2010-01-19, 15:07 | Link #5461 | |
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not that bad a reason to vote against her. it just show how out of touch she is with the little people and how inept her staff is.
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They requested guards. They got an order to evacuate instead. It was a tough call (if they'd stayed and had been attacked, they'd have lost even more lives.) Maybe they (and I don't even mean the doctors who merely obeyed orders, but those who gave them in the first place) made the wrong one. But it's easy for us to say their fear are exaggerated, and maybe they are, but he aren't there. They are. And they, too, are working on incomplete information. But instead of only prettied up images for the TV, it includes the sound of gunfire in the not-far-enough distance. Quote:
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2010-01-19, 16:39 | Link #5463 | |
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2010-01-19, 20:19 | Link #5464 | |
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2010-01-19, 21:34 | Link #5467 |
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For a while I've wondered which state is the most liberal in America, Massachusetts or Vermont. Now I know it's Vermont.
Will be interesting to see how well Scott Brown does for the next few years. If he turns into a centrist (which he isn't now) he may end up like the Maine Republican Senators who never lose elections. |
2010-01-19, 21:47 | Link #5469 |
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Hopefully Brown's winning by over 100k votes in one of the most liberal states in the country, will force the Democrats in power to scuttle the Healthcare Reform bill and start over from scratch instead of trying to ram what they have down our throats.
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2010-01-19, 22:02 | Link #5470 |
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what's the point, no real legislation will be passed, shill legislation helping to solidify the insurance companies monopolies won't do much. Might as well deregulate and just give into Ike's fears. And in my opinion ike was probably one of the best presidents this century.
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2010-01-19, 22:06 | Link #5471 | |
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Melbourne's got it's new transport minister, but I don't care because:
Commuters using fake names to register for myki transport smartcard Quote:
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2010-01-19, 22:18 | Link #5472 | |
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Were the Republicans in MA campaigning for Brown much more heavily than the Democrats?
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2010-01-19, 23:19 | Link #5475 |
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The Mass. Senate race is one reason why I think we really need senatorial term limits. Whatever you thought of Ted Kennedy, perhaps if he hadn't been guaranteed his seat for almost half a century, then the Mass. Dems wouldn't have taken it for granted and considered it "theirs".
Now the righties in the Pat Robertson crowd are going to say this is the end result of a divine "just as planned" gambit starting with Ted's death and that this was all God's will. Speaking of Rev. Foot-in-Mouth; did you hear what he said about the Haiti earthquake today? Yeah... |
2010-01-19, 23:30 | Link #5476 | |
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word...... The people of MA beat a candidate that got on the ticket simply because she paid her dues to the machine, a candidate that really didn't hold any appeal to the general voter, especially to those that remember her from her prosecuter days... a MA machine that is not what it once was...this basically signals that Bulger's old machine is done now....that was the machine that ran MA politics at the local levels. At the end of the day that's what I take away from Brown's election. Last edited by mg1942; 2010-01-19 at 23:41. |
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2010-01-20, 00:10 | Link #5477 | |
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Corporate Left and Corporate Right look exactly the same to me....
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2010-01-20, 00:24 | Link #5478 |
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Hopefully, there'll also be reforms on Senate rules. It's pretty ridiculous to require 60 votes to even consider a bill. Gives too much power to a few Senators.
It's just amazing how even the threat of a filibuster forces so many stupid changes in a bill to appease a few Senators who'll vote against it anyway. |
2010-01-20, 00:51 | Link #5480 |
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Better yet get rid of the Senate. And the Canadian Senate. And the Australian Senate. And the Japanese Senate. They all serve no purpose but to get in the way of more representative lower houses of legislatures.
I do hope healthcare reform still passes. It would be appalling if Paul Kirk continues to vote, but Democrats have other options. The best thing to do is for the House to pass the bill the Senate passed without any changes, which wouldn't require another Senate vote. Then they could make changes to it using reconciliation. |
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