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PoliGAF 2013 |OT3| 1,000 Years of Darkness and Nuclear Fallout

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thepotatoman

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TacticalFox88 said:
Oh, LAWD. PLEASE let this happen.

The salty tears when he loses will be delicious!
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No man. He needs to save it for the presidential race. That would be way more entertaining than a governor race.
 
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bodyofanamerican

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Weren't we talking about how if we breached the debt limit, it's already being seeded to impeach Obama if he invokes the 14th? Luckily, Sarah Palin is here to allay all those fears.

“Defaulting on our national debt is an impeachable offense, and any attempt by President Obama to unilaterally raise the debt limit without Congress is also an impeachable offense,” Palin wrote.

In her statement, Palin also accused the president of “scaremongering” on the debt ceiling. She suggested that a default could be averted by paying interest on the debt through daily revenues collected by the United States, an idea that has been recently touted by several conservative voices on the right.

“It’s also shameful to see him scaremongering the markets with his talk of default. There is no way we can default if we follow the Constitution,” she said, also adding that the president was trying to “furlough reality” when talking about the debt limit.
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Fox318

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theprodigy said:
don't worry, a Republican in a statewide election in New York?
please
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Joe Molotov

Joe Molotov

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There is no way we can default if we follow the Constitution
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I'm picturing George Washington descending Mount Vernon with the constitution carved into two stone tablets at this point, and then seeing the people worshiping a cow made of false fiat money, and then smashing the tablets on the ground.
 
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PhoenixDark

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TacticalFox88 said:
Oh, LAWD. PLEASE let this happen.

The salty tears when he loses will be delicious!
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He wouldn't do it. Like Palin, he's made a career of having people project success onto him. He'll probably wind up saying his own internal polls show he was tied with Cuomo, but isn't interested in running.
 
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Drakeon

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Diablos said:
Furlough yourself, Palin.

At this rate she has to be eyeing Begich's seat in AK.
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And do actual work? Pffft. Why would she want to do that? She already proved that she's not interested in working hard for her money after bizarrely resigning from her Governor's seat.
 
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jamesinclair

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Look at how President Romney acts during a financial crisis

Former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney once again can call this exclusive ski resort community home.

According to Summit County records, Deer Valley SR, a company that lists Romney's wife, Ann, as manager, purchased an expansive two-story, ranch-style home built in 1990 in the pricey Evergreen subdivision in early September.

The purchase price for the six-bedroom, eight-bath "Utah rustic" house featured in Architectural Digest was not disclosed, but a real estate firm listed it for $8.9 million.

Earlier this year, Romney began building a home in the upscale Walker Lane area of Holladay on a lot he shares with one of his two sons who live in Utah, Josh, while renting a home nearby.
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http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865587907/Mitt-Romney-buys-Deer-Valley-home.html


Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney cleared a final hurdle Friday in building a new house in California, a house that will include a four-car garage with an elevator for the vehicles.

Romney had already gotten zoning permission from the city of San Diego to demolish the 3,100 square foot home he owns in the La Jolla neighborhood and erect an 11,000 square foot mansion in its place. Plans for the home were put on hold until after the 2012 election.

The Romneys bought the 3,000-square-foot home in 2008 for $12 million.
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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/11/mitt-romney-gets-his-car-elevator/

Romney gonna romney.
 
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Manmademan

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Good news, gentlemen. Ignore if Old:

tea-partys-house-seats-might-not-be-all-that-safe

Conventional wisdom says that the Tea Party wing of the House can do more or less whatever it wants, because representatives are gerrymandered into safe districts. As Republican popularity has tanked in recent national polls since the shutdown started, that notion looks far less certain.

Princeton Professor Sam Wang found that gerrymandered districts may actually be less safe than those that aren’t politically altered. By analyzing data from Public Policy Polling, which provides not-quite-perfect results in 36 districts, Wang found that Republicans lost twice as much support over the shutdown in their gerrymandered districts than in red districts with boundaries that weren’t politically redrawn. “Isn’t that freaky?” Wang said when I spoke with him.

Wang hypothesizes that this is because in 2011 a dominant GOP redistricting tactic wasn’t to pack districts with as many of their own supporters as possible; instead, Republicans wanted to concentrate as many of Democrats into as few districts as feasible and then spread their own loyalists across many districts to eke out wins. He says the results of 2011 redistricting are like what happened in North Carolina in the 2012 election: Republicans won nine seats by an average of 14 percentage points; Democrats won just four seats by a wide average margin of 40 percentage points.

The rest of the GOP districts are largely filled with independents, who tend to amplify the national mood. “When they swing,” Wang says, “they swing really hard against you.” Now that the mood has turned negative on the GOP, these districts have turned down even more. Taking into account that the next House elections are more than a year away, Wang extrapolates that the disproportionate reaction to the shutdown puts “dozens more seats in play” in the 2014 election. It has, he estimates, turned the likelihood of Democrats taking over the House from 13 percent to as high as 50 percent. “If either party is paying attention to this information,” he adds, “I would presume that those gerrymandered states would be prime targets to carpet bomb with ads.”
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Interesting view. Gerrymandering may not be the bright idea republicans thought it was.
 
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KingK

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Austin Goulsbee (sp?) is absolutely destroying everyone's bullshit on crossfire right now. He sounds so fucking fed up with all of their bullshit, oh my god lol.
 
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Manmademan

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Riki said:
It was always a short term solution to a long term problem. It's one of the many things Republicans have been doing to try and hold on to any power they have left before they disappear into oblivion.
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true, but I posted that one because there's a tendency for "it doesn't matter what happens, gerrymandering means we'll never vote them out before 2016 or 2020" when that doesn't necessarily seem to be the case.

Gerrymandering has resulted in a fewer number of democratic strongholds that dems win by 40 points, and a greater number of republican districts that republicans win by more modest margins that they share with independents. Get the independents on board and those districts aren't all that safe.
 
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Riki

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Manmademan said:
true, but I posted that one because there's a tendency for "it doesn't matter what happens, gerrymandering means we'll never vote them out before 2016 or 2020" when that doesn't necessarily seem to be the case.

Gerrymandering has resulted in a fewer number of democratic strongholds that dems win by 40 points, and a greater number of republican districts that republicans win by more modest margins that they share with independents. Get the independents on board and those districts aren't all that safe.
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And this is exactly why it's amazing that Republicans continue on with these giant plans that threaten to destroy the country.
All these districts that hey barely hold on to suddenly change because of their own idiocy.
Just shows how clueless they are to reality.
 
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Riki

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Brawndo Addict said:
I'm pretty sure that's just a troll as I've always heard it as, "If fire needs oxygen to burn, then how can the sun burn in space? Checkmate atheists." Of course we all know the real reason the sun burns is because the devil lives inside.
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Doctor Who told me the devil lives in a pit orbiting a black hole!
 
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TacticalFox88

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Nope. He was dead serious. The guy wouldn't even know what trolling IS let alone he could actually do it.

....

You can go weep in the corner now.
 
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B-Dubs

No Scrubs
TacticalFox88 said:
Nope. He was dead serious. The guy wouldn't even know what trolling IS let alone he could actually do it.

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You can go weep in the corner now.
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How can anyone be that dumb? Did he never have a single science class? Does he have no intellectual curiosity?
 
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T'Zariah

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B-Dubs said:
How can anyone be that dumb? Did he never have a single science class? Does he have no intellectual curiosity?
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Are you really asking that question when you've been on Poli-GAF since Obama became President and seeing how stupid the right wing has gotten?

Come on, now.
 
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thepotatoman

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If space is a vacuum, how come all of earth's air isn't sucked out into space?

Because god wants to allow fire to breath on earth.
 
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