US POLITICS SPRING 2011: Let's just call off this country.

That is sad

he looks like a cross between ezra koenig and one of those high school goofs with the combovers from that football show on mtv

that guy never gets laid

lol @ kevin

you guys....

i am a tea partier now

i've been converted

i love this country

that guy never gets laid

― in my world of loose geirs (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, March 31, 2011 10:40 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

pathological liars get laid a lot, don't they?

They might say they do; that's the problem with pathological liars...

does Ezra Koenig get laid

um, my guess is yes

^^^search result for "Ezra Koenig pimpin" btw

You tried it Shakey eh

They might say they do; that's the problem with pathological liars...

― nights of d. cameron (suzy), Thursday, March 31, 2011 10:56 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark

it just seems to me, from personal experience, that people with no conscience end up getting laid a lot.

look the initial goal was to defeat the legislation and vote it down. that didn't work.

Not really. Look, the R's have majorities in both houses and the governorship. There was never any question the law was going to be voted in. And there's no question the law can be passed legally, even if it hasn't been yet; there's no constitutional objection, only a procedural objection.

The initial goal was to DELAY. And that's still the goal. Delay, delay, delay, to shine a bright light on the guts of the budget bill and to radicalize Dems in WI and elsewhere. And it worked. You think there'd be thousands of Democrats knocking on doors for a State Supreme Court candidate and gathering recall petitions if Walker had gotten his bill through in three days with no news coverage? Nope, we'd just be sitting around complaining about the governor sucking.

happy friday everybody!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13738865/r-BOEHNER-TEA-PARTY-huge.jpg

^obv a shop, but i lold

Wisconsin Democrats just announced that local activists submitted over 100% of the signatures needed to "recall" Wisconsin Republican senator Dan Kapanke from office!

After local officials certify the signatures, a new election will be scheduled for Kapanke's seat. Today's news is sending shockwaves throughout Wisconsin, and will give huge momentum to efforts in other Senate districts to gather recall signatures.

from boldprogressives.org

from politico:

The filing will start a 31-day period during which the state’s Government Accountability Board will examine the signatures. Kapanke can challenge the signatures during the first 10 days of that period, and Republicans, Democrats or the board itself can request more time to assess the filing.

Democrats have not indicated who they might run against Kapanke in a recall election.

Traditionally a Republican constituency, police and firefighters are rapidly turning to Democrats after assaults on their union rights in Wisconsin, Ohio, and elsewhere. “Who are these evil teachers who teach your children, these evil policemen who protect them, these evil firemen who pull them from burning buildings? When did we all become evil?” asked the national president of the Fraternal Order of Police.

Nope, no benefit to consistently drawing attention to Wisconsin/Ohio cronies, none at all

Yes, if Republicans were planning ways to piss off Scranton Man, this idea's worked beyond anyone's wildest dreams.

If only the protesters would have realized that their actions could not impact the passing of the legislation...think of all the wasted time...think of all of the nu-Golden Age television they could have been watching

In other news:

The original story floated the possibility that the White House might only give on EPA plans to clean up Chesapeake Bay or shut down mountaintop mines — and not on the core GOP proposal of scuttling EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/will-white-house-agree-to-weaken-epa-officials-say-no/2011/03/03/AFwVyrAC_blog.html

The worst negotiators

Goddamn it... "Whitehouse to ceede nation to tea party 'because they asked in good faith,' states President"

zpost

Yep. The cowardice is just amazing One of the main projects I work on is currently slated to be ELIMINATED.

That was meant to be an xpost but whatever, tgif and so on

April Fools

I saw only for a minute an Ohio firefighter getting interviewed on one of the big cable-news channels...I wonder if the union-busting legislation in Ohio will get more equitable coverage than in Wisconsin...?

burn cantor burn

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/01/peter-defazio-april-fools/

78% of CA voters back raising taxes on the rich to close state deficit

unsurprisingly, state GOP still completely opposed to any taxes of any kind

during the biggest boomtime in US history, who received "at least" 5.3 billion dollars from government piggy banks? step forward, boeing co.

http://www.npr.org/2011/03/31/135016289/u-s-subsidies-to-boeing-illegal-wto-rules

(^ from our own Gorge)

One of the main things that I work on at the EP4 (unnecessary googleproofing, sry) is about to get cut as part of the budget "compromise". For some reason, a number of Open Data Initiatives, including Data.gov, USASpending.gov and the Sunlight Foundation, have been targeted for elimination, despite the fact that they are drops in the bucket of the federal bucket.

http://www.vizworld.com/2011/04/open-data-initiatives-fall-victim-budget-cuts/

If anyone has a few minutes to offer some support, it would be greatly appreciated:

http://sunlightfoundation.com/savethedata/

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/04/schumer-dems-didnt-get-screwed-in-spending-fight.php#

If Schumer and the White House are pushing to cut different things than the House bill did,as Chuck claims in the attached link, why aren't they at least pushing this to the media. I guess they just like to cave in private and must not think that they have a shot at cutting corporate farm aid instead of the EPA, pell grants, and Head Start.

still really hard to accept this budget discussion's going down the way it is after the december unemployment benefits/tax cut hostage situation. i wonder if the gop is more shameless than the democrats are spineless, if in fact it's not all kabuki theater to begin with

http://www.thenation.com/article/159577/jim-messina-obamas-enforcer

must read!

change we can believe in (pffffffft)

bye-bye dan kapanke (r-wisconsin)?

http://lacrossetribune.com/news/local/article_d5240e94-5c0c-11e0-b582-001cc4c002e0.html

Dan Kapanke to be recalled? Ya don;t say...

Wisconsin Democrats just announced that local activists submitted over 100% of the signatures needed to "recall" Wisconsin Republican senator Dan Kapanke from office!

After local officials certify the signatures, a new election will be scheduled for Kapanke's seat. Today's news is sending shockwaves throughout Wisconsin, and will give huge momentum to efforts in other Senate districts to gather recall signatures.

from boldprogressives.org

― curmudgeon, Friday, April 1, 2011 6:52 AM (6 hours ago)

Florida, always good for a laff.

Republicans voiced concern about young pages hearing the word uterus.

what the

new election does not automatically equal a recall (lol the Dems need a candidate first, guys) but that is good news

Scientific terms for anatomy are apparently graphically offensive in Florida. He should have been less blunt and called it a "you know, down there."

"ladybusiness"

her stork

grounds for a poll imo

i'd poll pareene's april fools but i'm too lazy

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/04/01/everyone_kidding/index.html

If you poll it, I will vote for 'Bachmann added that she's not actually running for president. "God, can you imagine?" '

world's douchiest congressman ever says no more social security
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MQID6sV6m0

Probably a Freudian slip, wherehe intended to say "cannot exist as they are presently constituted", but he inadvertently said what he really thinks is true. I'm sure he'll deny he meant what he said.

At least 70,000 children around the world could die if funding for global health programs is cut under the Republican budget proposal, USAID Administrator Rajiv Shahwarned warned Congress Thursday.

"We estimate, and I believe these are very conservative estimates, that H.R. 1 would lead to 70,000 kids dying," he said.

Shah said that 30,000 of those deaths would come if malaria control programs have to be scaled back, 24,000 would die from lack of support for immunizations, and another 16,000 would die at birth.