The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

[MissThundercat]

Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

Putting this here, because this is pretty low:

Michigan state senator: schools saying "it's okay to be gay" should be held liable if kids get STDs

According to the article, sounds like this guy is one of those people who believe you can pray the gay away.

[Foxton]

Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

Putting this here, because this is pretty low:

Michigan state senator: schools saying "it's okay to be gay" should be held liable if kids get STDs

According to the article, sounds like this guy is one of those people who believe you can pray the gay away.

Cause only the gays get stds. That's how it works, right?

[bronconick]

Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

Putting this here, because this is pretty low:

Michigan state senator: schools saying "it's okay to be gay" should be held liable if kids get STDs

According to the article, sounds like this guy is one of those people who believe you can pray the gay away.

Gary Glenn is a massive tool. I had the misfortune of interviewing him back around 2000.

[burd]

Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

Putting this here, because this is pretty low:

Michigan state senator: schools saying "it's okay to be gay" should be held liable if kids get STDs

According to the article, sounds like this guy is one of those people who believe you can pray the gay away.

I realize it doesn't work that way, but if I were that stupid I'd be afraid to open my mouth to order a Happy Meal for fear of being overheard, much less say something on film.

[joecct]

Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

Ok folks - trimming time.

Pick 30 people
10 House Dems
10 House GOP
5 Senate Dems
5 Senate GOP

That if they disappeared the Congress would be a better place.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

Putting this here, because this is pretty low:

Michigan state senator: schools saying "it's okay to be gay" should be held liable if kids get STDs

According to the article, sounds like this guy is one of those people who believe you can pray the gay away.

Quote from the article: "Glenn is saying what Midlandites are thinking!"

Truth. You could pretty much carve another red state out of the rural/inland parts of lower peninsula Michigan/Ohio/Indiana.

[FlagDUDE08]

Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

While all of you were distracted over a flag, the TPP passed. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...eal-tpp-senate

[Kepler]

Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

You could pretty much carve another red state out of the rural/inland parts of lower peninsula Michigan/Ohio/Indiana.

There are a lot of "hidden red states" out there. Western Maryland / Central Pennsylvania. Eastern Washington / Eastern Oregon. Most of Upstate New York and Vermont. If the Electoral College was by square footage the Republicans would win every election.

[Kepler]

Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

While all of you were distracted over a flag, the TPP passed. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...eal-tpp-senate

Obama plus mainstream Republicans vs the Tea Party and mainstream Democrats. Delightfully odd bedfellows. Basically, TARP.

But let me get this straight. The Republicans have been calling this president dictator / monarch / emperor, and now they vote to explicitly grant him the power not to consult them? That seems to belie their rhetoric a tad.

[joecct]

Obama plus mainstream Republicans vs the Tea Party and mainstream Democrats. Delightfully odd bedfellows. Basically, TARP.

But let me get this straight. The Republicans have been calling this president dictator / monarch / emperor, and now they vote to explicitly grant him the power not to consult them? That seems to belie their rhetoric a tad.

You can't fight City Hall. But you can surely rent a politician.

Money talks. The TPP lessees paid more than the Warrenites.

[joecct]

There are a lot of "hidden red states" out there. Western Maryland / Central Pennsylvania. Eastern Washington / Eastern Oregon. Most of Upstate New York and Vermont. If the Electoral College was by square footage the Republicans would win every election.

Do red states manufacture and blue states consume?

[BassAle]

Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

There are a lot of "hidden red states" out there. Western Maryland / Central Pennsylvania. Eastern Washington / Eastern Oregon. Most of Upstate New York and Vermont. If the Electoral College was by square footage the Republicans would win every election.

northern California and central valley, northern Maine, rural Minnesota, central/southern Illinois, most of Nevada, northern Michigan, central/south Ohio, eastern and western Colorado, etc. Those places are never going blue.

[FlagDUDE08]

Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

There are a lot of "hidden red states" out there. Western Maryland / Central Pennsylvania. Eastern Washington / Eastern Oregon. Most of Upstate New York and Vermont. If the Electoral College was by square footage the Republicans would win every election.

Western MA as well?

You could say the same thing about "hidden blue states", such as Dallas and Boca Raton. It does effectively look to be rural vs. urban. And unfortunately, the urbans try to cookie cutter their policies onto rurals, thereby driving them into the dirt and forcing them into urban situations (once again, part of Dr. Day's warning). Why not create some more states, like maybe 137 of them? I seem to remember a joke map like that if every single state secession movement actually happened.

[joecct]

Western MA as well?

With Williamstown, North Adams, and Amherst I doubt it. They're as blue as Boston.

[unofan]

Do red states manufacture and blue states consume?

Nope. Red states farm, blue states manufacture, red states get subsidized to buy the goods that their farm proceeds don't cover.