Dems can do anything…Grab 'em by their majority…They can do anything.
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why are you bad-mouthing weasels?
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Notice the first state on this list is Florida. DSCC needs to up their game here, seriously.
But other posters are right, don’t be spiking the football just yet. 14 days left to push the GOTV efforts. Leave nothing to chance here, it’s possible some of these races may come down to a handful of votes to make the difference.
It ALL matters. You’ve seen the last 8 years, and more specifically the last 4 and what the GOP have done. The evidence is all there. If Hillary Clinton wins this, give her a congress to work with so that she can accomplish what you want. Lord knows we can now only imagine what President Obama could have done with the same support, so don’t make that mistake again.
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That’s because we’re stars!
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I’ve been taking the day off after the election for a while now. I wish we could have a wave, but gerrymandered districts in Michigan makes it hard here.
I know we’ve had this conversation before, but how can Democrats possibly adopt the position the GOPers have held all year? That’s precisely what they’ve been saying all year long – President Obama shouldn’t get to make the pick, the new president should.
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It’s an admittedly crazy idea, but I was wondering about a grand bargain where Garland gets a vote and Ginsburg retires with a joint nomination of a SC replacement by BHO & HRC?
Everybody gets something they’d want. President Obama gets his pick voted on. President Clinton gets to make a pick right off the bat. Centrists get Garland on the SC. Progressives get a newly named, presumably young and liberal, SC pick. The GOP gets probably about the best they could hope for in Garland (certainly better for them than what HRC will pick for Scalia’s replacement come 2017). The Democratic Party gets to flex its new muscle as a majority in the Senate. The USA gets a positive way out of a constitutional crisis and a fully functioning SC. And the US Constitution itself remains intact in that President Obama does get the vote for the SC pick the Constitution authorizes him to make.
I wonder if the House will flip this year like the Senate. One could only hope.
100% agreement here. In 2009, the senate was scrambling to rescue the economy. The car industry, financial sector, and housing market were all going down the drain simultaneously (and we were still fighting two wars at the time), and both President Obama and the Democratic Senate had their hands full (yet still managed to pass the ACA!). In 2017, President Clinton and a newly Democratic Senate will begin with a stable economy and a relatively stable global situation. We’ll be able to hit the ground running and get to doing the peoples’ work right away.
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I expect an announcement, soon after the election, that Merrick Garland is withdrawing in order to spend more time with his family.
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This is a tsunami. That’s what was unleashed in Texas on the first day of early voting yesterday. There were 6 hour waits down in South Texas, which is predominantly hispanic, to vote and 2 and 3 hour waits around Dallas.
They are saying they have never seen anything like it here. It is unprecedented turnout.
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PBO will be pres for a little while with a democratic Senate. They just take care of business.
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Poll dancing…does it pay well?
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Not if Donald Trump has hired you.
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Poll dancing…does it pay well?
[/quote]Depends on how well one is able to split … the difference.
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“Duffy explained that historically, one party typically wins the majority of those on the map.”
Well, yeah, that’s the way it works.
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Sooooo, the new Senate convenes on January 3, 2017, but the new President isn’t sworn in until January 20th?
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Chuck Grassley has so much seniority in the Senate that he can steer federal money to Iowa in a way that a freshman Senator cannot. That is no small thing in rural states like Iowa.
The argument is simple. Republicans have been saying all along that the new president should get to nominate their own SCOTUS justice. That was ridiculous a year ago, but now we actually have a president elect and we’re in a lame duck session. The new president and Congress should get a vote. It doesn’t need to be the most artful argument in the world. We just need to make it work.
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greed isn’t always bad, i’m with you. 54 seems like such a nice number!
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