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

max, I would say that an ambitious careerist dweeb who has gotten to be a frontrunner for mayor of NYC by doing shit-all is hardwired to send dickpix, yes. Though I'm not sure even a horndog like Jack Kennedy would've been as hubristic as the Schwein.

The idea that Bam has to "win back" this class he has so magnificently served -- THAT'S RACIST

win back the allegiance of one of his most vital sources of campaign cash
win back the allegiance of one of his most vital sources of campaign cash
win back the allegiance of one of his most vital sources of campaign cash
win back the allegiance of one of his most vital sources of campaign cash
win back the allegiance of one of his most vital sources of campaign cash
win back the allegiance of one of his most vital sources of campaign cash
win back the allegiance of one of his most vital sources of campaign cash

I wanna do this in every thread. Mods, am I permitted...?

it's really more that they're just bummed that some people don't like them now than '''regulation''' and ''''taxes''''

maybe we should offer to raise taxes on the top 1% and name it the 'everyone loves wall street act'

The sad thing is, I think it may actually be the perception on Wall Street that he DOES need to "win" them back, regardless of how big of a favor his administration has done them by not holding anyone accountable for the events of the last...few decades. The fact that he's perceived as anti-wall street is just an indicator of how powerful they are.

name it the 'everyone loves wall street act'

i would vote for this if it's about the film

it is but we're not gonna tell them til after the vote

Lebron and Miami lost.

Obama took his talents to Wall Street

Ok that was lol

lol

as if having Tim Geithner (a/k/a Henry Paulson's co-conspirator) onboard wasn't enough to make Wall Street's collective panties moist ...

I hope that the meeting in the Blue Room started with a quick roll call of whose panties were moist

Same ol, same ol is so frustrating. Obama won't fight on economic issues, Weiner is expected to resign but not Vitter...

Insider media liberal AJ Dionne is begging Obama to engineer a turn in the national conversation

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/gridlocking-the-lives-of-the-jobless/2011/06/12/AGJIIESH_story.html

WONT SOMEONE THINK OF THE STOCKBROKERS?????

This is seriously fucking hilarious. Plutocratic trolling.

one stockbroker, one vote

http://www.theonion.com/articles/billionaires-demand-more-federal-scrutiny,20562/

you all need to read the profile in Wash Post style section of Clinton adviser P Reines. i don't even know how it's real but it is. who once decorated a Dupont townhouse for a party by posting quotes from himself on the walls and spent nearly $2K last year at Lauriol Plaza (where the food is terrible FYI) and wants reporters to know about it

A Bruneau, I hope you don't mind if I swipe that line for Facebook; A+

you all need to read the profile in Wash Post style section of Clinton adviser P Reines. i don't even know how it's real but it is. who once decorated a Dupont townhouse for a party by posting quotes from himself on the walls and spent nearly $2K last year at Lauriol Plaza (where the food is terrible FYI) and wants reporters to know about it

― daria, Monday, June 13, 2011 10:58 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha i was just reading this

“Would it be helpful if I sent you random factoids, pieces of color? For instance, I don’t ever drink D.C. tap water.”

“I’d like to finally make some money,” he said. “Which I have not done working for the federal government for nine years.

and “When I wear cuff-linked shirts, I wear a set that look like sink faucets, one’s marked hot one’s marked cold. It’s a self-aware reflection that I can be both.” He also noted that he is embarking on a master’s program at night at the National Defense University and that he is currently reading three books.

Reines also sent along more than a dozen photos of himself. They included shots of him riding a tricycle as a baby, chipping away at the Berlin Wall, riding in an elevator with Sen. John McCain and stepping out for an evening with actress Natalie Portman.

A Bruneau, I hope you don't mind if I swipe that line for Facebook; A+

I would be honored! And feel free to look me up if you'd like.

cuff links aren't paying for themselves

Al Qaeda simply doesnt go after the right targets

he is embarking on a master’s program at night at the National Defense University

is this as ominous as it sounds?

link plz!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/longtime-keeper-of-hillary-clintons-image-has-forged-a-loyal-badge-of-his-own/2011/05/31/AGLAu9RH_story_2.html

super lol @ that photo

He is, he says, part of the “family” of Clinton lifers. But the famously boyish native New Yorker also belongs to a more extended and, if possible, more dysfunctional family of politicos, operatives, staffers, reporters, TV bookers, media types, government officials and frosted society scenesters. And he bears some of their less appealing traits...

lol

he is currently reading three books.

Worst boast ever, unless he's hold one in each hand and another between his toes.

tiger mother, lemony snicket and who moved my cheese

Who gives a shit about this douche

it's sort of emblematic of a certain type of personality in DC. the constant networker/self promoter who is v crass about it

i honestly had trouble working out what some of the paragraphs in the last 2 - 3 pages were even about

i always kind of wonder how big national trends are instantiated & written about in local scales

http://www.startribune.com/opinion/otherviews/123137033.html

so this was kind of lol, mostly sad

Duane Benson -- former NFL player, former state Senate GOP leader, former CEO of the Minnesota Business Partnership, now head of the Minnesota Early Learning Foundation (MELF) -- was describing the "funny thing" he was experiencing this year as a lobbyist for smarter state spending on early childhood education.

He'd come to the Capitol with a passel of proven ideas that spring from traditional Republican philosophy. They had substantial business backing.

Among them: Don't start a new government program. Make use of existing private-sector providers. Engage them in a purely voluntary rating system. Take advantage of market forces. Empower poor parents to be informed consumers. Trust them to make preschool choices, in the same way affluent parents routinely do.

Here's the key one: Don't spend more tax dollars. Spend the tax dollars you already have in wiser ways.

"I thought the Republicans would love this stuff," Benson told me. "Instead, the Democrats are the ones who love it. A lot of Republicans don't want anything to do with it." In the new GOP view, government ought to have no role in the prekindergarten education of children, he explained.

It's often said that Minnesota's two big political parties have grown more polarized because they have moved in opposite directions from an ill-defined midpoint. Independence Party candidates [MN "third"/spoiler remnants from the Ventura days - ed] make the assertion their stock in trade: The DFL has been moving farther to the left, the GOP farther to the right.

Benson got me thinking that the notion needs rethinking. A case can be made that the ideological shift of both big parties has been to the right, and that a lot of DFL ideas now occupy what not long ago was considered Republican territory. [god damn nothing gets by you, huh - ed]

DFLers seldom frame their policy arguments in social-justice terms. They talk about "jobs, jobs, jobs" and seem increasingly keen on employing market forces to do public work. Witness their friendly response to MELF's early ed quality rating system and its plan to convert early childhood subsidies into (dare I say) a voucher program.

The lefty lines of an earlier era are heard no more. I can't recall when I heard a DFL politician openly question the merit of capitalism.

had to wiki DFL

Oh, The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL)

In the new GOP view, government ought to have no role in the prekindergarten education of children, he explained.

"New"? Hasn't that always been their view?

You're not very old for a curmudgeon.

In the new GOP view, government ought to have no role in the prekindergarten education of children, he explained.

fixed

It is all part of the master plan. They will be the masters. We will be the slaves.

Right-wing Christian Mom Home-schooling instructions

In the new GOP view, government ought to have no role in the prekindergarten education of children, he explained.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_06/the_antijobs_candidate030212.php

Romney as successful businessman versus Romney as job-cutting profiteer. In tonight's Republican debate he will characterize himself as the former.

Or maybe the latter too. Republicans like that.

Another delicious story about Obama and Wall Street.

Even greater than Ed’s policy concerns is his personal feelings of being ignored and shut out of the process. Ed is not unreasonable and realizes that many people had a hand in making these policy decisions and does not claim that his voice should be heard above the rest. He does, however, feel that he has a perspective on this issue that is unique and feels as though he did not have a venue in which to share his input.

can we make this a website where it puts anyone's name in

Over the past 30 years, Full Sail University has built a reputation as one of the premier art, music, and film schools in the world. Throughout the entertainment, media, and arts industry, Full Sail graduates have made their names working on award-winning films and albums, acclaimed video games and design projects, live productions, working inside major media companies, and more.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/06/10/239780/wisconsin-craft-beer/

It's All Culture War, pt. x

Tucked into Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) much-discussed budget was a little-noticed provision to overhaul the state’s regulation of the beer industry. In a state long associated with beer, the provision will make it much more difficult for the Wisconsin’s burgeoning craft breweries to operate and expand their business by barring them from selling directly to restaurants and liquor stores, and preventing them from selling their own product onsite.

that's such a nutty provision---like, why? i mean obv it's to line the pockets of middleman distributors and please the state's large breweries, but is there any other pretense? how is that beneficial to the public?

also like how we basically just passed the yin to that provision's yang here in mn---go omar, go!

As noted in the link:

Joining MillerCoors in support of the provision are industry associations that have an interest in preserving the current business of beer distributors, including the industry’s lobby, the Wisconsin Beer Distribution Association.

MillerCoors also donated to Walker's campaign