Let's make America smart again

[Trakar]

With a GOP congress? At best, nothing changes, I think. At worst, they introduce and pass legislation repealing the ACA.

ACA is pretty much budgeted and paid for through 2017, it would require a 2/3 vote to change that, and I doubt that there will be an (R) controlled Senate in 2018..., there's even a good shot at taking back the House in the mid-terms (probably still be a couple seats shy in 2018, but progressives should hold both congressional houses and the White House in 2020.

 

[snoop_doxie]

Geeks and nerds, take charge!

What the filth who is now the president elect and his cult miss with their "Make America Great Again" hats is that they want to get back to a time when we were really good at STEM. The hair and his overtly anti intellectual cult miss the fact that the era they want to return to is one when every kid studied math so they could be an astronaut; our heros were geeks with slide rulers who figured out how to get the Apollo 13 crew home and Marlyin Monroe said Einstein was the sexiest man alive. Our greatness in that period was directly relational to our prowess at science, technology, engineering and math. The hair and his cult are in no position to recreate that.

Yes.

I just returned to the forum after the presidential election.


After reading some threads, I think that I might need a little more time.
(never been so emotionally invested in the presidential results.)

Since I live in Georgia now, maybe I could use my time to help some
children find wonder in science.

PS I never really got the hang of the slide ruler in high school, but I thought
those that did were brilliant.

 

[wareyin]

Yeah, well, if we can try to find common grounds at the same time, why not try?

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[Kestrel]

ACA is pretty much budgeted and paid for through 2017, it would require a 2/3 vote to change that, and I doubt that there will be an (R) controlled Senate in 2018..., there's even a good shot at taking back the House in the mid-terms (probably still be a couple seats shy in 2018, but progressives should hold both congressional houses and the White House in 2020.

The elections are in 2018. Newly elected Senators take office in 2019.

If things go really bad a couple of moderate GOP Senators might change party in an attempt to distance themselves from Trump.

 

[Ziggurat]

ACA is pretty much budgeted and paid for through 2017, it would require a 2/3 vote to change that, and I doubt that there will be an (R) controlled Senate in 2018...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/democrats-face-tough-senate-map-in-2018/

5 Democrats face re-election in Republican-leaning states, 5 Democrats up in swing states. That's 10 seats where Democrats will be on the defense just to keep from losing ground. And on the flip side, only 2 real prospects for knocking out Republican senators.

The math isn't in the Democrat's favor for 2018 Senate elections.

 

[Trakar]

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/democrats-face-tough-senate-map-in-2018/

5 Democrats face re-election in Republican-leaning states, 5 Democrats up in swing states. That's 10 seats where Democrats will be on the defense just to keep from losing ground. And on the flip side, only 2 real prospects for knocking out Republican senators.

The math isn't in the Democrat's favor for 2018 Senate elections.

Your math doesn't take into account a year and a half of ongoing and growing Republican congressional over-reach, excesses and the inevitable crime, corruption, and scandal that are implicit under a Trump administration and an embittered and embattled republican coalition of the unyielding and unwilling.

 

[Trakar]

The elections are in 2018. Newly elected Senators take office in 2019...

I was speaking of the currant majority's time frame for action on ACA, by the end of 2017, they will be entering the midterm campaigns and the questions of "what has control of all three branches cost the voters" in terms of expectations and measurables.

 

[The Big Dog]

Your math doesn't take into account a year and a half of ongoing and growing Republican congressional over-reach, excesses and the inevitable crime, corruption, and scandal that are implicit under a Trump administration and an embittered and embattled republican coalition of the unyielding and unwilling.

Is that the same math that said Hillary was a shoo in?

 

[Trakar]

Is that the same math that said Hillary was a shoo in?

She managed to get almost all of the establishment vote (from both parties!).