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

yeah sorry they can't serve two consecutive terms though nobody's grover clevelanded it in decades. i don't know why, you'd think there'd be some successful popular governor that didn't run for a senate seat and just sat out a turn. we're probably past the age when you could just run yr wife as a proxy.

heh

it goes back to Jefferson's time.

heh

http://images.politico.com/global/news/111128_bill_hillary_clinton_reuters_328.jpg

god I can't bear Bubba's expression of faux pride for another four to eight years.

yeah don't get me wrong i'm glad a dem won (whatever the smallest degree of gladness imaginable is, the same way i was glad the red sox won the world series), i'm just saying if it came down to cuccinelli beating mcauliffe this year or beating warner next year (which i don't actually think is likely fwiw) i'll take the former. i don't live in virginia.

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Oh, I don't even live in the US, so what do I care, you know... But - and correct me if I'm wrong - wasn't Virginia one of the swing states that tried to pass new voting laws to make it go for Romney? And then, might'nt a democratic governor mean quite a lot for the next presidential election? I'm sincerely asking, I might have been mixing stuff up.

Virginia did pass new voting laws, but only after Obama won the 2nd time and they don't go into place till next year. Not sure new guv can do anything about them. As a Virginia resident I have to settle for this election result with Mcauliffe winning and I will take it. I don't think right-wing Cuccinelli can beat Mark Warner (who I also reluctantly have to settle for).

Ok, well, my bad then. Then virginia sucks, I guess...

http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Joe-Biden-Dialed-The-Wrong-Guy-In-Congratulatory-4962418.php

url says it all really

Real Biden headlines vs Onion Biden headlines

Whew. Redeemed!

National Review's Robert Costa will join the Washington Post in January as a national political reporter, according to a memo.

and breitbart hires rand paul

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/country-music-stars-mock-obamacare-at-awards-show-video

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We've come a long way from when Country music was the music of the working poor and not siren call to their own self destruction. Then again the only country song I've ever heard that I thought was worth a damn was 'Hurt' which is really a Nine Inch Nails song so doesn't really count.

smh

Oh come on. They're making fun of the website not working which I think everyone agrees is a giant clusterfuck right now. Paisley is big time Obama supporter and Underwood at least supports gay marriage, if nothing else.

You could mention the context of how last night's crowd weren't exactly supporters of the president anyway, but that one cutsey exchange isn't worth getting too upset about.

I mad that someone stole my morning show parody "Obamacare by Morning" more than anything.

smh @ Maxie, I mean. the Obamacare jokes were tame.

pplains otm

soto otm re: pplains

hopefully costa will be able to maintain the access he has.

yeah that was my first thought -- i wonder if the rest of the right commentariat will turn on him

erickson and some of the breitbart maggots have thrown out 'rino' accusations in the past

Even Charles Pierce can be a moron.

fuck rednecks

I have.

If the jokes were funny I would have less of a problen with those hicks

Has anyone, erm, weighed in on Time's Christie cover?

http://media.northjersey.com/images/110713time_dngnk.jpg

Time doesn't exist

Christie is a dream candidate for Democrats

who's more electable than Christie? Jeb?

My tia Blanca.

man what would copy editors do if Christie went full Huckleberry and dropped the weight

http://on.realself.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/youngchris-christie.jpg

"The Frontrunner"

Frontwaddler

ah more thread substance

I could complain about Terry MacAulliffe some if that makes you feel better. I've always hated that guy.

and he's confusingly not fat.

Gods of Food

Robert Costa (@robertcostaNRO) tweeted at 4:21 PM on Thu, Nov 07, 2013:
Spoke w/ top Christie ally just now, more to come soon @NRO. Says Christie planning trips to early prim states, preparing for '16 run

Well, I knew that was going to happen and I have ZERO political connections. I could do Costa's job.

prim states...

quim states amirite

really don't see how Christie makes it through the GOP primaries

http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/BL-LB-46294

sorry for mobile link

just as a blanket statement all this cheeky giggling about christie's weight is gross bullshit

christie was the tea party darling a couple of years ago and he's done ok in the straw polls, i don't think it's impossible he can get thru, he's pretty far to the right of say giuliani. where he goes off the reservation though is going to be alot more difficult to work around than mccain's or romney's or bush's heresies were. his immigration stance is a juicy target w/ consequence (i know some who think rick perry's immigration stance hurt him more than his gaffes) but at least there rubio will be on stage w/ him to take some heat (maybe more heat as he 'led' the push for immigration reform at one point, one reason the bloom came off the rose for the base w/ him)(hate to be this reductive but alot of the gop only has use for minority politicians to the extent that they can be used to beat up on that politician's minority) and the stance can actually help him somewhat in the general. gun control is his real achilles heal though, his stance might align w/ a huge majority of americans but the only ppl who actually care about gun control enough for it to effect their vote are extremely against it and they all vote in the gop primary. his personality could hurt him also i guess, potential dean situation or viral gaffe on the campaign trail there. i think most americans find him pretty likeable though.

i mean he scares me more than rubio does that's for sure.

I'm like Stinky in "Hate", I harbor a deepseated suspicion that all these fat dudes got fat by ripping off us skinny dudes

Christie will be first against the wall in the coming Waist Wars

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