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  • #301
    Re: The 114th Congress: Two More Years!

    Originally posted by GrinCDXX View Post
    President Obama reduces the scope of the federal government, Ted Cruz cries bloody murder.
    Uhhh... it's the globalists taking over. That's why he's screaming.

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    • #302
      Re: The 114th Congress: Two More Years!

      Originally posted by FlagDUDE08 View Post
      Only one retirement (20-year career politician so I can't say any further back) at the first change, and one person had non-consecutive terms (he isn't trying again), but each time by election, and each time a party change.
      That is truly amazing. I have never heard of anything like that. What's the district?
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      • #303
        Re: The 114th Congress: Two More Years!

        http://m.startribune.com/veto-overri...ection=opinion

        http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/con...8wB?li=AAa0dzB

        We've had a week or two to think it over. Mitch says it's Obama's fault he voted for the override.

        Amazing isn't it that the one bill the Congress got together on is the stupidest thing they could have done.

        Does Congress do anything positive? Anything? I can't think of one thing right now.

        Obama at least was a decent President. Pretty much right on most things.

        "I recognize that there is nothing that could ever erase the grief the 9/11 families have endured," Obama wrote. "Enacting JASTA into law, however, would neither protect Americans from terrorist attacks nor improve the effectiveness of our response to such attacks."
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        • #304
          Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
          http://m.startribune.com/veto-overri...ection=opinion

          http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/con...8wB?li=AAa0dzB

          We've had a week or two to think it over. Mitch says it's Obama's fault he voted for the override.

          Amazing isn't it that the one bill the Congress got together on is the stupidest thing they could have done.

          Does Congress do anything positive? Anything? I can't think of one thing right now.

          Obama at least was a decent President. Pretty much right on most things.
          They'll adjourn sine die in December. That will be their greatest accomplishment.
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          • #305
            Re: The 114th Congress: Two More Years!

            Originally posted by Kepler View Post
            That is truly amazing. I have never heard of anything like that. What's the district?
            Syracuse NY's district; I believe it's #24 now. We've had some re-districting, but I'm going based on location, as it's how my ballot is marked that my basis is. Definitely a battleground district.

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            • #306
              Re: The 114th Congress: Two More Years!

              Originally posted by FlagDUDE08 View Post
              Syracuse NY's district; I believe it's #24 now. We've had some re-districting, but I'm going based on location, as it's how my ballot is marked that my basis is. Definitely a battleground district.
              You are correct.

              I should have known -- it's Ithaca's district too. That is truly remarkable.
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              • #307
                Re: The 114th Congress: Two More Years!

                Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                You are correct.

                I should have known -- it's Ithaca's district too. That is truly remarkable.
                Previously may have been, but not now. Although, I do recall there were talks of gerrymandering Ithaca into our district when Buerkle represented us, as that's about the time they were re-drawing the lines after the census.

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                • #308
                  Re: The 114th Congress: Two More Years!

                  Expect House Republicans to come out in favor of head injuries.
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                  • #309
                    Re: The 114th Congress: Two More Years!

                    Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                    Expect House Republicans to come out in favor of head injuries.
                    I'd be a bit less annoyed if they had the stones to send a similar letter to the NFL offices.

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                    • #310
                      Re: The 114th Congress: Two More Years!

                      https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...m-nonexistent/

                      So I'm reading this article and I was kind of disappointed by it. I think there are plenty of next gen leaders in the Democratic party, I think the real problem is the party isn't turning them into leaders. They're sidelined while the more senior members make the headlines. Klobuchar, Booker, Gillibrand, the Castro brothers, Ellison. The biggest problem is that all of their future leaders are from Congress. There are five Democratic governors born after 1/1/1960. Kate Brown, John Markell, Steve Bullock, John Bel Edwards, and Gina Raimondo. I've heard of one of them. What the hell is that?

                      If the Democrats want to start fostering that next generation, it's time for the current party leaders to step aside as the sponsors of a bill and let the next generation take the reins in pushing bills through. Let them start to be the surrogates that announce major efforts. The more senior members like Schumer and Durbin should be mentoring them instead of looking to get re-elected or get a tan in the spotlight. The Republicans have been doing it well for about a decade now. Everyone knows the names of Ryan, Scott, Cotton, Walker, Rubio, Haley, Chaffetz. Liberals may hate them, but they know their names. It's a problem when you can more readily identify the future leaders of another party than your own. And that's the fault of the party leadership.
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                      • #311
                        Re: The 114th Congress: Two More Years!

                        Holy ****. Did you know that Ted Cruz is only 128 days older than Marco Rubio? ew.
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                        Originally posted by SanTropez
                        May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                        Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                        I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                        Originally posted by Kepler
                        When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                        He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                        • #312
                          Re: The 114th Congress: Two More Years!

                          Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                          Holy ****. Did you know that Ted Cruz is only 128 days older than Marco Rubio? ew.
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                          • #313
                            Re: The 114th Congress: Two More Years!

                            Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                            Holy ****. Did you know that Ted Cruz is only 128 days older than Marco Rubio? ew.
                            I think that's a little from column A and a little from column B. Rubio only looks like a kid in Menudo.
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                            • #314
                              Re: The 114th Congress: Two More Years!

                              Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
                              Using the Dark Side of the Force ages a person much faster than normal.
                              That doesn't explain Rubio, but there is this.
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                              • #315
                                Re: The 114th Congress: Two More Years!

                                Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                                If the Democrats want to start fostering that next generation, it's time for the current party leaders to step aside as the sponsors of a bill and let the next generation take the reins in pushing bills through. Let them start to be the surrogates that announce major efforts. The more senior members like Schumer and Durbin should be mentoring them instead of looking to get re-elected or get a tan in the spotlight. The Republicans have been doing it well for about a decade now. Everyone knows the names of Ryan, Scott, Cotton, Walker, Rubio, Haley, Chaffetz. Liberals may hate them, but they know their names. It's a problem when you can more readily identify the future leaders of another party than your own. And that's the fault of the party leadership.
                                This is a consequence of The Coronation. Everybody cleared the dance floor for Hillary and the Clintonistas, who are older than dirt, dominated the behind the scenes of the party. Their agenda wasn't to promote youth, that's for sure.

                                Young Turks have never been given power, they have to seize it. If there are people in that group strong enough to rise and forge a like-minded, like-aged cadre, they will. The next two years are going to be the qualifying round and everybody is already in motion.

                                I said somewhere else that nobody currently over the age of 55 should speak in public for the Democrats. We need to "green the party," as the corporate eels say.

                                We may have caught a huge break on 11/8. It depends what we do now.
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