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

the rep who wrote that, to one of his constituents, was caught in his parked car in the lot of a planned parenthood, with a loaded gun. his explanation to the police was that the PP location was just a coincidence, he was just trying to "check up" on a woman he'd gone on an online date with, who was no longer returning his calls.

this was last year some time? pretty sure i wrote about it.

http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/members/members.asp?id=10229

yeah, you did

btw dude appears to be CRAZY

think this goes beyond appearances...

crazy like an ALPHA

Oh no! Communists! I've heard about those! I'm so scared! Those are those bad guys from that 80s movie with Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen, right?

who could have known that this man would react so badly to a bunch of form letters from union members...

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/assets_c/2011/06/romney%20butt%20grab-cropped-proto-custom_6.jpg

top ten questions that should have been asked at the gop cnn debate?
http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/002207.htm
10. Would you appoint a Muslim-American to serve in your cabinet?
9. Do you believe, as Pastor John Hagee does, that "The United States must join Israel in a pre-emptive military strike against Iran to fulfill God's plan for both Israel and the West?" If not, why not?
8. Did you support President Obama's decision to triple U.S. troop strength in Afghanistan and quadruple drone strikes in Pakistan? What would your approach be now?
7. Do you believe that global warming is, as Republican Senator James Inhofe put it, "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people?" If not, do you believe that climate change is the result of human action? What would you do as President to combat it?
6. Would you ban abortion in all cases, including rape, incest and to protect the health of the mother? What criminal penalties do you think should American women and their doctors face?
5. Do you join the 235 House Republicans and 40 GOP Senators in supporting the Ryan plan to privatize the government Medicare program even though costs for private insurers have risen much more sharply?
4. In 2010, Republicans campaigned on a promise to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act enabling health insurance for 32 million Americans? If you favor repeal, what specific programs would you replace it with?
3. Do you agree with House Speaker John Boehner that failure to raise the debt ceiling would be a "financial disaster" for the United States?
2. The House Republican "Plan for Job Creators" calls for even more tax cuts for upper income Americans. Do you support that plan even though America created far more jobs when their tax rates were higher?
1. Do you believe that tax cuts pay for themselves?

I didn't watch the debate. You mean CNN's John King didn't ask those! I think questions 1 and 2 would work better if you first quoted and cited the economic analyses showing the higher job growth when tax rates were higher (and had follow-ups ready in case they said Clinton just luckily benefited from a tech boom)

RIP, Pres Newt

hahahahahahaha

xpost those questions are nice and all but there's no way that any of the candidates, except maybe Ron Paul, would have provides a direct answer to any of them.

I hope Newt's pres run goes on and on forever, just for the lols

I think he's at the point where scandals can't really hurt cause at least they remind people that he's running for president

I mean I basically forgot he was running every moment on the debate where he wasn't on screen

the Daily Show clip I saw suggested something like #10 was asked. xxp

btw Bachmann's words on Libya > Obama's, whether you believe them or not.

Our policy in Libya is substantially flawed. It’s interesting. President Obama’s own people said that he was leading from behind. The United States doesn’t lead from behind. As commander in chief, I would not lead from behind.

We are the head. We are not the tail. The president was wrong. All we have to know is the president deferred leadership in Libya to France. That’s all we need to know. The president was not leading when it came to Libya.

We are the alphas, and France are the deltas.

2400 years after Plato's Republic..

the Human Centipede thread is really intruding on my reading of that Bachmann quote

"The White House is more or less conceding that it doesn't have a chance of winning a second term unless his major policies go on hiatus."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303848104576385620186823528.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

interesting argument from a bastion of balanced commentary

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/02/27/document_shows_romneys_strategies/

Enmity toward France, where Romney did his Mormon mission during college, is a recurring theme of the document. The European Union, it says at one point, wants to "drag America down to Europe's standards," adding: "That's where Hillary and Dems would take us. Hillary = France." The plan even envisions "First, not France" bumper stickers.

I think #1 on that list of questions was asked, but only to Herman Cain--purely hypothetical, in other words.

im sure this is not an original obs but its kind of funny to me that republicans have so much venom for europe's no. 1 black/muslim/immigrant-hating un-p.c. sexual harassment paradise

ehhh it's not #1 for any of those things

not individually no

(fwiw i love france, il est le meilleur, not trying to bag on it or anything, just saying)

yeah I guess it does present a pretty good package overall

cause it's like #2-4 for all of them

i guess italy gives it a run for its money, but if were being france italy doesnt really count as europe

they hate this vague mostly-hollywood-created idea of france

also hate the vague mostly-hollywood-created idea of hollywood

This'll be fun: White House tries to explain why War Powers Act doesn't apply to it.

they hate this vague mostly-hollywood-created idea of france

― iatee, Wednesday, June 15, 2011 9:38 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah, someone needs to teach them about how much france hates muslims, they would get right on board

do they know abt jean marie le pen

^^^sung to the tune of 'do they know its christmas'

they have marine le pen now (la fille de m. le pen), she's worse, and la gauche is freaking out that they might end up with the same problem in the elections as about a decade ago, when the left split the vote so much that the runoff was le pen vs chirac

This'll be fun: White House tries to explain why War Powers Act doesn't apply to it.

― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, June 15, 2011 9:39 PM (Yesterday)

i feel bad for koh kind of, he must hate himself

no one cares about this obv

The White House, pushing hard against criticism in Congress over the deepening air war in Libya, asserted Wednesday that President Obama had the authority to continue the military campaign without Congressional approval because American involvement fell short of full-blown hostilities.

shameful and disgusting imo

^

so looks like weiner's gone

Weiner Withdraws

gross

Weiner Withdraws

i haven't even really been following this but i don't know if people even know what to do with all of this, like we are so far past the 'hey there's an opportunity for a sweet innuendo here' point that i don't know how people can even compose themselves. headline writers = kids in a candy shop in which SHAVED and WEINER are both salient points in the narrative and therefore can justly be incorporated.

inability to restrain yourself from sending strangers pics of your dong is exactly where my talent for empathy runs into a roadblock

"I had a feeling Weiner would pull out"

^^ should be read in Leslie Nielsen's voice iirc

http://www.finger-jam.co.uk/fjw/wp-content/uploads/Frank-Drebin.jpg

weiner beaten