Re: 3, I don't think people truly understand what a generational talent Mitch was. Aside from the things you note, another thing that strikes me is that he was not afraid of taking significant risks in high-reward scenarios.
Why does it appear like every political rule favors Republicans?
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interestingly, that tweet seems no less dubious, and no more credible, here than it did in the other thread.
This is another thing...the democrats have to move center - even though Biden is and Kamala would have governed as a moderate - in order to have a chance, according to right of center people, to win elections, while the right wing can move further and further to the radical religious right and still win. The democrats other than about 4-5 are so much closer to the Republicans of the 1980s than what is happening in the Republican party under this ridiculous regime. Reagan has to be spinning in his grave watching the Republican POTUS cow tow to Putin.
problem is like Kamala, she's on the record with her hard left stuff now. It's hard to back track on penises for girls and reparations... those things just aren't going away.
Blaming the refs now, huh? Typical for a mediocre girls basketball coach mentality.
Republicans are incapable legislators. List the significant (or significant legislation) its majority has passed. in the past 2 decades.
In fact, the Freedom Caucus entered the picture for the expressed purpose to suppress legislation. The GOP is a case study in misguided, malfunctioning politics. The party's succuss has been through marketing ideologies to an increasingly dividing nation. Sooner or later the rubber meets the road, and the party has to produce.
What we know for sure is that since the Great Depression, FRD's first term, the Democrats have controlled all branches of government 4 years for every one year controlled by Republicans, plus most of the SCOTUS appointees for nearly 100 years. So who created this problem Tom Paris?
Well, let's see...
Starting from a point of 'fairness' and looking at situations when a party controlled both houses of congress (since that's when democratic presidents have had the successes they most commonly tout):
- in the 115th congress, the CAA, TCJA, CISA, and First Step come to mind.
- before that, in the 108th congress, we had some neat stuff like MPDIMA, CAN-SPAM, etc.
- and in 109th, PSQIA, DRA, and STCA come to mind.
Just curious but did you forget that you already replied to his post about 4 hours ago? Or was the refs joke just too good to pass up?
Ummmm...the problem in your thread title, " why does every political rule favor Republicans? " You must have a shorter span of attention than most of your PE kids...
hate to pile on when a team is down but when they were in power and controlled things if dems had actually done things their own supporters wanted instead of some dubious things the chips would never have fallen the way they did
How many Republicans today actually sound like Reagan? Republicans have, as a rule, become farther right than democrats have gone left.
Sounds like the real world is no place for you. You should stick to social media.
WTF world were you living in from 1981-1989? Had you even shot out of your father’s cock yet? According to Peter Jennings, Sam Donaldson, Cokie Roberts, Dan Blather, et al., along with congressional democrooks, Reagan was a right wing whacko who wanted to start a nuclear war, restore Jim Crow, and kill all the pole smokers.
The left really was just as idiotic back then as they are now.
I was born in 1966. So there’s that. Now let’s look at some of the Reagan policies and what they did and see if Republicans would support them today.
Reagan did cut taxes but he oversaw massive spending increases. He oversaw massive increases in the federal workforce and increased the deficit by 3x. He really stated deficit spending as a “thing” that subsequent presidents followed.
Reagan was an environmental president protecting more wild lands than any other president of modern history.
As governor, he expanded Medicaid. He signed a bill as president that granted amnesty to almost 3 million illegal immigrants.
Reagan, despite his current status as a Republican icon, wouldn’t make it past the Iowa caucus today. Compare that with Jimmy Carter, who Reagan defeated in 1980. He would hold many mainstream Democratic policies of today. Some outliers. Carter was pulled to the left by Ted Kennedy but not that much.
Mainstream Republicanism of the 1980s was pro business. Pro free trade. Pro personal freedoms. All laughable compared to the current GOP
Exactly. Republicans don't have this rep without him. And I don't think it's just repeatable like "Republicans are like this now." I mean, he reads like the stories of Lyndon Johnson. In my opinion, the dems haven't had someone even close for a long time. It just doesn't feel like Schumer is it. I genuinely feel like Reid and Schumer want too much TV/sound bite time, and I don't feel like that's necessarily the best for the role. I certainly think Robert Byrd and George Mitchell were much better. I don't know if that's partially because they were more pragmatists/moderates or what. It very much remains to be seen whether Thune will be able to carry McConnell's jock.
on the house side, i think pelosi was.
Of the ones you mention, I'd probably go Mitchell>Reid>Schumer>Byrd. Dashchle = eminently foregettable. Probably right that you have to go back to LBJ.
Reagan had to work with a democrat house his entire term, and a democrat senate near the end. Even then, he was still branded a right wing whacko by your side, so just STFU with all the crap about how he’d be run out of the party today. And no way Reagan would have tolerated the cultural rot they the Dems have given us the last 15-20 years. I think perhaps you meant to say Gerald Ford rather than Reagan.
I'm sorry, Biden was the most progressive president possible, and tried very hard to deliver on many progressive priorities. That dog doesn't hunt, and is almost unfair to the guy. He spent tremendous political capital on passing green policy in the inflation reduction act, wasted a ton of political capital on a voting rights push that has no traction in the public, was as supportive of trans issues as anyone could be, was as progressive on the border and migrants as any president in history. I mean, the green aspect aside which has some popularity, the guy took a beating on progressive favorite causes with incredibly little voter constituency. He was far to the left of Obama, and it's just unfair to him to say he didn't try to govern from the left.
Also, depicting Republican politicians as further to the religious right than they were in say 1990, is the most ridiculous characterization ever. It just doesn't have any truth at all. Trump pulled the pro life plank out of the party platform, the party totally accepts gay marriage, nobody is really fighting for prayer in public schools or ten commandments in public buildings. Do not mistake Trump's following among evangelicals, it says 100x more about evangelicals than it does about Trump.
See, right now you feel like your team is on defense, well welcome to politics on the right since about Reagan. Remember the left was in power 12 of the last 16 years. add in the hyperbole from the left on everything, and Donald Trump’s affinity for exaggeration and now you’re caught up on current events.
That hilarious. Exaggeration. Really? You mean outright lying right?
Good point on Byrd, I overrated him. He essentially inherited a Senate in perpetual Democratic majority, the job when he assumed it wasn't nearly the challenge his successors faced.
And I agree Pelosi is very talented. I think a ton of her talent has been directed toward wrangling an increasingly difficult Democrat coalition incredibly well, where Mitch got to mostly focus on beating Democrats.
That’s just it. Reagan compromised. Today, a Republican who compromises is voted out. For the most part. A few exceptions. If a Republican who represents anything close to a purple or red states compromises they get primaries. That’s not Reagan.
No, I meant what I typed. He exaggerates and boasts like you would expect from a sleazy used car salesperson. Everything he thinks is good is the biggest and best ever, and anything he thinks is bad is the worst stuff ever.
If you guys held Biden to the same standards you do Trump I’d agree more closely, but you guys let him destroy the constitution, lie as often as he spoke with impunity. Now you guys want to pick apart every syllable Trump spews.
He only compromised because he had to. Plus, in those days the democrat party was still somewhat pro American and cared about normal middle class people instead of punishing them on behalf of the “victim” class. Today, we’re far better off doing nothing than giving the democrooks anything they want.
That’s a sad commentary that either side is focused on beating the other instead of leading and governing for the American people.
Yeah, AOC would've likely been a historical footnote, rather than on her current ascendant track, if she hadn't been subject to an intervention from NP. Think about that for a minute -- we're talking about the woman who beat Joe Crowley, NP's #2.
Holy crap. Your last paragraph is beyond ridiculous. I couldn't get past the first 2 sentences because of how disingenuous those sentences are. Project. 20. 25. Radical religious right. Took away bodily autonomy from women. I recently heard something about a dog not hunting. You guys are unbelievable with the gaslighting.
