First, why is Mitt Romney releasing important messages to the nation formatted as it were a inspirational quote jpg his aunt sent him on Facebook?
Second, Keith Olbermann? What year is this?
Third, if your message to the nation is that everyone - literally everyone, no exceptions - needs to STFU because you know better, all you’re going to do is make sure everyone thinks you’re a smug, lecturing little prick. Though I suppose that does unite us on one issue.
Yeah! Take that teachers, the media, and unions!
Very Serious senator is INCENSED!
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I think it’s kinda awesome that he’s using Twitter to send a message to Facebook.
Yeah, he’s a pretty serious dipshit.
Making Missouri proud, Josh Hawley, you grandstanding prick.
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I hope he likes my retarded fruit bat response lol.
Yes, all very surprising and shocking. And people keep voting for these worthless, anti-American pricks.
The short version: A Senate GOP strategist privately confided to Bloomberg that a key Republican goal right now is to lay the groundwork to revert hard to austerity, should Biden prevail, crippling the possibility of any serious stimulus efforts next year, even amid continued economic misery.
It’s also likely that a big package now would put the economy in a somewhat better position early next year, when Biden (should he win) would take over. This, too, is probably what Republicans want to avoid.
Indeed, as Eric Levitz points out, if Republicans can scuttle a robust package now, that would hand Biden a “deepening recession.” If Republicans hold the Senate and can block big stimulus measures at that point, Levitz continues, “Biden’s presidency would be over before it starts.”
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None of this is a surprise. We’ve talked about the shift to austerity a lot and I assume that will start the day it’s announced that Biden has won.
Even Trump, while still President, will shift his tone and start talking about how terrible the debt is and how Democrats are to blame.
Even if the Rs lose the Senate, expect them to do as much damage as they can on the way out.
Probably he means clean coal.
Use only the best artisanal American clean coal, sponge-bathed to sparkling cleanliness by beautiful Appalachian hillbilly girls while they sing their elegies.
Just makes me wonder, is there any Republican politician touted as the real deal, the serious one, who didn’t turn out to be a fraudulent hack? Maybe Amash, I guess?
Go check out Amash’s record while he was a state politician. He was despicable.
Ah, I don’t know anything about his state pol record. I think he’s despicable in any event. I just meant maybe his despicableness was at least consistent with his stated philosophy? As opposed to his erstwhile colleagues who will clearly say and do anything to advance themselves? I dunno. All the so-called serious non-clownish ones always turn out to be unserious clowns.
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He’s an odd cat. He’s one of the very rare conservatives that is anti-abortion and anti-death penalty. At the same time, he also did this:
In November 2011, he was one of nine representatives who voted against a House resolution that affirmed In God We Trust as the official motto of the United States and was the only Republican to do so.[107]
Maybe it was a cynical ploy for a resolution that was bound to pass anyway, but why even open yourself up to an easy attack ad?
So I’d like to hear more about what corrupt actions Amash did as a Michigan State Rep., because I confess I find him a lot more likeable than most of the Lincoln Project dudes.
Oh, I didn’t say corrupt. I just meant that he pushed hard to completely and permanently disenfranchise anyone to the left of him.
