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

“A Center for American Progress Action Fund analysis finds that the 48 senators who sided with Big Oil received over $21 million in career oil contributions, while 52 senators who sided with the American people received only $5.4 million in contributions.”

Wall Street and high gas prices. A theory:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/05/13/114190/speculation-explains-more-about.html

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/18/gingrich-gets-glittered/

Watching him walk back his anti-Paul Ryan comments has been amusing. He's been on Meet the Press 35 times but says this time he was trapped. What a clown

Newt Gingrich went "On the Record" with Greta van Susteren Tuesday night to respond to criticism over his comments on Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) budget plan.

"I want to set a precedent for new kinds of presidential campaigns," he told Greta van Susteren. "I made a mistake and I called Paul Ryan today, who's a very close personal friend, and I said that."

yeah he said he 'didn't go in hostile enough'

for david gregory

noted press bulldog david gregory

fun fact: yesterday was Ben Nelson's 70th birthday

Biblical threescore and ten, time to call it a life

lol

With rural states getting progressively redder, there’s just no way Democrats will ever have a reliable 60 vote majority in the Senate. As long as the filibuster is painless, Republicans will be able to strangle progressive legislation there. Balloonjuice

Aero, how can progressives win in rural states?

bbbbut I thought the TP is quaking in anticipation of the day when the red states turn blue, ie Fear of a Nonwhite Nation?

the O campaign people just emailed about jerome corsi

and then there's this: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/05/obama-campaign-selling-long-form-birth-certificate-merchandise.php

smh

lol'ed at the campaign merch

show us the long sleeve birth certificate shirt

this guy is fucking despicable

http://blogs.forbes.com/erikkain/2011/05/17/wisconsin-governor-scott-walker-to-prevent-same-sex-couples-hospital-visitation-rights/

^^^What the fucking fuck?

So funny i had to read a Walt Whitman quote to see that article.

I didn't know I could loathe him any more than I did.

gay partners showing up at a hospital is a huge budgetary problem apparently

hey, same sex life partners "violates the state constitution."

smgdh

same sex life partners visiting each other in the hospital "violates the state constitution."

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/121956273.html

it's not just the hospital issue, it's a WI state register for same-sex couples, giving them some kind of less-than-marriage privileges, which walker and the AG don't want to defend anymore in court

Wisconsin Family Action sued last year in Dane County circuit court, arguing that the registries violated a 2006 amendment to the state constitution that bans gay marriage and any arrangement that is substantially similar.

really tho, is there any good reason that this dude should have

Wall Street and high gas prices. A theory:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/05/13/114190/speculation-explains-more-about.html
--curmudgeon

this is a joke of an article btw - it's built on a misleading quote about stable demand (*due to high prices*). the only mention of china comes from the bad guys.

err ignore the first line of above post

whipping on the guy who repealed don't ask don't tell when the opposition is scott walker

“The literati sent out their minions to do their bidding,” Tyler wrote. “Washington cannot tolerate threats from outsiders who might disrupt their comfortable world. The firefight started when the cowardly sensed weakness. They fired timidly at first, then the sheep not wanting to be dropped from the establishment’s cocktail party invite list unloaded their entire clip, firing without taking aim their distortions and falsehoods. Now they are left exposed by their bylines and handles. But surely they had killed him off. This is the way it always worked. A lesser person could not have survived the first few minutes of the onslaught. But out of the billowing smoke and dust of tweets and trivia emerged Gingrich, once again ready to lead those who won’t be intimated by the political elite and are ready to take on the challenges America faces.”

^^^ Don't know whether to laugh, cry, or shit a brick over that excrable piece of ur-Hollywood badness.

don't be intimated, guys!

It sounds like a bad poem that hasn't yet been broken down e.e. cummings style.

the firefight
s t a r t e d
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Hah yes. Who is this Gingrich guy? He must be a true Washington outside, as I've never heard of him in the news for the past 20 or so years.

out of the billowing smoke

Kinda sums up the source of that post.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailycaller/20110517/pl_dailycaller/chrismatthewsstrikesagainsarahpalinprofoundlystupid

With a history of accusations of misogynistic behavior from both the left, MSNBC “Hardball” host Chris Matthews is not showing any indications that he’s willing to tread carefully, especially when it comes to discussing conservative women.

written by Jeff Poor (as in "poor grasp of English grammar")

maybe he meant both people on the left

so then which out of Morbs, k3v and aero is a sock

So funny i had to read a Walt Whitman quote to see that article.

― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, May 18, 2011 5:11 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I didn't know I could loathe him any more than I did.

― Concatenated without abruption (Michael White), Wednesday, May 18, 2011 5:14 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

lol

a small miracle

nothing ever passsing is the best-case scenario for this Senate

goodwin liu, down in flames

didn't we talk about that yesterday

well the vote just happened, to make it official

ben nelson and maine ladies voted no. orrin hatch voted 'present', wonder what that's about.

It's about Nelson being a dirty asshole.

and here's Huckleberry Graham:

“When Mr. Liu came to the Judiciary Committee and said that, basically, Judge Alito’s philosophy judicially takes us back to the Jim Crow Era, that to me showed an ideological superiority or disdain for conservative ideology that made him in my view an ideologue,” Graham told reporters off the Senate floor.

yeah they're going with the "he was mean to alito" line. heaven fucking forfend.

sorry, my post was in reference to Shakey's link, not Liu

your post still works i think!

god damnit