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2010 Midterms: GOP Wins the House; Government Shutdown in 3...2...1...
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If I was including primary challengers with no chance in hell my list would be a lot longer. These were all (OK, excluding my hypothetical 1936 matchup) very credible challenges, and a few were even successful.
Basically, it's not really worth spending political capitol fighting a hard primary fight against a sitting president, when you can just wait 4 years for a clearer field.
What the fuckity fuck? I can't believe that tripe got published.
Let's see.... where is our deficit?
What caused it to get there?
And he wants to start another one? Does he own stock in the Chinese Govt?
Holy fuck, what a Psychotic Nutcase.
He is actually advocating for war with Iran as a way to get out of the Great Reccession!
Thats nutbar ANY STANDARD.
But we would just steamroll them and then have to go through the expensive rebuilding process involving dealing with an insurgency. You know, just like in practically every war since WWII. You know, the wars that didn't help the economy.
Depends on the state and yes.
Yea, seriously. WWII got the factories going to produce bombs, tanks, guns, planes. It got millions of people signed up or drafted into the armed forces. None of that would happen with Iran. It's, like, jeeze, if you're going to promote the death of thousands as a way to get out of a recession it should at least be a plan that'd work. Instead it'd just make it worse, spending even more government money but in a way least effective at improving the economy.
Particularly since reservists' jobs are partially protected under law, aren't they?
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
We should build bridges and sewers and rail lines.
And I can cite a couple of very similar wars in recent history to back that up.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
WWII - We have to make a bunch of shit to fight with.
Hypothetical Iranian War - We use all the shit we have sitting around to fight with. Bonus - we get to totally fuck up the price of oil, which would have economic consequences for the entire world.
But hey, we'd get to blow up some more brown people, right?
I've lived here for 20 years and have yet to go to the parade. I should do that before moving away again, eh?
edit:: Also, I absolutely adore Rachel Maddow. Have I mentioned that? And her holiday sneakers
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I almost had to laugh when he called Iran the world's greatest threat. The more we take to just blowing up everyone who looks at us funny, the more I'd have to wonder if we weren't the bad guys.
Bridges and sewers and rail lines are pretty cool; I tend to think however that maybe that plan's detractors have a point when they say it's too short-sighted to be taken seriously. I'm all for encouraging skilled labor jobs, but bridges and sewers and rail lines are the skilled labor jobs of the late 19th and early 20th century (and in the case of the last one it was the skilled labor job we imported Chinese immigrants to do for us). It's useful, sure, but it's also mundane. And I'd like to believe that America is still not a nation willing to settle only on a course towards the mundane. Our nation wasn't defined at the end of World War II only by the capital we'd spent building tanks and airplane factories -- we were also a nation that dared to dream of things which only a generation before would have been thought impossible, and two generations before would have been believed to be witchcraft. We didn't just build a national interstate highway system; we also put a man on the moon. And while we definitely would not be the nation we are today without the logistical infrastructure to move goods from factories to markets to create a diverse, flexible economy, the investment in education in science and mathematics spurred by the Apollo program is why we're more than a nation of bricklayers and asphalt-pourers today.
Personally, what I want to see more than anything is another Apollo program targeted at solving one of the great technological challenges of the 21st century. Renewable energy seems like one obvious possibility, but there are a lot of worthy goals out there. Just so long as we pick something that gets Americans focused not just on having jobs and being able spend lavishly on foreign-made consumer goods but also on continuing to be the innovators who will define the course of humanity through this next generation and beyond -- not only in war but also (and especially) in peace.
I, for one, am tired of feeling like America's economic strength is judged not by what we are capable of producing but only what what we're capable of consuming, and I'm tired of feeling like all of our nation's technological prowess is every year focused only on building a sleeker and sexier iPhone.
Plus high speed rail is really really cool.
I'm all for an energy Manhattan/Apollo though.
The more interesting thing to me is going to be seeing just how Tuesday pans out. Conservatives have already been beating the drum on the "SEIU rigged the vote for Harry Reid!!!11!" I wasn't exactly fond of having to press the button for Reid, but Sharron Angle makes the choice easy. I even have Republican (hardcore religious straight ticket types) that told me they voted for Reid because Sharron Angle put them off in one way or another. I'm not holding my breath, but maybe more people will do that and Harry Reid will let someone else run with the Majority Leader role.
Hopefully.
That's encouraging. I've got folks I know here in lolUtah hitting "like" on Facebook for Angle. At least she's not on their ballots, I guess...
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Alas, too true. Good vid though.
Edit: What the hell kinda pansy-ass TotP is this?
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
I try reading RedState just to understand the conservative mind. Everytime, I come out wondering how their brains haven't exploded yet.
(TLDR: Democrats will accuse Republicans of stealing the election, or being racist pricks. I think the fallout from 2008 would like to have a word with you, Mr. "An Appointed Official is a Goat Fucker" Erickson. But hey, IOKIYAR, amirite?)
They should have cut that ad up into 4-5 20-30 second ads and played it non-stop on the airwaves from Januaryh until election day.
Thats the democratic campaign right there; "things are bad because we are busy fixing what the other guys broke".
As it is, I can't think of a single theme for the democrats this year.
So, predictions? I'm going with GOP +60 in the House and the Senate ending up 52-48 Democrat. Interesting that Real Clear Politics moved the California Senate seat into the "toss-up" column. I doubt Boxer is in any real danger, but it's a sign of the times that this race is even that close. It'll be interesting to see if Murkowski can pull off her write-in campaign. I'm thinking probably not.
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