Even more interesting that you know my opinion on gerrymandering as a function of which party is effected.
common sense from the media... refreshing...
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Even more interesting that you know my opinion on gerrymandering as a function of which party is effected.
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The Almighty
lol... let me guess, you think only the Reps have done so?
Side note... you do realize that 1 million votes is an average of 2300 per House seat?
Billy the Great Khan
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Goes both ways there chief.
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The Almighty
they aren't 'getting their way' desh... or are you once again going to ignore the tax increases that just happened? Do you believe that is the Reps getting their way?
cawacko
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Unprecedented?
So you're saying that if you take a large number, like 1 million, and you dividie it by a three digit number, you end up with a number that is substnatilly smaller than 1 million. No, sir. I don't believe it.
I never suggested otherwise. I'm just telling you which way it went this time and why the Republican control of the House doesn't rest on a mandate of support for Republican policies.
SmarterthanYou
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knowing that there have been several threads about gerrymandering over the years, not one time do I remember hearing you say anything negative about it when it concerned protecting a democrats seat. so yes, you could say that we ALL know your opinion about it when a certain party is affected by it.
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I don't hate them let them go into effect. Bring it.
BTW the reason they will go into effect is that all the bad stuff people are predicting wont happen. Oh I am sure they will gin up long lines at DCA and LGA and LAX to "teach people a lesson".
Isn't it grand that the gobblement feels it must punish people when it doesn't get it's way. Anyone thinking this is a free country is deluded it is free in that people have the illusion of supposedly selecting their slavemasters. But then the soviet people had that too.
Now here are the short and long term politics of this. Short term the GOP gets blamed as always, although it has been interesting to see the media carry less of Obamas water since they have felt frozen out like a jilted lover.
Long term this hurts Obama when all of the nasty he had predicted fails to pass because he will effectively lose fear as a bargaining chip and without that he had nothing else
The GOP can win this if they have the balls. Their recent history indicates they will cave. We shall see
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Same basis you think Obama gets to tell the house what to do
Yes, unprecedented. The combination of asymetrical polarization, supermajority requirements for ordinanry business in the Senate and fairly recent intraparty ideological rigidity is unprecedented.
You're going to have to do better than that, STY. You might pretend to know my opinion, but rest assured that you're wrong.
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Actually they did. They abhorred direct democracy. But this has been explained to you as nauseum. That you refuse to avail yourself if this simple truism reflects a stunning level if ignorance on your part
Billy the Great Khan
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Well neither does a presidency that won by about 3%. That would mean that there isn't great support for either party or its policies and it's pretty damn foolish to think otherwise.
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According to F. Chuck Todd that has more to do with the clustering of dems in large cities. Not gerrymandering. On a county by county basis, dems got crushed.
But please don't let facts get in the way of your carefully crafted media induced fantasy. They say jump. You say "how high massa"
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Using your logic, Bush should have gotten his way in Social Security reform in 2004. He was reelected and improved his majority.
Funny the dems didn't roll over. They fought him. You liked it.
At least have the balls to be consistent and quit trying to hide behind some political principle you and I both know you don't hold. You embarrass yourself
So, winning the presidency by 4.5 million votes is the same thing as losing the House vote by 1.2 million votes? OK.
You're good at math.
Bush didn't get his way because nobody like what he wanted to do. The Democrats didn't have (and didn't do) anything unprecedented to stop it.
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Riiiugggghhhhhtttttt. And dems weren't filibustering judicial nominations.
Look. I am going to stop here because I run te risk of poking a hole in your carefully crafted reality and I don't think you could handle it