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

rips off mask, frenchs ted cruz w his lizard tongue

Damn Morbz was right

Actually maybe that stenographer was right:

“This is not one nation under God. It never was. Had it been, it would not have been – no – it would not have been – the Constitution would not have been written by Freemasons! They go against God. You cannot serve two masters. You cannot serve two masters. Praise Jesus [recording unclear]. Lord Jesus Christ!”

*shots ring out*

*camera pans to reveal the barrel of a smoking gun*

held by

barack obama

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

Wow, so you got the job writing the next Kirk Cameron movie?

Anyway we have a clip

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/clip/4469223

aw that didnt bring the lols at all

Yeah there's apparently Vines etc. floating around from closer up when the reporters got to her. I do like how most everyone is all looking up and going 'whuh?'

Apparently she'd been a stenographer for a few months so...just waiting for the right moment to lecture about the lizard people I guess.

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It's sad, what isn't known

Richard Reed
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Reading the NRO comments section during the last week or so, I have come to the conclusion that many of leftist trolls who now post here are a weird species of bipolar madmen, in the sense that they alternate, without reason, between pointless, personalized rage and highly-offensive gloating, neither of which wins any converts.

here's some wingnut red meat for your tummy! unfortunately it's from the Republican NYC mayoral candidate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO6waZDHBqA

what is that lady doing to that subway poll

Apparently she'd been a stenographer for a few months so...just waiting for the right moment to lecture about the lizard people I guess.

A sleeper agent! Cheney, Rumsfeld et al were right!!!!!

I'm not a big fan of focus groups but...

When a Macomb County focus group participant shot back, “No wonder they killed him” after I read a statement by Robert Kennedy, that stopped me and led to a whole new analysis of
Reagan Democrats – and what were the core blockages to working whites voting Democratic again.

lol

I had a concussion so they had to ask me a bunch of questions ‘cause my mind wasn’t quite working and they said, ‘who’s the President?’ And I said, ‘an S.O.B.’ and he said, ‘good enough.’ (Tea Party woman, Roanoke)

xp: I wish I knew what statement it was.

3 In the group of moderate women in Raleigh, participants were very supportive, surprisingly so, of a Hillary
Clinton presidency. Weighing the option of voting for Hillary Clinton versus a Republican male, the moderate
Republican women in Raleigh chose Clinton, on balance. One woman said, “I don't consider myself a Democrat
but… if she was the nominee…I would seriously consider…voting for her more than a Democratic male candi-
date.”

A Woman Is My Rock Star

I am continually stunned at the amount of moderate people I know who have come full circle on Hillary (!)

http://gawker.com/fox-friends-thinks-the-raving-stenographer-was-religi-1447035732

"[God] will not be mocked," the longtime House employee, later identified as Dianne Reidy, shouted at the stunned politicians. "The greatest deception here is that this is not one nation under God. It never was. It would not have been. The Constitution would not have been written by Freemasons. They go against God. You cannot serve two masters. Praise be to God. Praise be to Jesus."

Reidy was quickly pulled away from the microphone and escorted off the floor by Capitol Police, so, naturally, Fox News believes she was the victim of religious persecution.

Reading an email from a person identifying himself as a minister, Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy said Reidy was not experiencing a mental episode.

"What she was doing was known as an exercise of the gifts of the spirit where she was, she had brought a warning and a message from God regarding the activity, he felt, there in the House."

Later, Doocy opened another "email" from a person siding with Reidy who was aghast at her mistreatment.

"Amazingly, this religious and obviously a sweet lady gets fed up and speaks her mind, something we all have tried to do," Doocy read. "“She brings up our dear lord and she gets a mental evaluation? I think it should be the other way around."

Yeah, I think she should bring up a mental evaluation and get the Lord! Or the Lord should bring HER up and then get a mental evaluation! Or whatever the fuck these people think they're talking about!

I'm two seconds away from doing this at every company meeting, btw.

i used to sit in church when i was little and think about how easy it would be to stand up and shout obscenities loud enough for the whole church to hear and then i would get scared i was going to do it if i didn't stop thinking about it so i would stare at the jesus on the cross until the thought left me. later i dated sad-looking boys with prominent ribcages and said dreadful things to them.

― estela, Tuesday, March 6, 2007 9:19 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I often bring up the Deer Lord. So many deer out there. If their charismatic leader returns, things could get scary.

so . . . did mitch mcconnell . . . do something good for the country?

"The legislation also includes a McConnell-written proposal that would allow Congress to disapprove of the debt-ceiling increase. Lawmakers will formally vote on rejecting the bump of the borrowing limit - if it passed, it could be vetoed by Obama."

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/government-shutdown-debt-ceiling-default-update-98390.html#ixzz2huZZfjua

debt ceiling votes will go back to being symbolic non-binding routines again, like before the kenyan fella took office?

mentioned it yesterday afternoon here but yeah it's got a one-shot failsafe

yeah its a great idea, my understanding tho is its unfortunately just a one time thing for the upcoming debt limit

xp

maybe theyll like it so much itll be cannonized who knows

missed that alfred. i hope it's not a one-time thing. $24B is a lot of money to blow just to threaten our credit rating and put people out of work for a few weeks

...priceless

3 In the group of moderate women in Raleigh, participants were very supportive, surprisingly so, of a Hillary
Clinton presidency. Weighing the option of voting for Hillary Clinton versus a Republican male, the moderate
Republican women in Raleigh chose Clinton, on balance. One woman said, “I don't consider myself a Democrat
but… if she was the nominee…I would seriously consider…voting for her more than a Democratic male candi-
date.”
--the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

Note that James Carvell's people were involved with this study so I took this with a grain of salt

Robert Costa ✔ @robertcostaNRO
Just sat down w/ McConnell. Asked him about Cruz's ascent, where he fits within the conference. He had no comment--at all. Stone-faced.

i don't think that's possible for his face to do

tbf McConnell has resting stoned-face

StoneBlob-faced.

Note that James Carvell's people were involved with this study so I took this with a grain of salt

― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, October 17, 2013 12:16 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also hilary has been out of electoral politics for a long time, attacks will weaken her, but i do think she will still be a strong candidate especially with women

"The Senator's proboscis did not twitch at all."

Standard Obama day after talk:

Obama called on Congress to resist “pressure from the extremes” and “understand that how business is done in this town has to change.” He urged lawmakers to pursue a “balanced” long-term budget and pass comprehensive immigration reform and a new farm bill.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/government-reopens-thursday-after-congress-passes-budget-deal-raises-debt-limit/2013/10/17/dbe7889a-371b-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html?hpid=z1

yeah i happened to catch a lil piece of that as i was flipping around and i was just like aw dude still

I'm not a big fan of focus groups but...

"FOX is about the middle. (Evangelical man, Roanoke)
[Fox News is] about the only one that gives you both sides. (Evangelical man, Roa- noke)
I don’t think they’re trying to make the news. I think they’re trying to report the news. It seems like everybody else is trying to make the news. (Evangelical man, Roanoke)
"

both sides: right and wrong!

lying and wrong

Same 'ol, same 'ol

The most likely path to replacing part of the sequester is to make cuts to mandatory spending — such as health-care programs. On a practical level, Republicans and Democrats agree that mandatory spending is better to cut because it’s the long-term driver of U.S. debt.

But any discussion of significant changes to mandatory spending usually leads Democrats to insist on new taxes, which has been a deal breaker for the GOP.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/shutdown-deal-averts-catastrophe-but-leaves-the-economy-in-peril/2013/10/16/9734ba18-367d-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story_1.html

interesting that there has been zero chatter about Boehner losing his Speakership. Not sure how he does it, it's kind of remarkable.

TPM makes it sound like we'll be back in this same situation in January.

these people are so fucking stupid I cant handle it

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) threw verbal punches at each other Wednesday night and Thursday morning, respectively, in an ongoing tiff between the two lawmakers.

On Wednesday, McCain said Gohmert had "no intelligence" in response to Gohmert's charge that McCain is an al-Qaeda supporter.

"Sometimes comments like that are made out of malice, but if someone has no intelligence I don't feel it as being a malicious statement," McCain said on NBC News. "But yes, there's polarization here, and there's a lack of civility."

Gohmert responded Thursday, saying that McCain "would be better off with 'no intelligence.'"

"Obviously, Senator McCain would be better off with ‘no intelligence’ since he does not know the Syrian opposition he met with is infested with al-Qaeda and terrorist kidnappers," Gohmert said in a statement to the Daily Beast. "His 'intelligence' even caused him to support the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt that burned churches and killed Christians, as the senator stood against the will of the massive majority of Egyptians including moderate Muslims, Christians, and secularists who demanded the Muslim Brotherhood extremist persecutions must end."

rawr hiss hiss