The Crimson Cyclone wrote:I thought Christie was going to be Trump's lap dog...er I mean VP choice

JFLNYC wrote:Frankly I don't care whether Garland is far left. I just want somebody who is fair-minded, not ultra-conservative and not bent on repealing every progressive advance made by the Court.

pacino wrote:You're a corporatist!

Doll Is Mine wrote:By the way, did anyone else see Michelle Bachmann on Hardball call Hillary a fascist?

drsmooth wrote:

JUburton wrote: I don't know if he's implying that a Trump/Kasich ticket would get Trump the nomination but (and I know Nate knows this) if Kasich stays in, his delegates are legally bound on the first ballot (not 100% but close) and if they become unbound it's not like the vast majority of them are Kasich/Trump chosen humans who will automatically vote Trump.

My gut says that if he's within 50ish delegates something will get done in the week before hand to get him the nomination on 2nd ballot. If he's way shy then he won't get it.

Silver's tweet is nothing about any kind of "ticket". Kasich isn't doing anything like that. It's about drumpf not getting 1,237 delegates. Period. Forget a drumpf/Kasich "ticket". That's some kind of fantasy league #$!&@.

TomatoPie wrote:Doc, you've been the AntiDrumpf hero in this thread - but I wish I shared your confidence here. I hope to hell Kasich remains key to thwarting fascism, but I do see weak "Republicans" caving in. Kasich DID, after his last failed POTUS run, cave in and become a Fox News commentator. This would be the same move to a larger degree. I'm not predicting it but I can't say I'd be shocked...

The Nightman Cometh wrote:Looking at Ted Cruz's foreign policy advisors is having me a sad. Elliot Abrams. Christ.

Bucky wrote:

The Nightman Cometh wrote:Looking at Ted Cruz's foreign policy advisors is having me a sad. Elliot Abrams. Christ.

wow, i thought he only knew meteorology!

As you’ve probably guessed, that model collapsed. Like the budget plans of every Republican presidential candidate, Brownback’s “real live experiment” proceeded from the hypothesis that tax cuts for the wealthy are such a boon to economic growth, they actually end up paying for themselves (so long as you kick the undeserving poor out of their welfare hammocks). The Koch-backed Kansas Policy Institute predicted that Brownback’s 2013 tax plan would generate $323 million in new revenue. During its first full year in operation, the plan produced a $688 million loss. Meanwhile, Kansas’s job growth actually trailed that of its neighboring states. With that nearly $700 million deficit, the state had bought itself a 1.1 percent increase in jobs, just below Missouri’s 1.5 percent and Colorado’s 3.3