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Orin Hatch - getting a bit too opinionated in his old age. 

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/orrin-hatch-thinks-john-mccain-213348754.html

 

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Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) reported request to have Donald Trump stay away from his funeral is not sitting well with fellow Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah).

“I think it’s ridiculous,” the 83-year-old Hatch told Politico on Monday. McCain reportedly wants Vice President Mike Pence to represent the White House instead. 

Hatch thinks Trump is getting a bad rap.

“Well, he’s the president of the United States and he’s a very good man,” the senator said of Trump. 

He conceded that it’s McCain’s call. McCain, 81, was diagnosed with brain cancer last July.

“I think John should have his own wishes fulfilled with regard to who attends the funeral,” Hatch said, adding that he hopes McCain changes his mind.

 

 

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46 minutes ago, TGHusker said:

Orin Hatch - getting a bit too opinionated in his old age. 

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/orrin-hatch-thinks-john-mccain-213348754.html

 

 

 

 

Trump was a total a-hole to McCain (and most other people, really). Anyone who wants him at their funeral is a terrible judge of character. And anyone who tells someone else who they should want at their funeral is also an a-hole.

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You know, I haven't been on here for a week or so and tried catching up on things...scrolling through it's honestly hard to give a s#!t anymore. No news piece is surprising. The Republicans have declared all-out war on anything that wasn't introduced by their figureheads and there's no level they won't stoop to in order to protect their demagogue and denigrate reason.

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7 hours ago, sho said:
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Three-term state senator Bob Nonini suggested there should be some penalty for those who had abortions if the procedure became criminalized in the state, nodding his head when asked if he would support the death penalty as a punishment, the Associated Press reported.

http://www.newsweek.com/death-penalty-abortions-would-be-good-deterrent-women-says-republican-871319

#prolife

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:laughpound

 

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The White House has made it official: the all-Republican government in Washington has no major legislative agenda this year.

The news came without fanfare at the press secretary's daily briefing Wednesday. Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters that all of President Donald Trump's talk of a massive, trillion-dollar upgrade to America's infrastructure, from "Infrastructure Week" declarations to a 53-page plan unveiled three months ago, won't produce "a specific piece of legislation" in 2018.

 

That conclusion managed to be extraordinary and unsurprising at the same time. Trump is just 16 months into his term, with fellow Republicans controlling both houses of Congress after an eight-year Democratic presidency. Yet the GOP's deep-seated anti-government stance leaves the modern party with fundamental reflexes of negation.

 

Those reflexes block action on the bold promises that once positioned candidate Trump to deliver infrastructure investments pleasing business and working class supporters alike. Investments cost money. And after the $1.5 trillion tax cut that represents their only major Trump-era achievement so far, Republicans don't think they have any.

 

 

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And yet...

 

 

 

I'm not someone who puts a lot of stock into one data point, or even polling heading up to November in general, but what the hell? What exactly has the GOP done in the past few months that's suddenly encouraged people that they need to maintain power?

 

The only thing I can think of is people thinking Trump is somehow accomplishing things by setting up a North Korea summit. It's too early to bake in the Iran deal stuff.

 

Perhaps America wants to spend another 6 years owning the libs. GOP governance is going so great, after all. Democrats really need that time to figure out how much they suck, apparently.

 

At what point do we as a country declare the wait & see phase for this Congress over? What would actually be a bridge too far?

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Also, pretty sure this is the type of Moiraine is complaining about when she talks about money in politics.

 

 

Coleman being a former MN Senator turned politician & chair of the Republican Jewish Coalition.

 

So Paul Ryan sees nothing, hears nothing, but leaves with a $30M check from Adelson. 

 

Who needs to appeal to the American people when Sheldon Adelson can cut you a check for $30 million because he loves what you've done for Israel.

 

Just kidding. That much money flowing directly to a party from one person is absurd.

 

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3 hours ago, Clifford Franklin said:

And yet...

 

 

 

I'm not someone who puts a lot of stock into one data point, or even polling heading up to November in general, but what the hell? What exactly has the GOP done in the past few months that's suddenly encouraged people that they need to maintain power?

 

The only thing I can think of is people thinking Trump is somehow accomplishing things by setting up a North Korea summit. It's too early to bake in the Iran deal stuff.

 

Perhaps America wants to spend another 6 years owning the libs. GOP governance is going so great, after all. Democrats really need that time to figure out how much they suck, apparently.

 

At what point do we as a country declare the wait & see phase for this Congress over? What would actually be a bridge too far?

The gap has been closing, but the 538 generic ballot (that considers a bunch of polls) has the Dems up 6 points on the Repubs.

 

As someone who thinks the Dems need to make big changes, I'm not at all surprised that the tiny changes they've made aren't enough to separate themselves from the Repubs. But there's a lot of time between now and the midterm elections.

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Most Republicans now think Trump is being framed by the FBI

 

Only 13 percent of Republicans say that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation is a “legitimate investigation” — instead, three-quarters of Republicans agree with President Donald Trump that it’s a “witch hunt.”

 

Meanwhile, 76 percent of Democrats consider it a legitimate investigation. That’s according to a new Economist/YouGov survey of 1,500 adults between May 6 and 8 about the investigation.

 

What’s more, 61 percent of Republicans believe the FBI is framing Trump. Just 17 percent of Republicans say that the nation’s federal law enforcement agency isn’t after the president, and about a fifth — 21 percent — weren’t sure.

 

A quarter of independents — 25 percent — think Trump is being framed, with 39 percent saying he is not. Nearly 80 percent of Democrats (78 percent) say Trump isn’t being framed; 7 percent of Democrats think he is and 15 percent aren’t sure.

 

The responses to questions about Trump in this Economist/YouGov survey are an example of the country’s political polarization and reflect recent trends of Republicans losing confidence in the FBI. It’s also another sign of the effectiveness of Trump’s messaging with the GOP that Republicans are now so deeply skeptical of federal law enforcement.

 

 

 

 

 

We see this kind of brainwashing right here on HuskerBoard.  Trump's followers refuse to even take part in discussions surrounding his scandals, instead posting little snippets of angry rhetoric, then running away when the "liberals" post facts in response. 

 

When all you consume is propaganda, it becomes real to you.

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54 minutes ago, knapplc said:

 

We see this kind of brainwashing right here on HuskerBoard.  Trump's followers refuse to even take part in discussions surrounding his scandals, instead posting little snippets of angry rhetoric, then running away when the "liberals" post facts in response. 

 

When all you consume is propaganda, it becomes real to you.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/education-not-income-predicted-who-would-vote-for-trump/

 

I honestly think this article has a lot to do with this whole situation

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1 hour ago, knapplc said:

 

 

 

 

 

We see this kind of brainwashing right here on HuskerBoard.  Trump's followers refuse to even take part in discussions surrounding his scandals, instead posting little snippets of angry rhetoric, then running away when the "liberals" post facts in response. 

 

When all you consume is propaganda, it becomes real to you.

Big different from the Nixon era.  As I recall, there were many repubs standing wt dems to voice their disgust of Nixon, the Sat night masacre, and all things Watergate.   Today's Repub party has picked a pretty low hill to die on.

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2 hours ago, knapplc said:

 

 

"Songbird John"

 

Tell me again about how much the GOP respects the military?

 

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Nice. 

 

"A White House official mocked Sen. John McCain’s brain cancer diagnosis at an internal meeting on Thursday, a day after the Arizona Republican announced his opposition to President Trump’s nominee for CIA director, Gina Haspel. Special assistant Kelly Sadler made the derisive comments during a closed-door White House meeting of about two-dozen communications staffers on Thursday morning. “It doesn’t matter, he’s dying anyway,” Sadler said, according to a source familiar with the remarks at the meeting."

 

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/387182-white-house-official-mocked-dying-mccain-at-internal-meeting

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