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

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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?

panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries)
Posted: October 12, 2013 at 5:36:06 AM

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

lol

hey great breasts kudos you look really pretty tonight youre doing a super job

Vegan strip club!

portlandia sketch

i've read this before (sometimes w/ the same byline) but i never get tired of reading it - http://on.tnr.com/1g5wRhv

"We could be witnessing the death throes of the Republican Party"

November 19, 1986.

new thread title

we could be witnessing the death throes of the republican party is always true

i mean it doesnt matter they would just get a new party

"It was just weird. I mean, to me, you know, hey, if he said, 'Hey, you got really hot breasts man, I'd love to suck on them.' Then like, yeah, cool. But like, he didn't say that," Shaftan explained. "It was like kind of like, I don't know, it was like what a gay guy would say to a stripper. It's the way he was talking to her. It's just like like there was no sexual interest at all. I don't know. To me, if I was single and you know like some stripper was tweeting me, I might take advantage of the perks of the office, you know?"

"This is strange. It's just weird. ... It's like, 'I don't know who she is. I don't know anything about her.' Get the fuck out of here dude. You can't follow her Twitter page and not know she's got those great breasts. How do you fucking not know?" Shaftan said. "It's just too odd and people they just wonder, like, who does this guy really want to work for? Who's he representing?"

http://i.imgur.com/1Qq9Aya.gif

GOP pissed at GOP for negotiating with POTUS

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/328205-house-gop-furious-with-senate

so mad at everyone mad teen congressmen

When a group of 20 Republicans arrived in the Roosevelt Room for a big meeting with President Obama on Thursday, they found evidence of the government shutdown at the White House.

Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) said that when he sat down, there was a simple card with his name scrawled on it, instead of the fancier calligraphy and seal that normally graces name cards for lawmakers when they attend formal meetings at the White House.

When another lawmaker lifted up his card, McKeon said, he found underneath the seal and name of another person on the card.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/328069-white-house-used-recycled-name-cards-for-gop-meeting#ixzz2hXXRUxrK
Follow us: @thehill on Twitter | TheHill on Facebook

He shared this anecdote on "Morning Joe" yesterday with a big ol' smile on his puss.

grounds for impeachment iirc

Rep. Trey Radel (R-Fla.) said Obama is taking advantage of the split between Senate and House Republicans.
“He has gone to the Senate Republicans and he's shopping,” Radel said. He said the country is now facing some "pretty serious consequences" because of “Obama's behavior.”

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/328205-house-gop-furious-with-senate#ixzz2hXfo1FPA
Follow us: @thehill on Twitter | TheHill on Facebook

Do they seriously not appreciate how ridiculous this sounds.

maybe it's time to go with the gephardt rule?

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/05/how-dick-gephardt-fixed-the-debt-ceiling-problem/238571/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/12/government-shutdown-sequestration_n_4091088.html

Vegan strip club!

portlandia sketch

― Hip Hop Hamlet (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, October 12, 2013 8:02 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark

http://casadiablo.org

Yeah, doesnt the Pirate's Cove brag about this, too?

They were heavily promoting their pregnant stripper for a while there

Robert Costa ‏@robertcostaNRO 2h
This is the way the impasse ends, not with a bang but a whimper... goodnight and see you at 8am ET on msnbc's UP, live from Senate

Robert Costa ‏@robertcostaNRO 2h
There is a growing acceptance in Hill GOP that regardless of how this ends, it'll end badly, and Rs who back it will be blamed for caving

Robert Costa ‏@robertcostaNRO 2h
in short, growing # of Rs could care less about a con$ervative group's threats about not being Cruz-esque/CR warrior when BCA '11 at risk

Robert Costa ‏@robertcostaNRO 2h
polls have dipped, House in disarray, Sen Rs on ropes. Now, cries/anger of Right fading, seem minor as hardball of Sen Ds rattles them

Robert Costa ‏@robertcostaNRO 2h
Little thing I've noticed during deep-bk talks today: Rs barely mentioning outside conservative groups/"key" votes, etc. Here's why...

http://i.imgur.com/R4XQ2K7.png

let us pray