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

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.

what's truly sad is that is somehow a tenable political position now

Yes. The poor die.

― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, September 24, 2013 9:27 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I believe this received a rousing line of applause during the GOP convention last year

actually, the Wilkie of health reform was a man named Willard Romney.

what's truly sad is that is somehow a tenable political position now

killing the poor has always been a tenable political position. it's kind of the oldest tenable political position there is.

From Kristol's memo: "Republicans should ask: what will Bill Clinton's health care plan do to the relationship most Americans now have with their family doctor or pediatrician?"

Seems quaint because the last time I remember people talking about family doctors - rather than a emergent care clinic or whomever their insurance requires - was right around 1994.

uh, ted cruz read green eggs and ham earlier.

http://gawker.com/ted-cruz-reads-green-eggs-ham-because-he-will-not-eat-1380949655

it comes across as just as idiotic as george bush and the goat book, only without 9/11 happening at the same time.

this guy http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ted-cruz-negotiated-terms-of-filibuster-with-reid

I can't believe the Senate GOP let Cruz do this.

i mean maybe this is the year the gop finally nominates a wingnut

THIS is not the year, three motherfucking years from now is the putative year, try to think about something besides the garbage POTUS circus, k thx bye.

oh dont get all county on us morbs

I'm gonna give morbs that one actually

the Seattle mayoral election is heating up

VA Gov. this year, will be interesting if Ken Cuccinelli can overcome serious bribery scandal to win against whoever the other guy is.

WHOEVER the other guy is