Not Exactly a World Takeover Bid, But Interesting None-the-less

I posted a few weeks ago about back room politics and lamented the disappearance of cigar-smoking power brokers secrectly controlling American government.

I got some heat in the comments, but why didn't anybody link to this article?

Surprise Party

which sounds like a viable alternative. Hell, I'm on board. The gist is this:

If you’ve worked in national politics at almost any point in the last forty years, chances are things got worse, not better, on your watch. That can gnaw at you.

A condemnation of the current state of affairs - I'm intrigued...

As the evening wore on, a sense of frustration pervaded the gathering, until finally Jordan exclaimed, “Why are you guys just writing a book? Can’t we do something about this? The country is in serious trouble here!” And then came the leap...

A third party. A real third party, done in a brand new way. Online.

resolved that it would operate on the Internet. That way everyone could join the party online and participate as a delegate, helping to build the party’s platform collectively rather than ceding that task to interest groups, as both major parties tend to do. Ultimately, they hoped, these delegates would select a presidential and vice-presidential candidate in an online convention to be held in 2008

And here's my favorite part, it's got the ring of Cincinatus to it:

Bailey and his confederates envision their enterprise not as the establishment of a permanent third party but as a one-shot affair—a dose of medicine strong enough to bring the two parties to their senses. Only then, they believe, can things truly improve. In other words, they are attempting nothing less than to rescue American politics and put the country back on the right track.

Check it out. Unity08



Or, you know, write-in Gore.
-t