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

well if nothing else i guess the prospect park west bike lane is saved
--☂ (max)

otm

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.

look he's an anarcho-misogynist, cut him some slack

Is that like Ayn Rand stuff with more less chest hair and gold chains?

also as someone pointed out on twitter (RT by greenwald i think), pelosi didn't even call for that rep from LA who had cash in his freezer to resign

Actually, none of them did -- even Gingrich and other retired members of Congress. They protect their own.

yeah i'm pretty disappointed in pelosi & co tbh - weiner, for his faults, is a soldier for the dems and their causes most of the time and to abandon him over something silly like this is fucked up. imo

he's not really a soldier for the dems tho, outside of being a self-appointed cable tv mouthpiece. I think this really has more to do w/ the fact that he had an alienating style / 'no friends' (irl) than anything else.

at this point he's hurt 'the cause' more than he helped by being loud and on tv a few times, so why spend any energy defending him?

really he was soldier for the army of 'make anthony weiner mayor' and being a known figure for dem issues seemed like a pretty good way of going about that.

Ayn Rand was notorious for tweeting pictures of her cock. Prescient, that one.

has Weiner done anything of note besides tweet dickpics and shout loudly about NPR?

Man, you ask so much of him. Most congressmen haven't managed that much.

talked shit about bike lanes xp

Obama Seeks to Win Back Wall St. Cash

A few weeks before announcing his re-election campaign, President Obama convened two dozen Wall Street executives, many of them longtime donors, in the White House’s Blue Room.

The event, organized by the Democratic National Committee, kicked off an aggressive push by Mr. Obama to win back the allegiance of one of his most vital sources of campaign cash — in part by trying to convince Wall Street that his policies, far from undercutting the investor class, have helped bring banks and financial markets back to health.

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

wow.

max, I would say that an ambitious careerist dweeb who has gotten to be a frontrunner for mayor of NYC by doing shit-all is hardwired to send dickpix, yes. Though I'm not sure even a horndog like Jack Kennedy would've been as hubristic as the Schwein.

The idea that Bam has to "win back" this class he has so magnificently served -- THAT'S RACIST

win back the allegiance of one of his most vital sources of campaign cash
win back the allegiance of one of his most vital sources of campaign cash
win back the allegiance of one of his most vital sources of campaign cash
win back the allegiance of one of his most vital sources of campaign cash
win back the allegiance of one of his most vital sources of campaign cash
win back the allegiance of one of his most vital sources of campaign cash
win back the allegiance of one of his most vital sources of campaign cash

I wanna do this in every thread. Mods, am I permitted...?

it's really more that they're just bummed that some people don't like them now than '''regulation''' and ''''taxes''''

maybe we should offer to raise taxes on the top 1% and name it the 'everyone loves wall street act'

The sad thing is, I think it may actually be the perception on Wall Street that he DOES need to "win" them back, regardless of how big of a favor his administration has done them by not holding anyone accountable for the events of the last...few decades. The fact that he's perceived as anti-wall street is just an indicator of how powerful they are.

name it the 'everyone loves wall street act'

i would vote for this if it's about the film

it is but we're not gonna tell them til after the vote

Lebron and Miami lost.

Obama took his talents to Wall Street

Ok that was lol

lol

as if having Tim Geithner (a/k/a Henry Paulson's co-conspirator) onboard wasn't enough to make Wall Street's collective panties moist ...

I hope that the meeting in the Blue Room started with a quick roll call of whose panties were moist

Same ol, same ol is so frustrating. Obama won't fight on economic issues, Weiner is expected to resign but not Vitter...

Insider media liberal AJ Dionne is begging Obama to engineer a turn in the national conversation

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/gridlocking-the-lives-of-the-jobless/2011/06/12/AGJIIESH_story.html

WONT SOMEONE THINK OF THE STOCKBROKERS?????

This is seriously fucking hilarious. Plutocratic trolling.

one stockbroker, one vote

http://www.theonion.com/articles/billionaires-demand-more-federal-scrutiny,20562/

you all need to read the profile in Wash Post style section of Clinton adviser P Reines. i don't even know how it's real but it is. who once decorated a Dupont townhouse for a party by posting quotes from himself on the walls and spent nearly $2K last year at Lauriol Plaza (where the food is terrible FYI) and wants reporters to know about it

A Bruneau, I hope you don't mind if I swipe that line for Facebook; A+

you all need to read the profile in Wash Post style section of Clinton adviser P Reines. i don't even know how it's real but it is. who once decorated a Dupont townhouse for a party by posting quotes from himself on the walls and spent nearly $2K last year at Lauriol Plaza (where the food is terrible FYI) and wants reporters to know about it

― daria, Monday, June 13, 2011 10:58 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha i was just reading this

“Would it be helpful if I sent you random factoids, pieces of color? For instance, I don’t ever drink D.C. tap water.”

“I’d like to finally make some money,” he said. “Which I have not done working for the federal government for nine years.

and “When I wear cuff-linked shirts, I wear a set that look like sink faucets, one’s marked hot one’s marked cold. It’s a self-aware reflection that I can be both.” He also noted that he is embarking on a master’s program at night at the National Defense University and that he is currently reading three books.

Reines also sent along more than a dozen photos of himself. They included shots of him riding a tricycle as a baby, chipping away at the Berlin Wall, riding in an elevator with Sen. John McCain and stepping out for an evening with actress Natalie Portman.

A Bruneau, I hope you don't mind if I swipe that line for Facebook; A+

I would be honored! And feel free to look me up if you'd like.

cuff links aren't paying for themselves

Al Qaeda simply doesnt go after the right targets

he is embarking on a master’s program at night at the National Defense University

is this as ominous as it sounds?

link plz!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/longtime-keeper-of-hillary-clintons-image-has-forged-a-loyal-badge-of-his-own/2011/05/31/AGLAu9RH_story_2.html

super lol @ that photo

He is, he says, part of the “family” of Clinton lifers. But the famously boyish native New Yorker also belongs to a more extended and, if possible, more dysfunctional family of politicos, operatives, staffers, reporters, TV bookers, media types, government officials and frosted society scenesters. And he bears some of their less appealing traits...

lol

he is currently reading three books.

Worst boast ever, unless he's hold one in each hand and another between his toes.

tiger mother, lemony snicket and who moved my cheese

Who gives a shit about this douche

it's sort of emblematic of a certain type of personality in DC. the constant networker/self promoter who is v crass about it

i honestly had trouble working out what some of the paragraphs in the last 2 - 3 pages were even about

i always kind of wonder how big national trends are instantiated & written about in local scales

http://www.startribune.com/opinion/otherviews/123137033.html

so this was kind of lol, mostly sad

Duane Benson -- former NFL player, former state Senate GOP leader, former CEO of the Minnesota Business Partnership, now head of the Minnesota Early Learning Foundation (MELF) -- was describing the "funny thing" he was experiencing this year as a lobbyist for smarter state spending on early childhood education.

He'd come to the Capitol with a passel of proven ideas that spring from traditional Republican philosophy. They had substantial business backing.

Among them: Don't start a new government program. Make use of existing private-sector providers. Engage them in a purely voluntary rating system. Take advantage of market forces. Empower poor parents to be informed consumers. Trust them to make preschool choices, in the same way affluent parents routinely do.

Here's the key one: Don't spend more tax dollars. Spend the tax dollars you already have in wiser ways.

"I thought the Republicans would love this stuff," Benson told me. "Instead, the Democrats are the ones who love it. A lot of Republicans don't want anything to do with it." In the new GOP view, government ought to have no role in the prekindergarten education of children, he explained.

It's often said that Minnesota's two big political parties have grown more polarized because they have moved in opposite directions from an ill-defined midpoint. Independence Party candidates [MN "third"/spoiler remnants from the Ventura days - ed] make the assertion their stock in trade: The DFL has been moving farther to the left, the GOP farther to the right.

Benson got me thinking that the notion needs rethinking. A case can be made that the ideological shift of both big parties has been to the right, and that a lot of DFL ideas now occupy what not long ago was considered Republican territory. [god damn nothing gets by you, huh - ed]

DFLers seldom frame their policy arguments in social-justice terms. They talk about "jobs, jobs, jobs" and seem increasingly keen on employing market forces to do public work. Witness their friendly response to MELF's early ed quality rating system and its plan to convert early childhood subsidies into (dare I say) a voucher program.

The lefty lines of an earlier era are heard no more. I can't recall when I heard a DFL politician openly question the merit of capitalism.

had to wiki DFL

Oh, The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL)

In the new GOP view, government ought to have no role in the prekindergarten education of children, he explained.

"New"? Hasn't that always been their view?

You're not very old for a curmudgeon.

In the new GOP view, government ought to have no role in the prekindergarten education of children, he explained.

fixed

It is all part of the master plan. They will be the masters. We will be the slaves.