Election 2020

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  1. Jmg

    Jmg Veteran Member

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    i think we can assume he will redeal with iran the original deal was his

    also paris climate accords which destroy everyone but china
     
  2. Winston1

    Winston1 Founding Member

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    Why do you assume that? You have nothing to base that on other than prejudice. I’ll be glad to bet that you’re wrong...anything you dare to lose.
    As to the Paris climate accords I believe it will have to get approved by the senate. I’m not holding my breath for that to happen anytime soon.
     
  3. LSUpride123

    LSUpride123 PureBlood

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    It’s like you’ve been asleep.
     
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  4. Jmg

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    again biden claims he was a driving force behoind the original iran deal
     
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  5. shane0911

    shane0911 Helping lost idiots find their village

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    I think that was big nose Kerry
     
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    https://www.wsj.com/articles/2020s-biggest-election-losers-11604619664?mod=djemalertNEWS

    Kimberley A. StrasselNov. 5, 2020 6:41 pm

    WSJ Opinion: 2020’s Biggest Election Losers

    Potomac Watch: Despite Democratic Party predictions of a "blue wave," Chuck Schumer remains Senate minority leader, and Nancy Pelosi will lead a thinner majority in the House. Image: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
    This was a hit on his own party. If Washington has been a circus these past four years, it is in substantial part due to congressional Democrats. Americans elect lawmakers to pass budgets, confirm judges, develop considered legislation. The Pelosi-Schumer era has been day after painful day of faux scandals, gotcha hearings, breathtaking accusations, progressive-fantasy bills and promises to dismantle longstanding institutions. It’s theater, not governance.

    The press would normally check such behavior. Instead, Democrats and their media allies allowed their disdain for Donald Trump to lull them into believing they’d benefit. The liberal FiveThirtyEight election-analysis outfit in July mused onTwitter : “Could Democrats pick up 13 seats in the Senate?”—an estimate that now looks to be off by a mere 12. The accompanying video envisioned Democrats presiding over a “filibuster-proof majority.”

    Establishment media outfits, polling companies and crystal-ball types swaggered into the election predicting the great blue wave would hand Mrs. Pelosi up to 15 more House seats. Instead she was handed her hat. Republicans have picked up at least six net seats in the House and could net up to a dozen. They toppled a longstanding Democratic committee chairman (Collin Peterson of Minnesota), and picked off several of Mrs. Pelosi’s vulnerable “centrist” freshmen, including Joe Cunningham in South Carolina, Kendra Horn in Oklahoma, Xochitl Torres Small in New Mexico, and two congresswomen in South Florida.

    In the Senate, Republicans the press had written off weeks ago retained their seats, including Iowa’s Joni Ernst and Maine’s Susan Collins. Sen. Mitch McConnell is still favored to remain majority leader, though it may take a couple of Georgia runoffs to get there.

    Politico reported that “shell-shocked” House Democrats spent Wednesday asking “What the hell happened?”—as if that’s in question. No doubt the left will come up with all manner of excuses, given time. But this result was a direct consequence—a rebuke—of the Pelosi-Schumer decision to let the lunatics run their asylum. Call Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler what you will, just don’t call them good politics.

    What exactly did Mrs. Pelosi’s members have to run on? In two years, they’ve passed one bill of consequence: Mr. Trump’s U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement. They otherwise spent their time running investigations into unfounded claims of Russia collusion and supposedly fishy Trump finances. They ginned up an impeachment spectacle, with articles that listed no crimes. They refused to negotiate with the White House on further virus spending, infrastructure, immigration—solely to deny Mr. Trump any legislative accomplishments. Senate Democrats were no better, playing their own impeachment role and vowing that if they took power they’d pack the Supreme Court and admit the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico as states to swell their own ranks in the upper chamber.

    Mrs. Pelosi can’t claim to be surprised by what happened this week; she’s been through it before. In 2006, Minority Leader Pelosi recruited centrist candidates across the country and ran on a modest agenda of pocketbook issues. House Democrats picked up 31 seats, took the majority, and paved the way for Barack Obama’s election in 2008. Then Mrs. Pelosi gave license to her left wing, producing ObamaCare, climate-change legislation and spending blowouts. The response was the 2010 midterm, in which voters sacked dozens of those same Democrats and took away Mrs. Pelosi’s speakership.

    Lather, rinse, repeat. She followed her 2006 strategy in 2018, running on a promise to find “common ground” with the Trump White House, fielding centrist candidates in close districts, even insisting there would be no impeachment. It worked. Having reclaimed the gavel, she then promptly indulged her left’s passion for investigations, obstruction, the Green New Deal, Medicare for All and impeachment. Democrats will keep their majority this time, though with far less latitude to dictate an agenda.

    Will Democrats learn? Assuming Republicans keep the Senate, we will continue with divided government. Americans sent a message on Tuesday that they are done with the hoopla and want to see Washington address the real problems of the day, of which there are plenty. America remains a center-right country, and there is great political upside for politicians who govern in a center-right fashion. And real losses for those who don’t.

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  7. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    That you would make excuses for him so soon is not surprising. I'm not going to answer your long winded post point by point. You follow the news so you know the negatives about him as well as I do. If you are counting on him to be able to handle the world's hardest job you are as demented as he is.
     
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    GiantDuckFan be excellent to each other Staff Member

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    COTiger 2010 Bowl Pick 'Em Champ

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    The clock is ticking. Terrorists are licking their chops and are planning their attacks. Unfortunately it's not a matter of if, it's when.
     
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    oh me, oh my
     
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