CharlieDigital
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Honestly speaking, Cantor winning may have helped to speed up the fracturing of the Republican party.
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PoliGAF 2013 |OT1| Never mind, Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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The Librarian
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Oh. I had assumed you made a prediction about the results somewhere. Then I had assumed you made the wrong prediction.
My bad.
TacticalFox88
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I wonder if History will give Obama credit for the destruction of the current Republican party. It's obvious that they can't survive another ten years at this rate.
PhoenixDark
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Anyone watching the senate being sworn in? Biden is macking on every senator's wife lmao
Officerrob
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Biden is hilarious
The Librarian
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"Guys, other than my mom, this is the finest lady I've ever known."
That just means Tea Party supporters won't have to work as hard. Trying to convince people why they wouldn't want healthcare is one thing, reminding people why they'd like to keep their guns and why they don't like immigrants is a separate and probably easier task.
Officerrob
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Will Boehner cry?
DragonSworne
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How and why is Boehner pronounced "Bain"-er and not Boner?
The Librarian
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He's not a man like Wiener.
Aaron Strife
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When did you say he would win?
Pai Pai Master
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Biden is seriously the best. What an awesome guy.
TacticalFox88
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Assuming you're serious, his last name is Germanic, specifically North German meaning "to board".
German pronunciations are all kinds of fucked up.
Böhner looks much better. Also I'm now wishing his name was Philotheus Boehner since it's a redirect at the top of his wiki page.
Black Republican
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i miss steele as gop chair
TacticalFox88
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Were it not for his appearances on Cable News, I would've honestly forgotten he had existed. He was that irrelevant.
Officerrob
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This speech and his delivery are awful
He did have some hilariously awkward attempts to appeal to urban youths.
What was he saying when he cried?
My last name has an oe in it too, and we pronounce it as -ay. I never really understood why. My name's German, so that's definitely not the original pronunciation either.
So I just never get bothered when people mispronounce it.
That wouldn't be the authentic German pronunciation though would it? With my last name the real german pronunciation is closer to an -er or - ur sort of sound (but we don't really have an equivalent here). I'd assume his is the same.
Unless there's a different dialect that does indeed pronounce it with an -ay sound.
The Librarian
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He was talking about your negativity. Says it gets him too emotional to read the thread.
smth smth, bible passage...
Great Poster
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Go Fuck yourself!
Dear god, can we at least try and get something done before everything devolves into partisan bullshit?
Agent Icebeezy
Welcome beautful toddler, Madison Elizabeth, to the horde!
What the fudge?!?!?!
Bam Bam Baklava
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Same shit, different year.
worldrunover
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Hey guys, maybe it'll work this time!
second bill: revoking roberts's justice status
doesn't he have until the end of the month to do it?
Oh they do? Well that's nice.
lol, what a productive use of a public servant's time.
No. That's if he can get McConnell to agree to pass any bipartisan filibuster reform (lol). He has today and only today where he can make the major, needed changes with just a majority vote.
His plan now is to try to bargain a deal with McConnell, in one of the dumbest and cowardly political moves I've seen in a long time. If there's any reform, it'll be small and toothless.
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Transocean to pay $1.4B fine for Gulf oil spillDonna Leinwand Leger, USA TODAY1:11p.m. EST January 3, 2013
Transocean , the drilling company implicated in the three-month Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, will plead guilty to violating the Clean Water Act and pay a $1.4 billion fine, the Justice Department said Thursday.
Justice filed the agreement in a Louisiana court Thursday. A judge must approve the settlement.
In the agreement, Transocean admits criminal conduct and agrees to improve its safety procedures and emergency response at all its drilling rigs operating in U.S. waters, the Justice Department said.
Transocean's crew continued operating even after they saw signs of problems that resulted in the April 20, 2010 explosion that killed 11 rig workers and led to the largested oil spill in U.S. history, assistant attorney general Lanny Breuer said.
The guilty plea acknowledges that the Transocean crew, under direction of BP's well-site company men, failed to investigate "clear indications" that the Macondo well was not secure and that oil and gas were flowing into the well, the Justice Department said.
The settlement "brings us one significant step closer to justice for the human, environmental and economic devastation wrought by the Deepwater Horizon disaster," Attorney General Eric Holder said. "This agreement holds Transocean criminally accountable for its conduct."
The order filed in court Thursday dedicates $150 million of a $400 million criminal fine to restoring coastal areas and barrier islands damaged by the spill.
Another $150 million will pay for improved oil spill prevention and response development and training. At least 80% of the $1 billion civil fine will fund environmental and economic projects in the five Gulf states affected by the spill.
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Finally they are forced to pay up.
Transocean , the drilling company implicated in the three-month Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, will plead guilty to violating the Clean Water Act and pay a $1.4 billion fine, the Justice Department said Thursday.
Justice filed the agreement in a Louisiana court Thursday. A judge must approve the settlement.
In the agreement, Transocean admits criminal conduct and agrees to improve its safety procedures and emergency response at all its drilling rigs operating in U.S. waters, the Justice Department said.
Transocean's crew continued operating even after they saw signs of problems that resulted in the April 20, 2010 explosion that killed 11 rig workers and led to the largested oil spill in U.S. history, assistant attorney general Lanny Breuer said.
The guilty plea acknowledges that the Transocean crew, under direction of BP's well-site company men, failed to investigate "clear indications" that the Macondo well was not secure and that oil and gas were flowing into the well, the Justice Department said.
The settlement "brings us one significant step closer to justice for the human, environmental and economic devastation wrought by the Deepwater Horizon disaster," Attorney General Eric Holder said. "This agreement holds Transocean criminally accountable for its conduct."
The order filed in court Thursday dedicates $150 million of a $400 million criminal fine to restoring coastal areas and barrier islands damaged by the spill.
Another $150 million will pay for improved oil spill prevention and response development and training. At least 80% of the $1 billion civil fine will fund environmental and economic projects in the five Gulf states affected by the spill.
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Finally they are forced to pay up.
The Librarian
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He has the whole month.
TacticalFox88
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I guess the first 30 times it didn't pass didn't clue her in.
Seeing as how Republicans have more interest in not seeing the sequestration cuts go into effect, if Obama did decide to negotiate on the debt ceiling, couldn't he just end the sequestration cuts in exchange for a raise of the ceiling? And after everything, EV gets his wish: no deficit reduction at all.
He has the month because he's using a loophole where he puts them into recess instead of ending the day/session/whatever they call it
You know what they say about doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result...
Ah. I thought it was just an option he could do. I didn't know he's doing it.
I'll reserve my harsh judgment on him for a month then, but I'm not optimistic about it.
The Librarian
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That's how you are for everything!
Why isn't it the Sandy Relief Bill? For real, wouldn't the Republicans want some good press regarding that after the fiasco? When *are* they going to vote on that, anyway?
tomorrow i believe
Hah. I knew you'd say that as I was typing it out.
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