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Good explanation, I totally

ocean-kat — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 01:59:35 +0000

In reply to Your comment strikes me hard

Good explanation, I totally agree. I didn't post this because I prefer centrist compromises. Most of the time I support the far left policy ideas. Unlike Hal I just don't think the American people are there to support those far left ideas. But there are problems that need some solution and centrist compromises are better than dysfunction where nothing gets done.

Your comment strikes me hard

artappraiser — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 20:03:46 +0000

In reply to Thing is there's a relatively

Apart from the Hastert rule and other idiosyncracies, your comment strikes me hard like this: this country would run so much more smoothly if we didn't have so many districts sending radicals of various persuasions to the House. There really is majority consensus on a lot of things. The problem is the result of gerrymandering, really, intended to make ideological districts. Instead of House Reps actually representing a majority in a relatively integrated geographic area, you end up with flies in the ointment.

You'd still have red vs. blue, and country mouse vs. city mouse, of course, but you wouldn't have so many nut cases bound and determined to stymie day to day governing in preference for some agenda the majority in this country doesn't really agree to. Radical change was meant to be fostered from the ground up, protests and other ways of culture change resulting from freedom of speech, and the courts interpreting challenges to the laws made by Congress. Not by constantly keeping governing from happening because there are so many in Congress that don't represent majority will but have some kind of special agenda. Gerrymandering is the major reason for the constant dysfunction.

Thing is there's a relatively

ocean-kat — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 07:55:30 +0000

In reply to White House advises government agencies to prepare for shutdown as Congress struggles to pass budget ahead of midnight deadline

Thing is there's a relatively easy bipartisan consensus on many of the issues in the house if Ryan would drop the Hastert rule and allow votes on legislation that moderate republicans and moderate democrats could pass. There's a difficult but doable bipartisan consensus in the senate on these same issues. But the moderate republicans keep submitting to a small group of far right republicans mostly because they fear losing in the next primary election.

Frustrated Republicans accuse

artappraiser — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 07:19:03 +0000

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Frustrated Republicans accuse Paul of forcing pointless shutdown

BY JORDAIN CARNEY @ TheHill.com - 02/08/18 11:05 PM EST

onward to wee hours drama @

artappraiser — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 07:17:18 +0000

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onward to wee hours drama @ the House....

Senate Votes to End Federal Shutdown

Budget Bill Moves to House After Paul Holds Up Measure

By THOMAS KAPLAN @ NYTimes.com 34 minutes ago

The government could reopen before the workday begins if the House follows the Senate’s lead and approves a measure to increase spending by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Senator Rand Paul tried to stop the budget deal by holding the Senate floor long enough to shut the government down.