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

Yeah, I get the sense that K-Lo and Lowry are obligated to allow them space. I can usually tell when a outlier post by the quickness with which said post disappears into the abyss.

McCarthy, on the other hand, totally endorses Costa.

these guys who think there's something wrong with an attorney representing somebody who's charged with a crime as the lowest scumbags on the planet imo. I am seriously stunned by this shit. they should be ashamed of themselves. bright side I guess is like just when I'm thoroughly sickened by the dems, every time, reliably, somebody on the other side reminds me that having to eat a few bites of shit is still preferable to the whole bowl plus dessert.

Andrew McCarthy Former federal prosecutor :

The legal profession’s umbrage over an ad calling out DOJ’s voluntary al Qaeda lawyers is hypocritical and arrogant. The profession swooned as the Obama Justice Department tried to destroy Bush Administration lawyers who had, in good faith, represented what was, to the profession, an unpopular client. GEORGE BUSH WAS POLITICALLY UNPOPULAR? THAT'S KIND OF LIKE BEING PICKED UP AND THROWN INTO GUANTANAMO Our esteemed legal elites fanned the flames as DOJ threatened indictment and censure. FANNED THE FLAMES, DAMN John Yoo and Jay Bybee were not inundated with offers of free legal help for trying to maximize government’s lawful power to protect the American people. DO YOU NEED FREE LEGAL HELP WHEN YOU ARE THE LEGAL HELP? Nor were the Marines who were falsely accused of war crimes at Haditha. PRETTY SURE THESE GUYS HAD A PRETTY GOOD DEFENSE BROSEPH, BUT PLEASE, CONTINUE

Only our terrorist enemies get the red carpet treatment. OSCAR SEASON, TIMELY “Enemies” in this context is not hyperbole. We are at war under a congressional authorization. Nearly 200,000 young Americans are in harm’s way. But enemy operatives are returning to their jihad against our troops and our citizens thanks to the help of American law firms. YEAH MUST BE LIKE HUNDREDS AT THIS POINT RIGHT Only lawyers demand immunity from the ordinary duties of citizenship in a nation at war. ONLY LAWYERS? HOW ABOUT THE 99.8% OF THE POPULATION THAT'S NOT SERVING IN ANY WAY AND STILL WANTS THEIR TAXES TO GO DOWN And they further demand to be above criticism for donating their skills to al Qaeda operatives (though American prisoners must represent themselves in habeas corpus actions) DEMANDING TO BE ABOVE CRITICISM? NO, DIPSHIT, THEY ARE SAYING THE CRITICISM ITSELF IS DISGUSTING. The profession would reinterpret “patriotism” in total relativism: some risk their lives to fight the enemy for us, while others litigate so the enemy may be freed to return to the fight. I THINK WE ARE HAVING TROUBLE DETERMINING WHAT 'ENEMY' MEANS HERE AREN'T WE Americans are not buying – that’s why Liz Cheney’s common sense resonates. MY DICK IN YOUR EAR RESONATES TOO CAN YOU FEEL THAT SHIT ANDY BABY

thx, feel better now

Goddammit can this discredited-ass, rejected neoconservative philosophy please finish it's dying throes already?

Anyway, Reid wants to change (do away with? unclear) the filibuster.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/10/harry-reid-filibuster-rul_n_493474.html

If I were a writer for Mad Men and found out that Liz Cheney was a fan it would be so hard to not write a one-episode character named Liz Cheney who only exists so the rest of the cast can tell her to fuck off.

Somewhat amusing:

President Obama, Replace Rahm With Me: An Open Letter From Michael Moore

Let me be clear about one thing: The Democrats on Election Day 2010 are going to get an ass-whoopin' of biblical proportions if things don't change right now. And after the new Republican majority takes over, they, along with a few conservative Democrats in Congress, will get to bipartisanly impeach you for being a socialist and a citizen of Kenya. How nice to see both sides of the aisle working together again!

KING: It may be silly, but I guess we have to ask it, are your -- are you gay?
MASSA: Well, here's that answer, I'm not going to answer that.

"Ask my friends. Ask the 10,000 sailors I served with in the Navy."

"...who I vividly recall sliding down chutes in their birthday suits."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InBXu-iY7cw

MASSA: Well, here's that answer, I'm not going to answer that.

this is fucking amazing

Obama is planning to ban recreational fishing from the general public. This means that all fishing that anyone would want to attempt would now be illegal, even simple fishing in a pond would be banned. As a result of no fishing hundreds of thousands of jobs would be lost. Fishing tackle and supply companies would be forced to be shut down. All boat manufactures would be dealt another significant blow in this already hard economic time. Many Marinas across the country would be forced to cut back on employees, with the loss of clients who are out on the water to fish. The effect of this plan is endless, many more people will be put out of jobs and the economy would be hurt once again. If this goes as planned you can expect higher price on fish in restaurants, higher taxes on other random items to compensate for the loss of income from fishing license. Please pass this to everyone and make this a bigger issue

I better get to Red Lobster soon before the menu items get bumped up.

Why would menu prices go up from banning RECREATIONAL fishing?

Our nation's fisheries don't take it kindly when socialists ban fun.

In So. Louisiana lots of good seafood restaurants get fish from regular dudes who go out and have "great fishing weekends" every weekend.

these folks denouncing the defense attorneys are basically birchites for the 21st century no? again, what's shocking is that it involves the highly-connected daughter of a former vice-president/congressman/etc.

i hear obama is also banning wheelies. and pop tarts.

ugh - above meant to refer to LYNNE cheney's creepy anachronistic red-baiting anti-academic org, not liz's

Wow. Just. Wow.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6286426n&tag=api

oh man, i saw that clip earlier @ fox report and had to turn the volume down. good god. the thing is, i heard about it earlier because all these liberal blogs were like YEAH PATRICK KENNEDY. um.. is he ok?

hoooooly shit

haha i kind of love pat

RI forever

He's leaving Congress at the election.

i know

I mean, like, what happens when your kids see that video? what do you tell them? "April Fools CSPAN LOLZ!"?

democrats should put the gop's proposed budget reduction plan at the forefront of the debate in the november election. that's especially true when you compare it to obama's competing plan.

looks like the 'gop support' for financial reform is dead in the water. seriously dems, can you pls crucify these fools for refusing to vote for a consumer protection agency?

ps I know the answer is no, but still...

From a former coworker in Boston:

Rumors abound. The gist: health care reform is dead. ... Expect announcements tomorrow morning.

...

John Olver—no, Jim McGovern—no, John Tierney—no, Mike Capuano—no, Stephen Lynch—no, Bill Delahunt—no. Richard Neal—who helped draft HR 3962-is an expected no.

...

Niki Tsongas, Barney Frank, and Ed Markey—yes.

how would s/he know? is this just a rumor?

the pro-life dems are gonna vote against it - Pelosi just needs to make up those votes from the progressive caucus. I won't believe this is really "dead" until legislation actually fails, which, frankly the Dems are just not gonna allow at this point. no matter how shitty the final bill is.

yeah it's not a thrilling thing to think about but i think dems would much rather embrace a stupakesque gutting of abortion regs and pass something than let it fail.

HOW LOW CAN YOU GO?

youd be surprised. well, i mean, YOU wouldn't, but that's kinda your thing

I wonder if Reid's families plight will make him more sympathetic to the healthcare crises of the rest of America... (probably not)

family's

http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/03/12/beck.boycott/index.html

lololololol nice one, Glenn

The thing that strikes me about that cnn article is that they went for an opinion from each end of the spectrum...but Jim Wallis is in the center-ish left, and Falwell Jr is off the far right deep end of nutcase crazy.

Too bad they didn't talk to Billy Graham.

How do you mean? Graham was his own special kind of nutcase. Did you know he arranged his teenage daughter's marriage to some rich and much older donor?

fuck Billy Graham

I can't remember the deets but I think she was like 17 at the time.

like i said @ beck thread a couple days ago: i bet eventually he'll cross too many lines you're not supposed to cross. come on, you don't mess with somebody's church or tell them to leave their church.

i guess there's no way beck will accept an actual debate because he doesn't have a command of the facts & will look like a fool

Frank Schaeffer, from Crazy for God

And this was the same chapel that the Billy Graham family sometimes dropped by to worship in, along with their Swiss-Armenian, multimillionaire in-laws, after Billy---like some Middle Eastern potentate---arranged for his seventeen-year-old daughter’s marriage to the son of a particularly wealthy donor who lived up the road from us in the ski resort of Villars.

Did the followers of Billy Graham know he’d plucked his seventeen-year-old daughter out of her first semester at Wheaton College to marry a man much older than her that she had never met?

yeah when you get clowned by The View it's probably for the best that you stay ensconced in your crazypants show where you can spit all kinds of nonsense without the risk of being called out

but then again he was sort of punked by that idiot Massa in his own house, so...

Graham, while often explicitly apolitical, was a power-junkie plain and simple. which is its own special brand of disgusting.

called out in person, that is

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yeah i wonder if Graham is even more nefarious, in a way. even tons of devout fundamentalists think Falwell's a boob. but Graham is sort of a golden boy

sucking up to Nixon and Kim Jon Il is indefensible imho