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

srsly

it ain't all asheville yet huh

what a fucking crock btw

Lugar did do things like tell Reagan no, "constructive engagement" is not going to end South African apartheid.

fuck a state imo

There's a lot of North Carolinians who are surely backwards on this issue, but make no mistake...this was a calculated campaign of misinformation and fearmongering that virtually guaranteed this result from the moment it was born. If people would just take the time to read and research measures like this one, there's no way a single one of them would ever pass. The evil architects count on laziness and kneejerk reactions.

Luger: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/08/in-statement-lugar-defends-campaign-while-criticizing-partisan-environment/

GOP to Lugar: drop dead

I kind of hope that North Carolina is seen someday as the character in a sitcom or cartoon who thinks everyone is angry about a particular issue and decides to become as extreme about it as possible just to impress everyone, only to come back later all fired up before realizing that everyone else's opinion has changed in the meantime and they have become a laughingstock.

I wish you could have been with those of us who worked day and night against the amendment. my county voted 69.7 against and Orange County next door voted 78.9 against.

been stuck w/ this person around for years now, still, this is really a bizarre surprise

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76072.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2XTuc6i1Uo

big hugs to you aero; tho I'm not a gay marriage cheerleader per se, that's not what this was about.

Yeah, I appreciate the work you put into this, aero. Thank you! I'm sorry NC went the way it did.

x-post re Lugar-

Lugar was among the few Republican senators up for reelection in 2012 to vote against the banks. As Anna Palmer and Robin Bravender reported, bank lobbyists decided early on to use the Indiana primary today to make an example out of Lugar:

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/it-wasnt-tea-party-part-ii.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/sen-richard-lugars-searing-concession-statement--read-it-here/2012/05/09/gIQAgLm2CU_blog.html

not going quietly

bummed that Indiana will have even more ludicrously right-wing representation now, but can't say I really shed any tears for Lugar

"Partisans at both ends of the political spectrum are dominating the political debate in our country."

oh, balls, what "other end"?

It's one of those weird tricks of American politics that both ends of the spectrum are on the right.

oh, balls, what "other end"?

Obviously he meant Alan Grayson Dennis Kucinich Bernie Sanders, who rules congress with an iron fist

I haven't seen the polling data or anything, but isn't this just another case of Tea Party activists coming out for a primary that average joe never bothers to vote in? Come the actual election Republicans are going to look at that ballot and go "oh shit" and even if they don't particularly like that Murdouck (or whomever) they'll vote for them anyway, so it looks like these states are veering hard to the right when really it's just a percentage of nutters imposing their will on the majority just by turning up.

prog Dems need to do the same

they have been!

Reps. Tim Holden (D-Pa.) and Jason Altmire (D-Pa.), both members of the dwindling conservative Democratic coalition, lost their primary races on Tuesday. Before the defeat of the two incumbents, there were just 25 Blue Dogs left in Congress, after the coalition's members were wiped out in the 2010 election.

Holden lost to progressive candidate Matt Cartwright, an attorney who attacked the incumbent for voting against President Barack Obama's health care reform. Holden is the second House member to lose to a newcomer in the 2012 primaries. The other lawmaker was Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio). Both were also targeted by the anti-incumbent super PAC, the Campaign for Primary Accountability.

Getting a progressive Democrat into Pennsylvania's newly redrawn 17th Congressional District was a priority for progressive groups, including MoveOn and the League of Conservation Voters. The latter ran the largest independent expenditure campaign in the race, which included a $230,000 TV ad buy on broadcast and cable networks in the Scranton media market. The spot criticized Holden for opposing Obama's clean energy plan.

The League of Conservation Voters "targeted Representative Tim Holden for defeat explicitly because he has opposed policies that will curb harmful global warming pollution and build a clean energy economy," said Gene Karpinski, the group president. "Tim Holden is the first candidate this cycle to lose because he is out of the mainstream on global warming and clean energy, but he won't be the last.”

^^^This is not a bad way to get involved and be useful. Of course, supporting your new progressive nominee through the general is just as important.

^^^this is totally what Occupy should be doing imho. primary challenges. put people in office.

I don't think Occupy wants to associate itself with either of the parties, even though I imagine a huge majority would vote Democrat over Republican if a gun was put to their head. I think it's a good tack to maintain some degree of purity. Arguments against are pretty good too.

yeah it's clear they don't. their loss.

(altho really it's all of our loss, imho)

As long as their hands are clean

Shakey rong *ding*

about which part...?

looks like biden's gay marriage 'gaffe' was just a trial balloon

needs those youth votes

Lest we forget: if Republicans hang onto the House, win the presidency and then obtain 50 Senate seats, they would be able to implement Paul Ryan’s budget on a straight party-line vote via reconciliation procedures that eliminate the de facto 60-vote requirement the GOP has created in the Senate for non-budget legislation. And that’s aside from the possibility that a couple of Senate Democrats might be picked off through deal-cutting.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_05/the_senate_landscape_shifts037256.php

lol that's not going to happen

looks like biden's gay marriage 'gaffe' was just a trial balloon

― wolves in our wounds (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, May 9, 2012 3

Yeah I don't believe this "accidentally" happened.

HE WENT ROGUE

he went rouge

I'm impressed Newsweek ran this story about the Justice Department's failure to prosecute Wall Street.

I forgot about Holder's corporate connections.

wait, corporate connections of senior Obama officials? How can that be?

The law firm at which Holder once worked.

the House springs into action!

Turning their budget knife to domestic programs to protect the Pentagon, House Republicans on Thursday approved legislation cutting food stamps, benefits for federal workers and social services programs like day care for children and Meals on Wheels for the elderly.

President Barack Obama's Wall St. reform law would be rewritten under the legislation, passed on a 218-199 vote, while his controversial overhaul of the U.S. health care system would also be cut. The legislation would deny illegal immigrants child tax credits they can currently claim, while new curbs on medical malpractice lawsuits are credited with driving down Medicare and Medicaid costs.

The bill, passed after a passionate, sometimes hyperbolic debate, would spare the military from a $55 billion, 10 percent automatic budget cut next year that's punishment for the failure of last year's deficit-reduction "supercommittee" to strike a deal. It also would protect domestic agencies from an 8 percent cut to their day-to-day operating budgets next year, but would leave in place a 2 percent cut to Medicare providers.

The legislation is a dead letter in the Senate

Nice way to waste time

they have a plan!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lDh5Uu1LAK0/TmtkKhwOvLI/AAAAAAAAA_8/D1IGoN0Nrtg/s1600/Review+Battlestar+Galactica+The+Battle+Space+Between+Human+and+Cylon+link.jpg

"Alright everyone, let's yell a lot and then pass something we know isn't going anywhere so we can say the Dems are socialists who won't cut anything except the military."

in other news Joe Arpaio going down

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/paulgunobamaletter-screen.jpg

for freedom,

http://i.imgur.com/H7nKm.png

In 2011, NYPD Made More Stops Of Young Black Men Than The Total Number Of Young Black Men In New York

^ that, that, that's never going to work