Must be getting close to harvest time, what with all of that straw around. :rolleyes:
Yep, the Dems were so happy winning POTUS they didnt pay much attention to the State legislatures, allowing the GOP to sneak in, grab them, and redistrict like mad. Bad mistakes on the part of the Dems.
Yep, the GOP hates the IRS, since the IRS audits rich people.
No, you were wrong. You read a claim into my words that was nowhere to be found there. And your ensuing argument was based on that claim.
Thanks for playing, though.
Fucking Rahm Immanuel.
Howard Dean was DNC chair from 2005 to 2008. And under his 50-state approach, the Dems did well in state legislatures as well as in Congressional races, retaking a majority of state legislatures in 2006, and expanding that majority in 2008.
Rahm couldn’t stand Dean, and as Obama’s #1 political operative, he replaced Dean at the beginning of 2009 with Tim Kaine and then the worthless Debbie Wasserman Schultz. And it’s been downhill in the states ever since.
Bring back Howard Dean, dammit. :mad:
Hang on. Are you saying that the Illinois state government is welshing on its bets?
That’s…that’s unAmerican!
Call it a 100% tax on windfall profits, then.
I got through 2 weeks ago. It required 45 minutes on hold, but I did it. I got great service. You need to re-think this.
Me, I’m just glad to see the Republicans so supportive of the troops.
The IRS itself admits that 50% of all phone calls it receives won’t be answered at all. Even then, when a call is answered, actual assistance provided is minimal.
You were wrong to claim that people “forgot about the shutdown” due to problems with the healthcare website. Do you even remember your own overwrought characterization about “real people, people that we knew”?
The vast, vast majority (~96%) of people in the United States aren’t on Obamacare, and were thus unaffected by those glitches.
Good points.
You’re right - to those of us not on Obamacare, these were not “real people, people that we knew” - Those People only knew each other in their fetid ghettos, right? :dubious:
More straw. Is it on sale this week?
Hey, you’re the one who’s saying the rest of us don’t know the people on Obamacare. Therefore by definition, they must be in some sort of ghetto.
Maybe ‘fetid’ was taking it too far, but that’s hardly enough to characterize an otherwise true statement as a strawman. Just calling something a strawman doesn’t make it so.
What specifically do you mean by, “on Obamacare?” Insurance has to cover pre-existing conditions now. And no lifetime caps. Everyone with insurance is under the effect of Obamacare.
Only a tiny fraction of the U.S. population is on Obamacare. The rest of us don’t know people on Obamacare.
Your position that “we” do is not based on reality.
Well, why wouldn’t they? The sequester was two years ago, IIRC. They won the elections the next year handily. May as well stick with what works.
The GOP’s “Great Satan” is not the Democratic Party as such. It’s the labor unions, including public employee unions–most of whom vote Democratic, it’s true. If the GOP can induce enough public employees to quit, they can disrupt that power structure. It’s all positive utility from a GOP standpoint. It’s pure upside.
Am I correct in thinking that this won’t affect all the non-unionized government contractors, like the guys recording metadata on your phone calls and emails, in the slightest?
In a way, you do, you tip them.
I doubt he tips anyone.