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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > USPol April: Posting Cafe & Bakery (NOTE: Baby-killing gays need not apply)
 
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Mitt Romney
Nov 9, 2005
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haveblue posted:

Spaceman Future! posted:

The disturbing part is that we will never ever build protections in against ultra wealthy douchebags treating the entire country as their own personal ant farm. Our entire political system is structured in a way that assumes that monetary corruption can not be limitless in scope, the founders just assumed that no one could consolidate that much influence. There is no recourse against the Koch brothers, they can do literally anything they want and they are above punitive damages. As far as the political landscape and thus the landscape of the U.S. is concerned they are god.
I agree, their influence over President Romney has been a disaster for this country.

They have large influence over 2 branches of government currently and they also have an effective GOTV operation that keeps getting better every year.

Just poorly run democratic presidential campaign away from GOP controlling all 3 branches in which the Koch brothers organization will have enormous influence over due to their organizations money, GOTV and full-time status. They can almost certainly tell a lot of house members "we will unelect you if you don't do this" as it is. And even though their state level success percentage is low ALEC / Americans for Prosperity will probably have some luck at the national level if all 3 branches are GOP.

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Mitt Romney
Nov 9, 2005
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Fried Chicken posted:

Gallup has a new poll out, uninsured rate fell again. It's down to 11.9% now, down 5.2 since the ACA went into effect at the end of 2013

Since we all know the ACA is completely terrible and useless and must be repealed, this must be due to a completely different miracle, and not a social insurance policy working as intended.

What will that percentage look like when the supreme court removes subsidies in ~30+ states this summer?

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Nov 9, 2005
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Joementum posted:

Requires that any deal with Iran is approved by Congress. The agreement that finally got this through was the removal of an additional requirement that Iran renounce Hamas as part of the deal.

Oh, also, the White House removed Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.



So the Iran deal has 0% chance of being approved of by congress correct?

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Mitt Romney
Nov 9, 2005
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ZobarStyl posted:

The fact that "Clinton Bypassed Centrist Taco Bell for Liberal Favorite Chipotle" is a headline from the Wall Street loving Journal and not the Onion makes me so very excited for this election season.

The WSJ is owned by the same company that owns Foxnews (Murdoch).

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