Revenge of the Forgotten Class

[Kinser79]

(11-14-2016, 04:18 PM)Galen Wrote:

(11-14-2016, 11:27 AM)Kinser79 Wrote:

(11-13-2016, 11:08 PM)Galen Wrote:

(11-13-2016, 05:03 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:

(11-13-2016, 03:49 PM)Anthony Wrote: How would getting rid of the IRS and going to a national sales tax violate the Norquist Pledge?

And besides, it turns out that McConnell can only end the filibuster on sub-Supreme Court judgeship nominations - and technically, they can use budget reconciliation to repeal the subsidies etc., of ObamaCare, but not to repeal the pre-existing conditions waiver, or even the individual mandate.

The Filibuster is an artifact of the Senate Rules.  As such with a New Congress convening in January the Rules Committee can scrap the filibuster if they decide to.  I think that they won't though simply because the GOP realizes that one day it will be in the minority again.

I made that point at the time Democrats changed the rules and I have been amused by how hard that is biting them in the ass now.  Even many Democrats realize that Obozocare is done.  If they are smart then they will negotiate to save what they can.

That would imply that they have any sort of long term thinking, and four years is an eternity in politics, remember they are r selected.

Good Point.  I can tell who you have been listening to lately.

I listen to many people every day.  Honestly I don't even know what to label myself as these days.  Though my go-to media outlets are Drudge, Breitbart, Molyneux and Christopher Cantwell (who is apparently some sort of National Capitalist/libertarian). My point is that the Dims have high time preferences in general.  They always sow the seeds of their destruction themselves.

I really don't want to go into deeper detail than that here, a small section of Dims read and use this forum (and honestly I consider them enemies and like I wouldn't want to give my enemy a gun, I don't want to give them ideas--which are more devastating), as can be evidenced by the 65198498198465198498429882 threads comparing Trump to Hitler and the Confederacy.  How much of that is due to the posters being Dim-o-crats or being brainless boomers (the largest segment of that generation since they were born) I have yet to determine.  From what I can tell a large segment of the boomer population is stuck in some sort of time warp, and can't determine if it is still the 1990s or the 1960s.