Obama = Matt Santos
Castro = Matt Santos II
I literally delivered to your mouth. :|
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Castro = Matt Santos II
I literally delivered to your mouth. :|
I think the presidency is much less important than we or the media give it credit for. Won't matter if Hilary gets elected. People in congress decide what happens with the country.
While I'm sure many are wringing their hands already at the implications - given Hilary's historically strong numbers leading into her candidacy - I'd say Republicans and Democrats alike should be very careful about crowning her already.
There are many hurdles she's going to have to cross, many obstacles that will be thrown in her path by the opposition. There's the debates. There's the convention. How she responds to these, how the public interprets her handling of them... is going to be just as important as any popularity she had leading into her candidacy.
PhoenixDark
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What will Warren do as president, with a republican House? Let's be real. Let Warren stay in the senate, gain seniority, and continue to shape legislation. I don't agree with Grover Norquist on much of anything but he's 100% right that the president doesn't matter a whole lot: the goal should be to full congress with people who hand him/her the best legislation to sign. If there were 60 Elizabeth Warrens in the senate in 2009 the country would be a lot better off right now. Because they would have handed Obama better legislation to sign.
NullPointer
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Melon Husk
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thats her logo?
eh
I could see this as a logo for Herman Cain's Pizza.
RastaMentality
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They shook like shit.
To which both Warren and Clinton would put liberal judges in place and would get the same pushback from congress regardless of who was there. Which is what the argument was stemming from.
Regurgitated
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Serious question, would a woman have a harder time becoming president than a black person? Would Hilary have a bigger fight on her hands than Obama did?
And when is the next one coming up? I was under the impression we were stuck for a while? Guess not going off your sarcasm.
Also yes what the other poster said. Do the nominees not have to be approved by the senate? Which is republican controlled last I checked.
They shook like shit.
.gop is a thing?
I think all you need now for a new TLD is $180k or so.
Are you serious? We don't know when the next appointment is coming, which is the point. A Republican president would probably lead to the older members of the conservative wing retiring to be replaced with fresh justices who will stick around for decades. Not to mention the distinct possibility that Ginsburg dies or retires within the next 4 years.
We are likely to get at least 2 openings in the next term.
It would be remarkable if we don't get at least two Supreme Court justices off the court in the next 8 years. Some of them are getting ridiculously old. Honestly, given the statistical likelihood of people dying after the age of 76, we might get even more.
Hugely eventful time in Supreme Court Nominations coming up, enough to change the court for generations. It's too important.
Ok you got me. lol
Melon Husk
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Scalia is 80 so, you know, hopefully he will step down soon.
I think McCain was a more formidable opponent then anyone Hillary is gearing up to face, including Bush.
I also think sexism will be much harder to use as a tool because the republican base consists of white women of whom many will not respond well to anti-woman rhetoric.
Joel Was Right
If you smell burning, it's probably the generators acting up. Report it anyway.
it really depends on the candidate. obama didn't have much of an uphill climb because he was a once in a lifetime candidate, was essentially drafted into the race, and running against an unpopular incumbent
race was pretty much an afterthought in the gist of things. i mean it was a factor sure... but i think we're past the threshold where race and gender alone bar somebody from the office
God I hope to fuck a Democrat is in office when Scalia goes.
A court without that dirtbag would be the thing to make me smile more than any event politically in the past 20 years
Yes I am serious I am not following the lives of supreme court justices very closely but yes I am willing to agree that that is the most important thing a president can do and would be important to have Hilary or Warren in there for.
Thanks for the info. Really wish supreme court justices weren't lifetime appointments.
Scalia and Kennedy would most likely rather die than retire under a Democratic President. They are not stupid. As long as Hillary is President, they wont retire.
gutter_trash
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiSzU6eqKzM&list=PLp_ZXrfD8EPdLN9zUv7bj9iFy4Bi5kP-f&index=6
Remember the America held hostage being numbered on the Rush Limbaugh TV show?
1990s back again. The Right will lose their minds
Remember the America held hostage being numbered on the Rush Limbaugh TV show?
1990s back again. The Right will lose their minds
Biden is just seen as too much of a clown, unserious, a big kid. He has a weak "maybe I shouldn't do this" filter. I can't really see him taking the long-term party interests in mind when he's too busy living in the now. I can't necessarily blame him for that, he's an older man who better enjoy life now while he can, but it leads him to do things like this.
I mean, unless Scalia plans to live and work till 100, he's not going to have much of a chance to retire under a Republican President.
Warren isn't running. She is not an option here
+ RBG, Breyer and Kennedy
Of course, there's nothing to stop Congress from borking any of Clinton's nominations.
Sometimes people don't get to choose how long they serve the court though, ya know? It's morbid but that's the reality... These people are old.
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Good luck at them stopping a Supreme Court nomination over the long term without serious shit in that person's judicial past. The political hit Republicans would take for trying to drag that out for too long (other than for the standard amount of time necessary to say they put up a fight), given how important the Supreme Court is, would be disastrous.
Did I miss something? Republicans have been pretty insane since the 80's.
God I hope to fuck a Democrat is in office when Scalia goes.
A court without that dirtbag would be the thing to make me smile more than any event politically in the past 20 years
That would be a dream come true.
Warren isn't running. She is not an option here
Hypothetically and all that.
If she's in office and he goes, I'm calling-in sick to work for the rest of that week. The fireworks from the right, knowing that a liberal Supreme Court would doom huge swaths of their social agenda at all levels of government, would be incredible.God I hope to fuck a Democrat is in office when Scalia goes.
A court without that dirtbag would be the thing to make me smile more than any event politically in the past 20 years
They usually end up taking themselves out of the race when they become political liabilities. Usually due to something controversial in their judicial past. That's what the Republicans would be hunting for.
I can't imagine they're suicidal enough to long-term try to block a competent candidate, no matter what their ideology is, without such a thing... even in today's gridlocked world, that's political suicide.
The benefit of Biden is that he knows how to navigate the Senate and House. He knows how to deal, the minutiae of how things function in Washington. That's a really great strength to have, as Lyndon Johnson can attest to. It was one of Obama's great weaknesses that he did not seem to be able to do that well, despite his short time in the Senate.
What if I told you that whoever ends up being the republican nominee is bought too?
The way politics works in America is simple:
You either vote for Democrat or Republican. If you cast your ballot for a third party (independent or otherwise) you're simply trashing away your right to vote - effectively. In doing so, sometimes, hurting the party you're probably more aligned to in the process.
It's a lesser of the two evils kind of proposition when neither candidate from either party appeals to you.
I personally have no interest in an abomination combo of a Republican President, Tea Party clown show House of Representatives (that not even Boehner can control) and a McConnell run Senate to back it up. Not to mention strengthening a "conservative" Supreme Court even more.
On those grounds alone, I can not vote for a republican. Their candidates make it even easier to justify it.
Epsilon-delta
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I'll be dead before I ever see a gay, atheist President.
metalslimer
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Right, Obama was far too naive in how Washington works to know what he was getting into. Although, I don't think anyone could have predicted how crazy the Republicans would become once he took office.
They shook like shit.
Your positive Republican vision for the future of America, folks
At the very least it would be very entertaining.
It is safe to say we have had athiest presidents. Just not openly aitheist.
Your Entertainer
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What are you gonna do? Vote republican? Not vote?
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