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

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

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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

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MEEP MEEP MUTHAFUCKAS!

the etymological origins are pretty interesting. i believe it went something like

Caesar: Et tu, Brute?
Brutus: Fuck yeah I did it
Brutus' co-conspirators in the Senate: meep meep

http://img2-1.timeinc.net/ew/img/daily/605/mad_l.jpg

Then there's the mainstream annoying commenters-- Sunday at the gym I noticed on a tv the following: Peggy Noonan, David Gergen, Michael Gerson and Susan Page discussing Syria with Bob Schieffer. I walked away.

God, why did we let Sullivan into this country?

― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Monday, September 16, 2013 11:09 AM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i demand an investigation at the highest levels

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.

uh, the makeup of congress was a wee bit different when the original stimulus and obamacare were being debated

i really have an irrepressible hatred of chait. he's wrong a lot, but the whole "hey, i'm a liberal too, i'm just trying to be objective here" schtick is like, hey, go fuck yourself maybe

eh, some cold water

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/17/janet-yellen-backed-the-repeal-of-glass-steagall-in-1997-thats-not-such-a-big-deal/

Which isn't such a surprise. Another way of saying that is Clinton chose a chief economist who supported his economic policies.

lol otm

damn, just when I was going to look up this Yellen person that has all the MoveOn types so excited.

(some of you follow guvmint-embedded economists lol)

Chris Hayes beat them all last night: he actually, like, looked at her resumé. She's just better than "Larry" Summers.

blogosphere hot for romer now

morbs what economists do you follow?

besides ron paul

lol

the guy who "manages" yo mama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO8x8eoU3L4

"You're a Fourierist?"

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2v9orY17c1qhtknmo1_500.png

crut, geography is NOT destiny; you don't have to laugh at Larry the Cable Guy OR balls.

i don't really know much about larry the cable guy.. is he the guy in that video u posted?

i hadn't been following this really at all but like, was everyone all team yellin basically because she was a woman and also not larry summers?

that's the Modern Dem Playbook -- what are you, a starry-eyed Naderite?

Liberal stalwart The Economist endorsed her in last week's issue (which had the wonderful cover image of Assad with the words "MAKE HIM PAY")

she had a good record as a dove and as a manager of the SF fed, i think

but really all of these people are going to be orthodox and of the establishment

yeah i mean, monetary policy isn't the same as economic policy, not sure what she thinks about NAFTA really matters (maybe it does and someone can school me), but did literally NO ONE do their homework for the past however many months? this is just coming up now?

well she's seen as supporting a more expansionary monetary policy than summers though there doesn't seem to be a lot of evidence that summers would've pursued a tight monetary policy beyond market tea leaves and vague cw that third way clintonista might be sympathetic to austerity. i think joe piscopo might've written something on it the other day, morbs could tell you more.

a major argument against summers aside from his historic bad decisions and everyone hating him is that monetary policy is really not his area of expertise, he has no track record of like even having opinions on it so why pick him

yeah that's the thing; not known as a monetary economist at all, fed chair requires significant subtle persuasion skills and summers is a huge asshole, fed has under-remarked-upon regulatory role over banking and summers has a shitty record on regulation as a whole.

i mean, idk what a civilian really has to go on, but c'mon.

I am against Summers being in charge of anything because he was once a dick to me

dish

We tagged along with friends to a party during the 2004 Democratic Convention at the Kennedy School; they were doing some light networking but also we were all looking to get our drink on. Anyway, they do online fundraising and were looking to meet folks and Summers was there, not really talking to anyone or doing anything, and we all said "hey, we're alumni, let's introduce ourselves" so we walked over and said, "Hello President Summers, we are college alumni, it's nice to meet you" and he basically gave us a "whatever" look and turned his back on us. It was incredibly rude.

We spent the rest of the evening getting loaded and helping the provost of Northeastern University keep the Editor in Chief of the Improper Bostonian from starting a brawl with Bill O'Reilly.

He wasn't very nice to the Winkelvoss twins either

lol, I am glad he didn't retroactively yank my diploma for having the temerity to say hello to him at a cocktail party

in retrospect, the one thing I would have changed is I would have totally egged on the brawl

hah glad he lived up to his reputation

I mean, the thing that killed me is how long would it taken to have smiled and shake hands? Like three seconds! And we were the only people interested in talking to him; he kept scanning the room trying to catch ppl's eyes and everyone was actively shunning him (it was actually pretty funny once we all were pissed at him).

amazing he couldve gotten so far being that anti social, guessing he prob has a pretty fine tuned sense of who its ok to piss off and who not career advancement wise

fuck his views on monetary policy – what is his tipping policy?

i'm prob not remembering this right. some econ blog posted a detail from... well i don't remember... another economist's memoir?

anyway, the point is, summers, relatively early in his career, critiqued a slightly-younger academic's paper. one of his margin notes at the end was "very good, i think you should work for me" which he had crossed out and rewritten as "we should work together sometime". like he just cannot help being who he is.

A lot of surly assholes are excellent flatterers; I'm sure he would've offered Clinton a cee-gar if it'd have gotten him into Treasury.

worth reading:

http://billmoyers.com/2013/09/12/will-disillusioned-millennials-bring-an-end-to-the-reagan-clinton-era/