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

Huntsman is an excellent, reasonable public servant who has no business running for president in 2012.

He's now flipflopping on nearly everything, and being called a fibber on other things-

from Washington Monthly blog:

Yesterday, Huntsman told reporters, “I didn’t push mandates with the legislature. You want to get that right.” But there’s ample evidence that he did push mandates with the legislature, and he’s not getting this right.

Flip-flopping can be embarrassing for a presidential candidate, but dishonesty has the potential to be far more damaging. Huntsman isn’t even a formal candidate yet, and he seems to already be slipping into some disturbing habits.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_05/flipflopping_is_bad_lying_is_w029741.php

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_05/political_whiplash_huntsman_sc029709.php

romney/pawlenty would be the Human Centipede of presidential candidates.

― I-95 Phuck Phace (Eisbaer), Sunday, May 22, 2011 10:27 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

where does huntsman fit into all this

― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Sunday, May 22, 2011 10:28 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

i really wish these two posts hadn't been back to back

Why do I get the feeling this same group of four or five Republicans will run again and again for the next 20 years?

Also, is it too early to even hypothesize who the Dems will run for 2016?

Will we have a country left?

probably hilary lol

i kind of think that all of these guys are sacrificial lambs. next year's Bob Dole.

get the feeling huntsman wants to place or show max.

if I were him and I rly rly wanted to be president I would have stuck w/ china, done something harmless for a few years, used some 'outrage moment' to switch parties, run as a dem in 2012

lol totally just remembered that next year is 2012, jesus

talking about the year 2016 makes my brain hurt

is gabbneb around to dull the pain

Catholic bishops boost Ryan

The Catholic Church is weighing in on the contentious House budget debate.

The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sent Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan a letter yesterday commending his "continued attention" to Catholic social justice “in the current delicate budget considerations in Congress.”

"The budget is not just about numbers,” Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan wrote in the letter. “It reflects the very values of our nation. As many religious leaders have commented, budgets are moral statements."

I thought that pack of scoundrels condemned the budget a couple of weeks ago?

catholic academics wrote boehner a letter asking him to care more about the poor

catholic bishops seem to care about abortion, mostly

aborting the poor

The poor: abort/retry/cancel?

/cancel/ignore

well, that and blaming all the kid-touching on the '60s

xxxp

Catholic University professors and the social worker grad students sat in silent protest while Boehner gave the commencement, while most of the graduates gave him a standing ovation.

3 of my roomies are CU grads of this year and none of them went to commencement

--in protest--

i didn't go to my commencement ... b/c i didn't give a shit.

catholic academics wrote boehner a letter asking him to care more about the poor

catholic bishops seem to care about abortion, mostly

― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Sunday, May 22, 2011 10:15 PM (1 hour ago)

yup

that actually infuriated me more than just about anything else the last couple months

So I guess we're gonna have to hear this dumb argument re Medicare and Medicaid for awhile:

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said “there will have to be a deal” on raising the nation’s debt limit before August, when the country will be unable to pay its bills. But he said the deal will have to include significant spending cuts.

“To get my vote we’d have to do something significant both short term and long term and long term means Medicare and Medicaid” cuts, McConnell said.

President Brown to Paul Ryan plan: drop dead

lol

hands up anyone who didn't see that coming

can i just reiterate that i love that we refer to scott brown as "president brown"

Breaking: Obama is currently drinking a pint of Guinness

In his non-Kenyan homeland (mother's side)!

Michelle had a half.

Frugal guy Newt and his now-paid off debt to Tiffany's:

I mean, it's very odd to me that someone would run up a half-million dollars bill at a jewelry store," Schieffer said.

"Go talk to Tiffany's," Gingrich responded. "All I'm telling you is, we are very frugal. We in fact live within our budget. We owe nothing."

"What did you buy?" Schieffer asked.

"We owe nothing," Gingrich replied. "It's my private life.

"I understand that. You're running for president - you're going to be the guy in charge of the Treasury Department. It just sticks out like a sore thumb," Schieffer said.

"I'm a guy running for president who pays all of his bills, and after-tax income at no cost to the taxpayer, and who currently owes nothing except one rental property in Wisconsin. I am debt-free. If the U.S. government was as debt-free as I am, everybody in America would be celebrating.

"I think I have proven I can manage money," Gingrich continued. "As a small businessman I run four small businesses. They have been profitable. They've employed people. This is the opposite of the Obama model. So as a private citizen who has done well, I think I'm allowed to pick and choose what I prefer doing."

how embarrassing it will be when it is revealed that the bill isn't to Tiffany and Company, but instead the pop sing Tiffany, who was paid half a million dollars to be on retainer to sing "Could've Been" to Newt when he has nightmares

"As a small businessman I run four small businesses, now granted that pales in comparison to being the CEO of a third-rate pizza chain with a name that sounds like a place that a Kevin James character would work at, but it is something."

some hard hitting questions there

how embarrassing it will be when it is revealed that the bill isn't to Tiffany and Company, but instead the pop sing Tiffany, who was paid half a million dollars to be on retainer to sing "Could've Been" to Newt when he has nightmares

You got it wrong – he paid Tiffany to retitle "I Saw Him Standing There" correctly.

live by the cheap gotcha smear, die by the cheap gotcha smear. if it had been any other politician being ambushed by unpaid bills, i might have some sympathy. but since Gingrich raised these sorts of tactics to an art form, i can only laugh that he's getting a taste of his own medicine.

not that it will matter, anyway. Gingrich won't be the next President, and he's had worse things revealed about his private life (e.g., he was the first politician i remember who argued that oral sex wasn't REALLY sex after someone caught him with his meat in some bimbo's mouth).

As to his personal history, which includes multiple marriages and reports of infidelity, he said, “I’ve been very clear that I’ve made mistakes … I ask (voters) to look at who I am today.”

Gingrich added that he has cast so many votes, conducted so many interviews, and written so many articles and books (24, by his count) that he will no longer answer “gotcha” questions based on something he said or wrote in the past.

However he will continue to refer to Obama as the Kenyan food stamp president and will gladly discuss that.

so basically he is only going to talk to people who kiss his ass

he must know that if you start declaring what kind of things are ok to talk to you about, it means you're fucked, right? no? he's already done that a bunch recently? ok

so basically he is only going to talk to people who kiss his ass

and taste his meat.

lol that just reminds me of George Herbert/Ralph Vaughn Williams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx_JofSsZos&feature=related

not much makes me hopeful these days but did like this speech by John Kriesel, one of 4 MN republicans to vote against the noxious amendment to the MN constitution banning gay marriage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc4CTsws24o

yeah I was v pleased with that

Greenwald on the 74-8 cloture vote to extend the USA PATRIOT Act, and the odious Dianne Feinstein:

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/05/23/bipartisanship/index.html

As the government comes closer and closer to the brink, its efforts to assert itself grow increasingly frenetic and exaggerated.

Regrettably, what lies on the other side will probably bear greater semblance to the Mexican drug lords than to anything any of us would consider to be civil order.

But this dynamic has become uncontrollable. The only question is not whether - but when.

—Diogenes
Read Diogenes's other letters

surely they're in the public domain by now

oh i forgot, mickey mouse.

how can diogenes afford a computer