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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

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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.

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"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

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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

And if you're gay and own real estate, imagine the awesome levels of self-loathing.

GOP pants-wetters trip over their own dicks yet again:

Republicans may have a hard time keeping up their talking point about how reading Miranda rights to the Christmas Day bomber represented a dangerous new direction under President Barack Obama.

It turns out that that back in December 2001, Richard Reid — the “shoe bomber” — was read or reminded of his Miranda rights four times in two days, beginning five minutes after being taken into custody.

Furthermore, the Bush administration specifically rejected the idea of a military tribunal — another step that Republicans have argued should have been taken in the case of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who tried to bring down Northwest Flight 253 over Detroit on Christmas Day and was read his rights after 50 minutes of FBI questioning.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32399.html#ixzz0ePqUNCjG

I meant that the tribal mentality of the daily kos makes me ill

yeah i know, it's not my thing either. the way i tend to think about it is a) hyperpartisans are useful to any political movement, and b) hyperpartisans like that, well, exist and if markos moulitsas didn't come up with a site for them to talk to each other on/direct their energies with, someone else would have

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

Hope he's a better president than he is a left-back ;_;
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that seth meyers bit was hilarious -- also on the DS last night when they said obama was seeing their talking points in slow motion & they showed a photoshop of obama as neo from the matrix bending back and dodging a bullet

tracer otm about that poll & daily kos - the only people who will find that info useful are people like us and that kind of hi-fiving is useless

lol "useful" prob wasn't the word i was going for

I found this fascinating yesterday. Reagan the leftist?

This one is almost as good. The best recent book on how Reagan handled Gorby and Soviet diplomacy generally is James Mann's Reagan's Rebellion.

The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan, sorry.

depressing

What's depressing isn't even that I agree with Reagan, it's that there's an intellectual underpinning, a coherent argument behind it. With the present bunch it's all mindless CYA for Cheney and everyone's embarrassing flip-out after 9-11.

yep its very much CYA in action - Dubya/Cheney fucked things up so bad bringing so many random people into detention and then torturing them, its like there's no legally and politically viable way forward

And the partisan rump of remaining Republicans will find and use ANY way to justify anything to their (perceived) advantage.