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"Look favorably??" Really?? Gee, that’s pretty tepid…and funny!!
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In the lynchings that you and your kind perpetrated on blacks and other minorities through the years, the unfortunate victim was always looked upon “favourably”
Right up to his demise.
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So has Ryan shown any signs of changing his mind over the weekend?
If I were Ryan I wouldn’t take the job. This is the ultimate no win situation.
Even if he negotiated a bullet proof care-taker role, what’s going to change by the next election? The Republican party has so gerrymandered the crazy that Eric Cantor couldn’t win a primary. They will likely lose some seats at the margins but they’re not going below 2012 levels (where Democrats had 1,000,000 more votes for congress than Republicans and the GOP majority held firm) which means the next GOP congress is going to be right back where we are now. So then they tell Ryan we hate you but you can’t leave this job because no one else will do it?
The Republican party has so institutionalized the crazy as to make being Speaker an impossible job.
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The wingnuts whose heads are obviously up their tucheses need to look some more since Daniel Webster R-FL is likely to lose his seat because of an imminent redistricting decision by the FL State Supreme Court.
The new 27-district map could likely flip a few House seats from Republican to Democrat, and vice versa, in the 2016 election, including one held by Representative Daniel Webster, a conservative Republican from Orlando now vying to become the next speaker of the House. But however much it changes the political balance of power, supporters of the lawsuit say the ruling is a step toward fairer districts, rather than those created out of political calculation.
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One of the worst effects of no-show Democratic voters in U.S. history…the 2010 non-voters.
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Of course they gravitate towards the known liar.
And one thing about ryan, he’s all about ryan, and no one else.
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You would??
well bless your little heart.
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Voter turnout in 2010 was 38.51% of the voting age population, and it was worse in 2014: 32.98%. Even in presidential election years turnout has been in the 50 percentile range, e.g. 51.80% in 2012. There is tremendous apathy about the right to vote, disheartening to all of us here.
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Fall, sword, something, something.
The endorsement was a blow to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy who unexpectedly dropped out of the running before Republicans were to vote for a nomination.
Come again? How is this a blow to someone who’s already out of the running?? Do they mean it’s a blow to Daniel Webster?
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Yeah, I’m smelling a set-up here. Now, all of a sudden, Ryan the RINO, would be “favorably looked upon” to herd the group of rabid weasels. Until a potential gov’t. shutdown has him at the helm and goodbye political future.
SO, basically, you’re in favor with these freaks until you’re not. And then, the knives are visibly out for you. And, as dwward said, you’re back to where you started from.
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Labrador already made it clear…until Ryan comes before the, signs their pledges and swears fealty to the Freedom Caucus, they aren’t going to back him. This is just a very apathetic PR ploy to seem “reasonable” now that pretty much every body in the GOP outside of their little gang is rejecting them.
Probably some of them visited a favorite watering hole and when they sat down at the bar, everybody else stood up and moved to the tables.
Ryan would be set on fire before the year was up if he accepted the Speaker job, by these very same people. Its what they do.
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Ryan can’t be that naive. They’ll turn on him in a minute. Cannibals.
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They’ll look favorably upon him until the second he doesn’t succumb to their crazy ideas. Then he will be a traitor that needs to be tossed aside.
It is a no win situation dealing with these freaks. They have no basis in reality and should be marginalized for the good of the country.
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And for only about 5 minutes, anyway.
And it was the loss of the state Houses that allowed them to gerrymander extreme GOP control.
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If Dems had a messaging machine they would use this craziness to start advocating for antigerrymandering ballot initiatives in states where they are legal (Ohio, Missouri, etc) instead they are just looking on with glee. Dems should be taking advantage of the situation, but instead they’re not.
We need real leadership at the DNC
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If our democracy goes under in these coming crucial years, there will be responsibility for this on the racists and xenophobes of the G.O.P.
And there will be responsibility on the no-shows of those on our rolls who could have made a difference in 2010 and 2014.
I sincerely believe that both groups share a feckless and arrogant inability to assign self-blame.
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