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

No need for scare quotes there, Lord Sotosyn. Bad ideas, confused ideas, harmful ideas, are all still ideas.

Ryan didn't present ideas so much as Reaganite puddles of goo

Sadly, some of that goo obama already agreed to in grand bargain talks.

Meanwhile:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/10/nine-ways-the-shutdown-will-get-more-painful-as-it-drags-on/?wprss=rss_business&clsrd

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BWT_WasCYAAsmf0.jpg

lol

hahaha

uprising leader

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2010/03/03/PH2010030301365.jpg

looool

#tgdn?

http://tgdn.org/

fuxake

twitter gulag defense network

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hahaha that washington post thing is awesome

@washingtonpost #major #social #win #lmao

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Patriots.followed by Congressman Darrel Issa
Ohio

aaaaaaaaaaa

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#twitterhack #hackingskills

did Bezos put a smartalecky nephew in the Twitter seat?

I hope so.

President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) spoke by phone this afternoon, spokesmen said.

The takeaway: The dialogue continues.

It's a "dialogue"...not a negotiation.

the takeaway: democrats are sitting around our poll numbers roasting smores and making out

NY Times takeaway differs from Washington Post:

Dems to give away poll advantage by agreeing to deal that would allow the following

The aide added that there also would be either a delay or an easing of a tax on medical devices that is part of the health care law, but that the repeal of the tax was now off the table.

plus maintain sequester level funding for a short time

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#delusionsofsovereignty

Ha ha

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That's from the Susan Collins and Moderate Dem West VA senator Manchin talks

put Collins and Manchin in a bag with a snake, scorpion, and Ted Cruz.

http://www.breitbartunmasked.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ted-cruz-AP.jpg

Dog man and the king of snake

http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Ted+Cruz+2012+Republican+National+Convention+8eS0uX0i0ipl.jpg

Mongoose and the king of snake

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/08/02/us/CRUZ/CRUZ-articleInline.jpg

Twenty-four hours with the king of snake

Man, every time I think "THAT'S the most punchable face in the GOP," they up the ante.

it's like he's daring you to punch him

we have a state rep primary coming up in Texas and I've started receiving mail from the competing democrats where they photoshop the face of the opponent sandwiched between Rick Perry and Ted Cruz as a way to discredit them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/magazine/the-final-insult-in-the-bush-cheney-marriage.html?pagewanted=4&_r=0&smid=tw-nytimes&partner=rss&emc=rss

this get linked yet?

Etc etc:

President Barack Obama spoke with House Speaker John Boehner on Friday but did not wholly accept the House Republican plan to open government, raise the debt ceiling and open budget talks, sources said.

“The President and the Speaker spoke by telephone a few minutes ago. They agreed that we should all keep talking,” said Michael Steel, a spokesman for Boehner.

Senior Republican sources say Obama is amenable to changes to mandatory and discretionary spending, but needs Republicans to commit to increasing governmental revenue. Obama also acknowledged that an unpopular medical device tax is not core to the health care law, GOP senators said after the meeting. That tax has been in the crosshairs of senators from both parties working toward a broad agreement.

Dems to give away poll advantage by agreeing to deal that would allow the following

The aide added that there also would be either a delay or an easing of a tax on medical devices that is part of the health care law, but that the repeal of the tax was now off the table.

plus maintain sequester level funding for a short time

― curmudgeon, Friday, October 11, 2013 4:30 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this would be a huge victory for the democrats, trading a decrease in the medical device tax for an end to sequestration, that major positive reveune flow, EXCEPT the fact that it at least in appearance continues the practice of bargaining over the debt ceiling, i mean who knows maybe the republicans are sufficiently scared off of using it, but best case scenario is to have the deal include and end to the debt ceiling once and for all

paul ryan is apparently offering said deal PLUS demanding entitlement cuts as well lol of course http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/10/paul-ryans-ridiculously-unfair-deal.html

Meanwhile in New Jersey

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/top-aide-believes-steve-lonegan-is-surging-because-of-cory-booker-s-strange-behavior

This has led to some failed ass covering (via second hand tweets)

https://twitter.com/RobJenningsNJ/status/388789139753029632

https://twitter.com/RobJenningsNJ/status/388789975879139328

lol @memeorandum Christie: 'If I was in the Senate right now, I'd kill myself'

romney really did win last year, says the unskewed polls guy

http://www.fark.com/comments/7972005/Conservatives-will-never-win-presidency-in-2016-if-they-dont-face-up-to-fact-that-they-really-did-win-in-2012-but-Obama-regime-stole-it-through-massive-cheating

But Cheney also came to embrace the reputation. Once his friend David Hume Kennerly greeted him teasingly by saying: “Hi, Dick. Have you blown away any small countries this morning?” Without missing a beat, Cheney replied, “You know, that’s the one thing about this job I really love.” At another point, he tried on a Darth Vader mask his aides had bought and posed for a picture. When he later tried to put the picture in his memoir, his wife, Lynne, talked him out of it.

Can someone explain the theory of how Romney won so I don't have to read the article?

I believe the theory is "he won because he had to have won because America hates Obama."

acorn did it

http://www.grantland.com/fivethirtyeight/story/_/id/9802433/nate-silver-us-government-shutdown

This is what I needed to read after happy hour. Thanks, ILM.

And poof goes the NJ doof

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/10/lonegan_adviser_rick_shaftan_gives_x-rated_interview_to_poltical_site.html

Lol at the Bush/Cheney article

"But there's a lot we don't know."

"It was just weird. I mean, to me, you know, hey, if he said, 'Hey, you got really hot breasts man ... But like, he didn't say that," Shaftan said in the interview. "It was like kind of like, I don't know, it was like what a gay guy would say to a stripper."

Think "hey you got really nice breasts, man" is exactly what a gay guy would say to a stripper

yeah that censored version of the quote really doesn't do it justice imo

when will joy reid get her own show?

Hopefully Ed Schultz will choke on his own self-importance soon and a space will open up.

poor big eddie. starting to wonder if this whole shutdown snafu is cuz too many old timers are abusing medicare part d happy pills when maybe we should be subscribing them weed pills instead?