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The 2nd Term - Round 1 - Diving for Dollars

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The 'problem' with the 'fil is they don't have to follow through. Nobody has to go up there with a thermos of coffee and read war and peace...they only have to threaten to do so. Lame.
Make the ****ers do it..
 
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FYP. #35 was Kennedy, the country's last hope at freedom.
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fuzzy math. We ignore Franklin Pierce and count Cleveland once....

The optimism in this country died on 11/22/63. Since then, pessimism and cynicism have ruled the day.
 
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fuzzy math. We ignore Franklin Pierce and count Cleveland once....

The optimism in this country died on 11/22/63. Since then, pessimism and cynicism have ruled the day.
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What about the dude we don't count that served for a day? Plus, there was no President for a day in 2009 because Roberts butchered the swear-in (although that was after Kennedy).
 
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Why would Jon Stewart encumber himself with the truth...he is in the business of TV ratings.
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He tapes his show in the afternoon. The AIG decision didn't come down until evening. Even today there are reports and editorials decrying AIG for the lawsuit. But why would you encumber yourself with the truth...you're in the business of bashing anyone left of Ghengis Kahn. :p

Edit: Incidentally, Stewart ripped former CEO Hank Greenberg, who IS suing the government. But we can just ignore these petty details. Facts do have that well-known liberal bias :)
 
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FreshFish said:
Without actually looking it up, my off-the-cuff guess would be Scalia.....he seems to be the one most prone to hyperbole.
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No. Although I'm sure Scalia would agree with the premise.

I'll give a clue: This Justice was nominated by Richard Nixon.
 
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To sum up:
“I’m not ****ing putting up with this. I’m not letting my country be ruled by a dictator. I’m not letting anybody take my guns! If it goes one inch further, I’m going to start killing people.”

I hope he enjoys his visit from the ATF.
 
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has anyone seen pictures of John Lew's signature (Obama's designate for next Secretary of the Treasury)? It is perfect for this administration, it looks like eight zeros. Put a $1 in front of it and you get how much the US government is spending each day. :rolleyes:
 
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lulz all around. I can't believe this is an actual issue though.
 
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FreshFish said:
has anyone seen pictures of John Lew's signature (Obama's designate for next Secretary of the Treasury)? It is perfect for this administration, it looks like eight zeros. Put a $1 in front of it and you get how much the US government is spending each day. :rolleyes:
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Jeezuz.
 
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Normally I'm not much of a "fan" of Peggy Noonan, but today she lays out a good differentiation between conservative positions and Republican positions as she exhorts Republicans to act like conservatives.

If you are conservative you are skeptical of concentrated power. You know the bullying and bossism it can lead to. Republicans should go to the populist right on the issue of bank breakup. Too big to fail is too big to continue. The megabanks have too much power in Washington and too much weight within the financial system. People think the GOP is for the bankers. The GOP should upend this assumption. In this case good policy is good politics.

If you are a conservative you're supposed to be for just treatment of the individual over the demands of concentrated elites. Every individual in America making $400,000 a year or more just got a tax hike that was a blow to the gut. Regular working people are seeing their payroll deductions increase. But private-equity partners who make billions enjoy more favorable tax treatment. Their income is treated for tax purposes as a capital gain, so they're taxed at far lower rates. This is called the carried interest exemption, and everybody knows it's a big con.

The Republican Party should come out against it in a big way. Let the real rich pay the same percentage the not-actually-rich-but-formally-declared-rich are paying. If the Republicans did this they'd actually be joining the winning side, because carried interest will not survive the new era. If congressional Republicans care about their party they'll want it to get credit for fairness, as opposed to the usual blame for being lackeys of the rich
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FYI, the biggest defender of "carried interest" in the Senate is Chuck Schumer (D-NY). He's doing what a Senator often does, protect his home state. About 40% of NY state budget is paid for by income tax revenue from several thousand people on Wall Street. If they start to leave, NY state is screwed big time.
 
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You know, since I don't spend half my disposable income on band-aides for my hands and I don't long to return to the early 1980's, I'm a little confused about something. Knucks' in the Senate are threatening to filibuster Hagel, Lew and Brennan for no apparent reason other than sour grapes over losing yet another election. Isn't this counterproductive, as it forces the Majority to get rid of or lower the threshold for a filibuster (say down to 55, conveniently the # the Dems have now). This is going to matter a lot when those budget, immigration and gun control bills come thru the Senate.
 
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FreshFish said:
FYI, the biggest defender of "carried interest" in the Senate is Chuck Schumer (D-NY). He's doing what a Senator often does, protect his home state. About 40% of NY state budget is paid for by income tax revenue from several thousand people on Wall Street. If they start to leave, NY state is screwed big time.
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Like I always say: Crazy, not stupid. He hates 54 counties of New York State, but still has to pander to them for votes.
 
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Rover said:
You know, since I don't spend half my disposable income on band-aides for my hands and I don't long to return to the early 1980's, I'm a little confused about something. Knucks' in the Senate are threatening to filibuster Hagel, Lew and Brennan for no apparent reason other than sour grapes over losing yet another election. Isn't this counterproductive, as it forces the Majority to get rid of or lower the threshold for a filibuster (say down to 55, conveniently the # the Dems have now). This is going to matter a lot when those budget, immigration and gun control bills come thru the Senate.
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They won't lower or rid the filibuster. Why? As much as they'd like to get what they want, they know that when the other side has control, similar to what happened in 2005, they still want the filibuster available to them. This exact thing was discussed at that time as well, but with the roles reversed and obviously it being on talk radio instead of the lamestream media. The wallbanger and golfer talked about ridding the filibuster, but itch reminded them that in 1993, it was needed.
 
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