August 25, 2010
Added: Associated Press Plays The Faithful Stooge
— DrewM Just as the reality starts to hit Democrats that this year is going to be a massacre for them, they have to confront a new fact...it's likely to be worse than they thought.
“Democrats kept thinking: ‘We’re going to get better. We’re going to get well before the election,’” said one of Washington’s best-connected Democrats. “But as of this week, you now have people saying that Republicans are going to win the House. And now it’s starting to look like the Senate is going to be a lot closer than people thought.”A Democratic pollster working on several key races said, “The reality is that [the House majority] is probably gone.” His data shows the Democrats’ problems are only getting worse. “It’s spreading,” the pollster said
...Yet Democratic concern continues to manifest itself in a variety of ways, including the purchasing of ads in districts – like that of veteran Ike Skelton of Missouri -- that historically are only in play in miserable political years and were not considered at risk several months ago. And then there are more subtle hints that professional Democrats are worried -- lobbyists are reporting a noticeable uptick in House committee staffers looking for jobs.
...In some races, endangered Democrats are trying to carve out their own separate identities from the national party – even if that means bashing Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Check the whole thing out. Aside from a few attempts to cheer up Democrats reading the story, it's pretty tasty.
Jake Tapper has a post along these same lines...Democrats turning against their leadership. He illustrates the point nicely with a bunch of Democratic ads.
There's definitely a theme running through them....
Old and Busted: Yes We Can! We're Democrats.
New Hotness: Independent!
This is my favorite (so far) from the new genre.
"Independent conservative"? Dude you're a DEMOCRAT, own it.
Now you may think, he's from Alabama, what else do you expect him to say? Well, take a look at the one from the guy in Ohio. It's all about illegal immigration. Ohio!
In less than two years we've gone from the idea that Republicans may never be a force in national elections again to Democrats turning on their leadership in order to save their own seats.
Added: Like the good lapdogs they are, the AP chimes in with this report, "As GOP civil war rages, Democrats look to benefit".
Talk about your bitter clingers.
This Democrat Is Running as a Mental Patient [ace]: A Democrat, Chris Young, is running for Providence's mayor. A local station has a feature called "Coffee with the Candidates" in which they give candidates five minutes to talk with the hostess, to introduce themselves to the city.
This guy used his time unexpectedly.
"I hope you learned something."
-- "I did. Always make sure to park your car near an active doorway under a working streetlight."
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Posted by: dagny at August 25, 2010 06:39 PM (GiZ6k)
Speaking of Tapper, when he 'reported' earlier: Breaking News: Obama said they are having fun on vacation....
Was that tongue & cheek? Please tell me it was. I think he's pretty funny by nature--but I don't get that feel from his reporting generally. I just stared at that headline like, 'oh.holy.hell.'
Posted by: laceyunderalls at August 25, 2010 06:40 PM (NGqy5)
Posted by: David at August 25, 2010 06:40 PM (+M16j)
Posted by: PaleRider at August 25, 2010 06:41 PM (dkExz)
But you did vote for Nancy Pelosi as speaker and that is what started the ball rolling.
Posted by: Hoover at August 25, 2010 06:43 PM (sD7bS)
I can't wait to see pelosi's face when she has to hand over the gavel. They'll need to pry it out of her hands.
Posted by: Hoover at August 25, 2010 06:46 PM (sD7bS)
Posted by: Ken at August 25, 2010 06:46 PM (7faB0)
Posted by: the peanut gallery at August 25, 2010 06:47 PM (NurK6)
What's hilarious is the DSCC ad against Toomey in which the announcer says Derivatives! like he's taking about zombies or something. That's a riot.
Posted by: alexthechick at August 25, 2010 06:47 PM (eRjGt)
Posted by: dagny at August 25, 2010 06:47 PM (GiZ6k)
I like their ad that says, "No! Honest! I thought that when he said change, it was the change that didn't suck!"
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at August 25, 2010 06:49 PM (r1h5M)
Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at August 25, 2010 06:49 PM (P9zpD)
Posted by:"David"
Can we put this stupid concern over the lame duck session to bed, already? It is tiresome.
Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at August 25, 2010 06:52 PM (P9zpD)
Posted by: dagny at August 25, 2010 06:52 PM (GiZ6k)
BTW, Bobby won last election (which was an open seat because Terry Everett retired) because the asshole Harri Ann Smith lost to Jay Love in the Republican primary and she just couldn't support Jay because "he talked to her bad". Also Bobby, though the mayor of Montgomery, was able to convince other RINO leaders (specifically asshole mayor of Dothan Pat Thomas) that he would support Ft. Rucker more than Jay Love because he grew up in the Dothan area. The district runs from Montgomery to Dothan.
Posted by: Ken at August 25, 2010 06:54 PM (7faB0)
Posted by: Methos at August 25, 2010 06:57 PM (1sroz)
Posted by: buzzion at August 25, 2010 06:58 PM (oVQFe)
Posted by: Moi at August 25, 2010 06:58 PM (Ez4Ql)
Posted by: Hammer at August 25, 2010 06:58 PM (1kwr2)
Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at August 25, 2010 06:59 PM (UvR6d)
That rings reasonable to some.
Posted by: Bruce at August 25, 2010 07:00 PM (xXarD)
Before everyone starts banking on that Republican majority come November, just remember that Bush's book comes out in mid-October. That's right, W.'s parting gift to the party that he screwed up by pulling it to the left from his first day in office will be to remind everyone of his fantastic programs just a few weeks before the election. Right when Obama's attempts to blame everything on Bush have become a running joke, W. will be right out there reminding everyone of his attempts to provide amnesty and a free house to every illegal he could find, and of how heroic his efforts were to provide trillions of bailouts and implied guarantees to Wall Street (that they were passed by the Dems in Congress will be conveniently overlooked by the MFM)..
Yeah, the last couple weeks of the campaign are going to look a lot different than you might think right now. The narrative WILL change.
Posted by: SteveN at August 25, 2010 07:01 PM (7EV/g)
Every time.
And every time it seems Americans believe them - just because they say it so pretty.
Posted by: Bill Mitchell at August 25, 2010 07:02 PM (gmH92)
Posted by: Jean at August 25, 2010 07:02 PM (YPH5r)
Posted by: Alexandra Gutierrez at August 25, 2010 07:03 PM (pDzwv)
Posted by: Bill Mitchell at August 25, 2010 07:03 PM (gmH92)
Posted by: CAC at August 25, 2010 07:03 PM (lV4Fs)
Yea, go with that. The public ain't gonna buy any cheap parlor trick rebranding charade this time around.
Posted by: Purple Avenger at August 25, 2010 07:04 PM (dLXsg)
The Donkey Master Plan
“We want to elevate John Boehner,” said a senior Democratic aide involved in party strategy. “We want him and his ideas to be in the forefront.”
(Politico - Drew's link above)
Drew, for the icing on the cake, check out the NYT's latest editorial:
The Wrong Kind of Enthusiasm
Whoever wrote that piece is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Posted by: mrp at August 25, 2010 07:07 PM (HjPtV)
Posted by: Purple Avenger at August 25, 2010 07:09 PM (dLXsg)
And every time it seems Americans believe them - just because they say it so pretty.
Posted by: Bill Mitchell at August 25, 2010 11:02 PM (gmH92)
Actually its a case of not paying attention. The Dems and RINOs have benefitted a very long time from having an uninformed uninterested public. They didn't know how they were voting when in DC and only seeing them when they came back to ask to be re-elected.
Now people are pissed and have been paying attention. Like with Harry Reid. He benefitted for a long time by being liberal but hiding behind others so Nevada didn't know how he really was voting. But then he gets the power and sets the agenda in the Senate and he's no longer able to hide.
Posted by: buzzion at August 25, 2010 07:09 PM (oVQFe)
Posted by: huerfano at August 25, 2010 07:09 PM (No0N3)
Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn't violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway - and no reasonable expectation that the government isn't tracking your movements.
P.S. This is from TIME. The sun shines on a dog's ass every once in a while, after all.
Posted by: logprof at August 25, 2010 07:11 PM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: Corona at August 25, 2010 07:12 PM (woZIc)
Old and Busted: Yes We Can! We're Democrats.
New Hotness: Independent! Those Aren't The Democrats I Knew
Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 25, 2010 07:14 PM (Qp4DT)
#38 I hope that's true. Last week I was at the local Borders and they still had posters for an October 19th release date. I hope someone explained to all involved that it's best to leave the the Bush legacy project until after the election.
Did Bobby Bright vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker. If so, I think that's the only commercial that his opponent need run.
Posted by: SteveN at August 25, 2010 07:15 PM (7EV/g)
Posted by: huerfano at August 25, 2010 11:09 PM
People are expecting the usual "excerpts" to start popping up before the election. They'll be spun by the media to make Dubya look as bad a s possible.
Of course I don't hear a lot of Republican candidates saying "I'm going to do just what Bush did," either. And I'd have a hard time supporting them if they did.
An honest book about Osama Obama, if released before the election, could torpedo every friggin' Dem in House and Senate. That would be change I could believe in....
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 25, 2010 07:16 PM (Ulu3i)
Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn't violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway - and no reasonable expectation that the government isn't tracking your movements.
P.S. This is from TIME. The sun shines on a dog's ass every once in a while, after all.
Posted by: logprof at August 25, 2010 11:11 PM (BP6Z1)
But remember, talking to someone in another country via a separate third party is the most sacred form of privacy that shall never ever be infringed in any way.
Posted by: buzzion at August 25, 2010 07:17 PM (oVQFe)
Posted by: Sven Svenson, Really Pissed Off Hobo Zombie at August 25, 2010 07:19 PM (aFgvs)
Posted by: huerfano at August 25, 2010 07:20 PM (No0N3)
Posted by: Steve S at August 25, 2010 07:20 PM (XX7YX)
But remember, talking to someone in another country via a separate third party is the most sacred form of privacy that shall never ever be infringed in any way.
Posted by: buzzion at August 25, 2010 11:17 PM (oVQFe)
--Don't forget, they probably can't plant GPS trackers on illegal aliens' cars either.
Posted by: logprof at August 25, 2010 07:20 PM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: dagny at August 25, 2010 07:20 PM (GiZ6k)
Posted by: Sven Svenson, Really Pissed Off Hobo Zombie at August 25, 2010 07:24 PM (aFgvs)
Drop the "D". Put on some eyeliner and black clothes. Now your an Emocrat! Got the goth vote locked!
It's gold, gold I tell ya!
Posted by: Dick Morris' Evil Twin at August 25, 2010 07:26 PM (rMMMP)
Usually there are enough voters that are asleep enough to make it work for them. I'm really hoping that isn't the case this time. They're about to be fed 2 months of complete bullshit. We need to keep kicking our best and brightest candidates the $'s so that the short attention span theater can get some extended exposure to some truth.
Posted by: Dave S. at August 25, 2010 07:28 PM (UvR6d)
1. People spend October reminiscing about bank bailouts after reading W's book.
2. ???????????
3. Democrats win!
As I recall, October happens before November. At least, so far.
Posted by: huerfano at August 25, 2010 07:28 PM (No0N3)
White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said Republicans are hurting their chances this fall "by nominating candidates well outside the mainstream."
This word "mainstream"... it does not mean the same as how the lab tech tells you to collect your urine sample.
Posted by: sherlock at August 25, 2010 07:36 PM (thr9V)
Posted by: Bill D. Cat at August 25, 2010 07:39 PM (XDeui)
Posted by: Judith Hofbauer at August 25, 2010 07:46 PM (qhudc)
Rahm: "Barack said we are not leaving until we get an election strategy."
Gibbs: "Can they really keep us here?"
Staff: "I know! We'll tax Republicans and give the money to Democrats!"
Axelrod: "Too obvious."
Staff: "Okay, we tax Red States and give the money to Blue States."
Rahm: "We've been doing that for 50 years."
Staff: "We take credit for Iraq and blame Afghanistan on the Generals?"
Rahm: "Okay, its a start, what else we got?"
Staff: "Blame Bush?"
Rahm: "Now that's what I'm talkin' about."
Posted by: Robert at August 25, 2010 07:49 PM (cd6Ip)
New England's Most INDEPENDENT Congressman
Jim Himes. Even in Connecticut they are cutting and running on Pelosi, Obama and the Democrats. Whoever they are. Of course his Republican challenger is "Reckless, Radical and Wrong"!
Posted by: Rocks at August 25, 2010 07:59 PM (ivAmM)
Posted by: Doc at August 25, 2010 08:02 PM (MYT77)
If that doesn't deserve a hearty fuck you, then nothing does.
Posted by: Kensington at August 25, 2010 08:02 PM (mEyVv)
Posted by: Semi-ConfusedParamus at August 25, 2010 08:03 PM (06v7e)
Posted by: ace at August 25, 2010 08:09 PM (QbA6l)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 25, 2010 08:11 PM (IqfKc)
Posted by: The Chicken™ at August 25, 2010 08:12 PM (UrYD2)
Well, the 2008 election was an odd one.
The Democrats ran on tax cuts, reining in the deficit, and getting rid of the corrupt SOBs running Congress.
After they won, they took it as a mandate to raise taxes, spend like drunken sailors, and oh yeah, they were the corrupt SOBs running Congress in 2006 anyway.
Apparently people don't like being lied to.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 25, 2010 08:14 PM (bgcml)
Posted by: ace at August 25, 2010 08:17 PM (QbA6l)
Yeah, um, ~240 days late and a few trillion dollars short. Ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee... to the tune of AC/DC's Hell's Bells.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at August 25, 2010 08:18 PM (swuwV)
Posted by: Sven Svenson, Really Pissed Off Hobo Zombie at August 25, 2010 08:19 PM (aFgvs)
Posted by: jorgxmckie at August 25, 2010 08:22 PM (290l2)
Wow. First I almost creamed my jeans for this guy. I mean, he looked perfect almost.
Then I discovered he was just another lying fucking leftist trying to save his own ass from the coming tsunami.
And I chuckled.
Posted by: redstatedeb at August 25, 2010 08:23 PM (ykmvs)
One of interesting thing to note - the Republicans are full of mavericky independents who won't just rubber stamp the party line*.
On the Democrat side their maverick list is, uh, Lieberman. Who technically isn't a Democrat to begin with.
*Unfortunately normally from the left, not the right...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 25, 2010 08:23 PM (bgcml)
Posted by: Lolcano at August 25, 2010 08:25 PM (qE9Su)
Comment for a post from the future: who is Fred Grandy?
Gopher on Love Boat.
Former GOP Congressman from Iowa (pretty RINO squishy, though he's been out for a while).
Morning drive co-host on the radio in DC.
Why?
Posted by: AmishDude at August 25, 2010 08:25 PM (RgyHa)
Posted by: Eeyore at August 25, 2010 08:27 PM (SVyNi)
Do you think there is any natural limit to hypocrisy?
Even though I first called for Saddam's ouster in 1998, I would just like to say that noted moron who has the speaking abilities of a snail, George Bush, tricked me into voting for the Iraq War. Based on the fact that I let a simpleton trick me with what I believe to be the most transparent lie in history of politics into voting for the worst debacle in American history, I am asking for your vote today. --most of the Democrats in congress.
While I am paraphrasing a bit, I still can't believe this worked for them...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 25, 2010 08:27 PM (bgcml)
1) The check is in the mail.
2) Yes, we can insure 40 million additional people and save money at the same time.
3) This is the Summer of Recovery.
Posted by: Robert at August 25, 2010 08:28 PM (cd6Ip)
Even though I first called for Saddam's ouster in 1998, I would just like to say that noted moron who has the speaking abilities of a snail, George Bush, tricked me into voting for the Iraq War. Based on the fact that I let a simpleton trick me with what I believe to be the most transparent lie in history of politics into voting for the worst debacle in American history, I am asking for your vote today. --most of the Democrats in congress.
That's what they said alright.
George Bush was like Rain Man to these people.
Posted by: AmishDude at August 25, 2010 08:30 PM (RgyHa)
I'm thinking David Limbaugh's just released Crimes Against Liberty: An Indictment of President Barack Obama might be timely.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at August 25, 2010 08:31 PM (swuwV)
Posted by: ParisParamus at August 25, 2010 08:31 PM (06v7e)
Wow, I mean I'm not a guy nor overly familiar with girl-guy relationships ...still I thought one of top five would be:
No its not you're fucking baby you loser. But you're the asshole married to me who made my life so miserable this happend and THIS is what it'll cost AT A MINIMUM for you to get out of this without going to jail!
I know women...I'm just sayin'.
Posted by: redstatedeb at August 25, 2010 08:32 PM (ykmvs)
Posted by: Lolcano at August 25, 2010 08:32 PM (qE9Su)
Posted by: Sven Svenson, Really Pissed Off Hobo Zombie at August 25, 2010 08:34 PM (aFgvs)
Posted by: Purity Of Essence at August 25, 2010 08:36 PM (P1vpT)
Every GOP candidate should be running that as an ad. With a picture of her holding the obscenely-large gavel cackling, followed by some choice stats about Obamacare. "Look, Jimbo there says he's different, but you vote for him, you're gonna get more of this."
Posted by: HeatherRadish at August 25, 2010 08:37 PM (E6e0b)
Posted by: ace at August 26, 2010 12:17 AM (QbA6l)
Something about Churchill saying nice things about Satan if he were to come out against Hitler the Democrats...
Posted by: below average dumbass at August 25, 2010 08:40 PM (q8CmE)
Posted by: Lolcano at August 25, 2010 08:40 PM (qE9Su)
.... perhaps some "corn" visuals in the ads ......
Posted by: Arbalest at August 25, 2010 08:43 PM (VZC6E)
Wow, I mean I'm not a guy nor overly familiar with girl-guy relationships ...still I thought one of top five would be:
No its not you're fucking baby you loser. But you're the asshole married to me who made my life so miserable this happend and THIS is what it'll cost AT A MINIMUM for you to get out of this without going to jail!
I know women...I'm just sayin'.
JESUS CHRIST. I posted in th wrong fucking thread. You now, watchin' a couple, ready to dive in.
Now I look like a fucking idiot.
Like the rest of you morons.
Posted by: redstatedeb at August 25, 2010 08:44 PM (ykmvs)
Hey, remember when Sean Hannity used to give a countdown to Nancy Pelosi taking power on his radio show? Remember how awesome that went? LET'S DO THAT AGAIN
point... ya got one?
if not, go get jer juicebox and stfu
Posted by: The Great Satan's Ghost at August 25, 2010 08:44 PM (hK+EO)
No, and the people we're trying to reach don't listen to him, either. But they are losing their jobs and their employer-sponsored health insurance and their doctors.
Anyway, since you're such a fucking genius, tell us about your ad.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at August 25, 2010 08:44 PM (E6e0b)
JESUS CHRIST. I posted in th wrong fucking thread. You now, watchin' a couple, ready to dive in.
Now I look like a fucking idiot.
Like the rest of you morons.
Posted by: redstatedeb at August 26, 2010 12:44 AM (ykmvs)
'Bout damn time you got measured for your personalized drool cup.
Posted by: Bill H at August 25, 2010 08:46 PM (q8CmE)
"I'm so opposed to the Pelosi agenda that for $10K I'll send you a 4-inch strip of skin off her back. I'll send you Pete Stark's spleen for $50K but due to caustic bile DOT regulations require shipping by a registered hazmat carrier."
Posted by: JEM at August 25, 2010 08:54 PM (o+SC1)
Posted by: Dr. Spank at August 25, 2010 08:55 PM (xO+6C)
The thought has occurred to me.
Seriously. Do you think the Repubs will come through for us? If past behavior is any guide, they'll do just what the Dems did, only slower.
Posted by: Eeyore at August 25, 2010 08:57 PM (SVyNi)
Oh well. We know a thing or three about tides colored shades of red in this state...and not to get in their way... >
Posted by: DarkLordOfTheIntarWebs at August 25, 2010 08:57 PM (aoLEL)
Posted by: Lolcano at August 25, 2010 08:57 PM (qE9Su)
From her own website:
Rosa Delauro celebrates the 75th birthday of Social Security at the People's Center in New Haven just 2 weeks ago.
What is The People's Center? Why the local Communist Party Headquarters of course.
Posted by: Rocks at August 25, 2010 08:59 PM (ivAmM)
Posted by: Lt. Striker at August 25, 2010 09:00 PM (9cflz)
Posted by: Purity Of Essence at August 25, 2010 09:03 PM (P1vpT)
Posted by: Lolcano at August 25, 2010 09:03 PM (qE9Su)
Anyway, since you're such a fucking genius, tell us about your ad."
I'm REALLY GLAD you're not trying to reach the SEAN HANNITY audience. Because he is TOTALLY NOT POPULAR.
I'm sorry that your TWO MINUTE NANCY PELOSI HATE is dated; don't let that STOP YOU FROM BEING AWESOME.
Posted by: Lolcano at August 26, 2010 12:57 AM (qE9Su)
Fuck. We have too much ammo to allow this on our site!
Posted by: redstatedeb at August 25, 2010 09:03 PM (ykmvs)
Posted by: Robert at August 25, 2010 09:07 PM (cd6Ip)
107: You've got to keep the faith. Sooner or later they'll see the point of sticking to their promises.
114: Let them punch at shadows until November. Then they'll mysteriously vanish.
Posted by: Purity Of Essence at August 25, 2010 09:08 PM (P1vpT)
Posted by: Lolcano at August 25, 2010 09:09 PM (qE9Su)
Posted by: Rory at August 25, 2010 09:10 PM (P9zpD)
Posted by: Dr. Spank at August 25, 2010 09:13 PM (xO+6C)
Posted by: Damiano at August 25, 2010 09:14 PM (PA722)
Probably made him impotent too. Now he hangs out here to practice his best duck phrases while waiting for the wigs.
Posted by: Robert at August 25, 2010 09:16 PM (cd6Ip)
Posted by: Lolcano at August 25, 2010 09:17 PM (qE9Su)
Lolcano-still fighting, in ALL CAPS, as the ship goes down.
Ya' know, it's sort of cute. Sad, but cute. One A.M. on a weeknight, at a blog populated by no one whose mind he will able to change, and brave Sir Lolcano plugs away.
Oh sure, he'll tell you he just laughes and laughes at the poor benighted conservative. Sort of like ringing the doorbell and running away giggling at the homeowner's consternation. Except, in this case, no one is bothering to answer the door. Maybe nobody cares or they are out of town or the house is empty.
Yet, still he rings that doorbell. And runs away giggling.
Why?
I'll tell you why:
Because he is a fucking jerkoff. That's why.
Posted by: Rory at August 25, 2010 09:18 PM (P9zpD)
Posted by: Lolcato at August 25, 2010 09:22 PM (PA722)
Posted by: Dr. Strangelove at August 25, 2010 09:23 PM (QbJPM)
Posted by: Lolcato at August 26, 2010 01:22 AM (PA722)
Don't listen to Tom Cruise. Psychiatric drugs are your friend...your BEST friend.
Posted by: Rocks at August 25, 2010 09:27 PM (ivAmM)
Different view again, huh? That's just your small intestine. You've got your head up your @ss, fool!
Posted by: Gyneco Proctologist, M.D. at August 25, 2010 09:27 PM (K9XK2)
Posted by: Robert at August 25, 2010 09:28 PM (cd6Ip)
Posted by: Sven Svenson, Really Pissed Off Hobo Zombie at August 25, 2010 09:29 PM (aFgvs)
Posted by: ace at August 25, 2010 09:32 PM (QbA6l)
Posted by: Troll at August 25, 2010 09:37 PM (P9zpD)
Posted by: clair2010 at August 25, 2010 09:45 PM (mfKif)
Posted by: Sven Svenson, Really Pissed Off Hobo Zombie at August 25, 2010 09:52 PM (aFgvs)
Posted by: Dr. Spank at August 26, 2010 01:34 AM (xO+6C)
A young Helen Thomas?
Posted by: huerfano at August 25, 2010 09:53 PM (No0N3)
Posted by: Chris Young at August 25, 2010 10:05 PM (L8kaT)
Posted by: CAC at August 25, 2010 10:05 PM (lV4Fs)
Posted by: Chris Young at August 25, 2010 10:12 PM (PA722)
If I win my election and become Mayor of Providence, I will marry Lolcano.
Cool. We'll get to hear more of whatever the fuck that guitarist of yours thought he was doing.
Posted by: Bill H at August 25, 2010 10:19 PM (q8CmE)
Sweet Jeebus.
Is lollycano drunk AND stupid?
Naaah. I think prolly just a really poor quality concern troll. The last one found his own notoriety, accusing us of not punching up, or some fatuous bullshit. Lolcano is simply lazy, and lacks energy. He doesn't even have the qualities of a gnat. In short, easily ignored.
Posted by: Bill H at August 25, 2010 10:33 PM (q8CmE)
Not bad though, 3.5 hours to fully restored.
Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at August 25, 2010 10:37 PM (QbJPM)
Bobby Bright is one of the VERY FEW DINO's in Congress. He may well be the most conservative 'rat in Congress -- he voted against the "stimulus," crap n tax, and 0care -- but he is in a district that voted for Republicans in the last three presidential elections by 28 on average. The same logic, otherwise known as sanity, that said Murkowski needs to go applies here.
Posted by: StrngernFiction at August 25, 2010 10:48 PM (pOgEW)
Chris Young: "high upon his hill...."
Kip Dynamite:
"And still I love
technology
but not
as much as you
you see
but yet
I love technology,
Always And Forever
Always And Forever."
Posted by: notropis at August 25, 2010 10:49 PM (cjcCc)
Posted by: LikeATimeBomb at August 25, 2010 10:56 PM (lmKAI)
"Bobby Bright is one of the VERY FEW DINO's in Congress. He may well be the most conservative 'rat in Congress"
Did he vote for Pelosi for Speaker? Did he vote to approve the Democrats' Rules of Order for the House? (You know, the ones that made Barney Frank and Charlie Rangel and David Obey and Henry Waxman and .... chairs of the most powerful committees in the lower chamber?)
Yeah? Well so did Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin, and Heath Shuler, and all of the other supposedly conservative Democrats.
I'm sensing a pattern here.
Posted by: notropis at August 25, 2010 10:58 PM (cjcCc)
Posted by: Comrade Arthur at August 26, 2010 12:57 AM (5Plp1)
From the Jake Tapper article:
After Democrats won a special election in Pennsylvania earlier this year in which the GOP nominee tried to tie the Democrat, Mark Critz, to Pelosi and Obama, the Speaker said, “What we learn from this election and I think hopefully Republicans saw clearly, is nationalizing the election, talking about Speaker Pelosi and President Obama was not as appealing to the public there than Mark Critz talking to them about their jobs.”
Yes the Dem leadership and spinners like to reference that special election as refuting the slide. It is one of two victories they have had. They think this is a +1 Republican district which I find laughable since it has been Democrat since redistricting in 1973. IOW it is gerrymandered Dem district. When a hardcore Dem crook caught any a bribery scandal is reelected there you know it is not a Republican district. Any Republican will have a very hard time winning that district. So why did McCain win it? he is a liberal RINO and maybe they are racists.
However, all of that being said, Republicans can still screw this up. We will have to remain vigilant and stay behind them. Get the word out when they screw up or the press tries to push lies and spin the way they did with Palin and Fred last election.
Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2010 01:01 AM (/jbAw)
Posted by: Bilal at August 26, 2010 01:24 AM (WxERO)
Posted by: Hous Bin Pharteen at August 26, 2010 01:59 AM (nRF6+)
Posted by: Hous Bin Pharteen at August 26, 2010 02:02 AM (nRF6+)
Posted by: traitornbc at August 26, 2010 02:13 AM (vQoSF)
I made it 1:18 into the Chris Young video.
That thing is f-ing painful. I'd rather be waterboarded.
Posted by: Ed Anger at August 26, 2010 02:25 AM (7+pP9)
Time for the morning news roundup:
Yesterday I talked about the bogus highway fund shortfall and the politicians who waste the money on other projects treating the “highway fund” as a general slush fund. Well here is some more examples of that in other areas (USA Today via link from Drudge:
Cutbacks force police to curtail calls for some crimes
Budget cuts are forcing police around the country to stop responding to fraud, burglary and theft calls as officers focus limited resources on violent crime.
Cutbacks in such places as Oakland, Tulsa and Norton, Mass. have forced police to tell residents to file their own reports — online or in writing — for break-ins and other lesser crimes.
So where are the social programs that were cut? We have seen too many of these cities where they cut police and fire protection and in the same newspaper article discussed some huge priced art object or some new crap social program to help the “poor”. People, police and fire protection is the major reason city governments were formed to begin with!
I still say there must be something in the makeup of the population that causes an urban area to go absolutely to shit as soon as the population exceeds 35,000. It must be the same as that experiment the sociologists did many years ago where they started adding rats to a fixed environment. Once they exceeded a set rat/square foot limit the rats started killing each other.
Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2010 02:28 AM (/jbAw)
More on the Alvin Greene saga from Jim Clyburn
Clyburn wonÂ’t vote for Alvin Greene
U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, the No. 3-ranking Democrat in the U.S. House, said Wednesday he will not support his partyÂ’s nominee for the U.S. Senate, Alvin Greene, when he goes into the voting booth Nov. 2.
“No, I’m not going to vote for Mr. Greene,” Clyburn said in answer to reporters’ questions in Columbia. “Look, I have three daughters and a granddaughter. I think it would be an insult to them, if I did that.”
One wonders if “his daughters” is the real reason. After all, he did every damn thing he could do to get Greene shit canned after the primary and the establishment candidate in place. But, in the end, I guess I have to give him the benefit of the doubt, even if he is a Democrat pol who’s normal thing is to lie every time they open their mouth.
BTW, He will probably vote for the “green” but it will be the Green Party candidate.
Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2010 02:29 AM (/jbAw)
Speaking of the waste of highway funds from the gas tax we have this from Charleston:
CARTA plans fare hikes, service cuts, to leave raises intact
Bus fares are rising because of declining revenues, but so are the salaries of the administrators who run the local transit system.
An increase of 3 percent in pay and benefits for Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority staffers was left intact Wednesday as the CARTA Finance Committee slashed nearly $40,000 from the agency administration budget.
It seems the 20% subsidy from the gas tax is not enough to fund the bus system in Charleston. They are also being subsidized by a sales tax in Charleston and the law of unintended consequences strikes again. I have spoken on this sales tax thing before. The State legislature has made it possible for local communities to raise sales taxes at will and they are doing it with abandon. Local towns in SC now have some of the highest sales taxes in the country. But with sales tax when the economy goes into the shitter so does the revenue.
Now in a real economy when revenue goes into the shitter the company has to cut back. Do they do that by cutting back on the sales of their product and raising the prices? Hahahahaha, that would be insane. But that is what they are doing here. Like large cities run by communists all over the country, when faced with a budget shortfall they raised rates, cut back on services, and gave the apparatchiks a raise.
And they wonder why the average voter is pissed off.
Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2010 02:31 AM (/jbAw)
I thought some of the Morons/Moronettes would be interested in this from Mt. Pleasant (Charleston) since we had a big discussion on the evils of tree trimming by utilities. It involves SCE&G trimming trees around power lines in the city. The city does have an arborist who will work the tree trimming contractor.
Tree-trimming plan gets scrutiny
MOUNT PLEASANT -- First it was the town's plan to cut down up to 21 trees on scenic Mathis Ferry Road. Now, residents are worried about the South Carolina Electric & Gas effort to prune an undetermined number of trees on the road starting Sunday.
Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2010 02:33 AM (/jbAw)
Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2010 02:34 AM (/jbAw)
Miller, JoeREP4702750.90%Murkowski, LisaREP4535949.10%
Ahead by 1668 or 1.8%. As Dan Rather would say "put on a cup of coffee, this race isn't going to be over for a while."
It will go to the absentee ballots.
Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2010 02:44 AM (/jbAw)
Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2010 02:46 AM (/jbAw)
Is there cupcake chaos in Philadelphia?
The popular vending truck run by Kate Carrara, known as the "cupcake lady," needed to be confiscated because she had been warned where not to park and continued to break the rules, a top city official said Wednesday.
The cupcake lady's husband, Andy, said she did not intend to violate any regulations and would try to comply with city requirements.
In the meantime, the operator of another cupcake truck emerged Wednesday to complain that his truck was confiscated by the city two weeks ago.
Posted by: Ed Anger at August 26, 2010 02:48 AM (7+pP9)
Posted by: headlines at August 26, 2010 02:50 AM (vQoSF)
Posted by: SurferDoc at August 26, 2010 02:53 AM (X6a9o)
It's a good thing Philadelphia is run by Democrats -- could you imagine how screwed up the place would be otherwise?
PhillyInc: 'Energy innovation hub' for Philly has familiar ring
So the federal government will sink $129 million into an "energy innovation hub" at the Philadelphia Navy Yard?
Tell me why I feel as if I've walked down this road before.
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In December 1994, Philadelphia and Camden received $100 million from the Clinton administration to establish empowerment zones in economically depressed neighborhoods. Money was committed to job training, social services, and tax incentives for business in Philadelphia's West Parkside, American Street, and North Central Philadelphia sections, and in North Camden.
At the launch of the program in mid-1995, President Bill Clinton told leaders of Philadelphia and other cities that got funding that they may be "creating the way we do business as Americans in the 21st century."
Fast-forward to 2010 and we barely remember the program. Only 12 of the 32 cities that received empowerment-zone funding saw an increase in jobs between 1995 and 2003. (Philadelphia wasn't one of them.)
Research by the Brookings Institution in 2005 showed that the effect of the empowerment zones nationwide was "marginal at best."
Another big-dollar dazzler, the Aker Philadelphia Shipyard, exists today mainly because of $429 million in federal and state incentives that attracted a shipbuilder here in the 1990s. However, if Aker doesn't get new orders soon, the sun may set again on shipbuilding in Philadelphia. Layoffs have begun to trim the workforce of more than 1,000.
Posted by: Ed Anger at August 26, 2010 02:56 AM (7+pP9)
"As the scientist observed, a social hierarchy developed: One despot male and 9 females claimed the two defensible pens with only one ramp provided; 60 others crowded into the other 2 pens with two ramps. Calhoun found that “rodent utopia” rapidly became “hell.”
He described the onset of several pathologies: violence and aggression, with rats in the crowded pen “going berserk, attacking females, juveniles and less-active males.” There was also “sexual deviance.” Rats became hypersexual, pursuing females relentlessly even when not in heat.
The mortality rate among females was extremely high. A large proportion of the population became bisexual, then increasingly homosexual, and finally asexual. There was a breakdown in maternal behavior. Mothers stopped caring for their young, stopped building a nest for them and even began to attack them, resulting in a 96 percent mortality rate in the two crowded pens. Calhoun coined a term—“behavioral sink”—to describe the decay."~NIHGoogle Rat Utopia
Posted by: SurferDoc at August 26, 2010 02:57 AM (X6a9o)
Ed, the cupcake lady has some biguns doesn't she?
What I wonder is how the city can confiscate an expensive vending truck for violation of a "parking ordinance". Isn't that like issuing a fine equivalent to a felony penalty without a trial?
Of course you can do any damn thing you want if the defendant doesn't have the money to fight you in court.
That is what pisses me off.
Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2010 02:59 AM (/jbAw)
Posted by: Ed Anger
You have it all wrong. He wants another oil spill type disaster so he can shake down another $20B. Then he wants to go on three more vacations, just because he is that good, and because he can.
Posted by: sTevo at August 26, 2010 02:59 AM (VMcEw)
LOL, that is because every one of these commie programs are nothing but a "jobs" program for their own apparatchiks and provide a slush fund to be skimmed.
Democrat socialist programs are always doomed to fail. I don't know of a single one that didn't ultimately make the overall situation worse.
Detroit is the best example of this ever. I wish any time the liars in congress propsed yet another program all the Republicans just held up a sign for the CSPAN cameras that said "what about Detroit?"
Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2010 03:04 AM (/jbAw)
I would watch a reality show based on US special forces going down to a border state near you to kick ass, take names, kill people and break things.
Posted by: sTevo at August 26, 2010 03:07 AM (VMcEw)
Posted by: JFH at August 26, 2010 03:10 AM (cPQlR)
Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2010 03:12 AM (/jbAw)
But now time for the morning walk b4 it gets hot. Back in a few.
Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2010 03:21 AM (/jbAw)
I'm guessing 485,000.
The MFM will crow all day about the drop of 15,000.
Next week the number will be revised upward to 497,000.
Posted by: Ed Anger at August 26, 2010 03:23 AM (7+pP9)
Even Jesus didn't cure (or try to cure) poverty and social injustice, though he taught the value of a mite and generosity of spirit.
Posted by: maverick muse at August 26, 2010 03:27 AM (H+LJc)
Posted by: maverick muse at August 26, 2010 03:30 AM (H+LJc)
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at August 26, 2010 03:33 AM (Id8Tt)
Joe Klein is pissed:
Dems Depressed and Disheartened
The lead item on Politico--titled "Dems Urge Obama to Take a Stand"--is almost surrealistic. Take a stand? The guy passed health care, a stimulus bill that helped avoid a Depression, a groundbreaking financial reform bill that is too complicated to be popularly described, a bailout that enabled General Motors and Chrysler to survive. He nominated two estimable women to the Supreme Court. He restored America's image in the world. I can go on...
But Dems are distressed? He's not populist or ideological enough? Oh please. There are several ways to go about the presidency. Ronald Reagan chose one way: he said one thing and did another. He was for cutting back the size of government, but didn't. He was for lowering taxes and he did, but then he raised taxes--two of the laegest percentage increases in American history--when his supply-side "philosophy" proved a phony. He confronted the Soviet Union, but he also would have agreed to massive reductions in nuclear arsenals if the Soviets had allowed him to pursue his Star Wars fantasy.
Barack Obama has chosen another way.
He has pretty much done what he said he'd do. His achievements are historic. But he hasn't wrapped them up in an ideological bumper sticker--or provided some neat way for the public to understand it, or pretended to be a yeoman simpleton, noshing on pork rinds, clearing brush and excoriating the business community. That is a real political problem. He delivered a stealth tax cut to 95% of the American people; I've never seen a politician cut taxes and not take sufficient credit for it before. He made it impossible for Americans to be denied health care coverage because of pre-existing conditions or chronic problems; somehow this has gotten lost in the "socialist" shuffle as well. He ended major combat operations in Iraq, on time and without much fuss--without using the word "victory" or denying the continuing problems involved in cobbling together a coherent government there. Another President might have hyped this "achievement" relentlessly.
I find this diffidence sort of admirable and extremely incompetent. But even if Obama, and his communications shop, had been more focused on touting his achievements, and even if he delivered his major speeches on financial reform brandishing a pitchfork and a torch, I suspect the Democrats would be in pretty much the same dismal electoral shape as they are now. The country's economic problems--the depth and devastation of this recession; the possibility that we're in a different sort of trough than we've ever been in before; the confusion and anxiety wrought in certain sections of the country by changing social mores and an influx of non-white immigrants--trump and undermine abstract reports of successful government activism. So long as the Great Recession continues, it's easy--indeed, it's natural--to question any bailout, any stimulus project, that might protect and create jobs for some, but leaves the vast majority of Americans unaffected. So long as white middle-class Christian Americans live in the fear that their children won't live as well as they have, it's easy to blame Latinos, Muslims, gays, mixed-race couples (who produce ethnically confusing amalgams like Barack Hussein Obama) and elitists for attempting to steal the "real" America. It's easy to credit the paranoid prejudices of Glenn Beck.
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So the story is Obama hasn't bragged on himself enough!
The comments there are funny if you like laughing at left wing cranks.
Posted by: Ed Anger at August 26, 2010 03:36 AM (7+pP9)
Posted by: ludog at August 26, 2010 03:38 AM (NZQxR)
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I think Democrats saw Barrack Obama as the answer to the Reagan era. They saw the Great Recession as a chance to redefine America and bring it back to Liberal views - a chance to clearly demonstrate that Reaganism small government (not to be confused with reasonably small government) is bad, that a social blanket is a good thing and with it we had a hope that the Liberal fantasies of a truly better society would come about. And to boot, we had someone with both the intelligence and charisma to sell it to people, control of both houses and a super majority to boot
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What'd we get? A unified Republican opposition, the tea party, Fox News more than doubling it's competitors combined, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck - all of these things that stand as the antithesis to what we hoped for and to our combined horror, they were ALLOWED to get away with their garbage by both the media and the Democrats. The end result, the only things able to get through without an insane amount of fight were TARP and the auto bailouts (read: bailouts for corporations). Stimulus was a struggle. Health care was a blood bath that resulted in nothing short of an attrocity compared to what Liberals hoped for. Economic bill a year later. Climate bill axed. Immigration axed. DADT delayed (though I expected that one). The list goes on and on
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No wonder Dems are feeling miserable right now.
Posted by: Ed Anger at August 26, 2010 03:40 AM (7+pP9)
I am not being a concern troll. Hell, I am plugging my nose to vote out Perriello in Virginia.
Posted by: Louie at August 26, 2010 04:03 AM (DTfXb)
"No, I am not," answered Jason.
It was cold, so the servants and guards had a charcoal fire and were standing around it,
warming themselves. So Jason went over and stood with them, warming himself.
Jason was still standing there keeping himself warm. So the others said to him,
"Aren't you also one of the disciples of that man?"
But Jason denied it. "No I am not," he said.
One of the High Priestess's slaves, a representative from New York, spoke
up. "Didn't I see you with Him in the garden?" he asked.
Again Jason said "No" - and at once a rooster crowed.
Posted by: Beto at August 26, 2010 04:05 AM (j5CHE)
I read something somewhere a few days ago that said that whole to-do about the last combat brigade leaving was horseshit. IOW just another Obama lie.
They said that there were two other striker brigades plus one other "combat brigade" in Iraq. What they did was rename them to something else so it would appear they are "admin support" troops when they are not.
Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2010 04:06 AM (/jbAw)
At least give a warning if you are linking to them.
Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2010 04:08 AM (/jbAw)
Posted by: Ken Mehlman at August 26, 2010 04:14 AM (VXBR1)
http://tinyurl.com/352lfyn
We knew the lying weasel Dems would try to spin Tuesday's elections but this is an utter fail:
Tuesday a Bad Night for the GOP?
After watching Republican primary candidates slug it out Tuesday night, the DNC released a memo early Wednesday evening saying that the previous night's election results have left the GOP "deeply divided and with deeply flawed candidates."
I guess when you are losing on every front you have to do something even if it looks utterly stupid.
Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2010 04:17 AM (/jbAw)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at August 26, 2010 04:20 AM (eOXTH)
There are people who swear that BO is ubiquitous. Always plugged in, always in the loop, always with a "pulse on the peeps" so much so that they believe he posts on liberal websites along with them. With all the rain, the contaminated ocean waters, the trip to the bookstore, the alleged breakdown in family values by watching dvd's, a lot of folks were feeling bad for the kids. Stuck for ten days in so so weather, not being able to swim, or do the "rainy day vacation" stuff you do with kids normally, people felt bad for the kids. They don't care if mom and dad are the president and first lady, all they know is that their family vacation is really horrible and "boring". Most parents would have gone home when faced with the bad water quality and the rain and the best place on the planet for a stay-cation is DC. It can rain for two weeks in DC and if you have kids their age you can spend days and days in museums and at historical places and just having coffee and desert and eating ice cream. I'm sure the press release was to let everyone know that inspite of all the problems he was having fun, literally. Not so sure about the kids and I'm thinking this annual ten day foray is for the kids and parents to bond. Anyway, if he was reading the blogs, even libs/dems felt bad for "the kids" so maybe he felt compelled to issue his press release to let everyone know they had fun....now waiting for the kids' press release.
Posted by: curious at August 26, 2010 04:37 AM (p302b)
It is already starting in AK. This from Redstate:
http://tinyurl.com/fugqb
The absentee ballots will not be counted for a week or so. Already there are rumors of “found” ballots. Murkowski is refusing to go away quietly, even allowing her campaign to float the idea of a third party bid or write-in candidacy.
Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2010 04:38 AM (/jbAw)
Posted by: Reiver at August 26, 2010 04:44 AM (64S5N)
The hatred of Obama by the ranting right is so vicious and unhinged, that surely something else is at work. Implicit in all the lies and lunacy is rage by NASCAR America at being presided over by a "n-----". They don't come out and say it -- in fact, anyone articulating it publicly is drummed out of the movement -- but listen closely to the rants, and you can hear the code.
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Obama and the Congress are doing what Americans have always complained that politicians won't do -- vote their conscience instead of whatever will get them re-elected. This happened to the Democratic 107th Congress under Clinton. The budget reform that ushered in a decade of prosperity also got that Congress replaced with the GOP, which proceeded to plunder the nation on behalf of their predatory patrons, culminating in six year of complete GOP rule, which brought on the worst worldwide financial meltdown in generations.
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It took a decade and a World War for a Democratic president and filibuster-proof Democratic congresses to dig America out of the last great GOP pig-out. And now the dumbed-down, infantile, narcissistic American public, their greed harnessed by the GOP, expect Obama and Congress to undo the damage in only a couple of years?
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NASCAR America's rage is so depraved and obtuse, so seemingly willful, as to be accountable by only one thing. I have only seen this quality of hatred once before -- in the Southern reaction to the civil rights movement of the 50s and early 60s. This is not a coincidence. Nor is it a coincidence that today's GOP is dominated by Southerners. They may not talk the talk, but believe me, they haven't changed. They've wised up. "Racist? Moi?"
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In theory, the right's Obama-hatred is no more racist than the left's Israel-hatred is anti-Semitic. But guess what? In fact, both usually are.
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Democrats may be "depressed and disheartened," but they are under no delusion: they realize that their moment is brief. They have done right by America and are wiling to take the consequences. Though perhaps prematurely, this president and congress evoke William Allen White's words about Woodrow Wilson:
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With calumny rampant around him, he tasted the ingratitude of his Republic -- the statesman's ancient cup of hemlock. No wonder that on the high and empty altar where the flame of his fame was quenched and the cold charred ashed were strewn, he lay helpless while the high priests of the temple cut out his heart.
Posted by: Ed Anger at August 26, 2010 04:47 AM (7+pP9)
Suddenly - every Democrat who voted for Health Care "Reform" and all the other big spendy deficit busting socialist crack-whore - is a deficit hawk!
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at August 26, 2010 04:50 AM (0fzsA)
Wow. These people are getting impossible to parody.
Posted by: The Mega Independent at August 26, 2010 04:51 AM (grREm)
How do you really feel about America, Dems?
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 26, 2010 05:03 AM (FkKjr)
There's nothing the news about it today. What gives?
Posted by: Ed Anger at August 26, 2010 05:07 AM (7+pP9)
The media are admitting the dems are in trouble, to save face... but they are also ratcheting up the deceptive reporting that paints R's in one light (bad) and D's in a good light.
90-100% of all union money goes to the democrat party. FACT. Yet I read a pro-Dem "news" article that stated twisted that fact and deceived the reader..
The pro-Dem media asume everyone is stupid. And they are right a certain percentage of the time, that's why they deceive.
Deception: It's what the democrats and their handlers do best.
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at August 26, 2010 05:09 AM (0fzsA)
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 31,000 to a seasonally adjusted 473,000 in the week ended August 21, the Labor Department said.
The four-week average of new claims, considered a better measure of underlying labor market trends as it irons out week-to-week volatility, rose 3,250 to 486,750, the highest since late November.
Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast initial weekly jobless claims slipping to 490,000 from the previously reported 500,000 the prior week, which was revised up to 504,000 in Thursday's report.
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With great numbers like these it's hard to imagine Republicans winning big in November.
Posted by: Ed Anger at August 26, 2010 05:11 AM (7+pP9)
You are mistaken. Yesterday we had a story about a Comrade Oglivy winning the Order of Conspicuous Merit.
In other news, the Republican devils are being slaughtered in their foxholes in their internecine civil war. Democratic victory in November is all but assured.
Posted by: ABC News at August 26, 2010 05:12 AM (FkKjr)
Added: Like the good lapdogs they are, the AP chimes in with this report, "As GOP civil war rages, Democrats look to benefit".
That's not a report - it's an opinion piece masquerading as "news". What the unprofessional media is all about. Yahoo News is full of it.
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at August 26, 2010 05:13 AM (0fzsA)
WASHINGTON – A Republican civil war is raging, with righter-than-thou conservatives dominating ever more primaries in a fight for the party's soul. And the Democrats hope to benefit.
The always objective AP. If you want even more pure propagnda bullshit read the rantings of the idiots Yahoo employs as their political reporters. It makes the Huffington Post look middle of the road
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 26, 2010 05:15 AM (1Jaio)
Every Election Strategy not based on holding the Red State Senate is a guaranteed LOSER , and will result in the long term destruction of the country!
I am going to keep repeating this until it echoes in the Conservative Blogosphere and Conservatives actually follow this strategy.
Posted by: An Observation at August 26, 2010 05:16 AM (ylhEn)
Posted by: EZB at August 26, 2010 05:17 AM (fa9yq)
If you compare that statement with the statement I posted above from the DNC you will see that they are almost identical in message. IOW, AP is just acting as a PR agent for the DNC, business as usual.
Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2010 05:18 AM (/jbAw)
There's nothing the news about it today. What gives?
Posted by: Ed Anger at August 26, 2010 09:07 AM (7+pP9)
Turns out the teabagger is actually a lefty who works for a group supporting the mosque. Fake hate crime to gin up sympathy for the mosque - he made the mistake of getting caught.
Down the memory hole!
Posted by: real joe at August 26, 2010 05:22 AM (w7Lv+)
OT: Once again the left-wing nut blogosphere is off the rails!
*right cheeze?
From Ben Smith at Politico: “But as often at the intersection of politics and violent crime, the story doesn’t appear to fit any easy stereotype: The alleged assailant, Michael Enright, is — according to his Facebook profile and the website of the left-leaning media organization Intersections International — a student at the School of Visual Arts and a volunteer for Intersections, which recently produced a statement of support for the Park51 project and is funded by the mainstream, liberal Collegiate Church of New York.”
did the Sycophant Junction crowd hire this left-wing goon to help their Jew-hating bigoted Dhimmi cause?
Just wondering?
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at August 26, 2010 05:23 AM (0fzsA)
Posted by: Moi at August 26, 2010 05:24 AM (Ez4Ql)
Posted by: maverick muse at August 26, 2010 07:27 AM (H+LJc)
I would be willing to bet big money Chris Young has already been rejected a number of times from a seminary.
Posted by: Rocks at August 26, 2010 05:24 AM (ivAmM)
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 26, 2010 05:24 AM (mHQ7T)
Bobby Bright. Vote for me. Cuz I have a nascar sounding name or sumthin'
Posted by: Learflyer at August 26, 2010 05:25 AM (5aVOy)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at August 26, 2010 05:25 AM (rr5XB)
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 26, 2010 05:27 AM (M6enm)
I would like to elevate a boner, too. Now yank my crank, baby!
Posted by: Al "Second Chakra" Gore at August 26, 2010 05:28 AM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 26, 2010 05:29 AM (M6enm)
Best place to dump them is the Mexican border. The feds won't go near it.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 26, 2010 05:31 AM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: Dave C at August 26, 2010 05:32 AM (W8f0O)
The always objective AP. If you want even more pure propaganda bullshit read the rantings of the idiots Yahoo employs as their political reporters. It makes the Huffington Post look middle of the road
Posted by: TheQuietManYahoo News hacks are part of the Chicago machine.
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at August 26, 2010 05:33 AM (0fzsA)
217 Something weird is going on. A Teabagger stabbed some Muslin cab driver and ABC News radio was all over it. They said it was going to be prosecuted as a hate crime.
There's nothing the news about it today. What gives?
Actually, blogs are reporting that the stabber is a pro-GZ Mosque lefty. If true, then that explains why the media is silent. Either Gateway Pundit or Weasel Zippers has the breakdown...
Posted by: joejm65 at August 26, 2010 05:34 AM (MbiAv)
Obamacare.
What could possibly go wrong?
An independent analysis says 3 million seniors may have to switch Medicare drug plans next year whether they like it or not.
The reason: a new effort by Medicare to try to make it simpler for consumers to pick prescription coverage.
It could be an unwelcome surprise for seniors who hadn't intended to make a change during Medicare's open enrollment season this fall.
And it risks undercutting President Barack Obama's promise that people can keep their health plans if they like them.
Posted by: Ed Anger at August 26, 2010 05:37 AM (7+pP9)
Yesterday was a bad day for the rabid left. Mike Bloomberg got called out by Daniel Pearl's family for exploiting their son's death. A mosque supporter cursed out an 83 year old Holocaust survivor. The cab driver was stabbed by a Park51 employee. (Is this name better than Ground Zero mosque or Cordoba House? It sounds like "Area51" -- creepy.) Russ Carnahan's office was, turns out, firebombed by his own staffer. CBS reports mosque opposition is up to 71% now, though they're still pushing that it's "legally permissible." If these mosque developers could build without permission, they would, so we know once again the media is lying and the Dems are going to hell in a handbasket.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 26, 2010 05:38 AM (mHQ7T)
TIME ACTUALLY WROTE THAT? Get a screen shot, because that is going down the memory hole.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 26, 2010 05:41 AM (mHQ7T)
Good. Take your lumps and go the fuck away, Democrats. The proof is in the pudding, and anyone can read your bills, look at your budgets and replay your quotes -- all a matter of public record -- and make up their minds whether you cared about helping Americans or pigging out at the trough. Your race card is tiresome and played out. Your blaming a party that's been out of power since 2006 is likewise. If you can't lead, get out of the way.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 26, 2010 05:46 AM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: Moi at August 26, 2010 05:54 AM (Ez4Ql)
TIME ACTUALLY WROTE THAT? Get a screen shot, because that is going down the memory hole.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 26, 2010 09:41 AM (mHQ7T)
That was in the comments section of Joe Klein's article.I'm having a great time watching the left wing go full 'tard.
Posted by: Ed Anger at August 26, 2010 05:56 AM (7+pP9)
Posted by: Moi at August 26, 2010 05:59 AM (Ez4Ql)
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Posted by: Charles Johnson at August 26, 2010 06:04 AM (lG7yz)
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