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

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.

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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."
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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

I'm laughing every time 'huge' and 'expansive' used about Chris Christie because I'm an asshole.

lol

man it's pretty fucked up that terry mcauliffe is governor of anywhere

impeach any governor who aims for Alton Brown cred

http://nakeddc.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Terry-McAuliffee.jpeg

this means VA will expand medicaid now, right?

man 2014 ain't looking good

Pretty sure that I have sold kurt dornfeld a guitar actually. He seemed like a person who bought a guitar from me I guess *memories*

just hung out at the Cuccinelli concession party in va, pretty sweet vibes, brassy republicans looking p deflated, also republicans look like guys with pagers irl

man it's pretty fucked up that terry mcauliffe is governor of anywhere

― goole, Wednesday, November 6, 2

Morbs Jr., he is the lesser of 2 evils

well, that's why!

he is the lesser of 2 evils

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I wonder what Biden thinks every time he sees Putin.

― the rofflestomper (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, November 6, 2013 1:25 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"amtrak, amtrak, amtrak"

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I guess I should have written New Yorker you in, since there is no Purist Virginia Left-wing party.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2013_11/counterpolarizing_the_social_s047664.php

Finally a bit of attention on Capitol Hill for Social Security ideas that are usually just mentioned on blogs and online forums

I get how you can be mad at DINOs on the national stage, or in traditionally Dem areas. But how can you be mad that the new governor of Virginia is not a purist?

top 5 scummiest Friend of Bill = "not a purist"

oh, that purity noun, more uses than a Swiss Army knife

But is that still not massively better than tea party? And would you expect anything better in Virginia?