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

As early as the middle of next week? next tuesday is September 1.

??

oh wait, that article was published on 9/20, so they were talking about this week. nm

PLENTY OF TIME

Also next Tuesday is Oct. 1, Marty McFly.

everything is under control

*bursts out of the 2nd floor window screaming in panic*

Perhaps the Senate should insert language defunding the office staffs of the House of Reps just for a lark.

hah

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B-Hbze4IOYU/UkCfr8fNFjI/AAAAAAAAOJU/_Cilpt8TPes/s640/gop-chart-large.jpg

this guy http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201310/ted-cruz-republican-senator-october-2013

But all along, what kept drawing my eye was a giant oil painting above the couch depicting Cruz as he delivered the first of his nine oral arguments before the Supreme Court. "I was 32 years old," he recalled. "It was abundantly clear we didn't have a prayer.... And I've always enjoyed the fact that as I'm sitting at my desk, I'm looking at a giant painting of me getting my rear end whipped 9-0." He gazed at the wall. It is an unusual painting: From the artist's vantage point, we see three other courtroom artists, each also drawing Cruz—so the painting actually features not one but four images of young Cruz before the bench. "It is helpful," he explained to me, "for keeping one grounded."

oh look: in the poster they're ranked by order of size

yeah Colbert mocked that bit xpost

nothing keeps you grounded like a giant oil painting of yourself doing something incredibly prestigious

o god that last line

should I take that infographic as an excuse to start our inaugural nom-poll thread

does welker stand next to holliday to feel tall

Glenn Greenwald ‏@ggreenwald
DOJ identified latest leaker "from obtaining phone logs of Associated Press reporters" #PressFreedoms

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/us/fbi-ex-agent-pleads-guilty-in-leak-to-ap.html

x-post- more from that article. This guy...

The elite academic circles that Cruz was now traveling in began to rub off. As a law student at Harvard, he refused to study with anyone who hadn’t been an undergrad at Harvard, Princeton, or Yale. Says Damon Watson, one of Cruz’s law-school roommates: “He said he didn’t want anybody from ‘minor Ivies’ like Penn or Brown.”

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201310/ted-cruz-republican-senator-october-2013?currentPage=1

lmao

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/check-out-this-incredibly-awkward-moment-between-foxs-chris-wallace-and-tucker-carlson/

kinda amazing to me that Tucker Carlson is still around. I mean, who is a fan of Tucker Carlson?

what kind of people are they etc

we beat mediaite by two days

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/1916b2nbhb8ucpng/ku-bigpic.png

so cruz is as we speak shamelessly aping rand paul and doing some fake talking fillibuster

http://gawker.com/what-the-fuck-is-ted-cruz-doing-an-explainer-1378687877

I wouldn't mind hatefucking Carlson tbh

fp

is ted cruz a smart dumb motherfucker or a dumb smart motherfucker

face saving move

one benefit is that we will finally learn how long ted cruz is able to stand. this is information that should be listed on the back of every politician's baseball card

this whole scenario is basically a week long commercial for ted cruz in the gop primaries thats going to cost the country like many billions of dollars

hes coming dangerously close to flame out territory, having the whole country including pretty much every republican call you a moron is not the most presidential look

not that he had a shot at the nom anyway, i mean maybe this is the year the gop finally nominates a wingnut but i wouldnt bet on it

was looking at that chart up there and thinking rubio ryan are prob 1, 2, maybe senator brown is three, everyone else is too crazy and or incompetent except christie whos too liberal and prob too angry

lol gop

wow, he's only at the beginning of his battle against the urge to pee, and he's already crossed into Godwin's Law territory:

"If you go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany," Cruz said. "Look, we saw in Britain, Neville Chamberlain, who told the British people, 'Accept the Nazis. Yes, they'll dominate the continent of Europe but that's not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We can't possibly stand against them.'"

"And in America there were voices that listened to that," he continued. "I suspect those same pundits who say it can't be done, if it had been in the 1940s we would have been listening to them. Then they would have made television. They would have gotten beyond carrier pigeons and beyond letters and they would have been on tv and they would have been saying, 'You cannot defeat the Germans.'"

those nazis and they're healthcare

their healthcare too

a Chamberlain umbrella man

one time a guy didnt want to attack someone and was wrong ergo i am right forever - every republican

uh oh

I just visualized the draining stall session that Cruz experienced directly before taking the senate floor.

maybe there's that moment where you think you're finished, and he busts out his phone and sets it to selfie-pic mode, says to himself "maybe this is what you were born for", and then the stream returns for another 3 seconds to complete the job

TPM posts Bill Kristol's memo calling for the defeat of Clinton's health care bill.

lol I had totally forgotten he was Quayle's COS. dude is truly a blight on a tumor of the cancerous ass of the GOP

and of course his prescriptions for curing the ills of American health care? A market-based system in which the insurance companies dominate. Hm!

this time around the GOP didn't even bother presenting an alternative plan to improve healthcare, did they?

Yes. The poor die.

Where's Wendell Wilkie when we need him?

yeah, i forgot it was basically "get a job and pay for it yourself you lazy, entitled fucks! you can get a job if you work hard!", followed by a deep inhalation of a stimulant from an aerosol canister

Where's Wendell Wilkie when we need him?

― Ma mère est habile Mais ma bile est amère (Michael White),

died young of a heart attack. Poor insurance coverage, you know.