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PoliGAF 2013 |OT1| Never mind, Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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He gave that away a while ago.
Franken would like make her melt into a puddle in any debate
B-Dubs said:
It says right there in the article he's contemplating it...
Politico said:
Is there even newer news than this that now once again says he's through with it?
Edit: Nevermind, I read this wrong. Something different. BAH
ClovingWestbrook
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Thats how we feel every time you post about Obama.
I should have a new post on dHP in the morning. Since the inauguration is fresh in everyone's mind, it's going to focus on how Obama's speech was the strongest defense of liberalism from an acting President since Johnson, how his speech channeled Lincoln, and his desire for a strong legacy.
Black Mamba
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looking forward to it.
haha, Boehner knows about the eyeroll.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/...aid-set-off-michelle-001611808--election.html Them yahoo comments.
PhoenixDark
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Reid's threats tend to be teethless, I doubt McConnell cares. Too bad Merkley couldn't hold together at least enough senators to kill any compromise bill, and demand a vote on his talking filibuster.
talisayNon
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I work for a free tax preparation program. This is not even the worst effect that their worst dragging their feet had on us. The whole fiscal cliff stupidity really messed our operations up.
andthebeatgoeson
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Definitely not voting for another president unless there's a black person on the ticket.
She is the daughter of the president of the united states yet she still has to use a iPhone 4/4S not a 5. lol
jamesinclair
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Fresno has a 15% unemployment rate.
You read that number right.
Fresno processes paper irs forms for the western half of the country.
Sounds like stealth stimulus to me.
Jeeeeeeeeerbs
Giant Panda
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Check-mate libruls. (FB)
In a sane world, he would do this the moment he saw McConnell's "Dear Patriot, we're literally surrounded" email.
RustyNails
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They're using this opportunity to recast Michelle Obama as angry black woman. I'm sure Boehner cracked a partisan joke.
NullPointer
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If only Rosa Parks had a gun.
She'd have been shot.
Wasn't Reid meant to reach a decision on filibuster reform today?
The current situation should be replaced by at least the talking filibuster. No more 60 votes just to begin debate, no more silent holds on nominations. If you want to stall the legislative process, then you have to stand up in the Senate and explain yourself to the American people on why you think a bill is a bad idea.
The idea that one anonymous person can hold up the will of the people is completely undemocratic.
The current situation should be replaced by at least the talking filibuster. No more 60 votes just to begin debate, no more silent holds on nominations. If you want to stall the legislative process, then you have to stand up in the Senate and explain yourself to the American people on why you think a bill is a bad idea.
The idea that one anonymous person can hold up the will of the people is completely undemocratic.
RustyNails
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Conservative logic makes your brain sad.
ClovingWestbrook
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Yup. Making the filibustering party get 41 votes together is just a consolation prize, Reid should know the turtle-man will never let him reform the filibuster in a meaningful way. Talking filibuster or bust.
PhoenixDark
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I wonder what conservatives would have done if MLK and Rosa Parks had guns. Oh wait I already know based on what they did to the Black Panther Party
Fenderputty
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I'm not sure how accurate this is, but I remember Michelle talking about her rules their daughters have to follow.
1. No electrical devices for entertainment during the week.
2. No computer during week unless for school as a result of rule #1.
3. Must be involved in two sports. One they like the other they don't. Supposedly to teach them to get good at something they don't like.
4. When they go on a trip, a report is mandatory regardless of whether their school requires it or not.
If this is at all accurate, they may end up as normal kids. Sounds more strict than when I grew up.
Giant Panda
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These types are always the ones that say liberals have no logic, are racist, etc as well. Just like Romney with Medicare, they try to claim their faults actually belong to their opponents.
That's WAAAAAAY stricter than anyone I've ever known.
Check-mate libruls. (FB)
I'm not very familiar with the civil rights movement and the Rosa Parks incident, but wasn't it the case that she didn't have the right to sit at the front of the bus, and she was protesting it was a right she should have?
Not really sure of the actual legality of "whites only" water fountains, restaurants, transport etc, or whether it was just a social thing.
Yea, but think about the environment they're growing up in. Right now they're pretty much living like super-rich girls, you have to counter that somehow otherwise the results won't be so good.
Your first mistake is trying to reason that thought process
Black Mamba
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It is as if the non-violence aspect is right over their heads.
Oh right, it is.
Maddow bringing up what the va senate did to open. Nice
Oh right, it is.
Maddow bringing up what the va senate did to open. Nice
If anything else it will be good for exposure.
electricpirate
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It looked to me like the eye roll my wife gives when I tell a bad joke.
Well then, I guess I can only respond by saying it is disappointing that Obama didn't list improving education as a priority in his speech.
true, but when you let states decide your curriculum its just more money in a pit
It's the ballsiest thing I've seen in a while.
Vicetrailia
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I personally was totally free growing up, in the streets and everything. I wonder what it's like to have such a strict parent figure.
Criticize caucuses and people for voting along party lines then. Just because there are 51 or 52 democrats should not mean that everything democrats want get passed. All democrats should not have the same views on everything, and vice versa for republicans. Your party label should be a general label that gives an abstract idea of your overall philosophy, not define your views on an individual policy basis. Especially when you have system like the US where there are only 2 major parties.
That's why it's disgusting that the GOP blocked so many bills and appointments even when the democrats had 58, 59, or 60 senators. You should not reasonably expect a group of 40-60 people to agree on every god damn thing imaginable, from what their favorite color is to the intricacies of tax policy to education, regulation, commerce, civil liberties, etc. You get the picture. And even if they doo, this is a democracy. If the majority of representatives approve of legislation, then it should be fucking approved. Any legal/constitutional issues or enforcement problems get resolved by the courts and executive branches, and modifications to the legislative policy can be made by new legsilation, achieved through civil protest, political activism, and electing different officials.
Also, going back to the whole rammed through thing: Again, bills are not drafted on the senate floor. They get drafted in committees, subsets of the senate consisting of usually 10-20 members. Each committee pertinent to the topic at hand drafts its own version of legislation. The committees then consolidate their proposals into a legislative draft for the senate. The entire senate debates and amends this proposal and votes on it.
The same process occurs in the House of Representatives.
The bills from the House and Senate are then consolidated into a single common piece of legislation which each chamber votes on independently.
There are plenty of safeguards in plcae to prevent people form just ramming things through. You need a conspiracy/group negligence to deliberately sabotage legislation or to ram legislation through, but the former merely requires you to assemble a minority of members of 1 chamber to exploit a procedural loophole (or even a single individual in the case of secret holds on appointments), whereas the latter requires coordinated efforts across independent chambers of congress, across individuals, across committees, and the committees to be organized in such a way that you can pull this off.
empty vessel
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The 2nd Amendment is just for whites. And not to stop government oppression but just to kill
cooljeanius
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In conservative eyes those are all the same things
Check-mate libruls. (FB)
An FB friend of mine shared this. He also posted this story yesterday:
I'm not a big enough dick to tell him that it's pretty funny that he was denied entry.
Hobbestetrician
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We don't want anyone like him up here.
Was also denied entry into Canada before but for very different reasons. Live there now, suckers!
I said it before and I will say it again, the best way to get public support for gun control is for black people to exercise their 2nd amendment rights.
Send a couple of brothers to a mall with uzis and black panthers "uniforms" and all of a sudden people will remember that guns don't necessarily make them feel safe.
NullPointer
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I applaud this tactic.
Edit: On second thought, no. Race warriors probably masturbate at the very idea.
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