Republicans WIN! - now what?

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

I mean if you'd let your grade school kids walk 3 miles on a high traffic road with no sidewalks, then I guess go ahead, but my parents actually love me.

Just not enough to drive you a few miles so they could see you an extra 2 hours per day

[gatoveintisiete]

I mean if you'd let your grade school kids walk 3 miles on a high traffic road with no sidewalks, then I guess go ahead, but my parents actually love me.

Just not enough to drive you a few miles so they could see you an extra 2 hours per day

Well, I mean they locked him in the basement and slid him chicken nuggets under the door.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

I mean if you'd let your grade school kids walk 3 miles on a high traffic road with no sidewalks, then I guess go ahead, but my parents actually love me.

Just not enough to drive you a few miles so they could see you an extra 2 hours per day

Well, I mean they locked him in the basement and slid him chicken nuggets under the door.

A mother's love

[star seed 7]

A lot of butthurt from the resident neocons here just from saying an hour on a bus isn't a big deal. Very strange

[Benja]

Go 'pubs! Go 'libs! It's like you're rooting for the jayhawks or the wild wildcats. Go team!

It is the absolute worst things about politics, idiots cheer for this stuff like they are sports.

The reason is (problem is) we as constituents only have one rough ridin' lever to pull, and that's vote left, or vote right (or in some cases vote 3rd party which is even more useless).  We don't get to vote on the issues.  And for example I'm forced to pick one dude because I might like one of his views which I think is important and all of a sudden I'm lumped in with some whacko Christian conservatives or something. 

Bottom line, we need more levers.  We need to be able to vote on the issues.

Most people on this board are probably of above average intelligence. The problem with voting on issues is the majority of people are way, way too stupid to ever do that. We have it right in that we elect supposedly smarter people to do it for us. Unfortunately partisan bickering means nothing gets done, and since nothing gets done nobody wants to do the job, and the candidates get lower quality every election.

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

A lot of butthurt from the resident neocons here just from saying an hour on a bus isn't a big deal. Very strange

To be fair, I've completely tuned this exchange out and have no idea what you're talking about.

[Tobias]

A lot of butthurt from the resident neocons here just from saying an hour on a bus isn't a big deal. Very strange

it was indeed strange

[star seed 7]

A lot of butthurt from the resident neocons here just from saying an hour on a bus isn't a big deal. Very strange

it was indeed strange

I kno rite?

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

No matter what it seems, remember, your mother loves you (probably maybe)

[star seed 7]

My mother loves me a bunch, she's a great lady

[sys]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/10/22/358105415/episode-577-sam-brownback-s-kansas-experiment?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=podcast

nominally about the brownback tax cuts, but there is also some interesting stuff about the impact on a town of closing a school.


lib7's parents were using the bus as subsidized daycare.

[hemmy]

Who cares, both parties are the same people. I would run this country right, but I can't be bothered to run.

[star seed 7]

hemmy from the undercooked pizza lovers party... dunno if I trust that judgement

[Rage Against the McKee]

lib7's parents were using the bus as subsidized daycare.

Brought to you by Johnson County.

[gatoveintisiete]

My mother loves me a bunch, she's a great lady

somebody's got to, rite?

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/10/22/358105415/episode-577-sam-brownback-s-kansas-experiment?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=podcast

nominally about the brownback tax cuts, but there is also some interesting stuff about the impact on a town of closing a school.


lib7's parents were using the bus as subsidized daycare.

I tried sys, I really tried, but when the podcast started off by claiming that over 100 republicans were endorsing Davis for economic reasons - when the truth is that it was a political vendetta for Brownback running some of those moderates out of office - I gave up. Can't waste 20 mins on a piece with such bad information. NPR. :shakingmyhead:

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

Anyone who calls lowering the marginal income tax rate 1-2% an "experiment" is a rough ridin' Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!).

[Rage Against the McKee]

Anyone who calls lowering the marginal income tax rate 1-2% an "experiment" is a rough ridin' Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!).

He lowered income taxes by 25-33%, though.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

Anyone who calls lowering the marginal income tax rate 1-2% an "experiment" is a rough ridin' Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!).

He lowered income taxes by 25-33%, though.

You are a rough ridin' dolt.

[Rage Against the McKee]

Anyone who calls lowering the marginal income tax rate 1-2% an "experiment" is a rough ridin' Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!).

He lowered income taxes by 25-33%, though.

You are a rough ridin' dolt.

Take 6-4. That gives you 2. Now take 2/6. That gives you .33. Now multiply by 100. That gives you 33%. If you can remember how to do that, maybe you will be able to talk stats in the future without looking like such an enormous dumbass.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

Anyone who calls lowering the marginal income tax rate 1-2% an "experiment" is a rough ridin' Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!).

He lowered income taxes by 25-33%, though.

You are a rough ridin' dolt.

Take 6-4. That gives you 2. Now take 2/6. That gives you .33. Now multiply by 100. That gives you 33%. If you can remember how to do that, maybe you will be able to talk stats in the future without looking like such an enormous dumbass.

Confirmed dolt

[renocat]

The amount of crap Obama spews out could plug a manure spreader.  I trust him about as far as I can throw a bull elephant.  Republicans need govern, and not go on a ballistic killing spree to destroy anything to do with Wonder Butt.  Energy independence, fostering small business growth, and derail enviromental regs that kill commerce.  Negotiating with Obama will back fire.  He has proven he is a childish, ignorant, and vengeful leader.  The adults, the Republicans, should concentrate on governing instead of constantly campaigning.  If we don't it will be. Buchtoothed Hillary hell.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

The amount of crap Obama spews out could plug a manure spreader.  I trust him about as far as I can throw a bull elephant.  Republicans need govern, and not go on a ballistic killing spree to destroy anything to do with Wonder Butt.  Energy independence, fostering small business growth, and derail enviromental regs that kill commerce.  Negotiating with Obama will back fire.  He has proven he is a childish, ignorant, and vengeful leader.  The adults, the Republicans, should concentrate on governing instead of constantly campaigning.  If we don't it will be. Buchtoothed Hillary hell.

I mean, this is precisely spot on.

[slucat]

The amount of crap Obama spews out could plug a manure spreader.  I trust him about as far as I can throw a bull elephant.  Republicans need govern, and not go on a ballistic killing spree to destroy anything to do with Wonder Butt.  Energy independence, fostering small business growth, and derail enviromental regs that kill commerce.  Negotiating with Obama will back fire.  He has proven he is a childish, ignorant, and vengeful leader.  The adults, the Republicans, should concentrate on governing instead of constantly campaigning.  If we don't it will be. Buchtoothed Hillary hell.

My goodness I hope you are a sock.

[ascentofstan]

The Disunited States of America

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/11/the_disunited_states_of_america_why_demographics_republican_obstructionism.html?wpsrc=sh_all_mob_tw_top