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

In the chapter dealing with the AHCA in Taibbi's Griftopia, there's a revolting scene of MoveOn.org getting its marching orders from the White House.

oh man ILX should totally buy TNR

murdoch owning TNR would be hilaaaarious

isn't Rupey to the left of Peretz on Israel?

along with most of the netanyahu cabinet

eh TNR good riddance

In the chapter dealing with the AHCA in Taibbi's Griftopia, there's a revolting scene of MoveOn.org getting its marching orders from the White House.

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, January 10, 2012 9:55 PM (Yesterday

They seem to now, per my above posting, be politely differing with him and urging him to do stuff.

I'n sure that will work.

Ha

lol

jonathan bernstein found this, about the house member introducing a resolution to disapprove of obama's recess appointments:

http://black.house.gov/press-release/black-introduces-resolution-disapproving-obama%E2%80%99s-recent-presidential-appointments

It’s astounding to me that the president is claiming these are recess appointments and within his authority, when Congress was not in fact in recess,” said Black. “These appointments are an affront to the Constitution. No matter how you look at this, it doesn’t pass the smell test. I hope the House considers my resolution as soon as we return to Washington so we can send a message to President Obama.

uhhh

lol

an affronting smell

I love that the party that has put radical partisan obstructionism ahead of the national welfare for the last two years and stalled on more judges and appointments than any congress ever are up in arms about this.

yeah but tbf no other congress had a muslim trying to wrest control of the country from them

socialist muslim, be fair

socialist atheist muslim

iirc

is there any other type rly

Russ Feingold's Progressives United group is joining with moveon.org to uh pressure the Prez with petitions:

If Wall Street gets investigated for the misdeeds that led to our financial collapse, they're very worried about what we'll find.

That's why they're eager for a sweetheart settlement deal that would give them broad immunity without an investigation. Thanks in part to the pressure thousands of fellow progressives put on state attorneys general, that deal is on hold.

But we don't just need to stop a deal that will cut off an investigation -- we need President Obama to take the lead and launch the investigation. That's why we're joining with our friends at MoveOn to petition the president to investigate Wall Street now.

Hope there's a big Occupy/secular left turnout to protest at the DNC next September in Charlotte, cuz the religious right is a-comin:

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-activists-plan-protests-democratic-national-convention

yeah there's one planned

I wonder which group will absorb most of the pepper spray?

there's one for mythbusters

Would watch

Hopefully it turns out better than their stunt with the cannon

http://news.yahoo.com/court-oklahoma-cant-enforce-sharia-law-ban-011240179.html

"At some point we have to decide whether this is a country of, by and for the judges, or of, by and for the people."

Um, did you just move here or were you dropped on your head a lot as a child?

lol I did not really get the context of the legal argument until the very last sentence of the article

i feel like, on efficiency grounds, a progressive organisation should be threatening a response to the lack of action regarding wall st, rather than impotently pushing for a so not gonna happen long-belated enquiry into it. like surely they would get more traction saying "fuck you you should have investigated we're not voting" or w/e, over "let's keep the flame a burnin re: you suddenly 180-ing on resolving that shit three years after the fact"

By the way, today's anniversary makes the thread title true!

yep

libs never threaten Democrats, ever. they don't want to be Naderized by their neighbors.

I thought this framework from a Weekly Sift article, The Four Flavors of Republican, was an interesting way to think about members of a party with very different priorities:

http://weeklysift.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/gopstructure.jpg?w=530&h=397

The article goes on to define the four archetypes, talk about areas of agreement and disagreement among them, and then closes with:

Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush unified the four flavors, but this year no candidate does. NeoCons can’t support Ron Paul, Libertarians can’t support Rick Santorum, and Theocrats can’t support Mitt Romney. That’s why Republican insiders keep having fantasies about some new candidate — it’s basically the same fantasy they had about Rick Perry before he turned out to be an idiot: a tough-talking, pro-business, Christian Reconstructionist who wants to abolish the EPA.

Each non-fantasy candidate exposes a different fault line, so expect Obama to run differently depending on who the Republican nominee is. His increasing economic populism of late is evidence that he expects to run against Romney.

keep it real America!

obama is having a 30k plate fundraiser 100 ft down the street from my boyfriend's building tonight, which dr. morbius nickname for bam should i use when i derisively heckle the attendees?

Buffet always bringin the lolz

which dr. morbius nickname for bam should i use when i derisively heckle the attendees?

Obamao

baroque o-bomber

bam will be there after he wraps one of his other private fundraisers w/ an ex-bear stearns exec

obama is having a 30k plate fundraiser 100 ft down the street from my boyfriend's building tonight, which dr. morbius nickname for bam should i use when i derisively heckle the attendees?

Obamoneybags

his other private fundraisers w/ an ex-bear stearns exec

this is more delicious than the dinner!

Obamoneybags

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, January 11, 2012 7:06 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

might have to paint this on a sheet and hang it from the balcony

keep it real America!

this really depressed the shit out of me.

^ :(

was already feeling really low cause of this

http://nymag.com/news/features/danny-chen-2012-1/

but now, man

looking forward to asking my in-law (currently on TOD w State Dept in Afghanistan) about this

NOBAMNEY

btw you can tell those are Taliban cuz they're corpses, just like Vietcong

Greenwald on the assassinations of Iranian physics professors.

Is it just ME who didn't realize that 5 or 6 of these dudes have been MYSTERIOUSLY blown up or gunned down in the last 2 years?!? Does it not seem completely bonkers?