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    McConnell and Pelosi are both extraordinarily good at their jobs. They know what votes they can get and what they can't.
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    Nope. It's from Letterman.
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    Top Ten Changes I'll Make in the White House (as read by George W. Bush) From the home office in Crawford, Texas... 10. To save taxpayers dollars, calls to winning sports teams will be collect. 9. New rules in cabinet meetings: You can't talk till you ride the mechanical bull. 8. Goodbye, boring presidential radio address. Hello, "Dick Cheney spins the hits of the 80s, 90s and today." 7. Make sure White House library has lots of books with big print and pictures. 6. Just for fun, issue executive order commanding my brother Jeb to wash my car. 5. First day in office, my mother's face goes up on Mount Rushmore. 4. Look into hiring a security guard for our nuclear secrets. 3. Won't get sick on Japanese leaders like other President Bush I know. 2. Give Oval Office one heck of a scrubbing. 1. Tax relief for all Americans, except smart aleck talk-show hosts.
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    https://www.npr.org/2018/10/03/654015874/poll-amid-kavanaugh-confirmation-battle-democratic-enthusiasm-edge-evaporates
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    Aphelion is spot on.
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    Senators will be able to read the FBI report beginning tomorrow morning From CNN's Dana Bash and Manu Raju Senators will start reading the FBI's investigation summaries on Brett Kavanaugh at 8 a.m. ET Thursday, Senate sources said. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley will read the summaries first, followed by Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the committee. Sources say the Senate may physically receive the investigation summaries tonight, but the reading starts Thursday morning.
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    A guy at a party at our apartment at UT chugged a pint of rye whiskey, and then toppled like a tree, face first, without bending his knees or waist. He did not come to. He was O-U-T. The guy had a speech impediment, and later kept saying "I can't believe I drank that whole bottle of Old Overholt".
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    Nah. Harry Browne voters say "gold" every third word.
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    You're kind of both right. Trump doesn't know AND he's predictable. That's because Trump doesn't lead the band; he figures out where it's going and runs to the front. Want to know where he's going? Watch the band.
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    Your logic skills are pitiful.
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    You betcha. The Navy will choose a pilot's life over an F-18, but will choose a nuclear aircraft carrier over a machinist's life. We trade money and problems all the time. We decide how much to spend on safety. There are many examples of choosing the lesser evil. Many people resist making these hard decisions. I find the subject fascinating.
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    trade-offs between money and treatment of people
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    If an admiral is faced with the choice of sending somebody to die or losing a nuclear aircraft carrier, you don't think they let the carrier go down do you? They have these decisions pre-thought too. And here we're talking about loss of life. And I'd say sending a man into a room to die saving a ship is worse than scaring the shit out of him with dogs or spraying him with a fire hose.
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    And I did not know exactly what I said when I said you were getting close but I knew what my beliefs were (and are) and I knew that it overstated my position.
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    I did not. There is the core question of whether the attackers would have caused billions in damages had they not been stopped. I don't know the answer to that and I'll guess they probably would not have. I said exactly what I said. I stand behind what I said. You get billions in damages or police dogs and fire hoses. It's a hypothetical. Choose. I did not defend Birmingham unless the facts fit my hypothetical.
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    No, you were getting close. You said "significan't", not "billions". Don't act like they're the same. You need to accept the credit I gave you.
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    I'll answer if you give me an honest answer to the issue first. What method(s) would you use to defend a property from an attack which would cost billions? (You know that the attackers will cause billions of dollars of damage if you don't forcibly stop them.) For example you need to defend an embassy from an assault by thousands, and failure to stop the attack costs billions. Your answer can't depend on dissuading the attackers. It has to be effective in stopping a determined assault. OR you can choose not to try to stop them or use a method which will probably fail. Tell me what you'd do.
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    You're getting close.
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    You guys are so full of shit.
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    I think it will be Thomas' seat, if the GOP keeps control of the Senate. Thomas has said that he doesn't want to stay on the Court for life - that he'd like to have some time to travel and such with his wife. He has also said he'd like his replacement to be nominated by a GOP President (or something like that). He's 70. It's not unreasonable to believe the GOP could lose in 2020. Does he retire in 2020 or gamble to go to 2028? I'll guess 2020. In spite of the Biden Rule. 😁
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    https://me.me/i/well-billy-there-went-your-chance-to-be-on-the-supreme-a9ecafc3d0ae475792aa198843fb1f34
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    I am NOT a big player. I am NOT privy to the detailed internal discussions held by Washington Democrats. I DO have opinions to express on the Internet. (which you are free to disbelieve)
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    They had 'em. But they wisely chose not to use them. Using them would not have stopped the nomination, and would have backfired. There are some smart Dems who think the use of them here was unwise - that it will cost Senate seats and not stop the nomination. We won't know for a few months whether the tactic was wise or not. In any case, their base left them no real choice. The base was not ready to accept a decision not to play ugly, and go for control of the Senate. As a member of the "somewhat conservative" wing of the GOP I am very familiar with the phenomenon of politicians being forced into the stupid, ugly choice instead of the smart choice. The extremists wield lots of power.
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    All nominees will face it unless there are two close together and there is a political decision to use all firepower on one. The merits of the nominee will not be a factor. The politics of power will decide all. Now I guess I can imagine a fairly far-fetched scenario where there is a compromise candidate rather than leave the Court at 4-4 for four years. But that would require more political courage from both the President and the opposition party controlling the Senate than I can foresee. So it's just imaginary. All I see is war. With the weaker player fighting ugly. It began with Bork. Then we had Thomas. But we've had some time-outs. (The GOP played nice with Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan. The Dems played nice with Roberts.) The time-outs are gone.
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    I watched that one quite a bit. There was a huge debate among Dems about how to play the two nominations. One of the big issues was whether to have two attacks or one. The forces that lobbied for one won out. The thinking on going after Gorsuch were that: 1. they couldn't really win anything. There would just be a "new Gorsuch". 2. they'd lose political capital for the Kennedy replacement fight. 3. it was possible to "win" the Kennedy replacement issue with delay, followed by winning the Senate in '18. 4. the Kennedy replacement fight was more potent, as it meant a true 5-4 Court, whereas Gorsuch didn't affect the balance.

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