American Politics Thread 2013: I'm a cool Rodham grandma in the USA

yeah i've got that article bookmarked. probably'd be a little better than HRC so bring it on imo

interesting article, feels like a bold prediction; not convinced that's how the chips will fall

one thing id like to see explored in these kind of pieces is how the crazy drop in crime has contributed to the generational leftward shift, tough on crime used to be a major republican selling point

our democracy could not possible be improved!!

An almost completely unknown group with strong ties to the Koch brothers has identified itself as the secret source of almost a quarter of a billion dollars received by conservative political groups in 2012.

The group, Freedom Partners, raised $256 million in the year following its creation in November 2011, and made grants totaling $236 million to conservative groups, according to Politico, which was shown a draft of an IRS document the group plans to file shortly. As Politico put it, the upshot of Freedom Partners’ revelation is that “a totally unknown group was the largest sugar daddy for conservative groups in the last election, second in total spending only to Karl Rove’s American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS.”

my sentence grammar and typo make one nice combo today mistake!!

does anyone edit pieces at the daily beast

idk didnt u use to work there

interesting article, feels like a bold prediction; not convinced that's how the chips will fall

yeah me neither, but he makes a good case. I would vote for Warren over Hillary in a heartbeat.

maybe max was the editor and they forgot to replace him when he left

read all about it, daily beast realizes it doesn't even have an editor, extra extra, "it was a goof"

bevare, bevare seeing de Blasio as an avatar of anything (esp leftism).

as for E Warren, she was getting ready to vote to bomb Syria, maybe?

she confused Syria and Wall Street iirc

as long as neoliberals are running the show, Occupy-type lefties are going to have to shed (their own) blood to change anything.

de blasio being historically centrist and winnng from the left makes him maybe even a better avatar for a changing eletorate

same as Obama? who is governing from the Bush.

de blasio ran well to the left of obamas campiagn, ha i do appreciate yr pun tho

i think also obvs these shifts take time to play out and politicians are usually well behind the curve

we are going to drown before they catch up.

possible

drowning is for poors

personally I plan to get promoted high enough to be invited onto Jeff Bezos' generation ship

Lawrence Summers withdraws name from consideration to lead Federal Reserve.

satisfying

amazing

good enough news to make me forget that the Eagles lost ... YAY

otm

I'm sure Bam will pick someone just as bad.

He's never more natural than when he quotes Raygun btw.

who are these people youre talking about

morbs you really think he's more likely to pick geithner than yellen?

this is unabashed evidence that libs pissed him off, Morbs. Savor small victories.

morbz probably doesn't like Yellin, either.

Geithner has about as much chance of any of us here at becoming the next Fed chairman.

http://www.stansewitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/titanic-deck-chairs.jpg

how droll

man theyre not even rearranging the chairs

today's lib amirite

is tomorrow's Heritage Foundation grad

i'm just glad i can bring some joy after some asshole team lost at the asshole sport.

actually the mets won in extra innings

all my fave posters brought their peashooters

I do think The Clinton Hangover should enter the lexicon.

Obama isn’t suddenly facing tough liberal opposition, opposition that rarely phased Clinton, because Clinton was a better politician. He’s facing it because Clinton didn’t, and now we’re living with the consequences. Clinton’s foreign interventions inadvertently paved the way for Bush’s horrific misadventures — which were sold to the public with the full-throated support of the Clinton-era Tough Liberal elite. Clinton’s economic “committee to save the world” eventually nearly destroyed it when their supposedly self-regulating interconnected global finance machine proved to be more dangerous and unstable than they ever imagined. This is the long-delayed Clinton hangover, and the Democratic president to follow Clinton was probably going to have to deal with it no matter what.

http://www.salon.com/2013/09/16/larry_summers_finally_acknowledges_that_everyone_hates_him_and_he_should_go_away/

this is a good point

Summers's candidacy is a rare opportunity for liberals to stymie Obama without committing political suicide. Withholding their votes on legislation simply allows Republicans to prevent any bill at all from being passed – that’s why liberals never had any leverage to push bills like the stimulus or Obamacare leftward. Likewise, if liberals joined with Republicans to block contested nominees for the cabinet or other posts, it would simply help the GOP keep those posts vacant.

But Republicans aren’t willing to completely obstruct the workings of the Fed – business wouldn’t allow it. The collapse of Summers’s nomination is thus the rare case where liberal opposition can result in a more liberal outcome. The Summers saga may look messy. (“Maybe Republicans don't have a monopoly on disarray after all,” jeers David Graham.) It is actually a well-conceived and perfectly targeted use of liberal counter-organizing.

tho i dont agree w the contention in the rest of it that summers was a reasonable candidate http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/09/how-larry-summers-paid-for-obamas-sins.html

"political suicide" by gas or rope, exercise your choice

this narrative of liberals gutting summers only makes sense in context of a senate run by its minority leader.

i have no idea if a fed chair appointment would, in the past, be subject to a filibuster threat, but everybody now is accustomed to a 60-vote threshold.

all it took was a handful of no votes from the left -- really, like 3 or 4 i think? -- which means reid would have to ask around for more on the right.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/09/how-a-small-team-of-democrats-defeated-larry-summers-and-obama/279688/

Warren so far is acting like she campaigned. Shocking!

in an evenly split senate that also ran its business appropriately, a few left-defections would not have been seen as a kick in the jimmies because it wouldn't have stalled anything. funny, right?

Jeezus, get a bed, you two!

lol

what the FUCK is meep meep

roadrunner dude

it means 'fuck me' in Provincetown