WayneMorse
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This time with Joni Ernst.
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PoliGAF 2014 |OT2| We need to be more like Disney World
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This time with Joni Ernst.
And Tom tillis, and a climate change denier on a committee for climate change.
The Christmas gift that keeps on giving.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/...lise_n_6406844.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/...lise_n_6406844.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592
He won't do it. What would he have to gain by doing that?
Aaron Strife
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Guess not.
Lulz. Many lulz.
I hope he does so that Louisiana voters can flush out the closeted KKK members from the legislature. Of course, given the state it's more likely that being affiliated with David Duke will be seen as a net positive.
Yeah. And not just the state. John Boehner seems to be doing alright after coming out in support of Scalise. It's like no one really cares. It's very odd to me.
Coriolanus
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These new NK sanctions are even more fuckstupid than when NK got some flak for using disney characters. smh
"haaay guyz lookit uz! we r doing sumthink!"
"haaay guyz lookit uz! we r doing sumthink!"
Aaron Strife
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Boehner's in an insulated district IIRC it's 2-to-1 Romney/Obama.
Which is funny because his Democratic counterpart, Pelosi is in a 90% Obama district. Voters gerrymandering themselves ftl
(my point being that "safe" Republican districts/states are still pretty safe, but nowhere near as much so as "safe" Democratic districts/states and you see this all the time in race ratings where Hawaii is Lean D or something because it only gave Obama 70% of the vote or whatever)
To be fair, it's be pretty impossible to draw her district in a way that didn't give Obama 90% of the vote.
Aaron Strife
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Paul would have to retire to run for president, even if he wasn't nominated. In fact he's throwing an epic hissy fit about it because the KY Dems (who hold a majority in the State House and the governorship) are refusing to change the law to allow him to file as a candidate for both his Senate seat and the presidency. If he still ran for Senate and ended up on the GOP ticket anyway he'd automatically forfeit the seat to the Democrat, as there would be no GOPer.
HA! I seriously doubt he's gonna give up his cushy Senator gig.
Heh, I was wondering what took the righties to eventually take credit for the improving economy by pointing to policies they credit to Reagan*:
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/austeritys-end-strengthens-us-recovery
*Policies that were never actually enacted by the Gipper.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/austeritys-end-strengthens-us-recovery
*Policies that were never actually enacted by the Gipper.
smokeandmirrors
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I was gonna say i'm not looking forward to having a lame duck governor who is only out campaigning and not helping the state in anyway whatsoever but we've been at that point ever since people in this fucking state decided to vote Christie in.
*sigh*
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thepotatoman
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For what it's worth, he's already announced himself as running for senate in 2016.
I am a bit confused about how that all works though. If it simply left the republicans off the senate ballot, I'm sure the republicans can just get behind an already lined up good independent candidate instead, who would probably win just from people being upset at the petty politics the democrats were playing.
Yea, but hey, good news is he won't last long. He's rapidly losing the only thing that made him even remotely viable... Northeast support.
jamesinclair
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What ever happened to the experts who said the euro would end in 2014?
NYCmetsfan
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When is Kentucky's primary?
He can just run for president in every state minus Kentucky where he runs for senate. If he doesn't win the primary that's his fall back. The problem is the primary. Not the general.
Aaron Strife
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I suppose, but it might not look good for his optics. Not that Rand Paul would have a chance in hell anyway.
Cool. I think McConnell is savvy enough to know not to do anything crazy with the majority. Part of Clinton's ridiculous popularity came from having a Republican-dominated Congress to contend with and calling them out for their craziness by vetoing it.
I am surprised also! My best guess: with House and Senate control comes the responsibility of passing budget bills. That means the GOP gets to raise the debt ceiling and pass continuing resolutions for the next two years. Maybe this would be easier without a political budget office?
I wouldn't be surprised if this were the case. They'll actually need to do some legislating now, they can't afford to politicize everything. If they do they risk literally everything, the dems can't swoop in and save them from themselves anymore.
Just googled this and I couldn't find anything -- link?
Ack, sorry guys, false alarm. I read the report incorrectly:
It was a letter addressed to Boehner and McConnell. I accidently read it as Democrats and McConnell sent it to Boehner. My bad.
well he actually has fucked quite a bit up by canceling large infrastructure projects so this will be an improvement!
Frank the Great
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Well, I find it hard to blame the voters for that one. The Democrats abandoned the race and sent Buono out to die. Voters didn't really know anything about her. Cowards.
She also ran on one issue and didn't really separate herself from Christie at all. It was a very bungled campaign.
Aaron Strife
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The streams have crossed
Wow, it was even on both trackers.
48/47 on Gallup, 50/48 on Rasmussen.
The power of gas prices falling and the goldfish-like memory of independents (who probably forget why they were supposed to dislike Obama).
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thepotatoman
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It still seems like literally the day after the elections is the day the news stopped acting like ISIS and Ebola was going to make the world end. I don't think that's a coincidence.
Aaron Strife
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Well really this was the last election where peoples' feelings about Obama would play a huge role. He's got two years left and unless shit gets really fucked like it did under Bush we'll see opposition soften because who cares, we'll have a new president soon anyway.
It would be nice to see his approval ratings get back into the 60s like when he started. His administration has had its stumbles but on the whole I think he's delivered on his initial campaign promises, excluding the vague premise that he was supposed to usher in some sort of post-partisan America that clearly will not happen.
It would be nice to see his approval ratings get back into the 60s like when he started. His administration has had its stumbles but on the whole I think he's delivered on his initial campaign promises, excluding the vague premise that he was supposed to usher in some sort of post-partisan America that clearly will not happen.
smokeandmirrors
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ugh. dude was so clueless with the nyc tunnel stuff. nyc dont give a shit. we need that tunnel more than they do if we want people to live in new jersey and pay taxes in nj.
even in 2009 the voters were all like "well Corzine sucked so let's elect this asshole and watch him destroy the state. at least it's not a democrat!". We got duped like Michigan did.
it's so confusing cause Hillary is going to see similar numbers to Obama come 2016. this state is deeply blue with pockets of mississppi, and yet the state thinks Christie was a good choice.
Sirpopopop
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The Southern Democrats also hitched themselves to the Christie bandwagon. It worked out fairly well for them.
RustyNails
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I think electing Hillary would have been better. Hillary gets us out of the quagmire, and Obama builds on the progressive agenda. Imagine Obama being hailed as 2016 democratic nominee instead of Hillary.
Instead I think we're gonna see some really bad policy (democratic party-wise) coming out of Clinton administration.
Bam Bam Baklava
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Nice.
Unsurprising given the political make up of the military.
This is also being spammed in response to tweets about Obama's approval rating.
Real Americans still hate him.
That's always a fun fake statistic.
Seems to be real.
I wish. It seems to be a legit poll from the Military Times.
The number is amazingly low though, even accounting for the make up of the military (which is like 65 -35, Republican - Democrat last I saw).
2/3rds of the military also miss Bush. Ugh.
Aaron Strife
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Did they all just join to go and kill Afghan kids or something?
American pride, continued Crusade, poor,
low education individuals with no real career prospects. All of the above?
smokeandmirrors
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maybe it's just me but i couldn't give two shits what the military thinks to be honest. What is good for them isn't necessarily good for the country on a whole. We don't pay them for opinions.
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