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

haha go get 'em

wait, what's the issue here?

lol that's hilarious. fuck Eric Cantor dude is a monster.

wait, what's the issue here?

― pleural eff u son (k3vin k.), Thursday, April 19, 2012 3:26 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

cantor is jewish and admitting that there's anti-semitism among republicans

uhhhm i haven't actually watched that vid tbh, there is some disagreement as to whether media matters is assessing the conversation accurately

wait, what's the issue here?

― pleural eff u son (k3vin k.), Thursday, April 19, 2012 3:26 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

cantor is jewish and admitting that there's anti-semitism among republicans

― dayo, Thursday, April 19, 2012 5:33 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i got that, i got the impression that he said something more inflammatory, given a couple ppls reactions

Drone, drone, drone on:

http://www.salon.com/2012/04/19/americas_drone_sickness/singleton/

And we're up to 7 indicted whistleblowers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7abLGn7zUM&feature=player_embedded#!

damn it

go to about 1:50

"This is just about waving a tar baby in the air and saying that something else is a problem," sex Bachmann

omg "sez"

sry, booze

Credo action email:

We're excited that we've already got staff on the ground and campaign offices open to defeat eight of the most odious Tea Party Republicans: Joe Walsh (IL-08), Chip Cravaack (MN-08), Sean Duffy (WI-07), Dan Lungren (CA-07), Mike Fitzpatrick (PA-08), Frank Guinta (NH-01), and Steve King (IA-5) and of course Allen West (FL-22).

Who are we missing? Who is on your list? Where you would like to see us build two more accountability campaigns?

good luck on steve king, but chip cravaack and sean duffy have both got to go

can we swap Sean Duffy for Kevin Powell so that we still have at least one Real World alum in Congress

haha "it's 3am... CAN YOU GET THE PHONE?"

69 House Dems defect to back transportation bill that includes go-ahead for Keystone XL.

empty gesture

a few days behind b/c no time but I wanted to ask: is the claim that there's anti-semitism in the House GOP caucus grounded on that caucus containing Christians who believe that Jews won't go to heaven?

has someone finally admitted that? and that christians want to support israel because that's the first step of them all being slaughtered in the rapture/armageddon?

from an article linked upthread:

A few weeks ago, the House GOP was up in arms over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-VA) $25,000 donation to anti-incumbent candidate Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), who ultimately defeated his opponent, incumbent Rep. Don Manzullo (R-IL). But the story got a little more fraught when it turned out that Manzullo once said Cantor would not be “saved” because he is Jewish.

Today, Cantor, the only Jewish House Republican, nearly affirmed that this was the reason he fought against Manzullo’s re-election, insinuating that anti-Semitism — and racism — are lingering problems among the House GOP generally. He speaking at a breakfast event organized by Politico.

bloody hell i didn't realise he was the only Jewish House Republican.

can i just say ...

FUCK DARRELL ISSA

i live in the solidly blue 53rd district but i work in the forty-ninth, which is solidly red (and increasingly so) thanks no doubt to the presence of camp pendleton and also the fact that it is a rural district full of inbred troglodytes.

even just working in that area i am deeply, deeply ashamed of this POS

ha npr ran a pretty transparent hit job on him last friday iirc

basically "hey you may have herd of this man darrell issa in the congress. we're you aware he's SHADY AS ALL FUCK. darrell issa's office declined to comment"

um, "were".

wasn't there a new yorker piece on him last year?

Yep, it covered his unique past that included allegations of arson

Which I am sure he was not asked about on the Sunday talk show he was where he vowed to get all the details on the Secret Service scandal.

Meanwhile a non-surprising analysis of the Sunday talk shows shows the programs weighted toward Republican guests and

tilt to the right isn’t exclusive to a GOP primary. According to the study, the shows skewed right even during the 2004 election.

Partisanship aside, women made up just 29 percent of the shows’ roundtable guests. Eighty-five percent of the guests were white, 11 percent were African American and 3 percent were Latino.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/04/fair-study-republicans-sunday-shows.php

he was on

11 percent were African American and, more like 10 percent was harold ford and 1 pct was other

^^

Yes.

and Donna Brazile.

I guess Glenn Greenwald's one appearance on "This Week" offended George Will enough to rescind future invitations.

Will this Dallas rich guy's donations help him out (in the nuclear waste dumping biz)? He has donated $18.7 million to Republican political organizations—

http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/102778/harold-simmons-campaign-donor-2012-gop?page=0,0

A billionaire knows that it never hurts business to have a passel of politicians deeply indebted to you, so although he probably has a laundry list of favors he'll be pushing for, he probably views his donations as much as a kind of insurance as anything else. He's just making sure the politicians don't get any fancy-pants ideas about mere voters being important.

Minnesota's party of fiscal responsibility to be evicted from its St. Paul headquarters for non-payment of rent:

http://www.startribune.com/politics/statelocal/148535875.html

i wonder what this means for this year's contests. amy klobuchar's opponent will probably not be short of money (but obv not as not-short as al franken's eventual opponent)

yay! (xpost)

well the new head says they're negotiating the back rent. considering commercial property vacancies i doubt they'll be out on the curb.

I just like that they're so in debt and and being embarassed

Drones for urban warfare.

http://www.salon.com/2012/04/24/drones_for_urban_warfare/

what could possibly go wrong?!

This is one of the dumbest articles I've ever skimmed

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-foolhardy-trip-to-north-carolina/2012/04/24/gIQAkOQTfT_story.html

http://i.imgur.com/L7WTp.png

one day I hope to grow up and become an opinion writer

Pulitzer Prize winner Kathleen Parker

"The Pulitzer Prize in fiction takes dead aim at mediocrity and almost never misses" -Wm. Gass

http://news.yahoo.com/why-jon-huntsman-is-leaving-the-gop--not-because-they%E2%80%99re-communists-.html

did we talk about this?

x-post -I read that stupid Parker article. She believes that Obama visiting John Edwards' state of North Carolina is somehow worse than anything Bush ever did, but the press just won't admit this.

Bush staffers were well familiar with this routine, which is why they never would have allowed him to be in such a situation. Perhaps, as another close political observer suggested to me, the Obama White House has no such concerns. The media simply do not come after Obama in the same way they did Bush, notwithstanding recent research showing that Obama received the most negative coverage of any presidential candidate during the Republican primary. The Bush White House was under siege and conducted itself accordingly. No T’s went uncrossed.

"notwithstanding recent research"

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Maybe Huntsman will start hanging out with Tom Friedman's third party