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2nd Term Part VIII - The Thin Red Line

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Today in Republicanism:

Some conservatives have argued that reducing the top rate is less urgent now than it was during the Reagan administration, when the top rate was cut from 70 percent to 50 percent and then cut again from 50 percent to 28 percent. But Ryan says that cutting the top rate is “even more pressing now” than it was back then “because the American economy was so dominant in the global economy and capital was not nearly as mobile as it is today.”
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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/paul-ryans-convinced-time-cut-taxes-the-wealthy

Paul Ryan says, cut taxes for the rich and watch the wealth trickle down like a summer rain.
 
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MattS said:
Monkeys will fly out of my *** before NY makes any type of meaningful change to the districts. Albany is the most dysfuntional government in the US. It makes Washington look sane. Basically what it comes down to is downstate (LI & NYC) with a couple of upstate cities will be D controlled and the rest of the state will be R controlled. Both parties ***** about it but when deep down they like it that way so they keep their strongholds.
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My first ever newspaper gig was at the tender age of 16, covering a GOP convention at the Commack Arena on Long Island in 1979. My recollections include:

1. There were actual smoke filled rooms, with guys who just walked off the set of "The Last Hurrah" chomping cigars and yelling orders through clenched teeth into rotary phones, like "get me that ***** Rockwell from the 8th ward and tell him if I don't see his ****ing votes here in half an hour he'll be scrubbing ****ing toilets in goddamed Oswego!" Click. "I'm sorry, son, what was your question?"

2. There were women who I am 90% sure were escorts, down on the main floor, hanging onto campaign staff and floor runners.

3. The entire building was full for probably the only time in its existence, including the golden years of the Long Island Ducks hockey team.

4. Everybody was one drink from being blasted, and somehow remained in that state all night.

5. One of the handlers spelled out the facts of life of NY politics to me almost verbatim from what you typed above.

Good to see nothing ever changes.
 
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I love stories like that. Always interesting to read about those kinds of experiences that most people never get to see.
 
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Kepler said:
Good to see nothing ever changes.
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Nah, I'm sure if anything has changed it's that maybe the politicians are a bit more covert about the corruption. But then again with Cuomo's great Moreland Commission fiasco, mabye not.
 
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Conservatives shouldn't try to do humor. Whatever it is they're missing, it really shows in the not funny.
 
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Kepler said:
Conservatives shouldn't try to do humor. Whatever it is they're missing, it really shows in the not funny.
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I thought it was funny, if a bit ridiculous. We all have our distractions and methods of calming down. For Bush it was his ranch. For Reagan it was jelly beans and bad 80s TV shows. So what if golf happens to be Obama's? Could be a lot worse - Pierce had his bottle, Buchanan his male pages (if the rumors are true), Grant his cigars, FDR his cigs, and JFK and Clinton had their not-so-secret harems.

At least she took the academic/historical approach. What would've been boring and unoriginal is if she'd started off with a sarcastic version of "How it Works" - "These are the steps we took which are suggested as a plan of action: 1. We admitted that we were powerless over golf and our administrations had become unmanageable..." 12 Step re-writes have been beaten to death at this point.
 
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So the indictment of Rick Perry was politically motivated? Not by Democrats.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opini...democratic-party-editorials-debates/14296815/

Perry will continue to claim that this is a partisan witch hunt. But there wasn't a single Democrat involved in the investigation and indictment.

A Republican judge, appointed by Rick Perry, appointed another Republican judge to handle Perry's corruption case. San Antonio attorney Michael McCrum was named as special prosecutor. McCrum was a U.S. prosecutor under George H.W. Bush and was submitted for U.S. attorney by Sen. John Cornyn. And Perry was indicted by a randomly selected grand jury of his Texas peers.
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ScoobyDoo said:
Yes, and as you noticed during the discussion on here most were saying the same thing. Funny how facts get in the way.
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Even worse was how many so-called liberal pundits and media were taking Perry's side without looking at the case against him. Left wing bias my @ ss.
 
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