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#39651: Nov 10th 2012 at 7:58:26 PM

Again, I'd say the issue here isn't whether you want marijuana outlawed or not, but whether it's a good idea for a President to be able to say, "Yeah, I don't like this law; I'm not gonna enforce it." That kinda seems like one of those overreaches of executive power people are always talking about.

To me the overreach of power is the idea that the federal government is allowed to shove its nose in this sort of thing at all.

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#39652: Nov 10th 2012 at 8:11:37 PM

Government is an arm of corporations, often times, so if there's one reason why governments go after certain drugs, it's because their corporate benefactors are trying to stamp down on competition while they make drug pills.

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#39653: Nov 10th 2012 at 8:12:05 PM

I really wonder if our federal government has really nothing better to do than go after pot smokers.

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#39654: Nov 10th 2012 at 8:14:25 PM

Tea party activists blame losses on Republican establishment

Angry tea party activists say Mitt Romney was too moderate and the GOP undermined 'true conservative' candidates.

Wednesday, the political direct-mail pioneer Richard Viguerie gathered a group of disenchanted conservatives for a news conference in Washington. Calling Romney's loss "the death rattle" of the GOP, Viguerie, chairman of Conservative HQ.com, said, "The battle to take over the Republican Party begins today."

"The very people who keep nominating moderates now call us purists, the way the left calls us purists," Levin said Wednesday. "And we have to hear this crap from pseudo-conservatives and Republicans."

sad

edited 10th Nov '12 8:26:54 PM by DeviantBraeburn

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#39655: Nov 10th 2012 at 8:14:43 PM

Obviously they're just trying to help the hardworking job creators in the for-profit prison industry.

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#39656: Nov 10th 2012 at 8:21:58 PM

If they wanna flush themselves down the toilet, they can be my guest.

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#39657: Nov 10th 2012 at 8:27:26 PM

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The upshot is if the Tea Party actually got their way as far as a candidate goes, theres no way in hell the GOP ever gets a minority to vote for it ever again.

DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
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#39658: Nov 10th 2012 at 8:29:06 PM

Does anyone else think the Tea Party has become a Frankenstein Monster that the GOP can no longer control?

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#39659: Nov 10th 2012 at 8:30:25 PM

[up] its been that for a loooong time.

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#39660: Nov 10th 2012 at 8:54:27 PM

They already did get their way, at least in terms of Romney's (and Ryan's) actual positions on the issues, which aligned with their own.

Of course, he didn't have the right political "image", and that seems to be the only thing beltway pundits - or the Tea Party itself, for that matter - seem to care about anymore.

Then again, when you've long since morphed into little more than a much more obstinate version of the exact party you were supposedly rebelling against, I guess that ignoring the issues is the only way you can legitimize your existence.

DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
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#39661: Nov 10th 2012 at 8:57:19 PM

House GOP gets a shove from Boehner

On a conference call with House Republicans a day after the party's electoral battering last week, Speaker John Boehner dished out some bitter medicine, and for the first time in the 112th Congress, most members took their dose.

Joe Biden's other son joins the military

[up] Romney is a moderate in the eyes of the Tea Party! The Tea Party getting there way would be Rick Perry, Steve King, or Sarah Palin being the Republican presidential candidate.

edited 10th Nov '12 9:32:45 PM by DeviantBraeburn

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#39662: Nov 10th 2012 at 9:23:25 PM

Considering that Romney just likes firing people, while Perry is all too eager to outright kill them, I guess you have a point there.

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#39663: Nov 10th 2012 at 9:53:14 PM

@Potatos Rock: Switching a drug's schedule does nothing. Methamphetamine and cocaine are both schedule II drugs and their punishments are much, much, much worse than marijuana's, which is usually a misdemeanor charge.

#39664: Nov 10th 2012 at 10:24:09 PM

What it does is it makes it legal to obtain it for medical/scientific purposes. For instance, I know my university's bio lab has access to methamphetamine (Schedule II) for use in experiments on animals, but I don't think that is the case for cannabis. This could have the side effect of making it easier for the states to engage in Loophole Abuse to stop federal intervention.

edited 10th Nov '12 10:25:07 PM by EdwardsGrizzly

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#39665: Nov 10th 2012 at 10:25:58 PM

Trump: ‘I Do Have a Heart and I Don’t Like Firing People’

Officials Allowed Usher to Skip Voting Line

edited 10th Nov '12 10:27:15 PM by DeviantBraeburn

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#39666: Nov 10th 2012 at 10:50:11 PM

Democrat David Gill concedes House Race in Illinois 13th district

There are still House elections going on btw. (Arizona 2nd District, Florida 18th District, Louisiana 3rd District, California 7th District, California 52nd District, North Carolina 7th District, and Arizona 9th District.)

edited 11th Nov '12 1:04:23 AM by DeviantBraeburn

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#39667: Nov 11th 2012 at 1:02:14 AM

Apparently, Rick Perry had sleep apnea, hence his piss-poor campaign.

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#39668: Nov 11th 2012 at 1:05:33 AM

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Sleep Apnea doesn't cause poor memory, so I don't see how it explains this:

edited 11th Nov '12 1:05:50 AM by DeviantBraeburn

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#39670: Nov 11th 2012 at 1:51:22 AM

i support this so when we take in puerto rico, we don't have to fix the flag

in other news

edited 11th Nov '12 1:51:58 AM by ch00beh

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DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
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#39671: Nov 11th 2012 at 2:12:06 AM

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Alreadydiscussed.

But I'll quote the two most important comments on the mater:

Take it with a pinch of salt, its all part of a fun tradition we have in this country.

If a Democrat wins, then a whole bunch of enraged conservatives claim there gonna succeed.

If a Republican wins, then a whole bunch of enraged liberals claim there gonna leave for Canada or Europe.

Its all fun and games.

And besides its an Internet petition.

EDIT: Plus at least 1/5th of the signers don't live in Louisiana.

Especially funny since they want 25, 000 signatures.

I mean, sure, let's secede from the US because 25, 000 people on 4, 574, 836 wants to secede.

Also we've already had a Civil War.

[up] [lol]

edited 11th Nov '12 2:18:21 AM by DeviantBraeburn

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#39672: Nov 11th 2012 at 3:16:45 AM

Oops forgot to put in my sarcasm pothole.

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DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
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#39673: Nov 11th 2012 at 3:41:52 AM

Julian Castro, Juan Hernandez weigh in on future of Hispanic vote.

George P. Bush enters political arena with Hispanic outreach, possible run for Texas land commissioner

edited 11th Nov '12 3:48:06 AM by DeviantBraeburn

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#39674: Nov 11th 2012 at 5:50:26 AM

[up]Dear Gavaroc, not another one!

DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#39675: Nov 11th 2012 at 6:05:08 AM

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THIS COUNTRY NEEDS MORE OF THE BUSH FAMILY TREE!

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