He pedaled away as fast as his skinny legs could carry him.
Posted on 01/13/2017 2:55:47 PM PST by Kaslin
He pedaled away as fast as his skinny legs could carry him.
How lamentably often, when I employ hyperbole, do I find that I did not bole it hyper enough! :(
I shall endeavor to create a close-hyperbole signal to prevent any further misapprehensions.
“I’m thinking of building padded cells....exclusively for Hillary supporter”
The odd think is they hardly mention Hillary anymore...demonstrating she never had deep support...it was just ‘her turn’. Which is exactly why she lost...those lunatics can’t even figure that out.
Next challenge is to also target the Dems in the one area they still have strong power: the municipal level. Imagine if we can start getting big city mayors and councils dominated by conservative Republicans?
Of COURSE it was rigged!
How ELSE to explain how Trump; a REALLY long shot; could slither his slimey self past all of the OTHER folks in the primaries???
former Governor Jeb Bush of Florida,
retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson of Maryland,
Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey,
businesswoman Carly Fiorina of California,
former Governor Jim Gilmore of Virginia,
Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina,
former Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas,
outgoing Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana,
Governor John Kasich of Ohio,
former Governor George Pataki of New York,
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky,
former Governor Rick Perry of Texas,
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida,
former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania,
businessman Donald Trump of New York
and Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin.
This was the largest presidential primary field for any political party in American history and NONE of them realized the Russians screwed them!
Heck; even Bernie Sanders didn't know that the Russians screwed him over; either!!
Really?
Trump’s “How could it be any worse?” argument should be pretty powerful at the local level. You’d think Chicago would be listening carefully.
Trump knows there is a separation of powers and respects it.
But Ryan knows that it will be Trump setting the agenda and if he balks too much he will not be Speaker for long.
I hope that is so. I am not optimistic, however. Didn’t Ryan get re-elected unanimously, or almost so? The GOPe loves him and the GOPe includes almost all the Republican members including most of the ones who began as Tea Party candidates. GOPe has functioned since Newt Gingrich as a junior division of the Democrat Party.
Leopards don’t change their spots and Ryan won’t change his.
Heh...love it.
But consider, that a new Congressman, knowing he's only got one term to do it in, is just as likely to sell it for all he can get down front. Term limits just shuffle the problem from one place to another.
The Founding Fathers had it right from the start: The House members face the voters every two years, and THERE'S your term limits, right there. Keep the good ones in, turn the rascals out, how it spozed to work.
That is done as a matter of course. Don’t reward them with Tenure. A short single term makes them much less valuable and will at least reduce the corruption. It will also change the selection of candidates. More businessmen will take two years off. More normal citizens will go for it. One inducement to corruption will wither and that is the guarantee that if you play along you get to increase your income if you lose your next election by going to work as a lobbyist. The temptations will remain. That is the nature of government work of any kind, but they will be much reduced.
I wonder if Senate terms should be shortened to, say, 4 years instead of 6? (Elect half with the President and half at midterms)
Although that would be a radical proposal requiring an amendment.
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