ReindeerF posted:

I will sell my vote for $72,999.

Nintendo Kid posted:

I'll do it for $72,998!

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Even on their wedding day, politics was ever-present, but never an intrusion. [national press secretary for Senator Barack Obama] Mr. Burton, now 29, and his groomsmen wore tan summer suits. “The audacity of taupe,” he quipped, still on message.

Ghost of Reagan Past posted:

Wait what on earth am I looking at my brain cannot process this.

Sword of Chomsky posted:

They really have turned doublespeak into an art form. They're Davinci and the democrats are Jackson Pollock. Just look at that loving thing and awe in its glory.

Vahakyla posted:

How likely it is that even in a R win over the Senate, not a lot would change before 2016? Are the odds of impending doom low due to veto power and the overall gridlock?

Vahakyla posted:

Isn't that often the case now, too?

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He insisted on calling them illegal aliens and explained that “what most people in Maine don’t want to acknowledge is that the ‘il’ makes it unlawful,” referring to the spelling of the word “illegal.”

“They are going to our schools, and that’s a real problem for me,” said LePage, who is running against Democrat Mike Michaud and independent Eliot Cutler.

“If we can’t build a fence high enough … we ought to go to China and see how they built a wall,” he said, which got laughs.

hobbesmaster posted:

It's really the québécois that they're worried about in Maine.

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He compared Maine to places such as Alabama, Texas and Montreal, where he said energy costs are much lower, which encourages companies to relocate there.

Vahakyla posted:

Basically, he doesn't need to rot in prison forever, but a year or two will surely help to show other's that they just can't skate with poo poo like that.

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In May of this year, Obama named the Desert Peaks National Monument in New Mexico a federally designated monument. Setting aside this land with an executive order under the Antiquities Act of 1906, the nearly half million acres bordering the Mexican state of Chihuahua is now off-limits to all but foot traffic. Potential for the incursion of malefactors in that area is enormous; not just an efficient and effective route for small bands of drug smugglers or gangs, it now amounts to a protected access for potentially large sorties onto the U.S. soil.

In the context of what I have postulated here, why might Obama do this?

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Let’s forget for a moment the possibility of a terror cell executing a Nairobi mall-style attack or detonating a dirty bomb somewhere in Middle America. Picture 100 malls or elementary schools across the U.S. laid siege simultaneously, two or more full-fledged thermonuclear devices detonated in American cities, or a few high-sensitivity military bases taken over by terrorists. Consider that these forces would have the training and weaponry to suit the job, as well as the intelligence necessary to give them a far better than even chance of success

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– all provided by our own government.

Bear in mind that the Desert Peaks phenomenon is but one instance in which Obama has left America vulnerable; there are others we’ve been made aware of, and probably still others we don’t yet know about.

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Whether Obama intends to seize absolute power via martial law after a comprehensive White House-orchestrated terrorist strike or use his jihadi army to aid in pacifying an unsuspecting American populace matters little.

ufarn posted:

StandardVC10 posted:

Is that a PZL Wilga?

Aliquid posted:

His excuse was one of my favorite in politico-speak. "Governmentnik, y'know, like in the Soviet days."

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Abandoning his pledge to act by the end of summer, President Barack Obama has decided to delay any executive action on immigration until after the November congressional elections, White House officials said.

The move is certain to infuriate immigration advocates while offering relief to some vulnerable Democrats in tough Senate re-election contests.

Two White House officials said Obama concluded that circumventing Congress through executive actions on immigration during the campaign would politicize the issue and hurt future efforts to pass a broad overhaul.

Nessus posted:

(doesn't impeachment require like 2/3rds of the Senate, which they cannot get?)

JT Jag posted:

If they win the Senate but can't convict, would you really put it past them to start impeaching various federal officials willy nilly just so they can say "(x person) was impeached on (ridiculous charges)" in campaign ads?

Joementum posted:

All of the various histories of the 2013 shutdown I've read have said Obama wanted to deal, but Reid convinced him that he could force the Senate Democrats to hold the line.

Amused to Death posted:

So apparently the Senate voted to pass the constitutional amendment to overturn citizen's united by a 79-18 vote?

radical meme posted:

I'm sensing that you don't believe there's any way for the Democrats to win even the messaging battle on this. Which may be true but, to not try at all seems wrong to me as well.

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I really don't understand the lack of urgency in trying to confirm nominations though.