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Please let this not mean a tea party speaker is the result.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Please let this not mean a tea party speaker is the result. hail satan
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Miltank posted:Holy poo poo. The radicals might win. Now imagine a three-day convention, hundreds of failed voting rounds, and the party forced to pick compromise-candidate Mitt Romney.
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Oct 8, 2015 18:34
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At least all this chaos is going to make survivalists feel vindicated.
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RZApublican posted:Now imagine a three-day convention, hundreds of failed voting rounds, and the party forced to pick compromise-candidate Mitt Romney.
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I feel like there has not been enough "oh my loving GOD" posts for what Carson said about the Holocaust, holy gently caress
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Brodeurs Nanny posted:I feel like there has not been enough "oh my loving GOD" posts for what Carson said about the Holocaust, holy gently caress
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Nessus posted:What happens if the House can't actually select a speaker? Does Obama get to institute Full Obamunism and Sharia Law? They keep voting until someone has a majority. Presumably government shuts down at some point.
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Nessus posted:What happens if the House can't actually select a speaker? Does Obama get to institute Full Obamunism and Sharia Law? Boehner's resignation is not effective until there's a new speaker.
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So...do the people currently running for McCarthy's job as Majority Leader drop out now? Does Scalise just hang up his white hood in shame?
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Pinterest Mom posted:They keep voting until someone has a majority. Presumably government shuts down at some point. Is that correct? Obviously the Democrats as a bloc would not support someone without concessions, which presumably would be lethal to Republican support for a Speaker, even if they were the most trivial poo poo possible.
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evilweasel posted:Boehner's resignation is not effective until there's a new speaker. What if Boehner kills himself?
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Jewel Repetition posted:What if Boehner kills himself? They break out the necronomicon. Death won't save you from the House.
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I can only imagine the primary bloodbath that would ensue if the saner Republicans cut a deal with the Democrats
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Slaughterhouse-Ive posted:I can only imagine the primary bloodbath that would ensue if the saner Republicans cut a deal with the Democrats On the other hand, there could probably be some sweet lobbyist positions lined up for 30 House reps willing to just straight up "retire" effective next election.
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Nessus posted:Was it that they should've rushed the Germans, or something else? Rush the chambers, they can't gas all of us at once
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Nessus posted:What happens if the House can't actually select a speaker? Does Obama get to institute Full Obamunism and Sharia Law? Boehner pours himself another drink.
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Jewel Repetition posted:What if Boehner kills himself?  
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Jewel Repetition posted:What if Boehner kills himself? He'll be shackled to his chair on life support like the Warhammer 40k emperor and doomed to be the eternal Speaker
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showbiz_liz posted:I really enjoy the phrase "fractious caucus" from that one article. Whatever happened to suicide caucus, that was the perfect term
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showbiz_liz posted:I really enjoy the phrase "fractious caucus" from that one article. Sounds painful.
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nachos posted:Whatever happened to suicide caucus, that was the perfect term At this point it would probably be better to call them the homicide caucus. Or maybe the fratricide caucus.
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Shakugan posted:It's worth noting that medical education has traditionally been extremely focused on rote memorization rather than critical thinking. Someone who is extremely good at memorizing stuff can get (could get?) far in the medical field, but be terrible at critical analysis of facts, math, lack creativity etc. Now I have the mental image of Carson having a debate with House. 
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nachos posted:Whatever happened to suicide caucus, that was the perfect term They backed down from suicide.
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Third World Reggin posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WERjL-mpPQ I didn't notice this 'til I saw it in the Trump thread, but holy poo poo the Taiwanese Animators really took things to the next level. I can't believe this is what news is turning into but I think I love it.
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Moktaro posted:Now I have the mental image of Carson having a debate with House. "It's clear the child has influenza" "God told me the child has AIDS" "...are you retarded?" "God didn't tell me that"
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Here's an interview where Carson points out that the problem in Nazi Germany was the lack of guns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvKCIsRgY5M I've encountered the argument before, and it boggles the mind. After all, from 1939 to 1945, pretty much all German men had guns. Even artillery, planes, tanks, V2s, etc. For some reason though they decided to not point them at the representatives of German tyranny, like policemen, soldiers and so on (i e themselves), but at pretty much everybody else. Is Carson suggesting that Americans should start shooting policemen and soldiers in case a tyrant gets in charge? Are Mexicans who are about to be deported under the rule of Trump supposed to go down with guns blazing instead of complying? And when is an armed insurrection in which you are supposed to shoot fellow Americans justified?
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Ibogaine posted:And when is an armed insurrection in which you are supposed to shoot fellow Americans justified? That's always been the specious argument for the second amendment. The argument starts that if the government becomes tyrannical that we need guns to overthrow the government. OK, what does that mean exactly? I means we would have to start murdering police officers and government officials. Yeah, that's not going to fly.
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Looks like Boehner isn't the only one crying... http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2015/10/kevin-mccarthy-bows-out-house-speakers-race quote:The House GOP now has a full-blown leadership crisis on its hands. As Republican lawmakers gathered on Thursday to elect a new speaker, John Boehner's presumptive heir for the top spot, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), unexpectedly bowed out of the race, telling his colleagues he was "not the guy." Boehner—who reportedly joked recently, "I had this terrible nightmare last night that I was trying to get out and I couldn't get out"—was forced to postpone the vote for his successor. Lawmakers who were present for the closed-door meeting reported a scene of"chaos" that included "audible crying."
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I really want to know who was crying. Is there not one single solitary Republican in Congress who is fed up enough with this insanity to publicly say "the Republican Party is a pile of smoldering rubble and I won't be a part of it anymore"? Surely there'd at least be some jobs and a book deal at the end of it.
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Third World Reggin posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WERjL-mpPQ It's like the phantom pain truck ride all over again.
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Third World Reggin posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WERjL-mpPQ  Watch it on a tablet for the full vr experience.
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So...remember when "Cruz insiders" said he raised 14 million? Well, Cruz' official numbers are out. 12.2 million. Still pretty good. Marco Rubio reports a rather unimpressive 6 million. Rubio has 11 million on hand. Patter Song fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Oct 9, 2015 |
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