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The similarity is political jockeying around a Supreme Court nominee. The difference is many senators were putting up resistance because of one individual judge's beliefs, not because of some re-imagined view of American civics and the constitution. As McConnell said "It's about a principal, not a person." If Obama filibustered for any reason, it was because of that particular person. Let's not forget that McConnell made up his mind before he knew who might even be in consideration, before he even considered the possibility of their qualities. He's entered into a losing game, if he backs d

There was word about it years ago. I think it's been in cold storage.

He could only mathematically do it if he won every single remaining delegate. Unless you mean as some sort of contested convention shenanigans. Then I have no idea how it works.

Oh, Black Dots are great. Played a show with those guys a year or so ago.

Scott, or one of the other guys? Small world, my band is setting up a show at that place! Their saison is really good.

I think if we had multiple parties, it would still be Clinton vs Trump right now with Sanders and Cruz nipping at their heels. Clinton DEM party, Trump psycho party, Sanders Socialist Party and Cruz as the traditional GOP figure. I do strongly support your use of the word "guarantor". That's classy.

Cruz plays a more traditional closeted bigotry.

This is another event that is unique to this election year in my experience. I've never seen a candidate drawing this much vitriol. It definitely can make you worry about escalation.

NPR covered all of the Trump products he didn't make, but turned into an infomercial at his victory speech earlier in the week. I'd say the shadiness of his business claims is pretty universally known, but then again I don't watch folks or network news.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/03/10/magazine/25-songs-that-tell-us-where-music-is-going.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmagazine&action=click&contentCollection=magazine&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0#/wilco-one-sunday-morning

The only defense against a child with a gun is a seat belt.

Nothing says freedom like leaving a loaded .44 on the car seat within arm's reach of a 4 year old. God bless America.

Who said that?

I wonder if there's any chance Jeff dropped by Marc's garage for a podcast.

How could anyone get excited about a Cruz win?

Yeah,Bill Maher is pretty bigoted in his atheist way. Which is too bad because his comments on foreign policy and other issues are cutting, insightful and funny.

The part I saw was way less of a train wreck than the last one. I was amazed they all stated that they would back Trump if he ends up the nominee.

I don't even know if what we're seeing is the TEA party any more. I feel like the TEA party had a fairly clear agenda, take the GOP, sprinkle in some LIbertarian rebellion against overspending-Bush-style republicans, and cloak some serious social agendas (abortion, gay rights). Trump.... I don't know what he really believes in, other than hating brown people, and believing that his shoddy businesses are God's gift to capitalism. There's not really any coherence there. Cruz is doing the TEA party thing to me, and it's not really catching on like it's supposed to.

First single is pretty cool. Way more Case vocals than Veirs or lang, but it's also really sparse.

Cruz has intelligence, but no charisma, which makes him unelectable. W Bush had limited intelligence (or at least seemingly) and a certain charisma, he won. Obama has a lot of both.

I think everyone needs to take a breath and contextualize his success. I'm gonna answer fear with faith (and not in god): all of his garbage that is so offensive- which you've listed- is the very reason he will not be elected. In fact it's the death rattle of American republicanism as we know it.

This is getting a little weird. You guys know a party nomination doesn't make you president, right? I agree that the mere possibility of a Trump presidency is upsetting, but given the numbers, our whole country, not just whatever percent of Republicans who caucus, do we really need to paint a doomsday picture? I mean get out and vote, of course, but I think we can leave our pants unsoiled at this point in the game. There are so many normal, reasonable people in our country right now that we're not hearing. They don't get to be on TV. Talk to the people at work, talk to your neighbors.

Yeah, he nailed it on the weird "he tells it like it is" mythology. Trump is proof that if people repeat things enough times they can seem true, even when it's about the biggest liar in a field crawling with them.

Did you guys catch this "Donald Trump won't condemn former Ku Klux Klan leader who endorses hom" story?

Yeah, thanks for sharing that. It's a good one.