Blue Dogs are about to sell us out again. The Democrats blinked first.
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Also, the titans of the MIC are undoubtedly becoming restless.
MIC? Macquarie Infrastructure Company? Music Institute of Chicago? Those were the first two google results. Sorry, I don’t recognize the acronym.
I got Macquarie Infrastructure and Motorcycle Industry Council – thanks for the clarification, dada.
“Sequestration” is what those on the left should want?
A huge problem in this country is that neither political party has figured out how to reduce the irrational Pentagon spending without plunging the country into recession. The leftie partisan in me says, just do it because the impact would be greatest in those states that hate liberalism, science, government, etc. But that wouldn’t be nice.
Of course not, but you know what compromising with Republicans means. They get 99% and we get a bone.
This compromise will probably restore most of the DoD cuts and increase the other cuts. Couldn’t they have waited until the election was over and they could count votes before crawling on their bellies?
Have a sense that this time Reid is not setting the table for the DEMs to fold. And don’t expect McConnell to accept the invitation before the election because at this point he has nothing to gain. Getting the offer out early adds to the claim that the GOP is holding the US economy hostage for their own political power.
Any real talks will happen after the election.
Reid has looked strong before and then folded. Of course, we don’t know the internal dynamic, then or now. Past history does not encourage me.
On that subject, I don’t really mind losing Ben Nelson and Kent Conrad as long as the result is still a Dem majority.
Losing Kent Conrad and gaining Elizabeth Warren is a trade I’d make any day.
This one doesn’t look like an appeasement move by Reid to me and that is a change from what I’ve seen him do over the years.
Getting rid of a weasel like Lieberman will make Reid’s job easier, but sixty DEM seats is what he needs. Or maybe Romney/Ryan getting less than 40% of the vote.
Even in my most optimistic moments, I don’t think Romney ends up with only 39% of the popular vote.
On the other hand, the possibility that Harry Reid has made voting to eliminate or weaken the filibuster in January a required party-line vote for all Sen. Democrats…that does exist in my wildest dreams.
For a pessimist, wildly optimistic fantasies aren’t beyond me. However, 39% is but a tad on the wildly optimistic side. Mostly because he’s more likely to lose 2008 McCain voters to nothing instead of another candidate which would shrink the electorate and keep his percentage above 40%. (Gary Johnson should do well with the Paulistas and other disaffected white guys.) But it seems plausible to me that he could receive 15% fewer votes than McCain/Palin in part because a portion of the electorate doesn’t like to vote for a loser.
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