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Xenophon posted:Trump has really ramped up his Fiorina and Rubio twitter game in the last week or two, but yeah, he's just sending out little orcs for now. The Eye is focused. So Trump thinks that all the other Senators running for President have better voting records than Rubio? :bernget:
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Boosted_C5 posted:Clinton vs. Trump: This is terrific work. 
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Boosted_C5 posted:Your latest Maginot Line won't stop Trump. Keep moving the goalposts, and keep watching him charge past. So you're saying that building a large border wall is a bad policy?
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Joementum posted:So Trump thinks that all the other Senators running for President have better voting records than Rubio? :bernget: Sadly Trump will just say that he meant Rubio misses a lot of votes, which is true.
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Joementum posted:So Trump thinks that all the other Senators running for President have better voting records than Rubio? :bernget: Trump, of third grade reading level fame, should know not to use such an ambiguous phrase. He should've said "attendance" for the double bonus of getting a "Rubio looks like a child" dig in.
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If the arguments about how the political mechanism of the GOP Primary hadn't convinced me that he's overwhelmingly unlikely to win, I'd be terrified by the populist power of Trump. That said, I'm just raptly watching to see how the GOPlane crashes into the Trump Towers.
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Joementum posted:So you're saying that building a large border wall is a bad policy? The problem isn't the wall, it's stupid leaders. The French are a great people. Wonderful pastries. But let's be honest, when it comes to fortifications, they're losers. The Maginot line? A complete joke. Trump's border wall will be impenetrable. It's going to be huge, it's going to be done right and under budget and ahead of schedule.
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Sep 25, 2015 14:44
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Do Not Resuscitate posted:Anyone know why Boehner is resigning at the end of Oct? My guess would be he has to get Democrats to work with him to avoid a shutdown and the GOP was gonna dethrone him in retaliation.
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Did I just hear the radio right and John Boehner is resigning? fake edit: holy gently caress http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/26/us/boehner-will-resign-from-congress.html skaboomizzy posted:My guess would be he has to get Democrats to work with him to avoid a shutdown and the GOP was gonna dethrone him in retaliation. Also my thought.
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The war against the GOP successfully marches on. Another great day for conservatives. Bury Boehner's corpse next to his loyal lackey Cantor. Your days of hiking our taxes, taking our money, and funding baby butcher shops are soon coming to an end. After we've dispatched the collaborators in our midst, we'll turn our sights on you.
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Boosted_C5 posted:Clinton vs. Trump: The post you quoted was about primary voters, not the general electorate. That's like showing an O'Malley vs R poll and saying it proves he has significant support in the Democratic primary. Bryter fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Sep 25, 2015 |
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skaboomizzy posted:My guess would be he has to get Democrats to work with him to avoid a shutdown and the GOP was gonna dethrone him in retaliation. You can't fire me, I quit?
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Do Not Resuscitate posted:But why not just step down as Speaker? Or do you just walk out so as not to live with the humiliation upon returning to the House as a normal congressman? Pretty much exactly that. Plus this way he can get the clock ticking on his one-year restriction against lobbying. Boehner will be cashing in by the end of next year rather than putting it off to sit around as a has-been backbencher.
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Patter Song posted:Trump, of third grade reading level fame, should know not to use such an ambiguous phrase. He should've said "attendance" for the double bonus of getting a "Rubio looks like a child" dig in. As if he'd use a three-syllable word.
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James O'Queef shoots at Planned Parenthood and hits the GOP directly in the head.
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holy gently caress a broken boehner
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Do Not Resuscitate posted:Anyone know why Boehner is resigning at the end of Oct? He's a Catholic and just had a visit from the Pope so it's probably because he doesn't want to go to hell.
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pope had a private meeting with him it probably went something like yo the poor are important I understand shutting down the government hurts the poor I don't understand
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Sep 25, 2015 15:08
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boehner is always weepy, and possibly a drunk feel the raging hard boehner 
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Boehner's actions are the kind of hollow cop-outs that show voters how little their elected officials give a poo poo about them. He was elected by the people of Ohio to represent them for 2 years, and all of a sudden things get a little tough and he picks up his ball and goes home. Boehner, like Eric Cantor, Sarah Palin and many others I'm too lazy to google, would rather bail on the people he swore to represent while he ramps up his efforts to get a private sector job (my gut tells me he already has one lined up) then finish out the term to work for the people he swore to represent. There would have been no shame (ok well, a little shame, but not much) in simply giving up his gavel and finishing out his term in congress, but if he winds up in a lobbying firm on the first day of eligibility, it puts a black eye on congress as a whole, and only helps out the "outsiders" currently running for office.
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Do Not Resuscitate posted:Anyone know why Boehner is resigning at the end of Oct?
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Third World Reggin posted:boehner is always weepy, and possibly a drunk Come on John, don't cry at work. Do it at home, at church, whatever. Just not when you have a guest at the office. Father Wendigo posted:If the Hillary emails were to be believed, he's become a bitter, depressed alcoholic over how politically impotent he is as Speaker. This sounds fascinating. Source?
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Riosan posted:Come on John, don't cry at work. Do it at home, at church, whatever. Just not when you have a guest at the office. The Hill, talking about one of the released email exchanges: quote:Hillary Clinton’s close confidant called John Boehner an “alcoholic,” “lazy” and a weak leader in a scathing email sent the night of the 2010 midterm election, when a Tea Party wave swept House Republicans into power.
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Sep 25, 2015 15:24
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pathetic little tramp posted:Trump gets one thing right. Deportation is in fact something a president can do. Other candidates talk about how they'll balance the budget or overturn abortion and those are literally the job of the legislature. I'm voting for trump if for no other reason than the fact that he actually understands the drat job. I give this troll post a 5/5 gj!
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Sep 25, 2015 15:28
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if boehner had no principals, he would of folded more often
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Third World Reggin posted:if boehner had no principals, he would of folded more often I'm not sure how this makes any sense. Who would he have folded to more often? The democrats or the tea party? Please elaborate.
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I mean that is kind of an accurate-sounding characterization, but he's got to have some measure of political acumen to wrangle his caucus for as long as he has, given that a significant portion spent its time in permanent revolt.
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Actually it would really hilarious if the day after the Pope delivered an address on the evils of seeking money for the sake of money, only feet away from him, Boehner decided to quit politics so he could pull in that sweet green
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FAUXTON posted:I mean that is kind of an accurate-sounding characterization, but he's got to have some measure of political acumen to wrangle his caucus for as long as he has, given that a significant portion spent its time in permanent revolt. Maybe I'm missing something, but the idea that he wrangled his caucus seems to imply he accomplished things. I am unaware of any accomplishments.
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Sep 25, 2015 15:33
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And the real question now is going to be - who's next? The more sensible side that doesn't want a government shutdown is going to have a hard time finding someone who wants to run, having seen what happened with Boehner, let alone gets chosen; the tea party side is full of loons.
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Sep 25, 2015 15:35
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Joementum posted:The current Democratic primary is probably most like 1968 with Hillary as LBJ Not true at all. LBJ wasn't running in 1968. We found out many years later that he had secretly considered running and tapes were released of him making phone calls amidst the DNC riots offering to show up and announce at the last minute... but he ended up not doing it because his security people said it'd be too dangerous for them to go to Chicago on such short notice. edit-- Plinkey posted:Did I just hear the radio right and John Boehner is resigning? O_O Love Stole the Day fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Sep 25, 2015 |
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Sep 25, 2015 15:37
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Love Stole the Day posted:Not true at all. LBJ wasn't running in 1968. We found out many years later that he had secretly considered running and tapes were released of him making phone calls amidst the DNC riots offering to show up and announce at the last minute... but he ended up not doing it because his security people said it'd be too dangerous for them to go to Chicago on such short notice. He was running until the end of March. Hence the Hillary comparison: a candidate with a lock on the nomination but with downward trending favorability who would open up the field for the Vice President should they leave the race.
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Sep 25, 2015 15:40
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Joementum posted:He was running until the end of March. Hence the Hillary comparison: a candidate with a lock on the nomination but with downward trending favorability who would open up the field for the Vice President should they leave the race. I really REALLY don't want something terrible to happen to Warren, so we need to stop this comparison post haste.
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Sep 25, 2015 15:45
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NotWearingPants posted:I'm not sure how this makes any sense. Who would he have folded to more often? The democrats or the tea party? I feel if he had no principals, he would of been able to use his powers of speaker of the house to help pass federal budgets always on time. His principals are, in my mind, a reason why budgets were not always passed in a timely manner. The speaker has quite a bit of power over this process.
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Sep 25, 2015 15:56
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Xenophon posted:The Hill, talking about one of the released email exchanges: You know the word louche? Somebody's pulling me out on the streets and you're louche?
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Cruz's speech at the 2015 Voter Values Summit is being live-tweeted. 1. The country is in crisis! 2. Rescind all illegal executive orders 3. Open DOJ investigation into PP videos 4. "I will instruct DOJ, IRS, and every other federal agency that the persecution of religious liberty ends TODAY!" 5. Iran deal bad!!! 6. Move US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, "the once and eternal capital of Israel" 7. Repeal all of Obamacare 8. "I will instruct the Department of Education -- which should be abolished -- that Common Core ends TODAY!" (not sure how this fantasy plays out in his mind, does he show up to tell them this but there's a "Closed" sign on the door, or...?) 9. Rebuild our military (it's been decommissioned?) 10. "We will finally, finally, finally secure our border" (so final) 11. Simple flat tax, abolish the IRS 12. Reagan Revolution came from America rising up, not from Washington 13. Conservatives unite!!! 14. *a wet fart*
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Xenophon posted:Wet fart In this weird fantasy conservative libertopia, are there any government departments or facilities left at all besides DoD? I can't wrap my mind around it. 
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Robotnik Nudes posted:Trump is the only republican who could win an election. How do people end up believing these insane ideas with no basis in fact?
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