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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Am I misunderstanding your post? I thought libertarians would be staunchly against a law like NDAA.
NDAA is the budget bill that pays the Defense Department. It's not something that you can vote "no" on, which is why it's used to sneak through all matter of unrelated stuff - unfortunately, the US legislative process doesn't have a Stick of Off-Topic Thumping
At first I dismissed it as acting for the base, and to some extent I still hope this is true. I have an issue with believing better of people like that. As weeks passed after the election and the shock began to appear genuine, it was then that I realized just how pervasive the conservative media bubble is.
My point is that it's very likely they're not pretending. The Republicans misconstrue the structural advantage they possessed in the House due to gerrymandering as an electoral mandate. The hope was that this election would be a wake-up call, but I think only another shock to the system is going to do it. I would prefer it happen in 2014, but the Democratic base has a bad track record with voting in midterm elections.
It'll break by 2016 at the latest. Neither party can stand being out of the White House for three consecutive terms before there's internal revolt.
I wrote about a fish turning into the moon.In 2010, house Republicans gained 51.4% of the popular vote. The democrats earned 44.8% of the vote. That's a much stronger "mandate"* than Obama's 50.5% to 48.0% margin.
edited 2nd Dec '12 3:53:52 PM by EdwardsGrizzly
<><You remember how Joe Scarborough was once a Congressman, right? Who abruptly resigned six months after getting re-elected to his seat?
I found a pretty telling story about Scarborough. Normally I'm not one for sensationalist, tabloid-ish headlines, but I think it's a question that should be asked: What were the circumstances behind the death of one of Scarborough's aide?
The linked story claims that Scarborough is the murderer, but I'm not sure of it myself. What about you?
edited 2nd Dec '12 5:17:06 PM by Serocco
In RWBY, every girl is Best Girl.Scarborough was on Don Imus' radio show at one point. Imus asked, right out of left field, "You said you had sex with that intern and then you had to kill her."
Scarborough, laughing, replied, "Yeah, well what are you gonna do?"
I guess that whole thing was meant as a joke, because of how deadpanned Imus was about it.
edited 2nd Dec '12 5:24:06 PM by Serocco
In RWBY, every girl is Best Girl.Interesting that you bring up 2010 though. In 2012, Democratic candidates in the House earned something around a million votes countrywide more than Republican candidates, and yet the Republicans only lost a few seats. That's what I meant by a structural advantage. The Census being done in 2010 gave state legislatures the opportunity to redraw congressional districts, and as has been done time and again, the party in power (again, Republicans, due to the Tea Party wave) drew the districts to solidify control over as many seats as possible.
edited 2nd Dec '12 4:26:10 PM by Zephid
I wrote about a fish turning into the moon.
Sometime people have views they want to express about something else, or they don't want to get into discussions of those kinds of topics.
@ Midterm elections: Some states have governors elections during midterms, but sometimes that isn't even enough.
My first vote was trying to get Perry out of office by voting for Friedman in '06.
edited 2nd Dec '12 4:32:53 PM by tclittle
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."

The "The majority of the majority" thing is already known. Didn't these folks use it during the Bush years?
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