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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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I could get behind that, although it's one of those cases where you have to ask yourself whether you would rather be damned by incompetence or malice.
I suppose we could trust Jeb! to be in the pocket of Big Business and thus not completely wreck the country because of ideology, but that's cold comfort.
If Kasich got his way about monetary policy, we could kiss our economic system goodbye.
edited 13th Feb '16 10:23:46 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"True, but a Republican candidate winning the Presidential election would almost certainly also mean the GOP maintaining control of the House and Senate, and if that happened they'd have essentially free reign to push through anything they wanted, unless Democrats could hold onto the requisite 40 Senate seats to filibuster all the stupid.
You could say goodbye to the independence of the Federal Reserve as soon as its chairman came up for nomination, and Treasury is a Cabinet position.
edited 13th Feb '16 10:26:36 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"![]()
Ordinarily, that would be true, but a Republican Congress would be little more than a rubber stamp for a Republican President. A Republican President would also have a hand in nominating Supreme Court justices. Today, it was Scalia, but RBG has been flirting with retirement for a while, and a Republican president would use such an opportunity to rip the guts out of American progressivism by stacking the court to the right. The bottom line is that a Republican in the White House could maim American political life in all respects for decades to come.
edited 13th Feb '16 10:31:57 PM by CrimsonZephyr
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."Little reminder that Scalia had this to say about torture:
"Are you going to convict Jack Bauer?" Judge Scalia challenged his fellow judges. "Say that criminal law is against him? 'You have the right to a jury trial?' Is any jury going to convict Jack Bauer? I don't think so.
"So the question is really whether we believe in these absolutes. And ought we believe in these absolutes."
I don't think that the Supreme Court has lost one of its most penetrating legal minds here.
What's precedent ever done for us?On another note:
The Daily Telegraph: Bernie Sanders' brother appointed Green Party health spokesman
His cabinet appointment was announced yesterday, just two days after his younger brother defeated Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary.
Bernie Sanders credited his brother last year with providing much of his political education.
"We didn't have a whole lot of books in the house and it was my brother who actually introduced me to a lot of my ideas," he told the Telegraph moments after declaring for president. He said he loved his brother "a tremendous amount", and wished him well in UK politics.
It's not just Bernie who is into politics — although his brother is almost certainly to the Left of Bernie.
edited 14th Feb '16 4:19:56 AM by Greenmantle
Keep Rolling OnI'd say it shows a worryingly unsophisticated view of the issue, personally.
Direct all enquiries to Jamie B GoodSometimes we get too serious angsting about Republicans. Take a break and laugh at them instead.
(link is the Triumph Election Special 2016)
edited 14th Feb '16 7:52:40 AM by speedyboris
@Level of discourse: Grade-schoolers don't gravedance—unless they're from South Park.
But "The Gravedancing Grade-schoolers" would be A Good Name for a Rock Band...
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

edited 13th Feb '16 8:54:38 PM by FFShinra