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I think all successful politicians find ways to obfuscate their views to make them more palatable to more of the electorate. One reason that Ted Cruz fared so poorly was he tends not to sugarcoat his extreme views. The trick is to still seem "authentic" - which is to say, lie well. How it is that people think Donald Trump is "authentic" is beyond me. He exudes deception. (And enthuses in it, too. Marla Maples opens up about her affair with Donald Trump; A fact checker looked into 158 things Donald Trump said. 78 percent were false.)
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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Moderator Carpal Tunnel
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For many political pundits, Labor Day marks the start of the General Election season. I think that is absurd, but yanno - it's the beltway press. Most especially, the conservative press. This Race Isn't Over: Media Cites The Polls, But Election 2016 Begins On Labor Day - FOX Nation. History is not on their side: If history is any precedent, though, it might be tough for him: no candidate in recent history has faced the kind of polling deficit Trump has at this point in the race and gone on to win the election in November. - CBS. So, the question becomes, Could Trump turn the tide post-Labor Day? The Greatest Presidential Comebacks Could Donald Trump be one of the lucky ones? - Politico. The betting markets say no: USA Presidential Election: 2016 Odds; History says no; most pundits say no; There Is No Horse Race - Slate. What say you?
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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It's the Despair Quotient! Carpal Tunnel
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It's the Despair Quotient! Carpal Tunnel
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- for example in Obama's case there was clearly a lot of obstruction to anything and everything he wanted to do.
And there are several examples of obstruction during other presidencies as well. So that is not so interesting. What's interesting about Obama's case is that the obstructionism broke every record in congressional history. 2009 2011 2012 2016
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Doesn't surprise me. You could feel the hate in the air. 
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
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pooh pooh I don't have a sense of what it a poll in Aug means. But what I do know is, Murphy is not dead.
ignorance is the enemy
without equality there is no liberty
America can survive bad policy, but not destruction of our Democratic institutions
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But he is moribund. 
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
Dostoevsky
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Ignoring Obama's Supreme Court nominee has to be some kind of record obstruction. If they keep doing that to President Clinton she's going to have to do something about it. Like maybe file a federal lawsuit against Congress for failing to do their constitutional duty? It should have some cost.
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isn't failure to carry out one's mandated duties an impeachable offense?
ignorance is the enemy
without equality there is no liberty
America can survive bad policy, but not destruction of our Democratic institutions
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I suspect it is a case by case paradigm and founded on one's life experiences.
Real example in the news: from inside the Trump camp, it appears he has been advised to both maintain the hard line on immigration but soften it up in order to appear more palatable to moderate voters. Political expediency in the flesh
From Mr Trump's own mouth ... a softening but it is still hard
a penis, can not be at the same time, soft and hard
ignorance is the enemy
without equality there is no liberty
America can survive bad policy, but not destruction of our Democratic institutions
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isn't failure to carry out one's mandated duties an impeachable offense? It may be unethical, and is grounds for ejection from the body, but when a majority of the Senate is in the conspiracy, it ain't gonna happen. (Article I, Section 5 of the United States Constitution provides that "Each House [of Congress] may determine the Rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member.") Such are the perils of an ultra-partisan political environment.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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