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

harry reid isnt an internet celebrity who raised tons money from all over the country, I mean fine if you think shes just some sort of unelectable liberal phenom but calling her boring sounds suspiciously uniformed and deductive

lol Cruz isn't boring either

29 years ago libs were fired up by Gerry Ferraro

lol Cruz isn't boring either

― ภค๓ครՇє (lag∞n), Monday, September 30, 2013 3:57 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no one said he was boring, he has a whole different set of electability issues

and like I said the comparison is poor cause warrens positions are popular and cruzes are not, the democrats also have a structural advantage with the presidential election which makes nominating someone a lil more partisan more viable than it would be if republicans did the same

professor lady from mass must be like npr right fellas, bet she drives a VOLVO lol omg siiick, so insight such political

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

truly the next Huey Long right here, I was riveted

omg she didnt jump right out the tv on on cnbc like all the exciting politicians do

i'd vote for elizabeth warren fwiw if that helps u guys out

now is the time for gentle argumentation that is barely louder than ambient noise and Elizabeth Warren is the vanguard

like I said you never really know if someone has chops until they run, obvs all sorts of hyped dudes end up being paper tigers, but hillary is def vulnerable to someone like warren

do you want me to post a video of her yelling I imagine you found some when you were looking for the perfect cnbc appearance lol

uh no that was like her most notable TV appearance in a long time, you should know that as a Warren superfan

it got lots of facebook shares, truly red hot stuff

btw another person who doesn't have it: Julian Castro

what r u a warren super debunker or something

no I'm realistic

lol dude give yrself a lil pat on the back

man I really dug deep hunting for that clip huh

https://www.google.com/#q=elizabeth+warren&safe=off&tbm=vid

you are very very realistic

so deep understanding, such points

safe=off

I guess it says a lot that you thought her biggest political moment since she got elected was a cherry-picked moment of her being boring lol

naw her biggest moment iirc since election was giving bankers a hard time in the senate

eh, maybe

Matt is correct that all Dem prezzes are gonna suck shit, man up to it

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/files/2013/05/sunshine-150x150.jpg

meet the new gabbneb, same as the old gabbneb ...

no, gabbneb would urge people itt to vote for some corporate shitheel like Corey Booker in the primary, something I would never do.

y'all argue like valley girls, it's unbecoming

getting my baseball bat out for next mention of 2016 btw

Asked in a CNN interview last week about his party’s turn to the left, Mr. Clinton contended that he “ran on income inequality in 1992.” Without prompting, he brought up Ms. Warren as he defended his administration’s approach to bank regulation. In 1999, Mr. Clinton signed legislation that repealed parts of the Glass-Steagall Act, allowing the commingling of commercial and investment banking, a move much criticized by the left since the financial crisis of 2008.

“When they pass bills with a veto-proof majority, with a lot of Democrats voting for it, that I couldn’t stop, all of a sudden we turn out to be maniacal deregulators,” Mr. Clinton said, lamenting the liberal perception of his financial policies. “I mean, come on. I know that Senator Warren said the other day, admitted, when she introduced a bill to reinstate the division between commercial and investment banks, she admitted that the repeal of Glass-Steagall did not cause one single solitary financial institution to fail.”

Privately, some Democratic donors from the financial industry seem unnerved by Ms. Warren’s rise, underscoring the tension between the party’s liberal and centrist wings.

“People on Wall Street perceive her to be hostile to their industry, and so there was pretty widespread terror when she got on the Banking Committee,” said Steven Rattner, a New York financier and pillar of Mrs. Clinton’s fund-raising network.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/30/us/politics/warren-is-now-the-hot-ticket-on-the-far-left.html?ref=politics

getting my baseball bat out for next mention of 2016 btw

― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Monday, September 30, 2013 12:34 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is there already a thread listing your endless empty threats of violence?

the thing about a possible warren candidacy isnt that the democratic party has shifted left its that the values of the entire country have changed on some big issues (see frank richs rand paul piece http://nymag.com/news/frank-rich/rand-paul-2013-9) particularly wealth inequality/the finance industry and forign interventionism, hillary represents the old outdated consensus on both of those

― ภค๓ครՇє (lag∞n), Sunday, 29 September 2013

where's the evidence that warren will be anything other than terrible on foreign policy?

thanks, never heard a thing about what Superwoman has to say on such things.

as far as I know only Bernie Sanders and my beloved Alan Grayson have publicly dismissed our Iran saber rattling.

where's the evidence that warren will be anything other than terrible on foreign policy?

― zvookster, Monday, September 30, 2013 8:46 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

eh i wouldnt make too much out of some conversation on a sidewalk during a campaign

i'd say that conversation is evidence that warren won't be terrible on foreign policy!

ugh can Susan Collins, the Maine Moderate, retire in Cabot Cove or something

no one cares, but apparently a shutdown could cost the DC metropolitan area could cost the DC metropolitan area $200 million per day00 million per day.

just mentioning that because estimates of the economic costs of prior shutdown seem to be less than that. for example, the figure i often see for the clinton/gingrich epic showdown is $2 billion in overall economic damage, and that was for 27 days (6 days for the first + 21 days for the second one). that works out to about $74 million per day, for the entire country.

if $200 million per day in DC alone is even close to correct, a shutdown is way more damaging than popularly perceived at the moment.

i don't know wtf happened in that first sentence

last week NPR interviewed the owner of a local B&B who says the shutdown would destroy her if it lasted beyond a week.

i don't know wtf happened in that first sentence

― reckless woo (Z S),

budget cuts

sorry guys, due to sequestration a small but significant chuk of my sentences and punctuation are disappeari/. i have no control over what gets cut, i just have to deal it and try to telligible senten

ZS <3 u

lol at mordy

huge lol at clinton 'running on income equality in 92'

lol ZS

lol at shakey

http://img.pandawhale.com/39966-Robert-Downey-jr-laughing-gif-M5Bd.gif