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

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

the Roadrunner said beep beep

Roadrunner cartoon updated for 2013

x-post

Surprised and glad that Montana's Jon Tester had announced he would not support Summers

Washington Post says that other than Janet Yellen: Obama has mentioned only one other candidate as possibly being under consideration: Donald Kohn, a former Fed vice chair. But Kohn, 70, has been considered a long shot.

meep meep is the weird new shorthand for when, like wile e coyote, you thought you were getting away with something, but then an unexpected event happens, and roadrunner wins yet again. meep meep!

it is terrible

God, why did we let Sullivan into this country?

earlier on syria, the meep meep was apparently when all of the world was talking about how soon to bomb syria, and where to strike and all of that. but then when all of a sudden a diplomatic option opened up and it appeared that russia saved the day, everyone was like whoa look at russia, meep meep.

but now sullivan is saying no, meep meep, you guys all think obama got hardsonned but he's actually getting everything he wants, meep meep obama.

god i want to die

God, why did we let Sullivan into this country?

how could we turn away this sad little abandoned child