Yesterday, the world stopped turning for a moment to appreciate the HIGH DUDGEON of one Mister Senator Jeff Flake, a bog-standard Republican (to steal from the best) who nonetheless was tired of being personally vilified by the mental patient in the White House, and so rose on the Senate floor to GRANDLY ORATE about "morally treasonable" dangers to the Republic (the mental patient in the White House).
1. You missed the US "covertly" supplies arms to the Mujahadeen, and helps them switch to growing poppies, to get more money for more arms.2. Who was it who said not to get into a land war in Asia?
3) Zerwas, the House Appropriations chair has tossed his hat in the ring. Phil King is the main just this side of the Freedumbs conservative. there will be a Freedumbie. there are a few more names floating around. one of the ways the TX lege gets it right is having the speaker's race be a simple majority in the House--no party leadership games. so we can still get a moderate in there if there is one willing to do so and the moderates aren't afraid to side with us on it. thing is, even if they say they are thinking about a run, they can't file paperwork. so we won't know for a bit.
4) at the end of their terms in January 2019. remember that we only have a 140 day regular session every 2 years with the option of special sessions. we might have a special session later on once we know how much we'll need in a supplemental appropriation for Harvey. we're still waiting on a lot of insurance companies. TX, FL, PR and CA are all waiting on Ben Carson for the CDBG-DR grants. (though he did approve use of the grants we had left over from the 2 Bastrop fires, the 2015 and 2016 floods in Houston, Ike and Dolly for use in the counties affected by Harvey which were under those previous declarations.)
5) it's the start of campaign filing. it allows lead time for replacements to raise money and file by 12/11. but it also lets the business community know that they were dead serious about them needed to put their moneys where their mouths were. maybe they'll fund a higher office run. MAYBE. Straus does have $10 million in his account. it also fucks with Dan Patrick a little bit because he was setting up Straus to be his devil for a bunch of races Mucus is backing. he's just lost that. he'll have to make a real argument now without a foil.
The longer and uglier this Republican clown show gets, I feel like I'm less and less willing to settle for anything below the very bestest comeuppance these grifters can possibly get. And my standards are rising every day!
How can we possibly recover the huge financial and social damages we'll all be suffering, thanks to the GOP's fuckery? How about a huge, highly progressive tax INcrease, to take the penalty out of all the rich, amoral GOP grifters. [All] we need is a yuuuge political groundswell, and then the social equilibrium to take them on with votes and taxes, rather than the guillotine.
ah, that's where "Profit!" comes into your "business plan."
she rooned it by having a vagina and being smart
1. You missed the US "covertly" supplies arms to the Mujahadeen, and helps them switch to growing poppies, to get more money for more arms.2. Who was it who said not to get into a land war in Asia?
The answer is blowing in the wind.
Which really begs the question: why isn't he conservative enough for Arizona ???? We don't want him either.
I upvoted --- I read what you said as "switch panties" -- then I caught my error, and wish I could upvoye you x100,
That is the question. Who is he blowing
1) I don't know. Straus left open running for higher office (PATRICK), but he also too said it was "highly unlikely".
2) I think "earthquake" is adequate. https://www.texastribune.or...
3) Zerwas, the House Appropriations chair has tossed his hat in the ring. Phil King is the main just this side of the Freedumbs conservative. there will be a Freedumbie. there are a few more names floating around. one of the ways the TX lege gets it right is having the speaker's race be a simple majority in the House--no party leadership games. so we can still get a moderate in there if there is one willing to do so and the moderates aren't afraid to side with us on it. thing is, even if they say they are thinking about a run, they can't file paperwork. so we won't know for a bit.
4) at the end of their terms in January 2019. remember that we only have a 140 day regular session every 2 years with the option of special sessions. we might have a special session later on once we know how much we'll need in a supplemental appropriation for Harvey. we're still waiting on a lot of insurance companies. TX, FL, PR and CA are all waiting on Ben Carson for the CDBG-DR grants. (though he did approve use of the grants we had left over from the 2 Bastrop fires, the 2015 and 2016 floods in Houston, Ike and Dolly for use in the counties affected by Harvey which were under those previous declarations.)
5) it's the start of campaign filing. it allows lead time for replacements to raise money and file by 12/11. but it also lets the business community know that they were dead serious about them needed to put their moneys where their mouths were. maybe they'll fund a higher office run. MAYBE. Straus does have $10 million in his account. it also fucks with Dan Patrick a little bit because he was setting up Straus to be his devil for a bunch of races Mucus is backing. he's just lost that. he'll have to make a real argument now without a foil.
Me? Not so much.
The longer and uglier this Republican clown show gets, I feel like I'm less and less willing to settle for anything below the very bestest comeuppance these grifters can possibly get. And my standards are rising every day!
How can we possibly recover the huge financial and social damages we'll all be suffering, thanks to the GOP's fuckery? How about a huge, highly progressive tax INcrease, to take the penalty out of all the rich, amoral GOP grifters. [All] we need is a yuuuge political groundswell, and then the social equilibrium to take them on with votes and taxes, rather than the guillotine.
Like I said, I'm developing very high standards.
'I said it was dangerous and treasonable. I never said it was ACTIONABLE.'
He's gonna get creamed in the 2020 primary.
This answers my questions and also is very scary right now.
He's not really going out with a bang. More like a mild belch.
As far as the GOP cares, they can change their minds all they want as long as they don't change the way they vote.
This presumes that voters will be permitted to.
Sure, my kid is only three, but he has second amendment rights too, y'know? Besides, his grandpa gave him that gun.