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Work THAT angle, DWS.
Can you handle it?
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Sen Portman is in a tough spot. He is not doing that well against Strickland and can’t afford to do anything to piss off the base that already doesn’t completely trust him.
BTW The ads a Super PAC has been running for a year in support of Portman has not changed any of the numbers.
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When The Whip Comes Down…
jw1
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Must be like getting into a yoga position for Portman, Toomey, Ayotte and Johnson to run both to the right and to the left.
Johnson said all of this in the space of a few minutes in an interview recently on a right wing radio talk show.
“Let’s let the American people decide and let the next president nominate.” “I never said that we shouldn’t vote.” “I would also say that doing nothing is an action.” “By the time I would actually take the vote if it comes to that I’ll take a vote.”
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The guy standing behind McConnell, visible over his left shoulder, tried to sneak in a quick little clandestine nose pick.
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This is why McConnell will ultimately allow a vote, but the underlying Republican position has not changed one iota. They’ll find a spurious reason to reject Obama’s nominee.
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I think the days that televised ads will change minds are pretty much over. Younger people rely on the internet for most of their entertainment and knowledge while the older people are already mostly in one camp or the other. Maybe if the Citizens United decision had happened 30 or 40 years ago it might have had a much different effect than it does now.
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Agreed, they’ll probably have a vote and then choose some idiotic reason why they’re voting the person down. Because they came out so quickly and so forcefully against the president even nominating someone, I tend to think their reasoning for rejecting the presidents pick will ultimately fall on deaf ears. It will be seen as nakedly political no matter who they are or where they fall on the political spectrum.
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I’m starting to think we have a real chance to turn the Senate this go-round.
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Probably not. She is awful at her job, after all.
It’s another government shutdown… just as popular as the ones Republicans tried before.
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We have a lot of factors in our favor. We simply cannot blow it or it will be a while before we get a chance this sweet again.
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Hope this puts the Senate and Presidency squarely in Liberal Democratic hands and we finally get our leberal court. Americans will get back their rights.
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I agree as we increasingly see candidates with big money behind them go down in defeat.
i just love to hear stories like this.
Obama needs to play this straight, to act as if this is just a normal confirmation proceeding. Nominate a kickass candidate and let these fucks skewer themselves. If the GOPfucks want to explain to America why the president they voted for is illegitimate. Let’s see how that bullshit plays outside the Bubble.
An anvil, as it were, to help them drown.
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Wiley E. Coyote to the max (desert version).
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It just means more paid mouthpieces working from home based on script sent out by the Oligarchy.
Some will write blogs, others articles for “respectable” sites, still others carefully repeating talking points on comment sections such as this.
And some will be paid shill reporters who call the likes of Lavoy Finicum “patrots”.
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