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

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

bailing MLK Jr out of jail is pretty defensible, though

The point about Graham is that he's definitely a politically-right-wing person whom has preached in favor of social justice (particularly with regards to segregation).

Dude, Frank Schaeffer has a blog, and he is one angry man -- I like him.

Graham was on the right side of civil rights, I don't think there's any question about that.

Apparently he's an Obama-stan but I'm prepared to let that go for his very excellent rants, occasionally given on-air on Rachel Maddow, among other places.

yeah what little I know of Schaeffer is pretty awesome. his dad was cRaZy pro-lifer (the father of the movement, in a lot of respects) but towards the end was pretty appalled at the movement he had had a direct hand in creating.

Yeah, I got my dad some of his books for Christmas (I only hope he reads them).

I approve of Schaeffer's defense of O's first year

by which I mean it sums up what he's achieved pretty well, and I don't think those accomplishments are insignificant. However, I don't have a problem with the left continuing to apply pressure for him to do MORE, because that is the left's job.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/christians-urged-to-boycott-glenn-beck/?partner=rss&emc=rss

This is one more article that makes me think the evangelical America that has been pawns of the right wing war machine for the past 8 years is the only real hope progressives have for making the public case for medical reform and financial regulations. Greed is an evil sin and Jesus is one of the world's most famous free health care providers in history. But could the Dems even handle memes so simple and flawless.

francis schaeffer: i haet u forever and i also haet the psuedointellectual army of apologists you birthed who think you can trace the evils of postmodern relativism to aquinas fuck u fuck u fuck u

frank schaeffer: <3 u