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"I trust Bernie Sanders with my tax dollars like I trust a North Korean chef with my Labrador!"
—Mike Huckabee live-tweeting the Dem debate

Not as scary as Trump and Carson, but still up there. I can't figure if he's sincerely running or just promoting his show/book brand. At least with Bernie you know your tax dollars wouldn't be going straight to defense and rich people's tax cuts.

I've heard an interesting concept that Fox wants the Dems to win next year's election so they'll have 4 or 8 more years of bitching about the government.

Date: 2015-10-15 02:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thewayne.livejournal.com
I think he's going to have a long wait. If it weren't for gerrymandering, the RNC would get squashed like a bug in a lot of states, and that's going to be a high priority if a Dem gets elected POTUS and the Congress also flips to Dem control.

Date: 2015-10-15 04:08 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] silveradept
Quite. The question will be whether Dems can win enough, even in the gerrymandered areas, to get that kind of control. What I'd like to see them do after that is pass laws saying that Congress is not allowed to touch Congressional Districts and that responsibility lies with the nonpartisans in the Census Office.

Date: 2015-10-15 11:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thewayne.livejournal.com
While the Census Bureau would be a reasonable place to house a districting commission, you have to do something to lock the funding, otherwise you can have the classic technique of starving the budget of the bureau or commission when a party gets in that wants to change things.

It's quite a dance that needs to be done.

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