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There were many lies in the Ryan budget.

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56% chance? That's absurdly low, especially given Nate's analysis of how polling around the convention compares to the final vote. It's starting to look like he might get 56% of the vote.

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Nobody, except Mitt Romney, apparently.

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Just because nobody has yet:

AOT, K.

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A resolution just ain't gonna cut it, it requires an Act to appropriate. Also too, wasn't it the <em>Republican</em> House that stripped the appropriations from the appropriations bill? Clearly just a ploy to try to shift the blame onto the White House.

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They baptized both Jews and Hitler, so clearly they're not that fussy about geography. Skin tone may, of course, be a different matter entirely.

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Mormville.

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"I was supportive of my country," (r)Money said. "I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there, and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam."

No, I didn't just make that up.

I didn't have to.

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It was a "shorter" Romney. Sadly even he's not quite unaware enough to actually use those exact words.

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In a crate.

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Numbers on a balance sheet. That he knows how to read, of course. That's in his programming.

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The candidates the GOP thinks actually have a chance will all be out of the woodwork in 2016. Christie, Rubio, Jindal (did I mention they're huge believers in hollow symbolism?), those cakes they like.

It's now or never for Romney. He trailed Cain and Santorum at different points of this campaign, he stands no chance against a credible primary opponent.

Of course, the abject hopelessness of the cause will not be apparent to his algorithms, since he will still be rolling in cash money..

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Well, I'm glad you gave me the benefit of the very small amount of doubt as to whether that one was merely the 200-proof cynicism with which contemporary American politics fills me.

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Obviously the tequila in Mexico isn't a draw. Surprised the French didn't make his life beyond miserable for not drinking wine though.

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Either that, or you were so excited to fist it up you double-pumped.

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Bibi's advisers are smart enough to understand that unless they actually succeed in destroying <em>all</em> of Iran's enrichment equipment, an attack on their facilities would merely create new motivations for weaponization without eliminating their capacity to do so. They're also smart enough to understand that even just the sites that are known are sufficiently hardened against attack that it's likely some capacity would survive, and there's a strong possibility that unknown sites exist.

Romney's advisers are far less capable.

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