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Ubik said:
Senate has nothing to do with gerrymandering, it's statewide. Dems will have a hard time there primarily because only a third of seats come up for election every 2 years, and the batch in November happens to be pretty good territory for the GOP.
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I said gerrymandering in reference to the House seats only.

Of the 33Senate seats up for election, Dems currently hold 23, Repubs 8 and 2 are independents. Bernie being one of them.

Also two special Senate elections for Minnesota and Mississippi. Al Franken and Cochran's seats.
 
Nikhil said:
I said gerrymandering in reference to the House seats only.

Of the 33Senate seats up for election, Dems currently hold 23, Repubs 8 and 2 are independents. Bernie being one of them.

Also two special Senate elections for Minnesota and Mississippi. Al Franken and Cochran's seats.
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Right, and some of those 23 are currently in very-red states like North Dakota and West Virginia, with few pickup opportunities. It'll be a good result if they emerge with the same number that they went in with.
 
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Senate on Thursday sent the House a bill that is aimed at wiping out a tax credit that benefited mainly the wealthy.

Senate Bill 1086, by Sen. Dave Rader, R-Tulsa, passed by a vote of 30-10. It heads to the House for consideration.

The measure would eliminate the capital gains tax credit, Rader said.
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Sen. Ervin Yen, R-Oklahoma City, was successful in reviving his medical marijuana bill that died earlier this week.
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http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/gove...cle_7bb47a86-ca00-5ced-a55f-2724272c7039.html

I do not know how to process this. (apparently teachers were about to strike since schools can't stay open 5 days a week, but still. I can't imagine the GOP raising taxes for rich people)
 
It's also the dumbest argument. We teach soldiers about interrogation because the bad guys are going to use that on them. We're not supposed to be the bad guys.
 
Grinner said:
It's also the dumbest argument. We teach soldiers about interrogation because the bad guys are going to use that on them. We're not supposed to be the bad guys.
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Exactly. The daughter of a war criminal should be the last person to talk about torture and war crimes anyway. The entire family are a disgrace to humans.
 


Does the situation with DC get talked about much over there? It seems ridiculous that such a large population essentially has no national representation. Obviously the GOP won't do anything because it'd be massively Dem.
 
Ubik said:


Does the situation with DC get talked about much over there? It seems ridiculous that such a large population essentially has no national representation. Obviously the GOP won't do anything because it'd be massively Dem.
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Puerto Rico probably has a decent chance since they have voted for statehood via referendum. The GOP are obviously not going to advance the cause and of course Trump would never sign on to a state of hispanics joining the Union since it would work against his reelection. That said, if the Dems roll into power there could be some movement on both areas. There was a big push in the 90s led by the likes of Jesse Jackson to turn DC into the state of "New Columbia" but it was widely viewed as a powergrab for the Dems and quickly fizzled out.
 
Mike Huckabee is real mad about an unflattering portrait and some criticism of Shucks that Jim Carrey posted to Twitter.
Portrait in question:

Dad's response:

How is it sexist or bigoted? Since when does Republicans (especially Huckabee) care about sexism and bigotry?
 
One could easily fire back at Huckabee with his comments over the years. He's a typical self-righteous christian cnut.

"I have just come out of six weeks at a concentration camp held by the Democrat Party of Arkansas in an undisclosed location, making a hostage tape," Huckabee said. "That's why I look that way." -- Republican Gov. Mike Huckabee drew criticism from a Jewish Democratic group Friday for jokingly crediting his 100-pound weight loss to a stay in a concentration camp.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gov-draws-ire-for-concentration-camp-joke/

“We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools,” Huckabee said on Fox News. “Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage?”

“We don’t have a crime problem, a gun problem or even a violence problem. What we have is a sin problem,” Huckabee said on Fox News. “And since we’ve ordered God out of our schools, and communities, the military and public conversations, you know we really shouldn’t act so surprised ... when all hell breaks loose.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/14/mike-huckabee-school-shooting_n_2303792.html
 
Its a decent picture of her tbf. Its spot on down to the snarl.
 
Eboue said:
The only person on that list who is remotely left is Chris Hayes.
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Depends how left the person making the observation is. If you're a full on socialist, few if any of them would seem left to you. Most centrist people would have MSNBC on the left, Fox on the right, and CNN center to center left.
 
Raoul said:
Depends how left the person making the observation is. If you're a full on socialist, few if any of them would seem left to you. Most centrist people would have MSNBC on the left, Fox on the right, and CNN center to center left.
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of course it depends on that but i think people on the left have a better idea of who is on the left than centrists
 
The Senate blocked a war powers resolution Tuesday that called for an end to US involvement in the Yemen conflict.

By a vote of 55 to 44, senators voted against a procedural motion that would have advanced the measure.
Three senators -- Mike Lee, a Utah Republican, Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent, and Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat -- pushed for the vote, complaining the US military was assisting Saudi Arabia and other countries in their ongoing conflict with Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen without congressional authorization.
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Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, opposed the measure, saying the discussion was “tinged” with politicization because of the timing of the vote.
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Menendez said he didn’t support the resolution because he worries that a withdrawal would “weaken our leadership and ability to influence a political settlement and improve humanitarian conditions and could even make the situation worse.”
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A Republican critic of the measure, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, a longtime proponent of congressional oversight of war, said it doesn't go far enough.
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The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a nonbinding resolution in November condemning the U.S.’s involvement in Yemen, but efforts to pass a stronger measure that would force the president’s hand have gone nowhere.
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