Brett Kavanaugh now under FBI investigation

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Originally Posted by boutons_deux

"Partisan politics has been the norm since the 90s"

the scorched-earth partisanship is often tied to Newt Gingrich getting into Congress in 1978, playing a big role in the St Ronnie Useful idiot shitstorm of the '80s, and then House leader where he shut down govt twice to counter Clinton

I read an article by long-time Congressman who said in his long career, he never saw anybody who was so obstructive, no-compromise, destructive as Gingrich.

But the Repugs as a whole were being paid by the decades-long oligarchy strategy, so Gingrich arrived on fertile (shit-stinkin) ground.

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Agreed that the groundwork for over the top partisanship had been laid as early as the late 70s/early 80s, but Democrats went along with a lot of what Reagan did in the 80s out of recognition that it’s what the country had voted for regardless of he fact they disagreed with it. The 90s as you said was when things like fucking government shutdowns went from being disaster scenarios to tools used by the Republicans to stop Clinton from getting anything done.

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Originally Posted by Will Hunting

Agreed that the groundwork for over the top partisanship had been laid as early as the late 70s/early 80s, but Democrats went along with a lot of what Reagan did in the 80s out of recognition that it’s what the country had voted for regardless of he fact they disagreed with it. The 90s as you said was when things like fucking government shutdowns went from being disaster scenarios to tools used by the Republicans to stop Clinton from getting anything done.

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yep, the Dems were passively compliant, compromised by BigDonor just like the Repugs, with oligarchy's scorched earth extreme right wing anti-American partisanship.

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Originally Posted by Will Hunting

Agreed that the groundwork for over the top partisanship had been laid as early as the late 70s/early 80s, but Democrats went along with a lot of what Reagan did in the 80s out of recognition that it’s what the country had voted for regardless of he fact they disagreed with it. The 90s as you said was when things like fucking government shutdowns went from being disaster scenarios to tools used by the Republicans to stop Clinton from getting anything done.

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Be careful here agreeing with Boots.

He still does not believe Trump won the presidency... because the electoral college is illegitimate.
So Republicans have every right to just make up rules by the bootonomous standard.

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Originally Posted by pgardn

Be careful here agreeing with Boots.

He still does not believe Trump won the presidency... because the electoral college is illegitimate.
So Republicans have every right to just make up rules by the bootonomous standard.

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Colluder/traitor Trash is illegit because of Comey and Pootin/Assange. The EC certainly greased the skids as Trash shit-slided into the WH

Federal politics have been contentious since the founding of the country. It's hilarious that you guys are claiming"worst ever" with no basis in fact.

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Originally Posted by CosmicCowboy

Federal politics have been contentious since the founding of the country. It's hilarious that you guys are claiming"worst ever" with no basis in fact.

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We are clearly sliding into the Congress and the judiciary giving up their independence from the executive branch. This has always been dangerous. No matter when it occurs.

But the real power the executive branch is taking advantage of is congressmen’s fear of NOT BEING RE-ELECTED. Trump and McConnell have done an outstanding job of recognizing this. So maybe, in a way, this is good. Congress should have to explain their decisions and if the voters don’t like it, they need to recognize their time to SERVE is up. Now go get a job. Having nothing to do with your prior allegiances. I dare ya...

"Congress and the judiciary giving up their independence from the executive branch."

:lol

The biggest, dominant factor is "capture" of govt by the oligarchy. All the dangers and problems of failed govt, of break down of Constitutional safeguards, degradation of good-faith conventions and protocols that allowed bi-partisanship, derive from the oligarchy's capture.

"CosmicCowboy
Federal politics have been contentious since the founding of the country. It's hilarious that you guys are claiming"worst ever" with no basis in fact"

So what's going on now is OK with Cosmic Parasite, just like AGW is OK, is a Chinese hoax, because "climate always changes anyway".

America has degraded into another Gilded Age of extreme inequality of wealth, which begets an extreme inequality of political power.

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Democrats have unleashed a red wave of Brett Kavanaugh-believing women voters

https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/1559347...mpression=true

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Originally Posted by boutons_deux

So what's going on now is OK with Cosmic Parasite, just like AGW is OK, is a Chinese hoax, because "climate always changes anyway".

America has degraded into another Gilded Age of extreme inequality of wealth, which begets an extreme inequality of political power.

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I don't particularly like the despicable behavior of the Senate democrats but it didn't surprise me. Partisan politics have always been ugly.

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I don't particularly like the despicable behavior of the Senate democrats but it didn't surprise me. Partisan politics have always been ugly.

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You basically called yourself ugly

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Democrats have unleashed a red wave of Brett Kavanaugh-believing women voters

https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/1559347...mpression=true

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not unleashed, your ignorant, stupid, self-harming, duped Trash supporters were already there. Trash lies, you/they believe.

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Originally Posted by Blake

You basically called yourself ugly

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a real zinger there, cuck.

Brett Kavanaugh will have his first opportunity to repay Trump even sooner than you think

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After Trump Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was caught lying to Congressabout the origins of a new census "citizenship" question,

the Trump administration has been seeking to block a federal judge from requiring testimony from Ross

over a lawsuit claiming the White House added the question with racially discriminatory intent.

Kavanaugh, then, could become the deciding vote in deciding

whether an administration official caught lying in public statements can claim that executive privilege shields him from having to testify about those statements.

And the prospect of a nominee picked for his apparent extreme willingness

to protect the Trump administration from criminal and civil investigations voting within days of his swearing-in to do

exactly what his most alarmist critics predicted he was being brought on to do

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/10/7/1802581/-Brett-Kavanaugh-will-have-his-first-opportunity-to-repay-Trump-even-sooner-than-you-think?detail=emaildkre

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Originally Posted by boutons_deux

"Congress and the judiciary giving up their independence from the executive branch."

:lol

The biggest, dominant factor is "capture" of govt by the oligarchy. All the dangers and problems of failed govt, of break down of Constitutional safeguards, degradation of good-faith conventions and protocols that allowed bi-partisanship, derive from the oligarchy's capture.

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Oligarchy, Big_____ Like it JUST began....

You are as big a twat as spurtactless.

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Oligarchy, Big_____ Like it JUST began....

You are as big a twat as spurtactless.

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goddamn, you and your takes are FUCKING STUPID

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Originally Posted by Will Hunting

Agreed that the groundwork for over the top partisanship had been laid as early as the late 70s/early 80s, but Democrats went along with a lot of what Reagan did in the 80s out of recognition that it’s what the country had voted for regardless of he fact they disagreed with it. The 90s as you said was when things like fucking government shutdowns went from being disaster scenarios to tools used by the Republicans to stop Clinton from getting anything done.

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Pretty much. The "Republican revolution" led by Gingrich (suppresses gag reflex) set the tone for everything that was to follow. They began to actively weed out moderates at that time. After the census in 2000, someone got the bright idea for operation RedMap and that finished the job by making both sides more extreme, and less able to compromise to get anything done.

iow, America is fucked and unfuckable, for those of you who refuse call it that way.

An America incapable of making progress, solving problems, etc. is JUST FINE with the oligarchy since the oligarchy has all the political power under the status quo to keep the economy and govt rigged in its favor, to the disfavor of non-oligarchy and the environment.

I don't know if things are worse now - maybe it's just that more people KNOW about it. What's worse is the time spent consuming this "news" instead of time spent with family, friends and neighbors.

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Originally Posted by boutons_deux

iow, America is fucked and unfuckable, for those of you who refuse call it that way.

An America incapable of making progress, solving problems, etc. is JUST FINE with the oligarchy since the oligarchy has all the political power under the status quo to keep the economy and govt rigged in its favor, to the disfavor of non-oligarchy and the environment.

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All you forgot was the "SHAME" at the end

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Does she not have a pistol or wait she is in cal
She should be fine they have strict gun laws

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