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    Superficially that makes sense. But if the filibuster goes effective power on any bill in the next Senate shifts from…
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    • Don't hand it to him until we see the outcome. If we permanently ratify 90% or so of the Bush…
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    • It's not changing the rules because there are no rules at the beginning of a new Congress. Each new Congress…
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    • There is a big gap in rhetoric. You can find some bloggers calling Bush II or Romney a fascist, but…
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    • Top Cabinet positions are normally the end of the line for public service. Although there are exceptions, that particular resume…
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    • I'll support Hagel because he's actually supported war spending cuts in the past. That's a pretty rare thing in a…
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    • Clinton went to the mat for two things which were bad for the country: NAFTA and welfare reform. He didn't…
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    • Chained CPI would be a reasonable offer to get a tax cap raise. For precisely that reason, it shouldn't have…
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    • The GOP ... gerrymandered themselves into a permanent House majority.   Unless the Republicans make proposals to cut Medicare and…
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    • A sense of the alternative to the sequester is the House bill reallocating the sequester cuts which Boehner allowed to…
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    • We'll get #3 and #7 after initial efforts by the Republicans to tie them to ridiculous spending cuts because they'll…
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    • Majority of cast votes: the (outrageous) spending cut re-allocations passed 215-209; you need 218 for an absolute majority.
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    • No GOPer will vote for Pelosi. IMO if the House Republicans remain deadset on some policy with massive public opposition…
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    • Congress's approval rating reflects that people don't want the government to go bankrupt and crash the economy. It wasn't being…
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    • Proof to whom? Nobody cares about "reasonable negotiating postures". Everybody wants what they can get. With the people that count,…
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    • Republicans are far more afraid of primaries than general elections. They have figured out there are very few "moderates" who…
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    • What I wonder is: Does Obama realize this? He'll get nothing done legislatively for the rest of his time in…
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    • It was a sectarian insurgency, and it ran until sectarian cleansing was complete. Once the Shites and Sunnis were separated…
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    • Having them vote for any of the items proposed won't break them or even slow them down the next week.…
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    • The existing "fiscal cliff" is preferable to this deal. It doesn't have to pass the House - it's already law.
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