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

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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)

curmudgeon, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link

RIP, Pres Newt

The blue and the dim and the dark cloths of (Michael White), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link

hahahahahahaha

anarcho-misogynist puppies (DJP), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

Z S, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link

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

lots of janitors have something to say (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link

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

iatee, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link

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

iatee, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 16:39 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

☂ (max), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link

We are the alphas, and France are the deltas.

polyphonic, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link

2400 years after Plato's Republic..

40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link

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

anarcho-misogynist puppies (DJP), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link

"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

reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

daria-g, Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:25 (thirteen years ago) link

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

clemenza, Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:32 (thirteen years ago) link

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

☂ (max), Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:32 (thirteen years ago) link

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

iatee, Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:34 (thirteen years ago) link

not individually no

☂ (max), Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:34 (thirteen years ago) link

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

☂ (max), Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:35 (thirteen years ago) link

yeah I guess it does present a pretty good package overall

iatee, Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:35 (thirteen years ago) link

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

iatee, Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:36 (thirteen years ago) link

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

☂ (max), Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:37 (thirteen years ago) link

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

iatee, Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:38 (thirteen years ago) link

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

iatee, Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:38 (thirteen years ago) link

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

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

☂ (max), Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:41 (thirteen years ago) link

do they know abt jean marie le pen

arachno-misogynist (D-40), Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:50 (thirteen years ago) link

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

arachno-misogynist (D-40), Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:50 (thirteen years ago) link

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

daria-g, Thursday, 16 June 2011 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link

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

bite this display name (k3vin k.), Thursday, 16 June 2011 04:57 (thirteen years ago) link

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

censored my own brad whitford joke (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 16 June 2011 07:27 (thirteen years ago) link

^

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 16 June 2011 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link

so looks like weiner's gone

iatee, Thursday, 16 June 2011 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link

Weiner Withdraws

Mr. Patrick Batman (WmC), Thursday, 16 June 2011 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link

gross

Z S, Thursday, 16 June 2011 15:03 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

stately, plump bunk moreland (schlump), Thursday, 16 June 2011 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link

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

censored my own brad whitford joke (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 16 June 2011 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link

"I had a feeling Weiner would pull out"

40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 16 June 2011 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link

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

Shart Shaped Box (Phil D.), Thursday, 16 June 2011 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link

weiner beaten

☂ (max), Thursday, 16 June 2011 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link

weiner dick balls

censored my own brad whitford joke (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 16 June 2011 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link

I know it's not as witty as some of the others but still

censored my own brad whitford joke (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 16 June 2011 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link

Weiner Muffs It, Pulls Out

anarcho-misogynist puppies (DJP), Thursday, 16 June 2011 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link

weakened weiner wilts

stately, plump bunk moreland (schlump), Thursday, 16 June 2011 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link

weiner not so tony

censored my own brad whitford joke (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 16 June 2011 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link

Peener Pix Sink Weiner's Ship

40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 16 June 2011 15:18 (thirteen years ago) link

Anthony Weiner Forced to Resign

censored my own brad whitford joke (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 16 June 2011 15:18 (thirteen years ago) link

fuck I'm really bad at this

censored my own brad whitford joke (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 16 June 2011 15:18 (thirteen years ago) link

weiner - finally broken by the democratic party

iatee, Thursday, 16 June 2011 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link


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