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Old 11-21-2017, 05:40 PM   #3106
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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.

Remember when reporters like Charlie Rose and Glenn Thrush bristled at their reporting being described as sexist?

Time to kick back and have a nice tall glass of schadenfreude on the rocks.
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Old 11-21-2017, 06:14 PM   #3107
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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.

In the 1990s I was a young associate. I flew to DC monthly to meet with the Patent Office on several clients’ files. I’d divide travel expense across them, and since there were many I always bought 1st class. Turns out Congress was given free first class by Northwest, so I often saw Detroit area pols up close. They were a vain lot, shitty to their aides for the most part, and sometimes borderline retarded (Hi Barbara Rose Collins!).

I only saw John Conyers once. I hate his politics, but he was my ideal for a politician. The rest were on stage, unknowingly playing rats, but still on stage. Congers was with a 5 year old boy I assumed his grandkid. He was with the boy. Nothing else on his mind. Sweet guy?

It turns out he was married to a much younger woman and that was his son. And the wife later went to prison for corruption, but none of that was on him. I really thought he was a great man, politically misguided, but still. Sucks that he is in the same boat.
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Old 11-21-2017, 06:32 PM   #3108
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If you think that captures what I've said, then we can just stop there.
Well there you go. People say the debates around here are endless, numbingly repetitive, and never get resolved. Take that, people. "People."
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Old 11-22-2017, 10:35 AM   #3109
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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.

Pray for me, peoples. Spending Thanksgiving with the right-wing family members.
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Old 11-22-2017, 10:13 PM   #3110
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This, of course, is the $64,000 question.

Times 500.
The real question is why any plaintiff's lawyer with a fucking brain isn't doing looking for these cases night and day.
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Old 11-24-2017, 11:32 AM   #3111
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so Bernie's not endorsing the guy who prosecuted the Klansman in the Birmingham Sunday case but wants to remind us what great things he did for civil rights in 1960s Chicago

Hmmmm.
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Old 11-27-2017, 01:25 PM   #3112
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so Bernie's not endorsing the guy who prosecuted the Klansman in the Birmingham Sunday case but wants to remind us what great things he did for civil rights in 1960s Chicago

Hmmmm.
Seems like the bigger problem is that Jones is not exciting Alabama Democrats who are black. Which is an important group of them.
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Old 11-27-2017, 01:54 PM   #3113
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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.

I would guess, based on Lee Busby's entrance as a write-in candidate, that Jones will pull it off.

I could not in good conscience vote for either Moore or Jones, and would vote for Busby if I lived in Alabama, but I suppose the ideal would be if the Senate could be relied on to expel Moore. I think Moore's best campaign ad would be to go out with the message: Vote for me so I can be expelled and the Governor can appoint someone who's not a child molester. But then again, Nancy Pelosi probably gave him plenty of material for ads yesterday.
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I would guess, based on Lee Busby's entrance as a write-in candidate, that Jones will pull it off.

I could not in good conscience vote for either Moore or Jones, and would vote for Busby if I lived in Alabama, but I suppose the ideal would be if the Senate could be relied on to expel Moore. I think Moore's best campaign ad would be to go out with the message: Vote for me so I can be expelled and the Governor can appoint someone who's not a child molester. But then again, Nancy Pelosi probably gave him plenty of material for ads yesterday.
What's wrong with Jones?
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I would guess, based on Lee Busby's entrance as a write-in candidate, that Jones will pull it off.

I could not in good conscience vote for either Moore or Jones, and would vote for Busby if I lived in Alabama, but I suppose the ideal would be if the Senate could be relied on to expel Moore. I think Moore's best campaign ad would be to go out with the message: Vote for me so I can be expelled and the Governor can appoint someone who's not a child molester. But then again, Nancy Pelosi probably gave him plenty of material for ads yesterday.
Yeah. It sure is crazy how Democrats are so irresponsible that they can get Republicans to vote for a fucking child molester. What you're saying is insane.

And I'm with Ty. I'm not sure they should be allowed to boot a Congressman for actions that have nothing to do with his service (or election) as a Senator. I usually avoid those ridiculous slippery slope arguments, but given how Republicans currently try to push legislation through without debate and how they stole a Supreme Court seat, they pretty much live here and it's only a matter of time before they start booting people for purely political reasons (and if they do it here, I think it would be 95% political):



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Old 11-27-2017, 03:53 PM   #3116
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Seems like the bigger problem is that Jones is not exciting Alabama Democrats who are black. Which is an important group of them.
I'm not getting that from my Alabama friends, despite what WaPo wrote.

We're talking about turnout in a special election. What I've been hearing is it'll be high for a special election. I haven't heard anyone predict that it will be the same level as a regular election, but that shouldn't surprise anyone.
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What's wrong with Jones?
Good question.
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Old 11-27-2017, 04:12 PM   #3118
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What's wrong with Jones?
Nothing I can see. Jones appears a pretty run of the mill moderate D.

However, this is Alabama, and he is pro-choice. So the yokels cannot vote for him, or any other “baby killer.”

It’s all about abortion. (In a state where population control would increase the national IQ by about three points.)
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Old 11-27-2017, 04:35 PM   #3119
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Nothing I can see. Jones appears a pretty run of the mill moderate D.

However, this is Alabama, and he is pro-choice. So the yokels cannot vote for him, or any other “baby killer.”

It’s all about abortion. (In a state where population control would increase the national IQ by about three points.)
I thought the choice debate was now a distant third, behind guns and liberal tears. Am I wrong?

On the good news side, the trumpster family types I saw over the holiday seem to have all bred woke children, who are entering voting age. The kids don't understand their moron parents any better than I do.
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Old 11-28-2017, 01:00 PM   #3120
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Uber's core competency appears to be ignoring the law.
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