Woody wrote:Did the Walton family support Trump?

Pretty sure they backed Clinton

75% less regulations, 35% border tax

what a world

Here's the Open secrets record for Alice Walton from 2016. Pretty strong Dem bias there, but the Walton Family Foundation is also very pro-charter schools, so....

http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/searc ... t=R&page=1

Houshphandzadeh wrote:75% less regulations, 35% border tax

what a world

the Sanders/Clinton college plan might've prevented this sort of idiocy

Aetna/Humana merger is a no-go because it would've limited competition too much.

Monkeyboy wrote:

Brantt wrote:

drsmooth wrote:

Brantt wrote:
Union vote for this election was 51/43. Trump has a huge opportunity with unions that a Republican (well, Trump's not really a Republican) hasn't had in decades.

When drumpf doesn't deliver meaningful infrastructure dough - because congressional Rs will either have to completely abandon their deficit hypocricy OR block tax cuts to approve more than token projects -it seems likely that union voters, like non-union voters, will blame drumpf, or congressional Rs, or both. And their reaction to any schemes to "privatize" infrastructure projects may be even stronger.

The Republicans will get in line and do exactly what Trump tells them to............just like Little Marco yesterday.

agreed, but mindless devotion isn't a good thing. I'm sure you would at least agree with that

I'd call it more gutless than mindless.

trump to nominate a judge next week.

republicans are upset dems have asked for delays on cabinet picks like devos who demonstrated she knows very little about education.

republicans committed a pretty grave injustice to the constitution by not even taking a hearing on pres. obama's pick for nearly a year so donald trump, a man who probably doesn't know how many amendments there are in the constitution, could make the pick instead bc the people need to have a voice.

winning is more important than following the constitution or serving the American people calvin, try and keep up here

tried to call marco yesterday to leave a message about him changing his vote on tillerson, but the line was busy for a while and then when i finally got through his vm box was full. gonna try and call some local reps this week to ask about the numerous conficts of interest DJT has since day 1

CalvinBall wrote:trump to nominate a judge next week.

republicans are upset dems have asked for delays on cabinet picks like devos who demonstrated she knows very little about education.

republicans committed a pretty grave injustice to the constitution by not even taking a hearing on pres. obama's pick for nearly a year so donald trump, a man who probably doesn't know how many amendments there are in the constitution, could make the pick instead bc the people need to have a voice.

tom cotton is a massive piece of shit

slugsrbad wrote:52 swing districts, need to win 80% of them. It's not impossible, but we will need a continuation of Saturday going forward.

I think there's some reason to be optimistic, but plenty of reason to be pessimistic. the Brantt's of the world aren't going to get smarter in 2 years. hopefully the Dems take a Howard Dean 50 State Plan, and in every leftish county. Obama gets a lot of crap for all the lost seats all around the country, and he deserves some blame, but DWS should probably be put in a gulag.

the Constitution clearly states that the President shall only nominate in the first 2 years of their 4 year term and the Senate shall not advise or consent unless they are politically aligned with the President.

Houshphandzadeh wrote:

td11 wrote:

Houshphandzadeh wrote:pretty confident bunch in here

??

was referring to doc and hawk's feeling that this will work out gloriously for Dems in 18

gotcha, and yeah, i am not nearly that confident. republicans, to whom this is basically a sport, are way ahead of dems in local politics. it's going to take a lot of work for dems to actually mobilize their base to come out and vote

i don't think there are even enough seats up in 2018 for either the house or senate to flip...

go eagles
beat dallas

CalvinBall wrote:trump to nominate a judge next week.

The alleged finalists:

http://www.scotusblog.com/2017/01/poten ... iam-pryor/

http://www.scotusblog.com/2017/01/poten ... l-gorsuch/

http://www.scotusblog.com/2017/01/poten ... -hardiman/

welp, guess we'll catch the Supreme court in 25 years or so.

Youseff wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:52 swing districts, need to win 80% of them. It's not impossible, but we will need a continuation of Saturday going forward.

I think there's some reason to be optimistic, but plenty of reason to be pessimistic. the Brantt's of the world aren't going to get smarter in 2 years. hopefully the Dems take a Howard Dean 50 State Plan, and in every leftish county. Obama gets a lot of crap for all the lost seats all around the country, and he deserves some blame, but DWS should probably be put in a gulag.

DWS was a disaster, no doubt. it's funny that Rs are the ones who rode the populist wave into the white house, when on all the issues (health care, unions, wages, etc) the populist would probably agree with left-leaning policies more

td11 wrote:

Youseff wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:52 swing districts, need to win 80% of them. It's not impossible, but we will need a continuation of Saturday going forward.

I think there's some reason to be optimistic, but plenty of reason to be pessimistic. the Brantt's of the world aren't going to get smarter in 2 years. hopefully the Dems take a Howard Dean 50 State Plan, and in every leftish county. Obama gets a lot of crap for all the lost seats all around the country, and he deserves some blame, but DWS should probably be put in a gulag.

DWS was a disaster, no doubt. it's funny that Rs are the ones who rode the populist wave into the white house, when on all the issues (health care, unions, wages, etc) the populist would probably agree with left-leaning policies more

sure, but if you nudge the lines into a more non-partisan fashion the House basically becomes a tossup. gerrymandering played a part, here. problem is, that's where we stand and must combat it.

a small group of women i know has started doing their best to challenge ryan costello. they regularly call him on issues. continually call asking for a town hall. they are told he cant because the district is so stretched out it would be hard to find a good place to do it. lol.

anyways, if more start doing this to ever rep, holding them to the fire, there is a chance.