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Any other job in America if you lied to get the job, you would be fired. "Sure, I know how to fly a plane." Skids off runway on first trip.

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Nobody believes the GQP is dumb enough to cut SS and Medicare, but they're currently running on a plan to do just that.

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same vibe as "sure baby, I'll love you forever...", as said from the back of a parent's borrowed station wagon after prom.

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The goal is to make things lousy enough that even reasonable folks will be calling for a Constitutional Convention, where everything will be smashed, then reassembled in real-time by the wealthy and connected. That's the endgame.

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I hope that someone kept track of how many times ol' Susan used the "you can keep yr doctor" line as a campaign cudgel, and framing it as a sacred promise; as compared to how deeply she believed Boof when they were yukking it up in her office.

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It's why Turtle Mitch shut down Rick Scott's blabbermouth so quickly, because that's the plan.

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Yes, the leak is the problem here...

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Rick Scott was too open about the plan to raise taxes on the poorz.

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Alas, I do not think that is the case. Mostly because that guy from Fox is amplified everywhere all the time owing to being a White Supremacist whereas Colbert gets the odd citation here and there on sites that are already likely to be fans.

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This would be fine if it weren't for the fact that the laws are being written to forbid travel for that purpose. Now, decades ago this would be largely unenforceable. Today? Your smartphone has sold you out already.

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"I like Beer!"

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The thing that bothers me most is that Alito's writing is worse than my own. These are supposed to be our brightest legal minds? God help us all!

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No. If they are not bound by what they say, the process means nothing. Independent judiciary or not, it's an interview to determine whether or not the nominee gets the job.. Lie in any job interview and you should be fired.

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My SO was a widow. Her husband had to sign off for her to get her tubes tied and also to get a credit card. IN CALIFORNIA.

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As Michael Che put it, "Usually when your job interview is focused on whether you sexually harassed someone and how much you like to drink, you're not getting the job."

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