The Democrat Thread

[Balta1701]

Here's a fun way to start off primary day!

Eight-term Rep. Mark Souder will announce his resignation Tuesday after it came to light that he was conducting an affair with a female aide who worked in his district office, Fox News has learned.

 

Multiple senior House sources indicated that the extent of the affair with the 45-year-old staffer would have landed Souder before the House Ethics Committee.

 

Elected as a family values conservative as part of the Republican revolution in 1994, Souder survived a tough re-election challenge in 2008 and survived a contested primary two weeks ago.

 

Souder was absent from Washington most of last week, missing multiple votes and only voting on Thursday. While the rumors had been flying, Souder claimed that he was at home tending to his ill wife.

 

All the way through his election, Souder tried to knock down the affair story, calling it revenge politics at play. But the backroom chatter in Indiana and among the GOP on Capitol Hill became too much to survive. Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels was informed as late as Monday night that Souder would give up his post.

Souder's district covers NE Indiana, including Ft. Wayne.

[Rex Kickass]

Fearless Predictions:

 

PA-SEN: Specter pulls out a very narrow victory in the primary, results may not be clear for a day or so.

AR-SEN: Lincoln wins a plurality in her primary, but not a majority, forcing a runoff with Bill Halter.

KY-SEN: Grayson loses to Rand Paul as the Teabagging takeover of the GOP continues.

HI-CONGRESS: The Dems lose this seat temporarily in a 12 candidate special election for Congress. The one major GOP candidate will get about 33% of the vote but will lose to the two major DEM candidates who will combine for about 60% of the vote, but still cost the Dems the seat.

[HuskyCaucasian]

Tea Party Reacts With Rage To First Muslim American Miss USA

– Conservative radio host Debbie Schlussel blamed Fakih’s win on a supposed “politically correct, Islamo-pandering climate” in America and labeled her a “Lebanese Muslim Hezbollah supporter with relatives who are top terrorists.” [5/16/10]

 

– Right wing pundit and Fox contributor Michelle Malkin ranted that “Fakih’s cheerleaders are too busy tooting the identity politics horn to care what comes out of her mouth” and that “the Miss USA pageant didn’t want to risk the wrath of the open-borders mob.” [5/16/10]

 

– Conservative author Daniel Pipes, who was briefly appointed by former President George W. Bush to the U.S. Institute of Peace, opined that “this surprising frequency of Muslims winning beauty pageants makes me suspect an odd form of affirmative action.” [5/16/10]

 

– Fox News’s Gretchen Carlson complained that Woolard’s “informed opinion” may have cost her the crown, and said that Fakih may have won because we live in a “PC society.” [5/17/10]

 

Fakih attended a Catholic high school and told pageant judges that her family celebrates both the Christian and the Muslim faiths.

 

Damn a-rabs are gonna take over our beauty pageants, then our country!

Edited May 18, 2010 by Athomeboy_2000

[BigSqwert]

Alabama Teacher Gives Geometry Lesson Using Assassination As Example

 

The Secret Service investigated an Alabama high school teacher for using the example of shooting President Obama while teaching a geometry lesson.

 

The Secret Service spoke with the man, a teacher at Corner High School in Jefferson County, but decided not to arrest him.

 

We did not find a credible threat," Roy Sex­ton, of Birmingham's Secret Service office, told the Birmingham News. "As far as the Secret Service is concerned, we looked into it, we talked to the gentleman and we have closed our investigation."

 

A student in the class described the lesson: "He was talking about angles and said, 'If you're in this building, you would need to take this angle to shoot the president.'"

 

The district superintendent told the News that the unnamed teacher will not be disciplined.

 

"We are going to have a long conversation with him about what's appropriate," he said. "It was extremely poor judgment on his part, and a poor choice of words."

 

The superintendent, Phil Hammonds, did not immediately return a request for comment.

[NorthSideSox72]

Alabama Teacher Gives Geometry Lesson Using Assassination As Example

I get not charging him criminally, but I cannot believe he won't be disciplined by the school. You'd have to be a complete moron to not know that was wrong, which means he made a conscious choice to do it.

 

[Balta1701]

I get not charging him criminally, but I cannot believe he won't be disciplined by the school. You'd have to be a complete moron to not know that was wrong, which means he made a conscious choice to do it.

It's Alabama.

[ChiSox_Sonix]

I get not charging him criminally, but I cannot believe he won't be disciplined by the school. You'd have to be a complete moron to not know that was wrong, which means he made a conscious choice to do it.

 

Well, everyone always says teaching jobs are a cinch to obtain in the South...

 

[Balta1701]

The dude recorded a video praising abstinence.

 

With his mistress.

 

[JorgeFabregas]

Why do any conservatives--or anyone, really--give two s***s about beauty pageants? First that California gal and now this. Crikey.

[Rex Kickass]

 

 

http://www.zannel.com/viewupdate.htm?id=POZQU1

 

That's a picture of Arkansas senator Blanche Lincoln voting....

 

by provisional ballot because she had requested an absentee ballot to be sent to her home.... in Virginia.

[NorthSideSox72]

http://www.zannel.com/viewupdate.htm?id=POZQU1

 

That's a picture of Arkansas senator Blanche Lincoln voting....

 

by provisional ballot because she had requested an absentee ballot to be sent to her home.... in Virginia.

That is not going to play well in Arkansas.

 

[Texsox]

Well, everyone always says teaching jobs are a cinch to obtain in the South...

 

 

Yep, I only need to apply to 97 school districts covering eight different counties.

[ChiSox_Sonix]

Yep, I only need to apply to 97 school districts covering eight different counties.

 

I don't consider Texas as "The South".

[Balta1701]

I don't consider Texas as "The South".

What do you consider it?

[BigSqwert]

I get not charging him criminally, but I cannot believe he won't be disciplined by the school. You'd have to be a complete moron to not know that was wrong, which means he made a conscious choice to do it.

He has now been placed on leave per TPM.

[southsider2k5]

What do you consider it?

 

Texas. Seriously having lived there for three years, it is its own world.

[kapkomet]

Here's a fun way to start off primary day!

Souder's district covers NE Indiana, including Ft. Wayne.

 

 

Now we know why he didn't vote to impeach Clinton. He had his own blue dress issue.

[mr_genius]

http://www.zannel.com/viewupdate.htm?id=POZQU1

 

That's a picture of Arkansas senator Blanche Lincoln voting....

 

by provisional ballot because she had requested an absentee ballot to be sent to her home.... in Virginia.

 

I predict a runoff.

 

then a Blanche Lincoln win in the runoff.

 

then she loses to whoever the GOP candidate is.

[mr_genius]

Specter loses

[Rex Kickass]

I predict a runoff.

 

then a Blanche Lincoln win in the runoff.

 

then she loses to whoever the GOP candidate is.

 

Dynamics favor the insurgent in a runoff. Turnout usually drops by 20-30% and the people who come out aren't the people who are voting establishment.

 

Bill Halter will be the Dem nominee from Arkansas I think.

 

Oh yeah, Murtha's seat went to the DEM in the special election in 2008. This is the only district, by the way, that voted for Kerry in 2004 and McCain in 2008.

 

If anti-Democrat sentiment can't win a GOP seat in a GOP leaning district this year, maybe the anti-Democrat sentiment is a bit overstated.

[KipWellsFan]

Dynamics favor the insurgent in a runoff. Turnout usually drops by 20-30% and the people who come out aren't the people who are voting establishment.

 

Bill Halter will be the Dem nominee from Arkansas I think.

 

Oh yeah, Murtha's seat went to the DEM in the special election in 2008. This is the only district, by the way, that voted for Kerry in 2004 and McCain in 2008.

 

If anti-Democrat sentiment can't win a GOP seat in a GOP leaning district this year, maybe the anti-Democrat sentiment is a bit overstated.

 

Or maybe Critz was a good candidate...

[Rex Kickass]

Or maybe Critz was a good candidate...

Not saying he wasn't. But he did outperform every poll in the race. If the Republican had won this race, it very well could have been a bellwether. This signifies that the partisan excitement might be a bit overboard.

[ChiSox_Sonix]

What do you consider it?

 

As Texas.

 

But if I had to lump it in with a US geographical area i'd call it the mid-west. When I said the South I was thinking like the Arkansas/Tennessee/Louisiana/Mississippi/Alabama/Georgia/North & South Carolina area.

[Balta1701]

As Texas.

 

But if I had to lump it in with a US geographical area i'd call it the mid-west. When I said the South I was thinking like the Arkansas/Tennessee/Louisiana/Mississippi/Alabama/Georgia/North & South Carolina area.

As a former resident of Indiana, I find calling Texas part of the "Mid-west" offensive.

[Balta1701]

Or maybe Critz was a good candidate...

Then the Dems need some more good candidates this fall.