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

defund the nih, wait it out

o wait we're not supposed to go 'there'

Hahaha, i just saw this. 4 pm tomorrow Marietta town square. I'll make sure to wear my brand new bandwagon jumping Tony Gonzalez jersey (which i only got because they say he's good, which is what us bandwagoners do). I'll take it off before i kick your ass cuz i dont want to get your fucking pussy juice all over it. You have no clue what youre dealing with. I'll be sure to bring my friends, this could be good for a laugh, and i bet all of them have the 5 minutes to spare that it will take me to fucking crush you.

― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Friday, January 25, 2013 4:32 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*locks up shopfront*

reminder than anything "-tard" is fucked up and bullshit for grownups no matter how they feel about the people they're arguing w/

idgi ron paul leotard?

I stand corrected

u shd see morbs in that thing

randersonian translocation at paulosome 13

galt gulch. sun setting. cruz's corpse smoking. a harmonica wailing forlorn in the distance

randersonian translocation at paulosome 13

― balls, Sunday, October 20, 2013 1:33 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*slow clap*

my god Dick Cheney on "60 Minutes" admitting to being involved in decisions which included "advanced interrogation," padded into a report about Cheney's "heart." The reporter lets it go.

http://i.imgur.com/LsSX0Ka.png

sez Durbin, who loves to mention entitlement reform when David Gregory comes calling.

yeah he's a scrote for sure

Christie's dropping the appeal of the gay marriage decision in NJ:

http://www.politickernj.com/68996/christie-administration-drops-appeal-same-sex-marriage-case

So that's done and dusted for that state on the one hand; on the other, with essentially two years before Iowa/NH campaigning will be kicking into full, that's kind of an interesting calculation on his part. As noted here, Drudge is calling it an 'embrace' of gay marriage.

nothing wrose for a Republican than acknowledging equal rights for other people

Given their current base, yes!

Yesterday I was watching the latest Chris Hayes show and a commentator said, "I don't think this has anything to do with Obama, this would be the same with any Democrat as president" and I wanted to yell "YOU'RE LYING. WHY ARE YOU LYING??!" I realize vaguely that the talking heads "can't" admit to the racist elephant in the room although I'm not surely exactly WHY they can't, but it's starting to annoy me.

The kernel that is true is that any Democratic president would be attacked. The vast majority that is different is the tactics being pursued play directly into a pander-to-racists playbook embraced by the GOP over the past 50 years, which wouldn't be as directly applicable to a white President (they would need another Willie Horton; here they can cut out the middle man and go straight for the "this is a dangerous man oh you say he's BLACK? racist" jujitsu).

A non-Benghazi hearing coming up.

On Thursday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee plans to conduct a hearing on the exchange’s rocky debut. Republicans are calling for the ouster of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who has indicated that she has a schedule conflict that prevents her from appearing at the hearing. HHS officials say they are trying to cooperate with the committee in other, unspecified ways.

But: The Obama administration said Sunday that it has enlisted additional computer experts from across the government and from private companies to help rewrite computer code and make other improvements to the online health insurance marketplace, which has been plagued by technical defects that have stymied many consumers since it opened nearly three weeks ago.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/experts-working-to-fix-healthcaregov-insurance-marketplace-officials-say/2013/10/20/1e1a35ce-39b4-11e3-a94f-b58017bfee6c_story.html?hpid=z1

ACA tech surge!

https://www.healthcare.gov/blog/we-re-listening-and-improving-every-day/

Recalling briefly the levels of pure vitriol against the Clintons, I find it believable that a white democrat president would have just as much monkey shit flung at him as they fling now at Obama. It was not just the impeachment, but stuff like the massive whispering campaign that they murdered Vince Foster to cover up the heinous crimes of Whitewater. At least Obama is only accused of being a Kenyan socialist who wants to kill the USA.

... did you really have to use "monkey shit"

The monkeys are the flingers, not the flung at, so yes.

The GOP used the "lol Egghead why do you know foreign stuff?" line of attack against Kerry, Gore and Dukakis--pols that Obama is temperamentally closer to than he is to Clinton. However Obama gets the full "Traitor, Sleazebag, Murderer" treatment that Clinton got. Maybe it's because of his race, or maybe because he actually got elected.

i'm sure even a right-winger democrat like lieberman would've drawn some blood suckers if he was in the white house
<joekz>

i said this a looong time ago but, the right freaked out in true paranoid style vs. clinton (and his wife) because that's what they do. against obama that stuff of course has a racial/xenophobic tinge, but there's a strong undercurrent of sheer bafflement. still can't believe the guy won, that he was 'electable'.

maybe because he actually got elected

bingo!

Just wait until they start realizing that people like Cruz CAN'T.

Yeah I still go with the explanation that after 12 straight years, the GOP actually decided they were never going to have to relinquish the throne again. The cognitive dissonance of Clinton victory broke their brains.

hoping there's a cruz for prez 2016 campaign and i picket for his real birth certificate

he'll run and not make it past a few primaries, would be my guess

Who gets their "turn" to run in '16?

Reagan - 1980 ('76)
Bush - 1988 ('80)
Dole - 1996 ('88)
McCain - 2008 ('00)
Romney - 2012 ('08)

Maybe we will get a Bush kid, just like 2000.

He'll get as far as Santorum on anger alone, and then some limp noodle will take the nomination (no idea who, though).

at the moment I would bet on Christie

Cruz will win some primaries and then flame out, will probably run into money problems etc. I hope the GOP field is as jampacked as last time cuz man that was some funny shit.

That bleeding heart liberal commie? Good luck. xp

I think Jeb would have real serious problems appealing to the GOP base

I suspect it's Paul Ryan's turn, and he will summarily be crushed by HRC.

not if he gets crushed by Christie first

argh that was not a double entendre fat joke

the safe bet is a chaotic primary w/ lots of joke candidates and someone with a history of being a moderate acts crazy enough to get the nom by default. ie the same thing that happened the last two times.

so christie becomes a tea partier

Running for sure:
Cruz, Ryan, Rand Paul, Christie, Rubio

Running maybe:
Jeb Bush, Santorum

can we make Santorum run until he's bankrupt

Bible Belters would have a hard time getting behind Christie, I think, but yeah, he's got as good a shot as any to get the nom.

the fat jokes really just write themselves

can we make Santorum run

Dude, enough with the double entendres!

bible belters eventually got behind mormon-who-created-obamacare...these people are pretty good at cognitive dissonance when it comes time