Right, Rand. That's what Renzi wanted to.
Right, Rand. That's what Renzi wanted to.
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Yes it is. Granting an automatic 54% majority to the lower house while simultaneously abolishing all checks and balances from the upper house. The largest party could unilaterally change almost any law bypassing the Senate within 30 days.
Do you seriously claim stripping the Senate of almost all its powers while abolishing the possibility of a hung parliament in the lower house is a case of preserving democratic institutions?
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It's meaningless rhetoric and Ryan speaking against it would be similarly meaningless on whatever stages you think are relevant, but would be very meaningful on a different stage on which he will have to spend a lot of time, his working relationship with the sitting President of his own party. But you're right, he should prioritize. And he is. Paul Ryan is Speaker of the House of Representatives. This is the body which currently has a 15% national approval rating. He has ZERO EFFECTIVENESS using his position as a bully pulpit. If you hope he will accomplish something, you NEED him to not pick fights with his party's President and instead use his position to mitigate excesses by working with Trump. The Speaker of the House is of no real consequence on the national stage, the position only gives a politician impact via the actual workings of the House.
Different rules govern the opposition and you know it. If a Dem senator treated their GOP colleagues like Cruz did, it would have been of zero consequence, no one would have batted an eye, they would have just been another partisan. Ryan isn't opposition. If he does want to preserve our democratic institutions, then he STILL has to make that same response.
Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/statu...73476906590208
And now we have large majorities of Republicans taking Trump's lead and opposing both free markets and the rule of law...
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What percentage of Democrats said the same thing?
Um, the numbers are there.
Also, remember when Cruz used to be a free market conservative? Not anymore.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/ted-cr...rticle/2005716
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Not in your post or in the Tweet text. Following through to the links I found the number but hard to see on a phone screen so no need to be snide. A majority in one case and nearly a majority in the others.
Not good. Every President seems to be a reaction to the last, hopefully the next President can be more free market.
How can the next president by pro-free market when the free market party no longer supports free markets? Democrats aren't magically going to become the free market party. At least not in the short term.
Can't you see the graph on the right? The numbers are 69-78% for Republicans...
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slate...ransition.htmlOne conspiracy theory weirdo who's definitely still involved in the transition is the elder Flynn, who's promoted the Clinton child sex abuse hoax himself. Erratic New York real estate heir Donald Trump, who has praised Sandy Hook and 9/11 truther Alex Jones and who once insinuated on national television that private investigators he'd hired had uncovered evidence that Barack Obama was not born in America, is also expected to play a central role in the incoming administration.
Despite what the apologists here and elsewhere claim, this is not normal.
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I said hopefully. The Democrats have been free market sometimes in the past, which is why I've flipped between your two parties in the past and backed the Democrats this year. Didn't Bill Clinton sign NAFTA?
If Trump does worst-case start a trade war and it backfires hopefully the next President will be one who stood up to his lunacy.
Who said it is?
That linguistically sure isn't though. Its not clear if the author is trying to be clever and say that Trump is going to play a central role (no shit Sherlock), or that Alex Jones is. Maybe its just me as I've been filing my taxes today and quite knackered now but that doesn't read right to me.
It passed because of strong Republican support. Clinton might have been a convert to free trade, but most Democrats were/are not.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/1...ee-Trade-Deals
Unfortunately, that's not how nationalism works. Other countries/international organizations will be blamed.If Trump does worst-case start a trade war and it backfires hopefully the next President will be one who stood up to his lunacy.
I thought it was a pretty clear attempt at humor at Trump's expense.That linguistically sure isn't though. Its not clear if the author is trying to be clever and say that Trump is going to play a central role (no shit Sherlock), or that Alex Jones is. Maybe its just me as I've been filing my taxes today and quite knackered now but that doesn't read right to me.
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Yes and the President is an individual. I didn't say lets hope the next Congress is made of free trade Democrats, I said lets hope that the next President is the anti-Trump and Free Trade. Whether that being a primary-winning Republican or a Democrat.
You're probably right unfortunately, these things go in cycles and we seem to be in a down cycle but hopefully it gets kicked back around sooner than later.Unfortunately, that's not how nationalism works. Other countries/international organizations will be blamed.
Why would any sane politician run on a free-trade platform when it's unpopular with both parties' bases? You know it's a losing cause when arch-ideologue Cruz jumped ship.
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A week is a long time in politics, 4 years sure is.
Cruz has been a staunch free marketer since getting elected.
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I agree that free trade is going to be a low priority in politics for the foreseeable future.
Congratulations America
And so we have reason to hope that once Trump's honeymoon period ends he can return to form in time for the next cycle.
See signature.
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https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/st...54943339970561
Did I mention Cruz is now a complete joke?
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Only in his odd definition of the word liberal but that is normal your side of the pond. Any true liberal should support Taiwan.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ing/?tid=sm_tw
Trump makes false claims about his roll in, and the end result of, the Carrier deal.
Union leader calls out Trump for said falsehoods.
Trump attacks Union leader on twitter.
Union Leader now receiving nonstop death threats.
Our nextcult leaderpresident everyone!
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Something you could have said about six posts ago. Reading comprehension hasn't been your strong point in recent months, you have repeatedly accused me of saying things I haven't only to fall deadly silent once asked to find where I said it. Lets see now if instead you can find the common denominator in my chain of posts?
Not good
Great piece on "patriotic correctness": https://www.washingtonpost.com/poste...st-as-stifling
How long before Trump's or Flynn's tweets kill someone? Over/under on 2 months?
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I never would have thought the US would go the same way as Turkey.
Congratulations America
We still have a long way to go. But we're certainly heading in the same direction.
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https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/sta...40553866833920
3/4 of Republicans now believe the economy is poised to grow. Shows how deep the support for free-market economics was this whole time.
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The economy is probably poised to grow.
It is virtually every year. Recessions are very few and far between.
And they only realized this after Trump got elected with his import-substitution policies?
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...imate-meetings
Who needs a non-partisan civil service? Trump's doing his best to top Putin in cronyism. With virtually no Republican opposition.
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Aren't the Democrats meant to provide the opposition?
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