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Re: Short answers to longer questions.

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 411990)

What is real estate, other than an exclusive license to use a piece of land?

A place to put your rotting car

more bad news for the GOP, (rip)

Re: You (all) lie!

If we had to lose a Senator from North Dakota, why couldn't it have been Kent Conrad?

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 412215)

If we had to lose a Senator from North Dakota, why couldn't it have been Kent Conrad?

Otoh, since we are losing a Senator from the great Nutmeg state, I am glad its Dudd and not Lieberman.

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 412245)

Good for Iceland, right?

(Some background.)

Good on em, mate!

Can we all stop obsessing about the failed Xmas terror attack? No one likes to fly to start with, and the idea of terrorists bombing planes is truly scary. But the need to keep picking at that scab is driving focus and coverage that is all out of proportion to the danger to the public. Pink slime in hamburger may kill more people.

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 412251)

A failure to be diligent and focus seems like it would create a real opening for more terrorist activity. Why do you hate America?

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Originally Posted by PresentTense Pirate Penske (Post 412216)

Otoh, since we are losing a Senator from the great Nutmeg state, I am glad its Dudd and not Lieberman.

One comparison between the two of them:

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I don't want to go too far with the idea that Chris Dodd bowed out of the race to preserve the seat for his party. Few politicians are interested in an unwinnable election. But then, few veteran politicians really see races as unwinnable. If Dodd didn't think there was some chance he could turn things around against WWE co-founder Linda McMahon, he's not quite the optimist I imagined. His decision, however, didn't maximize his chances of holding the seat. It maximized his party's chances of holding on to the seat.

By contrast, it's worth remembering how Dodd's Connecticut colleague, Joe Lieberman, reacted in a related situation in 2000. Lieberman had been nominated to run as Al Gore's vice president. That forced him to decide whether to simultaneously run for Senate as well. If he won both, then he'd become veep, his Senate seat would go unfilled, and the Republican governor would appoint a Republican replacement. If he bowed out of the Senate race, attorney general Richard Blumenthal -- the same guy who's running to replace Dodd -- would have stepped in to replace Lieberman.

Lieberman decided to run for both simultaneously, maximizing the potential that he would have an elected position the following November, but not that the Democratic Party would hold the seat.

Ezra Klein

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Originally Posted by PresentTense Pirate Penske (Post 412252)

A failure to be diligent and focus seems like it would create a real opening for more terrorist activity. Why do you hate America?

Why are you in favor of pink slime in our nation's hamburgers?

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 412253)

One comparison between the two of them:

Ezra Klein

are you saying the Dems fucked Loserman becasue of this, because it seems to me he was quite smart to run for the Senate and fuck the Dems,

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 412251)

what I don't get is why airport TV seems like a CNN boiled down to terrorism stories.

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 412245)

Good for Iceland, right?

(Some background.)

I didn't read either, but do these stories acknowledge that George Bush ruined Iceland's economy?

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 412253)

One comparison between the two of them:

Ezra Klein

Party politics are the bane of our system and a hurdle to effective government. Lieberman acted in the best interests of the people, not a corrupt bloated self-interested elitist party. Dudd did exactly what he has always done, much like his dad, and acted in the name of elitism, corruption and bloat at the peoples' expense.

Why do you hate the people?

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 412254)

Why are you in favor of pink slime in our nation's hamburgers?

translation: I never met Penske's first wife.