Bleak Prospects for the GOP

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  1. Bluesguy

    Bluesguy Well-Known Member Donor

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    Can ypu try to answer what I asked?

    What do you think ahould happen to Trump over the Daniels thingy?
     
  2. Bluesguy

    Bluesguy Well-Known Member Donor

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    I was speaking of Jones primarily and Whiley.

    There was with Jones and he paid her $900,000.
     
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    What are you talking about Clinton was and is worshipped to this day by the left. And again Trump IS abput private affairs Clinton was about a serial abuser using his government power and employment power over subordinates and then of course the felonies he committed covering it up in a federal court and a federal grand jury.

    Tell me if Trump gets sued by Daniels or any other woman and commits perjury and obstruction of justice in that lawsuit what ahould happen?
     
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    What a load of bovine excrement!

    There is ZERO EVIDENCE of any "higher tax revenues" stemming from tax cuts.
     
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    Guno Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    looks like its decorated as whore house
    pictures below
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...lized-Mercedes-15-000-book-risqu-statues.html

    lost-at-e-minor-trump-minimalism-805x427.jpg
     
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    Yes it works for a year or so when people liquidate assets to take advantage of the lower taxes. That is what the data shows every time.
     
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    That is a laugh!
     
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    CourtJester Well-Known Member

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    Like I said find an instance where it worked more than a year or two. Cut taxes and people find that an opportune time to sell assets. Doesn't last though. And you need to stop confusing deficits,national debt and tax revenues.
     
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  9. Bluesguy

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    1996 - 2001 then a recession in which the Republicans took mostly the proper measures limiting unemployment to a one month peak of 6.5% and a one year deficit peak of $400B

    2003 - 2007 52 months with full employment and the deficit falling to just $161B until the Democrats blew it.

    So that is 12 years with a successfully handled recession in the middle.
     
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    Try addressing what I actually said.
     
  11. Renee

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    I did answer.....it depends what we find out. The investigation is not over,
     
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    Clinton settled with her...trump used it as hush money before an election so she couldn’t blackmail him
     
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    He paid her off because he was going to lose big time if he went to trial. He had no defense, she had evidence in support plus his proven record of soliciting sex from subordinate workers and rewarding those who granted such favors plus the perjury and obstruction of justice he had already committed. $900,000 big ones.

    Apples to oranges, Trump settled out of court, Clinton would have been wise to do the same before he went to trial the first time.
     
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    We find out they had an affair, that it is true. So what should happen? And what investigation into it there is no investigation into it.
     
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    "Neither" of these parties represents the people of america, toggling back and forth between the "choices" the system allows is the power structure's game.
     
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    I don't see that as an issue really, we always get a cabal of Goldman Sachs execs in the white house "either" way regardless of electoral outcomes. Same as it ever was. The "proper" folks are always represented "either" way and the people are not. By design.
     
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    Nothing...but if there was money used inappropriately we should know,
     
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    The duopoly is not very representative but, within the parameters of the voting booth, Americans have been registering a clear preference since the reign of trumpery began.
     
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    Pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft, sure.

    It has been predicted that the Democrats will capture a majority in the House of Representatives on November 6. In this case, the US military-intelligence apparatus will comprise as many as half of the new Democratic members of Congress and they will hold the balance of power in the lower chamber of Congress.

    25% of all the Democratic challengers in competitive House districts have military-intelligence, State Department or NSC backgrounds. This is by far the largest subcategory of Democratic candidates.

    National security operatives (57) outnumber state and local government officials (45), lawyers (35), corporate executives, businessmen and wealthy individuals (30) and other professionals (19) among the candidates for Democratic congressional nominations.

    Fweedumb.
     
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    Trumps policies will be good for ordinary people but he’s having difficulty getting the professionals to cooperate
     
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    obviously, on some issues, Democrats and Republicans are indistinguishable, on some others, quite divergent.
     
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    Scott Walker tacking back to the middle and the departure of the tax cutting KS and LA governor reflects that the revolution generated in 2010 is over. And that republican politicians see that the party is in real danger of losing the suburbs, which they have to have to survive.
     
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    Republicans running in November have more than the stench of trumpery and a meagre record of legislative achievement to overcome.

    Their featured centerpiece is failing to dazzle.
    Democrats are informing the public that 83% of the GOP’s tax cuts go to the wealthiest 1% and that their huge corporate cuts are permanent while individual cuts are temporary, and they add a projected $1.5 trillion to the deficit.

    Whether that exposure to the truth is having its impact, the only significant legislation that the trumped Republicans managed to pass is not being met with the enthusiasm for which they had desperately hoped.

    The issue is a loser for them:
     
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    Some good years like right after the tax cuts. Nice try at confusing deficit with tax revenues though.
     
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    When a Republican got elected. Kind of like how the Republican angst about deficits changed when the President became Republican. Republican so called principles only apply to Democratic Presidents. That should be obvious to everyone by now.
     

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