RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

Warszawa wrote:Winning the Civil War was the worst thing that ever happened to this country. Can you imagine what the Confederate States of America would look like today? A theocratic land where racism is a way of life, the media is an enemy of the state and science is not to be trusted.

Yeah, losing the breadbasket of the country would've been great for the Union in the late 19th century. I'm sure everything would've turned out great.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An anti-tax group seeking to roll back a package of tax increases approved by the Legislature to help fund a teacher pay raise said Monday they are abandoning their effort.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court's recent decision to toss the group's ballot initiative didn't leave them enough time to gather the 42,000 signatures they needed to place the question on the November ballot, said Ronda Vuillemont-Smith, one of the organizers of Oklahoma Taxpayers Unite.

"The court really cut us short on time," Vuillemont-Smith said.

The anti-tax group led by former U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn was seeking a public vote to repeal tax hikes on cigarettes, fuel and energy production that were approved by the GOP-controlled Legislature earlier this year to help fund an average teacher pay raise of $6,100. The tax increases took effect on Sunday.

But the Supreme Court ruled a description of the proposal on signature pages was insufficient and that its ballot title was misleading. The court said the group would have to start over with a new petition and gather the required number of signatures by July 18.

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Rococo4 wrote:i just think all the hate toward Kennedy is ridiculous, he served for 30 years, gave the left a few very high profile landmark wins, and they trash him as he goes out the door as an 81 year old.

i just think all the hate toward Dianne Feinstein is ridiculous, she's served in the Senate for 26 years, after being a big city mayor for a decade, gave the left a few very high profile landmark wins, and people trash her even though she continues to do her job as an elected official.

Partisanship is fun.

JUburton wrote:

Rococo4 wrote:

JUburton wrote:

Rococo4 wrote:

JUburton wrote:lmao at the notion that mcconnell wouldn't have gotten rid of the appellate court filibuster the INSTANT judicial nominees were being held up.

or to think that had the situation been on the other foot in 2016, the Democrats wouldnt have done the exact same thing to leave a vacant liberal seat open. It's all politics and power. Both sides have done it, basically since Bork nomination in 1987.

Bork was scuttled because it went from a swing vote to a hard right and the democrats had the senate. The Senate approved Kennedy 97-0. BOTH SIDES

It was dumb strategy to try and block Gorsuch, no matter how pissed you guys were (and not really you guys because none of us have votes, I'm just refering to the Senate Democrats), because it is unlikely the 50 votes would have been there to change the rules now with the "swing" justice retiring.

When Gorsuch was confirmed, McCain was healthy and the prospect of a Doug Jones victory was almost literally impossible. At that moment it was 52-48 with no prospect of it changing anytime soon and allowing Gorsuch to go through without a filibuster after not holding hearings for Merrick Garland was just impossible. There's no reason to think that if the SC filibuster was in place with those numbers that you would ever get three republican defectors, swing justice or not. Even today I think all Republicans would fall in line on this motion, depending on the justice. It would be a proxy vote for whomever is on the table.

slugsrbad wrote:https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/07/03/putting-a-face-mine-to-the-risks-posed-by-gop-games-on-mueller-investigation/

The text sent to me matches both those reports — indeed, it makes it clear that “shortly after the election” means just over 14 hours after polls closed. But the text doesn’t come from anyone, like Kushner or Flynn, inside the Trump team. It comes from someone who, I believe, had already done real damage to the United States as part of the Russian attack. That person understood the cooperation with Syria in terms of the US backing Bashar al-Assad, not in terms of fighting ISIS.

I’m making this public now because a David Ignatius report Thursday maps out an imminent deal with Russia and Israel that sounds like what was described to me within hours of the election. This deal appears to be the culmination of an effort that those involved in the Russian attack worked to implement within hours after the election.

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