As much as nobody's answered the question as to what happens when bank tellers stuff 1,000,000 bills into duffel bags at the end of their shifts, sure.

I'm a high school history teacher,

....who's never heard of the word "gerrymandering"? You're being disingenuous on one or the other.

The filibuster isn't a law, it's a Senate rule....which the Senate can change any time via a simple majority vote. Obama is irrelevant here, and McConnell knows this....sounds like he's making excuses.

You could get rid of first-past the post, and the banks would still have enough money and power to buy off all the parties - it's what's happened in Europe. When even the "Socialists" are backing austerity, you know the system has been rigged.

The problem with this chestnut is that it's actually the Executive branch that writes the budget and sends it to Congress. And that's following laws set up by Congress after Nixon refused to spend allocated funds.

So it's still the House's fault, and the GOP the hissy fitters, no?

And that means you're being willfully obtuse. In a representative democracy, explain why the party that gets the minority of the votes in a state ends up with the majority of the seats.

These districts weren't etched on tablets from Mt. Sinai, they're drawn by partisan ideologues, aided by software designed to screw over the opposing party as much as possible.

Because he's a European Socialist, and believes in mob rule.

"Mob rule": where the poor people actually have a say in their governance, as opposed to a tiny number of elitists calling all the shots.

And you act as if the Democrats have never done such things.

You act as if the "Billy did it first" defense is anything other than a cop out. Hint: it's not.

That is actually just trivia since neither side is trying to achieve the popular vote....Losing sides like to bring up irrelevant statistics to console the fans.

Translation....nothing to see here with this gerrymandering, move along citizen. GOP-run legislature in Texas draws the maps so the party that got 56% of the vote gets 75% of the seats in Congress? Pay no attention to the gerrymandering behind the curtain!

And, how quickly he moved the city through bankruptcy.

Had to try and sell off all that public art before someone could try and stop it.

Detroit had been run into the ground through massive corruption and democratic policies.

NAFTA, for short. Not the fault of the people or politicians of Detroit that their economy was gutted by sellout officals in D.C.

And now you're going to complain that someone cleaned up the mess?

Snyder has found some magic way to deal with the cities massive contraction in population? A way to deal with all the abandoned buildings while maintaining services to the people still living there? No? Then what are you talking about?

No, mostly because people like you work hard to keep cheap good from being importated.

On some planet where every product in Wal-Mart and every piece of electronics isn't already made in China?

Why, yes, we're getting there

Why, how many of those immigrants are being paid $200k a year to replace corporate executives pulling in 8 figures a year? What does Larry Ellison do for $100 - $200 million every 12 months that a team of Ph.d's from Bangladesh wouldn't do for a million, total?

Public sector workers have protections that workers in private industry don't, such as the many protections in civil service.

What does that have to do with them needing unions? Are you arguing from a position of crab mentality?

Public sector unions have long had a powerful influence in politics, influencing both the taxes that pay their wages and policy.

Which is relatively insignificant next to the combined power of banks, corporations, and tax cut jihadists.

Now public sector unions have inflated wages and benefits for the public sector so that they increasingly have greater stability, better benefits, and equal or higher wages than similar jobs in the private sector.

An honest days pay for an honest days work, with health and retirement plans that aren't a complete scam for Wellpoint and Wells Fargo? Yup, Crab Mentality.

Irrelevant. Public sector workers are subject to abuse, just as private sector workers are. They both need and deserve union representation and collective bargaining.

No, because he knew it would turn into exactly what it turned into: a mutual feedback loop between politicians and unions, with very little restraining growth in numbers or benefits, unlike private sector unions.

On some other planet where politicians from both parties aren't fans of union busting? Where even "liberal" states don't their budgets in favor of tax cuts for the rich? Where bus drivers make as much as defense contractors, and their pay and benefits haven't been slashed in the name of "shared sacrifice"?

Like most worker-hating talking points, this one is based on nothing more than wishful dumbfuckery.

While the incidents themselves, if looked at without broader context, are nearly identical... you can't actually look at them without the broader context.

You mean, keep pointing bloody fingers at the Russians, and complain about their disregard for civilians within your nice American Exceptionalist glass house.