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

kingfish all the action is in the call and response following the speech. it takes major fucking balls to go into the lions' den like he did and tell them to send him financially-sound bills or shut the fuck up, response after response

i mean, scott brown was rattled by talking to jay leno the other night

mr que they mean hawaii, i think

harbl there are no republicans in hawaii--he says "our way home" not "Obama's way home"

"We began 2010 in the back yard of President Obama, where he was born,"

it doesn't make sense but

yeah

Wow I was unaware the GOP started 2010 in Kenya.

you eke out votes where you can find them

Armey said in an interview that tea-party activists will gravitate toward Republican candidates only if the GOP shows it has been "rehabilitated" following almost a decade of increased government spending under President George W. Bush. "The Republican Party is on probation with us," said Armey, president of FreedomWorks, a conservative activist group. "We still have our hurt and our disappointments for their malfeasance of years not too recent...

the paragraph before, of course, introduces the speaker as "Richard K. Armey, a former GOP House leader"

"years not too recent"? he must have misspoken.

At the GOP retreat I thought it was funny when the rep from IL and Obama were all 'dude, remember back in the day when we co-sponsored those bills?'

Just re-watched this. I think this is the best thing I've seen since Obama took office. The best part was when he pulled out the GOP health care reform booklet and read from the grade-school talking point summary, then said (paraphrasing):

"That's great but you know, I could have just come out and said 'I'm giving everyone coverage, no pre-existing condition problems, no rising premiums, and it's not going to cost a penny.' Great politics. But doesn't mean there's any substance there."

not sure how this jibes with discretionary spending freeze but sounds pretty good to me

"If you're a small business and pay taxes as an individual taxpayer, your taxes are going up," McConnell said.

Is there a reason why you would do this?

cuz yr trying to avoid paying taxes?

"Hi, my name's Mitch McConnell and I am going to throw sand in your motherfucking eyes as long as that microphone's on," McConnell said.

very small businesses like mine involve small business owners who pay taxes as an individual taxpayer, just fyi. but I do not mind if my taxes go up; I'm liberal & believe that taxation to pay for services is OK. I resent that my money has to go to fighting wars I don't believe in & to pay for government salaries that I feel are excessive, but those are the breaks.

oh yeah and I super fucking object to my tax money paying the salaries of people who are torturing prisoners, like big-time

http://pewresearch.org/assets/publications/1478-5.gif

lol we r the party of smart

From my photojournalist friend, en route to shoot Michelle Bachman: "they're having me do video in case she says something fucked"

en route to shoot Michelle Bachman

Should we post bail?

a good friend of mine did some volunteer legal work in new orleans so this is serious smh to me

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/breitbart_claim_jailed_okeefe_couldnt_access_attor.php

aaagh just processed the quote there

He accused the U.S. attorney of leaking information to the media in a "concerted effort" to frame the episode in a way that would put O'Keefe in a bad position.

Asked by Fox's Megyn Kelly what motivation the U.S. Attorney would have to make such an effort, Breitbart responded: "Well, it's tied to the Justice Department. And we've been very aggressive in asking Eric Holder to investigate what's seen on the ACORN tapes, and he's ignored it."

"his experience going thru the guts of the louisiana justice system was really horrible...because eric holder hates us!!"

yeah, or maybe... ah never mind. dickhead.

In other unsurprising news, Sarah Palin used her PAC to bulk-buy her own book, which is technically legal.

I wish that every single one of these news stories made a mention of the de rigueur bulk-book-buying just to get some political tome up the NYT bestseller lists.

Interviewed on Fox just moments ago, Andrew Breitbart claimed that alleged Landrieu phone tamperer James O'Keefe "sat in jail for 28 hours without access to an attorney."

Booh hoo hoo fucking hoo. I don't know how many people have had this problem. This is news?? Get me a tissue.

http://www.manorhg.com/store/images/MT_Toscana_Rec_Tissue.jpg

"do you know what kind of people were in there? seriously, how many drudge hits do you need to get bumped to the front of the line in this country?!?!"

yeah, but when you're desperately trying to recover the narrative that ACORN is evil, you do whatever you can to have it mentioned and re-mentioned.

And it works, too.

i wonder if o'keefe ASKED for an attorney

i wonder if he met an actual pimp

Kos polls self-identified Republicans. Yikes.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/2/2/832988/-The-2010-Comprehensive-Daily-Kos-Research-2000-Poll-of-Self-Identified-Republicans

I like a good laugh at the dumb 'ol republicans as much as the next guy, but that's some spectacularly shit polling and they know it.

yeah, this is basically the Democrat version of the ACORN pimp video

I thought those results were more or less in line with what other polls have said about self-identified Repubs and/or F0x news viewers, going back months.

thanks for reminding me of why i never read daily kos

Seems like pretty straightforward questions to me.

"these results are startling: we never thought we could be THIS RIGHT about republicans"

man i don't read kos either, but that's a weird thing to get mad about

why do we need a leading poll to confirm that people who continue to identify as republicans are not in touch with the world

xposts

It's the way most of the questions are phrased: "Do you think that [statement that is controversial/ridiculous to kos readers]?" People who do polling know full well that questions phrased like that will get a much higher yes response than a question with two or more specific options. Also:

Do you believe Barack Obama is a racist who hates White people?

Yes 31
No 36
Not Sure 33

I bet more people think Obama is racist, but were too afraid to tell a live operator the truth.

You don't even think yr poorly done poll reflects those dumb R's being dumb enough. I don't like you.

goole these days it's the main thing i get mad about - this tribal mentality is ridiculous

sure am looking forward to American Taliban, though.

re Kos, see also Keith Lolbermann calling Obama's Q&A w/ Reps "a moment in history."

haha that is massive overstatement but I did thoroughly enjoy Seth Meyers' Weekend Update bit on that:

On Friday President Obama appeared before House Republicans in a historic televised Q & A and performed so well, afterwards GOP aides said that allowing cameras to roll like that was a mistake. Come on Republicans, are you on such a Scott Brown high you thought you could take down Barack Obama by debating him? You realize debates are why he is President, right? Seriously, all you do is complain how Obama is all talk and then you invite him to a forum that is literally all talk. That's like saying, "Let's see how tough Aquaman is once we get him in the water." I'm not saying you were out classed but the whole thing was like the scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" when the guy charged at Indiana Jones with the sword and he just shot him.

looool

goole these days it's the main thing i get mad about - this tribal mentality is ridiculous

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, February 2, 2010 12:11 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

it's inevitable!

this is what happens when you let non landowners vote imo

good god, could you imagine how fucked-up our elections would be if you had to own real estate to vote

imagine how (much more) fucked up our real estate business would be

we would probably do things like allow slavery, prevent women from voting, and create a highly undemocratic upper house in the legislature