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

Anyone who says "Call David Gergen for advice" deserves a bludgeoning.

david hey how are you oh good yeah im great thx listen do you know how to forward ports on a wireless router

lol otm

http://www.businessinsider.com/it-will-be-an-unhappy-new-year-for-the-long-term-unemployed-when-their-benefits-are-cut-off-2013-12#ixzz2mQLMSVaI

This will teach 'em

Cutting off unemployment benefits is justified in the eyes of conservatives, bcz the benefits are paid in the form of money, not whippings.

neoliberal arbitrage opportunity

bring back debtors prisons and indentured servitude i say

pres brown moving to nh? http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ex-sen-scott-brown-namechecks-new-hampshire-in-op-ed-bashing-obamacare

man Chuck Schumer is both useless and stupid, isn't he?

IC: You don’t think Elizabeth Warren makes a villain out of Wall Street?

CS: I am just going to leave it at what I said.

IC: Forget Warren then. Is this a problem for your party?

CS: You don’t want to go after them for the sake of going after them. The left-wing blogs want you to be completely and always anti–Wall Street. It’s not the right way to be.

IC: So are the left-wing blogs as bad as the Tea Party ones in this case?

CS: Left-wing blogs are the mirror image. They just have less credibility and less clout.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115689/chuck-schumer-interview-liberal-blogs-elizabeth-warren-ted-cruz

wow schumer asking for it bigtime

DINO. primary him.

lol he also bragged today abt taking pres brown out after he crossed him http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/schumer-recruited-elizabeth-warren-after-scott-brown-allegedly-rejected-deal

"I went to Scott Brown and said, 'If you give us the sixtieth vote for the Citizens United rollback, we won’t go after you,'" he told the New Republic. "I spent a lot of time lobbying him, and met some of his friends and had them lobby him. He said yes. Then he said no. So I wanted to recruit the strongest candidate against him, and I thought that was Elizabeth Warren."

I liked the part where he looked at the aide for support.

"You don’t want to go after them for the sake of going after them."

his corporate masters are relieved!

wall street are people, too, my friend.

you go after them for the sake of they need gettin after

Making people out of money. It's part of John Roberts' magic.

grab popcorn, and settle in for the next three years.

And they hired professors to make the impeachment arguments for them...and still nothing really there

well he is . . . quite tan

House of Reps now the fundraising arm for Heritage Action and RNC.

http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/11/22/politicos-pay-to-play/

Politico getting called out for its pay to play relationship with advertisers. Just a coincidence they say

a dating service, only between legislators and special interests

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-alec-stands-its-ground/2013/12/04/ad593320-5d2c-11e3-bc56-c6ca94801fac_story.html

everyone is a special interest

I know I'm pretty special.

there u go

(strikes a big-cheeked smile that shows no teeth whatsoever)

Some things never change--Centrist Dems (although maybe left being aggressive is a slight change):

In a sign of the left’s new aggressiveness, a coalition of liberals is trying to marginalize a centrist Democratic policy group that was responsible for a Wall Street Journal op-ed article this week that said economic populism was “disastrous” for the party.

The coalition, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, and three other liberal advocacy organizations have urged their members to contact a group of congressional Democrats who are honorary leaders of the centrist group, Third Way. It published the op-ed article on Monday contending that the liberalism of Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio of New York City and Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts would lead Democrats “over the populist cliff.”

The article — written by Jon Cowan, president of Third Way, and Jim Kessler, its senior vice president for policy — criticizes progressives like Ms. Warren and Mr. de Blasio for opposing measures to cut costs to Social Security and Medicare

from the NY Times

Centrists must be proud about this-- it looks like Senator Patty Murray might be willing to throw fed govt civilian employees under the bus, since Paul Ryan wants to protect corporations and rich folks--

"Mr. Ryan is pressing hard for an increase in the contributions that federal workers pay for their pensions — by as much as $120 billion over 10 years. "

p funny after that oped warren sent a letter to all the big banks asking them to disclose their think tank donations w/o mentioning third way

ffs RINO was dumb enough, do we really need to start introducing DINO into the conversation

p sure everyone is jk abt that

http://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/2013/11/15/why-have-no-high-level-executives-been-prosecuted-in-connection-with-the-financial-crisis/

do we really need to start introducing DINO into the conversation

no bcz Schumer is what the fucking Democrats ARE

Thad Cochran is going to run for reelection. I didn't really think he'd have the stomach for this fight.

Ah yes, the battle in Mississippi to show who can go farthest to the right. I guess he didn't want to give in to some young tea party punk

no bcz Schumer is what the fucking Democrats ARE

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, December 6, 2013 12:01 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Why don't liberals have their own tea party? http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2013/12/liberals-democraticteapartypolitics.html

ffs RINO was dumb enough, do we really need to start introducing DINO into the conversation

RINO and DINO sound like the beginnings of a great dinosaur-monster movie. or the names of pets in an updated version of the flintstones. or something.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/12/warren-and-centrist-democrats-are-already-at-war.html

at war!

take cover

midterm batshitness already has a high bar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rzKp6gYpSU

finally I understand the dangers of Obamacare

couldnt even get herzog smh

is it supposed to illustrate the truth that hardworking white american christians don't need a social safety net?

I think it's supposed to illustrate the truth that truckdrivers love Enya

Obama WH Doesn’t Want Journalists, It Wants Fawning ‘State Media’ Like MSNBC

I can't think of an administration in my lifetime that didn't really want a fawning state media

I think the point of his column was that Obama ran on transparency.

FYI, picked that up off of Glenn Greenwald's twitter jizzstream.

Oh I didn't read the column, I was just reacting to the title posted here

shout out to scahill