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no_hypocrisy

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4. Depends on the choice of dirty trick.

Reply to Dark n Stormy Knight (Reply #1)

Fri Sep 22, 2017, 08:28 PM

Sep 2017

If the R's have something to blackmail McCain or his family, they'll use it now.

Not to get dark and snarky, but with the cancer, they can't threaten his Senate seat as nobody knows how his treatment's going and he has the sympathy of being a cancer patient.

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ACA repeal is very much alive [View all] Stinky The Clown Sep 2017 OP

I don't even see how we can be so sure about McCain. Maybe he'll do a dramatic, Dark n Stormy Knight Sep 2017 #1

Depends on the choice of dirty trick. no_hypocrisy Sep 2017 #4

I notice the McCain hate is vicious on twitter right now, Dark n Stormy Knight Sep 2017 #7

McCain will not waver now. He deliberately announced this early so as to buck up the Other Three. WinkyDink Sep 2017 #2

I agree nini Sep 2017 #9

The Democrats should all walk in for the vote carrying wooden stakes. WinkyDink Sep 2017 #12

Menendez. Why can't his counsel request an ADJOURNMENT to allow him no_hypocrisy Sep 2017 #3

He did request it and the judge said no Jersey Devil Sep 2017 #10

Our political process has become less predictable (and rational) than a box of bugs. Girard442 Sep 2017 #5

I'm suspicious myself. Too early to declare repeal dead... NT Purveyor Sep 2017 #6

I think it fails this time. But its a long fight mvd Sep 2017 #8

I don't understand the complacency Awsi Dooger Sep 2017 #11