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  • #751
    Re: 115th Congress. In Bridge, Can Hearts be Trumped? In Spades!

    And he'll get reelected easily.
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    • #752
      Re: 115th Congress. In Bridge, Can Hearts be Trumped? In Spades!

      He must be worried about a possible primary challenge from the right.

      The bad news is, his district is pretty red. Nice gerrymandering.

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      • #753
        Re: 115th Congress. In Bridge, Can Hearts be Trumped? In Spades!

        Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
        He must be worried about a possible primary challenge from the right.

        The bad news is, his district is pretty red. Nice gerrymandering.
        Hopefully internal polling is starting to show with these guys. The polling is good enough now that the money will follow it, so prior to a wave we would be likely to see a lot of retirements to "spend more time with the family." It's doubled when a party is in danger of losing the majority since the leadership will have no chairmanships to offer. I still don't really think it's going to happen between partisanship, clustering, gerrymandering, and voter suppression, but if it's in the cards it won't be a surprise and a lot of these folks will be running from a fair fight faster than a DA with a 1.000 percentage.
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        • #754
          Re: 115th Congress. In Bridge, Can Hearts be Trumped? In Spades!

          The odds of this becoming law are about the same as the NY Jets reaching Super Bowl LII.

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          • #755
            Re: 115th Congress. In Bridge, Can Hearts be Trumped? In Spades!

            Originally posted by joecct View Post
            The odds of this becoming law are about the same as the NY Jets reaching Super Bowl LII.

            https://static.theintercept.com/amp/...orfeiture.html
            That is a weird article. Look at the highlighted names. What is that source?

            Edit: Oh, ferchrissakes...

            Edit Edit: Nope, it's not just a RW Claptrap diary. It's kind of a clearinghouse of everything anti-gov, from pro-left to pro-right. Russian, maybe?

            Anyway, the House vote was good, though "why do they hate Our Brave Boys in (sniff) Blue?"
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            • #756
              Re: 115th Congress. In Bridge, Can Hearts be Trumped? In Spades!

              I find this explanation, in all honesty... completely believable.
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              • #757
                Re: 115th Congress. In Bridge, Can Hearts be Trumped? In Spades!

                Republican Congress conducts experiment: is it possible to lose every Republican incumbency in 2018?

                Republicans straining to find about $1 trillion to finance sweeping tax cuts are homing in on two popular deductions that are woven into the nation’s fiscal fabric — the mortgage interest deduction that millions of homeowners prize and the deduction for state and local taxes popular in Democratic strongholds.
                Oh, do it. Please, please do it.
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                • #758
                  Re: 115th Congress. In Bridge, Can Hearts be Trumped? In Spades!

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                  As pointed out by the Miami New Times, Florida Power and Light (FPL) – a major supplier of electricity to the state – has invested heavily in lobbying state lawmakers to disallow residents from powering their own homes with solar power panels. In fact, thanks to the current laws, it is illegal to do so; you have to connect any solar panels to your local electric grid.
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                  • #759
                    Re: 115th Congress. In Bridge, Can Hearts be Trumped? In Spades!

                    They can run multiple panels in series and get hundreds of volts DC, you get across that and it's possible it will be your last time. What about micro inverters? They take what a panel produces and turns it into 240volts A.C., the same thing coming into most homes from FPL. Solar panels still producing power and energizing the grid,can certainly kill an unsuspecting lineman. For what it's worth grid tied systems shut down when power is out for this reason

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                    • #760
                      Re: 115th Congress. In Bridge, Can Hearts be Trumped? In Spades!

                      Raging homophobic moron declares for Gov in MI.

                      He seems nice.
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                      • #761
                        Re: 115th Congress. In Bridge, Can Hearts be Trumped? In Spades!

                        Yep, and he'll win, too.

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                        • #762
                          Re: 115th Congress. In Bridge, Can Hearts be Trumped? In Spades!

                          Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                          Raging homophobic moron declares for Gov in MI.

                          He seems nice.
                          A line from the article:

                          A similar case is being heard in U.S. District Court. Schuette is fighting an injunction put in place last summer of a law that bars partners of employees in public schools and local governments from receiving domestic partner benefits. The judge in that case said that Schuette’s argument had the “force of a five-week-old, unrefrigerated dead fish.”
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                          • #763
                            Re: 115th Congress. In Bridge, Can Hearts be Trumped? In Spades!

                            Here is an interesting way to look at Senators. Go to this table. (The whole site is quite excellent.) Go to the far right column "Progressive Score vs. State Tilt" and click on the arrow under "%" to sort by it.

                            This gives you an idea of how well a Senator does (or does not) push to the left given the realities of their political landscape. Manchin and Carper, for example, both exert about the same amount of leftward push when normalized against their state's orientation. In their case they are actually overcompensating to the right -- Manchin because he's in fear of his life, Carper I dunno why, but given that it's DE I assume it has to do with corporate bribery.

                            Brown, Franken, and Baldwin really come out looking good on that measure. Feinstein, OTOH, looks like sh-t, which is what I'd expect from Miss Chicken of the Sea (edit: oops, sorry, that was Pelosi).

                            All the Republicans are horrific of course, but McCain comes off looking pretty anodyne probably due to the Brownian motion of his dementia and irascibility. Lee's score is bizarre and I assume it indicates a flaw in the model: by voting against GOP bills he's racking up "liberal" points, but he's voting against them because they're not evil enough, so it's very deceiving. Paul has some of that going on too, though on privacy issues he's at least talked a good game (though IINM he has rarely backed it up with any votes). By that indicator Cory Gardner should be the Republican Lady Gaga, doing more with less for the orcs than any of his peers.

                            Do the same with Members here, against District tilt. Note there are Democrats who actually fall below Republicans. That is extremely bad behavior.
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                            • #764
                              Re: 115th Congress. In Bridge, Can Hearts be Trumped? In Spades!

                              Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                              Here is an interesting way to look at Senators. Go to this table. (The whole site is quite excellent.) Go to the far right column "Progressive Score vs. State Tilt" and click on the arrow under "%" to sort by it.

                              This gives you an idea of how well a Senator does (or does not) push to the left given the realities of their political landscape. Manchin and Carper, for example, both exert about the same amount of leftward push when normalized against their state's orientation. In their case they are actually overcompensating to the right -- Manchin because he's in fear of his life, Carper I dunno why, but given that it's DE I assume it has to do with corporate bribery.

                              Brown, Franken, and Baldwin really come out looking good on that measure. Feinstein, OTOH, looks like sh-t, which is what I'd expect from Miss Chicken of the Sea (edit: oops, sorry, that was Pelosi).

                              All the Republicans are horrific of course, but McCain comes off looking pretty anodyne probably due to the Brownian motion of his dementia and irascibility. Lee's score is bizarre and I assume it indicates a flaw in the model: by voting against GOP bills he's racking up "liberal" points, but he's voting against them because they're not evil enough, so it's very deceiving. Paul has some of that going on too, though on privacy issues he's at least talked a good game (though IINM he has rarely backed it up with any votes). By that indicator Cory Gardner should be the Republican Lady Gaga, doing more with less for the orcs than any of his peers.

                              Do the same with Members here, against District tilt. Note there are Democrats who actually fall below Republicans. That is extremely bad behavior.
                              Unless I'm completely misreading it, I don't like this model. Not at all. It doesn't take into account the reasonableness of the votes. It's not about scoring points, it's about being a responsible legislator. If a supreme court justice is qualified, vote for him or her. If keeping the government open is scored on either side of this stupid metric, it's just the liberal version of the Tea Party: Party before country, at all costs.
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                              He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                              • #765
                                Re: 115th Congress. In Bridge, Can Hearts be Trumped? In Spades!

                                Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                                Unless I'm completely misreading it, I don't like this model. Not at all. It doesn't take into account the reasonableness of the votes. It's not about scoring points, it's about being a responsible legislator. If a supreme court justice is qualified, vote for him or her. If keeping the government open is scored on either side of this stupid metric, it's just the liberal version of the Tea Party: Party before country, at all costs.
                                I don't think all votes are equal. It's not just points. The votes are scored as left or right on various special interest groups' scales. It might help to drill down by the issues. The site is really just the front end to a huge database, so you can figure out a lot of different ways of accessing the data.

                                But yes, at the very highest level it's a measure of fidelity -- not necessarily to party, but to ideology. That's the whole idea.
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