US POLITICS SPRING 2011: Let's just call off this country.

Jane Mayer, who broke the original news.

More Republican hardball hostage-taking:

From the Washington Post

An aide to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday that the lawmaker stands by his vow to block any candidate. Late last month, McConnell led 44 senators in a letter to the White House calling for structural changes to the bureau. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) has accused GOP opponents of discriminating against Warren because she is female, but McConnell’s complaints are much broader.

“It’s not sexist. It’s not Elizabeth Warren-specific,” McConnell spokesman Donald Stewart said. “It’s any nominee.

That's regarding the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

"It's any nominee"

put this on a bumper sticker!

So this line of discussion has been done to death, but I think one of the biggest frustrations that will plague me to my dying day are the conservatives so willfully ignoring their own histories to pretend that they were never immigrants themselves. I mean, jesus.

nazareth immigrant iirc

lol

That's possibly the first place I go with relatives who complain about The Messicans, but my mom's response is 'my grandparents played by THE RULES' like she'd know their circs, since adults in the early part of the century really well known for being honest with their kids about whatever.

also dutifully filled out all their clear and concise paperwork properly

it was the style of the time

Yeah, apparently Swedes don't lie? Other migrant grandparent of my mother's was an illiterate Polish girl of 11 upon arrival in Duluth.

I'm up tonight
Because my Swedes don't lie
And I'm tryin' to feel ya, boy

my mom was an illegal iirc

http://8.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/weinergate-effect.jpg

really wish this said "the weiner effect"

Palin e-mails released today. Fun fun fun:

Tim Crawford, the treasurer of her political action committee, Sarah PAC, said in a statement that everyone should read the emails. "The thousands upon thousands of emails released today show a very engaged Governor Sarah Palin being the CEO of her state," he said.

"The emails detail a Governor hard at work," he said.

Hard at work till she quit halfway through her term.

The major dailies are trying to crowdsource this, right?

I hate Palin as much as anyone, but is there anything really newsworthy in this? We're just trying to accumulate even more evidence that's she's an idiot?

Or is this supposed to potentially shed light on the scandal(s) around her leading up to the 08 election, where (can't remember this exactly, but) she tried to get some state trooper fired because he did something to Todd, or whatever?

and had a grandchild out of wedlock?

yeah, i know, there's probably juicy stuff there. but NYT going to the length of crowdsourcing the examination of the document, and all of that...just seems odd.

anything to keep your mind off the heartache of Bam

wait I thought Bam and Palin were the same person

Never said that (one's killed people, another just wants to)

Wasn't there some article posted here saying that Palin was a somewhat decent governor of Alaska?

i dunno but there was one in the atlantic.

yeah thats the one posted earlier iirc

Dude who wrote it was on Maher last night. After laying out some of the things she did, Garofalo was all "yeah but she still tried to ban books and she rigged elections etc"

http://www.thedailybeast.com/interactive/palin-emails/2011/6/10/my-sarah-how-youve-changed

huh.

I read articles about her elsewhere that were very critical of her half-term as governor and her stint as Mayor in Wassilli.

I <3 Garofalo, but how is she still visible?

She falls in the wavelength range from about 380 or 400 nanometres to about 760 or 780 nm with a frequency range of about 405 THz to 790 THz.

good for her

...wow!

must admit this is fairly cool

until the net gets regulated like it will be here.

Janeane Garofalo is a textbook case of why people hate celebrity liberals.

Weiner "seeking treatment"! What a fucked-up pandering joke.

Garofalo is on the new Criminal Minds show, which might give her mad cred with idiots.

Weiner "seeking treatment"! What a fucked-up pandering joke.

― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 June 2011 14:15 (6 hours ago)

I dunno, I'm on the fence about this one. His behavior was pretty pathological and crazy. "Seeking treatment" is a lame way to describe it but dude definitely needs some therapy.

His behavior was MALE! His embrace of Zionist loons is more pathological.

Morbs OTM.

His behavior was MALE!
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Sunday, June 12, 2011 8:29 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

It just was SO extreme. And so totally reckless. I know the general consensus is that he's just an idiot, but it has this feeling of self-destruction and addiction to me.

his embrace of Zionist loons isn't pathological, it's a good career move!

being a democrat yeah

His behavior is perfectly normal in gay dating sites, Matt. Morbs OTM.

lol ok

actually now that I think about it, there's those craigslist ads that are all vaginas and cock...

"perfectly normal in gay dating sites" != "male"

the idea that men are... wired? to send pictures of their dicks to people? thats stupid

the hard-wired defense didn't work for Brett Favre and it won't work for Anthony Weiner. that said, this whole debate (even at its sleaziest) is silly. i wish people would be more outraged by the fact that Weiner is a mouthpiece for Likud hardliners than whether he's posted pictures of his schlong.

Am I the only person thinking the pix displayed were sorta too vanilla to be truly scandalous?

idk i kinda understand, like, ppl being like o_O at one of their elected representatives publicly sending cock pixx. obv its overcovered by the media bcuz lol sex but still