We've got a long ways to fall before it gets better

This.

I mean I really think Boehner is more moderate than people think but he is forced right by his caucus (tea party, etc.) who knows the parliamentary style of opposition is a winning play politically.

Even if you picked a moderate like Rep. Kingsinger to be speaker of the house, it wouldn't matter too much as far as policy

If you could run it twice then Frankenstein not creating the monster elevating people like cruz beyond a joke to being an unofficial party leader would have been an obvious to spot solution before it became a problem.

Boehner and the rest of the functional leadership's problem is they are gutless weak leaders, not that they are too far right.

The government shutdown basically because of a dozen people getting out of line. Whip better and work across the aisle if you need to in order to marginalise a tiny tiny minority.

Yeah that's not going to make up the whole difference dude. In fact, it wouldn't be close.

Make up what difference?

Like, balancing the budget is not a requirement, you know that, right?

I wonder if Tom DeLay could whip the party inline. Maybe not, leadership doesn't control the purse strings like they once did.

They have Infected Dr. Sanjay Gupta, The New York Times, and The President of the United States. Even Alabama republicans passed weak-ass laws towards the hippies. Mainstream, Baby!

What's the prohibitionists got?

Same old song, same failed acts.

The smell of hippie is patchouli not weed anyway.

Awesome.

http://news.yahoo.com/us-inspectors-...-politics.html

Isn't this helping ikes' argument? "People want stuff but they don't want to pay for it." Pointing out that they want the rich to pay for it seems to support that.

Yeah. It does. Lol

asking ikes to cite a claim is like asking a groundhog if he's seen his shadow: even if you get a response, it's just going to be unintelligible jabber. See this:

Why Justin Amash Keeps Winning

you are the only person here who gives two ****s about Justin Amash

He's good on the surveillance state. Would have been a pretty bad precedent if he got primaried for it.

Well that's too bad, because he is a great Congressman. Whether you agree with his policies or not.

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Are we ever going to see that ****ing report on CIA torture or is "we tortured some folks, that was bad" as good as it's getting?

Jesus Christ, I'm not pretending Australia is perfect, but once there's a sniff that some high-up guy was party to something shady, you hear about ****ing nothing else until that guy gets nailed to the wall. We have an affliction here called Tall poppy syndrome, which is bad but a lot less bad than giving a pass to the rich and/or powerful.

Edit: Probably nobody cares about usage in Australia, but this is accurate:

I was kind of astonished when I listened to the Santonio Holmes "I'm the guy you go to when you need to make a play" speech after the last time the Steelers won the Superbowl. If that was Australia, dude would be crucified all over the national media as a selfish **** next day.

Grimes cooks McConnell on split-screen at a BBQ in West Kentucky.

That dress is certainly not empty.

Grimes definitely had the better speech.

I could only get through 3 minutes of her awful "roast". So glad we have experienced Democratic leadership here in MI.

You are going full ikes. He said:

"The populace wants all the goodies without paying."

We are talking about a country, specifically the populace, not individual people.

Like this is some weird pathetic "lets tax the people with no money more to pay for everything equally". Note that the rich often pay a lower rate of tax than the poor anyway, its not like America even has a progressive tax system at this point, a flat tax would be less regressive than what currently exists.

Is this a fat joke? She's pretty yo.

Well.... that's obviously completely untrue and never said.

That one sentence post of mine is a short paraphrase of an old dvaut post I liked btw.