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

good gnus, Obomber officially a lame duck! Dems bored already like you presidential speculators.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/11/schumer-endorses-hillarys-nonexistent-campaign.html

morbs how much of a hardon did you get when yr boy challenged rachel maddow to a duel this weekend?

I don't have a boy, scrotum of filth, nor follow the hot cable news news

answer the question

penis

Paul initially addressed the claims last week, admitting that he "borrowed" from the films in question but insisting that he "gave credit."

Mentioning the name of the film you're describing is not the same as saying "this synopsis I just gave you is lifted virtually wholesale from Wikipedia."

The Democratic party often refuses to support their own members on principle, so I guess that's not a surprise. But you'd think they would have at least seen some value in helping Buono damage this creep who's now going to be considered some kind of juggernaut going into the presidential election. I guess they like him too.

If you live in New Jersey please make a point of voting tomorrow and casting your vote for Barbara Buono. Chris Christie winning by 20 points is not good for America, particularly American women. Yuck.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/11/chris-christie-creep-too-many-democrats.html

Yes:

What has happened, predictably, is that in at least 17 states where Republicans are in charge, a variety of roadblocks has been thrown in front of these folks. In Indiana, they were required to pay fees of $175. In Florida, which under Governor Rick Scott (who knows a thing or two about how to game the health-care system, you may recall) has been probably the most aggressive state of all here, the health department ruled that local public-health offices can’t have navigators on their premises (interesting, because local public health offices tend to be where uninsured people hang out). In West Virginia, Utah, Pennsylvania, and other states, grantees have said no thanks and returned the dough after statewide GOP elected officials started getting in their faces and asking lots of questions about how they operate and what they planned to do. Tennessee issued “emergency rules” requiring their employees to be fingerprinted and undergo background checks...

The administration’s cockups are a legitimate story. I’ve never said otherwise. My first column about the website was quite tough on the administration and on Obama personally, when I wrote that I found it shocking that he apparently wasn’t riding herd on staff to make damn sure the thing worked. I said on television, to some host’s surprise, that yes, I did hold him accountable for the mistakes.

So I get why that’s a story. But the sabotage is a story, too. A huge one. It’s almost without precedent in American history, and the precedent it does have includes some of the ugliest chapters in this nation’s history. It gets coverage, yes. But not nearly the coverage it deserves. As is so often the case—as with Benghazi, as with Fast and Furious, as with the IRS—the bigger scandal is on the Republican side.

If you live in New Jersey please make a point of voting tomorrow and casting your vote for Barbara Buono. Chris Christie winning by 20 points is not good for America, particularly American women. Yuck.

Sadly but hilariously, I read this as "Chris Christie winning by 20 pounds."

the bigger scandal is on the Republican side.

That's a stretch.

it's not a stretch to call it sedition. these are the same fools who fly the rebel flag at the white house gates

My epithet of choice is 'cold civil war'. They've been at it since January 2009.

If, as I do, you consider the refusal of more than a dozen Republican governors and legislatures to expand Medicaid, thereby leaving millions of low-income Americans not just uninsured but also ineligible for the health care tax credits that will be available to Americans making more money than them, to be scandalous, then it's not so much a stretch as all that.

it's okay if little randy plagiarizes wikipedia. also, it's good for poor children to go hungry if mom and dad can't find work. builds character

in fairness the idea of rachel maddow kicking the shit out of rand paul is pretty awesome

so not gonna happen

If, as I do, you consider the refusal of more than a dozen Republican governors and legislatures to expand Medicaid, thereby leaving millions of low-income Americans not just uninsured but also ineligible for the health care tax credits that will be available to Americans making more money than them, to be scandalous, then it's not so much a stretch as all that.

I agree but that wasn't the point of that article. That's another argument entirely.

xp

i know embarrassingly little about FAST AND FURIOUS, but I would say that the the real IRS scandal is 501(c)(4) abuse. and yeah, the GOP/ Right has been worse imo.

GOP so much worse / wrong about everything lately they're like professional wrestling "villains"

"You're fired. No homo."
http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/XdUzwCZ3_bynP1s4JhbYuA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTMwMDtweW9mZj0wO3E9NzU7dz00NTA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-11-04T221402Z_1_CBRE9A31PRZ00_RTROPTP_2_USA.JPG

republicans are bad people but opposing ENDA is one of the most blatantly evil positions i can think of, so kudos republicans who oppose ENDA

"Adherence to a new approval process implemented by Sen. Paul will ensure proper citation and accountability in all collaborative works going forward," he said.

Paul in recent days has been shown to have borrowed phrasing from Wikipedia, the conservative Heritage Foundation, the libertarian Cato Institute and other sources in his speeches and his recently released book. In the latter case, Paul's book cribbed more than 1,000 words of a Heritage study.

Now, I feel better.

re: heritage & cato, is it really 'plagiarism' if the source ain't mad?

i mean, i thought the whole point of rand paul was to be a direct pipeline of right-libertarianism into the senate.

drgaf about this whole thing tbh, though if dude is embarrassed i'm glad

I don't either. So he's plagiarizing shitty received ideas?

http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-1105-tsa-guns-20131105,0,3754764.story#axzz2jndfErxQ

this was bound to end well one way or another

the subheading kinda says it all:

Airport security experts note the cost and risk of arming TSA officers. The Airport Police chief says more officers in the terminal wouldn't have necessarily saved lives.

funny i think we just found the one american population the right absolutely doesn't want to see armed.

haha teabaggers complaining about the jack booted tsa thugs and their 'obamaguns'

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/05/the_seduction_of_george_w_bush_by_vladimir_putin (you can read it w/out sub'ing by googling headline 'the seduction of george w bush')

So when he sat down with Putin in a 16th-century castle in Slovenia in June of that year, he was predisposed to find a partner in the former KGB man even before his counterpart told him about saving his Orthodox cross from a dacha fire, a story appealing to Bush's faith. Bush's later public comment noting that he had gotten a "sense of his soul" disturbed many inside his own team. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice stiffened even as he said it, worried that the answer might be too effusive -- but she said nothing. Back in Washington, Vice President Dick Cheney and his staff were even more bothered. "A lot of us were kind of rolling our eyes about that," Eric Edelman, then the vice president's deputy national security adviser, recalled later. Every time Cheney saw Putin, he privately told people, "I think KGB, KGB, KGB."

I wonder what Biden thinks every time he sees Putin.

"amtrak, amtrak, amtrak"

"Wow, when did he win a Super Bowl?"

Meanwhile, it's a rather tight race for the VA governor job.

don't give a shit about either piece of shit

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/11/05/2893001/enda-work/

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) are trying to attach a national so-called “right-to-work” law to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), according to Roll Call. The two filed an amendment connecting ENDA to the anti-union measure hours before the discrimination ban passed a key hurdle on its way to its first floor vote in the Senate in six years. The proposal would effectively require workers to trade protections from discrimination on the basis of sexuality and gender identity for their rights to strong union protections from other employer abuses.

don't give a shit about either piece of shit

Such venom! Such accuracy!

LOL @ FOX News completely ignoring the governor races to allow Brit Hume space to dismiss the ACA.

if you feel like staying up all night, keep an eye on the nuttiest election going: minneapolis mayor! 35 names on the ballot! ranked choice voting! less than 40% turnout!

http://live.startribune.com/Event/Election_Day_2013

Libertarian vote is saving Virginia from Cucinelli.

(st. paul's election is dull in comparison, there was a KURT "DIRTY KURTY" DORNFELD" on the ballot)

are you up there in the Twin Cities goole?

yup! why, you a friends of kurt's?

lol no! lived there in the 80s and 90s tho

love that town, sorry to derail the amazing thread and news the McAullife won

yeah, it is pretty nice.

feeling this:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BYWy543CMAInIcD.jpg

"Get Ken's hands out of my womb!"

i like to think in that shot instead of his prepared remarks someone handed him a printout from nifty.org