I like this, but I could still see where problems would show up. The same problems too. However, with states watching their reps, it might make corruption a touch more difficult to pull off?Vince wrote:Going back to them being appointed by the states. This was a brilliant idea from the founders. It provided another check against federal overreach. Plus I think it would be a moderating force against either party swinging too far to the left or right. Your senators would be more in line with the politics of your state's government rather than the national party.TheCatt wrote:Getting rid of the Senate? Or how do you mean
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“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
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I'm seeing so much out of state money flooding into Texas for their senate race. This would minimize that. I mean, you could still influence state races, but they'd have to really shotgun that approach. I don't think it would be perfect. A lot of the Jim Crow laws were a result of too much abuse of state control. But we have seen in the last 10 years how businesses can pressure for changes in individual states. I think the up side would outweigh the downside.Leisher wrote:I like this, but I could still see where problems would show up. The same problems too. However, with states watching their reps, it might make corruption a touch more difficult to pull off?
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Robert Patrick O'Rourke reported raising $38.1 million in this past quarter. To put this in context, Jeb Bush's entire 2016 Presidential campaign raised $35.5 million.Vince wrote:I'm seeing so much out of state money flooding into Texas for their senate race.
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To be fair, Bush barely registered once the race got going. Maybe if he had had $355 million?
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And yet he still had a better shot at winning than O'RourkeTheCatt wrote:To be fair, Bush barely registered once the race got going. Maybe if he had had $355 million?
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“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
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To be fair, she insulted both parties.
She's not wrong.Asked on Arizona radio station KTAR if she was a "proud Democrat," Sinema responded, "Gosh, it's hard to say proud. I don't know that -- I'm not sure that people are even proud of parties anymore, because I feel like the parties are not doing a good job.
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No, almost everyone is incredibly tribal about their party, and they mistake it for pride. When they attach their self-worth to how their party does, they end up crying hysterically on election night.
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I've always said there really aren't that many atheists. They worship something.
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I know. My bad for not making that clearer. I thought the noteworthy part was her attacking Dems while being a Dem.
Based on that alone I'd vote for her.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
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OMG he's so ra....cist. Wait.
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That sign would get my vote. Hilarious.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
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A right wing Unabomber?
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
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I have a dollar that the person will be caught, will turn out to be a leftie, and only FoxNews will report that.
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The WH also got a package.
Gordon's theory is still in play as the others could have been decoys...
Gordon's theory is still in play as the others could have been decoys...
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
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It's not me, it's someone else.