Syrias as a heart attack: Electronic projects and politics

by **jerseyhoya** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 13:22:56

This is phenomenal for my dissertation

This is suboptimal for my feelings about the Republican Party

by **pacino** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 13:24:22

all I saw was McCarthy stepped down as an option; what else is going on??? smooth, jh?

by **drsmooth** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 13:24:43

Maybe a college of Speakers approach

by **drsmooth** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 13:26:38

pacino wrote:all I saw was McCarthy stepped down as an option; what else is going on??? smooth, jh?

Depending on how you look at it

1) Republican party shits the bed, for good
2) Chipmunk Chaffetz 2 heartbeats from the Presidency
3) a non-congressperson Speaker of the House (rules allow that)

re: #3, I nominate Trump

by **TenuredVulture** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 13:27:13

i wonder if any R reps switch parties over this. If an minority of your caucus seems bent on ideological purity regardless of cost, why stay in that party? Relatively moderate Rs in heavily Republican districts would obviously have a different calculation than those who represent swing or lean D districts, but being the majority means the party holds a number of marginal and competitive seats.

by **pacino** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 13:27:23

Phan In Phlorida wrote:Ben "rush the gunman" Carson, when held at gunpoint at a Popeye's in Baltimore...

"Guy comes in, puts the gun in my ribs. And I just said, "I believe that you want the guy behind the counter'".

He actually redirected the gunman to the cashier

i thought you were joking. i can't believe he actually said that

by **TenuredVulture** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 13:28:27

Did he forget that he had a gun with him?

by **The Nightman Cometh** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 13:40:23

jerseyhoya wrote:This is phenomenal for my dissertation

This is suboptimal for my feelings about the Republican Party

Join the D side man.

by **traderdave** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 13:50:01

TenuredVulture wrote:
The Crimson Cyclone wrote:
NEW BUSINESS:
1. Budget Transfers.
2. Budget Increases.
3. Other Budget Items.
4. A resolution to approve interlocal cooperation agreement for highway
maintenance with the City of Townsend. (Resolution No. 15-10-003) (Grady
Caskey)
5. Resolution to restructure the Human Resources/Insurance Committee to provide
more equal participation of all departments and employees of Blount County.
(Resolution No. 15-10-004) (Jerome Moon)
6. Resolution to set compensation of School Board Members of Blount County,
Tennessee. (Resolution No. 15-10-005) (Ron French)
7. Resolution condemning judicial tyranny and petitioning God’s mercy. (Resolution No.
15-10-006) (Karen Miller)
8. Letter from State of Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury regarding 2016 fiscal year
budget approval. (Jerome Moon)

School board member compensation? What kind of BS is that?

Works for me :wink:

by **The Crimson Cyclone** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 13:52:19

saw an article (which eludes me now as to where) yesterday that blamed the whole gerrymandering plan of 2010 on this
claimed that due to there being such lopsided districts of red that the radically right can do as they please since they don't fear retribution of being ousted in elections

perhaps it's a small part of it, but there were many factors that lead to this. Decades of demonizing the poor as lazy moochers, tacitly accepting racists, allowing the Koch brothers and other such money groups take over the inner workings of the party and cow towing to the fundamentalist loonies for votes are all part of it too

by **Monkeyboy** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 13:57:38

JH, we are your father. Join us, and together we can rule the galaxy

by **Soren** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 13:59:08

jh would rather be dead than vote not red

by **The Crimson Cyclone** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 14:06:44

personally I think it's a shame it's coming to this

I do believe that an opposing voice that isn't extremist and potentially damaging (shutting down the government in spite for example) is needed

we just need better discourse and compromise

by **The Nightman Cometh** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 14:28:04

King says that members are crying in the cloakroom because the unrest is too much to handle. Wow.

by **Doll Is Mine** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 14:28:12

Just make Nancy Pelosi Speaker.

by **jerseyhoya** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 14:32:53

TenuredVulture wrote:i wonder if any R reps switch parties over this. If an minority of your caucus seems bent on ideological purity regardless of cost, why stay in that party? Relatively moderate Rs in heavily Republican districts would obviously have a different calculation than those who represent swing or lean D districts, but being the majority means the party holds a number of marginal and competitive seats.

a) What's the point of joining the minority party?

b) Though there's a history of party switchers also switching how they vote to become more in line with their new party, there aren't any GOP members of Congress who are more left than the most moderate Dem. It's not like there's some horde of old school liberal Republicans left in the House GOP.

by **Doll Is Mine** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 14:36:01

That's the thing. The Republican party has veered so far to the right that even the most moderate of Republicans are far more conservative than Ronald Reagan was.

by **jerseyhoya** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 14:36:31

That's not really true, but the party has shifted to the right

by **Doll Is Mine** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 14:37:09

jerseyhoya wrote:That's not really true, but the party has shifted to the right

But it is.

by **The Nightman Cometh** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 14:41:37

jerseyhoya wrote:
TenuredVulture wrote:i wonder if any R reps switch parties over this. If an minority of your caucus seems bent on ideological purity regardless of cost, why stay in that party? Relatively moderate Rs in heavily Republican districts would obviously have a different calculation than those who represent swing or lean D districts, but being the majority means the party holds a number of marginal and competitive seats.

a) What's the point of joining the minority party?

b) Though there's a history of party switchers also switching how they vote to become more in line with their new party, there aren't any GOP members of Congress who are more left than the most moderate Dem. It's not like there's some horde of old school liberal Republicans left in the House GOP.

I think we may see some R's switch to Independents for that reason. Might be appealing for an R like Tom MacArthur for example.

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