Indefinite Detention? But I Have Soccer Practice at 4: U.S. Politics 2012

has someone finally admitted that? and that christians want to support israel because that's the first step of them all being slaughtered in the rapture/armageddon?

from an article linked upthread:

A few weeks ago, the House GOP was up in arms over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-VA) $25,000 donation to anti-incumbent candidate Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), who ultimately defeated his opponent, incumbent Rep. Don Manzullo (R-IL). But the story got a little more fraught when it turned out that Manzullo once said Cantor would not be “saved” because he is Jewish.

Today, Cantor, the only Jewish House Republican, nearly affirmed that this was the reason he fought against Manzullo’s re-election, insinuating that anti-Semitism — and racism — are lingering problems among the House GOP generally. He speaking at a breakfast event organized by Politico.

bloody hell i didn't realise he was the only Jewish House Republican.

can i just say ...

FUCK DARRELL ISSA

i live in the solidly blue 53rd district but i work in the forty-ninth, which is solidly red (and increasingly so) thanks no doubt to the presence of camp pendleton and also the fact that it is a rural district full of inbred troglodytes.

even just working in that area i am deeply, deeply ashamed of this POS

ha npr ran a pretty transparent hit job on him last friday iirc

basically "hey you may have herd of this man darrell issa in the congress. we're you aware he's SHADY AS ALL FUCK. darrell issa's office declined to comment"

um, "were".

wasn't there a new yorker piece on him last year?

Yep, it covered his unique past that included allegations of arson

Which I am sure he was not asked about on the Sunday talk show he was where he vowed to get all the details on the Secret Service scandal.

Meanwhile a non-surprising analysis of the Sunday talk shows shows the programs weighted toward Republican guests and

tilt to the right isn’t exclusive to a GOP primary. According to the study, the shows skewed right even during the 2004 election.

Partisanship aside, women made up just 29 percent of the shows’ roundtable guests. Eighty-five percent of the guests were white, 11 percent were African American and 3 percent were Latino.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/04/fair-study-republicans-sunday-shows.php

he was on

11 percent were African American and, more like 10 percent was harold ford and 1 pct was other

^^

Yes.

and Donna Brazile.

I guess Glenn Greenwald's one appearance on "This Week" offended George Will enough to rescind future invitations.

Will this Dallas rich guy's donations help him out (in the nuclear waste dumping biz)? He has donated $18.7 million to Republican political organizations—

http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/102778/harold-simmons-campaign-donor-2012-gop?page=0,0

A billionaire knows that it never hurts business to have a passel of politicians deeply indebted to you, so although he probably has a laundry list of favors he'll be pushing for, he probably views his donations as much as a kind of insurance as anything else. He's just making sure the politicians don't get any fancy-pants ideas about mere voters being important.

Minnesota's party of fiscal responsibility to be evicted from its St. Paul headquarters for non-payment of rent:

http://www.startribune.com/politics/statelocal/148535875.html

i wonder what this means for this year's contests. amy klobuchar's opponent will probably not be short of money (but obv not as not-short as al franken's eventual opponent)

yay! (xpost)

well the new head says they're negotiating the back rent. considering commercial property vacancies i doubt they'll be out on the curb.

I just like that they're so in debt and and being embarassed

Drones for urban warfare.

http://www.salon.com/2012/04/24/drones_for_urban_warfare/

what could possibly go wrong?!

This is one of the dumbest articles I've ever skimmed

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-foolhardy-trip-to-north-carolina/2012/04/24/gIQAkOQTfT_story.html

http://i.imgur.com/L7WTp.png

one day I hope to grow up and become an opinion writer

Pulitzer Prize winner Kathleen Parker

"The Pulitzer Prize in fiction takes dead aim at mediocrity and almost never misses" -Wm. Gass

http://news.yahoo.com/why-jon-huntsman-is-leaving-the-gop--not-because-they%E2%80%99re-communists-.html

did we talk about this?

x-post -I read that stupid Parker article. She believes that Obama visiting John Edwards' state of North Carolina is somehow worse than anything Bush ever did, but the press just won't admit this.

Bush staffers were well familiar with this routine, which is why they never would have allowed him to be in such a situation. Perhaps, as another close political observer suggested to me, the Obama White House has no such concerns. The media simply do not come after Obama in the same way they did Bush, notwithstanding recent research showing that Obama received the most negative coverage of any presidential candidate during the Republican primary. The Bush White House was under siege and conducted itself accordingly. No T’s went uncrossed.

"notwithstanding recent research"

x-post
Maybe Huntsman will start hanging out with Tom Friedman's third party

did we talk about this?

I prefer he stay a Republican.

not gonna lie, if one of the major political parties actually implodes during my lifetime and is replaced by something else I am gonna be PSYCHED

unless, of course, the net effect is worse.

the gop is already imploding

But despite that, they still successfully filibuster in the US Senate, control the US House of Representatives and have lots of influence in state governments throughout the US

yup

when parties fall apart they are usually replace by something more 'extreme'. the reason for a party's dissolution is usually that there is a need or an issue of its potential sympathizers that isn't being voiced as well as they'd like

Rich ppl between age 55 and death still run nearly everything. Too bad they live so damn long.

Well, something more "extreme" is mandatory to convert us from an economy entirely focused on the limitless gobbling of resources. One party refuses to acknowledge the possibility of such a move, the other barely does.

when parties fall apart they are usually replaced by something more 'extreme'. the reason for a party's dissolution is usually that there is a need or an issue of its potential sympathizers that isn't being voiced as well as they'd like

well atm the gop is in a process of whittling itself down to the extremist right ~30% of america and in the process throwing a lot of elections it can win - including this one. plus is boxed in by long-term demographics. that's really not sustainable 2nd party in the longer-term...it doesn't really need a single issue.

also morbs otm unfortunately

politics can probably stay irrational longer than manhattan can stay above water

when parties fall apart they are usually replaced by something more 'extreme'.

Is this true? Examples?

whigs/know-nothings and the birth of the republicans, both dems and the GOP + wallace in the 60s

at a very rough guess i'd say the atrophy of british liberals and the rise of labour but i'm really talking out of my ass there

that's a small sample set and one that doesn't compare super well to american politics in 2012, I think.

the Republicans were more extreme than the Know Nothings?

opposition to slavery was 'extreme' and totally unserved by any political party at the time until the republicans showed up. know-nothings served the interests of northern laborers via nativism; republicans followed by expressing that anxiety contra 'the slave power'

well, the Dems didn't replace themselves in the '60s! They "evolved," partly out of necessity when the most extreme Southern racists began to leave.

yup

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Party_System

ppl disagree as to whether we are still in this or not