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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/etuckerAP/status/750691726474477572 Oh Paul Ryan
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What the gently caress is wrong with these people?! Comey gave them a gift wrapped up in a little bow with his announcement speech. I could see inviting him to speak to the committee in the hopes of getting some new juicy sound bites but it seems like they instead want to drag his name through the mud through a congressional investigation.
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Jul 6, 2016 15:31
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:
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Jul 6, 2016 15:32
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Bernie's healthcare plan alone was going to cost a couple trillion.
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Shifty Pony posted:What the gently caress is wrong with these people?! It's almost like they're idiots.
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Jul 6, 2016 15:32
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The lesson from all this is that the GOP isn't going to stop blocking the Democratic president when it's not a black guy anymore. They won't move one millimeter until the next Republican gets in.
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Jul 6, 2016 15:32
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Paul Ryan is mad no one cares that he caught his big sister in her room WITH A BOY.
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Jul 6, 2016 15:32
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:
I actually hate anytime there's an article talking about the Federal Government wasted millions of dollars. Millions is roundoff error for the feds. We won't balance the budget by getting rid of all the wasted millions - that's like balancing your home budget by vowing to always pick up quarters you drop.
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Jul 6, 2016 15:33
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theflyingorc posted:I actually hate anytime there's an article talking about the Federal Government wasted millions of dollars. Hot Take: We don't need a balanced budget.
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Jul 6, 2016 15:33
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:Oh Paul Ryan That's our Speaker! *studio audience goes wild* Really, as dumb as this is, I'd be lying if I said it was at all unexpected.
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theflyingorc posted:I actually hate anytime there's an article talking about the Federal Government wasted millions of dollars. It's not the millions wasted it's the time. Time spent, like BI NOW said, that could have been used to do their loving job.
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Jul 6, 2016 15:34
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:Hot Take: We don't need a balanced budget. Its not a hot take considering the top examples of a GOP balanced budget are states that are currently foundering.
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Jul 6, 2016 15:34
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:Hot Take: We don't need a balanced budget. I think we need a better budget, but what does a balanced budget accomplish exactly? It seems like no matter what, the federal government is going to keep on trucking. I mean, I guess a couple shutdowns for a few days here and there. It's not a household checking account. But I don't feel like I'll ever understand every single nuance about how the economy works and how our economy is different than others on the world scale and everything else.
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Jul 6, 2016 15:35
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DemeaninDemon posted:It's not the millions wasted it's the time. Time spent, like BI NOW said, that could have been used to do their loving job. otoh, i am not sure i want house republicans doing anything
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:Hot Take: We don't need a balanced budget. I'm aware, you'll see me arguing against it in the last thread somewhere, but EVEN IF that was something we wanted to do, worrying about .0001% of the federal budget wouldn't be the way to do it. DemeaninDemon posted:It's not the millions wasted it's the time. Time spent, like BI NOW said, that could have been used to do their loving job.
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Jul 6, 2016 15:35
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Complaining about the millions wasted here is a useful retort when conservatives kick up a huge storm over rounding error level spending on social services
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Jul 6, 2016 15:36
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Shifty Pony posted:What the gently caress is wrong with these people?! No they want him up there saying more stuff like he said in the PC yesterday and maybe even heavily imply that Obama himself pressured the investigation They absolutely view Comey as an ally in this
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Jul 6, 2016 15:37
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No Butt Stuff posted:I think we need a better budget, but what does a balanced budget accomplish exactly? It seems like no matter what, the federal government is going to keep on trucking. I mean, I guess a couple shutdowns for a few days here and there. It's an economic proposal by Very Serious People, but it's bullshit. If someone says the words "like your household," in talking about the federal budget they should be garroted on the loving spot.
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Jul 6, 2016 15:37
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:It's an economic proposal by Very Serious People, but it's bullshit. Well, my house is full of progressives and people leeching off of said progressives and we're running at a surplus, so maybe they're on to something.
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Jul 6, 2016 15:38
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zoux posted:No they want him up there saying more stuff like he said in the PC yesterday and maybe even heavily imply that Obama himself pressured the investigation I am not sure that's entirely true, but Ryan is smarter than Trump and his first instinct wasn't to pull Comey directly into it.
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Jul 6, 2016 15:38
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Well I guess we know how the next 4-8 years is going to pan out. Endless hearings investigating every person that failed to find wrongdoing in the immediately previous hearing/investigation. I wonder if they'll even remember what it was all about when she finally leaves office.
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Jul 6, 2016 15:39
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No Butt Stuff posted:Well, my house is full of progressives and people leeching off of said progressives and we're running at a surplus, so maybe they're on to something. Most people don't even keep a balanced budget with their personal budget is the best part. I mean, it's not like we're a nation of people saddled with crushing home loan, credit card, car loan, or college loan debt!
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:otoh, i am not sure i want house republicans doing anything Oh totally it'll get veto'd back to the 50s too. Still doesn't mean the house should not do its job and pass a budget (balanced or not). Edit: Yeah there are perfectly acceptable forms of debt. Like a mortgage or student loan debt. Stuff that you're supposed to get a ROI in. Getting yourself in five figures of 22% APR credit card debt though...
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Jul 6, 2016 15:40
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A lovely Reporter posted:gently caress it, surgically implant the body cameras into the cops, then replace their hearts with artificial ones that shut off it they tear out the body cams. This is an excellent idea. Cyanide based anti tamper capsules might be less hassle though.
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Jul 6, 2016 15:40
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zoux posted:No they want him up there saying more stuff like he said in the PC yesterday and maybe even heavily imply that Obama himself pressured the investigation Here's the letter they sent him: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/goodlatte-letter-fbi-clinton-emails Doesn't seem like something you send an ally
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Jul 6, 2016 15:43
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Shifty Pony posted:What the gently caress is wrong with these people?! Yeah, giving it the Benghazi treatment definitely just relegates it to the big pile of Clinton non-scandals. If they'd stopped and thinked about how to approach this - attack ads using Comey lines, fundraising, attacking Clinton where she's weakest - but no, they're just going to keep trying the same thing over and over again. The emails will just degenerate into its usual partisan lines and it will do absolutely nothing to impact the election. They've turned a potential win into a definite wash.
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Jul 6, 2016 15:45
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:Most people don't even keep a balanced budget with their personal budget is the best part. Well, we all agree that that's bad. The issue is that MOST of us think that it's bad for the federal government to do that. And it isn't.
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Jul 6, 2016 15:45
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Shifty Pony posted:Here's the letter they sent him: Hey, I'd be jazzed as hell if they treat him as hostile, but he seemed pretty mad about the whole thing in his statement yesterday
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Jul 6, 2016 15:46
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lmao The shittiest apology in history from the most venal worm imaginable.
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Jul 6, 2016 15:48
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ReidRansom posted:Well I guess we know how the next 4-8 years is going to pan out. Endless hearings investigating every person that failed to find wrongdoing in the immediately previous hearing/investigation. I wonder if they'll even remember what it was all about when she finally leaves office. Uh excuse me who could forget the cybercrimes of Benjamin Ghazi?
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Jul 6, 2016 15:49
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Antti posted:They've turned a potential win into a definite wash. Nah, they're doing what they have to at this point. Their end goal is not letting Hillary take the White House - and at this point the party is committed to running a human tire fire. The only plausible way to stop her is to get her to not run. A few soundbites and attack ads aren't going to cut it when Trump is literally running out of minority groups to insult.
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Jul 6, 2016 15:51
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Tempest_56 posted:Nah, they're doing what they have to at this point. Their end goal is not letting Hillary take the White House - and at this point the party is committed to running a human tire fire. The only plausible way to stop her is to get her to not run. A few soundbites and attack ads aren't going to cut it when Trump is literally running out of minority groups to insult. Well, yes. If you read this as the spasmic last breath of a party that knows the November election is as good as lost if they don't do something, anything, then yeah, this is the play. Maybe if you dig long enough you'll turn up with something.
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Antti posted:Well, yes. If you read this as the spasmic last breath of a party that knows the November election is as good as lost if they don't do something, anything, then yeah, this is the play. Maybe if you dig long enough you'll turn up with something. Plus, you get to describe her as "scandal-plagued" and "under investigation" for the foreseeable future.
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Jul 6, 2016 15:54
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Tempest_56 posted:Nah, they're doing what they have to at this point. Their end goal is not letting Hillary take the White House - and at this point the party is committed to running a human tire fire. The only plausible way to stop her is to get her to not run. A few soundbites and attack ads aren't going to cut it when Trump is literally running out of minority groups to insult. It's a dangerous game they're playing though. They could investigate themselves right out of the majority if they push too far. Though they'll still have their hardcore base convinced that Clinton is guilty of something and they just need to find out what, polling has shown that the majority of voters are getting really sick of this poo poo.
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haveblue posted:Plus, you get to describe her as "scandal-plagued" and "under investigation" for the foreseeable future. Yeah but you can only cry wolf so many times before people tune you out. I mean, it's already basically loving meaningless. If a real scandal did come along, no one is going to even care. We'll just be in our partisan camps accusing or dismissing blindly.
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Jul 6, 2016 16:01
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I think the big problem with Emailghazi is that it's just not a smoking gun unless you're already looking for a smoking gun. It's a weird minutia that is difficult for a lot of people to understand and I think even some Republican voters who are not die-hard supercores are at least somewhat sympathetic to the idea that 'email poo poo is confusing and I loving hate our IT guys.' Unless they can prove something significant came of it or find something really big, nobody who isn't already riding the anti-Clinton train is going to hop onboard.
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Jul 6, 2016 16:01
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haveblue posted:Plus, you get to describe her as "scandal-plagued" and "under investigation" for the foreseeable future. This was always going to be the case. Even if there had been a one hundred percent "everything is fine! she did nothing wrong!" exoneration, they would've just opened a committee on this. Or something else.
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Jul 6, 2016 16:01
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GalacticAcid posted:lmao How does he get around the memo that said "hey the Americans are fixing the intelligence and Bush was just in here spitballing ways to provoke Iraq; better play along though"?
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Jul 6, 2016 16:02
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If only we could spend sometime looking into this:
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Jul 6, 2016 16:03
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Yeah, like, the fact that the hardcore Fox News crowd is already saying 'She's a terrorist criminal corruption!' and agreeing wildly with the House GOP doing another special Clinton investigation is kinda pointless. Those people are already in the GOP's pocket. E-Mail poo poo isn't going to convince anyone who wasn't already convinced, especially against Donald 'Man I loving love murderous dictators don't they seem strong and cool' Trump.
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:If only we could spend sometime looking into this: "He's a felon sex offender, we just need a better victim." -some guy a few pages ago
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