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PoliGAF 2016 |OT16| Unpresidented
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BreezyLimbo
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People cheering Romney in 2016
What a year
What a year
I've kinda always liked Mitt. Disagree with him on alot. But I don't think he's a bad person, and he was pretty courageous this year.
Dominican Power
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Romney is a spineless hack. Republicans don't have a leg to stand on as far as principle and morality goes.
I'll take what I can. I haven't gotten a good night's sleep in months, and barely any in the last week.
Everything is still horrible. Trump as President and Romney as Sec. of State.
Obama isn't dead and yet, he's still rolling in his future grave.
RastaMentality
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Trump's probably inviting all of these people in just so he can get his ego stroked. it's so transparent.
I would push back on calling him spineless.
Bonen no Max'd
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Isn't Romney's main international experience when he went to London and said they sucked at hosting the Olympics?
Dominican Power
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I forget about all of that.
The Mormon bloc of the GOP was pretty much the sole bright spot this year in the party.
In a lot of ways, yes.
Also, generally, I think we need to be careful about using hyperbole. Romney is a lot of things, but calling him a spineless coward isn't useful. Rational Rs, however they may have failed in the past, are really the only hope we have in the next 4 years. Maybe lets be realistic about their failures but also their successes.
I don't think so.
When it comes to Sanders, WHITE working class comes first. It's why he was in Vermont and not New York. It's why he abandoned campaigning in the south during the primaries.
You guys like to say he'd be against it and all, but the past incarnations of 'democratic socialism' in the US were discriminatory, and these well-meaning men passed them all the same to alleviate the troubles of white people, with women and minorities explicitly excluded.
Sanders is of the same ilk.
Abinash117
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Stupid question:
GOP are planing to drop taxes from 35% to something less than that. Would that help make corporations possibly be able to invest in jobs here? Like since manufacturing would be expensive here they either do automation or outsource it.
GOP are planing to drop taxes from 35% to something less than that. Would that help make corporations possibly be able to invest in jobs here? Like since manufacturing would be expensive here they either do automation or outsource it.
The Lamonster
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We shouldn't fold on our beliefs just because of "image."
I disagree with Romney on very many things and did not want him to become president, but I would definitely not call him spineless. He criticized Trump in the most searing, public way, took a lot of heat for that and never backed off those remarks to bend a knee, like Cruz, Rubio, et al.
We've seen all year plenty of actually spineless Republicans who expressed not an ounce of moral courage in taking on Trump. Romney definitely wasn't one.
I think Pope Francis came up with the best analogy for explaining why this philosophy doesn't work:
We've seen all year plenty of actually spineless Republicans who expressed not an ounce of moral courage in taking on Trump. Romney definitely wasn't one.
I think Pope Francis came up with the best analogy for explaining why this philosophy doesn't work:
This one isn't really about beliefs.
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dramatis, I don't really know how to respond to that other than to say I don't think you could possibly be more wrong. Even I'm not so uncharitable as to suggest Clinton did not care about the plight of the working class.
RastaMentality
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But are there going to be any non-older white men challenging Pelosi? Because the current options don't seem that great.
I mean, if he really wanted to challenge her he could have turned down the DNC chair and done it anyway. So I'm not entirely sure the idea he wanted her job passes the smell test.
No one talks about the non-white Working Class (in politics.) There's a reason for that.
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Tim Ryan is pretty young by political standards - iirc, he was the youngest member of the House upon his election.
I also agree with B-Dubs. If Ellison had challenged Pelosi I think he'd have won, or at least, I think he'd have thought he was competitive enough to have gone for it. I don't buy that the DNC chair was to lure him away.
whyamihere
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Tim Ryan was pro-life until last year. Maybe he's not the best person for the job.
RastaMentality
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yeah the current contenders aren't that great. Maybe i'll support Pelosi being replaced when someone appealing comes.
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Yeah, and the reason is that it's significantly easier for most Democratic politicians to lump all black voters into the same box rather than recognise that the black working class wants economic address just as much as they want justice address, because it allows the Democrats to at least tacitly keep the support of big business. soul over in OT did a great post addressing this; I'll have to PM to see if I can lure him PoliGAF's way.
Or because they have no other options because the GOP and WWC are both racist and don't want a thing to do with them because they're incapable of seeing past skin color for any sort of solidarity?
The success of strong welfare states only in homogenous societies sure points to this being a huge dealbreaker for people.
No puppet! No puppet!
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Not last year. Last year was when he gave the speech explaining why his convictions changed. He changed his position in 2013, when he got his first 90%+ rating from planned parenthood. Last year he was 100%.
Nazgul_Hunter
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I honestly don't like this attitude. It was the same with Hillary's "but she didn't support gay marriage in the 70s, so she hates LGBT people."
Who cares what people thought as long as they're supportive now and they truly changed their hearts on the issues you care about?
I don't know how many times we'll need to get burned on this until people stop trying trickle down. So annoying.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Supply-side ("trickle down") economics doesn't work. Period.
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thepotatoman
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If you want a symbolistic sacrificial lamb, it has to be Chuck Schumer, since he hasn't even taken the job yet, and who gets to be the brand new senate democrat leader sends a lot bigger message than the continuation of an old one.
It's been apparent for years that Chuck Schumer is the absolute worst person for that job in the modern political climate, and the election results prove it.
I don't know if they should go for a more boring pick like Durbin or to find someone more progressive to fire the base up, but just not the guy that is the definition of wall street establishment.
You'd have to actually provide an incentive to do any of that.
There's no reason to assume that a lower tax burden would, in of itself, cause companies to redirect gains into building a US manufacturing base any more than they are today.
IggyChooChoo
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Tim Ryan reminds me that James Trafficant used to be a thing. If he were still alive today Trump would probably be considering appointing him to head NASA.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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Dropping Schumer right after the most anti-Semitic campaign in recent American political history would, uhh, not look good.
I don't like him, but we can wait a bit.
I don't like him, but we can wait a bit.
Yup. It's horrifying.
Yeah he's respectable, just a businessman who's woefully out of touch with middle America. Put perfect for SoS and would actually have the gravitas required for the position
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I'm not rushing to replace Pelosi. I thought she did a good job under difficult circumstances. I wasn't happy with her criticisms of Warren, but it's not enough for me to be keen to see her go.
EDIT: In fact, I'm not sure who does want to see Pelosi go? To the best of my knowledge, she's viewed reasonably well by most of the Sanders wing of the party, and nobody seems to really know about Tim Ryan.
EDIT: In fact, I'm not sure who does want to see Pelosi go? To the best of my knowledge, she's viewed reasonably well by most of the Sanders wing of the party, and nobody seems to really know about Tim Ryan.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
as far as Pelosi goes, it doesn't seem like there's anyone else worthy of the role anyway
maybe Ellison should have tried to become minority leader instead of part time DNC chair.
maybe Ellison should have tried to become minority leader instead of part time DNC chair.
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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A big reason why the GOP was able to get away with stonewalling the shit out of Obama was because they knew that Democrats wouldn't stroll out to the polls in midterms to vote them out anyways. This is a really shitty situation, but I just don't see how we have the leverage not to focus our energies on the heinous shit. This is going to be an extremely delicate two years no matter how you look at it.
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