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That's fine, since the flu virus isn't IP protected (at least, until Disney reads this) -- we've already digitized it and it's being p2p'ed to a critical mass, so your virtual self should be dealt with annnnyyyy moment now...
She behaved like an Exec. I know who raises his voice and tries to shout himself out of a situation that he finds himself uncomfortable. It's quite unbecoming. She's definitely a master of not knowing what's going on at the State Dept.
Wow, even your physiology is a freeloader.
After watching much Fox News over the summer I can state without fear of rebuke that guns don't kill people, Mexicans kill people.
Guns don't kill people, goverment run health care kills people!
I almost went there and didn't. And now I get the best of both worlds (snark freeloading rules!).
instead they come back from their gop getaway and it's all step away from the ledge action
Arms, they were atwisted. Also, I suspect there might have been a few 'Economics 101' breakout sessions for the new TP members.
The debt ceiling thingy? Some did. Most didn't (I hear) because a) Let the GOP deal with their stupid mess, the Dems want a clean bill, b) Pelosi was recommending folks not (for whatever political reason, but did not try I understand too hard), and c) many feal the Congressional pay gimmick is , well a gimmick and likely not constitutional.
If I have the wrong "it" then no idea.
The metaphorical good fight, you know, from their perspective. Hey it is just a turn of phrase, not an acutal evaluation.
Tactically the Dems demured casting votes until the GOP had cast theirs. This basically meant that they refused to play until the GOP was on record one way or the other. If the GOP fails to pass it, then the Dems come in and save the economy with "bipartisan support" against the crazy GOP wings. If the GOP passes it, the Dems can vote no for whatever reasons and run with the GOP's abandonment of principle for the vote.
* Yes I am yanking on Joe K's chain, but there is some truth to it. In reality they need to move in some areas and stake out some other areas to fight over.
Actually Murkowski lost in the 2010 GOP primary but ended up beating the guy backed by Palin in the general, she's still a conservative but has no need to drink the teaper koolaid or fear a teaper insurrection, so she can go off the party reservation at will- and does every now and then.
When Boehner was re-elected and essentially ditched the Hastert rule, he basically broke (for now, pending 2014's primaries) the Teaper hold on the House GOP- if he's willing to take a bill to the floor that has less than 50% of the GOP vote- they've been rendered toothless.
The "Hastert Rule" gave a small number of Representatives a tremendous amount of power, akin to the power held by Senators in the Senate, but the Hastert Rule was never even a "rule" in the sense that the Senate has its cloture rules and such. My guess is that after his Plan B was torpedoed by his own party mates, Boehner decided to show them that he'd had enough, get back in line like good disciplined GOPers, or I'm going to deal with the enemy. I think at elast some of the teaper leaners have gotten the message
Video: Boehner: "I do believe that is their goal – to just shove us into the dustbin of history"
She behaved like an Exec. I know who raises his voice and tries to shout himself out of a situation that he finds himself uncomfortable. It's quite unbecoming. She's definitely a master of not knowing what's going on at the State Dept.
Honestly, I think Obama's gotten *way* too much grief about Benghazi. I think the State Department ###### the whole situation up on several levels and I think Obama's shown very good temperament to not, day after the election, tell every single person even remotely involved in this ####-up to hand in their resignation. No matter what the Republicans are saying, it wasn't Obama's job to micromanage every security arrangement and sort through all the apparently poor info that was coming through.
Gotta give HRC credit for ballsiness. She followed up a declaration of full personal responsibility for the State Department in the situation by declaring that absolutely nothing was actually her fault or and nothing was on her, and shifting the responsibility for the entire situation to everyone *but* her.
Well she learned from someone who was quite masterful at this
Now if *Bill* was involved, he not only would have deflected blame, he would have convinced everyone that it *was* the YouTube video that set everything off.
And nailed some pudgy Libyan ass while he was at it.
It would be like that scene near the end of "Caddyshack" when Rodney Dangerfield says "We're all gonna get laid."
One problem the GOP has had recently with messaging is that many elements of their base actually believe that Obama is "just like Hitler," when you believe that equating what happened at Benghazi to what happened on 9/11 is just natural,
Obamacare = death panels, etc... The problem is that the top rungs have not been able to contain that stuff to the echo chamber, it flows out and either falls flat, or worse rebounds against them.
The Benghazi attack to me seems to be more akin to stuff like the Khobar Towers bombing, the Kenyan and Tanzanian embassy bombings, going back to 1983 Beirut Embassy bombing (actually the 1983 bombing was likely Shiite/Iranian/proto-Hezbollah in origin- the people behind Benghazi are likely the heirs of, if not some of the same people behind the 1990s embassy attacks (i.e., Al Qaeda/Salafist/Wahabi islamists) - but the Benghazi attack seems less sophisticated in a military sense...
Bill Clinton would ruin every 80s movie. At the end, he'd land *both* the popular, hot girl and the nerdy, secretly hot girl.
Isn't that pretty much the long term goal of every political party with respect to its [ideological] adversaries?
They apparently don't make die with enough sides to roll Bill Clinton's level of charisma.
"It's not fair, the way they want to play to win!"
While I'm sympathetic to your point, no. In meetings and forums I've seen and heard too many people inquiring after accurate rape statistics and related information denounced for that as 'rape-loving scum' and the like to be sanguine about your assertion.
I've also known a few too many people badly frightened by phony and conflated statistics, and resources thereby misallocated, to not think it's a real problem. Any time politics (which on this issue is the case from all sides, unfortunately) makes it all but impossible to get accurate information, it is indeed a real problem.
Telling people what they can and can't talk about isn't the way to improve the dialogue, imo.
QFT, nerd.
How do you figure? VAWA reauthorization got 68 votes in the Senate last year, and the only movement in the link involves the Dems dropping a provision the GOP didn't like.
The whole affair puzzles me, though. Where was the Democrat's senior legislative advisor cautioning about this? Where was the awareness that if one of you goes, the other 19 better take off; at least enough of you to deprive Republicans of a quorum for this kind of nonsense?
Speaking of which, what are the chances that Democrats will be able to beat back Republican attempts in the states they control to apportion electoral votes in the next Prez election according to absurdly gerrymandered Congressional districts? No idea how effective a simple appeal to the Constitution's 'one man-one vote' would be in a case like this, and considering the anti 'one man-one vote' precedent the College itself sets there may be no case to be made, but I'd like to think that in the extreme case of a state of ten million voters, having nine CDs include ten voters each with the remaining CD holding 9,999,910 voters would be obviously un Constitutional, then you'd simply argue from there.
Still, you can't blame the GOP. They've seen the desperate need to steal elections coming for decades. They can no more refrain from cheating the vote than John McCain can keep from embarassing himself in a foreign policy discussion.
I didn't find HRC particularly impressive or unimpressive, but I've been watching The West Wing lately, so if she wasn't Leo McGarry in front of a Congressional inquiry I'd probably have been disappointed.
The early seasons were pretty cool.
Josh totally should have chosen Mary Louise-Parker over Donna!
...oh yeah, and I suppose some political stuff happened on that show too.
Quoted for eternal truthfulness, regardless of what comes after the "over."
The show was a hell of a lot better than "Studio 60"
On a side note, Netflix is almost up $40 today. Wonder what the hell caused that to happen?
You are fr... with th... why?
You are dead to me.
$40 though seems a little high for one day in my opinion.
My head hurts after reading this sentence alone.
at some point you almost have to wonder if some of these people are democratic plants or something.
They are certainly vegetables.
Well the real war on women is Hussein X's refusal to penalize China for sex-selective abortions.
Meanwhile, the lord's representatives on Earth around whose approbation our nation must construct all health care, demonstrate nuance when appropriate.
Apple is down over 11% today eventhough they recorded record profits and iphone sales. Those records were not as high as wall street was expecting though. craziness.
A thousand times yes.
You are fr... with th... why?
You are dead to me.
Heh. No. One of the ones he was interviewing.
I assume you mean the younger version not the older tatted up cougar version?
I'd be OK with either one.
I've honestly never seen her on anything but The West Wing. I'd rather remember her as Amy Gardner for the rest of my life and die happy.
And it was something about the accent I think. And the balloon animals.
I understand that they turned a profit when they were expected to show a loss last quarter...
For me it was her languid , dismissive way of talking to people (specifically men). A woman treating me like an idiot does it for me every time.
Based upon IMDBs' list I have seen exactly ONE of her movies, Red Dragon, where she apparently played Ed Norton's wife, and even though her character got to kill Ralph Fiennes at the end, she made zero impression on me.
BTW Man Hunter was better than Red Dragon
You're an excellent candidate for marriage.
Excellent. The film No Country for Old Men wanted to be. Probably loses more than an average film would from being on a small screen, IMO.
And, frankly, Javier Bardem is walking about with Casey Affleck's Best Supporting Actor Oscar ...
In what world was that not a starring role?
Unfortunately, in this one ...
That's a world I'm glad I "live" in only in the barest sense of the word.
I would hope so... but who knows?
Thing is - I hope people realize that this isn't some nonsense being dreamed about on blogs... there are active bills in Virginia, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania to enact this stuff. Obama won Virginia by about 4 points in 2012 -- but under this plan, Romney would have taken 9 EVs out of Virginia to 4 for Obama.
Or - to put it even more scarily - Obama won the national popular vote convincingly (about 5 million total), but if the VA plan were applied to all the states where similar bills are actually on the table, he'd have lost the election.
If that were to come to pass?
Call it hyperbole if you want, but I have an awfully hard time seeing how the Republic survives... Democrats already operate under a national disadvantage on the legislative level due to the urbanization of Dem votes... now - they'd be in a position where Democrats only real path to the Presidency would be 10 pt blowouts?
Screw that... the blue states are already subsidizing the budgets of the rural red states - in such a scenario, I'm out... done... secede, disband the union, let's all go our own way, whatever.
What would it take to force the creation of a new Constitutional Convention? And while one can cite the articles of the Constitution that allow for amendments and their approval, there is the precedent set by the original Constitutional Convention. Namely, that many of the things that convention did were not allowed under the Articles of Confederation, including that they set up their own (non-unanimous) rules for ratification. That convention literally made its own rules. The answer to the question of what it would take to force a new convention is not a legal question - it's a political question. It would be big states against small states, with the small states knowing full well that a rogue convention could potentially do many things the small states would not like, such as re-doing the Senate.
I say the blues do because they have control of most of the coast and they have most of the industrial infrastructure, a majority of the population, and the vast majority of the technocracy, which you need to fight a modern war.
The Red States would have a majority of the energy resources though, unless the Marcellus Shale were to be fully exploited.
This is always a cute turn of phrase, but states don't own the federal taxes of their taxpayers that have chosen to reside there and pay the state taxes.
Except Texas. In a hypothetical big state versus little state political showdown, well, Texas is a big state.
It depends, what are the rest of the assumptions? 1861 armies? Only 1861 states count? Who gets Ohio and Florida?
Let's call 'em what they are: welfare states.
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