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That bitch gets into office and I'm moving to Canada.
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Now now. I dislike her as much as anyone, but referring to her in those words isn't necessary and just serves to marginalize your opinion as based on something other than policy positions.
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Again, I am not asking whether it is good policy or not; I am asking about the politics of it. |
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So I looked up the Bachmann's husband story and found videos of him speaking......the story instantly flipped from "Holy crap what a bigot" to "Bwahahahahaha" in about 0.32 seconds.
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Can we hold you to that as a promise? Maybe even get a pinky swear on it?
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Sadly, Canada won't take me. Something about a moose I'd rather not talk about.
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The weird thing about Bachmann is she is sort of a character you would create to parody a right-wing politician. Sort of like Colbert does. Just over-the-top with stuff and having the gay husband who is anti-gay is the cherry on top. |
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Because tax increases for any reason are a non-starter with the Tea Party, and the GOP incumbents fear the thought of primary fights in 2012 on top of their efforts to reclaim the White House, presumably. |
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They'll never get another opportunity like this. If they can make the Dems cave they'll reshape the role of government in the US while getting political cover from Dems.
If it goes wrong the world economy is fucked, but that's a gamble they're willing to take.
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False dilemma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I will offer a third option. Repubs cave at the least minute and several vote to "save the world economy". People get pissed and say they will vote out the bums. 2012 election results basically every seat in Congress still a D or R. 2016 New Republcian elected and whole debt limit debate switches sides again. This time yourself and the liberals saying "we need to quit spending". Last edited by panerd : 07-01-2011 at 11:12 AM. |
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Which is what I've expected all along. Which is why not only am I not worked up over the "clock is ticking" mantra but also not particularly excited about what I fully expect will be a temporary (and thoroughly hollow) show of backbone.
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That would not surprise me panerd. The democrats and republicans have flip flopped on the whole filibuster issue and (I think) campaign contribution issue as well. I'd just add the whole debt limit debate to that list too. If the democrats were arguing that chocolate ice cream is the answer, the republicans would say that it's really vanilla and 2 years from now, the democrats would be saying that vanilla is the answer and republicans would argue that chocolate is the correct answer. This is one of the main reasons that I have little to no respect for either party.
Neither side has shown any ability when it comes to leadership, they are governing by, "argument de jour" instead. If both sides were at all serious about finding a solution, partisan politics would be pretty much a non factor. Instead, we have 535 people holding over 300 million american citizens hostage over this debt limit issue, because the elections are coming up.
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I don't think there's been a flip on campaign finance reform. The filibuster, OTOH, is one of those things that's always going to piss off whoever's in power enough to seriously consider trying to change the Senate rules to remove it, and then they realize once the other guys take power that, hey, this ain't so bad after all. It's the old saw about "never give yourself power you don't want your opponents to have and use." |
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Ah ok, I wasn't 100% positive if they had or not. That is a very good quote. Got to think long term sometimes.
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The last, oh, six years or so have been as compelling a picture as you could ever paint of that. Remember the Republicans discussing the "nuclear option" when the Democrats were threatening filibuster over some of Bush's federal judge appointees? Can you imagine, had they done that, and Obama had won the White House and the majorities he had in the House/Senate between 2008-2010, if the Republicans hadn't been able to filibuster nearly everything? That would be, like...an order of magnitude increase in the GOP's current level of crazy, I have to think. Minimum. Rick Perry's "LOL we should secede" might have actually been attempted. |
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Oh, just to follow up on this thought - health care reform in particular took the shape it did because of the need to plan around the filibuster. What form would it have taken without that, say? |
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Probably close to the same form. There were plenty of moderate Dems willing to block a public option. Bacchus had a lot of control of the final bill due to his committee and he seemed to favor the kind of package that passed.
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We would've at least got the public option. Maybe without the filibuster Obama tries to go even further than that. Hard to say.
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But the use of the filibuster for nearly every vote is new. I still favor a filibuster, but it needs to be costly to use. The problem with the current rules is that the filibustering party takes no hit for using what should be an extreme alternative.
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I said a while back that the real solution to the filibuster issue is to go back to old school rules. If you want to filibuster, then you have to sustain it 24/7. Stay up around the clock. Lose sleep. Lose time with your family. Miss those expensive lobbyist dinners. If we got it back to that, then it'd only be used at really important times.
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This is why I have little to no faith that anything worthy is going to get done. Yes, the economy/jobs needs to be fixed, but, when both side are more worried about toeing the party line instead of making hard choices, this back and forth will never end. Republicans don't want to raise taxes? Ok, democrats should think of a compromise. Democrats want to raise taxes? The republicans should think of a compromise. Neither side should be saying our way or the highway. Fire them all I say or at the very least, keep the ones that aren't more worried about their re-election chances than doing their job.
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But two things. 1) Without a filibuster, there's no ability to block the vote to try and get a sweetheart deal for your constituents (see: Nelson, Ben) even if it's your own party leadership pushing the bill. Unless you're on the committee, but that's a different ball of wax entirely. 2) Did he favor the bill that passed because that's what he thought he could get, or did he favor it because he thought that was better than, say, a pure public option? |
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I've personally been pretty critical of a lot of what Obama has done so far, but I think the strategy on the debt limit has been brilliant.
He's going to put together a package that increases the debt limit, includes a trillion dollars or so in cuts and probably a tax increase on ridiculous incomes of $1 million or more. He's going to pick up the votes he needs from Republicans in moderate districts and states. In 2012, he's going to be able to campaign that he cut the deficit and got somthing done while the The Tea Party voted against a massive cut in federal spending. It's the same strategy the Dems used on Bush in '91, forcing him to accept tax increases against his "read my lips" pledge. The risk is that the economy doesn't improve in the next 12 months and voters blame it on this deal. Last edited by kcchief19 : 07-01-2011 at 07:06 PM. |
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Heh. Good ole Ronny Paul is not running for re-election to focus on his presidential bid.
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Tornado Theology Ties Up Arkansas Disaster Relief March 22, 1997| From Associated Press Is a tornado an act of God? Gov. Mike Huckabee believes that his God would never inflict such evil. State lawmakers insist that God must be responsible. And tornado victims just want the bickering over a disaster relief bill to end so they can rebuild their lives. "I'm trying to get my residence set up. . . . The state can do more," grumbled Charles Dunn, 20, who lost his mobile home and his parents' trailer in the March 1 storms that spun off dozens of tornadoes and killed 25 people. Huckabee, a Republican and Baptist minister, told the bill's sponsors that he couldn't approve it because it referred to "acts of God." He wanted the phrase changed to "natural disasters," calling it "a matter of deep conscience to me to attribute in law a destructive and deadly force as being an 'act of God.' " "It's a matter of conscience," Huckabee said Friday. "I refuse to walk through tornado damage and to say that what destroyed it was God and what built it back was only human beings. I saw God protect a lot of people, save a lot of people. That's an act of God too." Arkansas' House, after debating God's role in the world, decided to use both phrases side by side. |
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A few interesting items over the past few days.
Herman Cain said that Southerners have a problem with Romney's religion. I think it's true, but I'm surprised he went there. Today a PPP poll showed Bachmann leading, but coming in second if Palin joins the race. That's got to hurt Romney especially after his not great fundraising numbers. But, the Politico ran a hit piece on Bachmann today from unnamed insiders. They claim she has terrible, debilitating headaches that keep her from working for days at a time. They say the worry is that Obama will use this info in the general to beat her.
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Obama wouldn't even NEED to use it if Bachmann was his opponent. It'd be a monkey stomp of epic proportions.
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I can't believe people thought Herman Cain would be the darkhorse. I know you can energize your base by saying you don't trust Muslims and will force them to take loyalty oaths on the rare chance you hire one...but that doesn't really sound like somebody people will comfortable with as president.
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And now he's gone even further by saying it should be legal to ban Mosques. He's really run the worst campaign of anyone save Gingrich so far. He started off as a reasonable true fiscal conservative and now his campaign has been defined by being the anti-muslim candidate. And he doesn't even seem to be trying to change that message.
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Why would he, it's a message that resonates quite strongly with a significant portion of primary voters (and is one of the most appealing aspects of his candidacy for me thus far). He's still a distant 2nd option at best, but at least it's keeping him in the game.
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He's running on common sense, alas, it just ain't that common any more. That'll be where the problem arises electorally.
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Just saw footage from that Rick Perry prayer rally. My initial and immediate thought was "antichrist". His PR people should fire whoever was in charge of his makeup and lighting.
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I'd been wondering where my lil' touchstone was. There's little that fills me with more confidence about the correctness of a position than your disapproval. "Warm afterglow" would be overstating it, but it's a really really watered down version of the same concept.
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Egads, that is bad. Probably not his people though, probably done by the ones running the event (I'm guessing that's from whatever conference he was a guest speaker at).
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Before his comment(s) about Muslims in the cabinet really started getting national press (early/mid June best I can tell from Googling) RCP had him at somewhere in the 7% of primary voters range. Less than a month later he peaked at just over 10%. He's settling right back just under 7% again. Even with the lag inherent to the RCP cumulative polling data method, there wasn't much indication that it hurt him with primary voters & if anything enhanced his standing. Too early for me to be comfortable making a call on how much his recent backtracking will hurt him, that timeframe hasn't even shown up in most polls yet & his decline seems to more be attributable to surges by other candidates taking support from him rather than him losing it on his own.
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And the thought that such rhetoric appeals to dumb people isn't necessarily true. Mike likely isn't considering who votes in primaries, which is the distinction Jon made there. My in-laws and their friends would be the perfect example. My father-in-law is graduate of Duke and Duke Medical, and did his residency and several years of teaching at Johns Hopkins. Most of his friends have similar credentials. And the big hot button among his buddies in the last 9 months or so? Yup, how the Muslims are trying to infiltrate and take over America. And last I checked the 60-75 age range still dominates the primaries. Yeah, this is just one guy and one group of friends, but it is indicative that the broad assumption Mike is making about the demographic that eats that sort of talk up doesn't really hold water. And really, "dumb redneck fucks" don't vote in primaries. Heck, most of them don't know when they are.
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Or haven't had their voting rights restored
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He was no guest speaker. This was an event that he himself planned and championed.
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My bad then, let the firings begin. (I had figured it for a speaking engagement, shows how closely I was following it I suppose)
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