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But If the Republicans say

NCD — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 15:17:01 +0000

But If the Republicans say they will bring back morning in America, arrest the illegals, seal the border, stop abortions, keep us safe by fighting them there, cut taxes, balance the budget, make the Bible a mandatory science book, really protect marriage and ...allow you to carry your gun anywhere in Murrica without a background check, wouldn't you just consider voting for them?

I doubt the United States

Aaron Carine — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 14:50:08 +0000

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I doubt the United States will be any more warlike with a Republican president than it has been with Obama or will be with Clinton. One reason why it is likely I won't vote in the next presidential election.

Maybe NBC will consider him

trkingmomoe — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 22:58:43 +0000

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Maybe NBC will consider him to replace Chuck Todd.next year.

I think you can bet against

A Guy Called LULU — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 21:33:08 +0000

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I think you could bet against Kristol every time he offers an opinion and you would win almost every time. In this case I think he was probably correct in the following quote.
“I think Ron Paul told the truth,” Kristol told The Daily Beast. “And the truth is that his son had a bad election season and the Republicans who were elected are various species of hawks and not Rand Paul-like doves.”
While there may be some exceptions, I believe that Kristol was absolutely correct that the Republicans newly elected are, by and large, various species of Hawk. Without much direct evidence yet, I would give odds that there will be few or zero new Rs that will be vociferous doves and if any are they are extremely unlikely to have any significant impact on policy. Any newly elected dove would be the renegade in his party.
I don't think the article was about the newly elected making the Republican party more hawkish but rather about the fact that the takeover accomplished by the election will give the already hawkish party much more power to implement their fun and [war] games in some places and to better block constructive actions towards peace in other instances such as the current administration's attempt to come to an agreement on nuclear development by Iran. They already had a lot of help from various Democrat hawks and I would expect more Dems to follow along with the new leader's hawkish instincts either thru cowardly political calculation or in the case of some others because of honest belief about how to deal with perceived threats which I personally believe, as relates to most current situations, could only be explained by ignorance and/or stupidity.

McCain "is leaning towards

NCD — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 20:41:40 +0000

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McCain "is leaning towards another Presidential run in 2016".

35 Years in office and he still hasn't sealed the border, shipped enough arms somewhere or anywhere to "solve" international issues, and we need one more surge to win the war.

I am skeptical about whether

artappraiser — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 17:15:35 +0000

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I am skeptical about whether Bill Kristol is right here, as he has vested interest in tooting the neo-conservative horn, not to mention that he has shown himself in the past as not having too many political smarts:

As Ron Paul, the isolationist father of Sen. Rand Paul, tweeted Tuesday evening: “Republican control of the Senate = expanded neocon wars in Syria and Iraq. Boots on the ground are coming!” William Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard, was in rare agreement with the elder Paul. “I think Ron Paul told the truth,” Kristol told The Daily Beast. “And the truth is that his son had a bad election season and the Republicans who were elected are various species of hawks and not Rand Paul-like doves.”

While it's true that a lot of power about what happens along these lines is vested in those who have the related committee assignments, if the GOP renegades want to cause trouble about something, they have already shown they know how to do that and then some. And the McCain types (and Rockefeller Republican types as well) have not shown in the past that they are good at handling the renegades, not at all, they've actually shown incompetence at it along the lines of: Mitt Romney's run for president, etc.

Recent reports say the United

A Guy Called LULU — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 16:25:28 +0000

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Recent reports say the United States would be willing to allow Iran to keep thousands of its centrifuges in place, if the machines were disconnected and incapable of producing a cascade of enriched nuclear fuel.

Nunes said he thinks the deal being contemplated could lead to disaster.

“Shouldn’t the Congress be concerned about the Iranians getting a nuclear weapon,” he said. “They are going to be close to getting a nuclear weapon because of this deal, this should matter to the American people.”