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homeland? regime? regime change?
its disheartening that terms that carry loaded connotations are becoming more mainstream…
also the the idea that Republicans are having discussions with Democrats is now viewed as unusual instead of bipartisan is or should be alarming…
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So what’s with the Ahmadinejad look?
He looks… radicalized.
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"This is something I more or less inherited from the last regime," Ryan told reporters last week.
The last “regime”?
That makes Boehner sound like a god dam liberal or something.
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Doofus thinks he’s a hipster.
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Paul “I am Corporate” Ryan, will make sure the corporations are coddled, and rewarded…the language they use is couched in their beliefs that they are "taking back “Murika” from some hostile enemy…We are our own worst enemy…and the republicans want to prove it daily…
Doesn’t matter who is Speaker. The Crazy Caucus will not accept anything or anyone. You could give them everything they demanded, and they would suddenly decide that wasn’t good enough and vote against it.
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Ryan is leader of the Rush Fox cohort of Republicans who’ve grown up listening to rabidly right radio. It’s what passes for wisdom because it’s literally all they know. First he wrote that infamously dishonest budget blueprint which left no money for anything. Then he ran for Vice President, on a platform of denying that he wanted to cut everything. He raised the questions when and to whom was he lying and the best answer anyone can come up with is, “yes.” Meanwhile, millions of Republicans think the whole government amounts to their derelict neighbor on disability, who miraculously heals enough to go fishing in between morning coffee and Happy Hour. They really do want to cut everything and they’re tired of being played for chumps. I’m still a little dismayed how eager are the Democrats to jump in and compromise with this crew, and otherwise nothing’s changed much.
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Despite all the bullshit coming out of Lyin’ Ryan’s mouth he wants a shutdown and he’s going to get it.
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Should be routine.
As for the use of Homeland and other such words… from day one all I think of when I hear or see Homeland is 1930 Germany… I notice even the Security around Oakridge has removed Homeland from vehicles, where before they would read “Homeland Security Services” they now read “Security Services”. And yes, I see daily the black helicopters, vans, etc… just a fact of life around here.
Watching the GOP-dominated House in Washington and the Russian United-Russia-dominated Duma in Moscow have become equally painful.
http://houselive.gov
http://www.duma.gov.ru/analytics/tv/chairman-statements/1454710/
The Cheney-Bush team set the course for using terms with Nazi and White Nationalistic connotations…and the racist Republican party is all too happy to attempt to make these terms main stream.
Trump = white male nationalism based on lies, bigotry, and ignorance!
Sadly, Obama being afraid of his own shadow has totally fumbled away the chance to lead this country in a far better direction from Bush! Obama’s failure began when he pulled back on Financial reform by refusing to reinstall Glass-Steagall…since that major misstep he was exposed and lacking a spine and when the Republicans see a chance to break government, break it they do.
Bernie 2016!
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“Sadly, Obama being afraid of his own shadow has totally fumbled away the chance to lead this country in a far better direction from Bush!”
Perhaps when you start dealing with reality both absolutes and grammar will be less of a problem.
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First he should lose the five o’clock shadow then he can talk like a grown up…
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Ryan is balancing between being popular and faking it until hopefully something takes the attention off of him.
The popularity will wane, it always does and the truth about Ryan will come out in the wash, it also always does.
Lyin’ Ryan will get freedom caucused right up the wazoo before he has to shave his beard.
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“Democratic and Republican aides observing Ryan told TPM that the new speaker is more knowledgable about individual policy proposals and riders than Boehner ever was.”
Remember that phrase, for it is at the root of what will be his downfall.
Ryan is the GOP’s version of a policy wonk…but he has no people skills. Being a successful Speaker is not about writing policy, its about corralling people together to support a given policy. And its already showing up even in his “increased transparency” moves. He has appointed one of the loudest Freedom Caucuses to a major position determining Committee seats, because it looks good on paper. In reality, its sowing the seeds for his own destruction. He is allowing his biggest enemy to surround him with people loyal to Ryan’s opposition, at the very time he is trying to push off even more of the “dealing with people stuff” off on underlings.
It won’t end well for Ryan.
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YOU are the reason many (not all) people see the “Bernie-ites” as being a group of predominately White, simplistic, privileged morons who couldn’t give a sh*t about the main groups that support the Democratic party (i.e., Women, Minorities, LGBT, etc.) You have no problems throwing those groups under the bus just so you can advance your current leader of ideological purity. Sanders will lose the Dem primary and then he will, most likely, endorse Clinton.
Then what?
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Moving of the goalposts is usually the preferred method when promises and prophecies of hope and change fail to materialize.
See under “Nader, Ralph, 2000 presidential election.”
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Outstanding (and VERY much needed) post.
By the way, this photo of Ryan looks very much like my cousin…methinks Eddie Munster can now “pass” for both Muslim AND Mexican.
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