Indefinite Detention? But I Have Soccer Practice at 4: U.S. Politics 2012

obama's weird refusal to sign an executive order prohibiting employers who contract with the federal govt from discriminating based on LGBT identity - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/stop-playing-it-cute-on-gay-rights/2012/04/12/gIQAWRGTDT_blog.html

Man Romney is really planning on giving up the dog owner vote!

Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, who once strapped his dog to the roof of the family station wagon before embarking on a road trip, has again chosen to thumb his nose at the all-important dog vote by throwing a fundraising birthday party for his wife Ann at the house of Frederick Malek III. While to most people, Malek is just another rich guy who respects Romney's Reaganesque hair, to dogs, Malek is a living terror — when he was a youth, he was arrested for animal cruelty after police discovered that he and some friends had killed and barbecued a dog. What the everloving hell is wrong with Mitt Romney?

Fred Malek III has had a long, illustrious career in politics— he's worked for President Nixon and the first, less-shitty of the Presidents Bush. In 2008, he served as the National Finance Co-Chair of John McCain's Presidential campaign. He's had a formidable business career as well, serving important roles with Mariott and the Carlyle Group and Northwest Airlines. But before any of this, he was just a young, drunk, blood-covered West Point graduate standing around a spit containing a slowly rotating, skinned dog.

In 1959, a police officer in Peoria, Illinois, discovered five young men acting about as suspiciously as a person could act in one of the city's parks. By "suspiciously," I mean like villain being questioned for murder in an episode of CSI: Miami suspiciously— they were covered in blood (as was the inside of their car), and three of them appeared to be burying something. Turns out, the blood was animal blood. And later, officers discovered a skinned dog on a spit elsewhere in the park, a liquor bottle nearby, which is a visual horrific enough to sort of make you wish that the blood on the men's clothes had been human blood.

I don't see how the gay order thing is "weird" -- his opponents will call it ANTI-FREEDOM, case closed.

he's worked for President Nixon

Truly horrifying...

Morbs should employers be allowed to fire ppl when they find out that they're straight? What was that whole softball team kerfuffle I'm only vaguely recalling now?

ya got me, just like with DADT, I'm against anybody having to work.

otm

the john edwards sex tape is in the hands of his mistress, Rielle Hunter

The Huffington Post reports that the tape, which was made during the darkest moment in all of human history, was made while at some point before the summer of 2007, when Edwards was poised to run for President on the Democratic ticket and Rielle Hunter was pregnant with John Edwards' child and living with former aide Andrew Young. Hunter says she threw the tape away but that it was stolen by Young, who refused to surrender it to Hunter. Young is the guy who originally claimed to be the father of Hunter's baby as a way to "take one for Team Edwards." Young later disavowed Hunter's baby and told the news media that Edwards promised Hunter that after his wife Elizabeth died of cancer, he'd marry her on a rooftop in New York City while the Dave Matthews Band played.

x-post re Romney party at Fred Malek's house. Malek is that guy who Nixon asked to count the Jews employed at the Bureau of Labor Statistics and who then lied about it. Conservatives and Malek himself to this day still assert he is no anti-Semite (he's friends with Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League). He's a lobbyist and fundraiser for Republicans everywhere.

Malek has not been entirely honest about his Nixon-era assignment -- he did, indeed, recommend changing the employment status of Jewish employees and reorganizing the department to promote "loyal Republican economists." He's apologized, but he's also failed to tell the truth about what he apologized for.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/06/the_malek_game.html

The thing I secretly look forward to every presidential election: the moment when Nixon crawls out of the grave.

he darkest moment in all of human history,

Edwards promised Hunter that after his wife Elizabeth died of cancer, he'd marry her on a rooftop in New York City while the Dave Matthews Band played.

Noooooo, not the Dave Matthews Band

Tell me, why are they so bad and hated? On second thought, maybe that should wait for a later time.

Tell me, why are they so bad and hated?

he was a non-entity as a senator and veep candidate

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(taken with instagram)

i'm squinting at a laptop screen in sunlight so i can't tell but are they gathered to watch some open heart surgery on the bigscreen or what

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/04/10/150349438/gops-rightward-shift-higher-polarization-fills-political-scientist-with-dread?ft=1&f=1001&sc=tw&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2012/04/13/nominate-house_medians_custom.jpg

Feeling underwhelmed by the Fox News Mole

why exactly should we care about an old picture of Bill O'Reilly with his friends and a topless girl

seems more like a publicity stunt to get a book deal then anything genuinely revealing

Dude needs more than a video of Romney & Hannity and a picture of a bathroom stall to get a book deal, right?

not if his goal is just to write a personal "expose" of how terrible it is to work at Fox News

Feeling underwhelmed by the Fox News Mole

this is actually the title of REO Speedwagon's comeback album which is being hailed as a return to form

http://reliablesources.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/15/fox-mole-speaks-out/

http://www.redstate.com/scipio62/2012/04/11/kevin-drum-insult-christians-ignores-definitions-of-words/

They really believe this

what's great about that is the chart he uses shows the poverty rate being cut from about 23% to 13% between 1960 and '70 and bouncing around that mark ever since. so medicare and the great society basically worked, eh dudes?

^^exactly. and hey let's look at those 90s. this chart clearly shows that the Bush tax cuts were a disaster

god these people are so fucking stupid it burns.

These guys really believe that poor single moms can easily just take and commute to minimum wage jobs out in the burbs while having their kids magically taken care of and fed and taken care of health-wise;and this is what Jesus would want

Plus they believe that if they have tv sets at home they are not really poor. Ugh

"lefty extremist kevin drum"

look we all know what team we're on here, but that's not an accurate reading of their objection curmudgeon. "charity" and "government" are two different things.

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ugh

since when is "true" a verb

idk it just sorta trued into being a verb a while ago

I TRUED IT

hahahah what the hell

"He got trued last night" sounds like my kind of neologism

jeez talk to a bike mechanic sometime

true is totally a verb dudes means the same thing as square, as in level or even or to adjust something to the right psition

look if Kingsley Amis said it's ok to use as a verb then I'm cool

so 'true' is amised?

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look we all know what team we're on here, but that's not an accurate reading of their objection curmudgeon. "charity" and "government" are two different things.

― goole, Monday, April 16, 2012 6:52 PM

Ok, one commentor on the Red State posting mentions the word "charity" but not the author of the posting. Some of my above comments were based on standard complaints I have read on that Red State site and other right-wing sites, and you are correct were not specifically in that author's posting.

i got trued by a Republican operative in a voting-booth beef.

Republican opposition ensured that a measure pressed by President Obama and Senate Democrats to raise effective tax rates for the superrich would not come to a decisive vote.

Thank you Mark Pryor, alleged Democrat from Arkansas for voting with the filibustering Republicans on this. Sure, Dems were 9 votes short of 60 and the Buffet Rule alone would not solve everything, but still.

Washington-based conservative writer aghast at Hillary Clinton; plus yesterday's NY Post had a photo with the caption "Swillary":

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100150955/is-hillary-clinton-becoming-an-embarrassment-as-secretary-of-state/

It is hard to imagine Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright or Henry Kissinger “livin' la vida loca” on the world stage. This was less an example of “smart power” than a boozy nightclub audition for the sixth season of Jersey Shore. Hillary Clinton’s Colombian antics are an embarrassment for a high-level cabinet member on official duty, and have lowered the office of Secretary of State. Not exactly the sort of image the federal government should be projecting at a time of widespread public disillusionment with Washington excesses.

Have you seen digby's response?

Nice.

The substantive news from Colombia is not good:

Overlooking violence against Colombian labor leaders and ongoing efforts to prevent unions from forming, the Obama administration announced at the Summit of the Americas over the weekend that the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement will take effect May 15.”

GUESS WHO'S BIZzACK?

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