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    boutons is outraged anytime you do not pay him with a coin bearing his own image.

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    GOP in a panic over Georgia primary freak show

    They're facing one more election where they should be able to regain the Senate, and they're probably going to screw it up again. Case in point, the clown show that is the Georgia Senate primary.

    Recent polling shows the two candidates Republicans are most anxious about—Reps. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) and Paul Broun (R-Ga.)—leading the pack. Whoever emerges from the clown-car primary, with seven candidates and counting, will face a candidate Democrats are high on in a state where shifting demographics benefit their party. [...]The scenario that panics Republicans is Broun winning the nomination. The Tea Party-affiliated congressman has generated controversy by calling evolution and the big bang theory “lies straight from the pit of ” and routinely referring to President Obama as a socialist.

    He has some strong support in the GOP base and sports a perfect rating with the deep-pocketed, fiscally conservative Club for Growth, which could give him a big financial boost if they decide to get involved in the race. Many think they might, especially if Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), a longtime appropriator with a more centrist record, makes the two-candidate runoff.

    Meanwhile, Democrats are likely to nominate a woman, Mic e Nunn, the daughter of former Sen. Sam Nunn. So not only do you have the possibility of Broun and Gingrey being themselves about and socialism, but you've got them running around doing things like defending Todd Akin and voting against the Violence Against Women Act. In other words, running against a a woman and acting like typical Republicans.

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/0...?detail=email#



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    When a Political Party Goes Off the Deep End

    In the short run the point is that Republican leaders are about to reap the whirlwind, because they haven't had the courage to tell their political base that the Affordable Care Act, a k a Obamacare, is here to stay; that budget sequestration is in fact intolerable; and that in general they have at least for now lost the war over the shape of American society. As a result, we're looking at many drama-filled months, with a high probability of government shutdowns and even debt defaults.

    Over the longer run the point is that one of America's two major political parties has basically gone off the deep end; policy content aside, a sane party doesn't hold dozens of votes declaring its intention to repeal a law that everyone knows will stay on the books regardless. And since that party continues to hold substantial blocking power, we are looking at a country that's increasingly ungovernable.

    "That Is Cool"


    Greg Sargent, a commentator at The Washington Post, recently pointed out how Senator Marco Rubio is trying to redefine the nature of budget blackmail, declaring that it's not about Republicans threatening to shut down the government unless President Obama defunds heath reform; it's about Mr. Obama threatening to shut down the government unless he gets to implement the law.


    No, really.

    According to Mr. Rubio
    : "I think the real question is: Is Barack Obama willing to shut down the government over Obamacare? In essence, I think we should pay our military. I think we should fund the government. I just don't think we should fund Obamacare. And what the president is saying is we either fund Obamacare, or we don't fund anything. And I think that's an unreasonable position. And that's the position he's taken and the Democrats have taken."

    So, where have I heard that before? In Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union address in 1860, in which he spoke of slave interests declaring that they would break up the Union if Northerners voted in a Republican, which would have made secession the fault of ... anti-slavery forces: "That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, 'Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!' "

    http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/ite...f-the-deep-end



    absolutely TING in their pants





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    lol confirmation rss feed

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    got nothing to say

    Your Repugs are ING NUTS, own it, .

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    your rss feed tells you what to think. You're ing nuts. own it .

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    non thinking syncophants is the issue of our time.

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    sycophantic hyperplasia of the cortex. how common indeed., Dr TeyshaBlue.

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    big picture on Repug crazies, roused rabble, etc, etc of the "base"

    GOP’s True Believers Risk Nothing By Threatening Economic Catastrophe



    Recently, Moore informed readers that “[t]he biggest underreported story out of Washington this year is that the federal budget is shrinking and much more than anyone in either party expected.”

    Overall federal spending that peaked at $3.598 trillion in FY2011 due largely to recession-related costs will drop to $3.45 trillion by the end of FY2013. “The $150 billion budget decline of 4 percent,” Moore writes “is the first time federal expenditures have fallen for two consecutive years since the end of the Korean War.”

    Also dropping is the annual federal budget deficit. Projections by the Congressional Budget Office show a $642 billion shortfall this year—less than half of the $1.3 trillion shortfall the Obama White House inherited from George W. Bush. It’s forecast to drop to $560 billion next year, and $378 billion in 2015.


    Moore: “Already the deficit has fallen from its Mount Everest peak of 10.2 percent of gross domestic product in 2009, to about 4 percent this year. That’s a bullish six percentage points less of the GDP of new federal debt each year.”

    In short, informed conservatives understand that there is no need whatsoever for a melodramatic standoff over raising the federal debt limit. No need to risk “the full faith and credit of the United States” by threatening default. Hostages need not be taken.
    As in the Obamacare charade, Republican posturing on the debt would only risk catastrophe for the sake of certain defeat.

    Alas, but herein lies the rub: The great majority of GOP voters out in the wilderness beyond the Hudson and the Potomac not only don’t know these facts, they’re cons utionally incapable of accepting them.


    To followers of politicians like Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, fears of fiscal collapse, runaway inflation and social chaos aren’t political ideas, but fixed beliefs scarcely amenable to arithmetic or reason.


    And their Antichrist is Barack Obama.

    http://www.nationalmemo.com/gops-true-believers-risk-nothing-by-threatening-economic-catastrophe/2/

    and many of the Repug Congressional rabble rousers don't fear losing next election since they are in safe, anti-democratic, voter-suppressed states and districts.


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    sycophantic hyperplasia of the cortex. how common indeed., Dr TeyshaBlue.

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    Repug madness, madness everywhere


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    Oooo...a cartoon!
    non-thinking cut and pasters everywhere!
    lol

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    Oooo...a cartoon!
    lol
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    a cartoon with relevant message, relevant to the thread, slaps your "smh"

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    The next relevant thing you cut and paste will be the first.

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    I posted a relevant veiwpoint with a cite and you ran like a little ....again.

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    Okie Madness, nothing new:

    Oklahoma Senator Says Obama Is Close To Impeachment


    Another day, another Republican pandering to the right-wing base of the party. Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) said at a town hall meeting in Muskogee, Oklahoma on Wednesday that the president is “getting perilously close” to impeachment. It’s a move that puts him in what former Pennsylvania Democratic governor Ed Rendell calls the “wacko faction” of the Republican Party.

    When words like “impeachment” get thrown around, it’s important to take a step back and really understand what the Cons ution says about the grounds for the action. What does a president have to do to prompt an impeachment trial? The standard is laid out in Article II, Section IV of the U.S. Cons ution, which states,”The President, Vice President and all Civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”


    What are Obama’s crimes that meet this standard? For Republicans, there may be a few – most notably, NSA surveillance, the Benghazi “scandal,” or the IRS probe.


    Of course, there’s absolutely no evidence that Obama has committed an impeachable offense. For many Republicans, however, doubt remains.

    Tom Coburn, for example, admits he doesn’t even have the legal knowledge to determine if impeachment is suitable, but nonetheless thinks Obama is getting close
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    “I think those are serious things, but we’re in serious times,” Coburn said at the meeting.

    ( Says the clown from the busful of clowns! )

    “And I don’t have the legal background to know if that rises to ‘high crimes and misdemeanors,’ but I think you’re getting perilously close.”


    Moreover, Coburn thinks that the Obama administration is breaking the law purposefully. “I think there’s some intended violation of law in this administration, but I also think there’s a ton of incompetence,” Coburn said, adding: “I am fed up. I am frustrated. I am happy to raise an issue at every point.”


    By joining the impeachment crusade, Coburn is in league with other Republicans like Texas senator Ted Cruz and congressman Blake Farenhold, and Rep. Kerry Bentivolio (R-MI).

    http://www.nationalmemo.com/watch-ok...o-impeachment/

    Repugs gonna impeach Barry on Repug/Fox-fabricated scandals?

    You Repug assholes keepin voting is these "mad" assholes



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    Gov. Paul LePage tells fellow Republicans: Obama 'hates white people'

    Gov. Paul LePage told a group of Republicans last week that President Obama "hates white people," according to two state lawmakers who say they heard the remark directly. […]

    Each said LePage talked about how Obama could have been the best president ever if he had highlighted his biracial heritage. LePage said the president hasn't done that because he hates white people.

    "Yeah, he said it," said one of the lawmakers. "It was one little thing from a speech, but I think most people there thought it was totally inappropriate."

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/0...?detail=email#

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    I actually find protesting funerals of dead soldiers hilarious. The "semper-fi got" signs legitimately make me laugh.
    You should have been a pillow stain.

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    Ultra liberals giving advice to conservatives are the greatest most cherished type of advice conservatives should follow.

    I recall Dems losing the 00 election. Then losing seats in the 02 election. Then unseen, losing seats and the presidential election in 04. No one said anything about the death of the dems. Dems never changed their game plan. Why should the repubs. They could market better. utilize technology better. Campaign, starting the day after an election, sure. But there isn't really a need to become dem lite. JMO of course.

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    Ultra liberals giving advice to conservatives are the greatest most cherished type of advice conservatives should follow.

    I recall Dems losing the 00 election. Then losing seats in the 02 election. Then unseen, losing seats and the presidential election in 04. No one said anything about the death of the dems. Dems never changed their game plan. Why should the repubs. They could market better. utilize technology better. Campaign, starting the day after an election, sure. But there isn't really a need to become dem lite. JMO of course.
    Back then there was no "Tea Party" or such brand of right wing hard line so prominent either. I've read a few times it's doubtful Reagan would've made it these days, and IMO, it's right on point. I think a guy like Christie can win the election for the GOP and get the party together again, but can he win the primaries?

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    Back then there was no "Tea Party" or such brand of right wing hard line so prominent either. I've read a few times it's doubtful Reagan would've made it these days, and IMO, it's right on point. I think a guy like Christie can win the election for the GOP and get the party together again, but can he win the primaries?
    yeah there were. you just didn't pay attention to them because w. was the devil.
    Christie was a radical right winger back then. For going after the unions and wanting to cut spending he was called an extremist by the left. Now because he gets mad at the repubs for not giving him boatloads of money in disaster relief, the dems consider him a moderate.
    It's doubtful FDR, or JFK would have won the primaries. Or any open praying christian on the democrats. That kind of point, I keep hearing, seems moot. Theres no way of telling.

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    yeah there were. you just didn't pay attention to them because w. was the devil.
    Not in 00, 02 and 04. The GOP literally fractured in 2010, when the Tea Party became notorious and actually gained some Congressional seats. What you have today is the fallout from that.

    Christie was a radical right winger back then. For going after the unions and wanting to cut spending he was called an extremist by the left. Now because he gets mad at the repubs for not giving him boatloads of money in disaster relief, the dems consider him a moderate.
    I live in his state, so I've seen it first hand. He changed. He was the bully that barked and barked until Sandy completely humbled him. It was a turning point for him, he finally had a case in his hands where the "personal responsibility" line wouldn't cut it. People needed help bad, and it had to come from government. He softened his speech, and got done, even with Dems.

    Make no mistake, he's still a neocon and conservative to the bone. He just has one thing clear: you need to win elections to get the power to make changes. That's why he isn't a guy that alienates demographics like Blacks and Latinos, etc.

    It's doubtful FDR, or JFK would have won the primaries. Or any open praying christian on the democrats. That kind of point, I keep hearing, seems moot. Theres no way of telling.
    The GOP needs to figure out who they want to be. I personally would like them to get their heads out of their asses and win a majority or a presidential election at some point because I prefer some degree of party change in government. But it's very difficult to appeal to the middle (which as the Dems they need to win elections) by sticking with the far right rhetoric. IMO, obviously.

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    The GOP needs to figure out who they want to be. I personally would like them to get their heads out of their asses and win a majority or a presidential election at some point because I prefer some degree of party change in government. But it's very difficult to appeal to the middle (which as the Dems they need to win elections) by sticking with the far right rhetoric. IMO, obviously.
    All the Dem rhetoric, for the most part, is from the 70's. I still think it's cyclical and will swing back.

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    All the Dem rhetoric, for the most part, is from the 70's. I still think it's cyclical and will swing back.
    The Dems have zero credibility too, that's not the problem.

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