US POLITICS: AMERICANS, PLEASE WELCOME YOUR NEW PRESIDENT... SCOTT BROWN!

who made Ed Droste the spokesman for the common man?

THAT'S RACIST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W9TgqWuJTk

confession time, prior to now I have never heard a note of Guadalcanal Diary's music

second best band of the 80s, behind the housemartins.

Already sick of the Facebook status about Biden, Michelle, and Pelosi wearing purple to encourage bipartisanship.

Josh Marshall posted this letter:

Maybe it's just because I'm a poli sci major turned lawyer, but that moment when he turned to the Supremes and took them directly to task for Dred Scott II the Citizens United opinion, and then watching the majority look completely taken aback as the other branch of government stood up, looked at them and cheered actually stunned me a bit.

I know I've never seen anything like that happen in a SOTU and if anything like that has ever happened before in a SOTU or a joint session, I must have been hung over the day of the lecture in college. Even the fireside chat in which FDR unveiled his court packing scheme, as dripping with patrician condescension and barely concealed venom as it was, didn't go second person and directly in their face the way Obama did tonight.

The Supremes are used to wafting into the House in their black robes, sitting dispassionately through the speech and wafting ethereally out again on a cloud of apolitical rectitude. It's like they forget they're there because they're one of the three branches. And I truly don't think it ever occured to them that crassly injecting themselves into the sordid partisan fray of what they like to call "the political branches" with that catastrophic decision would cause the President to treat them like people who'd injected themselves into the sordid partisan fray. (And why should they? After all, they got away with Bush v. Gore with barely a dent in their credibility). I even thought I detected a bit of "told you" coming from the four in the minority.

I think we saw a bit of history made tonight, and no one noticed except the Supremes themselves.

i have never heard of Guadalcanal Diary but that song rules, thx

people noticed. palin and hannity just now made a thing saying obama didn't respect separation of powers because of comments about the scotus.

"In his State of the Union address, President Obama asked Congress to repeal the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy. I am immensely proud of, and thankful for, every American who wears the uniform of our country, especially at a time of war, and I believe it would be a mistake to repeal the policy." - mccain

smh

the conclusion doesn't follow from mccain's premise.

sidenote: McCain's favorite song is Dancing Queen

Chris Matthews hanging himself:

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/msnbcs-matthews-i-forgot-he-was-black/?partner=rss&emc=rss

The Matthews thing seems innocuous and uncontroversial to me.

Apparently the GOP kept a tally of how many times O used first person singular and that is basically all they've got in the riposte dept. Awesome random Twitter:

@KarlRove Dubya didn't NEED to say "I" so much because YOU had your hand up his ass the entire time.

I hate word-counting as a subtitute for analysis. Even Top Columnists do it. It's like starting an article with a dictionary definition of a word, complete with pronunciation symbols. Ooh how lateral and artistic! No it's fucking LAY-ZEE SHIT.

chris matthews has said about a million worse things than that on air and it hasn't mattered so...

Using overtly sexist language, he has referred to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) as a "she devil" and compared her to a "strip-teaser." He has called her "witchy" and likened her voice to "fingernails on a blackboard." He has referred to men who support her as "castratos in the eunuch chorus." He has suggested Clinton is not "a convincing mom" and said "modern women" like Clinton are unacceptable to "Midwest guys." He has called her "Madame Defarge" and "Nurse Ratched."

Number Crunching [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

Number of times the word "freedom" appears in Late of the Pier's Zarcorp Demo: 4

Number of times the word "freedom" appeared in President Obama's 2010 State of the Union speech: 3

Need I say more?

she's just mad that she has to tell the drive thru employee "french fries" every day

Strange Days [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

When Pink Floyd's dreary, pacificationist The Final Cut mentions the honor and dignity of military personnel more than the President of the United States does in the middle of two wars, that's when I know things have developed past a point of no return. For the Democrats, that is. Bring on 2010!

Time to Pretend [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

When our President (gag) lectures us to all get along and work together and show leadership and everything, I just can't help thinking that if he hadn't been so harsh on MGMT's live shows he'd have more credibility with independent voters. Remember them?

01.27.10 -- 11:52PM // recommend (416)

DEVIL'S BARGAIN?

Obama spoke tonight for exactly 71 minutes. Faust's 1995 album "71 Minutes of Faust" has, unsurprisingly, the same duration. Now, I'm not saying there's a connection. But it's hard to ignore.

Food for thought.

-- Josh Marshall

It's hard to ignore if you're COMPLETELY CRAZYPANTS.

haha

nicole you realise i am making these up..

01.28.10 -- 12:02AM // recommend (2)

COME SEE ABOUT ME

If the Supreme Court had any dignity left after its terrible decision to add a keyboard player, it now lies in tatters. Alito's egregious lip syncing during Obama's state of the Union is on a par with the great live debacles of all time. Now, I'm not saying they can't come back. Perhaps with an EP of remixes. But it won't be easy.

Something to mull over.

-- Josh Marshall

SOTU

Not as good as Tindersticks' first album.

-Atrios 16:33

Comments

ok that wasn't nearly as good as John D's early work

appendice to last night's theorising:

http://www.superpoop.com/012710/california-and-washington.jpg

nicole you realise i am making these up..

For some reason I thought that one was real? I shouldn't read or type before having any coffee in the morning.

prez-elect Brown on Leno tonight

Greenwald on the nonsense over Alito. I don't agree with all his points.

http://moonshinepatriot.blogspot.com/2010/01/state-of-union-address-president-barack.html

All right anyone who is not a useless piece of shit can stay - everyone else leave the room

[ Biden stands up ]

Joe you can stay too

[ Biden sits down ]

[ everyone else gets up to leave ]

All right all right you useless shitheads sit
your asses back down

[ everyone sits down ]

And let me give a shout-out to our esteemed Supreme Court justices!

Oh did I say esteemed - I meant to say soulless hypocritical corporate whores

[ Scalia and Alito stand up, wave to Congress ]

Hey Jersey Shore - sit the fuck down

yes that's right I'm wearing my motherfucking Nobel prize - check it out assholes!

[ waves Nobel prize ]

yeah I'm done with teleprompters - I'm all about my iPad now dudes!

Obama: Bull Run, Bloody Sunday, the Depression, Pearl Harbor, the day they canceled Star Trek - America has been tested many times before

Now you all know I inherited 2 wars and a motherfucking Depression

So of course we bailed out the people who created the problem

Inexplicably, things are now even suckier than they were before!

I’ve have traveled across this nation and read
your letters and holy fuck is this country in some deep shit

Most moving are the letters written in crayon - so I would like ask Michele Bachmann to please stop

that Michele Bachman crack is outstanding

01.28.10 -- 10:31AM // recommend (210)

SOPHOMORE CHUMP?

There's an awful lot of chatter going around about how Biden's second album is going to rule. Now, it's true that what we've heard is promising. There are some great guest stars. (There's never been doubt in my mind that Gene Loves Jezebel was ready for a revival.) But I'd wait to pop those champagne corks. This one could go either way.

Just a feeling I've got.

-- Josh Marshall

i thought the speech was ok--surprised he didnt mention electroclash at all

01.28.10 -- 1:58PM // recommend (210)

W.I.T OR WISDOM?

I've avoided writing about the conspicuous absence of electroclash in last night's speech for two reasons. First, I'm not really sure it's all that important. Second, I've never been completely comfortable with promiscuous trash-dolls doing heavy breathing over electronic beats. Even if they are taking over our cities. So if Obama wants to avoid the subject, that's fine with me.

Now, I'm sure some of you will call me old-fashioned. Out of touch. Ignorant to the destruction these fashionable punks are wreaking on our infrastructure. But if being old-fashioned is what it takes to retain a Congressional majority, I'm fine with that.

Something to chew on.

-- Josh Marshall

Que, is that excerpt from Gogglespeak Translations?

it's from the link i linked just above

just throwin this bad boy out here since politics are involved

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwxkyo7ZkP1qzuj2wo1_500.jpg

he does look like he has his motherfucker set to receive, doesn't he

is that val kilmer?

yeah is it?

hmph they're all talk on this thread but when you ask a straight question......

it's jim morrison

no que the dude in the middle with the glasses.

it was a joke--yeah it's val

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puJVPBVnki4

i was thinkin cos that's clearly mr mojo risin foolin no-one at the front in the white wig

man sometimes mamet's dialogue just seems undeliverable by anyone who is a human person