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In order to ram through their horrendous and destructive agenda, the Fascist Party has destroyed the idea of normal order in the House and Senate, and turned it into a partisan cesspool.
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When we get control back, if we DON'T follow their methods--if we reinstate normal order, the Senate filibuster, real committee hearings, Congressional oversight, and so on--they'll use those rules to obstruct and to prevent us from repairing the damage they've caused.
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A no-win scenario. By repairing damaged institutions, we hand them the tools to prevent repair of anything else. Only by perpetuating the death of normalcy can we hope to ram through needed reforms--which will allow them to destroy it all again when the pendulum swings back.
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I've been thinking of all the Republican president there have been in my lifetime. I was born in 1956. The first Republican president I knew was Eisenhower. He was the last reasonable Republican president.
He was the last -legitimate- Republican president.
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He was the last -legitimate- Republican president.
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Ike was a moderate and a genuine hero. He warned us against the military industrial complex. He didn't suck.
Richard Nixon was a crook, and he was elected in 1968 by conspiring with a foreign government to blow up peace talks to make Democrats look bad.
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Richard Nixon was a crook, and he was elected in 1968 by conspiring with a foreign government to blow up peace talks to make Democrats look bad.
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Nixon was reelected in 1972 by hiring a team of dirty tricks operators (they called what they did "rat fucking"), which included bugging the Democratic Headquarters in the Watergate Hotel.
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