USPol March presents the 8th Annual Debt Limit Fight: Fracas in the Caucus

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FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Yeah it's some thing that showed up on Drudge this morning. Complete nonsense of course, like any other thing posted on that site.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2015 16:40

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 22:26

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

I can't think of anything either. It's unprecedented to see a foreign leader speaking before Congress without the approval of the President.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2015 18:31

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Fried Chicken posted:

Hahahaha oh god. Apparently Brownbeck's cuts have pushed Kansas so far in debt it may be forced to take the Medicaid expansion. They are looking at options similar to Arkansas because the money that would come in would boost the health sector of the economy and cut their expenses (since the Feds would pick up the tab for Medicaid)

Literal full circle of stupid

# ¿ Mar 5, 2015 22:20

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

The one time I agree with Paul Begala.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2015 16:27

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

zoux posted:

My god if the government could track our mail....the horror.

It's funny because they are already doing this for flimsy reasons due to the Patriot Act.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2015 18:57

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Menendez is having a bad year between this and his meltdown over Cuba relations

# ¿ Mar 6, 2015 21:09

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Well I think part of that was also because he lost his chairmanship. If he still had it I think they would have done something differently.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2015 21:23

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

New DNC messaging and strategy document for 2016-2020 contains plans for returning to the "50-State Strategy."

Going to be tougher to implement in states where the Dems were wiped out of state and local offices. The 2010 midterms really screwed the party for at least a decade at the state, local, and congressional levels.

And yet no one in party leadership left or got fired after the last election. So I'll believe it when I see it.

# ¿ Mar 9, 2015 20:12

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Rick Perry should always be formally referred to as 'Rick Perry, Super Genius'

# ¿ Mar 10, 2015 21:31

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Just a reminder that Rep. Gowdy's committee released a report correctly concluding that nothing happened with Benghazi. So of course they're keeping that committee.

In bonus crazy news, Utah has voted to re-instate the firing squad due to lack of access to lethal injection drugs. Still unclear whether their governor will sign the bill.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_UTAH_FIRING_SQUAD?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

# ¿ Mar 11, 2015 02:14

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

I'm just thrilled at the backlash against the GOP for this stunt.

# ¿ Mar 11, 2015 15:09

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

karlor posted:

ATF backs off plan to ban armor piercing ammo

I'm honestly trying to think of one single federal change that has stuck since Sandy Hook, and I'm coming up blank.

# ¿ Mar 11, 2015 17:51

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Joementum posted:

Here's something for you to enjoy this evening: Ted Cruz pausing for applause and not getting any at the IFAA confab.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWkImxhTFTk

Oh my god this is the video version of that 'lonely Ron Paul' photo

Did no staffer think it wasn't the greatest idea to go off on the IRS at a firefighter's convention? Why would they give a crap?

# ¿ Mar 12, 2015 00:46

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

That's going to be the GOP strategy for the long term, I would bet. Using procedural moves and parliamentary tricks to keep themselves in power even in states where they are a minority.

# ¿ Mar 12, 2015 15:12

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Looks like the Blade Runner pistol.

# ¿ Mar 12, 2015 17:10

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Why are you even taking Amergin's bait

# ¿ Mar 13, 2015 15:35

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

The last poll I saw showed that no one is even paying attention to this story in the general public. This is purely a Washington pundit thing.

# ¿ Mar 13, 2015 17:58

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

pathetic little tramp posted:

NH lawmakers brutally kill 4th-graders' bill in front of them

http://www.nh1.com/news/nh-lawmakers-brutally-kill-4th-graders-bill-in-front-of-them/

How the hell is this not an Onion article

# ¿ Mar 19, 2015 20:06

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Fried Chicken posted:

I expect they were fully aware of it. I think you drastically under estimate how popular Charles Murray style "race realism" and using bad statistics and genetics studies with overly reductive models is. There is very much a bloc that sees preaching this pseudoscience as unveiling "hard truths" or "the contested edge of science" where they are "teaching the controversy" rather than the same old hucksterism it is.

It's both sad and funny to me that social Darwinism still exists 100 years after it was popular

# ¿ Mar 20, 2015 15:09

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

N: The Arkansas State Legislature passed two bills banning 're-homing' after one of their own earlier this month was in a major scandal over his disabled adopted kids being pawned off on an employee who was a pedophile and abused.

V: That guy, Rep. Justin Harris, somehow still has a job

http://swtimes.com/legislature/bills-re-homing-adopted-children-clear-arkansas-house

# ¿ Mar 21, 2015 01:32

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Joementum posted:

I suspect a number of people here will like the words coming out of Martin O'Malley's mouth on banking reform.

tl;dr: re-instate Glass-Stealgal, break up big banks, revoke a bank's charter after the third major offense.

So he's taking Warren's positions since she isn't around?

# ¿ Mar 21, 2015 03:21

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Firing squads are now a legal method of execution in Utah if the state is unable to obtain the drugs used for lethal injections.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/6c1b55094e2744dc912abbdebd762f90/governor-signs-law-making-utah-only-state-firing-squad

# ¿ Mar 24, 2015 01:54

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

SpiderHyphenMan posted:

So does Obama's Chief of Staff saying "Israel cannot maintain military control of another people indefinitely" a big deal? Because that just happened.

Sounds like someone needs to spend more time with their family...

# ¿ Mar 24, 2015 04:13

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

We're nearing peak Trollbama

# ¿ Mar 25, 2015 17:26

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Commence the right-wing indignance

# ¿ Mar 25, 2015 19:38

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 22:26

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

JT Jag posted:

Put a 60% income tax on the .1%

Have a real strong capital gains tax and you will probably not even have to do that.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2015 17:16

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