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

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whipping on the guy who repealed don't ask don't tell when the opposition is scott walker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

uh have we talked about this somewhere already

the 1967 borders thing is o_0! I don't think there's a chance in hell Israel will ever go for it, but still.

Republicans are outraged that Obama would suggest that Israel go back to the 1967 borders. But they're always mad at Obama anyway.
NY Times says Netanyahu is willing now to give up more of the West Bank than he's ever offered but not go back to '67 borders

Republicans outraged about Obama, following in the footsteps of George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, suggesting Israel return to its '67 borders

In many ways this is the sort of hard negotiation Obama is notorious for avoiding: demand the sun but (maybe?) settle for the moon.

bibi has been giving us the finger since whenever, right back at ya man.

that's meant as U.S. not like "us."

following in the footsteps of George W. Bush and Bill Clinton

Ummm I don't think this is true...?

NYT: the first time an American president has explicitly taken that position

The main bone of contention among the potential candidates and Obama's speech seems to be the president's call for the Israeli government and Palestinian leaders to end their strife in deal that would divide the two groups along 1967 borders - a position held, it should be noted, by the previous administrations of George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

fact checker!

where is that quote from

Woops, sorry.

If my memory is correct, Bush talked from both sides of his mouth: assuring the Israelis they could keep their settlements while pleading them to consider the '67 borders again. I don't remember the Barak-Clinton-Arafat deal.

so um, not that I disbelieve you or anything, but unless ctl-F on my browser is broken that quote appears nowhere in that linked article...?

(there's a comment referencing an Atlantic blog post that talks about this but that doesn't contain the quote either)

HERE's the link: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/05/2012-gopers-call-obamas-middle-east-speech-an-attack-on-israel.php?ref=fpb

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