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Neither of those examples are even remotely like this situation. Elizabeth Warren started as a well respected academic with recognized, deep policy expertise. She then served as part of the overseer for one of the largest and most important bailouts in US history, upon which the fate of the US economy literally depended. She then built a major new federal agency from the ground up.

Are you seriously going to compare that to being married to some idiot that tries to "sneak" off to South America to have an affair? Really?

 

I'll throw one out. Elizabeth Dole didn't have much in the way of political experience beyond being Bob Dole's wife (and President of the Red Cross) when she ran and won the seat her husband was retiring from.

 

You should be able to be elected to Congress no matter your station in life.

Jenny Sanford was an investment banker and non-profit board member who funded and helped run her ex-husband's political campaigns, was said to be politically gifted herself, and has stayed politicaly active since her ex-husband's scandal (endorsing Nikki Haley). Jenny Sanford also assisted him daily when he was in Congress and when he was Governor. She was already much farther ahead than where most politicians start off.

And what me and juliet were both talking about was just how much fun it would be for Jenny Sanford to have her revenge on her ex-husband in a primary battle.

 

Rick Scott is actually popular among some people in Florida!

Oh, it's just the "Satanic Temple"...




Satanists planning rally for Florida Gov. Rick Scott

Florida Gov. Rick Scott may have earned himself a new constituency, but the devil is in the details.​

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Local news site WPBF.com reported that a group of Satanists plans to hold a rally outside Scott's office on Jan. 25 to support the governor’s signing of a bill that allows students to pray at school events.​

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"We've gotten such a response, it's just impossible for me to know what that translates into," Satanic Temple spokesman Lucien Greaves told WPBF, regarding how many will show up at the rally.​

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“You don’t build up your membership unless people know about you,” Greaves said in a separate interview with the Palm Beach Post. “So this allows us to get our message out in public. We’re hoping it will reduce the stigmatism.”​

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The Satanic Temple was launched in 2012 with what Greaves described as being “more or less an online community.”​

The group’s website describes itself as being different from other, better-known Satanic organizations. Greaves said the rally is part of a larger ongoing effort at making the group’s beliefs more commonplace in mainstream discussions of religion and belief. From the website:​

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“Though we have far to go before public education leads to a mainstream embrace of our Satanic religion, we feel that our own public ‘coming out’ will go a long way toward raising the consciousness of the populace … and the social environment has never yet been better prepared for the welcoming of a new Satanic era.”​

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The group’s founder, Neil Bricke, is scheduled to speak at the rally.​

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"We feel it's time for Satanists to come out and say exactly who we are," Greaves said.​

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So, what does Scott think of the newly organized support?​

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"This is a great country. Everyone has a voice," Gov. Scott's press secretary wrote in an email to ABCNews.com.​

 

Uh..... Yeah, now I think I've just about heard everything.

 

I hope Jon Stewart does a segment on this.

 

how do you starve an obama voter?

hide their food stamps under their work boots!

 

Oh, funny ^.

I have neither work boots nor food stamps. But I will accept low heeled shoes...

 

Whaaaat?!?

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Obama, Rubio, and Ryan agree on Immigration Reform

 

Gerrymandering

A majority voted Democrat, yet the GOP still won out.

 

It looks like Eric Cantor is saying that the House will raise the Debt Ceiling for 3 months if the Senate passes a budget.

Sounds reasonable... but why only 3 months? Do we really want to keep kicking the can down the road every 3 months for the rest of United States history?

 

Evidently the GOP does.

 

my glorious senator tim kanes has identified a new code word: nullification. but it is a different kind than the other code words. or maybe it isn't. i don't know. i'm not sure he knows either. oh well.

 

Well I have a good sense of where you live now, given you and I share the same Senator.

 

uh...you don't remember you and i talking about tim kanes and george allens? it might have even been in this thread. you do not remember that?

 

Actually I don't, but then again I've tried to block out most of Election 2012, given how innudated with ads Virginia was.

 

ah yes we are a schwing state. we could schwing one way, or maybe schwing another way.

 

but they are both schwinging in the same direction in that animated image! whatever happened to julia schiffers by the way? was that her name? julio schaffers?

 

nullificate this!

*gestures obscenely with crotch*

 

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The first I heard of this was on maddow and she pointed out how the various web news sites were now starting to report it as well.

 

the first i heard of this was before the election when people pointed out that it was going to happen because of the state legislatures back in 2010 being tea party heavy and gerrymandering EVERYTHING



but oh no i sure hope no mexicans vote in the elecitons that would really muck up our democracy u guys

 

In the words of Charles Krauthammer, to "keep the debt ceiling alive as an ongoing pressure point for future incremental demands".

Obama should just raise it by executive order. Let them scream about "tyranny" or whatever. That beats letting these dirtbags hold a gun to the head of the economy every few months.

 

"a, uh, wiseman... once said: the roof, the roof, the, ah, the roof is on fire... but we don't need no, ah, water... let the uh, ************ burn. today i say to congress... let the ************, ah, burn."

have will.i.am remix that shizz, put it on youtube, BAM instant political capital