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9th May 2017, 07:12 AM | #241 |
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If and when that inequality focuses the attention of the electorate, they're free to elect a left-leaning president who is then free to appoint left-leaning judges.
And the pendulum will swing left again, until the unintended consequences of a liberal court become apparent, and then that will itself correct. And so on... |
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Only if the Senate allows it.....
As I understand it, that's one of the complaints, that a Republican-led Senate not only failed to approve Obama's nominee to replace Scalia but furthermore were explicit that they wouldn't consider any Obama nominee, regardless of his or her merits. |
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Yea right. Look at trump he managed to focus that broadening inequality on immigrants thus preventing any reform. As long as you have enough targets top paint as the perpetrators for it you can keep going a long time. I figure russia is pretty much the dirrection this nation is heading. Putin for example really is very popular. As long as you have enough people to shift the blame to you can keep going for a very long time.
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In our system, the public is supposed to hold elected officials accountable for ******** like that. The GOP made a bet that they could get away with it. They were right.
It's tragic and disgusting, but they wagered on the ignorance and indolence of the American populace and won. |
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Define moderation. Pick any issue - immigration, health care, taxes... - and describe what a moderate position looks like.
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There was no game or strategy. The GOP bet on a plan that was contrary to 225 years of American governmental practice. There was no explicit rule against it, but it was a flagrant bit of obstructionism unprecedented in American history. It was ******, but it worked.
Whether you want to call it dirty or not, I don't care. You know as well as I that if it happened with the parties reversed your side would whine for a thousand years. |
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Why, do you seriously not know? My opinion is the Dems never compromise, they aren't interested in it, they want to implement their leftists ideas. That is something I admire about them.
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Socialists? They're barely liberals. Do you even know what true socialism looks like?
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Lordy!
Can you understand a politician can have some socialistic tendencies?
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Current Fed policy is more of a Reagan thing. Trump has been pretty vocal about wanting to change it though; Apparently Reagan was too much of a leftist for him and his supporters. Trump is also intent on killing off the EPA because it was originally established by noted Communist Richard Nixon.
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If that's the standard you want to use, ALL American politicians have socialist tendencies.
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1) That's a sad dodge to a pretty direct challenge. Just pick an issue and describe a substantive moderate position.
2) This is flatly wrong as a Democratic President advanced a health care bill conceived by the Heritage Foundation, proposed by Bob Dole, and enacted in Massachusetts by Mitt Romney.
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