The Fed Shutdown Poll and Megathread

[Hansmeister]

Of course, what you conveniently fail to mention the realignment since the Civil War.  Democrats eventually shed the racists when they fought for civil rights, while Republicans swooped in and picked them up.

Pure revisionist bullshit. You know what year the GOP first won a majority in the Southern congressional delegation?  1994. And the first time they won a majority of the southern state legislatures? 2010.

And of course it is the democrats who to this date still argue that blacks are inferior to whites and Shouldnt be held to the same standards.  Or to any standards as well. They completely infantilized the black population of this country. Just look at American cities which have been run by the democrats for generations and tell me that they have been well treated. Their families have been destroyed, their children stuck in schools designed by democrats not to educate the children but to funnel money thru union dues back into the democratic political machine. The late senator Patrick Daniel Moynihan had realized that four decades ago and warned about it to no avail.

In the meantime democrats like to talk about how compassionate they are because they're willing to steal money from group a to buy the loyalty of group b, what a hypocritical bunch they are.

[grumbler]

This thread delivers! 

Hansie in Full Froth(tm) mode is absolutely hilarious.  No parody is possible, because parodies take a position to an absurd extreme, and absurd extreme is where Hams starts, before he moves further into the loonie fringe.

[Neil]

It's certainly more equitable.

Is it really more equitable to have a "fully funded" Medicare program that no doctor is willing to participate in rather than a partially funded insurance program?  Explain that to me.

You can always legislate participation.

[Razgovory]

Of course, what you conveniently fail to mention the realignment since the Civil War.  Democrats eventually shed the racists when they fought for civil rights, while Republicans swooped in and picked them up.

Pure revisionist bullshit.

That's not what Republicans at the time were saying.  They were explicitly saying they were picking up white southerners because Democrats had picked up the mantle of civil rights.

[Hansmeister]

That's not what Republicans at the time were saying.  They were explicitly saying they were picking up white southerners because Democrats had picked up the mantle of civil rights.

Really? They were explicitly saying that?  Quote?

Of course once the civil rights act was passed it was only a matter of time before southerners would abandon the democrats, though it still took 30 years for the GOP to make significant gains. Since support for segregation was the chief reason southerners supported the democrats in the first place its elimination meant that in the long-term other issues would start to dominate. Combine that with the democratic party's decision to remake itself after the '68 fiasco into a party of the left and the only surprising thing about the rise of the GOP in the south is how long it took.

[The Minsky Moment]

Wall street elected Obama, you dumb fuck.

Vintage Hans.  A couple of decent points mixed in with channeling some B.S. NRO talking points before final descent into nonsense.

Anyways Wall Street couldn't elect anything: it's just a couple million feet of Grade B office space and a few condo conversions.

[The Minsky Moment]

And the Republican Party once freed the slaves, busted the trusts and rail barons, and once understood the concept of fiscal conservatism.

What can the Democratic Party claim?

Fought a civil war to defend slavery, dressed in white hoods and lynched blacks, instituted and defended segregation, and topped it off by destroying black families and turning them into helpless wards off the state.

yeah they truly sucked, until the parties switched sides.

[garbon]

And the Republican Party once freed the slaves, busted the trusts and rail barons, and once understood the concept of fiscal conservatism.

What can the Democratic Party claim?

Fought a civil war to defend slavery, dressed in white hoods and lynched blacks, instituted and defended segregation, and topped it off by destroying black families and turning them into helpless wards off the state.

yeah they truly sucked, until the parties switched sides.

And then they both ended up sucking.

[Habbaku]

and absurd extreme is where Hams starts

[Berkut]

We had an extreme ham once. Once of those gigantic Virginia salted hams. It was revolting.

[Admiral Yi]

We had an extreme ham once. Once of those gigantic Virginia salted hams. It was revolting.

How did you slice it?  My understanding is they're supposed to be sliced thin like prosciutto.

[Caliga]

Country ham is extremely salty; unless you really really love salt you should wash it (some people wash it in milk) before cooking.

[KRonn]

Nancy Pelosi doesn't like Ryan's bill either. Says it will kill or otherwise harm millions of senior citizens. Of course it's very doubtful she read the bill, just pulled stats out of the air. I guess we could just pass the bill to find out what's in it, eh Nancy??      

Man, she is a piece of work. I think she needs to get clear on what her talking points are. Can't cut anything - Armageddon will ensue!

[KRonn]

Country ham is extremely salty; unless you really really love sale you should wash it (some people wash it in milk) before cooking.

You guys mean Pork!!  Pass the political pork, will ya!   

[DGuller]

We had an extreme ham once. Once of those gigantic Virginia salted hams. It was revolting.

Speaking of extreme hams, this week I've been tackling a 3 pound can of extra-lean Polish ham.  Mmmmmm....