American politics 2016: Lawyers, Guns, and D-Money

@NickPinkerton
A daring reinterpretation of the Pietà.

yeah wgaf ex-prezzes are all chummy

Hail to the Chiefs with a wave of the hand

http://www.ctvnews.ca/polopoly_fs/1.1996864.1410196140!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_620/image.jpg

There are fewer living ex-presidents than there are Morbs posts on this thread in the last half hour.

Ex presidents tend to get along when they don't belong to the same party.

Pappy Bush and Jr definitely seem far less evil out of power.

hey speaking of d-money, foia request got gov lepage's li'l trapper keeper of drug dealers:

https://twitter.com/mikeshepherdME/status/780409434082279424

hey also if you see it on video that hug is pretty cold and lasts all of a quarter of a second

photographs lie

Famous TV guy weighed in on Michelle-W photo:

David Simon
‏@AoDespair
An American Rohrschach: If offended from either end of spectrum, you're an ideologue. If just a moment, maybe not.

@ggreenwald
If you're opposed to the embracing & normalizing of a torturer & war criminal, then you're a dirty "ideologue." After all, he's an AMERICAN.

Pappy Bush and Jr definitely seem far less evil out of power.

It's like what they did never happened! Etch-a-Sketch history.

Boy, you're really obsessed with this.

Just so we're all on the record, what, in this situation, should Michelle Obama have done? Spit on him? Slap him? Snub him? Shake his hand with a sneer of contempt? Please include in your answer what you think the result from the chattering classes would have been.

exiled him to live with Snowden

i don't expect slime to do anything but slime, chief

Greenwald was backing that torturer and war criminal up when it actually mattered.

But good on him for jumping on a high horse years after the fact.

i'd like to see a high horse jump on y... nah, too easy

Money for Flint, MI may get approved today in a separate bill from the Continuing budget resolution bill that is gonna get voted on by Friday (Republicans were obsessed with using the latter bill only for aid to Louisiana)

http://patch.com/michigan/bloomfield-mi/senate-democrats-threaten-government-shutdown-over-flint-aid

First veto override today. Big day!

nice election-year pandering, but it's the thought that counts

idk if you've noticed -- the catholic left feels like it's having a moment right now. bernie, frances, etc etc

anyway, if you want to abolish capitalism and also abortion maybe it's your thing:

http://tradinista.com/a-tradinista-manifesto/

have fun!

The money for Flint took TOO FUCKING LONG.

well see the residents of Flint aren't Real Americans like the rural whites of Louisiana

MO Senate race moved to toss-up column

http://cookpolitical.com/senate/charts/race-ratings

chris christie announces deal raising new jersey's gas tax by 23 cents per gallon . . . at 5pm on a friday, of course

‏@JoseCanseco
where is the new Dick Lugar. Where?

‏@DougHenwood
"I'd rather end my own life with a plastic fork than watch the VP debate." - Barbara Ehrenreich on Facebook

Why are you crediting Doug Henwood's twitter for that? Did he write those words for a fictional Barbara Ehrenreich fb post?

*sigh*

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/political-pulse/os-murphy-pulls-closer-to-rubio-in-new-senate-poll-20161005-story.html

Why the sigh? 4 points is great right?

Rubio's probably going to win...? It's amazing that anyone votes for such a useless feeb w no interest in his job

Incumbent advantage is a hell of a drug.

He had a much bigger lead before iirc. It could continue to close and a strong turnout in FL (which you know team Hill is going to invest heavily in) could = squeaker upset.

eh I wouldn't hold my breath

We're stuck rooting for bland, centrist senatorial candidates in Florida and Ohio and elsewhere

This hasn't helped Strickland in Ohio:

Early money, amplified by the support from outside groups, allowed for shock and awe. Through the end of this June, as an illustration, Portman and his allies spent $31.7 million compared to $11.4 million from Strickland and his supporters.
Strickland spokesman David Bergstein noted that more money has been spent against Strickland than any Democrat in the country – and, through the summer, that included Clinton. This drove up his negatives. “Senator Portman has spent his career in Washington pushing the agenda of the rich and the powerful at the expense of Ohio’s working families, and these shadowy special interests are trying to buy this Senate seat for their lap dog,” Bergstein said.

from Washington Post

https://politicalwire.com/2016/10/06/bonus-quote-of-the-day-922

now I'm imagining Christie singing Beyonce's "Don't Hurt Yourself"

I'm not.

you're imagining him twerking to "Sorry"?

I pictured him licking K-Lo's hair to "All Night."

If Donald Trump is elected president and Republicans hold onto Congress, House Speaker Paul Ryan is bluntly promising to ram a partisan agenda through Capitol Hill next year, with Obamacare repeal and trillion-dollar tax cuts likely at the top of the list. And Democrats would be utterly defenseless to stop them.

Typically, party leaders offer at least the pretense of seeking bipartisanship when discussing their policy plans. But Ryan is saying frankly that Republicans would use budget reconciliation — a powerful procedural tool — to bypass Democrats entirely. It’s the same tool Republicans slammed Democrats for using to pass the 2010 health care law over their objections.

...Both parties have used budget reconciliation in the past. George W. Bush’s trillion-dollar tax cuts were passed under the procedure in 2001 and 2003; Democrats used it in 2010 to finish passing Obamacare, with Republicans rebuking Democrats for running roughshod over the GOP.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/paul-ryan-budget-congress-229216

I find this feed kind of fascinating.

https://twitter.com/rockerthompson

The guy calls himself a progressive in his bio and he has moveon.org as his profile pic. He hates Trump. He thinks Clinton is corrupt. He loves pot. He's pro-choice. He thinks it's "racist" that Luke Cage has an all-black cast and that Kim Kardashian dates more black men than white men. He says things like "nothing says joy quite like being naked on a Sunday smoking while playing a video game" and "An interesting moment when I realized watching two billionaires by both of them needs it its a crime its happening while americans strave" and "call me crazy it makes me uneasy when I post about Hillary. I mean many people are dead connected to them" and "Hillary needa my help after the entire rigging and screwing bernie yeah how About no." He links to news stories about cops trying to run over civilians but also says things like "if black privilege doesn't exist how did Cosby get away with his crimes .."

This is a politics that literally makes no sense to me, I have no idea how to interpret it. What is this guy like in real life? Who is he voting for? What does he really want?

he sounds pretty dumb + confused tbph

Gaze not into the abyss

But Mordy, lots of dumb and confused people, maybe even MOST dumb and confused people, fit neatly into a political slot that I understand; after all, that's the simplest thing to do if you're dumb and confused! Not this guy. But what I'm asking is, maybe there's a political slot I DON'T understand, maybe one I don't even know about, and maybe lots and lots of dumb, confused people are slotted into it!

alt-left

maybe not dumb, just someone you disagree with?

An interesting moment when I realized watching two billionaires by both of them needs it its a crime its happening while americans strave

I've seen people call it the 'harassment left'.