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Post by m52nickerson on Nov 5, 2010 14:11:24 GMT -5
That they're now resorting to completely made-up shit that makes the boy who cried wolf seem honest, or that it's going to work. Now? Did you forget about the "Death Panals"? The GOP has made lying an art form.
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Post by m52nickerson on Nov 5, 2010 12:52:04 GMT -5
The Republicans can also vote to defund the health insurance bill, at least according to DeMint. Wouldn't that involve passing a new law? No, they could do it with the budget. The Democrats in the Senate would have to hold strong and refuse to pass any budget item that defund the parts of the law.
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Post by m52nickerson on Nov 5, 2010 7:54:12 GMT -5
Those Democrats were helpfully aided in their decision by the DNC, who merrily handed advertising money to the most conservative of Blue Dogs for use against real Democrats in primaries. Recently, they handed out money to Republican-lites in Florida who used it to run ads against real Democrats like Pelosi and Grayson while giving Grayson very little to fight back with in return (this is possible because media markets often cross congressional borders). Clearly, strategy is not the DNC's strong point. The DNC rarely pumps money into primary battles. When they do it is to support the Dems that has the best chance of the general election. Policy voters are going to vote for the person closest to their own beliefs. Look at what happened to the GOP with Angle and O'Donnell. Both were to far to the right to win in the general election. In some places candidates can be to far to the left to be viable. Push the Blue Dogs out of the Democratic party and they go where........to the GOP. Or voters vote for GOP candidates because they hold views closer to their own. Graysons distirct was not overly conservative. In fact he lead in the polls against every one, including among Republican voters. Until he started with over the top out right lying ads. The Blue Dogs fought because they feared that voting for health care reform would cost them.......and it did. As did voting for the stimulus. A larger stimulus would have had to pick the economy up to the point where is felt like nothing had happened. The fact is no stimulus would have done that. You would have still had problems with the housing market, and credit. The GOP would have still been pounding on the fears of run away government spending. Yes, more stimulus would have helped the economy, but we would still not be booming. Just because the deficit is not a number one concern does not mean it is not a concern. One of the Tea Parties main platforms was lowing government spending. Not to mention that the deficit is part of the Economy in general. Hell, here in Florida a referendum passed that called for the federal government to pass a balanced budget amendment. It passed by 75%. Future deficit, yes. Current year deficit, no. That has gone up. The US does not have a heavily liberal-leaning public. That is why all canidates move to the center during general elections. The vast majority of US voters are moderates. The fact that the GOP made big gains because the base saw Clinton as a conservative shows how stupid that electorate can be. Liberals stayed home and let the people who's views are even further away from there own take power. 1996 had Clinton getting re-elected after a move two the center, while the GOP lost only 6 seats in the house, but gaining 2 in the senate. Hardly a backlash.
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Post by m52nickerson on Nov 4, 2010 21:46:44 GMT -5
Not because they were blue dogs at all. Very few Blue Dogs won in areas Obama didn't win, and hardly any of them did better than Obama, who ran as a very liberal democrat. There's no serious disparity between them and proper Democrats like Alan Grayson who ran in conservative areas. In short, being a coward and a Republican will not win you votes, even in conservative areas. Being a conservative is likely to cause the African and Hispanic American populations of some of those areas to stay at home, leaving elderly Americans (who are overwhelmingly conservative) as a higher percentage of the vote. This means you lose. In short, the DNC should only give money to actual democrats. The 2008 elections had all most anyone with a D next to there name winning. The Blue Dogs where on the ballet because they won primaries, which in most cases meant they were favored by the Democrats in those areas. This past week it would not have mattered if those Dems were Blue Dogs or Progressives in those areas, they were going Red. Alan Grayson lost because lost because he ran added that made him look like a giant douche bag. Your probably right about that. Probably not. Even if he could have after a fight, how much damage would have been done during that fight? The deficit is a major issue right now, just about everyone cares about it right now. It is the issue that comes out in the same breath right after jobs/economy. Yet he won re-election. By the end of his second term the Dems were in trouble. Had he stayed to the left, nothing would have got done. The Dems may have gotten more support from his base but the moderates that did go with Gore may have broken the other way.
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Post by m52nickerson on Nov 4, 2010 12:15:37 GMT -5
A quote from the story....
I think Bush has a point. It is one thing to criticize that why someone is doing thing, it is another to say they are doing things because they are racist. I doubt Bush sat back and did not react to Katerina just because New Orleans has black people living there.
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Post by m52nickerson on Nov 4, 2010 9:04:32 GMT -5
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Post by m52nickerson on Nov 4, 2010 6:46:45 GMT -5
Being in 'conservative areas' like Florida and New York and Ohio didn't hurt the Blue Dogs when they rode on obama's coattails to their 2008 wins. Yes, because they were Blue Dogs. Not to mention the fact that Bush and the GOP were vastly unpopular and the economy crashed. This resent election was about the economy and the fact that it is still not strong. It was the overriding issue. It does not matter that it will take time to fix, people expect it to be better now. Obama could not fix the economy as fast as people expected and his party suffered in places that are not married to party his ideals. The sick and stupid thing is that regardless of who is in control of congress the Presidents party is the one to take more of the blame, but does not get the credit. President Clinton get credited for a balanced budget. Yet the GOP controlled congress got the rewards. A Republican President was elected. (yes I know it was by a slim margin, or not really at all) The GOP then had control. It took two unpopular wars and the issues around them to put the Dems back into control in 2006. Bush and the GOP were kicked out in 2008 because they were blamed for killing the economy. Yet in the 2 years the Democrats had control of the senate they tried little to prevent the collapse. Despite this the electorate gave them all most no blame at all. More more years brings us to today. The economy is still not strong, many people still out of work. It does not matter to majority of the electorate that the GOP ran a giant cock block operation to make sure things would not get better. It only matters that things are not much better ant the Dems were in control. Frankly the GOP can continue to just block any type of progress, provided they just don't make things worse. In 2012 the voters again will not care about the why, just the who.
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Post by m52nickerson on Nov 3, 2010 22:20:23 GMT -5
Avoidance of the "I'm so powerful nothing can touch me" thing they're so often guilty of. It's much more interesting when they're smart or violent, rather than just capable of dropping a continent on you with no noticable strain. More interesting yes, more bad-ass, no!
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Post by m52nickerson on Nov 3, 2010 19:39:28 GMT -5
Only 47% of the Blue Dog caucus survived the election. 95% of the Progressive Caucus won. Here that, DNC? Democrats- ie the people who vote for you- like to vote for people who are Democrats. ....well if they are in liberal areas!
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Post by m52nickerson on Nov 3, 2010 15:02:37 GMT -5
Scott won Florida. Jesus Christ! Don't people spend five fucking minutes reading before they vote? It took me two to realize Scott is a lying piece of shit! At least a few other Republicans sound intelligent enough. Scott is a fucking back-stabbing moron, but last night we found out the majority of Florida is as well. Hey, Scott only got 49% of the total vote so.........ah, fuck it, your right a majority of people in Florida are morons.
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Post by m52nickerson on Nov 3, 2010 12:59:41 GMT -5
So you're saying America makes a mockery (and pigs arse) of democracy? Seeing that my state just elected a man who's company was fined $2 billion for fraud to be the next govenor........yes! I would not even be upset if conservative candidate won, provided those candidates were honest and presented intelligent arguments. But no, it is far to easy to just lie and have a flashy catch phrase. (Yes, I realize that Obama's campaign made use of catch phrases) The average voter can't tell the difference between the facts and bullshit even when shoved up their nose.
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Post by m52nickerson on Nov 3, 2010 9:43:53 GMT -5
The US electorate will get exactly what they deserve. This is what happens when the ill educated, stupid-in-groups and easily fooled decide who leads.
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Post by m52nickerson on Nov 2, 2010 21:02:58 GMT -5
Looks like the Republicans are taking the House but not the Senate. Does that mean anything in particular? As far as I can tell, tonight changes little. The Democrats still won't get anything done and the Republicans are still out of power. It also means that we could have another government shutdown like we had while Clinton was president. As the Senate, and the House have to agree on a budget each year.
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Post by m52nickerson on Oct 29, 2010 6:49:41 GMT -5
It seems like the only time a mage ever gets close to being a bad ass is when they're the Evil Necromancer sort of character, and a Good Necromancer just doesn't quite match the level of bad-assness. (Exception: Diablo II Necromancer, though that's more due to his personality rather than his actual abilities, so it barely counts.) Personality is a big part of it. That an air of mistery. A fighter can seem pretty badass when he rushes head long into a large groups of Orcs and quickly kills the first few with only a few swipes of his sword. Now when that fighter looks up and finds the remaining Orcs all choking to death while smokes rolls out of their eyes and his mage freind is still seem to just be reading his spell book, that is badass.
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Post by m52nickerson on Oct 28, 2010 6:48:09 GMT -5
Still doesn't work. So God is infinite, I'll accept that term. I reject God. I'm still finite. As a finite being I'm incapable of infinite actions. My rejection can't even harm the infinite, it only affects me, the finite, therefore my sin is finite. In the eyes of the religious you are, at least your soul, is infinite.
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