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...lyrics are ambiguous yet clearly melancholy, with Barthel, declaring, “As far as I can see / Nobody loves me / As far as I can tell / Nobody loves you with her.” These lines are somewhat representative of those on the whole album. At no point are the lyrics particularly substantial, but they do at least usually depict vague sentiments of love, loss, tension, and frustration, while rarely remaining grammatically coherent for longer than a line...
...audience member who asked to remain anonymous because he did not want to be affiliated with TLR said that Franks was avoiding debate by using vague theories to justify his point...
However, the minority is abusing it to stymie every legislative initiative without ever allowing an up-or-down vote on the merits. Republicans flat out refuse to play ball. The filibuster becomes a rallying point for the minority whose remaining moderates are under house arrest. Feeling its extraordinary power, the partisan majority puts overwhelming pressure on the few moderates in its ranks to hang with the caucus, surrendering corrupt concessions to keep them on board...
...Democrats emerge from the 2010 midterm elections battered but holding on to their majority, such a change would be highly implausible. (It would be extremely difficult to muster a simple majority for the change even in the current Congress.) If the election results are non-disastrous to the point of showing the tide turning in the Democrats’ direction, but (as is inevitable) the election still reduces their already inadequate majority, then they could try to strike a deal with Republicans to change the rules, using the nuclear option as leverage...
Blowing up the system was the point, of course - and it's the main reason that Ryan has become the GOP's man of the moment. A telegenic supply-side conservative, Ryan cut his teeth as a speechwriter for Jack Kemp and Bill Bennett in the mid-1990s. Even back then, says Wehner, for whom Ryan worked at Empower America, "it was clear that he was a bright star in the constellation." After serving as legislative director for Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, Ryan mounted a successful bid for Wisconsin's First Congressional District seat...