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Charles Valderrama
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| Posted: 09 May 2018 at 4:11pm | IP Logged | 1
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Too much focus is on Trump dismantling Obama's legacy. Other than "The Wall" most policy changes would be the same under an alternative Republican President.
******* Besides going after Obamacare, Trump rolled back Obama-era policies that aimed to curb climate change and limit environmental pollution, withdrew the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, lifted restrictions that were placed on Wall Street after the financial crisis & repealed an Obama-era regulation that would've made it harder for people with mental illness to buy a gun.
I believe another Republican President might've attempted to improve upon some of those issues, not just eliminate them.
-C!
Edited by Charles Valderrama on 09 May 2018 at 4:12pm
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Rebecca Jansen
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| Posted: 09 May 2018 at 5:10pm | IP Logged | 2
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"Also, Canada benefits from increased oil prices, not only the oil and gas producing Provinces but the ones that rely on transfer payments from them."
Dirty end of the stick on the west coast... highest gas prices in N. America and Alberta threatening all kinds of punishments for any trouble about the bitumen pipeline to Asian markets.
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Just heard two of the Korean-Americans freed live in Asia and conceivably might return to their homes there and not the U.S.
Edited by Rebecca Jansen on 09 May 2018 at 5:10pm
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Michael Sommerville
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| Posted: 10 May 2018 at 1:31am | IP Logged | 3
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Why the highest gas prices in North America? Possibly because there are at least 3 taxes on fuel at the pumps? About $0.50/ltr is tax approx. $1.90 a gallon.
Sorry for hijacking the thread.
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Joe Zhang
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| Posted: 10 May 2018 at 2:36am | IP Logged | 4
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I wish Obama would run again as an independent.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 10 May 2018 at 5:31am | IP Logged | 5
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It doesn't work that way. The 22nd Amendment addresses individuals, not party affiliations.
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Richard Stevens
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| Posted: 10 May 2018 at 6:29am | IP Logged | 6
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OK, then Michelle Obama.
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Jason Czeskleba
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| Posted: 10 May 2018 at 12:01pm | IP Logged | 7
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Michael Sommerville wrote:
| Many comments, from different view points about the Iran deal, seem to concede that is flawed. The big disagreement, from what I can tell, is throw it out and start from scratch or try to modify it. |
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The deal is "flawed" only in the sense that any deal requires concessions from both sides and neither side gets exactly what they want. The notion that a "better" deal could have been negotiated was never a realistic one. The notion that a new, better deal can now be negotiated is also not a realistic one, since Iran has little incentive to negotiate at this point, particularly since the USA now has a reputation of negotiating in bad faith and not honoring its commitments.
The people who supported abandoning this deal were motivated either by ignorance/stupidity or a desire to create a pretext for eventual war with Iran. Netanyahu and Bolton are in the latter category, Trump is probably in the former.
Edited by Jason Czeskleba on 10 May 2018 at 12:02pm
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Rebecca Jansen
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| Posted: 10 May 2018 at 12:12pm | IP Logged | 8
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We do have a carbon tax on fossil fuels to help offset the destruction and pollution from it supposedly, don't know what they will do with northern Alberta which is pretty toxic and carcinogenic in vast parts though mining and logging did a lot as well (love the flock of ducks landing on a tailings pond story, poff, all gone), but then the coal thing dismantles mountain ranges. Big oil makes big profits for someone but the consumer seems to pay whatever asked. Do petrochemical companies pay to restore the rivers or clear the oceans of the micro-beads of plastic now showing up in our food? On two dimensional pieces of paper it all works out I'm sure... "enjoy everyone, have a good time, these are the very best paper towers."
Term limits on U.S. presidents were created out of sheer hate for FDR being elected four times... like the celibacy of Catholic priests it's something made up a long time after any founding father(s). If you get a good one you just have to get rid of them so a Nixon, Bob Dole, Bush Jr., Hillary or Trump can have their entitled big chance. People use founding fathers and Reagan like some Christians selectively quote an abridged edited Jesus I guess.
I thought Bill Bradley for the Democrats was a 'best and brightest', which is going back a little while, but Paul Simon died... for the Republicans there's John Kasich who wilted in the presence of absolutist personalities Trump and Cruz. Unfortunately a centrist seems to have no chance without various extreme fanatic lobby types backing them. Maybe a third centrist party for all the otherwise apathetic non-voters or reluctant voters finally? It's hard to get people enthusiastic and doing things for compromise and just doing the job instead of a grand vision, making history, revolution and celebrity type jazz.
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Peter Martin
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From what I've seen of Kasich in interviews, he seems well-rounded and sensible. There was a time when that would have been an advantage when competing for votes.
As far as Iran, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is the only concrete thing in place to limit Iran's nuclear ambitions and the IAEA inspectors say Iran has been complying with the deal. Trump withdrawing from the deal clearly undermines it, which would might be OK if there was a alternative proposal from Trump. But there isn't. Just a claim that the deal is rotten. Not only is the whole deal at risk now, but it puts a stress on the ties between the US and all its major allies.
Edited by Peter Martin on 10 May 2018 at 12:45pm
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Brian Miller
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| Posted: 11 May 2018 at 2:43pm | IP Logged | 10
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But goddammit guys, Trump is an artist of the deal! He’s a deal artist!!
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Michael Roberts
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| Posted: 11 May 2018 at 9:37pm | IP Logged | 11
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From what I've seen of Kasich in interviews, he seems well-rounded and sensible.
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Except when it comes to abortion policy.
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Charles Valderrama
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| Posted: 17 May 2018 at 1:08pm | IP Logged | 12
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Today marks one year into Bob Mueller’s Russia probe...
Meanwhile, Trump's buddy Rudy Giuliani says the Special Counsel won’t indict a sitting president. He's doing exactly what Trump wants - 'muddying the waters' so much that it would seem, to enough people, that the Mueller investigation is a mess.
-C!
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