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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:Also as we prepare for Hillary eating Trey Gowdy alive, Newsweek (of all places) has one of the most comprehensive looks at this shameful debacle: http://www.newsweek.com/benghazi-biopsy-comprehensive-guide-one-americas-worst-political-outrages-385853 A few pages back, but does anyone have a non-paywall link to this?
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Oct 22, 2015 21:10
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Trump pulled the "I got hacked" card? That actually kind of disappoints me. I expected more.
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Oct 22, 2015 21:10
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I hope Hillary Clinton nominates Sydney Blumenthal to Sec Def or some other cabinet position when she wins.
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Oct 22, 2015 21:15
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A Bag of Milk posted:From a few pages back, but I don't quite understand the rationale for this. Those notes won't mature for years, so they're really the least of our worries if we hit the debt ceiling. Isn't the real threat the bonds that were issued a long time ago and mature on Nov 3/4? Those are a done deal. This move will cost the country millions in lost revenue and market panic. Issuing these bonds doesn't cost money, so why cancel the sale? What am I missing here? I think the concern is that if they did all 3 sales they would go over the debt limit in the process of executing those sale, which would be a huge legal mess and is the kind of poo poo that actually scares global creditors.
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Oct 22, 2015 21:15
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mcmagic posted:I hope Hillary Clinton appoints Sydney Blumenthal Sec Def or some other cabinet position when she wins. That's a really, really bad idea. But Press Secretary Blumenthal would be loving hilarious.
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Oct 22, 2015 21:16
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STAC Goat posted:Trump pulled the "I got hacked" card? That actually kind of disappoints me. I expected more. I can believe it, since it was an actual retweet and not a copy/paste in quotes. Heck, the wording makes it sound like that's what the apology's for--that the intern "did a Retweet" instead of using the, uh, house style.
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Oct 22, 2015 21:17
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Joementum posted:That's a really, really bad idea. It's no worse than any of the other pretty awful people the Clintons pal around with. In fact it's probably better.
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Oct 22, 2015 21:17
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mcmagic posted:I hope Hillary Clinton nominates Sydney Blumenthal to Sec Def or some other cabinet position when she wins. Chief of staff.
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Oct 22, 2015 21:20
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A Bag of Milk posted:From a few pages back, but I don't quite understand the rationale for this. Those notes won't mature for years, so they're really the least of our worries if we hit the debt ceiling. Isn't the real threat the bonds that were issued a long time ago and mature on Nov 3/4? Those are a done deal. This move will cost the country millions in lost revenue and market panic. Issuing these bonds doesn't cost money, so why cancel the sale? What am I missing here? That's not exactly how bonds work. They do have a face value that is redeemable after whatever period the bond is issued, but they also come with interest payments that get paid out periodically before the actual maturity date. When they speak of a default, it isn't that we won't be paying back the bonds when people are trying to redeem them. Its that we can't make the regular interest payments. As it is right now, US T-bills are considered zero risk. Huge portions of the market rely on that. A single default changes things, risk is introduced, and it's will have ripple effects throughout the world. The rational of suspending the two year notes at auction right now is suspending everything would have a major and immediate impact. The two year notes are the ones they're able to scuttle without dramatic market movement.
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Oct 22, 2015 21:21
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Evil Fluffy posted:Chief of staff. Please, its going to be Abedin obviously.
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Trabisnikof posted:Please, its going to be Abedin obviously. Actually I'm not sure Abedin would be a good COS. She will almost certainly be some sort of special advisor, ala Axelrod, though.
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Oct 22, 2015 21:23
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It amazes me to watch the train of GOP guys trying to engage with Trump and getting wrecked. They should really have learned from Obama how you deal with The Donald. Whatever he says, you just laugh and go 'Yeah, whatever, Donny.' Treat the man like a joke, because he is. Trying to take him seriously or attack him on his level just gets you wrecked like Jeb!.
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Oct 22, 2015 21:25
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mcmagic posted:I hope Hillary Clinton nominates Sydney Blumenthal to Sec Def or some other cabinet position when she wins. Blumenthal is a mediocrity who's managed to hang on in Washington by virtue of his association with the Clintons. If Hillary takes the presidency, he's a prime candidate for what Dr. Dre calls "Posse Contraction".
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Oct 22, 2015 21:26
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this_is_hard posted:Hypothetically ( Bill as first pimp obviously.
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Zeroisanumber posted:Blumenthal is a mediocrity who's managed to hang on in Washington by virtue of his association with the Clintons. If Hillary takes the presidency, he's a prime candidate for what Dr. Dre calls "Posse Contraction". This is true of SO MANY people and will probably be true of the pool of candidates for jobs in the Hillary Clinton administration.... At least his son is a good guy and he drives republicans nuts.
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Oct 22, 2015 21:28
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this_is_hard posted:Hypothetically ( Mark Penn will make an appearance somewhere.
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Oct 22, 2015 21:29
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Zeroisanumber posted:Blumenthal is a mediocrity who's managed to hang on in Washington by virtue of his association with the Clintons. If Hillary takes the presidency, he's a prime candidate for what Dr. Dre calls "Posse Contraction". As I understand it from today's line of questioning, he's actually the mastermind behind the administrations foreign policy and the True Power in America.
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Oct 22, 2015 21:31
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Mark Penn will make an appearance somewhere. Is Lanny Davis still busy representing cannibalistic third-world warlords at the moment?
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Imagine the heads exploding when Hillary makes Blumenthal her Foreign Secretary.
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Oct 22, 2015 21:34
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BBC is having fun in their Benghazi Q&A.quote:Isn't this the sixth congressional committee to investigate her? Didn't the first five find nothing against her?
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Is Lanny Davis still busy representing cannibalistic third-world warlords at the moment? No, he's actually spent the last year showing up at these Benghazi hearings and handing out pamphlets in the hallway about how great Hillary is. I bet he's there today.
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Oct 22, 2015 21:42
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Night10194 posted:It amazes me to watch the train of GOP guys trying to engage with Trump and getting wrecked. They should really have learned from Obama how you deal with The Donald. Whatever he says, you just laugh and go 'Yeah, whatever, Donny.' The most hilarious thing about all this is it shows how huge the egos involved are. The obvious move is to just ignore Trump and try to appear above the fray. But absolutely no one can let even the slightest brush to their ego go. It's incredible.
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Oct 22, 2015 21:45
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Joementum posted:That's a really, really bad idea. I don't know, I don't think you could top appointing him Ambassador to Libya.
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Oct 22, 2015 21:47
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Spite posted:The most hilarious thing about all this is it shows how huge the egos involved are. The obvious move is to just ignore Trump and try to appear above the fray. But absolutely no one can let even the slightest brush to their ego go. It's incredible. They can't ignore Trump and try to act superior. That isn't what GOP primary voters want at all. They want someone who appears tough and isn't scared to poo poo on people in public because that matters to them MUCH more than policy which they don't care at all about.
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Spite posted:The most hilarious thing about all this is it shows how huge the egos involved are. The obvious move is to just ignore Trump and try to appear above the fray. But absolutely no one can let even the slightest brush to their ego go. It's incredible. Jeb! tried ignoring Trump at first. Now he's sitting at 5% in the polls.
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Fried Chicken posted:Obama has vetoed the FY16 NDAA, returning it to congress and saying "Let's do this right" huh. interesting. does this mean the defense budget is now on the table during the spending bill debates?
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Mark Penn will make an appearance somewhere. And you just know Larry Summers would be hanging around hoping for a job too
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Unless posted:huh. interesting. does this mean the defense budget is now on the table during the spending bill debates? Yes. Republicans want to bust the sequester cap for defense but not domestic. Democrats want to do both. They won't pass the defense bill above the sequester cap without domestic above the sequester cap as well.
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Is Lanny Davis still busy representing cannibalistic third-world warlords at the moment?
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Mr. Nice! posted:That's not exactly how bonds work. They do have a face value that is redeemable after whatever period the bond is issued, but they also come with interest payments that get paid out periodically before the actual maturity date. When they speak of a default, it isn't that we won't be paying back the bonds when people are trying to redeem them. Its that we can't make the regular interest payments. Thanks, this cleared it up for me.
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evilweasel posted:Yes. Republicans want to bust the sequester cap for defense but not domestic. Democrats want to do both. They won't pass the defense bill above the sequester cap without domestic above the sequester cap as well. it's about loving time. gj democrats.
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zoux posted:Professional dipshit Jennifer Rubin has a new dark horse candidate that she thinks is poised to make gains. Never seen a black Clydesdale before.
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Oct 22, 2015 22:00
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FlamingLiberal posted:I don't know, does working for Dan Snyder count? Calling PG County "third world" is a little harsh.
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Oct 22, 2015 22:00
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Unless posted:it's about loving time. gj democrats. They've done this once before already. They've been very firm on not giving away the defense sequester without the domestic sequester.
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Oct 22, 2015 22:03
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Fried Chicken posted:Obama has vetoed the FY16 NDAA, returning it to congress and saying "Let's do this right" For reference, this is the bill that adhered to sequestration caps, but used some slight of hand to increase military funding by $38b by putting it in the overseas contingency budget which is not constrained by sequestration. It also blocks Obama from closing Guantanamo.
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Oct 22, 2015 22:03
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zoux posted:Whoa Chris Christie is psychic I'm shocked, shocked to find coordination between a campaign and a super PAC is going on here.
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PostNouveau posted:I'm shocked, shocked to find coordination between a campaign and a super PAC is going on here. Sorry, it was a shadowy palm reader in a dank Newark back alley that imparted that information to him.
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