Blue Team -- Let me hear ya sing it!!!

[DMX7]

Let me hear you sing it! :spin

04854XqcfCY

[TeyshaBlue]

lol pom poms

[Wild Cobra]

I thought songs like this were Blue team style:

RhJHL34DiBY

TnHm4ro_l8s

[Koolaid_Man]

s6gNo4-1r6k

[ChumpDumper]

What is WC saying about Loverboy?

Is he just going by the band's name?

[SA210]

Yay! Blue team wins at being the same as red team!! :cheer lol

[Koolaid_Man]

Yay! Blue team wins at being the same as red team!! :cheer lol

I like you cheer...Drone Drone Drone Drone

[Jacob1983]

This pretty much sums up both Blue Team and Red team.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCSs5QggRUk

[DeadlyDynasty]

Let me hear you sing it! :spin

04854XqcfCY
Much like Queen, it will take an AIDS-riddled cock up the ass for you to finally go away

[HI-FI]

Much like Queen, it will take an AIDS-riddled cock up the ass for you to finally go away

:rollin
perfect with the screencap of Freddie Mercury

[Clipper Nation]

:lol at celebrating Team Blue "winning" another typical round of political posturing while being exactly the same as Team Red

[boutons_deux]

:lol at celebrating Team Blue "winning" another typical round of political posturing while being exactly the same as Team Red

False equivalence, but typical for you right-wing dumbfucks who flatter yourself with your spurious insights.

[boutons_deux]

Actually, Kock Bros and other 1%/VRWC anti-govt assholes have been winning, won, and will continue to win, even if their proxies in Congress lost this time, by blocking any real governance, by distracting Congress from real business, while the Kock Bros, etc remain free from exposure and condemnation.

Such bullshit is unstoppable, and extremely cheap for the Kocks, etc to finance, indefinitely.

[boutons_deux]

OBAMA DECLARES NATIONAL DAY OF GLOATING



http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/fireworks-white-house-580.jpg


WASHINGTON —Residents of the District of Columbia were roused from their sleep by a massive fireworks display over the White House just after midnight, as President Obama declared what he called “a national day of gloating.”

“It would not be productive for this nation, going forward, to crow about our victory over political adversaries,” he said in a nationally televised address. “So let’s get it all out of our systems today.”

Immediately after the President’s speech, loudspeakers outside the White House blasted “We Are the Champions,” and the national day of gloating began.

In addition to a ticker-tape parade, the day’s events will include a screening on the Mall of a clip reel of Texas Senator Ted Cruz’s marathon Senate speech, punctuated by sad trombone sounds.

“Starting tomorrow, my message to the Republicans is, ‘Let’s work together for the American people,’ ” said Obama, wearing what appeared to be a beer hat. “But today my message is, ‘We won, bitchaz.’ ”

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/10/obama-declares-national-day-of-gloating.html?utm_source=tny&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=borowitz&mbid=nl_Borowitz%20(184)

[Clipper Nation]

False equivalence, but typical for you right-wing dumbfucks who flatter yourself with your spurious insights.
:cry "False equivalence" :cry

You're a predictable partisan shill, tbh.... you rightfully blame the GOP for their corruption and bad ideas, but then when the Democrats fuck up, you attribute it to some huge unstoppable force that not even the president can stop :lol

In reality, both parties love to keep bloating the government to insane levels, trampling on our liberties, dragging us into never-ending wars abroad, and using meaningless wedge issues to fool gullible partisan hacks such as yourself while they do all the same shit....

[boutons_deux]

:cry "False equivalence" :cry

You're a predictable partisan shill, tbh.... you rightfully blame the GOP for their corruption and bad ideas, but then when the Democrats fuck up, you attribute it to some huge unstoppable force that not even the president can stop :lol

true bullshit.

When I say the crap is unstoppable, it's unstoppable BY ANYBODY, BY ANY PARTY.

the Dems fuck up passively, except this week, the Repugs fuck up intentionally, willfully, esp now that the tea baggers and Cruz control the Repug Congress.

you confuse my vehement attacks and resistance, always justified on the Repugs, for an equally vehement support of the Dems, but you're stupid, so that figures. The Dems at least try to govern (ACA, EPA, etc) while the Repugs absolutely want to misgovern or at best NOT govern. HUGE difference.

[vy65]

lol resistance

[Clipper Nation]

true bullshit.

When I say the crap is unstoppable, it's unstoppable BY ANYBODY, BY ANY PARTY.
...except when a "Repug" is President, then you give them the kind of agency for the poor decisions they make that you refuse to give to Obama :lol


the Dems fuck up passively, except this week, the Repugs fuck up intentionally, willfully, esp now that the tea baggers and Cruz control the Repug Congress.
Complete gibberish per par, you either fuck up or you don't, and both parties do the former way more often than the latter....


you confuse my vehement attacks and resistance, always justified on the Repugs, for an equally vehement support of the Dems, but you're stupid, so that figures.
:lmao Riiiight, you don't support the Dems, it's just a coincidence that you'll reach for any excuse when they screw up.... lol message board "resistance"

[boutons_deux]

Anyone you know who has the gall to call this a "victory" is an idiot. Aside from the actual pain this thing caused is the fact that all the Democrats won in the end is a few months of government, and a few months of not looking economic Armageddon in the teeth. The GOP just got a budget CR that operates at the sequestration level they set the last time we spun this Merry-Go-Round, and a faction of their party will try this hostage-taking thing again after the New Year to get even more. Of course they will (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gop-rep-we-re-going-to-start-this-all-over-again).


This was a zero-sum gain, and a lot of people lost, badly. It was a nifty exercise in disaster capitalism, more proof of the power of the shock doctrine, and nothing more. Whoever tries to tell you otherwise is selling something.
Finally, anyone who says this mess spells the end of the Tea Party phenomenon is fooling themselves. If anything, the re-branded right-wing created by the Koch Brothers and pimped by CNN will greet the dawn on Thursday morning re-invested in the idea that Jesus hates the poor, women and all brown people, just goddamn because. They see themselves as victims even when they win. Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin and the rest of the sharpies will be there to egg them on and pick their pockets. Mark my words: these people have learned no lessons (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/lesson-learned-here-s-what-conservatives-are-taking-away-from-the-shutdown), ceded no ground, and are not going anywhere anytime soon.

Also, there is there is still the Trans-Pacific Partnership to contend with, plus Chained CPI and Medicare means testing (both of which Mr. Obama floated not long ago, which will make an appearance in the budget debate, count on it), plus the Keystone XL pipeline, plus the ongoing voter restriction efforts, plus the all-important 2014 midterm elections, plus, and plus, and plus, and plus, etc.

Take this to heart, friends and neighbors: rust never sleeps, and there is never, ever any rest for the weary.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19468-rust-never-sleeps

[boutons_deux]

You’ll Pay for This, GOP

“There are no winners here,” President Obama declared at the White House (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/10/17/remarks-president-reopening-government) this morning. Then, with an elegant air of nonpartisanship, Obama began to fashion the shutdown into a political weapon. Here’s how he’s going to deploy it.

1. Economic excuse. Obama noted that before the shutdown, the economy was recovering, and the deficit was falling. The fiscal standoff changed all that: “Every analyst out there believes it slowed our growth.” Obama rattled off the damage: families going without paychecks, home buyers and small businesses unable to get loans, consumers cutting back on spending, CEOs reporting that the fiscal anxiety had “set back their plans to hire over the next six months.” Even the “threat of default,” said the president, “increased our borrowing costs, which adds to our deficit.”

Today, this litany of laments looked like simple compassion from the president. But over the next year, it can serve as an excuse. If economic growth or deficit reduction isn’t where we’d like it to be, Obama can blame the shortfall on the “Republican shutdown (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2013/10/republican_shutdown_will_obama_s_partisan_attack_b reak_the_gop_s_resistance.html)” or the “Tea Party shutdown.” He’d be following in the footsteps of his predecessor, who spent three years after Sept. 11, 2001, blaming economic disappointment on the damage done when “the enemy hit us.”

2. Republican downgrade. Two years ago, when Standard and Poor’s downgraded the government’s credit rating, it cited our high deficits as well as the 2011 debt ceiling standoff. Ever since, Republicans have argued that the deficits, not the standoff, caused the downgrade. This time, we haven’t been downgraded, but we’ve been put on a credit watch by Fitch, another ratings agency. And this time, there’s no ballooning deficit. Obama wants to make that difference stick. He wants the downgrade threat of 2013 to reinforce the Democrats’ narrative about the downgrade of 2011. “The agency that put America’s credit rating on watch the other day explicitly cited” the congressional standoff, Obama pointed out. The Fitch report, he went on, said that “our economy remains more dynamic and resilient than other advanced economies and that the only thing putting us at risk is—and I’m quoting here—‘repeated brinkmanship.’ ” “That wasn’t a political statement,” Obama added, politicizing the statement.

3. National security. Even after killing Osama Bin Laden, Obama is constantly accused of weakness. No matter what he does in Iran, Egypt, Libya, or Syria, the old portrait of the Democratic president as soft on foreign policy never goes away. What usually helps Democrats in this area is economics. Their devotion to American labor at the expense of free trade comes across as tough on foreigners. But the fiscal showdowns of 2011 and 2013 could add a new twist. This morning, Obama reported that U.S. diplomats have


been hearing from their counterparts internationally. Some of the same folks who pushed for the shutdown and threatened default claim their actions were needed to get America back on the right track, to make sure we’re strong. But probably nothing has done more damage to America’s credibility in the world, our standing with other countries, than the spectacle we’ve seen these past several weeks. It’s encouraged our enemies. It’s emboldened our competitors. And it’s depressed our friends who look to us for steady leadership.

If Republicans stage another big fight over the next debt ceiling, that would be three in a row. It might facilitate a significant political development: the transformation of debt payment into a national security issue. Republicans could become the deadbeat party. Obama seems quite willing to attack them from this angle. And in framing economics as the key to American power, he has reality on his side.

4. The value of government. What happened in 1995 and 1996 has happened again: Closing the government has made Americans miss it. In his remarks today, Obama proposed,


One of the things that I hope all of us have learned these past few weeks is that it turns out smart, effective government is important. It matters. I think the American people, during this shutdown, had a chance to get some idea of all the things, large and small, that government does that make a difference in people’s lives. You know, we hear all the time about how government is the problem. Well, it turns out we rely on it in a whole lot of ways. Not only does it keep us strong through our military and our law enforcement—it plays a vital role in caring for our seniors and our veterans, educating our kids, making sure our workers are trained for the jobs that are being created, arming our businesses with the best science and technology so they can compete with companies from other countries. It plays a key role in keeping our food and our toys and our workplaces safe. It helps folks rebuild after a storm. It conserves our natural resources. It finances startups. It helps to sell our products overseas. It provides security to our diplomats abroad. So let’s work together to make government work better, instead of treating it like an enemy.

Congratulations, Tea Party. In the midst of Obamacare’s glitch-ridden debut, you did the one thing that could make us love our government: You took it away and held it hostage. Don’t expect any thanks from the president you helped.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2013/10/_2013_shutdown_politics_how_obama_will_make_the_de bt_fight_a_weapon_against.html

the 2011 showdown certainly didn't help the Repugs in 2012 campaign.

I figure the Dems could really really fuck the Repugs hard in the 2014 campaign, and then marginalize them in the 2016 campaign.

No surprise if the Repugs shutdown the govt again in Jan, nor a surprise if the Dems "refuse to negotiate"

[DMX7]

Blue team really does deserve props though for standing up to the Tea Baggers. We always think of Blue Team as weak, but they were strong for a change here. It's like when people called the Spurs soft until they won a championship.

[boutons_deux]

Even When the GOP Loses, It Wins

Think the Senate deal is a resounding defeat for Republicans? Think again.

But in the war of ideas, the Senate deal is but a stalemate, one made almost entirely on conservative terms. The GOP now goes into budget talks with sequestration as the new baseline, primed to demand longer-term cuts in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. And they still hold the gun of a US default to the nation’s head in the next debt ceiling showdown.
? Now the Republicans’ “surrender” locks in that sequester while pushing for further reductions to basic safety net programs—all while tax increases remain off the table and the threat of default is still pointed at the country’s head. Tea Party (http://www.thenation.com/section/tea-party?lc=int_mb_1001) zealots may have lost their bid to torpedo healthcare reform, but the right continues to set the terms of the debate.

The GOP may be bearing the brunt of the public’s rage, but anger is also directed at Washington and government generally. Nearly eight in ten say the country is seriously off-track. The Tea Party may be plummeting in public esteem, but it is taking government down with it. There is simply no way to rebuild widely shared prosperity without a government with a clear strategy in the global economy. There is no way to make needed public investments and temper the extreme inequality (http://www.thenation.com/section/inequality?lc=int_mb_1001) that threatens our democracy without progressive tax reform. The terms of the Republican “surrender” take us in the wrong direction.

http://www.thenation.com/article/176694/even-when-gop-loses-it-wins?rel=emailNation#

[vy65]

lol message board resistance. it's like '68 paris in here

[FuzzyLumpkins]

lol message board resistance. it's like '68 paris in here

Sharing of ideas is a powerful thing. I started writing freshman congresspersons inspired by this place. Think I am going to start writing the losers as well encouraging them to seek 3rd party avenues too.

Just because you see your actions as inconsequential doesn't mean the rest of us have to. You cannot make a difference if you don't try much less win.

[AntiChrist]

lol, congresspersons

[boutons_deux]

From the Right, Despair, Anger and DisillusionOn talk radio and in the conservative blogosphere, the bipartisan vote on Wednesday to reopen the government without defunding President Obama’s health care law was being excoriated as an abject surrender and betrayal by spineless establishment Republicans. But for glum and frustrated conservative voters on Thursday around breakfast tables in eastern Tennessee, in the shadow of a military base in Colorado Springs and on the streets of suburban Philadelphia, it was as much a surrender to reality as to Democratic demands.

Many conservatives described a dispiriting gap between conservative ideals, which they believe inspire widespread agreement, and conservative tactics, which do not.

Among commentators on the right, the reaction has been less driven by despair than by anger. In heated language on talk radio and on conservative blogs, many spoke of a winning if difficult strategy sabotaged in the end by weak-willed leadership.

This view of the shutdown, while infuriating to many on the right, has the virtue of being something fixable. On the conservative blog RedState (http://www.redstate.com/), Erick Erickson said the capitulation was an urgent lesson in the need to replace establishment Republicans with true conservatives. Tea Party members here in Tennessee agreed, saying that despite the lack of policy victories by the Republicans in Congress, the shutdown had energized the base and shown them that some conservatives, like Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, were willing to stand up.

But yes, it hurt the party.

described the Tea Party as something that started out as a good idea but “morphed into this monster, this zealous monster.” He suggested that the Tea Party phenomenon might have passed its expiration date.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/us/from-the-right-despair-anger-and-disillusion.html?from=homepage

[boutons_deux]

Sharing of ideas is a powerful thing. I started writing freshman congresspersons inspired by this place. Think I am going to start writing the losers as well encouraging them to seek 3rd party avenues too.

Just because you see your actions as inconsequential doesn't mean the rest of us have to. You cannot make a difference if you don't try much less win.

your naivete is hilarious

Human-Americans are disenfranchised.

Corporate-Americans and the 1% own and operate the govt and the country for their own profit. Resistance is futile. America is fucked and unfuckable, having descended, since about the mid-1970s, to the historical average of most societies where a tiny, wealthy, powerful (ie, corrupt) minority, defended by police and military, extract wealth and rent from the 99% serfdom, intimidated wage slaves.

Write your letters, but like prayers, it may make you feel good but will have no effect. Now, if you had a check fo $10K or $100K or more in envelopes, that's a different story.

[AntiChrist]

your naivete is hilarious

Human-Americans are disenfranchised.

Corporate-Americans and the 1% own and operate the govt and the country for their own profit. Resistance is futile. America is fucked and unfuckable, having descended, since about the mid-1970s, to the historical average of most societies where a tiny, wealthy, powerful (ie, corrupt) minority, defended by police and military, extract wealth and rent from the 99% serfdom, intimidated wage slaves.

Write your letters, but like prayers, it may make you feel good but will have no effect. Now, if you had a check fo $10K or $100K or more in envelopes, that's a different story.


Yep, it's pretty hopeless. You should just end it all -- and there will be one less suffering fucked and unfuckable human-American.

[boutons_deux]

Yep, it's pretty hopeless. You should just end it all -- and there will be one less suffering fucked and unfuckable human-American.

yep, hopeless. and the VRWC/Kock/tea bagger shutdown of govt PROVES how shitty hopeless it is.

And watch shittiness increase in time for the next shutdown in January.

you right with assholes vote in the tea bagger regug assholes, so eat their shit.

[vy65]

lol writing your congressman

[FuzzyLumpkins]

lol writing your congressman

:lol cowardly defeatism

[vy65]

You should write me a letter about my cowardice.

[vy65]

That'll show me

[boutons_deux]

Obama's winning strategy will be retested soon

It's been a constant quandary for the Obama White House: Should the president reach out to his Republican opponents or isolate them? Should he compromise to move his agenda or try to split the GOP ranks? Carrot or stick?

That debate appeared settled on Thursday when President Obama spoke in the White House State Dining Room to deliver his verdict on the just-ended government shutdown: more stick.

"To all my friends in Congress, understand that how business is done in this town has to change," Obama said as he praised "responsible Republicans" for brokering the deal but denounced "the pressure from the extremes."

He offered a blunt, almost taunting, message to his Republican opponents: "You don't like a particular policy or a particular president, then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election."
When Republicans embarked on the strategy of shutting down government programs to win concessions from Obama, many said they expected the president to fold quickly. And many Democrats feared that would be true. But the White
House set out to end the perception that it is too quick to make a deal.

"He just wasn't going to cave. The guy's been reelected, what does he need to cave for?" said Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank with close ties to the White House. "The world is very different if you're never going to face voters again. You can hold strong and not be worried about it."

The budget deal Obama signed early Thursday included no significant concessions on Obamacare or government spending. Polls showed Republicans took the brunt of the blame for the debacle. The Republican Party came away from the confrontation demoralized and debilitated by the gulf between its tea party wing and its leaders.

But senior administration officials and White House allies also acknowledged that the winning strategy in this round of the budget battle may not translate into additional legislative successes. The deal only extended funds for government agencies until Jan. 15 and suspended the debt limit until Feb. 7.

The White House and Congress will almost immediately plunge into a new round of talks — and face the threat of another shutdown. In his remarks, Obama listed two other priorities for the year: immigration reform and a farm bill. Progress on all three issues still depends on whether Obama can work with Republicans and whether the party emerges from this standoff ready to compromise or more united in opposition.
Administration officials acknowledge that's an open question — one Republicans have yet to answer.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told the Hill newspaper that he would not allow a repeat. "There is no education in the second kick of a mule. There will not be a government shutdown," he said. "I think we have fully now acquainted our new members with what a losing strategy that is."

Still, as Obama pushed for a new spirit of cooperation, one key Republican was backing away burned.

Rep. Raul R. Labrador (R-Idaho), who played an influential role earlier this year working with lawmakers from both parties to write a bipartisan immigration bill, said he was unwilling to enter into talks over the controversial issue because of Obama's refusal to negotiate with House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio).

"After the way the president acted over the last two or three weeks, where he would refuse to talk to the speaker of the House … they're not going to get immigration reform. It's done," Labrador said.

http://touch.latimes.com/#section/1780/article/p2p-77835635/

Labrador's lying. Obama talked to Boner several times, AND he didn't cave to Boner.

But nobody should doubt that immigration reform will be blocked by the Repugs, handing the Latino vote to the Dems in 2014 and 2016.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

You should write me a letter about my cowardice.

Show you? What? It's obvious that you only have interest in belittling me. I have made you petty. It's kinda sad really.

I have gotten quite a few responses especially from people on the state level. If I see legislation presented on issues that I find important then I will start sending checks. Done that a few times too. It's all about reciprocity. I write letters to every freshman class now. At least at the end of the day, I can say that I tried and that is enough for me.

I get that you are butthurt about me. I don't much like you either but I do feel that cynicism such as yours amounts to little more than intellectual cowardice. Youre already defeated afterall. You showed us that.

[AntiChrist]

Blue Team. :cheer

http://b.vimeocdn.com/ts/180/238/180238931_640.jpg

[DMX7]

Much like Queen, it will take an AIDS-riddled cock up the ass for you to finally go away

You've gone too far.

[AntiChrist]

http://vimeo.com/27179264

[boutons_deux]

Rachel Maddow On Federal Shutdown: Republicans Got NOTHING

With the federal government standstill finally coming to an end, Rachel Maddow explained on Thursday night’s show just what exactly the Republicans got out of it: Zero!

Maddow went through the long list of Republican demands, from changing federal employee pensions to denying birth control pension, in exchange for re-opening the government, only to conclude that from that entire list, the GOP came up completely empty.

"Through this process, Republicans said they would shut down the government, or, once it was shut down, they would refuse to open the government unless they got each one of these things. Of all of these things that they demanded, they got none of them! None...these have been sixteen bad days for the country and the economy,” she said.

She added, “It may be true that nobody won, but someone definitely lost here.”

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/rachel-maddow-federal-shutdown-republicans-got-nothing?akid=11055.187590.5HwxqA&rd=1&src=newsletter912036&t=11

[Nbadan]

Red team...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/files/2013/10/ConfederateFlag.jpg

[Jacob1983]

Has anyone seen that MSNBC commercial of Rachel Maddow at the Hoover Dam? What the fuck is up with that?

[boutons_deux]

Has anyone seen that MSNBC commercial of Rachel Maddow at the Hoover Dam? What the fuck is up with that?

:lol ignorant fuck

Hoover dam and the $Ts in wealth it generated through flood/water mgmt, tourism (Lake Mead), and electricity (Las Vegas) was a GOVERNMENT PROJECT, more irrefutable proof against the spurious Repug/tea bagger claim that nothing good can come from government, that ONLY capitalism and the market are capable of providing all solutions, and esp nothing good from an VRWC-hated FDR Democratic govt.

The dam workers were treated like shit by the contractors, but that's how corporations roll in absence of worker protectios and unions, exploiting desperate labor during the unregulated, bankster capitalistic disaster of the Great Depression.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam

[The Reckoning]

without a strong political counter to the demos, they'll settle for the status quo and not push for anything progressive to win votes.

like legalizing marijuana or tort reform.

gg murica.