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The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

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Kepler said:
I don't understand how this happened. Last I knew they were Minnesota with more beer. Now they're Northern Oklahoma. Wha- happen-?
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They started letting Packers fans vote.
 
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Kepler said:
I don't understand how this happened. Last I knew they were Minnesota with more beer. Now they're Northern Oklahoma. Wha- happen-?
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They haven't been Minnesota-like in quite a while. Decades. You never see cities in Wisconsin as "best places to live". You see many from Minnesota. Every year.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
They haven't been Minnesota-like in quite a while. Decades. You never see cities in Wisconsin as "best places to live". You see many from Minnesota. Every year.
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And it is only getting worse now that they have destroyed the education system there. I mean (supposedly) professors in the UW system are actively telling HS seniors not to go to the in-state schools...let that sink in. (cause anyone who has talked to a Sconnie grad knows they think of themselves as Michigan with different colors)

Wisconsin with Walker is the perfect microcsym of Right Lead politics today. Trickle down and Supply Side has turned it into Kansas-lite. Difference is Walker is not nearly as crazy as Brownback, he is just a nimrod with the charisma of a fork.
 
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As they say when the plot thickens, the plot thickens...

Playing with the election map, if those four seats did happen to fall, we could be looking at Dem 54-46 or an 8 seat pickup:

D->R: none
R->D: NV, FL, NH, WI, IL, IA, MO, NC.

If we want to back off based on Sabato's ratings, taking the safe R off the board only loses us IA (53-47); while taking the GOP leaners off drops MO and NC (51-49).

Basically, the obstruction probably won't cost the GOP the Senate -- it would come into play in driving a majority of 2 up to one as high as 8.

Also keep in mind that this is the comical class of 2010. If the GOP does screw Drumpf, the Tea Party falloff could be decisive.
 
Kepler said:
As they say when the plot thickens, the plot thickens...

Playing with the election map, if those four seats did happen to fall, we could be looking at Dem 54-46 or an 8 seat pickup:

D->R: none
R->D: NV, FL, NH, WI, IL, IA, MO, NC.

If we want to back off based on Sabato's ratings, taking the safe R off the board only loses us IA (53-47); while taking the GOP leaners off drops MO and NC (51-49).

Basically, the obstruction probably won't cost the GOP the Senate -- it would come into play in driving a majority of 2 up to one as high as 8.

Also keep in mind that this is the comical class of 2010. If the GOP does screw Drumpf, the Tea Party falloff could be decisive.
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If the Dem party actually gave a * they could take out Murkowski here.

They need to get it together up here. Alaska is not as red as people think.
 
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Oh my God. I don't wish I'll on anyone, but this guy might be an exception.
 
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Kepler said:
Wow. Just wow.
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This whole "crisis" in Flint is nothing but a media-driven $hatburger.

From Kevin Drum at Mother Jones:

Since the middle of January, there hasn't been a single week in which the average was over 15 ppb, which is the usual level of concern. The average over the entire period since mid-January is 9.05 ppb. Needless to say, it would be nice to get the average level below 5 ppb, but even for households with kids the water in Flint looks pretty drinkable these days.
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and from Sarah Frostenson at Vox:

...the rate of lead exposure in Pennsylvania is incredibly alarming. Nearly 10 percent of the more than 140,000 kids tested had levels of 5 or more micrograms per deciliter of lead in the blood (5 µg/dL) — this is the threshold the government uses to identify children with dangerously elevated blood lead levels. One percent tested positive for blood lead levels greater than 10 µg/dL.

Compare that to Flint, where state data shows the rate of lead exposure for 5 µg/dL from 2014 to 2015 as 3.21 percent. Other researchers have found that specific areas of the city have exposure rates as high as 6.3 percent. That's alarming, but still a lower rate than 18 of the 20 cities in Pennsylvania.
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Not exactly right-wing websites downplaying the Flint problem. As Drum said, it would be nice to get the levels below where they are, but they're nothing compared to 18 cities in PA alone. And that's just two of several left-leaning blogs and websites found by searching "cities with higher lead levels than Flint" that are critical of the hysteria.
 
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SteveP said:
Not exactly right-wing websites downplaying the Flint problem. As Drum said, it would be nice to get the levels below where they are, but they're nothing compared to 18 cities in PA alone. And that's just two of several left-leaning blogs and websites found by searching "cities with higher lead levels than Flint" that are critical of the hysteria.
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I think you are really missing the point of those findings.

Your house burns down. Oh, yeah? Well three houses on the next block burned down. So stop whining about your house -- you're just being sensationalistic. :rolleyes:

But I know, I know, wingnut "austerity for those most in need" could never result in human tragedy.
 
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Kepler said:
As they say when the plot thickens, the plot thickens...

Playing with the election map, if those four seats did happen to fall, we could be looking at Dem 54-46 or an 8 seat pickup:

D->R: none
R->D: NV, FL, NH, WI, IL, IA, MO, NC.

If we want to back off based on Sabato's ratings, taking the safe R off the board only loses us IA (53-47); while taking the GOP leaners off drops MO and NC (51-49).

Basically, the obstruction probably won't cost the GOP the Senate -- it would come into play in driving a majority of 2 up to one as high as 8.

Also keep in mind that this is the comical class of 2010. If the GOP does screw Drumpf, the Tea Party falloff could be decisive.
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Well thought out article here:

http://blogs.rollcall.com/rothenblog/democratic-senate-takeover-moves-possible-probable/?dcz

I happen to agree. Saying Goopers will hold the Senate if Republican Jesus is the nominee is great, but its either going to be Trump or Cruz. I can't see how Ayotte and Toomey survive against a potted plant for an opponent having to make excuses for either of these guys. With that and the IL and WI seats that gets to 50-50. OH and FL are the next most vulnerable after that.
 
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Rover said:
Well thought out article here:

http://blogs.rollcall.com/rothenblog/democratic-senate-takeover-moves-possible-probable/?dcz

I happen to agree. Saying Goopers will hold the Senate if Republican Jesus is the nominee is great, but its either going to be Trump or Cruz. I can't see how Ayotte and Toomey survive against a potted plant for an opponent having to make excuses for either of these guys. With that and the IL and WI seats that gets to 50-50. OH and FL are the next most vulnerable after that.
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Hillary needs to really run hard against a GOP Congress. We need to remind voters just how the orcs have operated; they're unfit to manage a shoe store let alone a country.
 
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A political party in one tweet.

It's got it all: factually incorrect, nasty, and mind-bogglingly stupid. I give you the 2016 Republican party.
 
Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

SteveP said:
This whole "crisis" in Flint is nothing but a media-driven $hatburger.

From Kevin Drum at Mother Jones:



and from Sarah Frostenson at Vox:



Not exactly right-wing websites downplaying the Flint problem. As Drum said, it would be nice to get the levels below where they are, but they're nothing compared to 18 cities in PA alone. And that's just two of several left-leaning blogs and websites found by searching "cities with higher lead levels than Flint" that are critical of the hysteria.
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The damage has already been done. Maybe the water is good. Maybe it ain't. But what are they going to do in the meantime? Erin Andrews got 55 million for being videoed naked. How much do these folks get for drinking lead?
 
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For once I agree with one of scooby's hot takes.

Erin Andrews winning a(n absurdly) large sum and what do the residents of Flint get?
 
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