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

just pass some shit jesus christ

We can all be assured that not regulating the banking sector is one of the few policies that one can count on for overwhelming bipartisan support.

just pass some shit jesus christ

― The Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, February 5, 2010 12:17 PM (1 hour ago)

seriously, fuck a bipartisan consensus

And do it in a reconciliation bill that just takes 51 votes

I'm pretty sure some shit is all that will pass

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also, the Best Picture race is now the most prominent instant-runoff election in America:

http://www.fairvote.org/oscar-blog-focuses-on-new-instant-runoff-voting-system

Max, one of my friends is on the Shelby block list (he is one of the National Council on Disability appts) and what should be a slam-dunk confirmation is now at the mercy of old-school DC feudalism because they're relying on a single GOP senator to shift this. The GOPer in question is, of course, an old family friend of the appointee (and no, I haven't found out which senator).

The full Stewart-O'Reilly interview. He comes off very, very well.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/02/the-propaganda-that-is-fox-news.html#more

Sarah Palin brings the house down at Tea Party Convention

When Andrew Breitbart, the founder of BigGovernment.com, introduced Ms. Palin by describing her as “the first person to tell us about the death panel,” the crowd cheered.

siiigh

it's like a pluggers cartoon come to life

^^^

Palin disses teleprompters, repeatedly checks notecards.

I just have to believe that most people are not falling for this

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/02/07/us/07teaparty03/07teaparty03-popup.jpg

I was weirded out by the BBC coverage of this: bulletins made it seem like some HUGE event with an unquestioned leader and we had to wait for proper news items for context like 'in front of 1000'. They ran a few seconds of word salad. I'm eager to see 'writes crib notes on her hand' and how everything she says can be boiled down to Kinder, Kirche, Kultur. I'm sorry, but this woman and her supporters are a 21st-century Bund.

Anyone who chances on Sullivan's blog today will note he is having a total hernia over this speech! We should be afraid because she thinks she's Queen Esther!

Note the Christianist earrings, people:

http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/139125/thumbs/s-PALIN-large.jpg

"i believe i can fly..."

she is going to make an awesome ross perot in 2012

OTM Tracer.

oh so you're MY bitch now, eh??

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stefan-sirucek/did-palin-use-crib-notes_b_452458.html

http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2010-02-07-palinhandclose.jpg

rrrreally hope there's a lefty indie prez run in the midst of the 2012 depression so we have a 35-35-15-15 pop vote. I will laugh and laugh...

(I know, it won't happen -- 95% of libs will never abandon the Dems unto death)

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^^^ craigslist spammers branch out into new venues

she is unbelievable

lol @ "loft apartment santa"

<3 you all but making fun of her for writing on her hand isn't any better than t-baggers calling obama the teleprompter president - take it to crooks & liars

I think the idea is that Obama doesn't appear at events that decry Palin as the teleprompter rabble-rouser whatever. It's a gotcha, and maybe its pleasures are thin, but it's about the hypocrisy of the "just a regular folkperson speakin' from the heart" posture, not the act of writing down notes.

Although I really don't get the idea of writing notes on your hand instead of, yknow, on note cards.

<3 you all but making fun of her for writing on her hand isn't any better than t-baggers calling obama the teleprompter president - take it to crooks & liars

lol--you can't see the difference between using the teleprompter to give a speech and writing on a hand like you're in 9th grade civics class

yeah the teleprompter is for prepared remarks. obama does q&a's all the time without peeking at his hand.

(and in palin's case, it's like, does she really need prompting to think of energy and taxes? really?)

also i have never, ever understood the teleprompter slam, since every politician since moses has used prepared remarks. i guess it's just a way to try to blunt one of his obvious strengths -- "sure, he can give a good speech, but it's all written down" -- but it's always been nonsensical.

whatever i like to spend my time worrying about how people are paying for the healthcare they can't afford and if we're torturing suspected criminals, not the logistics of speech-giving

but i'm a popist

xp

i like that she has literally drawn a line through 'budget'

when i once told a palinite "you can't deny dude gives a good speech" the retort was "you don't think he has speechwriters?"

that was shortly followed by "you know bill ayers wrote dreams from my father, right?"

it's just one more indication that she can't think for herself. if you have to write "energy" and "tax" on your hand to remind you how to speak correctly, and what things are important. . . what are the chances you can put together solutions and fix problems? not very likely

it's not like she wrote down a complicated answer. she wrote down the word ENERGY. do you see?

right i mean

i think it was sullivan who pointed out that she was attempting to make a list of what her priorities as president would be

and she had to write them on her hand

she had to write her priorities as president on her hand

shoulda gone for this
http://www.desicouples.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/henna-kamasutra.jpg

yeah i'm just not interested in that sub-dkos/crooksnliars gossip shit, i've got enough issues with sarah palin that i don't need to resort to calling her out for using notes - however elementary - for her speech

Now for comparison, here are rough drafts of written remarks by some elitist law professor type:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2743/4290936205_6fc346d0d3.jpg

Marginalia is the mark of socialism

palin always delivers - amazing

http://defectiveyeti.com/images/fp/palinhand.jpg

http://www.gifbin.com/bin/1233928590_citizen%20kane%20clapping.gif

every time she opens her mouth she sounds like an idiot. not sure why we need to get on her for hand notes, either. i'd rather be hearing about some particularly stupid/scary shit she said, since i didn't watch or read a transcript.

“We’re at war and these are acts of war that these terrorists are committing and we need to treat them differently,” she said. “I don’t think terrorists are worthy of rights that people like my son fight and are willing to die for.”

“Now that my focus has been enlarged, I sure as heck better be more astute on these current events, national issues,” she said during the recorded interview.

That was just one of several digs at President Obama. “How’s that hopey-changey thing workin’ out for you?” she asked at one point. She blasted him for rising deficits, “apologizing for America” in speeches in other countries, and for allowing the so-called Christmas bomber to board a plane headed for the United States, saying he was weak on the war on terrorism.

“To win that war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law,” she declared.

“America is ready for another revolution!” she told the crowd, prompting the first of several standing ovations.

yeah i'm just not interested in that sub-dkos/crooksnliars gossip shit, i've got enough issues with sarah palin that i don't need to resort to calling her out

Normally I'd agree, but seeing as she called Obama out for using a Teleprompter in this speech, I think it's fair game...but yes, the speech is fucking scary shit...

“To win that war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law,” she declared.

I don't understand this at all. Is she saying that professors of law are less well-equipped to assume the role of commander in chief than other professions? Or is she saying that Obama approaches the commander in chief position as a lawyer, and he shouldn't...deliberate so much? Because that's what lawyers do - think about stuff a lot and weight different options? Or...or...? What the fuck is it supposed to mean?