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  1. Arahant Member
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    Tom Steyer Magoo. I like it.

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  2. kedavis Coolidge
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    All the non-in-show-read ads were Spanish today.  I hope that music show whatever it is, happens soon so those ads can stop.

    Bill Clinton actually vetoed welfare reform, more than once, before finally signing on and then taking credit as if it had been his idea to start with.

    And even if Bernie were to be elected in November, that doesn’t mean things turn full socialist.  I doubt that even a Democrat-controlled Houyse and Senate would just rubber-stamp every crazy idea he came up with.  Both for practical reasons – the spending is simply impossible to support – and ideological ones: if they do try “full socialism” and everyone sees it fail, then basically the jig is up.

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  3. Taras Coolidge
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    kedavis (View Comment):

    All the non-in-show-read ads were Spanish today. I hope that music show whatever it is, happens soon so those ads can stop.

    Bill Clinton actually vetoed welfare reform, more than once, before finally signing on and then taking credit as if it had been his idea to start with.

    And even if Bernie were to be elected in November, that doesn’t mean things turn full socialist. I doubt that even a Democrat-controlled Houyse and Senate would just rubber-stamp every crazy idea he came up with. Both for practical reasons – the spending is simply impossible to support – and ideological ones: if they do try “full socialism” and everyone sees it fail, then basically the jig is up.

    What do you mean, “jig is up”?  It was “never tried”!

    Open borders?  Government monopoly health care?

    And, of course, the Dems remain only one Justice away from making the Constitution their bitch.

     

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  4. kedavis Coolidge
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    Taras (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

    All the non-in-show-read ads were Spanish today. I hope that music show whatever it is, happens soon so those ads can stop.

    Bill Clinton actually vetoed welfare reform, more than once, before finally signing on and then taking credit as if it had been his idea to start with.

    And even if Bernie were to be elected in November, that doesn’t mean things turn full socialist. I doubt that even a Democrat-controlled Houyse and Senate would just rubber-stamp every crazy idea he came up with. Both for practical reasons – the spending is simply impossible to support – and ideological ones: if they do try “full socialism” and everyone sees it fail, then basically the jig is up.

    What do you mean, “jig is up”? It was “never tried”!

    Open borders? Government monopoly health care?

    And, of course, the Dems remain only one Justice away from making the Constitution their bitch.

    That’s always their excuse when it fails everywhere else.  But the people who live “everywhere else” know it’s not true, and if it was ever tried here – and inevitably failed – I don’t think people here would buy that load either.

    The Constitutional concern is far more crucial.  As with “an impeachable offense is whatever the House decides it is,” it can be said that “the Constitution means whatever the Supreme Court says it means.”  With enough leftys on the Court, they could decide that the Constitution is – as I’ve mentioned elsewhere, a quote from an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation – “a recipe for biscuits.”

    If the Congress has the power to limit the Supreme Court, it would be nice if they exercised it from time to time.  But if it came to a situation like that, I expect the Congress would also be solidly leftist.

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