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

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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― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius),

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?

think the point is lament that a Clinton bootlicker is the best we can expect in Virginia

exactly

no mcauliffe's a special case, the worst face of clintonism i can think of (worse than rahm, worse than bowles). if it was against a more generic anodyne republican i almost wouldn't have minded if he'd lost. even then i'm not sure, i'd rather have cuccinelli as governor of virginia than as a us senator which could happen if he runs (which ppl were urging him to do) and obamacare's as toxic an issue as it was this year. he also won't have ew jackson down ticket hurting him. as it was that virginia race was like a less toxic, less charismatic of edwards vs duke. virginia governors are limited to one term only anyway.

i mean douglas wilder was better than mcauliffe, tim kaine was better than mcauliffe, mark warner was better than mcauliffe. and those guys won when virginia was a pretty solidly red state. it's the definition of a purple state now so settling for a dlc lightweight like mcauliffe wasn't the equivalent of accepting yr john barrows and heath shulers cuz blue dogs are the only dems that stand a chance in the rural south. i'm guessing the money and the possibility of clinton stumping scared off challengers but how he wasn't the number one net target for a primary is beyond me.

I get most of that, but I don't get the senator vs governor thing. Another tea party senator, big deal. But as governor, he could block implementation of ACA, and promote more restrictive voting laws. Couldn't he be doing a lot more damage as governor?

Also, according to NYT, normally Virginia votes for the opposite of who is in the White House, has done for the last 36 years, as I recall. As such, it's sort of a victory, seeing how contested Obama's policies have been.

another tea party senator (which btw there aren't really that many now but there are enough and cruz was right w/ his 'now there are only three or four of us but when there are ten or twenty of us we can really start to shrink the govt' calculation) who could sit in that for god knows how long and be a factor in the dems losing the senate next year vs the status quo in the va governor's mansion for four more years.

But then, if tea party is 'status quo' in va, isn't it good that the dems won, even though he's a scumbag?

god guys 31 PERCENT of liberals voted for Christie. Who are they? Smoke'em out.