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David Dennison

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  1. 2 hours ago, retread said:

    I mean, very few of the normal rules apply today. Like Asit said earlier, you can't shame the Rs (at least not easily). It's true that it will be difficult. Like DD said, several Ds in the House derailed everything by insisting on the milquetoast bill that funded concentration camps.

    You can either give up or fight. In 2019, fighting means 16 hour days, hiring more staffers if necessary, flooding social media/talk shows/latenight shows/etc with information, traveling to the border and documenting the atrocities, etc. It also means jumping feet first into impeachment and getting every bit of info out there.

    If you're not willing to do all that and more, then the Rs have probably won, and America has lost.

    As it stands right now, Nancy Pelosi has more to fear from the middle of her caucus than the left. They control more votes.

  2. 1 minute ago, retread said:

    It's not like there won't be consequences to being an impeached president running for re-election. Yes, the 40% will scream Deep State Coup as they listen to Rush.

    The 40% Ds are already aware of his malfeasance. The middle 20% will have to decide if they want to re-elect someone who did all the things outlined in the impeachment hearings.

    What are the consequences of an impeached president winning re-election?

  3. 4 minutes ago, American Swindle said:
     

    The Government Housing Policy led to the crisis.  

     

    https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/2010/5/cj30n2-12.pdf

    Basically, the fundamental cause of the crisis was you had banks that extended mortgages that shouldn't have been extended, the government's policies cited above pressed them to.  

    Nice try though bud. 

    The government made me do it excuse.

     

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  4. 1 minute ago, hayden_horn said:

    well, it's the executive's job to uphold...oh, shit.

    well, it's congress's job to check the exec....oh, shit.

    Right. How do you do it? Practically speaking.

  5. 3 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

    Nobody is reading the Mueller report.   Hopefully people tune in when he testifies.   But I think deep down, most people won't pay close attention and will decide that if the Dems don't impeach, he must not have committed impeachment-worthy offenses. 

    Most people in this country also believe impeachment means removal.

  6. 2 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    "The center" they need to stay in to win is on guns and abortion, not on whether detained children should have access to soap and toothbrushes.  

    But they lost to the center on that particular issue. It sucks, but the game was over. Leadership made the political calculus that passing a bill with funding was better than passing no bill. People are free do disagree with that decision. But more people agreed with it. That's reflected in the vote. That's politics.

  7. 4 minutes ago, retread said:

    I think it's going to be very close. I also think he's going to keep upping the ante with his authoritarian actions. I don't think anyone is going to stop him.

    I'd love to know how anyone can actually stop him from a practical standpoint. You can get injunctive relief in the courts, but how do you enforce it?

     

  8. Just now, Brandywine said:

    I’m still having a hard time that with all this stuff on him, accusations of sexual abuse and rape, and the way he treats people and overall incompetence, he still has at least a 42% approval. Mind boggling. 

    Cult of personality. That number is never going to change. That's why impeachment won't matter much from a political standpoint.

    But they should do it anyway.

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  9. 3 minutes ago, Brandywine said:

    I’m really disappointed in Pelosi. The Dems are probably going to lose the House and the Presidency. Who’s leading this ship? What’s the plan? 

    The House hasn't flipped in a presidential election since 1952.

    So they're probably going to keep the House.

  10. Just now, hayden_horn said:

    by the way, how fucked is it that me, of all posters, is making the argument that the democrats need to move away from the chickenshit center?

    i used to make the opposite argument. 

    I agree 100% that they need to move away from the center.

    The political reality is, they do not have a majority in the House without members who won by being in the center.

    It fucking sucks.

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