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

sebelius apparently just said the word "whatever" in testimony. so, look out for the memes on that one i guess.

Secret Santa gift for Angela

http://covers.powells.com/9780767900416.jpg

Do they even let the president have a person cell phone?

Hmm, he may have a super-secure $3500 Blackberry, but that was a few years back. I wonder what he has now?

http://www.thekidswindow.co.uk/images/CMScontent/Image/469369~Tin-Can-and-String-Telephone-Posters.jpg

Secure! Except for the shouting.

Obama should just have a truckload of single-use disposable cell phones. An aide could carry a couple dozen in a briefcase and always be within X number of feet of him, just like with the 'football'.

He should have a pager, and then when someone wants to get a hold of him they would have to send their number in a code where you jump over the 5-button, and then he would have to go to a payphone a few blocks away and call them. Never the same phone twice a day!

well, he's got a truckload of Obamaphones he gives to poor black people.

http://johngushue.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/09/04/maxwell_smart_with_shoe_phone.jpg

Graham has done his part to placate the most conservative faction of his party, vowing earlier this week to block every Obama administration appointee until survivors of the 2012 attack in Benghazi testify before Congress.

this fuckin guy

Has this guy ever heard of a subpoena?

http://memecrunch.com/meme/KTU9/stop-trying-to-make-benghazi-happen/image.png

curmudgeon OTM this is so annoying:

As each side stakes out differing positions in public, the White House is signaling it may not insist on raising taxes as part of a deal to replace some of the automatic spending cuts under the budget sequester. The Wall Street Journal reported that President Barack Obama is open to accepting a budget deal without new revenues, and instead includes some cuts to entitlement programs he has previously endorsed.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday that he won’t consider a deal that doesn’t include revenues.

Give'em hell, Harry!

He looks old, tired, and ornery. I'm pleased with what obstructionism has done to him.

Reid is feeling it these days.

yeah idk when reid got cooler

thanks to 'citizens united,' the GOP might get destroyed . . . by rich trustfund objectivists? the irony

http://www.vocativ.com/10-2013/gop-scared-conservative-kids/?test

i like how that one guy is all "i don't believe in a luck" while he and his coterie of 'tantric' Galts are piggybacking off the a dude who inherited millions of dollars.

Yeah, what was the difference between me being born Preston Bates or me being born this indigent, poor child? I don’t know if it was luck or if it was probability.

is there a more WASPish entitled asshole name than "Preston Bates"

Kinda needs a leading initial to cross the asshole event horizon and collapse into assholish singularity. H. Preston Bates or somesuch.

just call him Master Preston

Massah Preston to the rest of us.

Tantric Master Preston

Reiki Master Preston.

“Money’s a phenomenal idea,” Ramsey allows. “The idea to have money and just have that as a system.”

Yeah, what was the difference between me being born Preston Bates or me being born this indigent, poor child? I don’t know if it was luck or if it was probability.

this is the most ontologically confused sentence i've ever read

probability is the scientific form of luck that only happens when rich people get nice things

probability is when it happens to me. luck is when it happens to you.

"It's called Bad. Luck."

is there a more WASPish entitled asshole name than "Preston Bates"

Edwin Farnham Butler III?

is there a more WASPish entitled asshole name than "Preston Bates"

Ahem.

sounds french not anglo saxon

that article is insane

http://media.vocativ.com/photos/2013/10/Super-PAC-Preston-Bates-Twitter3280844893.png

every paragraph contains some priceless gem

After drinking purple, protein-infused juice, we stop at two artisanal coffee shops—lots of flannel and Suicide Girls—just to be sure we’re properly caffeinated. Ramsey stays behind to make some calls, and I go with Preston to his daily cryotherapy session. On the way home, we pick up brisket sandwiches at a local barbecue stand, when it starts to pour, the first heavy rain in months. Bates embarks on a monologue about the beauty of nature. Then, as a sort of denouement, he announces, “I wish I could make love to a woman right now.”

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120622020855/simpsons/images/c/c4/Captain!.jpg

that vocativ article cannot possibly be real

all I ever wanna post on politics threads anymore is "I hope that guy dies"

http://studentsforliberty.org/preston-bates/

Favorite Liberty Figures Frederic Bastiat, David Boaz, David Freidman, Mary Wollstonecraft, The Immortal Technique

vocativ is real shit contendo

fresh out the box
look at watch

hmmmmm.

“I’m ready to make some tough concessions to get a deal,” said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray (D-Wash.), the lead negotiator for Senate Democrats.

...

If Democrats insist on raising taxes, Ryan and other GOP leaders, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), have said they will simply let the sequester stay in place. But that strategy is likely to raise the risk of a shutdown in January and a fresh crisis over the debt limit later in the spring — which may explain why Cole is working hard to keep the door to taxes open.

“You can find revenue without raising taxes,” he said Wednesday. “Let’s leave a little helpful ambiguity in what I’m saying.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/beneath-conference-committees-sweet-words-lurks-old-sticking-point-taxes/2013/10/30/7bacafb8-418f-11e3-a624-41d661b0bb78_story_1.html

so guys are you excited about Hillary breaking the partisan gridlock in Washington in 2016 or what

How about reform the immigration system, suddenly BAM millions of new American citizens paying new taxes! You know, the same people politicians are always blaming on mooching off the government?

I guess that would make too much sense?

no new taxes!

no more 47%ers living the lucky-duck life on food stamps (even if they do work minimum wage jobs)!

no more liberal judges making up the law!

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/188851-republicans-block-obama%E2%80%99s-dc-circuit-nominee

“They’ve admitted they want to control the court to advance the president’s agenda,” McConnell said ahead of the vote.

shocking. surely the GOP would never stoop to such tactics.

court packing to fill a vacant seat eh

Dems nominate crate of styrofoam peanuts to circuit court