The Politics Thread

[ReddFoxx]

Maybe not. Being a Republican in a blue state with Trump as President will be a major drag on every blue state Republican. In 2006, Lincoln Chafee lost his Senate seat in Rhode Island, despite having high approvals. What did him and several other blue state Republicans in was Bush's low approval. 2018 could be just like 2006.

[DRW50]

Ugh.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/08/china-warns-trump-facing-head-on-collison-north-korea

[DramatistDreamer]

To fund border wall, Trump administration weighs cuts to Coast Guard, airport security

 

 

[Khan]

Coast Guard and airport security, eh?  Well, so much for keeping us safe!

 

A collision between us and North Korea is gonna look a lot like when Homer and Bart Simpson ran into each other with pots on their heads.

 

[NothinButAttitude]

 

 

This man is gonna seriously get us all killed. Sadly, we can't just blame this dolt, but instead we should be blaming the GOP, who refused to pull the trigger on an already smoking gun. 

 

I doubt many of his voters would care about the cuts to the TSA b/c most of them haven't left as far as their backyard. 

[marceline]

 

Except these are the people who whine the most about "never forget" 9/11.

[NothinButAttitude]

 

Well they'll have something to whine about in due time with the budget being cut to the TSA b/c another incident is gonna occur. Just watch. 

 

Also, isn't he cutting funds on FEMA too? Most of his voters live in areas that are affected by natural disasters and need FEMA but whatever. All these dolts are quickly learning that they are gonna pay for what they voted for. 

[DramatistDreamer]

 

And in the last few weeks, I think there's been about 25-30 tornadoes happening primarily in red states. Has he spoken about this at all? 

 

 

I've been reading about the Wikileaks CIA hacking dump and in one article a cyber expert thinks that it is more likely that a "foreign power", not a conscience-stricken CIA employee sent the documents to Wikileaks. 

This makes it even more urgent that a full independent investigation of Russian hacking be done.

[MissLlanviewPA]

 

Oh, there's definitely competition for 2018 against Hogan (it's next year). We have several County Executives who would be good. (For the record, that's as lame as it sounds--it's actually a big position here in MD for our counties. I will say that I'd like to see Congressman John Sarbanes--son of our former Senator Paul Sarbanes--run for higher office here someday.)

Edited March 8, 2017 by MissLlanviewPA

[NothinButAttitude]

 

Nope. How could he when he's been stuck on Schwarzenegger and the Celebrity Apprentice?

[marceline]

Apparently Snatchgrabber thinks the Congressional opposition to that garbage fire of a health care bill is being caused by....you guessed it....Barack Obama.

 

 

[DramatistDreamer]

 

Geez, what is wrong with ole Orange faced boy?? Is Melania calling out Barack's name in her sleep? Why is this fool so obsessed??!

[marceline]

 

They touch on that later in the thread.

 

 

[Wales2004]

Russia has deployed a banned missile:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/us-general-russia-deployed-banned-missile-45992484

 

"Selva said the missile's deployment presents what he called a "risk to most of our facilities in Europe" and that the move is a deliberate effort by Russia to pose a threat to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization."

 

Has anybody heard what his tough stance on Russia is yet? It kind of seems as if they can do whatever they want while Trump plays finger-pointing games with the media.

[JaneAusten]

I don't know. I take these Rogue accounts with a grain of salt. But this sounds like something Trump would believe.

 

The majority of the GOP congressional opposition is from the Koch Bros group who think the nu bill is too much like the ACA.