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

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
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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
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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

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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

Robert Costa ‏@robertcostaNRO 1m
This is a big story; House conservatives tell me it's a "game-changer," gives Right new momentum ahead of this week http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/protesters-reopen-world-war-ii-memorial-on-national-mall-thats-closed-for-govt-shutdown/2013/10/13/0d781264-341d-11e3-89db-8002ba99b894_story.html

i mean what

anyone who thinks the house republicans are passing anything on their own to save the day are out of their fn minds

only way anything happens is with dem votes and some breakaway republicans

i dunno, palin and cruz have never led the party astray before, let's see how this plays out

is Costa angling to work for an actual news organization here

srsly hes been really good

lol xp

Cruz and Palin at WWII memorial? The Dems have lost, guys.

momentum!

memorialmentum!

R's getting momementum by protesting their own decision to shutdown is so delicious I can't even

its really quite something to behold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5bgQ2hwDII

This is awesome

theyre their own only customers

its a pyramid scheme

on FOX:

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Jesus was not about the 'good old days'

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Move over Jimmy Carter, Obama has my vote for worst president -- ever

I'm thinking that the dems getting all aggressive trying to negotiate on the sequester may be a bit of an overreach. They need to focus on the clean CR and leave it at that for now.

well they need to open the government back up and that requires an agreement on spending levels so << actually not sure this is true feel free to explain

There seems to be enough agreement on the current spending levels to get them to pass the house if a vote were allowed. Not so for pre- sequester levels. Boehner will eventually allow a vote if he can frame it as something other than a major humiliation. Talks around ending the sequester at this point would cross way into humiliation territory.

any CR that's shorter than a year is bullshit.

No matter what the outcome, I guarantee you boehner will be humiliated

Negotiations at this point are basically about finding a way to minimize the humiliation. If the dems decide it's now time to turn the screws, they run the risk of messing that up.

when will there be a better time to turn the screws reestablish normal government spending

That's all the negotiations were ever about. The longer this drags on the more leverage the dems have, so it's not going to get minimized, it's going to get worse for everyone's favorite drunken oompa loompa

After the government re-opens

Once the gov't reopens the dems don't have as much leverage and are back to square one. They are right to press the advantage now.