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Flipping the House?
How is that dynamic octogenarian House leader workin' out for ya?
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That dynamic octogenarian is 7 years younger than DavidThi's mom, Cynthia – who still rocks the political world representing Hawaii's District 50. Your point?
David's mom is running the RCCC?
Did Speaker Ryan step down?
Your point?
A little tense today, troll? I'm pretty sure you know what my point was.
Whatever Carnholio. This race shouldn't have been on anyone's radar. Should have been a 30+ point non-event. Not a single digit race. Of course you know that. Why else are your sheets and pants so wet?
Da Nile is more than just a river in Egypt.
Well, the Republican is a river in Wray!
Some great history on that, V. Back in the early 90's Governor Romer came to Wray as part of his 'Dome on the Range' program. He was touring several of the projects we had completed that set the stage for us eventually winning the 'All-America City' award in '93. It was December and he stayed the evening to be the Marshall in our Parade of Lights' that goes down Main Street and over the Republican River bridge. He joking said, "I can't cross over the Republican River!! To which I replied, "it's shallow and crooked, thus the name". Then all was fine! Jokes aside – in those days I was a Republican myself and lots of good Republicans still out here – but it made for a great moment! He overnighted in Wray and spent some time at the local Elks Club for a fundraiser then went on his way. A great time was had by all that night – Republicans and Democrats.
The river isn't actually named after the party, btw, but after the Republican Sioux. Early explorers mistakenly thought that band had a republican form of government, hence the name. I like the shallow and crooked tale, though.
FAKE NEWS!
Ken Buck Town Hall – with or without Ken Buck
Mike Coffman Town Hall today
Mike Coffman Town Hall April 12, 2017 6-7 pm
CU Anschutz Campus, Education Building 2 South, Aurora
Must sign up in advance, via link on this page.
Those 30% of the district who voted for the Dem loser are still making noise?
Irritating, huh? Who'd have thunk democracy could be so hard?
These folks are REALLY anxious to get that authoritarian state rolling. They just hate it when people speak up and demonstrate – so inconvenient, and certainly not complimentary to Dear Leader and his elected supporters in Congress.
Looks like the alt-right is about to dump its support for Trump.
Kushner is Jewish….Bannon is a Nazi….
Did anyone really think those two would actually get along?
Trump is very likely to start working with Democrats if he thinks the Repubs are putting a dent in his Imperial Presidency. He must "win"…that supercedes everything to the Great Egomeister. If he thinks the GOP is bringing him down, he will turn on them like a hungry dog. He has no moral or ethical constraints on his obsession with appearances.
That's already happened. If you recall 5-6 weeks before the election the tape came out with Trump making sexually offensive remarks. Many top Republicans either abandoned him altogether or distanced them from him. There was even talk at that late juncture of somehow replacing him on the ticket. Trump went after his antagonists like white on rice.
Fact is he owes the GOP establishment nothing.
It's tough for Trump – because of his chaotic, unguided, unprincipled, erratic, contradictory, dangerous style, no one should assume they can predict what he'll do and who his "friends" will be from one day to the next. I agree that he might start working with the Dems, but it won't last long just as his loyalty to the Repubs, staff, etc, does not last long. As you say, we must not take our eyes off what motivates him – self-aggrandizement, self-promotion, self-wealth, a worshiping mob of supporters, and maybe family (but I'm not sure what the limits are on that one).
And what did I just say about his erratic, contradictory style??!!
It looks like someone loosened all the lug nuts and the wheels are about to fall off this bus.
It is fun to watch….
Putin Trolls still on the payroll and sowing confusion. I guess it'll take some convictions and prison time before we are free from their cut and pasted lies.
"You can't insult your way to the presidency."
Jeb Bush – member of the Bush organized crime family.
Trump Stinks. Stay upwind my friends.
So, the DNC refuses $20k to Thompson in Kansas– "We don't have the money."
The D3C gets in the race on Monday, with some phone calls.
Today Chuck Schumer offers this gem:
I'm with response #1
The Dems are 100% ready to fight to get this country back. Just don't ask them to join a battle they might not win. #50statestrat
I stopped giving to the Democratic Party Committees several years ago because of boneheaded moves like this. My money goes directly to the candidates…..
DCCC and DSCC are pretty much worthless. Our own MB continued that sad tradition just recently.
Trump to ditch AF Academy Graduation – if Hillary or Barack did it?
In no way do I ever want to defend Donald Trump, but it doesn't help to make more of something than it deserves.
I have not looked for a full list, but my recollection is that Presidents tend to rotate addressing graduations at the four military academies from year to year, usually doing only one per year. In a cadet's four years at the academy, they would have the President once. Obama was at the Air Force Academy in 2012 and 2016. So you could say he "ditched" or sent a proxy to AFA other other six years. Since Obama was at AFA last year, it would be logical that Trump would not be there this year. I don't know who's "turn" it would be for 2017.
That said, I don't see any announcement so far that Trump is speaking at one of the other academies. But although an academy might expect the President for "their year," I think firm plans tend to not get confirmed very far in advance. And making his first graduation speech at Liberty University obviously is a big kiss to those supporters.
We're better off focusing on real outrages.
That rotation isn't fixed but it's what I remember from my West Point years, gaf.
That Liberty is willing to have him says more about them than it does about him. They sold their souls to the Republican Party decades ago–for this? I've said it before and I'll say it again: The Screaming Yam has the morals of an alley cat and the ethics of a junkyard dog. The religionists have forevermore ceded the high ground from which they've been scolding the rest of the world for the last 40 years by falling at the Yam's feet.
Well said, cook.
Jesus was nailed to the Cross so these people could be rich? So rich that the Jews will become jealous and convert?!? What an effing mockery of religion.
Trump’s Pastor Friends Have One Thing In Common: They’re All Rich
One of my favorite verses hits Trump on point: "To you oh men I call and my cry is to the sons of men. Oh ye simple ones, learn prudence."
Proverbs 8:5