Comments on: right/left wing?

By: bhyde

bhyde — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:14:19 +0000

I suspect if you looked into bills you’d see a lot of exactly that kind of horse trading going on. One one of the community of sites around the vote view stuff there is a regularly updated video showing the cut lines for recently passed bills along with those representatives who voted contrary to the model. What surprised me is how often bills have unusual slopes.

By: Bruce Nevin

Bruce Nevin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:18:32 +0000

“If you were designing a bill to get it past this senate then you would craft it to slice the space thru the middle with line slightly tilted clockwise.”

This middle ground balances the two paired sets of polarizing issues. Regulate smaller businesses that employ white workers, but don’t regulate small businesses that employ minority workers.

By: Josh Jasper

Josh Jasper — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:25:03 +0000

But that’s not what the Green Party reprensetative told me! I’m sure, after reading this, they’ll change that opinion.

By: Anton Sherwood

Anton Sherwood — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“If you were designing a bill to get it past this senate then you would craft it to slice the space thru the middle with line slightly tilted clockwise.”

If a clear majority is on your side of the gap! Otherwise it might be best to cut perpendicular to the gap: you’ll defy labelling and bewilder your opponents.

“The key to the left/right axis is the extent such regulations serve small vs large players in the economic arena.”

Where `serve’ means `are [naïvely] perceived as serving’, of course.