Aaron Strife
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They still have the supermajority don't they? It's 27-12 and there's another vacant Dem-held seat that's only 21% white.
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32% registered republicans.
mostly Latino district, a special election for remainder of the term (ends next year), for a district that is evaporating in 2014 in redistricting. Less than 20% of registered voters participated, 2010 saw more like 30%. Not seeing how this is indicative of even non presidential election years, special elections are always wild cards. Scott Brown anyone?
Edit: besides this is basically morphing into the new 14th district which is even less republican and more Latino. Nice diablosing though.
jamesinclair
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Its just an indication that democrats can go to obscene lengths to lose even the easiest races
The return of white minority rule. \o/
Aaron Strife
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Or maybe they just didn't think it was worth the fight. They'd still have to lose two more seats to lose the 2/3rds supemajority. The GOP can rent a seat for a year without much negative effect.
empty vessel
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zero shift
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Do you guys believe that in 100 years the West will no longer be part of the leaders of the world? In other words do you feel that India, China, and Brazil will take our positions while we will fall into second tier nations?
Jack Remington
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Not a chance in hell.
Unless you've been to these countries, you have no idea of how enormous the gap actually is.
Black Mamba
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Ecuador will rule us all.
zero shift
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I guess what I'm asking is that is there room for two spheres of immense economic power, or do most people subscribe to World Systems Theory here?
Rhomega Beta
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He also moved to Texas and saved a ton of money on taxes. He does have a TV channel, but it's satellite-only.
No greater den of scum and villainy out there.
Well, I didn't expect to see this. Don Lemon agrees with Bill O'Reilly's remarks on the black community:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnn-gues...ervative-preacher-oreilly-should-welcome-you/
Though my favorite part has to be when Larry Elder said that Ronald Reagan helped black people more than any president.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnn-gues...ervative-preacher-oreilly-should-welcome-you/
Though my favorite part has to be when Larry Elder said that Ronald Reagan helped black people more than any president.
Avon Barksdale
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Reagan wasn't too liked by the Black community. He did worse with Black voters in 1984 than in 1980.
Never thought I'd see that.
That's gratitude for ya.
PhoenixDark
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True but Elder's point is that black people did "better" under Reagan. Black unemployment was certainly lower under Reagan than Obama, but I'd imagine it was also lower under JFK and Eisenhower, and would anyone say black people were "better off" then, overall?* It strikes me as a disingenuous argument from republicans even if it's true to varying degrees. Black people were also better off when Clinton was president but I'd bet that Elder would try to argue they were somehow worse off.
*I suppose you could argue black families were better off under Eisenhower and JFK than today, but Jim Crow was still in effect so...
rocketknight
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Can I get some opinions here? Does this count as a "destruction"?
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/wallace-...nvestigation-the-questions-havent-been-asked/
Probably helps that Reagan didn't have the worst recession since the Great Depression to deal with.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/wallace-...nvestigation-the-questions-havent-been-asked/
Probably helps that Reagan didn't have the worst recession since the Great Depression to deal with.
Only if you believe in fake scandals. I'm a little embarrassed for that site, they usually do a better job at this stuff.
PoliGAF (and OT in general) is a modernization theory zone.
To answer your other question, looking at history, it's certainly possible, however the major (and well only) competitor to Western liberal capitalism is (for lack of a better term, and to disregard the differences between swathes of the planet) state capitalism, which like Marxism-Leninism in the 20th century I think there is a gravitation towards because it provides a more controlled path through primitive accumulation than liberal capitalism, not because it's a robust alternative through all stages of economic development.
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Ignoring the fact that being gay isn't against the law, this is the very definition of entrapment.
empty vessel
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It counts as lunacy that the Administration would continue to lend credence to right-wing conspiracies by acknowledging them, let alone send somebody on Fox News to talk about it.
That can't be real. I refuse to believe it's real. Please...it can't...
rocketknight
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Time-to-LGBT-slurs in the OT thread someone made was less than ten seconds, impressive even for GAF.
Ugh all around to everything.
Ugh all around to everything.
The Librarian
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What thread?
smokeandmirrors
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The "lol day 1!!!1" and other gaming related bullshit when a thread is posted to the wrong section is the most annoying thing.
And yeah the "Can't wait for the tranny[sic] dlc" was absolutely abhorrent.
The mods got rid of those posts pretty quick though
Yeah, that writer in particular is usually better about this sort of thing.
This is the great irony of Obama actually going along with these stupid investigations.
AstroNut325
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Perfect summary. Larry Summers should be in Guantanamo for all the screw ups he's responsible for. And Obama is backing this loser/idiot/asshole/scumbag????
PhoenixDark
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Perhaps the one thing Summers has done "right" on the first try is advocating for the banks to be taken to the woodshed after that first set of executive bonuses in 2009. Of course he was shot down by the boy wonder himself, Timothy Geithner, and Obama unfortunately took that position.
Black unemployment was virtually zero under the first fifteen administrations, and the GOP are trying their best to reinstitute those policies.
too soon?
Jack Remington
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Since the debt ceiling is probably going to be an issue for the third (or is it the fourth?) time this fall, it's worth reading this piece from the January negotiations about how the debate should be framed.
Short version: this isn't a "negotiation" and shouldn't be described as such.
Short version: this isn't a "negotiation" and shouldn't be described as such.
adamsappel
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Back at the height of Beck-mania, I tried to work on a book proposal to cash in (I have no shame). I was going to call it, "The 50 Most Outrageous Things Glenn Beck Has Said (and why he's perfectly right)." I spent a good bit of time reading and listening to him. In the end, I just couldn't go on, let alone figure out a way to argue that he was correct about any of it.
Obama agreeing to negotiate on the debt ceiling is one of the worst mistakes he's made throughout his administration. By doing so, it now allows the beltway to frame the issue as a case where both Dems and Reps are supposed to be geting concessions, instead of it being a goddamned mandatory thing that no one should be fucking with.
Jack Remington
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Yes, but it does seem like he's learned his lesson this time. I'd advise everyone to bookmark that article and be ready to email it out to people who are still confused about the issue if it does come up again in the fall.
Hopefully.
Btw, have any of you seen the documentary, Park Avenue? If so, worth checking out?
platypotamus
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I was joking, but had this in mind as well. I'm sure they get much higher ratings with a democrat in power than a republican.
PhoenixDark
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I can see Obama negotiating to get rid of the sequestration cuts in this CR, but I don't think he'll negotiate over raising the debt ceiling. More and more republicans are coming out against Cruz and Lee's insanity, which should give Boehner the leeway to just bring it to the floor for a vote; democrats will ensure it passes.
Lee seems to think the CR can simply be split, so everything is paid for except Obamacare. That's not how it works.
Lee seems to think the CR can simply be split, so everything is paid for except Obamacare. That's not how it works.
Aaron Strife
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Well it's been a while since a Democrat's been in power
mirite
am i cool now poligaf?
I hope Obama calls the House GOP bluff on a government shutdown over the debt ceiling / defunding ObamaCare. Let them shut it down and take the blame. It can only help the Dems in 2014.
Aaron Strife
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The debt ceiling ain't nothing to fuck with. Fortunately I think Cantor and Boehner ceded that when they passed a temporary extension without any strings attached.
I get that, but I want Obama to not cede anything upfront and hammer the message early and often about the GOPs reckless position on the debt ceiling. Ditto for defunding ObamaCare. Paint them as the unreasonable sulks as they are. Basically a continuation of the message delivered at Knox last week.
jamesinclair
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How is it not fair to say that the current state of both parties is terrible?
I would also say that both Fox news and MSNBC are terrible. Fuck talking heads. Who likes that shit?
That's true for a chunk of that group, but in my experiences I usually see that coming mostly from the libertarian set.
Black Mamba
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World of difference between "both parties are terrible" and "both parties are the same."
they can both be terrible but for different reasons.
jamesinclair
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PhoenixDark
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I don't think Fox and MSNBC are "the same" but it's pretty obvious that MSNBC is a liberal network from about 5PM to midnight. From what I understand MSNBC is just a normal news network from mornings to early afternoon, then the talking heads show up in the evening. Whereas there's a pretty blatant rightward slant on Fox all day.
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