The Bushie memorial institute of Moderate Heroism

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

In reference to Democratic supporters of Chris Christie:

FFs, as I'd consider myself one if he wins to GOP Nod and our nominee is either Liz Warren, Martin O'Malley or Cory Booker.

[TNF]

This part is the only one I found notably amusing:

I still liberal economically, but maybe less so, at least not to the extent of French socialists. 

His whole economic issues platform is built around conservative strawman arguments.

[King]

I, for one, would support this if it was not a ploy by Governor Scott to enrichen his company.

[Anti Democrat Democrat Club]

Here's a subject change.  I just changed my avatar to R-OK.  The reason for that is I think the country will be ready for a Republican President by 2016.  As of now, I plan on voting Republican.

[Paul Kemp]

Does this belong here?

Changing the subject - again.  Lief, I am still a registered Democrat, but I think the country will be ready for the Republicans to take over January 2017.

Any particular reason? Do you think they have better ideas or that their ideas better fit where the country will be in 2016?

I think its the natural ebb and flow of the country.  After 12 years of Republican leadership (Reagan and Bush), the country was ready for Clinton.  After 8 years of Clinton, the country was ready for Bush.  After 8 years of Bush, the country was ready for Obama.  After 8 years of Obama, the country will be ready for a Republican.  I tend to think of the American electorate like a pendulum.  It swings back and forth from right to left and back again.  Right now, the pendulum in on the left, but I can see it starting to swing back to the right again.  It's not that either party has better ideas than the other, which they don't.  They're just fresh ideas.  The country needs balance and so its good for party control to switch every 8-12 years.

[Kitteh]

I was going to post that as soon as I saw it but I was on my phone. Yeah, that's one of the most blatant and idiotic examples of moderate heroism I've seen.

[DC Al Fine]

The pope is in a position to be a moral interpreter. There are reasons to support and oppose gays based on scripture, but more importantly is understanding subtext and background for scripture.

[H. Ross Peron]

Both parties. Both parties could have stopped the shutdown by acquiescing to the demands of the other, and both refused. The only way to say the GOP solely is to say that it's patently unreasonable to want to repeal Obamacare. Most people here are citing the 2012 election as some kind of mandate for Obamacare as a reason for this. But as John Sides (no right-winger) points out, elections in general don't really produce "mandates", let alone 2012.

[LastVoter]

I can't believe people still use this retarded concept. Ugh.

[This user has not been convicted of 34 felonies]

Either Communist or Constitution.

[publicunofficial]

This thread is a goldmine

Elizabeth Warren: I'm fine with her views, but, she's dangerous for the democratic party. I don't want a tea party on the left.

Raul Grijalva
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Liz Warren
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Jeff Merkley

[© tweed]

Reagan, and JFK are my personal favorites of the group.

[Sopranos Republican]

Reagan, and JFK are my personal favorites of the group.

[© tweed]

I must be a secret Republican.  That middle bar is close to what I think the income distribution should be.

The middle would actually be MUCH more reasonable than the bar above or below it.

[Mopsus]

I don't know if anybody realizes, but today (June 5) is the 10th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's passing.

From a neutral perspective, how does America view his presidency 10 years after his death and 25 years after he left office?

I still contend he's the best president in American History, slightly above Abe Lincoln.

I believe America as a whole remember the Reagan years with great fondness, even better than Clinton or Bush right after him and certainly much better than Obama.

[SWE]

JCL takes that xkdc comic about the 9/11 compromise theory a little too literally

The truth is often somewhere inbetween the official congressional investigation and what folks like Alex Jones and those sympathetic to him believe.