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If Harbaugh bolts MI will move heaven and earth to try to avoid hiring another old white guy as head coach.

yes - I think this is true. The difference is that the Squad's frustration is that they have a program they want to see move forward that they are frustrated more of the party won't support. The FC is coming from a fundamentally nihilist stance. Even ex-GOP members who knew and worked with these people from the inside before they left the fold say their disagreement with them is not over policy but more fundamentally that these people are not interested in governing.

If you lined up everything Al Avila said when he got the job and everything Harris has said since he got the job, you be hard pressed to see any daylight between them. Of course that could be because you have an owner who actually does know what he wants even if his 1st hire could only talk about it instead of doing it. And of course the ultimate irony now is that given that (barring a trade) there will be no impact offensive players added, if they do rebound it's going to be with Avila's players.

I still find it so bizarre that it took 35 yrs for players and coaches to finally learn/accept how high a shooting percentage was possible for human beings at 24'. You would have thought the game would have gotten to where it is today at least 20 years ago once the league was fully populated by players that grew up with it. The long game has been waiting there all along, just waiting for enough Stef Currys to finally prove it to the doubters I guess. And of course here we are in Detroit, on our third or fourth generation of team management that still refuses to understand the primacy of shooting skill.

"condemned to use the tools of my enemy" - very close to a sentiment given to Smiley by LeCarre, if not almost the exact quote.

There is actually a bit of a parallel to what went on at the beginning of the 117st House and the 'Squad', where they didn't want to support Pelosi and the status quo. The difference is that the Squad didn't have the numbers to be a serious threat to Pelosi's election. But there are centrifugal forces operating at the edges on both sides of the spectrum. That being said, the character of those forces are of a far darker and wilder nature on the right. The other difference is that in 2020, blowing up the House meant you would also undercut your own side's Senate and Executive. The FC knows that won't get anything they want from Biden or the Senate, so blowing up the House doesn't cost them any parts of an agenda they have any real hope of getting. Better for them to either win, or see the Speakership go to a Dem/GOP coalition where they can primary any apostate Repubs in '22 that supported a coalition, and extend their numbers inside their caucus.

LOL - I was thinking about how you could actually do this since gravity keeps the surface of water level in any natural body that freezes, but in an arena if you are creating the initial ice by spraying thin layers then continuing to build with a Zamboni I suppose you could create tilted ice. In any case I am old enough to have watched/listened to many a game from the old forum and never heard any such complaint from the Wings. What I am curious about though is that I have tried to find the ice dimensions from the old Forum and haven't found them anywhere on the web. I remember it as a bigger ice surface, certainly deeper corners, maybe Olympic width(?), but I've not found any confirmation one way or the other.

Rep Khana (D) said tonight on CNN that the opening price for Dem's support of any compromise coalition deal is agreement on limitation of nuisance investigative subpeonas against the admin and agreement there will be no shutdowns - debt ceiling etc.

Right - he has to get to 213 first, which he has yet to manage. He must think he made a deal to buy some votes. It sounds like whatever terms he manages to survive under are going to be so emasculating as to not be worth the candle. And of course if the lets the crazies run the show it's hard to see how it could be anything but disasterous for the re-election chances of the rest of the GOP caucus.

somewhat unexpected adjournment after the 3rd vote. No movement to or from McCarthy.

Interesting call for Murdoch. McCarthy is Trump's man and supposedly Murdoch is done with Trump.

and again, the GOP would much rather run against the size of a budget than acutally cut one, so they don't *really* care either.

the truth is that not much usually happens legislatively in the 2nd half of a presidential term anyway. The dems control appointments and they got the budget they wanted this year - Jordan's threat of two full years of nothing but continuing resolutions will be no skin off the Democrats' noses.

Might work for us, but not so much for Pakistan. The first thing a Taliban Pashtunistan would want is their 'half' of Pakistan! 🤷‍♂️

yup, I have an account that follows baseball and Ukraine. Have never made a twit. We are Elon's nemesis users.

One or two Congresses ago I'd have bet on this outcome, but I'm not sure there are enough GOP members sympathtic to this view left, or whose seats would be safe enough if they adopted it.

The calculus is that the hard core right is betting the rest of the causus would rather cave and support them than agree to any coalition with the dems. And I would say that in the end that is probably good bet. The GOP middle has already shown itself to be spineless in their handling of Trump, and the threat of being primaried if they voted for a coalition Speaker will eventually carry the day.

I'm not proposing a rear guard action, I think everyone knows huge change is inevitable. But if the Wisconsins and UMs and UCals sit on the side lines then it will be the Texas and Alabamas and LSUs that decide what the future looks like and those visions don't have to be the way it ends. The only reason I raise the question is just because Ono was so supportive of the build-up in Cinci athletics. If Schlissel were still here I don't think it's even a question.

anyone can move to adjourn - the question is does enough of the GOP want to keep duking it out today or sleep on it? Can't think of a reason for the Dems not to agree to adjourn - two days of bad press for the GOP will be better than one....

Another question might be what the new administration sees as its role in trying to lead college athletics. Ono does have a history of being interesting college athletics - certainly to a greater degree than Schlissel ever did. If Ono is interested in the fighting the good fight and wants UM to be a force in shaping the future, he goes to Harbaugh and tells him that if he stays the weight of the institution will be fully behind him, stay and we will try to make the future we/you want. But Harbaugh looks north up State Street and sees an institution that has already judged the cause of preserving some semblance of what colleges athletics was as lost, I would think that would make a big difference.

Well, I agree that you don't need to posit any kind of collusion to believe no-one is going to claim him.

The obvious route is the majority of the GOP offer something to the Dems to get enough of them on board to disenfranchise the right side radicals, but I don't think the center of the House GOP conference is still moderate enough to even envision that.

I'd take Erne over Suter and probably Sundvuist as well, though the latter's not going anywhere.

plus the personal risk? Not a bad plan really if Vrana gets through waivers you let him work his way back at GR and it leaves you more time to put off a decision you don't want to make on the current roster.

OK, McCarthy is toast - (my earlier post didn't age too well!) no movement toward him at all. I have to think Jim Jordan would self-immolate as Speaker, but It could be entertaining...