The lies roll off the man's lips like music off Yo-Yo Ma's cello. Both are virtuosos - one a cellist, the other a liar.
A partial list.
Bush had nothing to do ...
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The best from Political Humor‘s collection of the week’s late night political humor.
"Barack Obama supports same-sex marriage. Mitt Romney doesn't even support same-sex car pools." –David Letterman
"The head of ...
Republican Rep. Mike Coffman at a Saturday afternoon fundraiser in Colorado.
I don't know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. I don't know that. But I ...
Rand Paul:
Call me cynical, but I didn’t think his [Obama's] views on marriage could get any gayer.
We won't call Rand cynical. Ignorant, bigoted asshole is more fitting. An adult using ...
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"President Obama came out with approval of same-sex marriage. He said that over the years, he has ...
I've never understood Log Cabin Republicans - gay conservatives who give their support to a homophobic political party that derides their sexuality and refuses to grant them equal rights under ...
Finally.
“I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own ...
Election roundup:
Indiana.
As polls forecast, the Tea Party's efforts to cleanse the GOP of any impure conservatives has Dick Lugar out and teabagger Richard Mourdock in. Mourdock is the new Republican ...
There are lies...and then there are lies.
My own view, by the way, was that the auto companies needed to go through bankruptcy before government help. And frankly, that’s finally what ...
From the papers captured last year at Osama bin Laden's Pakistani hideout comes this.
Like any public figures, bin Laden and his advisers were mindful of the media. Adam Gadahn, one ...
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"Today Mitt Romney visited a firehouse here in New York City. Of course, he was disappointed ...
It happened to Kerry. Can it happen to Obama? Nope says Margaret Carlson.
Obama’s belief system -- in that hopey-changey business and the post-partisanship thing -- has been altered by reality. ...
Sullivan:
What do Republicans call a gay man with neoconservative passion, a committed relationship and personal courage?
A faggot.
Exactly right, but then could one expect anything different from a political party that ...
And they claim that atheists are immoral?
The ugly side of religion shows its face once again. The words below were spoken at a Sunday sermon by Sean Harris, a pastor ...
It's been fun watching conservatives and Romney twist themselves into pretzels trying to undo Mitt's past words on GM and bin Laden.
Romney, April 2007:
It’s not worth moving heaven and earth ...
In an op-ed piece in the Washington Post, a couple of scholars from liberal and conservative think tanks, discuss the state of American politics.
We have been studying Washington politics and ...
Romney's VP-in-waiting, Marco Rubio, is perfecting the conservative sleaze play.
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Beyond the rhetoric, the political BS, the lies - that is, the concerted effort by the right-wing noise machine to distort and misinform at every opportunity - is the very ...
It was never a matter of 'if'...only of 'when'.
Two constituencies that President Obama is holding onto about as strongly now as he did four years ago are voters under 30 ...
“I was a senator for 36 years. I got there when I was 29 years old. So I’ve been through seven presidents — eight now. And I’ve never seen a time when the operating norm to get anything passed was a super majority of 60 votes. No matter what — no matter what the bill is, it’s filibustered. It’s required to get 60 votes.”
“You can’t rule by a super majority. You can’t govern if you require a super majority. And I think it’s getting to the point where it’s been abused, this idea of the filibuster or the threat of extended debate.”
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More talk of doing away with the filibuster after the latest tactics on the Senate floor.
Senate Republicans made a persuasive case for abolishing or reforming the filibuster on Tuesday night when they blocked a routine nomination to the National Labor Relations Board that had been held up since April.
The GOP was joined by Democrats Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas in defeating President Obama’s nominee, Craig Becker, by a vote of 52-33. The 52 votes were in favor of Becker, while the 33 were in opposition. In today’s Senate, that’s enough to block a nominee.
Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), another long-serving member, said that abuse of the filibuster is unsustainable. “I think it will either fall of its own weight — it should fall of its own weight — or it will fall after some massive conflict on the floor, which has happened in the past where there have been rulings from the chair that have led to reform.”
Pat Leahy noted…
“The reason the filibuster rule has been supported all these years is people have used it responsibly…this is unprecedented.”
The Senate has become a dysfunctional branch of government and while change will not occur anytime soon, talking about the problem is better than nuttin.
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A Republican senator from Massachusetts – not unheard of but the first in 30 years. What does it all mean? There will be a lot of finger pointing over the next few weeks and enough analysis to drive the sanest of us insane. Conservatives and Republicans will see it as the beginning of the end of the Obama presidency while Dems and liberals, when not blaming cons, will hopefully see it as a wake up call.
For the moment, I’m liking John Cole’s open letter to Massachusetts Democrats.
Remember when you jumped through hoops a couple months back when Kennedy died, and changed the law (again!) to make sure there was a Democrat in office- that was the kind of arrogance and sense of entitlement that led to tonight’s defeat. Some of us tried to point that out then.
I know a lot of you are really upset about the loss, but if people want to be honest about what happened tonight, this is not the fault of progressive activists. This is not the fault of the adminstration and Barack Obama, because if Coakley had Obama’s numbers in Mass., she would be the next Senator.
This is about an arrogant state party, a horrible and lazy candidate who was unprepared and unmotivated, out of touch with the voters, incapable or unwilling to put in the work and shake the hands and massage the egos and put in the hours, and they got their asses handed to them. I’m sure the exit polling will give us more information, but right now it looks to me that this was about the fundamentals of running a good campaign. Coakley and company didn’t adhere to them.
There’s a lot more to this Dem loss than the performance of a state party but in terms of pinning blame, it’s a fair place to begin.
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So what does happen if Martha Coakley loses in Massachusetts and Democrats lose that 60th seat?
1. Finish up the House-Senate negotiations quickly and hold a vote before Scott Brown is seated. Republicans will scream, but how could they scream any louder? It’s a process argument of murky merits that will be long forgotten by November.
2. Get the House to pass the Senate bill, and maybe use a reconciliation bill (which only needs a Senate majority to pass) to implement as many House-Senate compromises as possible.
3. Go back to Olympia Snowe.
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4: Crawl into a hole and die. Now, the Republican mantra is that we should kill this bill and “start over.” But the truth is, there isn’t and has never been a real Republican plan on the table to deal with, and even the conservative plans that Republicans haven’t embraced are unworkable or do nothing. So walking away means admitting you did nothing on the issue that consumed most of your time, and wait for your November beating as a failed Congress running with a failed president. Numerous conservative pundits have advised Democrats to take this approach, but I don’t think it’s a very sensible plan.
I wouldn’t mind the first option but it’ll probably be the second which will finally allow H/C reform to pass. House Dems will have to bite their tongue and go with the Senate version. As for Republicans screaming…let them. Who cares.
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Joe Lieberman must be wondering if his colleagues’ respect for him went out the same window that he tossed the public option and the Medicare buy-in compromise that was to replace it.
He got an answer of sorts Thursday afternoon as he came to the end of a floor speech, and ran out of time.
“I’m sorry. The senator has spoken for ten minutes,” Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), as the chamber’s presiding officer, told Lieberman. Customarily, when senators ask unanimous consent for a bit more time, consent is always given.
“I wonder if I could ask unanimous consent for just an additional moment,” Lieberman said.
“In my capacity as the senator from Minnesota, I object,” said Franken, in what appeared to be a dramatic departure from the long and stifling tradition of Senate collegiality.
“Really?” responded a stunned Lieberman. “Okay. Don’t take it personally.”
Lieberman’s good buddy and fellow asshole, John McCain, then took to the floor in mock horror at what just too place.
“I must say that I don’t know what’s happening here in this body, but I think it’s wrong. And so I — it’s fine with me that it be 10 minutes, but I’ll tell you, I have never seen a member denied an extra minute or so, as the chair just did.”
The hypocrisy of guys like McCain is astounding. His own party is doing everything they can to stop DEBATE of the health care bill. Their entire plan is based on stalling the forward movement of government in their attempt to take the President down. And yet McCain has the audacity to cry foul because Lieberman was denied extra time to spew his garbage?
Funny. McCain laments that he does not know what is happening to Congress these days. Should we point out that it was a Republican who called the President of the United States a liar in a joint session of Congress? What’s happening is over 20 years of Republican dirty tricks. We all remember Republican’s behavior during the Clinton years.
The bottom line is that Lieberman has deservedly lost the respect of most Democrats. He can take his “Don’t take it personally” BS and shove it.
As for McCain’s ‘shock’…his phoniness is way too transparent. .
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