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Arizona's nonpartisan redistricting commission has done a pretty darn good job.

 

You would find your suspicion incorrect within the first couple minutes of digging into the topic. I am surprised and intrigued that a fairly intelligent conservative voter is genuinely ignorant of the way democracy is being subverted to build-in a large edge, rather than just OK with it because it leads to their side winning.

 

Yes, but its sixth objective -- not its first or second ... is electoral competitiveness.

 

I'd argue there's a giant difference between admitting countries like Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania into NATO and invading sovereign nations and annexing territory. Using one as an excuse to do the other is quite convenient.

 

That was a transcript of a verbal assurance (not a treaty or formal memorialized agreement of any type) by James Baker that the Bush administration was against NATO expansion at the time (1990), which was more than a quarter of a century ago in a very different world. NATO has expanded several times since then, including in 2004 under leadership of the second Bush administration. It's meaningless.

 

Ah, the ol' "we had our fingers crossed" rationalization. As opposed to the iron-clad Anti-Ballistic Missile TREATY that Bush43 simply withdrew from in 2002. How did that "formal agreement" work out?

And as I stated in my OP, your or my opinion of the significance is not important. Let the people decide how "meaningless" it is. When the media refuses to acknowledge the documents, they fail to let the people decide. They fail in their job.

NATO expansion is by far the driving force behind US-Russia tensions. Ignoring the duplicitous roles in its expansion guarantees the tensions will never cease.

 

Then-governor Jan Brewer tried to fire them and start over when she realized there was a chance Democrats may be competitive in some of the districts. Thankfully she lost in court.

 

LOL. What a fucking idiot. Trump is guilty, unless he can prove himself innocent, by disproving the charges in the “dossier”.

 

Nope. What on earth makes you think James Baker could make binding agreements on behalf of future administrations (and other sovereign countries) in a conversation 28 years ago?

And nobody gives a fuck how Russia feels. It's a third-rate power that under Putin, a mobster, has risen to the level of first-rate nuisance. We need to substantially increase sanctions.

 

If you're going to throw around the "fucking idiot" tag, you ought to make sure Trump, Pence, McConnell, Grassey, Sessions and Ryan are on your scorecard. And their lackeys, too. They keep proving they could fuck up a bake sale.