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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
They may wind up alienating quite a few people or convincing quite a few people that they're simply a moribund party by doing their best to get seats in Congress.
[slight drift]

Il Cattivo wins the thread for the day with his use of the word "moribund" in a sentence. I'm pretty well versed, but had to look that one up! Kudos to you, sir!! Big Grin

[/drift]


Well, I didn’t have to look it up, but every once in awhile, he comes up with thoughts that make one glad he was saved by Aunt Gracie.




Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.

When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson

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Big Grin The commie that the democrats just sent to Congress doesn't even know how Congress works!


Bahahahahahhahahaha
 
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She's 28 years old. She's a child in my book, an ignorant little girl.


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She's 28 years old. She's a child in my book, an ignorant little girl.


Hey! She learned everything she needs to know working as a waitress.
 
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She's 28 years old. She's a child in my book, an ignorant little girl.


Hey! She learned everything she needs to know working as a waitress.

What's that?..How to fetch a sandwich?
 
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What's that?..How to fetch a sandwich?

How to smile and charm people for money.



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She's 28 years old. She's a child in my book, an ignorant little girl.


She’s got feelings and that’s all she needs you over privileged, cis gender, gun nut, white devil. Big Grin
 
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MSNBC’s Chris Matthews called on Democrats to obstruct the nomination of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s replacement to the Supreme Court Wednesday, minutes after Kennedy announced his retirement.

“I don’t think the Democrats should allow even meetings to occur for Trump’s nominee to fill this vacancy by Justice Kennedy,” Matthews said on MSNBC’s Hardball. “I think they have to fight eye for an eye for what happened in ’16, where the Republicans led by Mitch McConnell refused to even consider or meet with Merrick Garland. I think if the Democratic leadership under Schumer allows this to go forward, they’re going to have a huge problem with the Democratic base.”

Matthews cited Republican obstruction of Barack Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland, which led to a 14-month vacancy on the high court, in suggesting Democrats would be held to account by their constituents if they don’t adopt similar tactics to block Kennedy’s replacement.

“There is no way politically that the Democratic base will stand for any kind of hearings or vote on a Trump nominee for the Supreme Court before the election. We’ve got an election in four and a half months. There is no reason to consider a Supreme Court replacement in that time,” Matthews said.

When asked how the Democrats might obstruct the nomination given the recent rule change lowering the confirmation threshold for Supreme Court nominees from 60 votes to a simple majority, Matthews suggested that they should block unrelated legislation to delay a confirmation vote.

“There’s a lot of dilatory tactics they can use on every bill before the Congress between now and November. If they don’t use everything they’ve got, if they don’t play hardball, I think they’re through,” Matthews said. “I know the Democratic base. They are very angry about this leadership. They don’t believe they’ve fought hard enough against Trump.”

“If [Kennedy] gets replaced by a hard-line social conservative the Democratic leadership will have hell to pay,” he concluded.

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Calling for it is all well and good, but they don't have the votes or procedural rules to make that happen. If the Rs want a vote, there will be one.




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I don't get the left's fascination with Roe v. Wade. If it were overturned tomorrow, it would not make abortion illegal at all. Some states would be able to add restrictions, but it would take years, and that's after the years it would take for some challenge to Roe v. Wade to even make it to the SCOTUS. And then anyone in the restricted states could just hop over to the next state with loose abortion laws. I really don't see what the big deal is. Never mind the fact that the people who are most fanatical about it would be totally unaffected by it, even if it were banned at the national level, which it never will be.


To be fair, if the states could ban abortion, Texas probably would. And a poor person in, say, Waco, would have a damn long drive to a state that allowed abortions, if they could even afford to take three to five days to do it. (Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas might ban them too - I don't know about New Mexico. The closest choice might be Colorado.) It might well be an effective ban. That is why they care so much.




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Do they even realize that Kennedy is a quite conservative justice in general? There are only a few social/personal liberty issues where he goes their way.




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Big Grin The commie that the democrats just sent to Congress doesn't even know how Congress works!


as far as I can tell by their actions, neither the socialists, the DNC nor the GDC think it works already, as 'sometimes' legislation they DON'T like slips through;

Yesterday I heard the audio campaign ad credited to giving her the vote turn out. It really was an impressive pitch for an unknown candidate.


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To be fair, if the states could ban abortion, Texas probably would. And a poor person in, say, Waco, would have a damn long drive to a state that allowed abortions, if they could even afford to take three to five days to do it. (Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas might ban them too - I don't know about New Mexico. The closest choice might be Colorado.) It might well be an effective ban. That is why they care so much.


Hmmm. Maybe they should start teaching/preaching personal responsibility again then...You see, getting pregnant is really a preventable occurrence. Several ways to prevent pregnancy in the first place, so why need to abort babies? I understand when the need arises out of medical necessity and rape, but generally, there aren't too many REAL reasons to do something like that.


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Keep in mind the whole abortion thing is only important to the overlapping feminist / marxist movement. They don't give a crap about the intricacies it is only that it is thought as equality. Their thought process is a man can be sexually free with no responsibilities so can a woman.

From this link:
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.o...96b106885b09ce35.pdf

INDIVIDUALIST AND PROTECTIONIST FRAMES IN THE FEMINIST
REPERTOIRE
Autonomy is a core value for feminists. Feminist thinking about how to
use abortion rights to achieve greater autonomy for women (what Gordon
[1990] calls actual birth control) in both the United States and Germany
offers two types of ideologically justified claims related to feminist arguments
in other situations. The first framing situates abortion as a matter
of choice, which women, like men, should be able to exercise freely as
rights-bearing citizens, and is squarely situated in the mainstream of liberal
political theory (Bordo 1993; O’Connor et al. 1999). By acknowledging
women’s moral competence to make abortion decisions, a state
not only withdraws its coercive power from a significant arena of women’s
life but also symbolically recognizes women’s full personhood. While this is more than a merely negative liberty, it falls short of providing a means
to realize rights to exercise choice in practice through positive state intervention
(Roberts, Dorothy 1997). Within this framing, women’s similarity to men
is stressed, not their specific social position as women or their particular
race and class.
The second framing of autonomy assumes the need for women to be
protected from social coercion to be free. Insofar as abortion is understood
not merely as a consumer choice but as an aspect of control over the
conditions in which women’s life chances are structured—birth control,
in Gordon’s terms—then male dominance and the risk of exploitation
must be considered.
 
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Someone needs to explain to poor Piss Matthews that, after the November mid-term elections, Donald Trump is STILL going to be the POTUS, and will make the next Supreme Court Justice appointment.

Totally NOT like 2016.

Oh wait...that would be lost on Matthews. Roll Eyes
 
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“There’s a lot of dilatory tactics they can use on every bill before the Congress between now and November. If they don’t use everything they’ve got, if they don’t play hardball, I think they’re through,” Matthews said. “I know the Democratic base. They are very angry about this leadership. They don’t believe they’ve fought hard enough against Trump.”


Calling for it is all well and good, but they don't have the votes or procedural rules to make that happen. If the Rs want a vote, there will be one.


I don’t think Chrissy is limiting his tactical suggestions to the rules or the votes.

Maybe setting the Capitol on fire, or maybe some demonstrators, like Buddhist monks of half a century ago.




Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.

When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown
 
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Bring it on ChrissyHissy.

Bring. It. On.

The more, the better - show they true face of the LEFTIST hacks!

Big Grin Big Grin Big Grin

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Just stopped by MSNBC...they all look like somebody just took a big shit in their mashed potatoes

I watched Rachel Maddow for the first time last night. It was pretty disappointing because I was expecting a good rant, but she was incredibly dull and boring.

She opened with some long “expose” about political corruption in Alabama regarding the governor and the former AG turned U.S. Senator. I *think* she was trying to use it to draw some parallels to Trump, but I’m not sure.

I follow politics pretty closely, but after 10 minutes of listening to her pontificate, I still had no idea what point she was trying to make.


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Maybe setting the Capitol on fire, or maybe some demonstrators, like Buddhist monks of half a century ago.



^^^^^This is an idea I could get behind..........

Every day a Democrat Congressman or Senator goes into the capitol parking lot in his/her bathrobe pours gasoline over her/his head and self-immolates while the rest of them gather around in a drum circle and sing: "We shall overcome" or "This is our land"....
 
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I don't get the left's fascination with Roe v. Wade. If it were overturned tomorrow, it would not make abortion illegal at all. Some states would be able to add restrictions, but it would take years, and that's after the years it would take for some challenge to Roe v. Wade to even make it to the SCOTUS. And then anyone in the restricted states could just hop over to the next state with loose abortion laws. I really don't see what the big deal is. Never mind the fact that the people who are most fanatical about it would be totally unaffected by it, even if it were banned at the national level, which it never will be.


To be fair, if the states could ban abortion, Texas probably would. And a poor person in, say, Waco, would have a damn long drive to a state that allowed abortions, if they could even afford to take three to five days to do it. (Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas might ban them too - I don't know about New Mexico. The closest choice might be Colorado.) It might well be an effective ban. That is why they care so much.


Maybe poor people should stop sport fucking each other.




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