I assume primarying House members is way easier than Senators
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 20:54 (nine years ago) link
afaict but i mean, i'm still new to this stuff
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 20:58 (nine years ago) link
fucking BLOOMBERG amost lost his 3rd mayoral term to an empty suit w/ no money. it can be done.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 21:13 (nine years ago) link
mayoral politics are not state politics, smaller footprint
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 21:20 (nine years ago) link
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/tpa-trade-bill-democrat-vote-tally-119331.html
Both of my Virginia Democratic senators voted for this. Ugh
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 00:22 (nine years ago) link
New Yorker profile on Feinstein last week packaged her as a centrist.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 00:45 (nine years ago) link
Ugh:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/us/politics/senate-vote-on-trade-bill.html?rref=homepage&module=Ribbon&version=origin®ion=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Home%20Page&pgtype=article
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 00:54 (nine years ago) link
The procedural vote of 60 to 37 just reached the minimum needed, but final Senate passage will require only 51 votes. The House approved trade promotion authority last week.
So I think 32 Dems voted against, 5 Republicans against; 13 Dems for; 47 Republicans for
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 12:38 (nine years ago) link
name names
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 15:33 (nine years ago) link
From a FB post but unable to verify more than Cantwell, Murray, Feinstein, Shaheen & Wyden
Michael Bennet (CO)Maria Cantwell (WA)Tom Carper (DE)Chris Coons (DE)Dianne Feinstein (CA)Heidi Heitkamp (ND)Tim Kaine (VA)Claire McCaskill (MO)Patty Murray (WA)Bill Nelson (FL)Jeanne Shaheen (NH)Mark Warner (VA)Ron Wyden (OR)
― a silly gif of awkward larping (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 16:37 (nine years ago) link
Delaware?? I find this easy to believe!
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 16:37 (nine years ago) link
Feinstein I fuckin knew it
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 16:42 (nine years ago) link
interesting that the west coast senators seem up for this.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 16:46 (nine years ago) link
and Wyden, good on national security, is a weenie on trade
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link
"port" land innit
― goole, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link
right. but you might also think they would listen to the unions opposed to this thing
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
just angers me so much that Feinstein's "liberal" credentials are on two issues (abortion and gun control) on which she's been largely ineffectual or irrelevant - and on p much every other issue she might as well be a party-line Republican.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 17:08 (nine years ago) link
she likes gays too
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link
it's illegal not to in San Francisco, right?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link
I just feel like she rode Harvey Milk's corpse all the way to the bank
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link
remind me which awesome pro-LGBT legislation passed the Senate I'm kinda blanking on anything
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 17:50 (nine years ago) link
thanks for the image
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 17:50 (nine years ago) link
Cruz surrogate Chumley (!) weighs in:
Another of Cruz's campaign co-chairs in the Palmetto State, state Rep. Bill Chumley (R), voted against opening debate on the flag. Chumley also told CNN on Tuesday night that he believed it more urgent to debate the fact that no one present at the massacre of nine black Charleston churchgoers was armed.
"We need to be focusing on the nine families that are left and see that this doesn’t happen again," Chumley said in the CNN interview. "These people sat in there, and waited their turn to be shot. That’s sad. But somebody in there with the means of self defense could have stopped this. And we’d have had less funerals than we’re having."
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 18:21 (nine years ago) link
oops wrong thread
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 18:22 (nine years ago) link
x-post to
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Nike is in Oregon and they don't care about unions
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 18:25 (nine years ago) link
but i thought CA and WA were big union states, esp. in re. ports
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 18:31 (nine years ago) link
there's def huge unions in the ports of Oakland and LA
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 18:34 (nine years ago) link
WA also has Boeing for unions but I imagine the tech bros outspend them for influence now.
― joygoat, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 18:57 (nine years ago) link
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, June 24, 2015 6:25 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Obama gave his big TPP pitch **at a Nike factory**, just to really hit us over the head with the symbolism
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 19:00 (nine years ago) link
I've voted wyden for senate three times since I was 20, iirc. He's lost my vote and I'll volunteer for whoever primaries him. I hope it's Steve Novick.
― Clay, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 20:37 (nine years ago) link
guys its called the trans pacific partnership. california is on the pacific coast. do u see.
im sure theres a shitton of kickbacks and goodies in there for west coast corps that their senators would love to deliver
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 20:41 (nine years ago) link
Supreme Court thread has discussion of 6 to 3 decision saving exchanges on health care/Obamacare.
Roberts and Kennedy's motives for voting with liberal justices might have been different, but I will take it
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 25 June 2015 14:38 (nine years ago) link
I wonder if any red states refusing Medicaid expansion were waiting for King and will now capitulate.
― it's not arugula science (WilliamC), Thursday, 25 June 2015 14:47 (nine years ago) link
no they are making a flag to symbolize grievance for the next 150 yrs.
― wishy washy hippy variety hour (Hunt3r), Thursday, 25 June 2015 15:03 (nine years ago) link
Who's surprised?
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/texas-gov-greg-abbott-picks-homeschooler-to-chair-state-board-of-education/
A Texas watchdog group expressed concerned this week after Gov. Greg Abbott named a new chairperson to the State Board of Education who has never sent her own children to a public school. Last week, Abbott announced that he was appointing Houston Republican Donna Bahorich, a former communications director for Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, to chair the Board of Education.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 26 June 2015 04:44 (nine years ago) link
So is she going to do all her work at home or what
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 26 June 2015 05:53 (nine years ago) link
i see from FB liberals are back in unconditional love with Obama.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 June 2015 12:58 (nine years ago) link
I see you're out of Bellevue.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 June 2015 13:03 (nine years ago) link
What I hated this week was packaging fast track approval as a victory because it got done.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 June 2015 13:04 (nine years ago) link
The White House still has to release the final trade texts for 60 days before Congress votes to ratify the agreements. I am guessing despite how ugly the thing will look, the votes won't change, and the mainstream media take on it won't either.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 27 June 2015 14:42 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, listing fast-track as amongst the victories for Obama this week kinda mars what was otherwise close to historic combination of achievements. Not for Obama, per se, not due to him, but still.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 27 June 2015 14:52 (nine years ago) link
does anyone remember that O didn't come out for marriage til when, '13?
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 June 2015 22:14 (nine years ago) link
iirc it was 2012, election yeara few days earlier biden publicly stated he was comfortable with gay marriagewhich made things kinda awkward for obamaalso some wealthy gay donors threatened to withhold supportnevertheless imo better to judge politicians on their actions rather than purity of their motivesthe latter is utterly futile standard in politics
― drash, Saturday, 27 June 2015 23:01 (nine years ago) link
if you judge them only on the purity of the motives on this subject, you have to rate Gavin Newsom really high, but I wouldn't rank him high on anything else.
― akm, Sunday, 28 June 2015 02:52 (nine years ago) link
his hair
― a silly gif of awkward larping (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 28 June 2015 07:31 (nine years ago) link
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius),
he fully supported it as a state senator
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 28 June 2015 11:09 (nine years ago) link
Barack Obama misled Americans for his own political benefit when he claimed in the 2008 election to oppose same sex marriage for religious reasons, his former political strategist David Axelrod writes in a new book, Believer: My Forty Years in Politics.
“I’m just not very good at bullshitting,” Obama told Axelrod, after an event where he stated his opposition to same-sex marriage, according to the book.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 28 June 2015 15:17 (nine years ago) link
not bad at it now
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 28 June 2015 15:26 (nine years ago) link
“I’m just not very good at bullshitting,”
i disagree
anyway, i’m critical of obama re many things but give him some credit for (belatedly) stating pro-ssm position as potus; even though actually the credit may be due to biden
― drash, Sunday, 28 June 2015 15:31 (nine years ago) link
it must be remembered that our elected leaders almost never lead us, but follow public opinion and keep their private opinions out of sight. it is up to activists to change public opinions and this is a full time job that is difficult to do in elective office. there are exceptions, of course, but this is the rule.
― Aimless, Sunday, 28 June 2015 16:30 (nine years ago) link