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At least 14 Supreme Court justices have been confirmed during election years
Updated by Timothy B. Lee on February 13, 2016, 10:20 p.m. ET

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At least 14 Supreme Court justices have been confirmed during election years
Updated by Timothy B. Lee on February 13, 2016, 10:20 p.m. ET

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Yeah, like the "caliber" of Obama's appointees is a consideration of this Republican party. It is to laugh.

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So, the Congress COULD confirm an Obama selection, but we all know they won't. They'd sooner die.

Michigan would privatize mental health funding, services under Snyder's proposed budget

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Talking Points Memo ‏@TPM 6m6 minutes ago
Ben Carson peddles Stalin quote that http://bit.ly/20T7oz6 rated false http://bit.ly/20T7pDc

A big lie (German: Große Lüge) is a propaganda technique. The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his 1925 book Mein Kampf, about the use of a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously."

Peter Beinart ‏@PeterBeinart 17m17 minutes ago
except for that biggest terrorist attack in American history thing, George W Bush really did "keep us safe" #GOPDebate

I've heard that before about President Bush. It's something some conservatives tell themselves. But it's got to stop. Personally, I don't blame Bush or his administration for failing to prevent the September 11 terrorist attacks. I'd never say that it's their fault all those people died. Still, it happened on their watch. And there are things they could have done better to prevent it. So while their failures don't, in my judgment, justify anger at that aspect of their leadership, it's just bizarre to affirmatively argue that Bush's defining legacy was that he kept us safe.

Is there any bigger caveat to that statement than 9/11?

What people mean when they say he kept is safe seems to be that there wasn't another terrorist attack like 9/11. By that standard, he kept us no safer than Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, or Barack Obama. And even leaving out 9/11, for reasons that are never explained, Bush was president during the anthrax attacks, the Beltway sniper incident, the Los Angeles airport shooting, the Mohammed Reza SUV incident, the Seattle Jewish Federation shooting, and the bungled response to Hurricane Katrina. Again, I don't blame Bush for the victims of those incidents, but to harken back to his tenure as a time when the president kept America safe is ahistorical.

Frank Luntz ‏@FrankLuntz 53m53 minutes ago
For the first time ever, a #GOPDebate audience booed more than they cheered.

This isn't just insane, this is suicidal. This is pathetic.

Poor Frank Luntz, he's a glutton for punishment. He must be feeling very left out.

Fine with me if you're offended by my use of "Christianist", george. By that term, I mean something different from "Christian". To specify, I mean to refer to those who regard other faiths as improper and illegitimate expressions of faith - particularly where there is a political component to this stance. Let's add Muslimists and Hinduists, etc, to this category. Christian dominionism is a blatant manifestation of such a mindset.

The often repeated claim that "America is a Christian nation" is another (where exclusion of other faith communities or relegation of them to some junior status is implied/entailed).

I have no use at all for members of any sect of any faith who speak/think this way and I do think they are quite mad to presume they have some magical insider knowledge of the mind of god

It is simply a fact that America was indeed founded as a largely Christian nation, but one that took firm steps to ensure religious freedom for all.... Perhaps you don't like the facts of our origins and history and wish to suppress any recitation of them.