It's also because they've spent 40 years without any idea how to govern when they get control, save for trying to get more control. They can't stand to be the minority party, but honestly, digging in and keeping the status quo is all they're good at anymore.
Problem for them is the public hate the status quo now.
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On this date in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, as well as 2019, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day published profiles about Missouri State Senator Paul Wieland, a front-line soldier in the GOP’s “War on Women” that since taking office in 2010, has gone out of his way to try and find ways to undermine the Affordable Care Act, particularly that medical insurance policies can often cover the cost of contraceptive coverage for women. He personally filed a lawsuit against the federal government in 2013 to make sure that he, a good Catholic, wasn’t paying for any potential contraceptives for his daughter on his insurance plan, referring to birth control pills as “abortion inducing drugs” that were “intrinsically evil”. The courts dismissed Wieland’s case as frivolous, not realizing his stunt would do little to deter him. After the Burwell v. Hobby Lobby ruling, Wieland immediately filed another lawsuit against the government, which also got laughed out of court. Paul Wieland also files dimwitted legislation to prevent the implantation of Sharia Law in Missouri, or to prevent the sinister United Nations Agenda 21 treaty. Heck, he’s even voted for efforts to nullify federal firearms laws, drug test welfare recipients, stricter Voter ID laws (to combat the statistically non-existent problem of in-person voter fraud), ag-gag laws to prevent any oversight against livestock farmers, and voted for SJR 39, a special little bill to prohibit any state employee from being penalized for declining to participate in same-sex marriage ceremonies.
In November of 2015, after a series of highly publicized racist incidents at the University of Missouri that school president Tim Wolfe refused to act upon, and in some instances, Wolfe himself dug the hole deeper by chastising protesters, the Missouri Tigers Football Team threatened to boycott games unless Wolfe was fired. Wolfe resigned, and it seemed like that was that. Except, it wasn’t for Paul Wieland, who just couldn’t stomach any kind of improvement in race relations, apparently, on those terms, and needed to go after someone as retribution, choosing Gary Pinkel, the now former head coach of the team, who approved of his players’ choice. Here’s where it gets more grotesque… Coach Pinkel had resigned to seek treatment for lymphoma, and the university had bought out the remainder of his contract so he could do so and for his fifteen year loyal tenure in turning around the football team, they also offered him a job as an ambassador of the athletic department. Well, in true “smaller government” interests, Wieland began to publicly criticize the school for these moves, apparently finding less of a problem with a school president who created an environment of permissive racism to a beloved coach for supporting his players through a hard decision.
Paul Wieland was pursuing a second term in office in 2018, even with a Blue Wave crashing upon the GOP across the country, and while Missouri Republicans were also scrambling and in damage control over the scandal surrounding Gov. Eric Greitens, Wieland still managed to get re-elected with 58% of the vote. Barring any scandals that would force his resignation, he does not face term limits until his new term is up in 2022. He is currently doing whatever he can to sabotage health insurance for Missourians during his lame duck years.
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How COVID-19 Overwhelmed The American State
Decades of poor policy choices and neglect of government agencies have left the U.S. ill-equipped to handle this crisis.
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Lawmakers Call Out The Higher Risk To People Of Color As States Reopen
“Once they saw who was dying, it was like, ‘We don’t have a problem here,’” Rep. Karen Bass said of the Trump administration push to open businesses amid COVID-19. Why am I not surprised? When you have a flaming bigot in the Oval Office, no one should be surprised he's willing to let people of color die for the sake of the economy.
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Stunned Fox News Host Neil Cavuto Warns: Hydroxy *********** ‘Will Kill You’
“I cannot stress this enough,” warned Neil Cavuto about the anti-malaria drug the president has touted as a coronavirus cure, “this will kill you.” Golly, Neil! Ya think? Meanwhile....
Pelosi Concerned ‘Morbidly Obese’ Trump Taking Unproven Drug To Ward Off Coronavirus
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Trump Threatens Permanent Freeze Of World Health Organization Funding
The president also said he would reconsider membership of the United States in the body. Not to worry, after Trump is voted out in November, that funding will be restored.
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Trump ‘Will Lie,’ People Will Die: Republican Lincoln Project Releases Ominous New Video
Latest ad launched as U.S. surpasses 90,000 deaths from COVID-19. Can't put it any plainer.
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Priest Goes Viral After Using Squirt Gun Full Of Holy Water To Bless Churchgoers
Father Tim Pelc’s creative solution to social distancing has inspired memes and a Photoshop battle his Michigan church called “pretty clever.” I got a chuckle out of that.
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This isn't exclusive in Obama, but there seem to two conflicting messages top candidates have.
Candidates will generally emphasize what makes them special, to get swing voters to agree that they are uniquely awesome, and deserving of votes. But this conflicts with the message that it's important to get united control.
One of the reasons we never got Nixon or Carter's universal health care proposal is that people on the left like Ted Kennedy fought against it.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/b...th-care-reform
https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallp...ealth-overhaul
As health care costs went up, it became more difficult to implement universal health care since it would be more expensive for the government.
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
You criticize me for comparing white supremacists to atheist socialists, and left out the portion of my post where I explicitly said that the latter is a morally superior position, albeit an unpopular one. We would not expect Biden or any of his surrogates to say in any speech or interview "you should read up on some secular humanism, which is when people do the right thing because they believe it's right rather than an invisible sky wizard tells them to."
As for white nationalists, I think you greatly exaggerate their role.
You said "rarely if ever." That suggests that ever is a possibility.
In a country of hundreds of millions, there are going to be some idiots, so if hundreds of morons are marching, we don't usually need a change in policy.
As for the suggestion that Republican support for white nationalism is as common as Democratic support for open borders, there are quite a few differences.
In a country of 325,000,000+ plus, there will be some idiots, so I don't think we need to make major policy changes due to a few hundred idiots marching.
Open borders does also have significantly more mainstream support than white nationalism. Bryan Caplan is invited to mainstream media outlets to talk about his graphic novel Open Borders. An opinion columnist for the New York Times writes a column about how there's nothing wrong with open borders.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/o...migration.html
The New York Times has not recently published any opinion columnist explicitly saying that there's nothing wrong with white nationalism. A counterargument is that open borders is a morally superior position to white nationalism, but that's a justification for dissimilar treatment, rather that the responses from the media and politicians are similar.
It does seem that the most important immigration question is one that Democrats are unwilling to answer: what should the limits on legal immigration be?
With political correctness, it seems we should be able to simultaneously come up with solutions to bigotry while also being clear about the excesses. The contrary view does get to the perspective that what is important is to be on the right side, rather than to be correct on the specifics of a case. The response to that would be if you're not correct on the specifics of a case, how would anyone figure out you're on the right side?
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
Neither of your links tell the real reason Kennedy opposed those bills. And you see no irony that Health care is becoming unaffordable to so many Americans that to say the one way to bring down costs can't be done. So what, the GOP plan of business as usual, except to kill any reform that helps people?
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
I leave out non-relevant parts because we don't have time for gish-gallops.
I left out that part because it did not negate the false equivalency you were attempting.
Also, you're still not acknowledging what the Republican Party is becoming.
Trump. Pence. Stephen Miller. Steve King. Steve Bannon. Steve Fitzgerald. (This is just the Steves.) Sebastian & Katherine Gorka. Matt Gaetz. Corey Stewart. Jeff Sessions. John Fitzgerald. Seth Grossman. Arthur Jones. Paul Nehlen. Russell Walker. Edwin Duterte. Augustus Invictus. Taylor Rose. Russell Pearce. John Ritzheimer. Warren Love. Dennis Baxley. Kyle Biedermann. Mike Pitts. Laura Loomer. Omar Navarro. Bill Chumley. Adam Hasner. Paul Gosar. Andy Biggs. Matthew Lusk. Jim Lucas. Werner Horn. Bobby Jeffries. Daryl Metcalfe. Phil Jensen. Lou Barletta. Ken Cuccinelli. Kris Kobach. Doug Ducey. Brian Kemp. Ron DeSantis.As for white nationalists, I think you greatly exaggerate their role.
That's... a brief smattering. I could go on.
If you need any more proof, ask yourself why the NDAA was altered by Senate Republicans to omit "white nationalism" as a reason to not admit people to the military. Or why the Proud Boys can walk in to campaign events by Republicans as welcome guests.
They are tacitly accepting the worst of their party. Kind of like someone who's bending over backwards to pretend like it's not happening I'm thinking of right now.
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I'm sure you do since you rarely address them nor their role within the Republican party.
Not going to spend another fifteen pages trying to get you to admit the obvious -- I have better things to do with my time.
Let's just acknowledge that we're at an impasse and the only solution I see at this point is to both prosecute the criminal members of your party and vote them out of offfice.
"It does seem that the most important immigration question is one that Democrats are unwilling to answer: what should the limits on legal immigration be?"
Even more projection -- accuse people of asking loading quetions while constantly doing it to others.
It's not the "most important immigration question at all" -- it's a talking point you repeatedly use to deflect from your party's criminal behavior and moral, ethical, humanitarian, and economic failings.
Enough of the hypotheticals -- Republicans are in power now so let's watch how it plays out.
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Not surprising. He's just that petty.
According to a report, Trump will not be unveiling his predecessor Barack Obama’s official White House portrait
Also, again, Trump does not care about the military at all.
Huh: “thousands of [National Guard] members who first deployed in late March will find themselves with only 89 days of duty credit, one short of the 90-day threshold for qualifying for early retirement and education benefits under the Post-9/11 GI bill.”
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My big article on Mariko Tamaki's Hulk & She-Hulk runs, discussing the good, bad, and its creation.
My second big article on She-Hulk, discussing Jason Aaron's focus on her in Avengers #20.
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Some light reading
Trump is making Republicans the party of white nationalism. Does anybody in the GOP care?
'Tipping point': In shift, Florida Republicans blame shootings on white nationalism
Conservatives Have a White-Nationalism Problem
Why White Nationalists Are Turning on Trump Republicans
Stephen Miller is no outlier. White supremacy rules the Republican party
After Stephen Miller's white nationalist views outed, Latinos ask, 'where's the GOP outrage?'
Senate removes phrase 'white nationalist' from measure intended to screen military enlistees
The GOP Is America’s Party of White Nationalism
A GOP candidate called himself ‘a proud white nationalist.’ He’s now dropped out.
Column: Tea party white nationalist corruption saves the president from removal
Republicans Want to Make White Grievance Genteel Again
The Republican Party Was Founded to Fight White Supremacy. Here’s How It’s Embraced It Now.
These 7 Prominent Conservatives Have Nothing in Common With White Supremacists, Nothing at All
Still looking for articles that take more of an opposing position. Still looking.
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Why does anyone bother to debate Mets. His party is full of violent white nationalists and hes fine with it. He can dress it up with enough 10 dollar words as he likes but the core truth of it is he doesnt care.