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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    ^^Hey, aren't you for changing the constitution? The 14th amendment in particular.


    Naw, that'll get done thru the Courts in the Cruz Administration.

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    Tonight there will be the second GOP debate.

    (I won't follow it).

    But for those of you that are following it: here is some banter. (You're welcome.)

    Lots of "talk." Hot air. Going after the front-runner, Trumpo. But Carson is climbing!

    There are some single digit candidates and if they don't get a bump after tonight 1, 2 or 3 may hang it up.

    I'm surprised but not displeased, to see Jeb at 8%.


    What say you?
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    So the bill to continue funding medical treatment for 9/11 responders failed in the House because Republicans won't support it.

    This is what they are all about. They would rather give 7.4 Billion in tax breaks to their rich buddies than provide medical care for the heroes of September 11th.

    They really are treasonous, treacherous scum.

    9/11 Responders Medical Benefits and Compensation Defeated Today by GOP - Off The Grid

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    ^ Govt shutdown is possible.....

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    And South Carolina and its christian wing have far too much influence by placing South Carolina so early in the primary process.

    RNC Chair: Iowa and New Hampshire Aren’t “Sacred Cows” After 2016

    Reince Priebus suggests the GOP’s governing body could alter the nominating order for future presidential primaries.
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    Tim Alberta
    SEPTEMBER 29, 2015operations in the norther part of the country.

    http://www.nationaljournal.com/s/740...ce?mref=scroll

    Edited because article could not be pasted.

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    Just read this article about the Republican Party choosing the new speaker of the house. They were expecting Kevin McCarthy to take over for Boehner, except he declined. "The whole room of the caucus sat in stunned silence after McCarthy’s short announcement, and that some members started to cry."

    Speaker Race Bombshell Throws House Republicans Into Chaos

    What a mess the Republican Party is now.

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    The Repubs have totally imploded. Since they have no leader there's no leadership, and so a good question that some have asked is whether or not it's still a real functional political party.
    If they can't get Paul Ryan to take the job--the only one who looks like he can get the magic 218 votes--it looks like Boner is going to stay on or the Party is totally fractured and unworkable. Neither Boner nor Ryan are supposed to want the job, but Boner was reportedly on the horn with Ryan to convince him to step up for the good of the Party.

    What Party?

    I wonder of Boner didn't engineer this whole thing, knowing that he could come back with more leverage.
    Naaaaa. That's crazy.

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    Did you hear that bloke McCarthy speaking?

    By God the man is a gibbering idiot.

    Highly qualified for the job I'd say.

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    Bombshell: McCarthy Allegedly Pulled Out Of Speaker Race Due To Affair With Colleague | If You Only News

    Some sources are saying that McCarthy pulled out because of an affair with a female colleague. We need a special thread just to handle all the hypocrisy, verbal boners and assorted bullshit coming out daily from the GOP.
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    Can you believe this bloke could have been third in line to the Presidency?

    "We must engage this war of radical Islam if our life depended on it. Because it does."

    "This "safe zone" would create a stem a flow of refugees. ..."

    "Unlike during the surge in Iraq when Petraeus and Crocker had an effective politically strategy to match the military strategy"

    "We have isolated Israel, while bolding places like Iran."

    "The absence of leadership over the past six years has had a horrific consequences all across the globe."

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    Looks like the even the dumb ones might start to realise that this is nothing more than a pointless kangaroo court.


    Washington (CNN)A former investigator with the House Select Committee on Benghazi is accusing the Republican-led panel of carrying out a politically motivated investigation targeting former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton instead of the thorough and objective fact-finding mission it was set up to pursue.

    Maj. Bradley Podliska, an intelligence officer in the Air Force Reserve who describes himself as a conservative Republican, told CNN that the committee trained its sights almost exclusively on Clinton after the revelation last March that she used a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state. That new focus flipped a broad-based probe of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, into what Podliska described as "a partisan investigation."
    Ex-staffer: Benghazi committee pursuing 'partisan investigation' targeting Hillary Clinton - CNNPolitics.com

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    ^ Worse than that, the committee changed their focus from Benghazi to Clinton's emails. Really exposes them for trying to crucify Clinton instead of doing their "job" of investigating Benghazi.

    The good part is, the longer the Republican "investigate," the better Clinton looks and the Republicans appear the desperate losers they are.

    Clinton Emails Became the New Focus of Benghazi Inquiry

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/12/us...uiry.html?_r=0


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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
    Can you believe this bloke could have been third in line to the Presidency?
    Nitpick: Isn't Speaker technically second in line since POTUS isn't in the line?

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    The debate, hosted by CNN, was billed as a prizefight with a network of promotion showing silhouettes of Mr. Sanders and Mrs. Clinton on giant screens overlooking the city’s famed Strip. But it was thick with foreign and domestic policy concerns, rather than the personal insults and colorful exchanges that have characterized the Republican forums
    and this is why the republicans should be barred from running the USofA until they stop putting forward retards as their candidate for PoTUS

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    Quote Originally Posted by slackula View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
    Can you believe this bloke could have been third in line to the Presidency?
    Nitpick: Isn't Speaker technically second in line since POTUS isn't in the line?
    Well I'm assuming the president is 1st in line.

    But tbh I don't really fucking care 'coz you know what i mean.


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    Why Republicans are starting to panic, in 1 paragraph



    Summer is over. And Donald Trump is -- still -- at the top of the 2016 Republican primary field.

    That makes lots and lots of Republicans with an eye on winning the White House in 2016 (or even 2020) very, very nervous. That unease -- and its origins -- are explained brilliantly in this paragraph, taken from a broader piece entitled "The GOP is Killing Itself," by former Bush administration official Pete Wehner:

    The message being sent to voters is this: The Republican Party is led by people who are profoundly uncomfortable with the changing (and inevitable) demographic nature of our nation. The GOP is longing to return to the past and is fearful of the future. It is a party that is characterized by resentments and grievances, by distress and dismay, by the belief that America is irredeemably corrupt and past the point of no return. “The American dream is dead,” in the emphatic words of Mr. Trump.

    Wehner, whose honesty and insight about his party and its prospects I've praised before in this space, nails a sentiment I've heard expressed by countless Republicans in the Summer of Trump. The concern is that a candidate like Trump is running a campaign based on the 1980 electorate, not the 2016 one.

    Sure, appealing to white voters with a message that things aren't as good as they used to be -- the boiled-down appeal that Trump represents -- might work in a Republican primary. But, there is NO mystery or debate that the changing demographic face of the country makes an appeal to the "old ways" an almost-certain electoral loser.

    Consider that the white vote as a percentage of the overall electorate has dropped in every election since 1992 -- and dipped to 72 percent in 2012.



    And, even as the white vote has become increasingly less influential in presidential general elections, Republicans have grown increasingly unable to compete for the Hispanic vote, which is growing by leaps and bounds. In 2004, George W. Bush won (a somewhat-disputed) 44 percent of the Hispanic vote. That dropped to 31 percent for John McCain in 2008. Mitt Romney won just 27 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2012.

    This chart tells the story of just how white Romney's support was in that election.



    This, from the brilliant Dan Balz, sums up what all those numbers mean for Republicans in 2016:

    If the 2016 nominee gets no better than Romney’s 17 percent of the nonwhite vote, he or she would need 65 percent of the white vote to win, a level achieved in modern times only by Ronald Reagan in his 1984 landslide. Bush’s 2004 winning formula — 26 percent of the nonwhite vote and 58 percent of the white vote — would be a losing formula in 2016, given population changes.

    Simply put: There is no long-term coalition for a party that touts "the way things were" and pushes a policy of rounding up and deporting the millions of undocumented immigrants in the United States. None.

    Strategists like Wehner know this. The problem is that people like Trump not only have a much bigger megaphone but also a vested interest in pushing policies that appeal to a niche -- albeit a somewhat large niche -- of the Republican base.

    Trump is playing the GOP primary game better than anyone else in this race. But he is putting his party in a losing position -- or taking them to the verge of it -- when it comes to a general election in which we know a message like his will (or already has) turned off large numbers of people that the GOP desperately needs to build a national coalition.

    The problem with all of this, of course, is that Trump could care less about what Wehner thinks. In fact, Trump would likely tout Wehner's argument as evidence that the Washington party establishment is a failed, clueless lot.

    The only person who can control or manage Trump is Trump. And he seems to have little of the party's long-term interests in mind at the moment. Commence panic.



    Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...entrandom_3_na
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    Yet another Republican has come out and admitted that the Benghazi kangaroo court was set up for one reason: To smear Clinton.

    Such is their desperation these days.

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    First Republican Debate Highlights: 2015


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    Where's the Typical Low Class Republican thread? Aw shucks we don't have one. Oh well I'll post this here.

    Dennis Hastert, former Republican Speaker of the House (R-IL) and “family values” hypocrite, has plead guilty to a federal indictment alleging that he paid $3.5 million in hush money to undisclosed individuals he molested as a high school wrestling team coach – and then lied to the FBI about it. It is not yet apparent whether or not he will face prison time, but it appears to be a move to avoid an embarrassing public trial.

    Breaking: Dennis Hastert Pleads Guilty To Paying Off Students He Molested |

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    Quote Originally Posted by Humbert View Post
    Where's the Typical Low Class Republican thread? Aw shucks we don't have one. Oh well I'll post this here.

    Dennis Hastert, former Republican Speaker of the House (R-IL) and “family values” hypocrite, has plead guilty to a federal indictment alleging that he paid $3.5 million in hush money to undisclosed individuals he molested as a high school wrestling team coach – and then lied to the FBI about it. It is not yet apparent whether or not he will face prison time, but it appears to be a move to avoid an embarrassing public trial.

    Breaking: Dennis Hastert Pleads Guilty To Paying Off Students He Molested |
    In other words, he gets off with kiddie fiddling by paying his victims off.

    Who the fuck does he think he is, Michael Jackson?

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    With a GOP (in name only) in the Executive, but Congress and the Senate (R) and very importantly the state legislatures.

    Will the State Legislative number translate into Amendments? I highly doubt it, but it's you can speculate.

    This thread is as relevant as before.


    Trump claims he supports term limits for Congressman. I think a limit of 15 years, for example would be for the good. I doubt it will happen, but it may be discussed further.

    A balanced budget would only mean changing the definition of what a "balanced budget" is.

    Dec 5, 2016

    REPUBLICAN SUCCESS OPENS DOOR TO AMENDING US CONSTITUTION
    BY DAVID A. LIEB
    ASSOCIATED PRESS

    JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The November election put Republicans in full control of a record number of state legislatures around the country, a level of power that gives the party an unprecedented opportunity: change the U.S. Constitution.

    Republicans already control Congress, the White House and more governors' offices than they have in nearly a century. But it's the state legislatures that hold perhaps the greatest promise for lasting change.

    The GOP now holds numerical majorities in 33 legislatures, one shy of the two-thirds required to initiate a convention on constitutional amendments. There is no credible talk of using that power for amendments on hot-button social issues, such as banning abortion or gay marriage. But conservatives have a list of bread-and-butter governing issues they would like to see enshrined in the Constitution.

    One, to require a balanced federal budget, is already approaching the level of support that would trigger a convention.
    Beyond that, a major state-level push is planned during 2017 for a constitutional convention that could also consider amendments to impose term limits on members of Congress and rein in various federal powers.

    President-elect Donald Trump has pledged support for an amendment on congressional term limits.
    News from The Associated Press

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