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115th Congress. In Bridge, Can Hearts be Trumped? In Spades!

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I love Tim Walz. Great rep, great guy, and would probably make a pretty good governor too. There's been talk of him running for higher office for some time. I'm not sure his seat was in all that much danger either, unless you believe the delivery phase of Trump's platform is going to yield a higher watermark than the wild promises phase.(Though it does very likely go red if he's not running)

I like Chris Coleman a lot too, but Walz has the advantage of appealing to a wider, more moderate base.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Wow, way to knife your own party.
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If this is the guy I'm thinking of he was Hamletting this for too long, at least the decision is made.

In a perfect world we have centrist D governors and liberal D Members, so although it's risky it could lead to the ideal outcome.

BTW, how does the MN state leg break down?
 
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The worst kind too. There are some monsters in the MN GOP. Google Nolan West. He beat my former chemistry teacher's wife. She ran a wonderfully clean campaign until the GOP started running smear ads against her. In a freaking state house race.

Some of the people in our legislature have proposed bills you would expect from the RWNJs from rural Texas. It's astonishing for a supposedly liberal state.

The hardening of the right in this state is why I've stopped calling it a safe blue state for any statewide election.


ETA: seriously, google Nolan West. The state GOP supported him and he won a suburban race. Not rural. Suburban.
 
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538 has a fascinating analysis on the Trumpcare fail. Among several findings, there's actually a metric that captures as-sholeness.

A slight majority of the would-be “no” votes came from House members who were more moderate than the average Republican. Indeed, it seemed in the final days that more and more of the no votes were coming from the more moderate wing of the party. There are 110 GOP representatives who rate as more conservative than the average Republican House member, and only 23 of them opposed the AHCA or expressed reservations about it.

Those conservatives who said they were against the AHCA, or at least had issues with it, had a key thing in common. Twenty of the 23 were in the lower right-hand quadrant. This quadrant represents more conservative members who also have negative scores on the second dimension of DW-Nominate. Congressional scholar Sean Theriault calls this dimension “partisan warfare,” suggesting that it identifies legislators who are more interested in scoring political points than in crafting policy.
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In short, it's not the conservatism of the Freedumb Caucus that is wrecking Congress, it's their as-sholeness which doesn't even correlate with being more conservative. I think we can all appreciate this by extrapolating from our own experience with people like that. We all know them, and they're impossible to work with.
 
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The perfect metaphor for House Republicans' dilemma.

I understand that it’s hard to turn on a president of your own party for reasons of both your own loyalties and the politics of opposing a base that just elected him. But, really, following this guy down blind alleys is a recipe for getting mugged by the electorate.
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On the nose.
 
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As I've opined many times here, Member staff are the only people in DC who (1) know what's going on and (2) actually do anything. They run the government. Hell, they are the government. The faces you see on the news are show ponies, hood ornaments, and sycophants.

So this is bad for Trump, worse for the GOP, and way, way worse for Ryan.

Paul D. Ryan’s approval rating among House GOP staffers has dropped to its lowest level since he became speaker in 2015, plummeting from 85 percent three weeks after Election Day to 44 percent in March. Those are levels not seen — for either party’s congressional leaders — since the ouster of Ryan’s predecessor, John A. Boehner of Ohio
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Mitch pulls the trigger. The question now: when will 60 fall for legislation?

We're in a Brave New Senate. Let's all hope the better outweighs the worse.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
That will be next. And it will be for tax cuts to the 1%.
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Presumably the GOP will just go back to the Ancien Regime: aristocrats and the wealthy exempt from all taxes. It's their world and we pay to live in it.
 
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Kepler said:
Presumably the GOP will just go back to the Ancien Regime: aristocrats and the wealthy exempt from all taxes. It's their world and we pay to live in it.
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We're all paying to live in it now. Makes me sick thinking of what it's going to be before Trump gets done. Need to stay employed and weather the storm.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
We're all paying to live in it now. Makes me sick thinking of what it's going to be before Trump gets done. Need to stay employed and weather the storm.
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Being an old, straight, white male living off the Military-Intelligence Complex teat is working out pretty well, thanks. :p
 
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Nunes stepped aside today on the House investigation of Russia. Wonder why? Pressure aside the Repubs are in full control.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
Nunes stepped aside today on the House investigation of Russia. Wonder why? Pressure aside the Repubs are in full control.
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So some other Republican can handwave the investigation away. Nunes made himself into the lightning rod.
 
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