we = San Francisco?
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
oh I'm sorry were you not aware I am a registered democrat
― iatee, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
lets call the next politics thread #heblowsalot
― max max max max, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
sounds good to me
― gov. brownback blows a lot (henrietta lacks), Monday, 28 November 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
Iatee, I know there are/were cultural and race issues as well and that one can trace things back to attacks on Dem candidate Adlai Stevenson in the 1950s for being an egghead, and later the Republican southern strategy, and hippie bashing...As the article noted:
In an interview, Greenberg, speaking of white working class voters, said that in the period from the mid-1960s to the early 1990s, “we battled to get them back. They were sizable in number and central to the base of the Democratic Party.” At the time, he added, “we didn’t know that we would never get them back, that they were alienated and dislodged.”
― Another Suburbanite, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
Also, "we" still have blue dog Dems
― Another Suburbanite, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
Not that they help
2010 wiped out a lot of them actually
― iatee, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
I naively dream that someday liberal/lefty ideas will win over the non-college degree demographic (and even win over the Democratic party too). It's all a dream...
― Another Suburbanite, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/judge-rejects-sec-citigroup-settlement/2011/11/28/gIQA8KsH5N_story.html?hpid=z1
But this is real, and is good news (though slighly depressing but expected that Obama's SEC would push a weak settlement that only benefited Citigroup)
― Another Suburbanite, Monday, 28 November 2011 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
shd we start a separate Republican primary thread, because lol:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/28/politics/cain-accusation-affair/index.html
― OH NOES, Monday, 28 November 2011 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
Just like black walnut ice cream, Herman Cain tastes good all the time. (stares at ILX and takes a thoughtful drag on his cigarette).
― Aimless, Monday, 28 November 2011 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
lol, herman cain.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 28 November 2011 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
pretty soon people will be able to set up a "6-degrees-of-herman-cain" game, based on your proximity to some woman, somewhere, who has been harassed or dated the man whose been screaming "999" into your television set.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 28 November 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9njHHyRI7g
I don't know...effective, but too early, looks panicky. And in a poor economy, I think the flip-flop strategy will cause massive shrugging. I also suspect, as unfair as it may be, that for a number of voters, Democratic flip-flopper (i.e., Kerry) = weak, spineless, but Republican flip-flopper = pragmatic, has no choice but to head-fake all the wingnuts.
― clemenza, Monday, 28 November 2011 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
OK, we need a primary thread in this here sandbox.
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 28 November 2011 22:35 (twelve years ago) link
seriously, i don't think it's a very effective ad. there are much better clips to highlight romney's flip-flopping, and might tighter -- and tougher -- ways to go about it. i think perry's team did a very good job with their first ad, for instance.
but of course, obama has a top-flight campaign organization. this leads me to believe that they're "holding their powder," and will hammer romney with the better stuff in the general election.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 28 November 2011 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
IF ROMNEY IS THE NOMINEE
http://www.mediaite.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Newt_Gingrich.jpg
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 28 November 2011 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
man that's begging for some homophotoshopping
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 November 2011 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
<i>and much tighter -- and tougher -- ways to go about it.</i>
Agree with that. I think the biggest problem with the spot is that it's too jokey--the tone's all wrong.
― clemenza, Monday, 28 November 2011 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
Hertzberg's elegy to Barney Frank's house career.
...His press conference today, announcing his decision, was a fairly typical performance. He talked in his inimitable manner: fast, deadpan-humorous, lucid, sharp, delivering zingers in that gravelly voice of his, with its characteristic glottal L’s and fugitive R’s. He is a pleasure to listen to. Frank is frank. He does not bore. He does not condescend. He makes the complicated comprehensible. Going out, he’s as outgoing as he was coming in.
― Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
Frank may not have been simon-pure, but he was usually living in one of the better neighborhoods of politics and he was a pleasure to hear speak.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
yup
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 29 November 2011 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
In many ways you can judge him by the quality of his enemies.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
Reviewing Justice Kagan's performances so far.
Lithwick also agrees with "most legal" experts that SCOTUS will uphold the AHCA by " a 6-3 or a 7-2 margin."
― Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
Nope. Wouldn't be all that hated if not gay. In the pocket of Wall St.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
Frum's article in NYMag is pretty interesting: When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?
― Z S, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
Much more honest than Chait's.
― Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, that frum piece was good.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 29 November 2011 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
In the aughts, Republicans held more power for longer than at any time since the twenties, yet the result was the weakest and least broadly shared economic expansion since World War II, followed by an economic crash and prolonged slump.
really can't beat this for a damning indictment of the GOP
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 00:05 (twelve years ago) link
that was barney frank's fault.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 30 November 2011 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
smile when you say that, mate
― Aimless, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
i am smiling.
http://www.billybobteeth.com/album/images/Barry1_jpg.jpg
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 30 November 2011 01:03 (twelve years ago) link
obama shops at independent bookstore (albeit one that likely only exists because of its restaurant).
if he hadn't sold out, he'd have gone to politics and prose.
(fwiw bill clinton used to shop at borders)
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
Obama’s daughters Sasha and Malia picked up picture book Everyone Poops
aaaaaaahahahahahaha, right on
― Z S, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 03:12 (twelve years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_Republican
Support for Obama from writers afflicted with conservatism
― Mordy, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 04:05 (twelve years ago) link
obv belongs in the amazing wiki facts thread but i don't think there's a sandbox version
Ruth Marcus lectures the girl who said Brownback sucked.
― Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 12:12 (twelve years ago) link
I always get the impression that Ruth Marcus gets her news from CNN Headlines and then writes her pieces in one quick draft just before they are due.
― Another Suburbanite, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
It's a shame her editor doesn't shoot her every time.
― Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
marcus does sound "alarmingly crotchety here," and utterly wrong. attempting to invoke the limited rights of schools to restrain free-speech is utterly absurd in this instance. and, while i expect civility and propriety in my own 10 year-old daughter, i think it's good to see a teenager motivated enough to tweet about politics at all (even tho it would be better for her to actually discuss, or even participate in, politics).
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 30 November 2011 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
“Just made mean comments at ruth marcs and told her she sucked, in person. #sheblowsalot.”
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 30 November 2011 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
i would have spelled "marcus" correctly and in full, but i was just over the 140 character limit.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 30 November 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
daniel otm
― Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
...and the term "potty-mouthed" is a nauseatingly priggish one, anyway, esp. in reference to two words mild enough to be used on US broadcast TV.
― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
― Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, November 29, 2011 4:30 PM (2 days ago)
i usually like lithwick but this kind of dumbed down, isn't it? there's not much analysis of whether kagan's style is, like, worth it, or effective. why is befriending conservative justices a plus, exactly? lithwick herself quotes that these are the "big leagues" and that kind of buttering up won't work here. and whom is she writing to with the second-person narrative? why is that a good thing? why is it necessary to make it easier for ME to read her opinions? the people actually making use of them are jurists and academics, not laypeople like us.
the pertinent cold water, at any rate:
But while Kagan is assuredly a liberal, and likely also a fan of the health-reform law, a close read of her tenure at the Supreme Court suggests that she is in fact the opposite of a progressive zealot. By the end of Kagan’s first term, conservatives like former Bush solicitor general Paul Clement (who will likely argue against the health-care law this coming spring) and Chief Justice John Roberts were giving Kagan high marks as a new justice precisely because she wasn’t a frothing ideologue. The pre-confirmation caricatures of her as a self-serving careerist and party hack are not borne out by her conduct at oral argument, her writing, and her interactions with her colleagues. In fact, if her first term and a half is any indication, she may well madden as many staunch liberals as conservatives in the coming years.
― k3vin k., Thursday, 1 December 2011 05:53 (twelve years ago) link
can I just
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj6UX6OyXww&feature=player_embedded
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 1 December 2011 08:05 (twelve years ago) link
That's some Double Impact special effect going on there, right?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/Double_impact.jpg
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 1 December 2011 08:22 (twelve years ago) link
whoa, does van damme have a twin brother or something? that's amazing!!
― Z S, Thursday, 1 December 2011 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
i usually like lithwick but this kind of dumbed down, isn't it? there's not much analysis of whether kagan's style is, like, worth it, or effective. why is befriending conservative justices a plus, exactly?
I frowned at this too. I hadn't expected Lithwick to espouse the Beltway dictum that shitting on your own side guarantees immortality.
― Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 1 December 2011 14:16 (twelve years ago) link