http://professor-lyman.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] professor-lyman.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2006-04-21 11:48 am
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US Government (Friday, April 21, 4th period)

Josh was reading an article about a health care plan proposed by some Texas Congressman named Santos that Toby had forwarded to him when the government class began arriving.

"Next week's class will be a review session, so today we talk about the last thing that you'll be required to care about for the final exam." He pointed to the board, where he had written lobbyists and the media.

"Technically, not part of the three separate but equal branches of government that the Founders had envisioned, but especially in the modern age, incredibly influential in the way laws are drawn up and passed."

He kicked his feet up onto his desk. "You've done the handwavy reading. How do you think the Founders would react if they came back and wandered down K Street and saw all the lobbying firms? Or turned on Fox News? Do you think this is what they had in mind? Do you think they could see how we got here? Would George Washington have a heart attack to see what we've done?"

Re: Lobbyists and the Media

[identity profile] carter-i-am.livejournal.com 2006-04-21 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Angel? What the heck? Don't forget there are zats in the armory. Just hit once.

Re: Lobbyists and the Media

[identity profile] notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com 2006-04-21 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I have no idea!! Seriously! The last conversation I had with him involved him teasing me about me and Janet. Um. Not that he knows about that. Do they work on vampires?

Re: Lobbyists and the Media

[identity profile] carter-i-am.livejournal.com 2006-04-21 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I have no idea. I was thinking about the angry girlfriend who commands armies.

Although now she might have been calculating whether a zat would have any effect on a corpse, or a zombie, or a vampire, and whether she'd need to boost the zat's power output for it to work.

Class lecture? What lecture?

Re: Lobbyists and the Media

[identity profile] notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com 2006-04-21 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
The same angry girlfriend with whom I have StuCo with next?!

There were times when she really, really missed Major Lorne.

Re: Lobbyists and the Media

[identity profile] carter-i-am.livejournal.com 2006-04-21 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess so?