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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Considering the guy ran for President, that's obviously a bullshit excuse.
Including the guy who fucking won.
A large number of Republicans are running to:
- Get TV gigs and bolster the cost of their own paycheck
- Sell books
- Get into the administration.
The Republican Party is a giant machine made of graft and affinity fraud.
I think there's a real danger that Republicans decide that the deficit doesn't matter so long as the Democrats are the ones who have to clean up their mess when the bubble finally pops, and greenlight all sorts of infrastructure spending while slashing taxes and raisin military spending, hoping to leave the bill for a future democratic administration.
SCOOP: Trump is discussing TED CRUZ for AG
This is fine.
screams internally
New Survey coming this weekend!Hmmm, Cruz might not be that bad as AG honestly. To be effective in that position means having working relationships with several powerful departments, and Cruz is incapable of working with anyone, even/especially people who otherwise agree with him, without pissing them off and becoming an object of hatred.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

A former state department official who wrote an op-ed a few days ago urging people to step up and serve their country if asked by the Trump administration has walked it all back after meeting the transition team, tweeting, "changed my recommendation: stay away. They’re angry, arrogant, screaming ‘you LOST!’ Will be ugly".
Sigh, not sure whether to laugh or cry.
edited 15th Nov '16 6:35:34 PM by nightwyrm_zero