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Absurd Alhazred posted:Suppose Boehner steps down and the GOP and/or House are so split nobody gets elected Speaker. What happens? The country collapses.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Suppose Boehner steps down and the GOP and/or House are so split nobody gets elected Speaker. What happens? I don't think the House can really more forward without a Speaker. Well, I'm sure they could change the House Rules somehow to hand wave it away, but the unity required to change the rules like that would be enough to get someone a speakership. But if the Republicans divided their conference, you could see a Democratic brokered centrist Republican, but I doubt it. That's the one negotiating chip moderates have, is the fear of Pelosi and the knowledge her rank and file will fall in line. So you'll see someone that isn't anathema to the moderate/business wing win in conference vote instead.
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Oct 3, 2015 00:35
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Duke Igthorn posted:Diamond Joe steps in to name Ronnie James Dio the new Speaker. And poo poo gets DONE. 
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Oct 3, 2015 00:35
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Oct 3, 2015 00:40
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:It's no longer caffeinated so there's really no point. I wanna get Loko dammit. http://www.itemsofpotentialinterest.com/2011/03/the-gentlemans-cocktail-an-alternative-in-a-post-four-loko-world/
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Oct 3, 2015 00:44
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quote:Jeb BushVerified account
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Oct 3, 2015 00:53
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Maybe the Jeb! of 2000 realized that, even though government regulation regarding the safety of pools may somewhat hamper American Liberty, it would undoubtedly save children's lives and was thus a net benefit for the society. Unlike 2015 Jeb, who wants children to be either drowned or shot to death, though you do get the liberty to choose which.
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Oct 3, 2015 00:54
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Fried Chicken posted:re: new title  Anyone else amazed that the LIBERAL MEDIA isn't running any stories about there being armed students on campus at the time of the shooting? The only thing I've seen on it was the thinkprogress link to an msnbc interview. Nothing else at all.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Suppose Boehner steps down and the GOP and/or House are so split nobody gets elected Speaker. What happens? Elections continue until one side can stop the other from elected. After three exchanges, they can no longer go for field goals and need to get a majority of birth password. E: both parties but that is way too good to go back and edit
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Oct 3, 2015 01:03
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Oh wah wah loving wah. The only distortion that happened was my mind trying to find some way to rationalize your response as one of a human. My mind failed in that attempt.
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Oct 3, 2015 01:08
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JehovahsWetness posted:Jeb, the might have a bit more punch *if you hadn't signed a pool fence bill as gov* (sponsored by DWS!): Please tell me that DWS will make a statement about this. If she does it might almost, almost justify her being DNC chair.
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Sir Tonk posted:Dude reeks of an entitled rich kid that's had everything handed to him. His responses to reporters questioning his statements are always so standoffish.
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Oct 3, 2015 01:11
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The Onion is being put out of business by reality.
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Oct 3, 2015 01:12
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Suppose Boehner steps down and the GOP and/or House are so split nobody gets elected Speaker. What happens? Voting continues until a speaker reaches 50% plus 1 vote. IIRC the threshold will lower if enough people leave the city/the house for extended times.
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Oct 3, 2015 01:16
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:Yeah but so is Trump but he does it in a way that has many people wondering if he's in fact a loving campaign genius. This is because Donald Trump does have actual decades of experience in presenting himself publicly and knows how to get an emotional response and resonance from people (even if it's not what most people would consider a "good" resonance). Hell, he ran for president nationally once already, that's substantially more campaign experience than Jeb! has. And yes, it's essentially impossible for there to not be a Speaker of the House. The extra-laffo scenario would be the Republican caucus being so divided that a Democrat ends up in the seat, though, through simple attrition of voting continuing until the pubs get tired of it and the dems remain, driven by the goal of pulling off the clowning of the century it is sadly unlikely that will happen, tho SpaceDrake fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Oct 3, 2015 |
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Duke Igthorn posted:Diamond Joe steps in to name Ronnie James Dio the new Speaker. And poo poo gets DONE. Surely there's a requirement that the Speaker be alive?
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Oct 3, 2015 01:36
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I don't know if you guys keep up with the gay marriage thread, but the vatican has now came out and clarified what happened with Kim Davis. There was no private audience. She was part of a group of people that met the pope in washington. At the time of the meeting he had no idea who she was and does not endorse her actions in any ways. Also they fired the ambassador that set her up to be there.
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Oct 3, 2015 01:48
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Presto posted:Surely there's a requirement that the Speaker be alive? The real question is if there's a requirement that the Speaker not be a dog.
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Mr. Nice! posted:I don't know if you guys keep up with the gay marriage thread, but the vatican has now came out and clarified what happened with Kim Davis. There was no private audience. She was part of a group of people that met the pope in washington. At the time of the meeting he had no idea who she was and does not endorse her actions in any ways. Also they fired the ambassador that set her up to be there.
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hhhat posted:Whatever we didn't do in reconstruction we're paying for it in spades. We plant seeds in the south. We create, you just wanna move our money around
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:It's no longer caffeinated so there's really no point. I wanna get Loko dammit. Rockstar has vodka drinks in Canada. We also have 4Loko, but I haven't checked the ingredients list on them. Does anyone have a youtube clip of Obama saying, "... No."  when asked if there would be another shutdown back in 2013?My Google-Fu is failing me. 
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Mr. Nice! posted:I don't know if you guys keep up with the gay marriage thread, but the vatican has now came out and clarified what happened with Kim Davis. There was no private audience. She was part of a group of people that met the pope in washington. At the time of the meeting he had no idea who she was and does not endorse her actions in any ways. Also they fired the ambassador that set her up to be there. source please. I need to shut down some people across the net-o-sphere.
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BlueBlazer posted:source please. I need to shut down some people across the net-o-sphere. From that thread: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/03/world/europe/pope-francis-kim-davis-meeting.html?_r=1 quote:Instead, the Vatican said that Francis gave only one “real audience”: to someone later identified as one of his former students, Yayo Grassi, a gay man in Washington who says he brought his partner of 19 years to the Vatican’s embassy in Washington for a reunion. They even shot video. Whole article is worth a read and should exactly suit your purposes.
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Nintendo Kid posted:Voting continues until a speaker reaches 50% plus 1 vote. IIRC the threshold will lower if enough people leave the city/the house for extended times. It's 50% plus one of all present and voting members, but the election's rules can be changed at the Congress's discretion. The last time a Speaker was elected by plurality the United States was in the worst part of the Great Depression and seemed on the verge of collapse. QuoProQuid fucked around with this message at 02:46 on Oct 3, 2015 |
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eviltastic posted:From that thread: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/03/world/europe/pope-francis-kim-davis-meeting.html?_r=1 Danke.
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BlueBlazer posted:Danke. More like a slam danke. 
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Fried Chicken posted:Here's the interesting thing to me - it suggests that Trump has a ceiling of ~32%. Ok, that means he will not be the candidate, which keeps with what everyone expected. But it also suggests he also has a floor of ~24%. That would be what is upending all the models and why he hangs in there, usually the floor for a politician is much larger relatives wit their ceiling, so they either never get a head of steam or they fall off the map when they stumble. Trump breaks from that, and thus the baked in assumptions of the models. It is also what fucks the GOP, because a guy who commands a quarter of the base is a guy who gets to name terms and you don't talk back. This is a few pages old, but what terms exactly are we talking about that Trump could demand if he gets 30% of the vote?
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MaxxBot posted:You shouldn't be able to pull someone over without evidence that they actually did anything wrong. It's not a pro-drunk driving position to not want people pulled over at random to check their BAC. They ought to just cut the occasional 3-4 lane road down to one lane with cruisers and flares and then pull over anyone who fails to use a blinker/drives like a shitter/seems drunk while trying to merge.
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FAUXTON posted:They ought to just cut the occasional 3-4 lane road down to one lane with cruisers and flares and then pull over anyone who fails to use a blinker/drives like a shitter/seems drunk while trying to merge.
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Warcabbit posted:It's a league. There's a dinner at the end of the season and score is kept. It's a sport, you know? Seriously, not trying to play gotcha, just trying to use my personal situation to explain a specific issue. Does it not occur to you that perhaps the fact that America is, by and large, OK with entire families loving around with lethal weaponry for their weekend recreation at least somewhat related to the fact there have been thousands of gun deaths already this year?
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Oct 3, 2015 03:50
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:Yeah but so is Trump but he does it in a way that has many people wondering if he's in fact a loving campaign genius. Trump was never part of the upper class twit club, he's always been new money. The Bush family is very much a part of that world. That's what makes Trump the perfect weapon to destroy the GOP. He doesn't have the built-in loyalties that all the other rich people do.
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DeusExMachinima posted:Where's the party that takes the (100% correct) "poo poo happens" attitude on guns, 18+ drinking, terrorism, drugs, police sobriety checkpoints, etc etc? I want to vote for that guy. 
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Oct 3, 2015 03:53
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Smudgie Buggler posted:Does it not occur to you that perhaps the fact that America is, by and large, OK with entire families loving around with lethal weaponry for their weekend recreation at least somewhat related to the fact there have been thousands of gun deaths already this year? I will remind you that 60% of Americans do not own any guns at all, and another chunk fo the people who do own a gun (typically a family heirloom) don't ever use the gun, including at a range or whatever. People who think it's totally cool to fire off 5000 rounds every weekend are a rather small minority. They're loud as gently caress, but still very much a minority that's shrinking all the time.
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Smudgie Buggler posted:I think what bothers people is that you and so many others have quite casually made a supposedly family-friendly sport out of playing with tools of murder.
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Badger of Basra posted:Aspen is the worst. HST posted:Our campaign headquarters was located at a local table in Jerome Tavern on Main Street. Anyone could see what we were doing, or even help out if they felt so inclined. There was complete transparency. We ran on a very basic set of principles which I’ve included below:
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HST terrified about developers!!! destroying neighborhood character on his quaint bungalow street
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