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Twitter Link with VideoMitch McConnell: Everything I do during this, I’m coordinating with White House Counsel. There will be no difference between the President’s position and our position as to how to handle this
Isn't that like half the jury asking the Defense Lawyers how they should vote in the trial?
Original join date: 11/23/2004
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Josh Barro sees a connection to the British election and 2020.
Yes, I do expect this result to repeat: A widely unpopular leader who drags down his party's support from levels you would expect based on fundamentals, Donald Trump, will lose to a lovable, doofy insider politician with a history of making up weird stories, Joe Biden.
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
This is a pretty divided country (the highest percentage of the popular vote any President got in my lifetime was 53.4%), so even if the group of people who would stay home or vote third party if Trump told them to do that, that could definitely swing the election.
I think repealing the 22nd amendment would be a bad idea, but I could imagine people on both sides going for it. I get that it's ridiculously unlikely.
I'm not a Democrat so I may be off on how Democrats think in general, but my sense is that there's no one out there at the moment who the majority of voters would prefer to more Obama. He is often referred to as a once in a generation talent, and if taken literally, that suggests we shouldn't expect anyone on his level for another few presidential cycles.
The Onion made fun of how a Bill Clinton primary run could be seen in 2008, and I do get the sense Democrats widely prefer Obama to Bill now, so the voters may very well find themselves able to back another candidate as passionately later.
https://politics.theonion.com/bill-c...ent-1819569570
To be fair to Obama, he doesn't have Bill Clinton's moral shortcomings.
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
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Nadler sent everyone home to get some sleep, thatteh vote would be at 10 AM. Republicans are angry. Fighting with Democrats over this for 14 hours straight isn't enough.
Like a little kid who cries that he doesn't want to go to bed.
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This result was predictable. I think Boris might be the second least popular politician in the UK, but Corbyn is the one guy ahead of him. If he wanted his party to have had a better chance, he needed to have stepped down before the election rather than after. Not sure if it would have changed the final result, but even a Yank like me who is only partly paying attention could see how unpopular Corbyn is.
Dark does not mean deep.
It really was a dire choice. I actually thought about not voting at all, which would have been a first for me.
I actually think in or out of EU...although clearly an important issue...is not the super massively important thing so many of us believe it is.
If UK manage to negotiate a reasonable trade deal (maybe a big if, given “competence” of UK politicians) then I think in a few years time every will wonder what all the angst was about.
I hope Scottish people reflect on Brexit debacle...and reflect that separating from UK has many of the same pros and cons as U.K. exiting EU.
Predictable, yeah, I'm really not surprised by anything anymore. Maybe I'm just being gloomy though, maybe your new government won't royally screw up the border dispute, alienate sizable chunks of the population, and gut everything they can to stuff their own pockets. It's what the GOP would do, but I'm just making assumption about how things work in the UK.
wh-wh-whaaaaat????
https://www.kentucky.com/news/politi...238320918.html
It’s not clear if Betty Carnes was killed by asphyxiation or by the eight blows to her head that Delmar Partin delivered with a metal pipe. The coroner couldn’t tell which killed the mother of three first, but it was very clear that her head was then chopped off and placed on her lap in a 55-gallon barrel that was destined for a toxic waste site.
On Monday, departing Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin pardoned and commuted the sentence of Partin, who was convicted of killing her at the factory where they both worked in Barbourville in 1994.
In his order, Bevin said he pardoned Partin because potential DNA evidence had not been tested.