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

^^^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

weiner dick balls

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

Weiner Muffs It, Pulls Out

weakened weiner wilts

weiner not so tony

Peener Pix Sink Weiner's Ship

Anthony Weiner Forced to Resign

fuck I'm really bad at this

weiner - finally broken by the democratic party

Weiner Hung Out to Dry
Weiner, Exposed, Retracts Position
Hope for Weiner Shrivels
Weiner, Spent, Steps Down

Weiner Saga Dribbles to a Climax

^tmi

New York Times stylee:

Dogged by controversy, Weiner's pullout relished by critics

Public to Weiner: Get Outta My Face!

Weiner Should've Lied Instead About Bombing Not Constituting 'Hostilities' -- Oh, Wait

Weiner Should've Been Laid w/ Bomb-ass Hotties

fixed

Pareene's column the other day about the maamoth sick hypocrisy here was ace

While prostitute and diaper loving Republican Senator Vitter of Louisiana continues on

weiners taint does not rub off on vitter

Would you agree that re: SCANDAL, Demcrats are much 'better' at cannibalizing each other?

Re: everything not just scandal

Party Comes Together Over Weiner

^ty th

david kurtz:

With our long national nightmare of Weiner jokes about to end, one additional observation on why the House Democratic leadership was so eager to push Anthony Weiner out.

My understanding is that part of the deal that allowed Nancy Pelosi to retain her top dog status in the House Democratic Caucus after Democrats lost the majority in November involved giving a new generation of House Democrats a higher profile as spokespeople for the caucus. The rationale at least was that the caucus could signal change by putting forward fresh faces even as the entire leadership retained their official positions. The two most prominent of those new fresh faces were Anthony Weiner and Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

When Weiner's anatomy became a national story, House Dems weren't dealing with some back-bench nobody. He was a proxy for the leadership. All of his TV appearances and interviews weren't only because he was good on TV and bookers liked him, though that certainly helped, but because there was implicit sign-off from the leadership.

That's not the only reason Weiner had to go. There were other reasons, political and personal, that made it unlikely Weiner could survive what might have been the most boring sex scandal DC has ever seen. Unlike David Vitter or Bill Jefferson, who had no national visibility when their scandals hit, Weiner was actively being put forward into the limelight as an semi-official national spokesperson. Their fresh face turned out to be way too fresh.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/06/last_one_turn_out_the_lights.php

i think the perverse partisan logic is that weiner has to take the fall because vitter et al never did.

...so Dems can say that in the 21st century, they hold their guys to a higher standard of behaviour than the GOP.

"Weiner Takes the Fall"

thank you, thank you

really, when boehner sent that one craigslist fucko packing on the same day the story broke...

well, that guy had tranny hookers waiting in the wings

also it happened in the middle of the week, not on memorial day weekend

i think the 'message' ought to have been clear enough -- the republican leadership knew it had no credibility on personal sexytime issues, and hasn't since mark foley and 'wide stance' and 'appalachian trail' and all that. now they've put in place a no-tolerance policy and been able to claim a big scalp in return.

i have some sympathy for dems arguing that big tony aka the wiendriver ought to stay, nothing illegal, let's not be prudes here, leave it to his district etc etc, but this is america man, ppl are weird about dong, and it's not all about him anyway, deal with it.

also it has more to do w/ the newsworthiness. shoulda just cheated on his w/ a 30 year old notprostitute. 'worse' than what he did, but not gonna be in the news for weeks.

sbs self for the word newsworthiness

nah man that's it entirely. sure, it's really silly that this is a huge deal because of its grade-school graphic nature, while all kinds of other nefariousness don't have this kind of zing. but the 'silliness' of it can't be argued away. this is this is a democracy or isn't it? if people care, no matter the 'merits', it's an issue, that's the culture we're in, either govern accordingly or get into another line of work.

all the people defending the guy seem to have some total blind spots about that tbh.