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He must be worried about a possible primary challenge from the right.
The bad news is, his district is pretty red. Nice gerrymandering.
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Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View PostHe must be worried about a possible primary challenge from the right.
The bad news is, his district is pretty red. Nice gerrymandering.Cornell University
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The odds of this becoming law are about the same as the NY Jets reaching Super Bowl LII.
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Originally posted by joecct View PostThe odds of this becoming law are about the same as the NY Jets reaching Super Bowl LII.
https://static.theintercept.com/amp/...orfeiture.html
Edit: Oh, ferchrissakes...
Edit Edit: Nope, it's not just a RW Claptrap diary. It's kind of a clearinghouse of everything anti-gov, from pro-left to pro-right. Russian, maybe?
Anyway, the House vote was good, though "why do they hate Our Brave Boys in (sniff) Blue?"Last edited by Kepler; 09-13-2017, 08:28 AM.Cornell University
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I find this explanation, in all honesty... completely believable.Cornell University
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Republican Congress conducts experiment: is it possible to lose every Republican incumbency in 2018?
Republicans straining to find about $1 trillion to finance sweeping tax cuts are homing in on two popular deductions that are woven into the nation’s fiscal fabric — the mortgage interest deduction that millions of homeowners prize and the deduction for state and local taxes popular in Democratic strongholds.Cornell University
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They can run multiple panels in series and get hundreds of volts DC, you get across that and it's possible it will be your last time. What about micro inverters? They take what a panel produces and turns it into 240volts A.C., the same thing coming into most homes from FPL. Solar panels still producing power and energizing the grid,can certainly kill an unsuspecting lineman. For what it's worth grid tied systems shut down when power is out for this reason
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Raging homophobic moron declares for Gov in MI.
He seems nice.Last edited by Kepler; 09-19-2017, 11:15 AM.Cornell University
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Here is an interesting way to look at Senators. Go to this table. (The whole site is quite excellent.) Go to the far right column "Progressive Score vs. State Tilt" and click on the arrow under "%" to sort by it.
This gives you an idea of how well a Senator does (or does not) push to the left given the realities of their political landscape. Manchin and Carper, for example, both exert about the same amount of leftward push when normalized against their state's orientation. In their case they are actually overcompensating to the right -- Manchin because he's in fear of his life, Carper I dunno why, but given that it's DE I assume it has to do with corporate bribery.
Brown, Franken, and Baldwin really come out looking good on that measure. Feinstein, OTOH, looks like sh-t, which is what I'd expect from Miss Chicken of the Sea (edit: oops, sorry, that was Pelosi).
All the Republicans are horrific of course, but McCain comes off looking pretty anodyne probably due to the Brownian motion of his dementia and irascibility. Lee's score is bizarre and I assume it indicates a flaw in the model: by voting against GOP bills he's racking up "liberal" points, but he's voting against them because they're not evil enough, so it's very deceiving. Paul has some of that going on too, though on privacy issues he's at least talked a good game (though IINM he has rarely backed it up with any votes). By that indicator Cory Gardner should be the Republican Lady Gaga, doing more with less for the orcs than any of his peers.
Do the same with Members here, against District tilt. Note there are Democrats who actually fall below Republicans. That is extremely bad behavior.Last edited by Kepler; 09-22-2017, 10:32 AM.Cornell University
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Originally posted by Kepler View PostHere is an interesting way to look at Senators. Go to this table. (The whole site is quite excellent.) Go to the far right column "Progressive Score vs. State Tilt" and click on the arrow under "%" to sort by it.
This gives you an idea of how well a Senator does (or does not) push to the left given the realities of their political landscape. Manchin and Carper, for example, both exert about the same amount of leftward push when normalized against their state's orientation. In their case they are actually overcompensating to the right -- Manchin because he's in fear of his life, Carper I dunno why, but given that it's DE I assume it has to do with corporate bribery.
Brown, Franken, and Baldwin really come out looking good on that measure. Feinstein, OTOH, looks like sh-t, which is what I'd expect from Miss Chicken of the Sea (edit: oops, sorry, that was Pelosi).
All the Republicans are horrific of course, but McCain comes off looking pretty anodyne probably due to the Brownian motion of his dementia and irascibility. Lee's score is bizarre and I assume it indicates a flaw in the model: by voting against GOP bills he's racking up "liberal" points, but he's voting against them because they're not evil enough, so it's very deceiving. Paul has some of that going on too, though on privacy issues he's at least talked a good game (though IINM he has rarely backed it up with any votes). By that indicator Cory Gardner should be the Republican Lady Gaga, doing more with less for the orcs than any of his peers.
Do the same with Members here, against District tilt. Note there are Democrats who actually fall below Republicans. That is extremely bad behavior.Code:As of 9/21/10: As of 9/13/10: College Hockey 6 College Football 0 BTHC 4 WCHA FC: 1
Originally posted by SanTropezMay your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.Originally posted by bigblue_dlI don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..Originally posted by KeplerWhen the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
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Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View PostUnless I'm completely misreading it, I don't like this model. Not at all. It doesn't take into account the reasonableness of the votes. It's not about scoring points, it's about being a responsible legislator. If a supreme court justice is qualified, vote for him or her. If keeping the government open is scored on either side of this stupid metric, it's just the liberal version of the Tea Party: Party before country, at all costs.
But yes, at the very highest level it's a measure of fidelity -- not necessarily to party, but to ideology. That's the whole idea.Cornell University
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