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

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Today's the 10th anniversary of the Bush Tax Cuts. Good times

so many jobs created!

so much good shit happened in 2001

(srsly, nothing but Arizona beating the Yankees)

for some of us that was a bad thing

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/06/10th-anniversary-bush-tax-cuts

Stuff we know that Obama should be talking about today, but won't.

perhaps he should lay a wreath somewhere and say "Never forget"

He can land at the Treasury department on a jet, speaking in front of a "Mission Accomplished" banner.

so breitbart is basically announcing to the world that he is blackmailing at sitting congressperson? is this legal?

The Washington Post ran a profile piece on Tim Geithner today that was slanted in a he's an adult pushing sensible cnetrist methods way, but it contained bits that have me detesting Geithner even more, and wishing that Ms. Romer was still working for the Obama Administration:

Geithner would hold his views close, but occasionally he would get frustrated. Once, as Romer pressed for more stimulus spending, Geithner snapped. Stimulus, he told Romer, was “sugar,” and its effect was fleeting. The administration, he urged, needed to focus on long-term economic growth, and the first step was reining in the debt.

Wrong, Romer snapped back. Stimulus is an “antibiotic” for a sick economy, she told Geithner. “It’s not giving a child a lollipop.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/geithner-finds-his-footing/2011/05/24/AGY0CSLH_story_2.html

“Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) plans to attend a Glenn Beck rally in Jerusalem.”

NO RETURN TO THE FAILED SLASH AND CUT POLICIES OF THE PAST

“Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) plans to attend a Glenn Beck rally in Jerusalem.”

this sentence is the most malevolent free-form haiku ever written

a highlight of Greenwald's column lambasting the drooling of Chris Matthews &co over Weiner 'scandal': Salon's popup ad for MSNBC

gotta pay the bills somehow

McArdle is pathetic.

I think his constituents should decide whether he stays or not.

He's not my representative or friend, ergo I really don't care.

from thinkprogress.org

Meanwhile, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus has vocally called for Weiner’s resignation. But this has led many to questions if Priebus is exploiting the scandal for political gain by holding Weiner to a standard the GOP didn’t apply to their own members embroiled in scandal, especially Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) who admitted in 2007 to patronizing a prostitution ring. Vitter remains in the Senate to this day and easily won reelection in 2010

but he's a republican. what's a little something something among good old boys? weiner? he's gotta go!

@chrislhayes Christopher Hayes

.@joshtpm was thinking Spitzer and Vitter should record an "It Gets Better" video.

kinda mystified that this happened...?

Schumer is such a douchebag

I know I know, NEWSFLASH

holy crap!

Even with the defeat, the vote represented a remarkable come-from-behind lobbying campaign by banks to recover from the drubbing they took during the anti-Wall Street atmosphere that pervaded last year. The debit card measure, sponsored by Senator Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, passed last year by a 2-to-1 margin after little debate and no hearings.

can you be drubbed by an atmosphere?

or 'during' one, exactly

an atmosphere is roughly 23 days iirc

"atmosphere" = popular outrage fadde into memory

Schumer's SOLE constituency is Wall Street and the major banks. I'd run against him if there weren't photos of me floating around.

photos of you and Giuliani, presumably

the state in which i go to school has had a pretty good year: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/nyregion/democratic-rule-remakes-connecticuts-legislative-face.html

huma abedin is pregnant

this is all a really a john waters movie isn't it?

lol daria otm

SHIT my friend was interviewing JW today, could have got an opinion had this occurred to any of us yesterday.

oh god jon williams is wrapped up in this??

LULZ.

I mean I'm sure it can and will get even more low down but.. Suzy have yr friend ask a follow up!

Earlier today, a photograph resembling one that I had withheld from publication in the Weinergate saga was released without my knowledge or permission.

Prior to the publication of our story on BigGovernment.com and BigJournalism.com this past Monday morning, it was necessary to show the pictures I had received from our source to several news producers, including several at major news networks, to prove that the additional material I described really did exist, which some have continued to doubt.

This morning, I showed a photograph, which our source claims Weiner sent her, to radio hosts “Opie and Anthony” of the Sirius XM radio network on my mobile device. Somehow, without my knowledge or permission, apparently a picture was taken of my mobile device, and subsequently published by Opie (Gregg Hughes) on Twitter.

His co-host, Anthony (Anthony Cumia), stated today:

“In regards to the photo of Anthony Weiner that was leaked by members of The Opie And Anthony show on 6/8, I want to make it clear that Andrew Breitbart had no knowledge that this photo was being made public. A phone with the photo was being displayed and a camera in the studio caught it. It was then uploaded to twitter [sic], again, without Andrew Breitbarts [sic] knowledge.”

I regret that this occurred.

cool man thanks

pic is of a dong btw

http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/image_full/international/photosvideos/photos/the-dugong-or-sea-cow-3.jpg

grotesque

david vitter, family values asshole, paid hookers to fuck him. "you lie!" anthony weiner and the new media though

http://people-press.org/2011/06/07/more-blame-wars-than-domestic-spending-or-tax-cuts-for-nations-debt/

the american people keeping themselves informed, as always

http://people-press.org/files/2011/06/deficit-6.png

not really sure where to put this but

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/world/middleeast/09intel.html?_r=1&hp

The Obama administration has intensified the American covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum in the country to strike at militant suspects with armed drones and fighter jets, according to American officials.

You'd file it under: more good news! The only thing better than overt elective war with no clear goal in a Muslim country is covert war! Only good things can come from this! Let's keep this going, USA!!!

To be fair, at least the targets in Yemen are purportedly well within the purview of the War on Terror (TM).

awlaki & co in yemen were responsible for 9/11?

God, that shite about "reduce foreign aid" always gets my angry up. Foreign aid is LESS THAN ONE PERCENT of the Federal budget, you assholes, and over the years it's accomplished things like, oh, I don't know, helping eliminate horrifying diseases.

x-post Didn't you get the memo that they are responsible for future 9/11? Start stockpiling water and duct tape now.

"Foreign aid" = covert activity

phrases like "exploiting a growing power vacuum" seriously put the fear on me