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  • BrianW
    not your average member
    • Nov 2002
    • 28191

    Beyond the Presidential election, the Congress...

    ...stayed Republican in both houses.
    “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”― Mark Twain,

  • Rum_Pirate
    Banned
    • Apr 2007
    • 22881

    #2
    Re: Beyond the Presidential election, the Congress...

    See also http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthre...ace-the-future

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    • seanz
      Resilient?
      • Nov 2006
      • 23662

      #3
      Re: Beyond the Presidential election, the Congress...

      Originally posted by BrianW
      ...stayed Republican in both houses.
      Yup, says a lot.
      We don't know how lucky we are....

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      • David G
        Senior Member
        • Dec 2003
        • 89764

        #4
        Re: Beyond the Presidential election, the Congress...

        The downside - for Republicans - is NOW they have to govern. They have to deliver. They will have no excuses.

        Problem is... I fear... that given control, it's just gonna be Kansas writ large. More bad policies, ideologically driven, and quite damaging. Time will tell.
        David G
        Harbor Woodworks
        https://www.facebook.com/HarborWoodworks/

        "It was a Sunday morning and Goddard gave thanks that there were still places where one could worship in temples not made by human hands." -- L. F. Herreshoff (The Compleat Cruiser)

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        • ccmanuals
          Son of a Guineaman
          • Dec 2001
          • 13318

          #5
          Re: Beyond the Presidential election, the Congress...

          Originally posted by BrianW
          ...stayed Republican in both houses.
          Republican incumbents were voted back which makes me wonder about the claim that the Trump win was a vote for change.
          Tom

          "Leave the gun, take the cannolis"

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          • TomF
            Recalcitrant Heretic
            • Jun 2003
            • 50978

            #6
            Re: Beyond the Presidential election, the Congress...

            Originally posted by David G
            The downside - for Republicans - is NOW they have to govern. They have to deliver. They will have no excuses...
            Exactly. But maybe this is necessary for the addict to "bottom out."
            If I use the word "God," I sure don't mean an old man in the sky who just loves the occasional goat sacrifice. - Anne Lamott

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            • Ted Hoppe
              Irritant, Level 2
              • Nov 2006
              • 21933

              #7
              Re: Beyond the Presidential election, the Congress...

              How can we expect introspective and real change from the Democrats when the Clintons still chair the party? Can the Clintons lead the democrats that bring forth the new leadership and inclusive America?
              Without friends none of this is possible.

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