Capehart claims Mitch has got it: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/07/29/how-mitch-mcconnell-went-gangsta-on-ted-cruz-and-mike-lee/
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 18:01 (eight years ago) link
okay lol at what he did to Mike Lee
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 18:07 (eight years ago) link
don't fuck w the blobfish
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 18:27 (eight years ago) link
Capehart is absolutely correct about McConnell's leadership vs. Boehner's. they're both shitbags, but McConnell knows how to run the game.
mcconnell seems genuinely interested in governing. what a concept.
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 18:28 (eight years ago) link
all the jockeying over symbolic votes to overturn Obamacare are hilarious, like this is what they're wasting their time/energy/political capital on when there is absolutely zero hope that they will ever get the votes to override a veto
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 18:44 (eight years ago) link
It's to avoid a primary fight at home. But at one point does a voter say, "OK, message received, you want my vote, stop trying and go get laid"?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 18:51 (eight years ago) link
my congressman was just indicted:http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/chaka-fattah-indicted-criminal-charges-philadelphia-mayor-campaign-120775.html
― Mordy, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link
this is the second congressman i've voted for to be embroiled in an ethical scandal (i was living in washington heights when charlie rangel got in trouble)
― Mordy, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 19:32 (eight years ago) link
It's amazing to me how cheaply these dudes get bought
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 20:00 (eight years ago) link
there's a whole like political science theory about that
― go hang a salami I'm a canal, adam (silby), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 20:02 (eight years ago) link
or maybe just daily kos memes idk
― go hang a salami I'm a canal, adam (silby), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 20:04 (eight years ago) link
Phil Gramm has thoughts on the 5th anniversary of Dodd-Frank:
GRAMM: It’s the one form of bigotry that is still allowed in America, and that’s bigotry against the successful … My friend Ed Whitacre at AT&T, if there’s ever been an exploited worker, even though they made a big deal about him getting $75 million when he retired, the man added billions of dollars of value, he was exploited, it was an outrage!
(his exploited friend was actually given a $158 million retirement package, not $75)
― 1992 ball boy (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 20:54 (eight years ago) link
an OUTRAGE
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 20:55 (eight years ago) link
think of all the ivory backscratchers he was unjustly deprived of
the soft bigotry of high retirement packages
― brownie, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 20:56 (eight years ago) link
his wife was on the enron board I wonder what her severance was
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 20:59 (eight years ago) link
bennies
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 21:23 (eight years ago) link
otm
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 21:28 (eight years ago) link
Forgot that when you retire you get to keep all the money you made your company.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 22:55 (eight years ago) link
The truly exploited people are the poor saps forced to use an AT&T service.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 23:10 (eight years ago) link
there is a funny kernel in Gramm's line of reasoning in that his argument is predicated on the (basically socialist) concept that shareholders have an ethical obligation to share their earnings with the workers that generated them. What's telling about Gramm's conception of the situation is that he takes it as a given that the CEOs working at the top are *actually doing the hardest work most deserving of compensation* - those farther down the ladder, their work is not as deserving/is less important. There's a basic, rock bottom elitism there.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 23:22 (eight years ago) link
so uh how bad is this Planned Parenthood blowup going to get?
(and is ilx talking about this somewhere else?)
― big fat rascal (will), Friday, 31 July 2015 00:45 (eight years ago) link
Former president Jimmy Carter said Tuesday on the nationally syndicated radio show the Thom Hartmann Program that the United States is now an “oligarchy” in which “unlimited political bribery” has created “a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors.” Both Democrats and Republicans, Carter said, “look upon this unlimited money as a great benefit to themselves.”
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/30/jimmy-carter-u-s-oligarchy-unlimited-political-bribery/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:36 (eight years ago) link
Been that way since the beginning fwiw
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:36 (eight years ago) link
i knew that was coming. Things are substantially worse than they were 40 years ago.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:40 (eight years ago) link
here is some amplification
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/feb/26/jimmy-carter/jimmy-carter-says-when-he-ran-against-gerald-ford-/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:47 (eight years ago) link
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, July 31, 2015 11:36 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius),
did you guys switch identities?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:52 (eight years ago) link
lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 31 July 2015 15:55 (eight years ago) link
It is Friday.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:56 (eight years ago) link
Oh no, we both clicked on that link AT THE SAME TIME
ha
― Οὖτις, Friday, 31 July 2015 16:13 (eight years ago) link
Will endear each of them to millions.
http://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/bush-clinton-cover.jpg?quality=65&strip=color&w=814
― clemenza, Friday, 31 July 2015 21:41 (eight years ago) link
gross
― Οὖτις, Friday, 31 July 2015 21:46 (eight years ago) link
why does Time Magazine still exist anyway
People wanna know what's happening in the world, week by week. The people who work during the day, and can read it small. And it's concise, and there's pictures in it. A certain class of people--it's a class of people that take the magazine seriously. I read it on the airplanes.
― clemenza, Friday, 31 July 2015 21:53 (eight years ago) link
Obama going refreshingly off-script in his announcement of the Clean Power Plan, which is still live right now if anyone's reading this.
― 1992 ball boy (Karl Malone), Monday, 3 August 2015 18:37 (eight years ago) link
great link thx Karl
gonna be a lot of talk about this around my office
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 August 2015 18:40 (eight years ago) link
yeah, there's gonna be a million lawsuits, too
― 1992 ball boy (Karl Malone), Monday, 3 August 2015 18:41 (eight years ago) link
yeah I should hit up my former coworkers who went into energy/environmental law
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 August 2015 18:48 (eight years ago) link
http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0411/Murray_stunned_government_might_shutter_over_Planned_Parenthood.html
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said Thursday that Republican pressure to include a rider to a budget deal defunding Planned Parenthood is “stunning” to her as a woman and that Senate leadership will not back down in their support of women’s health issues.
“I am really stunned. And I am angry as a woman that we have come to this after weeks of negotiating on numbers… that there are those in the Republican party in the House who are willing to shutdown the government, take people’s paychecks away from them because they want to deny women access to health care in this country,” Murray told reporters. “Every woman and every man in this country ought to be saying, ‘What are you doing?’”
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said repeatedly Thursday that the spending talks between Senate Democrats, the White House and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) essentially have broken down in the 11th hour not over figures but over “ideology.”
― goole, Monday, 3 August 2015 19:03 (eight years ago) link
i was naive to think that the GOP's ransom/govt. shutdown strategy would be limited to years in which democrats and republicans split control of congress. now i realize it's EVERY YEAR. shit, even if they controlled both houses of congress + the presidency, i could see them threatening to shut down the govt
― 1992 ball boy (Karl Malone), Monday, 3 August 2015 19:09 (eight years ago) link
If you value your health, don't read the comments.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 August 2015 19:15 (eight years ago) link
i read the first one (which featured MAMAGRAMS in all caps) and closed the tab
― 1992 ball boy (Karl Malone), Monday, 3 August 2015 19:15 (eight years ago) link
I would never work for the government if my paycheck got held hostage every 4 months
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 3 August 2015 19:18 (eight years ago) link
we usually end up getting backpay, but it does throw a colossal wrench into everyone's work
― 1992 ball boy (Karl Malone), Monday, 3 August 2015 19:20 (eight years ago) link
And we have to deal with the Chinese hackers stealing our identity and our bank accounts. Thanks OPM.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 3 August 2015 20:18 (eight years ago) link
Planned Parenthood defunding failed (gee what a surprise)
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 August 2015 22:47 (eight years ago) link
I forgot about that verse in "I'm Just a Bill on Capitol Hill" that starts with the making of a hoax/attack video
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 August 2015 22:58 (eight years ago) link
have ppl talked about jade helm anywhere on here?
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/camp-shelby-gunfire-soldier-reports-more-shots-fired-at-mississippi-military-facility/
this is nuts
― goole, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 15:47 (eight years ago) link