I feel like I'm living in the middle of a Tom Clancy novel...

[PCIntern]

Middle-of-the-road minority President manages somehow to get a corporate-friendly somewhat populist Healthcare bill through both Houses of Congress, Minority Party rebels and is abusive to the individual and the process, problems in the Middle East, and apparently a militia-bust in which there are rumors of stadium attacks or worse, right during the Passover/Easter Holiday.

Wow...

[annabanana]

1. I know...but..

too contrived, even for Clancy.

[GreenStormCloud]

2. Try reading Clive Clussler "Dirk Pitt" novels. N/T

[izquierdista]

3. Oh, that...

I thought you meant everyone around you was speaking in simple declarative sentences at a third-grade vocabulary level.

[tom_paine]

4. and gushing, adoring aw-shucks-ism with characters with cardboard depth

A person can get rich doing stuff like that, just look at L. Ron Hubbard.

And Clancy's writing is Shakespeare compared to the first-grade scribblings of Hubbard.

[RainDog]

5. lol n/t

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. The all time classic was Jack Higgins. (snip)

"Oui," he said, in rapid and fluent French.

:wow:

[exboyfil]

10. Try the new Bourne novels

They are bad.

[Bonhomme Richard]

7. All we need is a submarine involved. n/t

[TransitJohn]

8. Are you surrounded by shallow unbelievable characters

spouting fantastic and bad dialogue?

[PCIntern]

9. Come to my dental practice and hear!

you have no idea...or, as they say in rapid and fluent French, Idee!

[IDemo]

11. I'm thinking Hunter S. Thompson

Fear and Loathing in Searchlight

Simply replace the psychoactive drugs with brain-addling ideology.