May 08, 2012
— DrewM Liberals are forever yammering on about the corrosive influence of money in politics and the ever present "appearance of corruption".
However some of them aren't adverse to demanding a little return on investment for their pet causes.
Some leading gay and progressive donors are so angry over President ObamaÂ’s refusal to sign an executive order barring same sex discrimination by federal contractors that they are refusing to give any more money to the pro-Obama super PAC, a top gay fundraiserÂ’s office tells me. In some cases, IÂ’m told, big donations are being withheld....
Now these and other donors are beginning to withold money from Priorities USA, the main pro-Obama super PAC, out of dismay over the president’s decision. (Some of these donors have already maxed out to the Obama campaign, I’m told.) It’s the first indication that areas in which Obama is at odds with gay advocates — and in fairness, his record on gay rights has been very good — could dampen overall fundraising.
Wait, you mean to tell me people use donations to politicians to influence policy? That they are more apt to give contributions to office holders who institute policies that they support and withhold those same contributions when they don't get policies they like?
Why last I heard, when the Koch Brothers (aka Evil Incarnate) support institutions that reflect their political preferences the very life of the republic itself is endangered.
Yet when progressive donors try and get Obama to the left, left wing stenographer Greg Sargent can't even muster a single word of condemnation of such behavior.
It's almost as is if Democrats, liberals, progressives or whatever you want to call them, aren't actually worried about the "corrosive effect" of money in politics but simply about conservatives competing in the market place of ideas.
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The friggin' God-Man killed Bin Laden!!!11!!! Created 4 million new jobs!!!11!!! Saved the auto industry!!11!!!
Is there anything President Historic First© can't do?
Didn't mention his dog-eating exploits, though....
Posted by: MrScribbler at May 08, 2012 05:30 AM (MQc8e)
I always hear that Obama is a Chicago politician.
But, when you buy a Chicago pol, they stay bought.
Posted by: Roy at May 08, 2012 05:33 AM (bm4vI)
Posted by: I am mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore at May 08, 2012 05:36 AM (AFgUP)
Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at May 08, 2012 05:36 AM (niW49)
Posted by: Mr Pink at May 08, 2012 05:37 AM (CJxaR)
Posted by: Roy at May 08, 2012 05:37 AM (bm4vI)
Posted by: If I Owned NPR at May 08, 2012 05:40 AM (FcR7P)
Posted by: huerfano at May 08, 2012 05:41 AM (bAGA/)
Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at May 08, 2012 05:44 AM (p7SSh)
Posted by: Al Sharpton at May 08, 2012 05:44 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: PETA at May 08, 2012 05:44 AM (XrDou)
Posted by: Mr Pink at May 08, 2012 09:37 AM (CJxaR)
Because even militant gheys believe in the free market and know there's no such thing as free anything?
Yeah, I'm not buying it either. I guess he just doesn't suck the right kind of cock.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b] at May 08, 2012 05:46 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at May 08, 2012 05:46 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Laura Castellano at May 08, 2012 05:47 AM (fuw6p)
Posted by: If I Owned NPR at May 08, 2012 05:47 AM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Laura Castellano at May 08, 2012 09:47 AM (fuw6p)
It's the one thing the SCOAMT has managed to do to really unify the country. Everybody hates him now.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b] at May 08, 2012 05:49 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: AdamPM at May 08, 2012 05:49 AM (/83rF)
Posted by: eman at May 08, 2012 05:51 AM (XrDou)
Hey - this is fun!
Posted by: Alec Leamas at May 08, 2012 05:51 AM (mg08E)
Where'd they pull that number from? Last I checked, there were nearly half a million fewer people working today than were working on his inauguration day.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at May 08, 2012 05:53 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Ebuzz Bunny, Feminist at May 08, 2012 05:53 AM (R8HTM)
Share? Get your own you damned dirty hippie!
Posted by: Charlie Gibson at May 08, 2012 05:53 AM (HNn1q)
Posted by: maddogg at May 08, 2012 05:54 AM (OlN4e)
Posted by: the pink cracker formerly known as the hobbit Donna at May 08, 2012 05:56 AM (ZHge+)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 08, 2012 05:57 AM (f9c2L)
Posted by: Mr Pink at May 08, 2012 05:57 AM (CJxaR)
Posted by: nevergiveup at May 08, 2012 05:58 AM (i6RpT)
"Well fuck em. They endorsed lying to me as a fucking political tactic. They can go fucking screw. I hope he stays against it just to piss them off. They make up fucking 8% of the population, no one gives a shit."
All the same, I think it is better form to let the electorate know what you would do if elected before the election. Democracy works better that way.
Posted by: Alec Leamas at May 08, 2012 05:59 AM (mg08E)
I am reminded of a great line from The Lion In Winter: Why complain of the air when there is nothing else to breathe?
Being Twitter, she's been mocked mercilessly.
Posted by: Retread at May 08, 2012 06:00 AM (joSBv)
http://tinyurl.com/bs9pskd
I expect you morons to jump into the frey. Y'all will feel better. Trust me.
Posted by: sickinmass at May 08, 2012 06:00 AM (bcNec)
Cher, let me clue you in you dumb bitch: The gays only support you so long as you give them ammo to attack straight people. You are only slightly less disgusting to them is all. You don't have a dick and push come to shove, they will beat you bloody and throw you in a ditch if it meant they could get handjob and a hot dog.
Posted by: jimmuy at May 08, 2012 06:01 AM (kSaUf)
Posted by: JEM at May 08, 2012 06:02 AM (o+SC1)
Posted by: the pink cracker formerly known as the hobbit Donna at May 08, 2012 06:02 AM (ZHge+)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 08, 2012 06:05 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: Mr Pink at May 08, 2012 06:06 AM (CJxaR)
Posted by: nevergiveup at May 08, 2012 09:58 AM (i6RpT)
She can do us all a favor and stop breathing and the rest of the celebutards can do the same
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 08, 2012 06:06 AM (1Jaio)
— and in fairness, his record on gay rights has been very good —
Funny, I keep hearing that from the same people who say that opposition to gay marriage is HOMOPHOBIA ELEVENTY but who think that Obama's wink wink nudge nudge oh I'm against gay marriage uh huh I am is just fine. Why, it would make a person who is a tad cynical believe that this great noble position is nothing more than a stance and even then all it means is that those icky religious people are icky. I mean, a cynical person would believe that. Not a unicorn believer such as myself. I would never ever ever openly laugh in someone's face about this. Not me!
Posted by: alexthechick at May 08, 2012 06:07 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: nevergiveup at May 08, 2012 06:08 AM (i6RpT)
Posted by: DocJ at May 08, 2012 06:08 AM (A5uiv)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b] at May 08, 2012 06:09 AM (4df7R)
Totalitarian fascists.
Unless I'm tweeting on my phone, then "pinkos" is easier to type.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at May 08, 2012 06:10 AM (/kI1Q)
You h8ers are making it very difficult for her immense man-daughter with a pretend enlarged clit-stuffed vagina-meat penis to feel good about him/her/itself.
Posted by: Alec Leamas at May 08, 2012 06:11 AM (mg08E)
Posted by: nevergiveup at May 08, 2012 06:11 AM (i6RpT)
Posted by: alexthechick at May 08, 2012 10:07 AM (VtjlW)
Awww, I'm disappointed, ATC. You wouldn't laugh in their face? Really? To paraphrase Kipling, you're a better (wo)man than I am, Gunga Din!
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b] at May 08, 2012 06:11 AM (4df7R)
So, is this shaping up to be the Gay Election?
If it is, then I hereby decree myself Empress and Ruler of All.
Love and despair, bitches, love and despair.
Posted by: alexthechick at May 08, 2012 06:11 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: torabora at May 08, 2012 06:12 AM (J7KJf)
Posted by: Retread at May 08, 2012 06:12 AM (joSBv)
Posted by: kallisto at May 08, 2012 06:13 AM (jm/9g)
Posted by: huerfano at May 08, 2012 09:41 AM (bAGA/)
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so he's a rent boy....I denounce myself
Posted by: torabora at May 08, 2012 06:14 AM (J7KJf)
Is it wrong that I want to feign illness so I can go home and brutally attack Cher on Twitter?
Mind you, the way my allergies are acting today, it wouldn't be so much "feigning illness" as "giving into the inevitable and trying to stave off bronchitis until the last possible moment." And it's fucking raining! Rain is supposed to make my allergies suck LESS, not more!
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b] at May 08, 2012 06:15 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Captain Hate at May 08, 2012 06:15 AM (HfgvZ)
Naw, it's the checklist election. Single white women: check. Blacks: check. Gays: check. Next will be unions, and teh gays will be forgotten.
Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at May 08, 2012 06:16 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Riding Through The Haze at May 08, 2012 06:17 AM (z+Xap)
Maybe we know now why Sonny divorced her. Is stupidity grounds for divorce?
Posted by: Retread at May 08, 2012 06:18 AM (joSBv)
Stop, you tease. You're getting me all sweaty and excited.
Posted by: Rosie O'Dimbulb at May 08, 2012 06:18 AM (sylYH)
Posted by: Heralder at May 08, 2012 06:18 AM (+xmn4)
I love how Cher gets revealed by Twitter just what a dumbassed simpleton she is.
Well, to be fair, Cher revealed herself as a braindead leftist twit a long time ago, when she could stay safe in her little Hollywood libtard bubble and ignore the masses. The fact that she's now re-revealed same on Twitter just means that the rest of the world has direct access to her stupidity and can mock her one on one as she deserves.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b] at May 08, 2012 06:19 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at May 08, 2012 06:19 AM (pVvkk)
Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at May 08, 2012 06:20 AM (0tRzD)
Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at May 08, 2012 06:20 AM (p7SSh)
Posted by: nevergiveup at May 08, 2012 06:21 AM (i6RpT)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at May 08, 2012 06:22 AM (+ZI77)
Posted by: summerthermal at May 08, 2012 06:22 AM (N46V9)
Posted by: Alec Leamas at May 08, 2012 06:22 AM (mg08E)
Posted by: Heralder at May 08, 2012 10:18 AM (+xmn4)
Thanks!
Yeah, they're seasonal. The problem is that every season has a new allergen. ARRRGH. Tree pollen, grass pollen, ragweed... The only season I can pretty much get away from the allergies is winter, but it's cold and snowy and WINTER, so not much of an upside.
This is why I hate Ohio (my apologies to Ohioans). Ohio's pollen comes sweeping up here to NH on the jet stream and wreaks merry havoc on my lungs. It's GIGANTIC HORROR POLLEN.
I should have been born Amish. *sigh*
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b] at May 08, 2012 06:22 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 08, 2012 06:23 AM (OpijJ)
Posted by: Cricket at May 08, 2012 06:23 AM (DrC22)
Posted by: Retread at May 08, 2012 06:23 AM (joSBv)
Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at May 08, 2012 10:19 AM (pVvkk)
Actually it was Michelle Malkin who was the mashed up bag of meat with lipstick. Bachmann was... the twat? Or was that just reserved for Sarah Palin?
Those goofy leftists and their slurs! I can't keep them straight! Ha ha ha!
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b] at May 08, 2012 06:24 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: sexypig at May 08, 2012 06:25 AM (8x1cL)
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Watch it there Missy........
Posted by: The Allman Brothers ...... ALL of em.... at May 08, 2012 06:27 AM (C8hzL)
<<facepalm>>
.... make.it.stop.
Posted by: Jay Carney at May 08, 2012 10:25 AM (C8hzL)
Not until the day you collapse behind the podium broken and weeping like a little girl, Carney.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b] at May 08, 2012 06:27 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Alec Leamas at May 08, 2012 10:22 AM (mg08E)
An inner struggle requires an inner life of reflection and meditation on important questions. "Inner struggles" for Cher are "nose job versus new boobs".
Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at May 08, 2012 06:27 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: sexypig at May 08, 2012 06:27 AM (8x1cL)
When my hair finishes falling out, Imma get a wig like her hair in the "Turn Back Time" video.
And maybe the outfit.
But probably not the battleship.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at May 08, 2012 06:28 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 08, 2012 10:23 AM (OpijJ)
I'm sure she had a mouthful of Gregg Allman choad as he was snorting a line of blow out of her ass crack. Wasn't that a lyric in one of his songs?
Posted by: Captain Hate at May 08, 2012 06:28 AM (HfgvZ)
"We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance," it says. "Barack Obama will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of authority in government."
But as Edward Wasserman points out, you can't find much evidence of this protection in the Obama administration's lengthy record of attacks on individuals who've actually helped get out information about the government during Obama's term.
Posted by: Julia at May 08, 2012 06:29 AM (e8kgV)
Posted by: dfbaskwill at May 08, 2012 06:30 AM (71LDo)
Posted by: Captain Hate at May 08, 2012 10:28 AM (HfgvZ)
I'm struggling to visualize the juxtaposition there and not liking what I see.
Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at May 08, 2012 06:31 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: dfbaskwill at May 08, 2012 10:30 AM (71LDo)
Heh. I wonder if we could get idiot lefties to actually believe that. And if we could, I wonder if they'd actually understand why it's a BAD THING.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b] at May 08, 2012 06:31 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: summerthermal at May 08, 2012 06:31 AM (N46V9)
He probably left her because he knew that in reality she was an ignorant fuck and she was never going to use that pretty little head of hers for anything other than a hat rack.
Posted by: Jimbo (SMOD 2012's biggest fan) at May 08, 2012 06:32 AM (O3R/2)
Posted by: dananjcon at May 08, 2012 06:32 AM (eavT+)
Oh lord, me too. I look like I've been weeping my eyes are so red. Mine haven't been this bad in years and, so help me, if I need shots again I'll go something something.
Posted by: alexthechick at May 08, 2012 06:33 AM (VtjlW)
But, when you buy a Chicago pol, they stay bought.
Posted by: Roy at May 08, 2012 09:33 AM (bm4vI)
Because, Roy,he isn't a Chicago politician. He's a rent boy, and he goes for whoever pays best. (in this case, whatever soothes and inflates his ego).
Posted by: akornzombie at May 08, 2012 06:33 AM (RDTop)
Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at May 08, 2012 10:20 AM (p7SSh)
I saw a picture of an Occupooper with a sign that "white people" are taking from "the rest of the 99%". Yes the sign holder was white, but just like all their other dopey projection, the Left is just one big stupid purity purge waiting to happen.
Posted by: The Mega Independent at May 08, 2012 06:34 AM (48IBh)
Posted by: toby928© at May 08, 2012 06:34 AM (NG097)
Posted by: Lincolntf at May 08, 2012 06:36 AM (HethX)
The big Jewish donors in Hollywood have been "upset" with Barky O'DogEater too and threatening to withhold their donations but just wait and see, all the commie pinkos will line up and fall FORE=WARD when it's time.
Posted by: Boots at May 08, 2012 06:36 AM (neKzn)
Posted by: The Mega Independent at May 08, 2012 10:34 AM (48IBh)
Eh. If you wear dreadlocks and pretend you're Bob Marley you can be not-white and survive the coming race war. Or at least that's what these precious little snowflakes think.
Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at May 08, 2012 06:36 AM (RD7QR)
How do you know they weren't 3/128 Cherokee?!
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at May 08, 2012 06:36 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter at May 08, 2012 10:22 AM (4df7R)
I've noticed several pollen alerts this year already. I'm lucky to not have allergies, but anyone I know who does is in the same condition you are. Maybe if that rain keeps up it'll improve some.
Or maybe not, it might be that nasty "Tea Bagger" air.
Posted by: Heralder at May 08, 2012 06:37 AM (+xmn4)
The "speech" he gave in '94 when the freshman Republican class took over is one of my favorites. They let him ramble on 20 minutes over his time limit, because nobody could stop laughing long enough to remind him he was "over the time limit".
Posted by: jwb7605 at May 08, 2012 06:38 AM (Qxe/p)
Oh lord, me too. I look like I've been weeping my eyes are so red. Mine haven't been this bad in years and, so help me, if I need shots again I'll go something something.
Posted by: alexthechick at May 08, 2012 10:33 AM (VtjlW)
Ugh, you poor thing! I can sympathize on the eyes. Everytime I look in the mirror I wonder if folks are going to think I've been smoking pot in my car at lunchtime.
And Visine? Doesn't get the red out. It lies.
I've tried every OTC allergy med out there -- and some Rx brands, too -- and the only thing that works is Benadryl. Great and all, except that four hours after taking it I literally cannot see straight and need to sleep lest I pitch headfirst down the stairs in a drugged, lethargic stupor.
GIGANTIC HORROR ALLERGIES.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b] at May 08, 2012 06:38 AM (4df7R)
Some leading gay and progressive donors are so angry . . . .
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Welcome to Obama's Three Dimensional Chess board.....
You are a pawn used in an opening gambit called..... "I gotta win re-election".
Sit there, protect a square or two..... and shut the hell up. And if you are bait to trap a winger or two.... well off the board you go,
Posted by: fixerupper at May 08, 2012 06:39 AM (C8hzL)
Did that with a little "Lawyers, Guns and Money." No problem.
Posted by: NC Ref at May 08, 2012 06:40 AM (/izg2)
Or maybe not, it might be that nasty "Tea Bagger" air.
Posted by: Heralder at May 08, 2012 10:37 AM (+xmn4)
That could be it. *sage nod* It's hard to breathe for all the scrotum in the air.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b] at May 08, 2012 06:41 AM (4df7R)
Eh. If you wear dreadlocks and pretend you're Bob Marley you can be not-white and survive the coming race war. Or at least that's what these precious little snowflakes think.
Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at May 08, 2012 10:36 AM (RD7QR)
She was Casper with a Pantene ponytail (it really did look like it had been washed, so on second thought, she may have be an infiltrator). But your point is taken. Also she might be 1/88th Sioux.
Posted by: The Mega Independent at May 08, 2012 06:41 AM (48IBh)
Posted by: Jean at May 08, 2012 06:42 AM (WkuV6)
Posted by: The Mega Independent at May 08, 2012 06:44 AM (48IBh)
Eh. If you wear dreadlocks and pretend you're
Bob Marley you can be not-white and survive the coming race war. Or at
least that's what these precious little snowflakes think.
Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at May 08, 2012 10:36 AM (RD7QR)
Don't forget that you should also neglect bathing. The patina of filth will turn anyone's lily white skin to a less confrontational shade of tan, or even -- in the really devoted -- burnt umber. The reek of your bodily funk will keep people far enough away that they won't get close enough to uncover your secret.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b] at May 08, 2012 06:44 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter at May 08, 2012 10:41 AM (4df7R)
You have a problem with that?
Posted by: Truck Nutz at May 08, 2012 06:45 AM (48IBh)
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Posted by: Jean at May 08, 2012 06:46 AM (WkuV6)
Saw a picture of a sign mocking the Occupoopers: I'm an illegal immigrant. I came here to take your job but you don't have one.
I fear it was too subtle for the Occupoopers.
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Posted by: Army of Fact-Checkers at May 08, 2012 08:08 AM (8Kv96)
In some cases, IÂ’m told, big donations are being withheld.
Sorry, Barry, NAMBLA just closed the checkbook.
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