Examples of GOP Leadership

Bagginski

Bagginski

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doublejj said:
back in the 1980's you could include student loans when filing a bankruptcy. That kept the loan companies from loaning too much to students. When they changed the bankruptcy law to exclude student loans and that allowed universities to charge what ever they wanted because the loan companies knew they would get paid. Tuition went thru the roof.
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Much like what insurance has done to the economy as a whole
 
topcat

topcat

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Fogdog said:
The circular argument Trump made where he claimed a person's success meant they have a "great mind" reminded me of this recent quote from Liz Cheney: It sounds like a line meant to draw a laugh. But she's dead serious.

Liz Cheney on what’s wrong with politics: ‘We’re electing idiots’


Ex-congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) offered a blunt assessment of her former profession Monday night: “What we’ve done in our politics is create a situation where we’re electing idiots.”
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Liz trying to both sides the issue. Correction: "What cult has done in our party is create a situation where Republicans are electing idiots."
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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Bagginski said:
Much like what insurance has done to the economy as a whole
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Around the mid-90s health insurers took over from doctors in deciding what care one would receive. There was a palpable shift toward high-handed adversarial behavior by the insurers.

To me it is one of the more corrosive instances of the golden rule:
those with the gold make the rules. It’s part of the same hydra that partially controls elections by applying dark money.

Very difficult to legislate relief when it now became obvious that a portion of the highest court in the land, to say nothing of the legislature, is beholden to money.
 
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cannabineer

cannabineer

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topcat said:
She's a Cheney and is not to be trusted.
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Dick was a pure dick.

Considering how very different my offspring are from me, I’ll extend her the benefit of the doubt.

Then there is that man’s niece.

Cheney’s work on the Committee might possibly indicate that she finds current GOP politics to have become irredeemably dirty.

(which places her in an unpopular minority, and that increases the odds that she chose principle over pragmatism.). Jmo

(add) spellcheck kept replacing dick with duck. In that spirit, behold Duck Chainy.

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topcat

topcat

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cannabineer said:
Dick was a pure dick.

Considering how very different my offspring are from me, I’ll extend her the benefit of the doubt.

Then there is that man’s niece.

Cheney’s work on the Committee might possibly indicate that she finds current GOP politics to have become irredeemably dirty.

(which places her in an unpopular minority, and that increases the odds that she chose principle over pragmatism.). Jmo

(add) spellcheck kept replacing dick with duck. In that spirit, behold Duck Chainy.

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Well, that's you and your offspring. We're talking Cheney's here. I won't let my guard down.
Like Pence, she gets no pass from me for simply doing the right thing.
 
Fogdog

Fogdog

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topcat said:
Liz trying to both sides the issue. Correction: "What cult has done in our party is create a situation where Republicans are electing idiots."
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She is still a Republican, so when she said "we" it's reasonable to assume she meant GOP.

She's a politician. She's not going to say things that alienate people she's trying to convince. I wouldn't expect her to.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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cannabineer said:
Dick was a pure dick.

Considering how very different my offspring are from me, I’ll extend her the benefit of the doubt.

Then there is that man’s niece.

Cheney’s work on the Committee might possibly indicate that she finds current GOP politics to have become irredeemably dirty.

(which places her in an unpopular minority, and that increases the odds that she chose principle over pragmatism.). Jmo

(add) spellcheck kept replacing dick with duck. In that spirit, behold Duck Chainy.

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http://politicsthatwork.com/voting-record/Liz-Cheney-412732

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/liz_cheney/412732/report-card/2020

https://www.newsweek.com/liz-cheney-voted-donald-trump-93-percent-congress-1734186

Being a little better than the average fucking horrible republican doesn't make you a good person. She voted with trump 93% of the time, voted against impeaching trump, and only showed a vestige of a spine after 1/6....that is the SOLE thing she did that i can respect her for.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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topcat said:
Well, that's you and your offspring. We're talking Cheney's here. I won't let my guard down.
Like Pence, she gets no pass from me for simply doing the right thing.
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A wise policy.

Pence did one right thing, but his dominionist maunderings since prove to me that he embodies the worst of the GOP.

All the fascist evil without the erratic buffoonery. and he is videogenic to boot. He is a dangerous man.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
http://politicsthatwork.com/voting-record/Liz-Cheney-412732

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/liz_cheney/412732/report-card/2020

https://www.newsweek.com/liz-cheney-voted-donald-trump-93-percent-congress-1734186

Being a little better than the average fucking horrible republican doesn't make you a good person. She voted with trump 93% of the time, voted against impeaching trump, and only showed a vestige of a spine after 1/6....that is the SOLE thing she did that i can respect her for.
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Point taken.

The primary lesson to me is that she is what now passes for a moderate Republican.

The entire party is having a Thelma&Louise moment.
 
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