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

well, if he's going to have a Time Magazine cover let it be for his slavish devotion to obama's long game and not an impassioned defense of the bell curve

worse - newsweek :(

you know, i actually read the whole article earlier today. i just have trouble distinguishing between the two

i'm sure many dads will find enlightening the half of this they read while they wait in the dentist's office

Boy, I consider Ike the least dangerous of modern presidents but Sully's carrying his idolatry too far (i.e. Ike's not the prez to go to for enlightenment and patience re democratically elected foreign leaders, especially Iranian ones).

John Foster Dulles and Richard Nixon both graced Ike's administration.

Both kept on leashes, Nixon's a bit tighter.

i want to say that sully is the dumbest "public intellectual" but there is so much competition for that role that i'll just say he's a very very dim "public intellectual"

'I'm a conservative but I'm not 100% batshit insane' is the best way for some average shmoe to get a lot of attention

sully is kind of batshit insane tho

yeah but only like 94%

well, if he's going to have a Time Magazine cover let it be for his slavish devotion to obama's long game and not an impassioned defense of the bell curve

― Mordy, Monday, January 16, 2012 8:16 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"why are obama's critics so dumb?" vastly preferable to "why are black people so dumb?"

life's too short to read that guy, including his personal ads

'm just glad niall ferguson ended class warfare, that was going on for too long

― human trash (buzza), Monday, January 16, 2012 7:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Did I miss something he wrote recently? Dude is good for lolz. Though his ethnic warfare stuff is interesting.

It's time soon for this again(from tpm). Fun, fun, fun:

With Congress set to return to town this week, staff-level bipartisan discussions are underway over how to pay for extensions of the payroll tax cut, unemployment insurance and the so-called Medicare "doc fix" beyond the end of February, when they're set to expire. The private meetings are a continuation of the December showdown, which ended with two-month extensions of the three provisions and a guarantee that the House and Senate would negotiate a year-long measure.

Ike's not the prez to go to for enlightenment and patience re democratically elected foreign leaders, especially Iranian ones).

To his credit, he's posted readers pushing back on this.

Dem convention cut to 3 days! Bank of America Stadium lol

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/01/17/democrats-trim-convention-to-3-days/

Over 1m signatures to recall Walker in WI:

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/wis-dems-make-it-official-one-million-signatures-collected-to-recall-walker.php

has this been posted:

Mrs. Santorum, 51, apparently wasn’t always committed to the cause. In fact, her live-in partner through most of her 20s was Tom Allen, a Pittsburgh obstetrician and abortion provider 40 years older than she, who remains an outspoken crusader for reproductive rights and liberal ideals. Dr. Allen has known Mrs. Santorum, born Karen Garver, her entire life: he delivered her in 1960.

there's a GOP thread

keystone dead?

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/204807-obama-administration-keystone-pipeline-announcement-seen-as-imminent-

not totally dead, since Trans Canada will probably resubmit an application for a permit with a revised route through Nebraska, but dead for this year at least.

however, the political debate over it is alive and well, and that means we'll have to put up with garbage like this for the next year:

“President Obama is about to destroy tens of thousands of American jobs and sell American energy security to the Chinese. The President won’t stand up to his political base even to create American jobs,” Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck said in a statement.

even though even Trans Canada itself dramatically walked back their absurd job creation claims, and federal and independent analyses have pegged job creation in the U.S. at around a few hundred temporary jobs. but i guess holding politicians accountable for bogus "facts" isn't a job of the DC press corp these days.

as expected, GOP showboating amounts to nothing

http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/19/news/economy/unemployment_benefits/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2

Obama fan Benen at Washington Monthly seems very pleased-- good economic news and Obama at least delaying Keystone, while Mitt is busy with his own taxes and Newt

OH WHAT A COUNTRY

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guess-politician-and-follow-money

i love zerohedge

this has been brewing for a while, but good on obama to stand his ground on this one, this is great:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/21/health/policy/administration-rules-insurers-must-cover-contraceptives.html

OCs, plan b, sterilization procedures, etc covered free of copay or deductible as of august 1

Giffords to resign her House seat. Good decision.

I endured an argument with a self-described lib friend last night who says he still trusts his government to determine who's a terrorist (and he works for a newspaper). I had to explain the Obama administration's delight in drone attacks on American citizens, the president's signing of the NDAA, and the Justice Department's curious attitude towards whistleblowers.

Re the contraception decision: I want to punch every single religious speaker in that article in the mouth and nose at least 4 times.

http://www.wtoc.com/story/16571904/south-carolinas-attorney-general-detects-voter-fraud-for-primaries

hmm

953 ballots cast by voters listed as dead.

Chicago machine-style!

Re the contraception decision: I want to punch every single religious speaker in that article in the mouth and nose at least 4 times.

― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Sunday, 22 January 2012 21:20 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

'we are unable to live with this' is v frustrating to hear

Yeah, I mean

But church groups said the exemption was so narrow that it was almost meaningless. A religious employer cannot qualify for the exemption if it employs or serves large numbers of people of a different faith, as many Catholic hospitals, universities and social service agencies do.

Yes, that's right. You DO stay in "business" by serving people other than practicing Catholics, because that is your chosen JOB.

have we talked about the lol irony of Rand Paul's TSA detention yet

cuz lol on way to pro-life rally, objects to gov't making invasive search of his body

Delicious ironing.

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I endured an argument with a self-described lib friend last night who says he still trusts his government to determine who's a terrorist (and he works for a newspaper). I had to explain the Obama administration's delight in drone attacks on American citizens, the president's signing of the NDAA, and the Justice Department's curious attitude towards whistleblowers.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, January 22,

I know a number of Dems who trust the government to determine who is a terrorist and believe that using drones is preferable to sending in Americans on dangerous missions to kill alleged terrorists. While they regret the loss of innocent lives, they maintain that the goverment does their best with their use of drones, and that the deaths that result are at least, not intentional killings of innocents like those done by the Taliban and various other groups.

come come, Mr Bond, you enjoy killing just as much as I do.

Dems trust the government because one of them is in the White House.

^^^

that sort of myopia about civil rights is plenty irritating. altho I am more sympathetic to the "drone strikes = better than troops" argument

they maintain that the goverment does their best with their use of drones

not intentional killings of innocents like those done by the Taliban and various other groups.

better those mountain-dwelling Pakis than our boys

Yeah, what do these crazy idiots want us to do, risk our military on the battlefield?

there are no battlefields anymore

and frankly I prefer the targeted use of drones to, say, the carpet bombing of cities, as was commonly undertaken in previous wars

I mean I know this calculus is brutal and wrong, but 20 dead innocent civilians is a marginally better scenario than the firebombing of Tokyo, or the carpet bombing of Cambodia

Love is a battlefield.

no one can tell us we're wrong