan politics is that the fighting between reps and dems is asinine... they are the same political party.  If you profile the political beliefs of people in either party they are the remarkably the same until you reach the far left or far right.... I am actually opposed to our two party system and would prefer multiparty proportional representation... but that is beside the point.  The arguing and inability to make decisions because it was a rep or dem idea is completely retarded (for lack of a better word).  Our politicians create stalemates when their is no discernible difference between a moderate democrat or moderate republican.... another thing that bothers me is the misuse of the term liberal..... liberalism is not leftism... liberalism is advocation of limited government, an independent capitalist economy, no social welfare programs etc.... liberalism (the political theory) is the basic platform for the republican far right.. people in the far left are not liberals they are leftist!...(sorry that rant really had nothing to do with the topic)