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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
God, the Republicans are so unhelpful. I miss Bush. 1 and 2.
It's the great political party trick: making sure your successors are even worse, so that people remember the good old days of your administration fondly.
Except for 4/1/2011. That day lingers in my memory like...metaphor here...I should go.PETA Gives Paul Ryan its 'Bad Dad of 2012' Award
Only PETA could make someone side with Paul Ryan.
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016Senator Jeff Session (R-AL): Obama's 'Plan' a 'Fabrication
Senator Bob Casey (D-PA): We need to do more in Syria
Obama Calls Rice ‘Extraordinary,’ as Another Republican Voices Concerns
Scott Walker's former aide pleads guilty in theft case
Senate-elect Tammy Baldwin wants the Buffett Rule to be on the table
Gingrich has 'no idea' about 2016
Joe Lieberman: Congress should show‘mercy’ on Susan Rice over Benghazi
Most unpopular governor: Illinois Democrat Pat Quinn
edited 29th Nov '12 7:27:36 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016Any Republican that was President after Hoover but before Newt Gingrich is acceptable sans Reagan (because that's exactly what we have now) and Nixon (because of Watergate and sabotaging the Vietnam peace talks just to stomp out Humphrey).
Yes,Eisenhower,Ford,Bush,...are totally acceptable compared to what the GOP is now.
Just like Obama would be a Republican if you went back to before Reagan.
Ford would be a Democrat even,because any Rockefeller Repub is a Democrat these days,so that's not saying much. Ever since Reagan managed to destroy the "New Deal is the gospel" mantra,politics in general just went out control to the right.
That said Dems have gotten slightly more to the left than they used to be.
The party lines were screwed up pre-Reagan.
Its rather amazing that people like Larry Mc Donald, Robert Byrd, George Mc Govern, Ted Kennedy, Barbara Jordan, George Wallace, Albert Gore, Sr., Henry Jackson, Walter Mondale and Birch Bayh could all be Democrat Politicians in the same time period.
Bill Clinton asks for help with Hillary’s 2008 campaign debt
edited 29th Nov '12 7:45:42 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016Two Republicans have already announced intentions of running for Congressional seats in '14.
Former South Dakota governor Mike Rounds will be running against South Dakota Democratic Senator Tim Johnson.
Representative Shelly Moore Capito (R-WV) will be running against Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV).
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
Assuming Rockefeller and Johnson run for reelection.
Senate passes amendment keeping biofuel investments in defense bill.
It always confuses me to see Republicans in Red and Democrats in Blue, because it's pretty much the reverse of France.
Well, at least I guess a positive effect is that it's one argument less for those who call Democrats communist.
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."![]()
I don't see that happening. If anything, I see the financial elements maintaining power over the certain-to-be-outdated-by-the-passage-of-time social regressives.
Granted, they may start to frame the arguments differently... instead of 'no new texes,' they may turn to 'okay, new taxes, but only if you give us X loopholes to cancel it out' or something like that. They may play different formulas of number games, but the sum will always add up to the same thing. I'm not seeing any trends towards lessening financial influence in politics in the near future - and I don't see THAT changing until some of our current Supreme Court judges retire.
edited 30th Nov '12 9:43:58 AM by Karkadinn
Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.I meant corporations and the wealthy in a more general sense, although major banks and Wall Street do serve as a conveniently-encapsulated example of what's wrong with the undue influence of wealth (and the unfettered, endless search for more of it) in society.
Also, I wouldn't bet on a justice retiring just because they're old. People like Scalia seem like the kind of person who'd refuse to quit OR die within anything resembling a reasonable time frame just to spite you.
Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.
So that would mean the Republicans are so much to the Right that they went past violet and warped back to red?
PS: Yeah, to Europeans Democrats and Republicans are not Left and Right, they're Center-Right and Far-Right.
edited 30th Nov '12 2:42:29 PM by Medinoc
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."

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