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

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my god

she wants to punch the shit out of that guy

Every time I've seen Elizabeth Warren speak on a talk show she immediately convinces me she's both the smartest and most compassionate person in the room.

That entire clip is almost painful with stupidity. How DOES she stay so calm???

she is one of my wife's favorite ppl in the HLS sphere of influence

How is that guy the chairman. :(

she did the bk text i used when i was in school, so i went out and learned about her, it was <3 immed.

Warren looks like the kind of woman who could recite Chapter Seven of The Wealth of Nations while draining snake poison from Mitch McConnell's leg.

if you know what i mean

unfortunately the snake then died.

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amazing

Dag. That guy is a grade-A dick. But what else is new, right?

In other news, I'm not even going to post The Corner's gism-covered posts about Netanyahu's speech to Congress.

well here's something: all the "courageous" governors who have slashed "spending" may be hitting a wall pretty quick

http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/88874/the-hidden-tradeoffs-gop-candidates

details from MN, NJ, TX, VA, IN. basically, fiscal discipline is a mirage, and massive property tax hikes from starving localities aren't. great job!

what's especially funny here is that in NJ we went through that exact same thing a decade before with the pre-Chris Christie Christie. and Whitman came w/n a rat's hair of losing her job when the public figured it out.

“All of this has happened before and all of it will happen again,” indeed.

WTF they are seriously, seriously calling this Warren hearing "Who's Watching the Watchmen"????

people behind warren in the still above appear to be enjoying the comedy

Yet another arrogant, entitled elitist appointee by the most arrogant, narcissist man on the planet. Who does she think she is to talk to members of Congress so rudely??
BY DISGUSTED WITH OBAMA on 05/24/2011 at 15:47

I'm positive Disgusted with Obama posts on this thread regularly.

Hochul gonna win ny-26. Pretty good sign!

Not even really that close.

Good! Now maybe Steny Hoyer can shut the fuck up.

Warren/Feingold 2012

morbius otm

Hochul gonna win ny-26. Pretty good sign!

― Clay, Wednesday, May 25, 2011 1:53 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Not even really that close.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, May 25, 2011

It's great that a Dem is winning in a traditional Republican district on a don't let the Republicans destroy medicare platform, but as I said yesterday if there wasn't a 3rd party candidate, she might have lost.

... okay?

If a meteor had crashed into the Earth, we might have all die, but that isn't what happened.

It's great that a Dem is winning in a traditional Republican district on a don't let the Republicans destroy medicare platform, but as I said yesterday if there wasn't a 3rd party candidate, she might have lost.

Nate Silver said the Dem still would have won by two points.

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In other news, I'm not even going to post The Corner's gism-covered posts about Netanyahu's speech to Congress.

― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn),

The Washington Post and others are also still beating up on Obama for daring to say "1967 borders"

x-post- Uh nevermind. Nate's math is better than mine.

In other news:
How Joplin, Missouri aid is being paid for (from Washington Monthly blog):

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) announced yesterday that congressional Republicans would like to help the victims of the brutal tornado in Joplin, Missouri, but emergency aid wouldn’t be automatic. The community would get its federal disaster relief, just as soon as the GOP received a ransom: off-setting spending cuts.

He wasn’t kidding. When Tom DeLay was the House Majority Leader, Republican agreed that emergency disaster relief should be immediate. But by 2011 standards, Tom DeLay was a moderate.

And sure enough, House Republicans yesterday approved a $1 billion aid package, right after they got their payoff.

House Republicans, who require spending cuts whenever new spending is proposed, said the FEMA funds would be paid by cutting $1.5 billion from an Energy Department loan program for the production of fuel-efficient vehicles.

refusing to respond to the kind of disaster that climate change contributes to until cuts are are made to the kind of program that helps to mitigate climate change.

brilliant. those fuckers

Credit where credit is due.

(He's still a crazy semi-racist Aqua Buddha.)

Assholes like Rand Paul just want to limit the reach of the federal government so that local governments can step in as the fascist enforcer of choice. I'd believe his principled blather if his so-called libertarianism extended to drugs and abortions.

well, the Senate is made of alliances, holy and otherwise, so I'd work with him if I was a lib fighting like hell to keep the Patriot Act from getting extended.

House Republicans, who require spending cuts whenever new spending is proposed, said the FEMA funds would be paid by cutting $1.5 billion from an Energy Department loan program for the production of fuel-efficient vehicles.

jesus christ, talk about divide and rule

wake me up when military spending is subject to the same logic

Greenwald wrote about yesterday massive congressionellatio for Netanyahu

yesterday's that is

And Greenwald nicely attacked David Brooks too.

From Greenwald I see that the 8 who voted against cloture on the Patriot Act extension were:

The 8 Senators voting against cloture were Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, Democrats Jeff Merkley, Mark Begich, Max Baucus, and John Tester, and GOP Senators Lisa Murkowski, Rand Paul, and Dean Heller (GOP Sen. Mike Lee announced he'd vote NO but missed the vote due to inclement weather). Sen. Paul, along with Sen. Tester, took the lead in speaking out against the excesses and abuses of the Patriot Act and the vital need for reforms.

Make the plunge, doctor: "I admire President Obama for standing up to him, knowing he'd take flak from all sides."

It's weird who Obama will stand up to, although its also not clear whether he will stick with whatever belief he is espousing when he first does so.

Baucus against the Patriot Act?! huh

Tester from Montana is a centrist mostly too

Obama has always said good things, clemenza, which seldom come to pass and are often retracted by his deeds.

congressionellatio

!!! <3

wake me up when military spending is subject to the same logic

Or trimming tax breaks to Big Oil by about 5%. But the budget can ONLY be balanced on the backs of the EPA, Planned Parenthood, public television, teachers' unions...

remember in January and February when even a few scattered Republicans said DOD cuts were "on the table"? Are any of them still saying so?

Feingold may try to come back. That way in 4 years, there can be 9 senators instead of 8, trying to prevent another extension of the Patriot Act.

In Wisconsin, if former Sen. Russ Feingold (D) decides to run for retiring Sen. Herb Kohl’s (D) seat, PPP shows him as the clear early frontrunner. In hypothetical match-ups, Feingold leads all of the likely Republican candidates in margins ranging from 10 to 15 points. Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D) does well, but not nearly as well.

from Washington Monthly