He's forfeited any standing to question constitutionality of BO's actions. ** -- SixerHoo 02/24/2016 08:59AMThe Soapbox
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Slick Willy in RVA tomorrow. Rally at Hippodrome. VIP party at Paper Moon** -- jackethoo 02/23/2016 7:56PM He's forfeited any standing to question constitutionality of BO's actions. ** -- SixerHoo 02/24/2016 08:59AM Dereliction of duty isn't an impeachable offense ** -- WaxHoo 02/23/2016 9:08PM Of course, just a rant at all the Impeach Obama for Obamacare or whatever -- 81_Hokie 02/24/2016 07:45AM Nope...you get a nice ceremony in The Rose Garden instead. ** -- Tuckahokie 02/24/2016 06:56AM That's different ** -- FfxStationHokie 02/23/2016 8:23PM It's a game. I think now McConnell and others are beating this drum to try -- Seattle .Hoo 02/23/2016 7:25PM How is that really different than Harry Reid not letting countless bills -- Hoodafan 02/23/2016 7:23PM Its the Supreme Court; it's not another defund ACA bill -- 111Balz 02/23/2016 9:32PM THe political price to be paid -- Wahoo Ron 02/23/2016 9:02PM Yeah. Screw the national interest. Party first. -- WaxHoo 02/23/2016 9:19PM Maybe the party's interest and the national interest coincide on this -- Wahoo Ron 02/23/2016 9:31PM How is a gridlocked SCOTUS in the nation's best interest? ** -- SixerHoo 02/24/2016 09:04AM No hearing, no vote, no consideration. ** -- ryno hoo 02/23/2016 7:00PM So you are demanding that Obama be impeached? ** -- Wahoo Ron 02/23/2016 6:59PM No. why do you ask? ** -- 111Balz 02/23/2016 9:33PM So you post under two usernames? 81_Hokie AND 111Balz? ** -- Wahoo Ron 02/23/2016 9:36PM DAMN. yes, great detective work Ron. ** -- 111Balz 02/23/2016 9:40PM Woof White House or big house? ** -- AlexHoo 02/23/2016 6:27PM What is with this Woofing? Am i missing something? ** -- AngusHoo 02/23/2016 8:26PM Oh, it's hilarious. To 12 year old boys. ** -- SixerHoo 02/24/2016 09:20AM Here ya go Angus. Play it low so you don't scare the other mental patients. -- Hoos Operator 02/23/2016 8:43PM You should do the same. Wouldnt want your boys at the NAAWP rally to think -- WahooRQ 02/23/2016 9:22PM What is with your mental patients? Am i missing something? ** -- AngusHoo 02/23/2016 9:16PM Long shot- Anyone have experience with global food safety initiative? -- Cold Hoober Hoo 02/23/2016 3:29PM U.S. judge orders discovery to go forward over Clinton private email system -- WaxHoo 02/23/2016 3:10PM What's going to come of this? -- 757 02/23/2016 5:37PM What's going to come of this ... -- WaxHoo 02/23/2016 9:05PM That may be the likely (and terrible for the nation) outcome. ** -- TpkeHoo 02/23/2016 6:33PM That is certainly not out of the realm of possibility ** -- 81_Hokie 02/23/2016 6:25PM Otoh I can't see her being sloppy enough to have incriminating emails. Otoh -- TpkeHoo 02/23/2016 3:43PM CNN non pay link -- HokieDan95 02/23/2016 3:28PM Taking off from the thread below, there are many signs this will be a good -- AlexHoo 02/23/2016 2:37PM The things you believe....IMO Cruz is the worst candidate left -- 111Balz 02/23/2016 5:25PM Given the liklihood of a GOP congress do you really think Kasich would get -- 81_Hokie 02/23/2016 6:28PM "getting something done" is overrated, when the "something" is bad. ** -- southdenverhoo 02/23/2016 7:09PM Exactly. "effective" IMO has a strong quality of output component ** -- 111Balz 02/23/2016 9:37PM Woof Hillary a dishonest kleptokrat, with a long record of incometence -- AlexHoo 02/23/2016 5:43PM That was almost coherent ** -- 111Balz 02/23/2016 9:35PM Dogg is better than Doggshit, which is what you're proposing. -- WaxHoo 02/23/2016 9:12PM I guess you missed the series of articles that said GOP leaders ... -- HowieT3 02/23/2016 3:18PM Right I am no Cruz supporter but the dog is worse -- AlexHoo 02/23/2016 7:05PM Its a Hobbsian choice. No good choices; only bad and worse -- WaxHoo 02/23/2016 9:14PM There is no way in hell that theocrat Cruz wins this election. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/23/2016 3:17PM The dog trails every Republican in latest polls Wooof -- AlexHoo 02/23/2016 4:48PM Oh and latest polls show Sanders creaming both Trump and Cruz. -- Seattle .Hoo 02/23/2016 7:21PM I do but unfortunately ~55% of Dems don't seem to agree with me. ** -- southdenverhoo 02/23/2016 9:04PM Talk to me in November. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/23/2016 7:09PM Bad timing for you, Romney might have won in a walk. Problem is Cruz and -- southdenverhoo 02/23/2016 3:17PM Romney theory: if he has not endorsed, waiting for brokered convention. ** -- WarmHoo 02/23/2016 5:20PM I thought that was Cheech and Chong. :-) Hey, I wish I was them, and -- Hoodafan 02/23/2016 1:23PM Obviously Mitch can't fix stupid either. His own. I can understand -- Hoodafan 02/23/2016 11:56AM Moderate as in Kagan or Sotemyer? Moderate as in Ginsburg abd Briers? -- Wahoo Ron 02/23/2016 1:50PM I'd prefer moderate as in John Paul Stevens. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/23/2016 3:15PM Well done. My guess is Mitch wants to force Obama to nominate someone like -- WahooRQ 02/23/2016 12:47PM Yeah a raging pinko feminazi on the SC is all that stands between us and -- CharlestonSC 02/23/2016 2:51PM I just mean it would be hilarious and serve the GOP senate turkeys right if -- WahooRQ 02/23/2016 3:36PM Anything for a laugh, I suppose... -- Hokie5150 02/23/2016 5:17PM Actually a lefty SCOTUS judge would be great for the nation's progress. -- WahooRQ 02/23/2016 5:22PM So cute... ** -- Hokie5150 02/23/2016 7:47PM If Obama nominates a ( wink-wink) "moderate" -- Wahoo Ron 02/23/2016 4:41PM Except the Senate victors also matter. To pretend Obama should be able to -- Hoodafan 02/23/2016 1:13PM Elections only matter when Democrats win apparently... ** -- Hokie5150 02/23/2016 1:55PM IIRC there're 4-5 vulnerable GOP seats to 1 Dem seat (Reed's) this go-round -- southdenverhoo 02/23/2016 1:55PM Col could flip ** -- AlexHoo 02/23/2016 2:17PM Don't sleep on NC either -- NJHoo 02/23/2016 3:39PM About 8-9th most likely IMO. Bennet won in a very bad mid-term and he -- southdenverhoo 02/23/2016 2:49PM Meant "very bad mid-term cycle for Dems" ** -- southdenverhoo 02/23/2016 3:09PM Hillary gives us Justice Nina Pillard. :) -- WahooRQ 02/23/2016 2:14PM Has there been any SC justice that was denied conformation prior to getting -- JohnHoo2 02/23/2016 2:14PM Does it count as "not getting confirmed" when you're never voted on? -- southdenverhoo 02/23/2016 3:07PM Here's where a recess appointment could work out well. Take a "moderate" -- TpkeHoo 02/23/2016 4:06PM Bork quit being a judge and Miers, well, let's just say she never was one! -- WahooRQ 02/23/2016 3:45PM Nominating Miers w/instant cries of her qualifications paved road for Alito -- TpkeHoo 02/23/2016 8:39PM They had a Senate majority. Hard to see how it helped Alito. -- WahooRQ 02/23/2016 9:06PM Cloture? Kind of hard to deny the up/down vote because unlike Miers he was -- TpkeHoo 02/23/2016 9:30PM Many of my lefty brothers underestimated W's intelligence or at least -- southdenverhoo 02/23/2016 9:01PM I believe the word you're looking for is misunderestimated! -- VAGentleman05 02/24/2016 12:28AM Monkeys can be crafty at times, huh? ** -- Wahoo Ron 02/23/2016 9:33PM Was Kagan every a judge? ** -- Wahoo Ron 02/23/2016 4:50PM No but no one questioned her creds. She was a highly regarded Solicitor -- WahooRQ 02/23/2016 5:08PM I'm interested to see if this is a hard line or just a negotiating ploy ** -- Sabremetrician 02/23/2016 12:52PM Hard line. GOP will refuse to meet with any nominee. -- DanTheFan 02/23/2016 2:55PM If that's what they do, Obama should just recess appoint Stephen Reinhardt. ** -- WahooRQ 02/23/2016 3:48PM My guess is it just clumsy negotiation. But it might work to some extent. ** -- HoosWillWin 02/23/2016 1:19PM GOP hasn't been about negotiation in a long time ** -- sss 02/23/2016 1:00PM Im often left SMH and wondering how some of these folks have climbed as -- TpkeHoo 02/23/2016 12:37PM You know McConnell will have no obligation to consider any HRC nominee ** -- WaxHoo 02/23/2016 12:32PM That's the implication. Of course, he might not be majority leader then. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/23/2016 12:40PM If I could vote I would upvote this post. Well said ** -- 111Balz 02/23/2016 12:29PM I thought you never voted. Hillary. :-) ** -- Hoodafan 02/23/2016 1:07PM I don't. But if COULD I WOULD cast my first one for your post! -- 111Balz 02/23/2016 1:11PM Thanks, I was starting to worry! And none of us can vote right now. ** -- Hoodafan 02/23/2016 1:14PM Someone is somehow. I've gotten some down votes in the last 24 hours. ** -- SixerHoo 02/23/2016 1:22PM Super delegates? I know I can't vote on this board. ** -- Hoodafan 02/23/2016 1:24PM By doing this the qualifications of an individual nominee become irrelevant -- Sabremetrician 02/23/2016 12:17PM Qualifications haven't mattered for some time nowit's all about the -- Hokie5150 02/23/2016 1:06PM That does seem to be the only semi-logical reasoning for this, to -- Hoodafan 02/23/2016 1:05PM Waiting for a nominee would cede control of the narrative to BO -- Sabremetrician 02/23/2016 1:32PM The nomiee will still be there after the elections -- Wahoo Ron 02/23/2016 2:20PM Karma's a bitch: Pres/VP/Reid all on record supporting delay or filibuster ** -- Sabremetrician 02/23/2016 2:36PM Agreed. I'm not sure what he thinks he will gain by this. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/23/2016 12:10PM What does the turnout/enthusiasm problem mean for the Dems in Nov? -- ArtFonzarelli 02/23/2016 09:33AM 7/10 of all Republicans are motivated to come out to vote against your -- Shenhoo 02/23/2016 2:35PM Mitch McConnell is doing his part for the Dems. -- DanTheFan 02/23/2016 12:15PM Thats an easy question -- Wahoo Ron 02/23/2016 10:51AM Its a problem, maybe caused by the fact that everybody knows who the winner -- southdenverhoo 02/23/2016 10:30AM Trump on the ballot will energize lots of folks & not just to support him ** -- icehokie 02/23/2016 10:19AM D's probably know Hillary is a lock ** -- HokieDan95 02/23/2016 10:12AM Honest question - what satisfaction do you get from this act? ** -- WahooRQ 02/23/2016 09:57AM Maybe satisfaction of knowing God is revealing Great Truth to the masses ** -- icehokie 02/23/2016 10:04AM This is troll incognito handle number 10 or so for the same poster. -- WahooRQ 02/23/2016 10:07AM Oh, OK. BTW, noticed you don't have those vote totals & ranking under your -- icehokie 02/23/2016 10:13AM Probably by having your every post downvoted by the right wing -- WahooRQ 02/23/2016 10:19AM I think you guys are totally missing the point. It's not about ideology -- Hoodafan 02/23/2016 11:42AM Consistent with my komrade below, you should know by now that if I don't -- WahooRQ 02/23/2016 12:40PM Well then I wish all those righties would stop down voting me! Me thinks -- Hoodafan 02/23/2016 12:58PM This, too, would be a +1 were it not the disenfranchisement! ** -- Hokie5150 02/23/2016 3:08PM I have never used the voting buttons here or anywhere else to the best -- 111Balz 02/23/2016 12:32PM Yes, really seems out of place in a political message board. ** -- seanbryan 02/23/2016 12:35PM Well, you certainly know I'll tell you. :-) -- Hoodafan 02/23/2016 12:34PM Aned lord knows I am quite able at that as well, and yes -- 111Balz 02/23/2016 12:37PM Good post. ** -- Hokie5150 02/23/2016 12:18PM Are we talking about the same Tommy K? Fully 3/4 of his posts are -- VAGentleman05 02/23/2016 12:15PM I guess you conveniently missed all the robo insults that surely follow his -- Hoodafan 02/23/2016 12:44PM Oh you mean those posts that end "liberalism is a mental disorder"? ** -- 111Balz 02/23/2016 1:38PM You should try to read for understanding. -- Hoodafan 02/23/2016 2:07PM I was commenting on your posts about "robo insults". -- 111Balz 02/23/2016 5:09PM Good point. It's easier to shoot the messenger than actually address -- Hokie5150 02/23/2016 1:11PM And I get thinking it's not worth the effort if you've tried before. But -- Hoodafan 02/23/2016 1:19PM Yes, in his case, there's no other way to explain it. ** -- seanbryan 02/23/2016 12:32PM You both are running a tight 1-2 for most posts on this stupid assed board ** -- TpkeHoo 02/23/2016 10:23AM That's true. I don't watch reality TV, NASCAR, or cable news so I get -- WahooRQ 02/23/2016 11:08AM It is quite enlightening to see how your bias colors your view of this -- Hokie5150 02/23/2016 12:00PM No, Ice nailed it pretty good when he mentioned the UWS syndrome that Will -- seanbryan 02/23/2016 12:19PM Your incessant vapidity only serves to prove my point. -- WahooRQ 02/23/2016 12:10PM You just don't see that I'm aping your "style"...such as it is. -- Hokie5150 02/23/2016 12:15PM Fail. -- WahooRQ 02/23/2016 5:27PM You're just a leftwiing version of Ted Cruz but with half his gray matter ** -- Wahoo Ron 02/23/2016 11:19PM Post to 5150 was a joke -- but you're like a creepier and less intelligent -- WahooRQ 02/24/2016 07:46AM I still learn things from Boca, SDH, Seattle -- TpkeHoo 02/23/2016 11:20AM I would up vote this if I wasn't so suppressed! ** -- Hoodafan 02/23/2016 11:46AM I've had 160 posts here in 5 yrs. Assume 'both' means him & Balz. ** -- icehokie 02/23/2016 10:38AM I don't know the poster but the post itself doesn't seem objectionable -- TpkeHoo 02/23/2016 10:10AM Sit on it ** -- Stimp 02/23/2016 09:53AM I've accepted that Trump is winning the nomination -- Fuzzy Dunlop 02/23/2016 1:41PM If you compare them apples to apples (and I cannot believe I am saying -- Exhoolate 02/23/2016 08:28AM Experience does not equal competence. -- AlexHoo 02/23/2016 08:59AM Other than Bloomberg, who can win as 3rd party vs Clinton and Trump? ** -- JohnHoo2 02/23/2016 08:58AM If the voters had an ounce of sense, a houseplant would be able to win -- Hokie5150 02/23/2016 10:45AM Bloomberg can't win. -- Stimp 02/23/2016 10:24AM Not sure he could even get on all the ballots in time ** -- hokeyhokie 02/23/2016 10:29AM I'm not sure he can win a single state ** -- TpkeHoo 02/23/2016 10:27AM Probably no one else could pull it together -- DanTheFan 02/23/2016 10:20AM Tangent, what meddling by McAuliffe are you talking about? I'll admit -- Hoodafan 02/23/2016 08:43AM The most recent state hand gun reciprocity issue was attributed -- Exhoolate 02/23/2016 09:03AM Thanks. I totally misunderstood your point and thought you were equating -- Hoodafan 02/23/2016 09:11AM Go wash now! ** -- Shenhoo 02/23/2016 08:35AM 😖 ** -- Exhoolate 02/23/2016 10:37AM Thanks ** -- Quaker 02/23/2016 08:16AM Scanning the RCP recent polls, Trump is winning every state -- Shenhoo 02/23/2016 08:13AM Don Vincenzo would eat him for breakfast. -- WahooRQ 02/23/2016 08:52AM Hmm. What's Hillary's tell? Lips moving? ** -- TpkeHoo 02/23/2016 08:40AM You're going to have her 8 years in the WH to see what it is. ** -- HowieT3 02/23/2016 08:54AM Cool. Maybe she can keep barking like a dog ** -- TpkeHoo 02/23/2016 08:55AM The nomination or the general? I'll admit there is a good chance -- Hoodafan 02/23/2016 07:53AM I wouldn't go that far -- Wahoo Ron 02/23/2016 12:41AM By that metric my 4 year old gets an "A+ for effort" at dinner and bedtime. -- WahooRQ 02/23/2016 08:25AM Do you honestly see a difference in cooperation among -- TpkeHoo 02/23/2016 08:54AM Yes. Because I was alive and conscious when they had majorities and Bush -- WahooRQ 02/23/2016 09:03AM Come on Tpke, can't you see Obama has been dying to improve OCare from -- Hoodafan 02/23/2016 09:02AM Don't worry, the improvement (single-payer) will be here semi-soon. ** -- HowieT3 02/23/2016 09:06AM Bernie being John the Baptist to Elizabeth Warren's Jesus. ** -- southdenverhoo 02/23/2016 09:52AM If you were clued into reality you would know ObamaCare WAS a compromise. -- WahooRQ 02/23/2016 09:05AM LOL! Hillary says "woof, woof, woof." ** -- Hoodafan 02/23/2016 09:17AM Yes a compromise between the hard left and radical left -- AlexHoo 02/23/2016 09:15AM In the end they did NOT push our country into financial -- 111Balz 02/23/2016 07:23AM The mean ol' GOP did stop Obama from lowering the Oceans ** -- Tuckahokie 02/23/2016 08:40AM I see Ms. Balzerman-Schultz is spinning in full force this morning. ** -- Hoodafan 02/23/2016 07:55AM Perhaps you should research the difference between facts and spin. -- SixerHoo 02/23/2016 08:36AM "Completely stop progress towards alternative energy sources". -- Hoodafan 02/23/2016 08:52AM Yes. Yes I can cite an example of a GOP proposal that would block people -- SixerHoo 02/23/2016 12:04PM EVERY SINGLE GOP effort to get rid of the ACA would -- 111Balz 02/23/2016 09:47AM I would hope these jerks wouldn't actually WANT to drive the country into -- WahooRQ 02/23/2016 08:49AM Hah! Mos Eisley Cantina Caucus. Led by Jabba the Brat. ** -- SixerHoo 02/23/2016 11:48AM No... debt is money we have borrowed and spent. There is 20ish Trillion of -- 81_Hokie 02/23/2016 08:51AM It is the shortfall in the present value of funds on hand and the expected -- 74lodge 02/24/2016 6:56PM But it's not a REAL number. As KaHOOnah points out, that only -- BocaHoo91 02/22/2016 11:57PM Someone figured out how to vote? ** -- KCHoo 02/22/2016 11:00PM Someone did. My down vote total has gone up. I wear it as a badge of honor. ** -- SixerHoo 02/23/2016 12:08PM Apparently its VERY important for right wingers to validate each other. -- WahooRQ 02/23/2016 08:54AM Yes and we are so unselfaware it's ridiculous!! right? ** -- HokieDan95 02/23/2016 10:49AM "Self-unaware," and not all of you.....but yes. ** -- SchmHoo 02/23/2016 11:18AM On TSL Will Stewart kicked the soapbox off the site because it changed into -- icehokie 02/23/2016 09:47AM Similar to what the football board was for London's last 1-1 1/2 years. ** -- SchmHoo 02/23/2016 11:20AM I think the greater the number of stars, the greater the distance between -- HowieT3 02/23/2016 09:09AM Umm, OK. I'll take Boca and Tpke's "reality" over most of the starless -- Hoodafan 02/23/2016 09:22AM So you must think 3 star TK is a well grounded moderate. ** -- SixerHoo 02/23/2016 12:21PM This star system here's incomprehensible. It's being 'used' but it's hollow -- seanbryan 02/23/2016 12:29PM Absurd to even have one on a political message board. -- SixerHoo 02/23/2016 1:27PM Boca is a good and thoughtful poster. -- WahooRQ 02/23/2016 10:00AM Whose reality? ** -- TpkeHoo 02/23/2016 09:16AM You're accounting future outlays as debt without assuming any revenues? ** -- KaHOOnah 02/22/2016 10:35PM Collecting revenues must stop, hence every outlay adds to deficit ** -- seanbryan 02/23/2016 09:23AM At least they've got enough courage of their convictions to -- HowieT3 02/23/2016 09:02AM History will treat Obama kindly. No Watergate. No Iran Contra. -- Shenhoo 02/23/2016 08:16AM You don't think Reagan can win a 3rd term easily? ** -- JohnHoo2 02/23/2016 09:44AM Maybe. It could be argued the GWHB was Reagan's third term. -- Shenhoo 02/23/2016 10:00AM I think he'll be near average as his 2nd term is mired by foreign policy -- JohnHoo2 02/23/2016 09:04AM If The New Yorker writes the history books ** -- Tuckahokie 02/23/2016 08:44AM Pulled off healthcare and financial reform and oversaw 6 years of growth -- WahooRQ 02/23/2016 08:28AM ... and took away all their guns. ** -- HowieT3 02/23/2016 08:50AM That's a year and a half old, cap ** -- KaHOOnah 02/22/2016 10:36PM Hoos lose to Miami. Thanks Obama. ** -- Hoos Operator 02/22/2016 9:01PM An informative quote by the article's author..."I was then and still am -- Tuckahokie 02/22/2016 8:59PM Pretty good article. Thanks for posting! ** -- VAGentleman05 02/22/2016 8:26PM Sabrina Erdely, is that you? ** -- Hoos Operator 02/22/2016 9:03PM Hey Sixer i found a politician that set some sort of new low. -- HokieDan95 02/22/2016 6:58PM There was no vacancy on the court in 92. Perhaps it's a distinction -- SixerHoo 02/23/2016 08:27AM Didn't get enough of a rise out of the board the first time around? ** -- VAGentleman05 02/22/2016 10:05PM Yawn. Dog bites man. ** -- WaxHoo 02/22/2016 5:54PM Just keepin the "Hillary lies" crowd up to date. In case Fox doesn't. ** -- SixerHoo 02/22/2016 6:32PM All Politicians lie, some have done it longer and/or with more panache ** -- Tuckahokie 02/23/2016 06:54AM One can hardly out-panache the W Crew's deception about Saddam's WMDs. -- SixerHoo 02/23/2016 08:39AM And some have just done it longer. Not much panache with Hillary. ** -- Hoodafan 02/23/2016 07:58AM So why can't Apple break the phone ID and give images of pages to FBI? ** -- Hoogle.com 02/22/2016 2:47PM Here is the CNET faq on this case. -- JohnHoo2 02/23/2016 12:16AM Well written. I now understand. ( Though my opinion stays the same) ** -- Hoogle.com 02/23/2016 9:02PM Because that means at least one person will crack the code. That person -- WaxHoo 02/22/2016 2:56PM Don't think that is accurate. they are asking apple to -- KCHoo 02/22/2016 4:06PM It would require a new firmware update from Apple that would have Apple's -- Hoo05Dave 02/22/2016 6:18PM Actually, once Apple makes the new OS, judges from all over will grant -- Hoogle.com 02/24/2016 10:28AM Can't download an update to the operating system without entering the pass -- ESHooFan 02/22/2016 4:44PM Can't apple do it? That is what the feds requested. -- KCHoo 02/22/2016 4:52PM Here is an article about it by a guy who knows his security stuff -- KCHoo 02/22/2016 4:59PM According to the CNET faq above, Apple has not. -- Hokie5150 02/23/2016 08:34AM This has been my understanding as well ** -- 111Balz 02/22/2016 5:04PM Better an Apple employee than the FBI! ** -- Hoogle.com 02/22/2016 3:20PM You'd have to kill him the moment he delivers the fix. Otherwise he can be -- WaxHoo 02/22/2016 5:48PM Okay, just don't tell him before he cracks it. All good ** -- Hoogle.com 02/22/2016 5:53PM If you're Dick Cheney, it's what you do ... ** -- WaxHoo 02/22/2016 5:55PM Should the govt be able to force Apple to develop & produce a new product? -- Old Dorms Rule! 02/22/2016 3:37PM Simple solution: waterboard 'em until they deliver.** -- WaxHoo 02/22/2016 5:52PM Now yer talkin' ** -- Old Dorms Rule! 02/22/2016 6:09PM That's now called a "tax". -- PolyTech 02/22/2016 4:16PM Yup. Not much different than if terrorists bought some Ford trucks. -- RML Hoos 02/22/2016 3:51PM That would impact every ford truck. this wouldn't impact -- KCHoo 02/22/2016 4:07PM You understand wrong. This isn't a backdoor to one phone. -- dajoka004 02/22/2016 8:25PM With all due respect, "period" isn't all that persuasive. I am willing -- KCHoo 02/22/2016 10:54PM The older phone issue is a red herring -- CavalierLion 02/23/2016 11:26AM It would impact lots more phones than just this phone -- CavalierLion 02/22/2016 7:20PM I hear people saying this but I have not seen anything suggesting -- KCHoo 02/22/2016 8:01PM It is a fact. -- CavalierLion 02/23/2016 11:13AM That's different! ** -- Sabremetrician 02/23/2016 09:02AM OK, so Biden was wrong in 1992. Remind me what nomination they blocked -- WahooRQ 02/22/2016 6:24PM He was, as some in the GOP are now. It just highlights how hypocritical po -- Hoo05Dave 02/22/2016 6:52PM Exactly but that won't keep the obama victim card from being played ** -- HokieDan95 02/22/2016 7:37PM Huh? Who's playing a "victim card"? Your boys are just strutting around -- VAGentleman05 02/22/2016 9:47PM obama victim card ? what kind of idiocy is that? ** -- 111Balz 02/22/2016 9:34PM For one cnn's john king predicts it... -- HokieDan95 02/22/2016 10:27PM Strawman. The next time Obama calls his opponents racist will be the first -- VAGentleman05 02/22/2016 11:09PM Don't think he'll do it explicitly...but the D's have no problem -- HokieDan95 02/23/2016 09:45AM The nomination will come. If the GOP wants to be obstructionist let them. -- Seattle .Hoo 02/22/2016 7:44PM I disagree, the R base is in rebellion...see Eric Cantor -- HokieDan95 02/22/2016 8:57PM "Some excuse" like doing what he was elected to do? Or, I don't know, -- VAGentleman05 02/22/2016 9:48PM Wait...you think the senate is elected to rubber stamp the President's SC -- HokieDan95 02/22/2016 10:00PM Reading comprehension isn't your thing, is it? Holding confirmation -- VAGentleman05 02/22/2016 10:03PM Yeah like the right thing for the country or some such nonsense ** -- 111Balz 02/22/2016 9:36PM Why is it a given O's nominee will be what's best for the country? ** -- HokieDan95 02/22/2016 10:02PM Why not learn who the nominee is before deciding? ** -- VAGentleman05 02/22/2016 10:04PM That's true but I think conservatives have a good idea what kind of nominee -- HokieDan95 02/22/2016 10:20PM Smh ** -- 111Balz 02/23/2016 07:26AM That's my favorite argument of all: "You would do it too!!!" -- VAGentleman05 02/22/2016 10:24PM Glad you like that.. -- HokieDan95 02/22/2016 10:42PM I have to admit it's creative. -- VAGentleman05 02/22/2016 11:33PM Are filibusters in the Constitution? -- HokieDan95 02/23/2016 07:19AM You know Alito made it onto the court, right? -- VAGentleman05 02/23/2016 08:23AM True,just like attempted murder. If you don't succeed it doesn't -- HokieDan95 02/23/2016 08:36AM You are comparing the nomination process to attempted murder -- 111Balz 02/23/2016 11:00AM Read it again....carefully this time ** -- HokieDan95 02/23/2016 12:44PM It did not require a first reading much less a second ** -- 111Balz 02/23/2016 12:47PM ...and like clockwork ** -- HokieDan95 02/23/2016 12:33PM Deleted** -- HokieDan95 02/23/2016 12:37PM Wow. ** -- Hoo05Dave 02/22/2016 6:21PM Nice editing ** -- 111Balz 02/22/2016 4:32PM Feel free to watch the entire speech and let us know how the -- Hokie5150 02/22/2016 5:44PM His original post called Biden a racist and he later edited it -- 111Balz 02/22/2016 9:06PM Yes it was sarcasm but I decided not to distract from the video itself ** -- HokieDan95 02/22/2016 10:44PM Situational ethics...welcome to inside the Beltway ** -- Tuckahokie 02/22/2016 4:27PM As Chris Rock would say on the matter -- Wahoo Ron 02/22/2016 4:43PM What would Chris Tucker say? :>) ** -- Tuckahokie 02/22/2016 4:49PM Maybe just "evolved" in his position ** -- Wahoo Ron 02/22/2016 4:24PM Did anyone pay attention to him? ** -- KCHoo 02/22/2016 4:08PM Of course not. The GOP and his own party laughed at the notion ** -- KaHOOnah 02/22/2016 6:35PM Are you keeping score or something? ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/22/2016 3:47PM That doesn't count...just Joe bein' Joe ** -- Moneyshot 02/22/2016 3:22PM There no longer are any rules in the Supreme Court nomination process (link -- WaxHoo 02/22/2016 3:04PM Biden's views on the matter have evolved... ** -- Hokie5150 02/22/2016 2:51PM Oops ** -- cvilleHOOrat 02/22/2016 2:49PM Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain ** -- TpkeHoo 02/22/2016 2:37PM Agreed ** -- HokieDan95 02/22/2016 2:39PM The key here is that there is a process for bringing The Constitutio -- Hoo05Dave 02/22/2016 6:41PM In my opinion you don't have to agonize over what the founders intended, at -- Seattle .Hoo 02/22/2016 3:43PM Think about this quote from Ulysses S. Grant's Personal Memoirs -- Old Dorms Rule! 02/22/2016 3:20PM Three things: First, I think that mischaracterizes the point. Nobody -- 81_Hokie 02/22/2016 6:16PM RINO!!!!!!!!!!!!! ** -- HowieT3 02/22/2016 4:42PM Thanks, 81. Can't give you a full blown response right now but -- WahooRQ 02/22/2016 2:45PM To your first two points, I say of course a single justice -- 81_Hokie 02/22/2016 3:03PM When is the last time we had a Constitutional amendment? That fact, -- Hoogle.com 02/22/2016 3:28PM Now Trump questions Rubio's citizenship. You oppose The Don & he'll try to -- seanbryan 02/22/2016 11:16AM Has anyone seen Trump's long form birth certificate? ** -- JohnHoo2 02/22/2016 12:20PM I have on good information that at least his mom is from Asia -- WahooRQ 02/22/2016 12:40PM The Donald is an anchor orang ** -- 81_Hokie 02/22/2016 6:41PM Luv it :):) ** -- seanbryan 02/22/2016 12:57PM His baby picture brings into doubt whether he's actually even human... -- Hokie5150 02/22/2016 12:46PM Speaking of trolls.... ** -- AngusHoo 02/22/2016 1:06PM Wondering if that would ever come out. They've kept it down at Roswell, NM -- icehokie 02/22/2016 12:50PM Latest word is Hillary leaked it in one of her classified emails -- seanbryan 02/22/2016 12:54PM Better not screw around with the Don. They can get behind these handles ** -- bob1314 02/22/2016 12:35PM Agreed! ** -- dmt3y 04/06/2016 11:52PM Rubio is not Canadian ** -- FfxStationHokie 02/22/2016 12:11PM Well, guess that settles it. He must be Cuban ** -- seanbryan 02/22/2016 12:13PM A Castro plant. Really a robot being controlled from Havana. ** -- WahooRQ 02/22/2016 12:21PM Could you repeat that three times? ** -- DanTheFan 02/22/2016 1:18PM In this quoto Rubio was right about one thing and wrong about one: -- 81_Hokie 02/22/2016 11:46AM If Trump wins the nomination he will forget all about Marco -- 111Balz 02/22/2016 11:24AM Some of the grudges he carries go way, way back, apparently ** -- seanbryan 02/22/2016 11:27AM E.g., that thing between him and Murdoch goes back a ways, as I recall. ** -- seanbryan 02/22/2016 11:31AM Still waiting for Fox to get on the GOP cases like they did for Obama -- HoosWillWin 02/22/2016 11:21AM That's different ** -- FfxStationHokie 02/22/2016 11:39AM Well Fox news is a shill for the GOP. It's their stated business model ** -- 111Balz 02/22/2016 11:23AM Yeh but not on the Trump bandwagon yet. A little confusing for them. Guess -- seanbryan 02/22/2016 11:26AM I see Trump a bit like housing bubble in the 2000's. -- JohnHoo2 02/22/2016 11:47AM The only way I consider Trump is his choice of VP. If he chooses -- Cold Hoober Hoo 02/22/2016 12:52PM He's just holding at that 35% of the GOP & the split between others wins it ** -- bob1314 02/22/2016 12:33PM If they gang up on him he will take his ball and run as an independent -- 111Balz 02/22/2016 1:14PM Sadly so very true, which I think is part of why Trump has gotten such -- Hoodafan 02/22/2016 1:21PM They have been ganging up on him since day 1. It seems to have helped him -- WahooRQ 02/22/2016 1:19PM If--big if I know--Rubio had had all of the Bush voters (8%) and all of the -- southdenverhoo 02/22/2016 12:44PM The Cruz and Carson votes are more likely to break for the Donald though. -- WahooRQ 02/22/2016 12:52PM Will either drop out though? ** -- KCHoo 02/22/2016 1:29PM A lot will depend on where the money goes. Without a big chunk of Jeb money -- southdenverhoo 02/22/2016 12:57PM As I said weeks ago, the media is funding Trumps campaign -- Cold Hoober Hoo 02/22/2016 2:02PM It seems to be Trump versus Anti-'Trump. What if the Anti-Trump -- Hoogle.com 02/22/2016 11:34AM Cruz generates a similar amount of distaste IMO (more for me) -- KCHoo 02/22/2016 11:40AM Yeah, that's the intriguing side note for me, where will voters go when/if -- Hoodafan 02/22/2016 11:53AM Did I actually read "vote for Hillary" from you? -- JohnHoo2 02/22/2016 12:01PM LOL! Painful! Not really in that post, but I have said it before. I gave -- Hoodafan 02/22/2016 12:34PM I been wondering about that. Trump knows how to play the crowd. -- JohnHoo2 02/22/2016 12:41PM No doubt. He's already doing it. A nice little shift he makes from saying -- Hoodafan 02/22/2016 1:01PM I find Cruz to be as distasteful, from a personality -- HoosWillWin 02/22/2016 10:57AM If ever there were a time for a 3rd party success, it would be now... -- Hokie5150 02/22/2016 10:06AM Paging Michael Bloomberg ... ** -- WaxHoo 02/22/2016 10:47AM Would absolutely love Bloomberg as President. Think he could be the best.. -- nyhoo 02/22/2016 10:54AM Yep, Bloomberg is the man! -- Moneyshot 02/22/2016 11:54AM So according to your last sentence you would support drug -- Cold Hoober Hoo 02/22/2016 12:40PM Fascism rules. Of coarse, no drug testing of any of them wall street and -- AngusHoo 02/22/2016 1:29PM Speaking of trolls ** -- Moneyshot 02/22/2016 1:41PM That would be a +1 if we weren't disenfranchised here... ** -- Hokie5150 02/22/2016 2:23PM I get a kick out of Ol' Angus -- Moneyshot 02/22/2016 3:05PM LOL imagine that, you agree with the GOP. SMH ** -- AngusHoo 02/22/2016 2:44PM What in the Sam Hill are you talking about, little chihuahua? ** -- Hokie5150 02/22/2016 3:27PM I think he's simply pointing out (however (in)coherently) quite accurately -- Shenhoo 02/22/2016 3:46PM That's funny. Opposition to Democratic policies does not make -- Hokie5150 02/22/2016 6:03PM No snowflake. Its your continous opposition of everythig D and 100% support -- AngusHoo 02/22/2016 10:39PM In other words a real crack down on personal freedoms -- 111Balz 02/22/2016 1:16PM Without hesitation ** -- Moneyshot 02/22/2016 1:14PM While I feel government should stay out of our lives, I understand -- Cold Hoober Hoo 02/22/2016 1:52PM At dinner party last weekend, a friend mentioned his relative already said -- JohnHoo2 02/22/2016 12:24PM I would never vote for someone that wants to increase the scope of -- Hokie5150 02/22/2016 12:51PM I once worked on a project with Blloomburg. He is a flat-out genious. ** -- Hoogle.com 02/22/2016 11:36AM Shoot, that's what Dershowitz said about Cruz. ** -- Northbomb 02/22/2016 11:49AM Bloomberg should form a political party and elected allies to the House -- Quaker 02/22/2016 11:04AM I think the House would be the most difficult to make inroads in -- NJHoo 02/22/2016 11:09AM Any seat that has switched in last 20 years is "in play" -- Quaker 02/22/2016 11:25AM It's not that simple (the last 20 years part) -- NJHoo 02/22/2016 12:45PM Simple no; doable; yes ** -- Quaker 02/22/2016 1:37PM Three New Yokers on the ballot would make it interesting ** -- Wahoo Ron 02/22/2016 11:03AM That's a whole lotta attitude ** -- seanbryan 02/22/2016 12:12PM Wait, I thought it was "values"? ** -- Hoodafan 02/22/2016 12:13PM Agree on the golf. Said below may be time to sit one out. Think I'll try it ** -- bob1314 02/22/2016 10:45AM I still firmly believe that it is important to vote...just not for the -- Hokie5150 02/22/2016 11:52AM Two weeks from tomorrow, almost half the states will have awarded their -- Shenhoo 02/22/2016 09:41AM Certainly looks like it will HRC for the DNC... ** -- Hokie5150 02/22/2016 09:51AM As Dandy Don once sang, "the party's overrrrr ..." It's HRC v DT ** -- WaxHoo 02/22/2016 09:47AM Pander versus slander (some of both from each) ** -- Tuckahokie 02/22/2016 09:48AM Dems should be thanking Kasich for his help in GOTV efforts for a -- southdenverhoo 02/22/2016 12:40PM He was the only one I thought that could actually govern like an adult ** -- Exhoolate 02/22/2016 11:42AM Kasich's only moderate compared to a fascist like Trump and radicals.... -- Hood 02/22/2016 11:35AM Go batshit or go home. ** -- WahooRQ 02/22/2016 11:23AM I think PP provides a valuable service but I am not sure I care that the -- KCHoo 02/22/2016 11:13AM It's a disruption: at the very least there is application and decision -- 111Balz 02/22/2016 11:30AM There is an easy way for PP to solve that problem. After all, it's only 3% -- Hoodafan 02/22/2016 11:39AM Well, now I am getting off the batshit express -- KCHoo 02/22/2016 11:44AM That's my point. That if it is a service they can't or won't give up, which -- Hoodafan 02/22/2016 12:09PM Of course what is missing in this discussion is ANY -- 111Balz 02/22/2016 12:51PM To be fair, funding is discretionary and there's no requirement that a -- WahooRQ 02/22/2016 1:18PM I do not disagree with you on any of that ** -- 111Balz 02/22/2016 1:20PM Disagree. I think you are arguing in terms of what you believe is best -- KCHoo 02/22/2016 1:06PM I just made a statement of fact. I do not believe anyone in this -- 111Balz 02/22/2016 1:23PM Well thank goodness you didn't miss hitting that talking point. Please be -- Hoodafan 02/22/2016 12:55PM You react like a child. I was simply making an observation ** -- 111Balz 02/22/2016 1:19PM And I was calling it out for the silly one that it was. ** -- Hoodafan 02/22/2016 1:22PM So you see no use in hearing perspectives from women on women's issues? -- 111Balz 02/22/2016 1:25PM Of course I do. As I do those of "old white men". Assuming those old white -- Hoodafan 02/22/2016 1:58PM And there you go again -- 111Balz 02/22/2016 2:05PM So WTF did you even bring up the point about old white men, if not to -- Hoodafan 02/22/2016 2:45PM Child, I just observed that we had no female perspective in a -- 111Balz 02/22/2016 9:38PM You two are tiresome. ** -- cvilleHOOrat 02/23/2016 11:59AM As you say, you have no idea. neither do I -- though -- KCHoo 02/22/2016 11:37AM Welcome to the "go batshit" and "ignorant" group KC! -- Hoodafan 02/22/2016 11:28AM Bingo- not sure why anybody really cares (unless politically motivated) -- Moneyshot 02/22/2016 11:19AM Ignorant coward, I guess, just like the rest of them ** -- 111Balz 02/22/2016 11:04AM Crap -- NJHoo 02/22/2016 10:44AM Crap -- NJHoo 02/22/2016 10:44AM I liked him too. But I also support PP. ** -- HoosWillWin 02/22/2016 10:51AM The funds go to other groups that provide similar services ex abortion. ** -- 81_Hokie 02/22/2016 10:38AM ....once those groups APPLY for funding, are APPROVED -- 111Balz 02/22/2016 11:11AM No, do you? It's just not the disaster it's being painted as ** -- 81_Hokie 02/22/2016 11:57AM So 1) who is calling this a disaster?; and 2) you said without -- 111Balz 02/22/2016 1:28PM This is called "running for president as a Republican." ** -- SixerHoo 02/22/2016 10:30AM Whats the point of a veto?. It passed both houses by over 66% -- Wahoo Ron 02/22/2016 10:26AM And they don't! ** -- 111Balz 02/22/2016 11:02AM Abortions make of 95% of their pregacy services -- Wahoo Ron 02/22/2016 11:24AM You have zero understanding of this isue. In fact less than zero -- 111Balz 02/22/2016 1:34PM Funding PP is funding abortions? Really?!? Where you get that nonsense? -- WaxHoo 02/22/2016 10:46AM I googled this for you -- NJHoo 02/22/2016 10:53AM Thanks. Please show it to the fact-free righties like Ron. ** -- WaxHoo 02/22/2016 12:00PM If Govco funding was so crucial to their survival, why would you risk -- Hoodafan 02/22/2016 11:22AM In other words, shut down virtually all abortion services in the US. -- WaxHoo 02/22/2016 12:02PM Why would they have to shut down? We've been told over and over -- Hoodafan 02/22/2016 12:12PM To assure PP continues receiving GovCo $ they discontinue abortions. -- WaxHoo 02/22/2016 4:33PM Do I have to explain how socially liberal and fiscally conservative -- ryno hoo 02/22/2016 12:37PM You have absolutely no appreciation for or comprehension of -- WaxHoo 02/22/2016 2:21PM You are so full of shi.......nuance. -- ryno hoo 02/22/2016 2:39PM Exhibit A in support of my observation. Thank you** -- WaxHoo 02/22/2016 3:42PM Ha, well played! But I would have to ask again, how is that a lie? I -- Hoodafan 02/22/2016 12:52PM I will leave you in the small percentage that could fit the category -- ryno hoo 02/22/2016 1:02PM So says the self proclaimed libertarian! LOL! Thanks ryno -- 111Balz 02/22/2016 1:31PM So perhaps the real lie is just stopping at those that claim to be fiscally -- Hoodafan 02/22/2016 1:16PM No, the socially liberal fiscally conservative lie fits best and is rampant -- ryno hoo 02/22/2016 1:47PM You're right that most people who claim to be fiscal conservatives are -- WahooRQ 02/22/2016 2:14PM How are those investigations going, by the way ** -- cvilleHOOrat 02/22/2016 09:31AM I agree with him, and it will cause pain but it is not unsolvable. -- Seattle .Hoo 02/22/2016 11:20AM The Internet and social media have made facts obsolete. ** -- SixerHoo 02/22/2016 11:47AM Saying 'typically' we solve things won't work if we're now atypical. Every -- seanbryan 02/22/2016 11:36AM Another scary factor is that moderates are aging and dying off -- NJHoo 02/22/2016 11:16AM This is chilling: -- WaxHoo 02/22/2016 09:46AM There have been much more divisive times than these...and we survived ** -- Tuckahokie 02/22/2016 09:53AM True but only after a 4+ year Civil War and a horrible 11 year official -- southdenverhoo 02/22/2016 10:05AM I wasn't around for the 1960's but can't imagine this faux social media -- WahooRQ 02/22/2016 10:10AM Im talking about the geographic nature of the schism. I was around in the -- southdenverhoo 02/22/2016 10:30AM The schism in the 60's was different, largely the young generation -- 111Balz 02/22/2016 11:15AM Absolutely. It was running like a well-oiled machine, wasn't it? ** -- southdenverhoo 02/22/2016 2:41PM Bring back the duel... -- Hokie5150 02/22/2016 09:53AM We just need a few Burrs to take care of business ** -- 81_Hokie 02/22/2016 12:07PM ...but with AR-15s? ** -- SixerHoo 02/22/2016 10:16AM Read Crisis Point by Tom Daschle and Trent Lott. It's a primer -- WaxHoo 02/22/2016 09:43AM Agree on collapse of the center but calling BO a center-left pragamatist?? -- TpkeHoo 02/22/2016 09:12AM I honestly think that his skin color is a factor -- NJHoo 02/22/2016 11:03AM Well I didn't write the piece but by any objective standard that's -- SixerHoo 02/22/2016 10:15AM That's EXACTLY what he has been as president ** -- 111Balz 02/22/2016 09:57AM What would you call him? ** -- WaxHoo 02/22/2016 09:43AM Center-left there is a case for. Pragmatist... not so much ** -- Hoo05Dave 02/22/2016 7:51PM It's supposed to be something sounding evil, reflecting his unusual name + -- seanbryan 02/22/2016 10:42AM Can anyone translate this verbal diarrhea for me? Points for naming the spe -- Hoo05Dave 02/22/2016 07:03AM Lordy. Where did you find that? ** -- WaxHoo 02/22/2016 09:49AM It was from an inteview on Meet the Press yesterday. ** -- Hoo05Dave 02/22/2016 6:10PM To be fair, that is probably more in depth than most of the verbal -- Hoodafan 02/22/2016 07:38AM Trump vs. Clinton. Is this the best our country has to offer? ** -- 25Charlie 02/22/2016 08:16AM Might accurately reflect this country & that's no longer the best ** -- bob1314 02/22/2016 10:50AM #Marcomentum! To RQ's great dismay. ** -- Hoodafan 02/22/2016 09:08AM Didnt he refer to Marco as an "extreme Catholic"? ** -- TpkeHoo 02/22/2016 09:13AM If only Marco had followed the less extreme Rev. Jeremiah Wright. ** -- Hoodafan 02/22/2016 09:42AM Are you really suporting Rubio? ** -- WaxHoo 02/22/2016 09:50AM As opposed to Hillary or Trump? Ummm, absolutely! ** -- Hoodafan 02/22/2016 09:56AM I honestly would trust Trump with the country more than Rubio. -- WahooRQ 02/22/2016 10:43AM Dude, that's nuts. Rubio is a total noob but Trump is a true fascist ** -- Hood 02/22/2016 11:37AM Make no mistake -- I think either would be an unmitigaged disaster. -- WahooRQ 02/22/2016 11:48AM #Marcomentum! Learn to love it. ** -- Hoodafan 02/22/2016 10:51AM It's been a week of Scalia slurping, but good to see Toobin keep it real. -- WahooRQ 02/21/2016 7:27PM I thought his opinion piece was distasteful -- Hood 02/22/2016 11:39AM It's a partisan smear piece that partisans eat up like candy... ** -- Hokie5150 02/22/2016 12:00PM Is there something in it that's not true? ** -- VAGentleman05 02/22/2016 12:04PM It's an opinion piece...not a great deal of facts to call true or false. ** -- Hokie5150 02/22/2016 3:44PM He just likes to use the word "partisan." Because, you know, he's one of -- WahooRQ 02/22/2016 12:19PM Whether or not I am "pure" in my ideology does not in any way -- Hokie5150 02/22/2016 3:46PM "Slurping?" Did your Mom leave you home alone again? ** -- 25Charlie 02/22/2016 08:13AM He is buried...the anti-Scalia slurping can really kick in ** -- Tuckahokie 02/21/2016 10:28PM Not all Supremes are as impressive as this one...** -- Hoos Operator 02/21/2016 10:01PM Finally, an assessment of Scalia's toxic role -- DanTheFan 02/21/2016 9:51PM I'm pretty tired of this idiotic "our founding fathers owned slaves -- HokieDan95 02/21/2016 8:03PM You shouldn't be tired -- DanTheFan 02/21/2016 9:53PM I'm tired of it because it is cheap shot race baiting talking point that -- HokieDan95 02/22/2016 12:04PM THAT's what you got out of Toobin's article? -- WahooRQ 02/21/2016 8:11PM Wow Seriously? It's the one thing I chose to address. -- HokieDan95 02/21/2016 8:19PM You didn't really address it. In fact, you didn't even seem to understand -- VAGentleman05 02/21/2016 9:16PM Well dude, i chose one part of the column that annoyed me and I voiced it -- HokieDan95 02/21/2016 9:48PM Hokie, indeed. ** -- DanTheFan 02/21/2016 9:54PM Okay chief, care to discuss where Toobin says "our founding fathers owned -- VAGentleman05 02/21/2016 9:53PM Yes it's not there word for word but if referencing the slave holding -- HokieDan95 02/21/2016 10:04PM Well, look at what he actually says -- VAGentleman05 02/21/2016 10:09PM What components of the current Constitution reflect the perspective of -- HokieDan95 02/22/2016 08:31AM Rephrase that question and look at the Commerce clause. -- DanTheFan 02/22/2016 09:41AM Yes. And the fact that the federal government didn't want to do something -- WahooRQ 02/22/2016 10:36AM Oh, so you're saying the Constitution has evolved over time. -- HowieT3 02/22/2016 08:36AM The problem has been that the rights spelled out in the Constitution -- HokieDan95 02/22/2016 09:12AM Rewording the 2nd Amendment to make sure ... -- HowieT3 02/22/2016 09:42AM Yes the magic of amendments ** -- HokieDan95 02/22/2016 09:02AM Its more the "original intent" nonsense like when Scalia would -- WahooRQ 02/22/2016 08:44AM In other words you disagreed with him and it had nothing to do with -- HokieDan95 02/22/2016 09:34AM No. That isn't it at all. -- WahooRQ 02/22/2016 10:15AM Your graciousness has been noted... -- HokieDan95 02/22/2016 11:01AM RQ was pointing out how highly (politically) selective Scalia was in -- VAGentleman05 02/22/2016 11:18AM I am stuck on that because that's my whole point to begin with -- HokieDan95 02/22/2016 11:53AM I agree saying that was unnecessary and bombastic. But the point is -- WahooRQ 02/22/2016 12:12PM Race baiting, eh? -- VAGentleman05 02/22/2016 12:08PM I think reciting a contrived ground rule on how you just lost an argument -- HokieDan95 02/22/2016 12:17PM Sigh...except that is NOT what he was doing or what the context -- 111Balz 02/22/2016 2:38PM Of course. To take it any other way is being FAR too defensive ** -- 111Balz 02/22/2016 08:01AM Tempting to push whole '16 election process onto back burner. Can't block -- bob1314 02/21/2016 6:37PM Sure have to stay away from message boards ** -- icehokie 02/21/2016 6:46PM Oh absolutely. Of course. Tempting ** -- bob1314 02/21/2016 7:03PM Getting orange and blue scheme despite vt in url...HELP! ** -- HokieDan95 02/21/2016 7:19PM You need to put the link below in your bookmarks and use it -- NJHoo 02/21/2016 3:25PM New URL. Replace "townhall" with "virginia" in the URL (link) -- Hoo05Dave 02/21/2016 3:19PM This!!! Thanks!! ** -- WarmHoo 02/22/2016 4:18PM Why did they change the URL? ** -- Hoogle.com 02/22/2016 11:40AM Yes, still can't collapse threads or vote -- Quaker 02/21/2016 2:02PM When all else fails..reboot ** -- Wahoo Ron 02/21/2016 1:50PM Format C: or dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 ** -- FfxStationHokie 02/21/2016 3:04PM Easier to just slap the monitor a couple times on the side. ** -- Hoo05Dave 02/21/2016 3:21PM Never really found Doonesbury funny, but his attack -- HoosWillWin 02/22/2016 09:17AM Doonesbury is clueless. Evengelicals are not in Trump's camp. -- PhillyHoo 02/21/2016 7:52PM Philly, I just read that Trump took more of the evangelicals in SC than -- southdenverhoo 02/22/2016 12:45AM Prob people who self-identify as evangelicals but voted for Trump for other -- WahooRQ 02/22/2016 08:46AM Or Philly just doesn't speak for evangelicals ** -- KCHoo 02/22/2016 11:22AM Never let the truth ruin a good story ** -- HokieDan95 02/21/2016 8:42PM And don't let the facts get in YOUR way ** -- 111Balz 02/22/2016 08:04AM People are over-thinking Trump support. It's exposure. -- Hoo05Dave 02/21/2016 5:38PM The same guy that denounced Charlie Hebdo after they were attacked ** -- HokieDan95 02/21/2016 4:18PM I'm not so "holier then thou" as Doonesberry -- Wahoo Ron 02/21/2016 1:37PM Anger and fear are powerful forces and they can make people act -- ScottsvilleHOO 02/21/2016 1:27PM They're the hallmark of the GOP nominee & the loser seeking the Dem nod ** -- seanbryan 02/21/2016 1:30PM Not the issue for evangelicals. It's the catechism of the Catholic Church t -- seanbryan 02/21/2016 1:14PM Legislative and judicial branches strike back against Obama’s overreach -- HokieDan95 02/21/2016 11:56AM Anytime George strays from writing on the Cubs, he's clueless. ** -- HowieT3 02/21/2016 6:59PM Hmm I must have missed his not-clueless Cubs writing. ** -- southdenverhoo 02/22/2016 12:47AM I.e. GOP attacks Obama -- DanTheFan 02/21/2016 12:16PM Really? Bump and grind between the branches and that's all he's got? Maybe -- Seattle .Hoo 02/21/2016 12:06PM Soapbox Rs: If Trump is nominated, will you vote in the general election? ** -- SixerHoo 02/21/2016 10:00AM There's at leastone candidate in the 2 parties w/less integrity than Trump ** -- TpkeHoo 02/22/2016 05:59AM Yes, not my 1st choice but better than Clinton or Sanders ** -- ESHooFan 02/21/2016 5:13PM For Trump. First time ever voting. ** -- dajoka004 02/21/2016 12:34PM Voted 1st for Ike over Adlai in '56 & have gone back and forth since, but -- bob1314 02/21/2016 2:32PM Gosh, Bob. I didn't know 1314 was the year you were BORN! 😊 ** -- SixerHoo 02/21/2016 5:06PM Sometimes it feels that way, I'll tell ya ** -- bob1314 02/21/2016 5:35PM Wow! somebody older than me! I have a different experience -- Wahoo Ron 02/21/2016 4:12PM You know, Ron, sometimes you're downright reasonable! Good post. ** -- VAGentleman05 02/21/2016 9:19PM 65% ( nationally) see the country moving in the wrong direction -- Wahoo Ron 02/21/2016 2:27PM I wonder how much of that is people being fed a false narrative. -- WahooRQ 02/22/2016 09:11AM Ex Republican. I would vote for a third party. Trump and Clinton -- 81_Hokie 02/21/2016 11:54AM Yes but I'll be damned if I know who for ** -- DAMHoo 02/21/2016 11:50AM Yes, he's got my vote ** -- FfxStationHokie 02/21/2016 11:46AM If he's nominated, I expect there to be a viable 3rd party or write in -- CharlestonSC 02/21/2016 10:36AM Yes if a viable 3rd party if not then for Winston. ** -- AlexHoo 02/21/2016 11:26AM Saw those posts about Winston. Looks like an interesting candidate ** -- bob1314 02/21/2016 2:06PM The way I see it Trump IS the Third Party candidate running as a RINO ** -- Wahoo Ron 02/21/2016 10:42AM Yes...ABC ** -- Tuckahokie 02/21/2016 10:21AM Almost never enthusiastic about any of these candidates. -- AlexHoo 02/21/2016 11:38AM We're not too fond of ISIS either. So by your logic, they must be good, too ** -- SixerHoo 02/21/2016 12:09PM Other than pure hate I have seen nothing said about Cruz -- AlexHoo 02/21/2016 12:16PM Well let's see...the Tedster wants to ban gay marriage, repeal Obamacare, -- SixerHoo 02/21/2016 12:41PM Repeal gay marriage he can't, repeal obamacare major plus -- AlexHoo 02/21/2016 12:49PM But he's not going to be nominated. Trump will. And he's all over the lot -- seanbryan 02/21/2016 1:02PM I'm SHOCKED that we disagree!!! -- SixerHoo 02/21/2016 12:57PM As I said I do not know that much about him, and with all the hate -- AlexHoo 02/21/2016 1:14PM It's not liberal hate. Not one of his fellow senators has endorsed him. ** -- SixerHoo 02/21/2016 6:04PM Fewon this board exhibit more hate than you ** -- 111Balz 02/21/2016 3:33PM Give me examples of my hate, I try not to attack anyone -- AlexHoo 02/21/2016 4:25PM Because you have this irrational hatred for liberals! -- 111Balz 02/21/2016 4:33PM LIke you leftwingers did with Bush and Reagan? -- Wahoo Ron 02/21/2016 5:07PM No, LOL, not even close, but not surprised by your response ** -- 111Balz 02/22/2016 10:21AM I do not hate liberals, I feel sorry for you -- AlexHoo 02/21/2016 4:45PM Keep digging Alex. just keep digging. smh ** -- 111Balz 02/21/2016 4:56PM If I keep digging I might get as low as you, nah ** -- AlexHoo 02/21/2016 5:08PM Liberal hate? Cruz is at war with GOP Senate leadership. Has called Mitch a -- bob1314 02/21/2016 2:02PM Churchill was hated by the establishment between the Wars ** -- AlexHoo 02/21/2016 3:04PM I see, so Cruz is like Churchill. ;) ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/21/2016 5:00PM Served loyally When Chamberlin called him to Admiralty and didn't engage in -- bob1314 02/21/2016 4:19PM Was it Chamberlin that he said a modest man with a lot to be modest about? ** -- AlexHoo 02/21/2016 4:56PM Churchill said that about Clement Atlee ** -- bob1314 02/21/2016 5:38PM Thanks could not remember, I was very young then ** -- AlexHoo 02/21/2016 6:39PM Much better than being an immodest man with little to be immodest about ** -- bob1314 02/21/2016 6:05PM Three things1) Cruz is most most conservative of the candidate -- Wahoo Ron 02/21/2016 1:58PM Cruz clings to both, and being smart doesn't make one wise. ** -- SixerHoo 02/21/2016 2:19PM Wow I agree Obama, Clinton, Carter smart but dumb as a box of rocks ** -- AlexHoo 02/21/2016 2:39PM And he wants to make sure all on the Hill know he's smarter than they are -- bob1314 02/21/2016 2:16PM That is certainly a valid critcism.. -- Wahoo Ron 02/21/2016 5:45PM And the other GOP candidates are pretty much of the same opinion sadly. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/21/2016 12:45PM Not if its Trump vs Hillary -- Wahoo Ron 02/21/2016 09:39AM Kasich has the most common sense, which is why he is unelectable....smh ** -- DAMHoo 02/21/2016 08:34AM Can't win the nomination; could win the general ** -- WaxHoo 02/21/2016 08:39AM Yes and maybe ** -- DAMHoo 02/21/2016 08:44AM He and Rubio trounce Hillary in all the realclear matchup polls ** -- Wahoo Ron 02/21/2016 10:57AM Short answer .........no ** -- DAMHoo 02/21/2016 08:32AM I think Hillary will be at least adequate as a president. I am afraid that -- 111Balz 02/21/2016 06:59AM Hillary's record as SOS should disqualify her, total incompetent ** -- AlexHoo 02/21/2016 11:28AM Only in Alex World ** -- 111Balz 02/21/2016 11:53AM Leading from behind in Libya, line in the sand in Syria -- AlexHoo 02/21/2016 12:24PM Hillary fails my, "I wouldn't hire her" test ** -- 757 02/21/2016 08:27AM I'm guessing you fail her "I wouldn't work for you" test. Just a hunch. ** -- SixerHoo 02/21/2016 5:23PM " You're fired!!!" -- Wahoo Ron 02/21/2016 10:45AM With her eventual opponent you won't do the hiring . You'll just find out -- seanbryan 02/21/2016 09:24AM "I'm a woman and you're not" campaign resonates with you? ** -- Hoos Operator 02/21/2016 08:15AM You have a talent for cherry picking campaign themes. ** -- SixerHoo 02/21/2016 09:45AM Nm** -- SixerHoo 02/21/2016 12:18PM What of this issue dear to the lefts heart -- Wahoo Ron 02/21/2016 11:20AM Seems to have a problem with women too. One can only guess why. ** -- WahooRQ 02/21/2016 09:46AM One can only guess why you rely on the ad hominem argument so frequently -- Hoos Operator 02/21/2016 10:25AM No seriously -- look at your recent history. Shrillary, screaming shrew, -- WahooRQ 02/21/2016 10:43AM LOL..nope, just calls as I sees it. Good thing she isn't black or you'd -- Hoos Operator 02/21/2016 10:56AM Well again, for months your every post was about BLM. ** -- WahooRQ 02/21/2016 10:59AM And yet I'm labeled 'oddly fixated' by a member of the board when we -- hooshouse 02/21/2016 12:40PM How do my posts regarding the Middle East, Unemployment rate, SCOTUS -- Hoos Operator 02/21/2016 11:19AM Methinks the HO doth protest too much. -- WahooRQ 02/21/2016 11:36AM She has accomplished a lot, almost all bad, look at Libya -- AlexHoo 02/21/2016 1:35PM Here are the only 3 items of legislation with here name on them -- Wahoo Ron 02/21/2016 6:29PM Wow. You scare easily. ** -- TpkeHoo 02/21/2016 07:50AM Kasich isn't scary. The rest? Let's just call them all Chuckie. ** -- SixerHoo 02/21/2016 09:46AM Hillary's strategy moving forward will be interesting. She will need to -- Tuckahokie 02/21/2016 07:48AM All true ** -- seanbryan 02/21/2016 07:53AM Yep. We can transition out of a below avg presidency. But it could take a -- seanbryan 02/21/2016 07:31AM Nope. But I will vote for Hillary without a second thought. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/20/2016 10:43PM Ot course you will, my young apprentice. -- Hokieesith 02/21/2016 12:19AM She is fighting for us...at least that is what the campaign posters claim ** -- Tuckahokie 02/20/2016 11:02PM Her or one of the GOP loons. Easy choice. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/20/2016 11:11PM Hahahahaha. Gooood. I can feel your anger -- Hokieesith 02/21/2016 12:25AM Apparently this is your brain on drugs. ** -- SixerHoo 02/21/2016 09:50AM Is nancy back? ** -- 111Balz 02/21/2016 06:47AM I have no reservations about voting for Hillary. Especially given the -- WahooRQ 02/20/2016 9:48PM You would vote for a dog if it ran as a Dem, have you heard her bark? ** -- AlexHoo 02/21/2016 1:02PM Over this field of Republican candidates, we'd be better off with a dog. -- WahooRQ 02/21/2016 1:11PM No surprise there... ** -- Hokie5150 02/20/2016 10:15PM That I'd go for a competent Democrat over a blowhard neo fascist who looks -- WahooRQ 02/21/2016 09:50AM competent Democrat? you are clearly out of luck, none running ** -- AlexHoo 02/21/2016 1:57PM You could have saved yourself a lot of typing by just saying you'd go -- Hokie5150 02/21/2016 12:45PM Might be true as to 'voting democrat' in any past election, but this one -- seanbryan 02/21/2016 1:06PM I see the risks of either potential DNC candidate being as great -- Hokie5150 02/21/2016 3:41PM ROFL! Hack ** -- AngusHoo 02/21/2016 11:52PM The last three election cycles I've been straight Dem but wasnt before that -- WahooRQ 02/21/2016 1:43PM And I have no reservations cancelling out your vote. ** -- Hoos Operator 02/20/2016 9:58PM I'm far from enthusiastic about voting for Hillary, but quite motivated to -- VAGentleman05 02/20/2016 9:45PM Cruz supporter here and, yes, enthusiastic for him. -- ScottsvilleHOO 02/20/2016 9:40PM I really believe that he is the only one who deep down is actually -- 111Balz 02/21/2016 08:55AM Care to elaborate? What makes him so bad and what bad things do you think -- ScottsvilleHOO 02/21/2016 1:24PM He was capable of organizing a blackmail of of his -- 111Balz 02/21/2016 3:41PM Trump crowds him because he rides those relishing anger and hate. There's -- seanbryan 02/21/2016 09:20AM Trump 2016 ** -- dajoka004 02/20/2016 9:37PM Ranks with Yellowstone volcano erupting, California falling into Pacific ** -- seanbryan 02/21/2016 08:59AM 🎶🎶 California...tumbles into the sea...🎶🎶** -- SixerHoo 02/21/2016 10:07AM Define enthusiastic. I'm not overly optimistic these days ** -- TpkeHoo 02/20/2016 9:29PM excited ** -- WaxHoo 02/21/2016 08:42AM Nm** -- seanbryan 02/21/2016 09:54AM Being on a speeding train derailing is 'exciting,' but I'd rather avoid it. ** -- seanbryan 02/21/2016 09:52AM Nm** -- seanbryan 02/21/2016 09:54AM Paging Lazarus ... ** -- WaxHoo 02/20/2016 9:09PM Gut says Trump; head hasn't bought in yet -- Quaker 02/20/2016 9:03PM Trump ** -- WaxHoo 02/20/2016 9:09PM Ticket is Rubio/Kasich ** -- TpkeHoo 02/20/2016 9:13PM Kasich is annoying and, assuming such a win, would not want -- ryno hoo 02/21/2016 08:35AM Many potential VP picks on R's side. Who would Hillary choose? ** -- Hoo05Dave 02/20/2016 10:02PM Mark Warner if he wants it. ** -- WahooRQ 02/21/2016 09:08AM Smart money is on Castro, but don't rule out someone like Tim Kaine. ** -- VAGentleman05 02/20/2016 10:09PM Fidel or Raul? ** -- DAMHoo 02/21/2016 08:35AM Ha! That was pretty good. ** -- VAGentleman05 02/21/2016 10:17PM Florida-Ohio are two important states ** -- Wahoo Ron 02/20/2016 9:59PM If it's Rubio, it's Rubio/Haley. She's all over his a$$ ** -- WaxHoo 02/20/2016 9:17PM This is what I too now think is going to happen. ** -- southdenverhoo 02/20/2016 10:27PM That would be my second guess. Also formidable. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/20/2016 9:19PM Agree. She wants to be VP. I don't think Kasich does. ** -- VAGentleman05 02/20/2016 9:18PM Might well be a winner, but man it's upside down. ** -- VAGentleman05 02/20/2016 9:15PM That's been my opinion for a while. And it could be a winner. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/20/2016 9:14PM Trump/Carson. It would be glorious ** -- hooshouse 02/20/2016 9:16PM Oh horrors! SNL would have a field day though. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/20/2016 9:18PM One of Rubio's kids looks like Grayson Allen ** -- hooshouse 02/20/2016 9:26PM You sure that wasn't a shot of Ted Cruz? ** -- VAGentleman05 02/20/2016 9:27PM At some point he backs Rubio? ** -- hooshouse 02/20/2016 8:44PM It's not in the Bush nature to get involved -- Wahoo Ron 02/20/2016 10:05PM Have to think so. But he sure did beat him up a lot during this race. ** -- VAGentleman05 02/20/2016 8:45PM Meh. Like GHWB did to RR or HRC to BHO? ** -- TpkeHoo 02/20/2016 8:47PM Agreed. The establishment will unite behind Rubio. Including Bush. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/20/2016 9:17PM Problem is, anti-establishment is still pulling around 60% of the vote. -- WahooRQ 02/21/2016 09:11AM Sure. But the difference I see is in how close Jeb & Rubio were prior to -- VAGentleman05 02/20/2016 8:49PM He really didn't go after Rubio that hard. Christie put the hit on him. And -- TpkeHoo 02/20/2016 8:53PM His super pac sure as hell did - relentlessly -- CharlestonSC 02/20/2016 9:12PM Seems about right. Today's GOP. ** -- DanTheFan 02/20/2016 7:39PM They created this monster. I can't believe anybody listens to this sack of -- Seattle .Hoo 02/20/2016 7:49PM The people want a politician who speaks honestly -- dajoka004 02/20/2016 7:58PM You want honesty Trump isn't your guy** -- WaxHoo 02/20/2016 9:11PM That's just it he's not speaking honestly. He's saying whatever comes to -- Hoo05Dave 02/20/2016 8:48PM He speaks plainly, but he's anything but honest. He just makes things up -- Seattle .Hoo 02/20/2016 8:43PM You're on the left and I'm on the right. But we're in agreement on this ** -- DAMHoo 02/21/2016 08:37AM Or he's just playing you all for fools. There's always that possibility. ** -- WahooRQ 02/20/2016 8:26PM A well thought out plan carried out over decades -- dajoka004 02/20/2016 8:28PM His personality hasn't changed, but his positions/beliefs sure as hell have ** -- VAGentleman05 02/20/2016 8:51PM I don't think so. He still believes fervently in the one true Donald. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/20/2016 9:08PM Now THAT is the truth. ** -- VAGentleman05 02/20/2016 9:11PM FOX desperate to make finishing 3-5-3 the new 1-1-1. ** -- hooshouse 02/20/2016 8:17PM They're currently trying to convince their viewers that Cruz is dead. Frank -- hooshouse 02/20/2016 8:31PM How much will Rubio pay him for this one? ** -- VAGentleman05 02/20/2016 8:34PM