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| Screen Name | Pennsylvanian |
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| Location | , , |
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| Birthday | May 10, 0000 |
| Affiliation | Independent |
| First Login | May 03, 2012 06:36pm |
| Last Login | March 27, 2024 08:40pm |
| Predictions |
Points: 404.1051
Predictions: 300/330 (90.91%)
Points Per: 404.1051/330 (1.22)
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BrentinCO: Love him or hate him, McCarthy was great at raising cash and getting it to candidates.
Which is why McCarthy had the good will within the conference to go 15 marathon ballots. Contrast with Jim Jordan's empty threats and feigned bombast. Here's a guy who likes to make a living tossing Molotov cocktails through open windows and little else and thinks that's enough to render him a power-dealing big shot. But, armed with the fact that a veritable man-child such as Matt Gaetz can spike the ball over the fence and cause all this just for the hell of it, who can blame him?
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Can't stand this guy. If he wants to get his a** kicked by an entrenched Democratic incumbent, he should do it in the state he *actually* lives in. I'm sure Chris Murphy'd be happy to oblige.
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Turns out Rodgers is good for businesses in Green Bay even when he ruptures his Achilles as a Jet. Go figure.
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| I:8766 | Pennsylvanian ( 404.11 points)
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| September 02, 2023 07:13am |
Rest easy, Jimmy. It's five o'clock somewhere.
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First and foremost, I do sincerely hope McConnell is ok, despite these incidents, though they certainly do not signal whole wellness. But the pause and disconcerted gaze here summed up my thoughts about the question posed quite well.
I can appreciate the political consideration in any event of resignation, though such is the hazard of seeking re-election to a six-year term (or voting for an incumbent in such a position) as a then near-octogenarian.
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While some (probably a minority) have grown to be reasonably well-adjusted as a member of a royal family, such an upbringing is hardly particularly corrective for those who are not so inclined.
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BrentinCO: If Byrd were still alive and running for re-election, do you think his pork could save this for Democrats? I don't.
Probably not, if I'm in any way a representative sample -- the out-of-staters going for this type of stuff won't be of much help votes-wise. But to more seriously engage with the question you posed, I think the narrative would be some variation on the theme we've already seen in races -- sure, there's pork, but everyone with a (D) next to their name is complicit in policy that eliminates coal jobs and renders the pork useless to those who can't afford to use it because of [insert anti-Biden talking point here]. Given the persistence of endemic poverty in WV (coupled with the present distaste for debilitatingly elderly officeholders who aren't named Trump), I suspect that narrative would be met receptively in many quarters.
I say none of this, by the way, to speak derisively of WV. I have friends there, enjoy visiting, and have generally found it to be one of the most naturally beautiful states in the country.
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BrentinCO: Sarcasm is a normal and playful part of any human relationship. For a comedian it almost seems like a disability.
The Michael Richards apology on Letterman comes to mind, though perhaps the choice of forum was not a sound one in light of the reaction it got.
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P. H. Nargeolet had more experience diving on Titanic than anyone, and spent more time with the ship than the captain himself in her short life. That he saw it fit to do so in a submersible of such apparently controversial construction is a tragic, and stark, reminder that humanity -- irrespective of experience or feats of technology or engineering -- is and remains at the mercy of its environment. This is the lesson of Titanic and now, tragically, of Titan, and it is as pointed and poignant now as it ever was.
May the five crew, and the (rising) number of souls lost in the Mediterranean disaster, rest in peace.
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Interesting, if (very) obscure, tidbit. At the same time Ed Muskie was a first-year law student at Cornell, Bill Rogers, Muskie's future predecessor as U.S. Secretary of State, was in his third and final year at Cornell Law. [Link] So, at a fairly small, then regional and very isolated law school in rural upstate New York, are two future Secretaries of State for the 1936-37 academic year. And I'd hazard a guess that neither knew (or perhaps even knew of) the other, though apparently Sol Linowitz was a mutual friend during that time (at least per Paul Sarbanes). [Link]
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Good, maybe they can launch themselves into space afterwards.
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RP: So I guess instead of the "Yang Gang" we have the "Ramaswamy Tsunami"?
Underrated comment re: an overhyped candidate. Just like Yang -- who, I might add, speaks with *great* authority on the subject of winning elections (even primaries).
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BrentinCO: Innamorato breaks the curse by winning.
Well, no reason to believe she won't prevail in November, but she technically hasn't done so yet here. Joe Rockey won't come anywhere close, but he isn't some slouch off the street either (ex-Chief Risk Officer at PNC Financial) and I expect he can pick off a few moderates here or there if he runs intelligently.
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Mitch McConnell: I am looking forward to returning to the Senate on Monday.
He didn't say anything about Tuesday etc.
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Would've been marginally more believable if it wasn't 65 degrees in Rome this time of the year. Don't care how old you are -- 65 degrees is too hot for a puffer.
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Not a vegeterian myself, but stories like this never cease to bring a strange satisfaction to me, as does (in this particular case) the fact that they were spotted near a Sealy mattress store.
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Happy birthday to an exemplary member. Enjoy.
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BrentinCO: No I think he's in for the long haul. He won't resign, he'll be removed in some way. The wheels of justice move slowly, but eventually will catch up to him.
He's gonna get done in by financial misdeeds in his personal and political lives.
Tend to agree. If the country has learned anything about George Santos over the past few weeks, it is that this man is without shame. After all that he's done (or hasn't done, but says he has) in his life, I've a tough time believing he'd feel shame now. Not impossible, but unlikely.
Very odd individual, he is. That much is readily verifiable.
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RP: McCarthy says he has the votes now.
I'll believe it when I see it. This guy has bluffed and puffed his way through the last 72 hours in the utter desperation of his blind ambition, and, assuming he does get it, I think he'll find that getting the job will have been his easiest task. He'll wake up one morning not too long from now and realize that he systematically dismantled his speakership before it even began by kowtowing to these lunatics. And then he'll wonder why the hell he ever wanted the job so desperately in the first place.
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If it gets to be this much of a pain in the a** to get the job, I'm not sure I'd want it at all. This circus portends nonstop BS shenanigans for at least the next two years, and I maintain that leading the House Republican Conference (and leading said Republican-controlled House as Speaker) is one of the worst jobs in America. That McCarthy wants it so desperately has me questioning the man's sanity, to be honest.
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| I:8766 | Pennsylvanian ( 404.11 points)
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| December 21, 2022 06:05pm |
Rest in peace, to a great player and an even greater individual.
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| I:8766 | Pennsylvanian ( 404.11 points)
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| November 09, 2022 08:19pm |
I know more about him than anybody other than perhaps his wife, who is really running his campaign.
Imagine how this man must privately stew in his own paranoia. It's Nixonian.
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RP: How did this not work?
If the ask was simply for divine intercession more broadly, far be it for me to say that it didn't...
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BrentinCO: I wonder if Oz will move out of his in-laws house and back to NJ.
For all of the talk about Fetterman's debate performance, I maintain he got a pretty good one in when he suggested to Oz, "Why don't you pretend you live in Vermont instead of Pennsylvania and run against Bernie Sanders" in response to Oz pushing the Sanders attack. One of the crucial factors here is just how much of an unlikeable, carpetbagging jack*** this guy really is. If he does head for the exit, it won't be a minute too soon.
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Takes a certain amount of audacious self-delusion, I think, to consider oneself a potential POTUS in any case.
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