Autodidact
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Yet when the shit clears, she only has to play the poor beleaguered wife card and the Compassionate Moderates on this forum will rush to defend her and Beautiful White Moderating Influence Ivanka.
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PoliGAF 2017 |OT5| The Man In the High Chair
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Yet when the shit clears, she only has to play the poor beleaguered wife card and the Compassionate Moderates on this forum will rush to defend her and Beautiful White Moderating Influence Ivanka.
UberTag
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She's against ANYONE ELSE cyber bullying. She has no problem with her husband doing it.
Not doing anything makes it easy to like (or not care about) her but it also makes her a pretty shitty modern first lady
Eh. It's not like she should be forced to take the job in the first place just because her husband's president.
Autodidact
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Let's not forget that she also defended the birther nonsense. Like the rest of them, she always has been and always will be trash.
Absolutely not.
That's fair enough, but then don't take the job, office, staff etc
Do we have a choice?
If she didn't take it, it looks bad on Trump, so it's essentially a pushed position even if one may not want it.
Aaron Strife
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Sabato made some ratings changes. All of them but one favor the Democrats:
The exception is Rosen's now-open seat, which goes from Lean D to Tossup.
http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/house-2018-how-big-is-the-playing-field/
The article to go along with it lays out the Democrats' path to the majority best, which is to say there really isn't one. There are now 26 GOP-held seats ranked as Tossups or Lean R (and one Lean D) according to Sabato, which means if Democrats picked them all up they'd win the House. But even in 2006 and 2010, the winning party didn't pick off every target, and in the case of 06 the Democrats' margin was provided by seats like IA-2 and NH-1 that weren't considered terribly competitive early on.
Point being if there really is a Dem wave you can expect us to pick off some of the seats ranked as Likely R or even Safe R. It's way too early to determine and in a wave election there can even be surprises going into election night.
The exception is Rosen's now-open seat, which goes from Lean D to Tossup.
http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/house-2018-how-big-is-the-playing-field/
The article to go along with it lays out the Democrats' path to the majority best, which is to say there really isn't one. There are now 26 GOP-held seats ranked as Tossups or Lean R (and one Lean D) according to Sabato, which means if Democrats picked them all up they'd win the House. But even in 2006 and 2010, the winning party didn't pick off every target, and in the case of 06 the Democrats' margin was provided by seats like IA-2 and NH-1 that weren't considered terribly competitive early on.
Point being if there really is a Dem wave you can expect us to pick off some of the seats ranked as Likely R or even Safe R. It's way too early to determine and in a wave election there can even be surprises going into election night.
Autodidact
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Awkward Ann ha power.
Already making McSally's seat a tossup only a week after announcing.
Y'all better recognize.
Already making McSally's seat a tossup only a week after announcing.
Y'all better recognize.
UberTag
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If they fail it will be a clear indictment of both the Democrats and the American people as a whole.
She endorsed a white supremacist for president on national television! What do you have to do to get criticized?
Does she have any emails?
No it isn't. Politicians get retaliated against, not constituents.
Beer Monkey
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Melania is human garbage neck deep in the takeover of our executive branch by the Russian mob aka oligarchs aka the Kremlin.
She should hang with the rest (who won't).
Spoiled Milk
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What do politicians ever want besides goodies for their constituents? Or do you mean things like attack ads and luring donors away?
Power?
Boehner retaliated against Huelskamp by removing him from the Agricultural Committee. This caused him to lose his job partly because it made it hard for Huelskamp to say he was doing specific stuff for Iowa, because Iowa cares a lot about agriculture. So there's some argument there that it hurt Iowa. But to just say "we will cut off resources to your state and your constituents will suffer because you won't vote for an unrelated bill" is not at all how politics is normally done. For example, as noted, it's literally illegal!
balladofwindfishes
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Or until redistricting happens in 2022
Aka Governor's races (which aren't affected by Gerrymandering) REALLY matter this/next year!
Huelskamp was from Kansas if my knowledge of him as a resident is accurate. But yeah his loss of that committee position was a big sticking point in his re-election loss.
@AP:
BREAKING: With future in doubt, Attorney General Jeff Sessions flies to El Salvador to talk about gang violence.
Jefferson is getting exiled.
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On CNN New Day:
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BREAKING: With future in doubt, Attorney General Jeff Sessions flies to El Salvador to talk about gang violence.
Jefferson is getting exiled.
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On CNN New Day:
https://twitter.com/katebolduan/status/890531040237940737
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https://twitter.com/phil_mattingly/status/890533746998423553
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https://www.apnews.com/2966d534b7034f64ab37dc9b8117904
nature boy
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Enjoy!
And bloomberg pissing on the Foxconn/Wisconsin deal (it's Trump BAD): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-27/america-and-the-foxconn-dream
And bloomberg pissing on the Foxconn/Wisconsin deal (it's Trump BAD): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-27/america-and-the-foxconn-dream
SpaceCadetKeon
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A thought occurs: remember how Adam Schiff said that if Trump fired Mueller, they would just re-hire him, and people thought that the Republicans on the committee could make that difficult? Well, Republicans have been rather vocal about their support for Sessions lately. So much so that I'm beginning to think if Trump fires Sessions, and then later fires Mueller, Schiff might have an easier time convincing Republicans to re-hire him.
balladofwindfishes
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I wonder how the skinny repeal is going
Haven't heard anything since the CBO score and some senators jumping ship
Also noticed Heller wasn't a hard yes, his statement gave him an out of the CBO score was bad.
Haven't heard anything since the CBO score and some senators jumping ship
Also noticed Heller wasn't a hard yes, his statement gave him an out of the CBO score was bad.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
Would be wonderful, but I'll still believe it when I see it. Still waiting for these spineless people to stand up to him.
Enjoy!
I assume they called it that because it's where Trump gets all his policy ideas. Why is he highlighting this?
nature boy
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Wow the Mooch interview somewhere on TV sounds like a train wreck
Ah CNN (again?)
Ah CNN (again?)
I don't understand if the first tweet is supposed to be a dig at the NYT or praise for Fox. Because it can't be both.
It's also pretty impressive just how long the NYT has been failing and yet continues to publish the finest oppo.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
How long has it been--a week?
Spicer's resignation looking smart now.
tedrotheredro
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It's like he's trying to one-up Trump's crazy tweets. Take a gander at some of these quotes:
"150 years ago people would have been hung for these leaks...they're treasonous"
"If Reince wants to explain that he's not a leaker, let him do that."
"When the iceberg hits the boat...the rats come up from steerage."
"I don't know if the relationship with Reince is reparable...that's up to the President."
"He may decide to veto the sanction and be tougher on the Russians than Congress."
"They tried to keep me from West Wing...now they're trying to eject me from West Wing"
"What the president and I would like to tell everybody, we have a very, very good idea of who the senior leakers are in the White House. I've done a major amount of work over the last five days."
Wolfgunblood Garopa
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Fox and Friends is one of those Trump absurdities that always gets me. It's like the Teletubbies of rightwing propaganda shows.
You Know Nothing
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I kind of want Trump to veto the sanctions just to see his brain meltdown in real time as he witnesses Congress overriding his veto.
Schucky Ducky
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So, how many senators are "No" on skinny repeal after the CBO score?
Oh my god
What? You don't think the guy that's never said a single bad thing about Russia and who essentially denies they got involved in our elections will be tougher on Russia than Congress?
Yeah, me either.
Isn't SCOTUS hearing the case on this later this year? If they rule against partisan gerrymandering, they could possibly order them to be redrawn earlier than that.
And I might be wrong, but isn't that exactly what happened in North Carolina? Maybe I'm talking out of my ass.
But remember he doesn't have to be good at his job, he just has to tell Trump how great he is.
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