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David Dennison

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  1. 1 minute ago, ChiTownDoc said:

    Jesus, assholes.  Can someone clue me in?  Why’d they cut their golden ticket off?

    Because he was putting himself in legal jeopardy by saying he knew about things he previously said he had no knowledge of. He also played the dictator card and said he might have to "do something" about the justice department. Also, a whole lot of but Hillary.

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  2. 22 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

    I think where we differ is that you seem to think the political philosophies they parrot are their actual beliefs.  I don't think they are.  Take the Tea Party voters and their supposed political belief that our government should stop running up the debt.   You think, it seems, that they followed a reasoned process to adopt a strain of conservative economic thought with a storied history, even if they didn't know about it's origins.  I don't think they did.  I think they only daid those things because they hated Obama on a gut level, it was a tangible thing to blame him for, and it was a good excuse to oppose Dem spending priorities.   And I think the absence of the Tea Party now, with the Republicans spending more than Obama and increasing the debt more than Obama bears this out. 

    And I think most Americans are like this, to some degree.  Only some gut instincts are better than others. 

    Yep. Republicans have no problem with government spending. They just don't like government spending on poor people.

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  3. 1 minute ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Trump is making it happen.

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    This doesn’t happen without Trump coming along and inspiring a bunch of concerned citizens to get off their ass and start participating in democracy.

    The GOP will have their great awakening too but that will come much later.

    The good thing about GOP awakenings is that they come after their members have accepted once progressive positions as norms.

    The left always wins.

  4. 3 minutes ago, kopp0e said:

    Not with one game per week... (I also like the idea of Mexico City & Toronto both getting an NFL team)...

    It just seems that games against west coast teams, either in London or on the west coast, would be an issue for the traveling team.

  5. 9 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    You like Hillary, you think she's ok I see her for what she was a corrupt, criminal who would do anything  to get anything she wanted. Well she didn't get the presidency and we're better off for it.  Sometimes you need a bitter pill to get better and Trump might be the bitter pill, so that others think ng they can do what Hillary tried to do will think twice.

     

    What I find really pathetic is everyone here has friends who voted differently than they did, but it's here on an anonymous web site you have the (alleged) balls to call people a POS because they don't share your political point of view.  

    So we got someone even more corrupt and more criminal.

    We would be much better off if she were president. 

  6. 1 minute ago, F250 said:

    In a two party system, the primaries are supposed to be where multiple political ideologies are included in the democratic process. This is supposed to be how most political views get represented. Of course we know this isn't what happens but what is really insulting is when party loyalists insult 3rd party voters for acting as a spoiler.

    Motherfuckers, if you eliminate minority voices from your process don't expect their vote in the general election.

    The problem is, multiple political ideologies end up running under the banner of a party that doesn't necessarily share those ideologies. The Democratic Party is well within its rights to support the candidate that it believes best reflects its political platform. That's its raison d'être.

  7. 2 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    It’s really more of an international crime syndicate case involving a shitload of crimes.

    What Trump himself is guilty of beyond obstruction of justice is pure speculation.

    Mueller knows. That's why The Donald is freaking out.

  8. 8 hours ago, Anastasis said:

    Good point.

    The influence of money on our politics is the cancer at our political core. 

     

    Lobbyists: Money to Congress

         All cycles         201820162014201220102008200620042002200019981996199419921990      Summary     Top 20 Members     All Senators     All Members of the House     All Senate Candidates     All House Candidates 
    Party Split:
    Dems: 
    Repubs: 
    Others:
    Dems: $6,105,470 $6,105,470
    Repubs: $7,595,530 $7,595,530
    Other: $42,942 $42,942
    All Candidates: Total to All Candidates: $13,743,942 $13,743,942
    Incumbents Only: Total to Members: $12,589,694 $12,589,694
    House # of Members Average Contribution Total Contributions
    The US House of Representatives has 435 members and 5 non-voting delegates. 
    Totals may exceed 440 due to mid-term replacements.
    Democrats 183 $10,947 $2,003,398
    Republicans 234 $22,185 $5,191,380
    Independents 0 $0 $0
    TOTAL 417 $17,254 $7,194,778
    Senate # of Members Average Contribution Total Contributions
    The US Senate has 100 members. 
    Totals may exceed 100 due to mid-term replacements.
    Democrats 46 $74,240 $3,415,040
    Republicans 48 $40,280 $1,933,484
    Independents 2 $20,121 $40,242
    TOTAL 96 $56,133 $5,388,766
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    The numbers on this page are based on contributions from PACs and individuals giving $200 or more.

    All donations took place during the 2017-2018 election cycle and were released by the Federal Election Commission on Monday, April 16, 2018.

    Feel free to distribute or cite this material, but please credit the Center for Responsive Politics. For permission to reprint for commercial uses, such as textbooks, contact the Center: info@crp.org

    Thanks a lot, SCOTUS.

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