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It means there won't be yet another regulatory process involved in a country where it is almost already impossible to get a project approved.

What is frightening is the Republicans letting their tail wag the dog. They are the ones who have to get their shit together.

Tell that to the Republicans and their crazy caucus, they are the ones trying to shut down the government.

McCarthy kissed Gaetz's ring to get the job. Why would the Democrats support him? For the life of me, I can't understand why you think Democrats should be responsible for the actions of Republicans. I'm sure the Dems would support a moderate who isn't in the crazy caucuses pocket but that's the Republican's problem and the Dems can't solve it for them.

Why would they support someone who was owned by the crazy caucus.

Seems your hero disagrees. https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2023/10/12/trump-praises-hezbollah-as-very-smart-and-criticizes-netanyahu-amid-israel-war/

The late seventies and early eighties was a low point in the evolution of motor vehicles, that's for sure. Big ugly bumpers for the new crash regs and gutless engines.

It is up to the Republicans to come up with a moderate candidate the Democrats can support, not the other way around. Unless you think the Republicans would be OK with the Democrats choosing the speaker.

Where is it? You rarely see rusty cars on the west coast.

That is how it used to be but scorched earth partisanship at the expense of governing destroyed it. Republicans control the House, Democrats can only respond to whatever is put before them. They don't control the agenda.

How do we know there hasn't been cross the floor talks but who actually represents the Republicans? Who do the Democrats compromise with? There is no point making deals when you have no idea if they will be respected.

It is how it works. The whole US system of checks and balances requires compromise and compromise is about making deals. If the Republican's in Congress need need help to rein in their crazies then they should ask for it. It is not in the Democrats or the country's best interest for them to just roll over and give the Republicans whatever they want. If the Dems are in a good position here, it is because the Republicans gave it to them and they should take advantage of it to pursue the wishes of the people who elected them.

It is both their jobs. No opposition will give a majority party a carte blanche to do whatever it wants, nor should it. The Democrats do not have the seats to elect a speaker, the Republicans do. This nonsense is not on the Democrats and they are not responsible for whoever becomes speaker. If the Republicans need Democrat support, it is up to them to make the Democrats an offer to get it. Not the other way around.

I think history will look far more kindly on Cheney than it will Gaetz, Jordan and Co.

It isn't anyones responsibility to look after someone else's spoiled child. Certainly not the Democrats responsibility to look after spoiled child Republicans. The Republicans do have a majority, it is their job to provide a speaker, not the Democrats.

All belief systems are man made. Some are based on science, others on faith.

When your mission is to "own the Dems" compromise isn't really an option.

Good will has to work both ways. The Crazies set all kinds of conditions for their support of McCarthy, why shouldn’t the Dems do the same? Their support will mean getting some of the things they want. That isn’t zero sum, it’s the way the US system is supposed to work. Compromises on both sides.

Unless they change the rule where one person can force a vote, there is no point in supporting anyone. The same actors will do the same thing when they don't get what they want. McCarthy was a moderate but he sold his soul to the crazies to get the job and they turned on him. If Republicans want Democrat support, there will be a price, just like there was for the crazies.

It's obvious every time he opens his mouth.

I"m not saying Palestinians shouldn't have a state because I do, just that they have never had one. A fundamental condition for the establishment of such a state would have to be peace with Israel and a guarantee that it won't be used for attacks on Israel by other groups.

Ya, give them a state in the middle of the country that tried to exterminate them. That would do wonders for their sense of security. Cyprus would be good. Isolated in the middle of the Med, nowhere to expand and make new enemies. It would still p--s off the locals so that would be the same.

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Western military intervention in the Middle East since the first Gulf War has been a disaster, breeding groups like ISIS.