*Breaking* John Boehner to resign next month

Precious Roy wrote:

What is really amazing is that Republicans have gained a tremendous amount of power by gerrymandering congressional districts, but are now on the precipice of going so hard to the right that they alienate anyone who leans at all to the center. And to top it off, Donald Trump may actually end up as the nominee for 2016. The result will be a blood bath for Republicans in the 2016 election as moderates flee the party.

The Republican party is going hard right? Please give me an example of that. I wish it were true.

The only difference I can detect between Republicans and Democrats are that different big companies get paid off depending on who's in power... and I'm not sure even that is true anymore.

Again, let's get back to a two party system.

I predict Strom Thurmond will be elected as speaker even though he's been dead for 12 years.

If an ultra-conservative is becomes Speaker the Reps will effectively be handing the swing voters to the Democrats.

Results of a poll covering swing states:

- 2/3 support action on climate change but

- 2/3 oppose the Iran deal

- A majority oppose efforts to cut off federal funding for Planned Parenthood;

- Swing voters in all three states support allowing illegal immigrants to stay, with a path to citizenship;

- Most support sending U.S. ground troops to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

DiscoGary wrote:

Really? Why? How am I extreme? Exactly what problems am I causing?

DiscoGary wrote:

The Republican party is going hard right? Please give me an example of that. I wish it were true.

DiscoGary wrote:

DancingFairy wrote:

Disco Boy - Do you understand that most of the population (of the world, not just the USA) feels like the extremists like you are actually the real problem?

Really? Why? How am I extreme? Exactly what problems am I causing?

Ha! You and your extreme right-wing ilk are the bane (or is it boen?) of our existence in this great country. You ought to go to Russia or Hungary with the other right wingers.

ilk hunter wrote:

DiscoGary wrote:

Really? Why? How am I extreme? Exactly what problems am I causing?

Ha! You and your extreme right-wing ilk are the bane (or is it boen?) of our existence in this great country. You ought to go to Russia or Hungary with the other right wingers.

OK. So far you guys got no answer to that question. Does anyone else want to try?

That should be an easy question to answer. Why is it so hard?

Boehner stepping down. I love a story with a happy ending.

ilk hunter wrote:

DiscoGary wrote:

Really? Why? How am I extreme? Exactly what problems am I causing?

Ha! You and your extreme right-wing ilk are the bane (or is it boen?) of our existence in this great country. You ought to go to Russia or Hungary with the other right wingers.

Who really are the extremists? Certainly not conservatives who want a more limited government, the borders secured and everyone to be treated equally. The real extremists are all the liberals/Dems (most of them) who support infanticide, i.e., denying care to viable babies born alive via botched abortions. THOSE are the extremists. The Sickos.

agip wrote:

no kidding - the crazies finally got him to quit.

I really don't like this republican party

I don't know who that is.

I agree that it is the general consensus in the US and around the world that I am the cause of all the world's problems, but I want someone to tell me what I have done to cause ANY of the problems that I am accused of creating.

DiscoGary wrote:

ilk hunter wrote:

Ha! You and your extreme right-wing ilk are the bane (or is it boen?) of our existence in this great country. You ought to go to Russia or Hungary with the other right wingers.

OK. So far you guys got no answer to that question. Does anyone else want to try?

That should be an easy question to answer. Why is it so hard?

sorry if I don't remember your positions on everything. Perhaps you could help.

how do you feel about benghazi?

or

do you think the congress should shut down the government over obamacare?

Randy Oldman wrote:

Results of a poll covering swing states:

- 2/3 oppose the Iran deal

Before the media and Israel Lobby's propaganda campaign began a strong majority supported the deal.

- Most support sending U.S. ground troops to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

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Again, before the Rita Katz provided videos purporting to show ISIS beheading victims, the vast majority of Americans opposed any more troops going off to fight in these endless Neocon wars.

Propaganda works. Control the media and you can almost certainly shape the worldview of the citizens.

DiscoGary wrote:

ilk hunter wrote:

Ha! You and your extreme right-wing ilk are the bane (or is it boen?) of our existence in this great country. You ought to go to Russia or Hungary with the other right wingers.

OK. So far you guys got no answer to that question. Does anyone else want to try?

That should be an easy question to answer. Why is it so hard?

Not a fan of the far left at all. But the far right is repulsive, if not sickening.

agip wrote:

sorry if I don't remember your positions on everything. Perhaps you could help.

how do you feel about benghazi?

or

do you think the congress should shut down the government over obamacare?

You said "It's extremists like disco gary that are mucking up the gears of democracy."

So you already have drawn your conclusions without my help. Based on what?

ilk hunter wrote:

DiscoGary wrote:

OK. So far you guys got no answer to that question. Does anyone else want to try?

That should be an easy question to answer. Why is it so hard?

Not a fan of the far left at all. But the far right is repulsive, if not sickening.

Do you consider infanticide sickening? Name one thing conservatives do that rivals infanticide.

ilk hunter wrote:

Not a fan of the far left at all. But the far right is repulsive, if not sickening.

Sickening? How so? Worse than carving up newly killed babies and selling their body parts to the highest bidder? That kind of repulsive, that kind of sick?

Why is this so hard? Hmmm.

Comical that the lefties paint anyone on the right that's celebrating Boehner resigning is a wack job. He's been a feckless, worthless, spineless leader who's lost virtually every battle with the dems....no wonder you all love him so much...he's a loser!

DiscoGary wrote:

agip wrote:

sorry if I don't remember your positions on everything. Perhaps you could help.

how do you feel about benghazi?

or

do you think the congress should shut down the government over obamacare?

You said "It's extremists like disco gary that are mucking up the gears of democracy."

So you already have drawn your conclusions without my help. Based on what?

Fair enough. I was going on memories of you taking extreme positions. So clear it up. How do you feel about Benghazi and he wisdom of congress shutting down the fed govt when it doesn't get its way?

Precious Roy wrote:

Bo(eh)ner wrote:

Now that he's stepping down, can we stop pretending that his name is pronounce "Bainer" when it is obvious pronounced "Boner"? In what world does an O followed by an E produce a hard A sound? I don't have 5 tays on each feet. I have toes.

It's German. The "oe" is an English adaptation of an "o" with an umlaut, which is pronounced as "ay" as in way, day, and stay.

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Swing and a miss. I hate to be the one to break it to you that Goettingen is probably not as fun a place as you had imagined... (Gayttingen)

agip wrote:

reasonable Roy - there is an interesting debate on whether gerrymandering has had the effect you say - worth reading some of these:

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1AVNE_enUS614US614&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=gerrymandering%20not%20a%20problem

It's a big problem, IMHO. But both parties do it. The Dems gerrymandered a lot of the south in the 1980s when they were losing influence down there. The Republicans are doing it more now. You end up with results like what's happened in Wisconsin, where Democrats received around 200,000 more votes statewide for assembly seats, but only end up with 36 out of 100 seats.

I think they just need to randomly draw boundaries. I live in an urban (Dem) county in an otherwise Republican state, and the local Republicans been artfully cutting apart my district for almost 20 years trying to figure a way to pry it out of Dem hands.