U.S Politics

You are changing the parameters, he was far left, now he is the most liberal on the US political landscape. Two very different things.

Edited by pre Madonna - 12 Feb 2016 at 6:59pm

pre Madonna wrote: You are changing the parameters, he was far left, now he is the most liberal on the US political landscape. Two very different things.

ewerk wrote: pre Madonna wrote: You are changing the parameters, he was far left, now he is the most liberal on the US political landscape. Two very different things. I'm not at all. I'm say how far left he is depends entirely on the political landscape in which he operates. You disagree with that but this is politics and there are no hard and fast rules so I guess we'll agree to disagree.

No it doesn't, by that view, Enda Kenny is far right, as there is no real far right on the Irish political landscape.

ewerk wrote: Well there is the likes of Identity Ireland but I take the point that they are very much on the fringes. Ireland is very much a nation of centrists.

And in the states there are parties like the aforementioned Communist Party, the socialist party and regional leftists like the Vermont progressive/ socialist Alternative in Washington for example. I am probably being a bit pedantic, but there is a ppolitical spectrum, it doesn't change, no matter what the nation.

One of the Judges on the Supreme Court has died and the Republicans are tripping over themselves saying that the next President should be the one to nominate the replacement. Attitude wouldn't be because any Obama nominee would tip the balance of the court to the liberal justices of course

White House has confirmed Obama intends to nominate a new Supreme Court justice. Should be interesting as the person being spoken about by CNN was confirmed only a few years ago by the Senate on a vote of 97-0 to the D.C circuit of the U.S. Court of appeals. Would presumably put the Republicans on the backfoot in that regard.

Edited by Denis Irwin - 14 Feb 2016 at 12:25am

What are the dicks going to do if it's a Clinton nominee.They can hardly block it for 4 years

Just been listening to last night's Republican debate there. It's tremendously entertaining fare altogether, like a real life Jerry Springer show. The bit where Trump royally clamps Bush and Rubio over September 11th and the Iraq War is box office stuff.  

Edited by sid waddell - 15 Feb 2016 at 1:04am

Looks like the entire vocabulary of the Fascist-Left.

It's funny that you never see that scale of abuse when Left-Wingers die.