The Democrat Thread

[Balta1701]

this is just such nonsense.

I'm surprised we're arguing over it too.

[bmags]

it reminds me of the Curb your Enthusiasm where the rabbi says that his son died on 9/11 because he died in a car crash the same day.

[Balta1701]

The NYT has acquired/rented Nate Silver.

[StrangeSox]

He died as a result of working in a factory during WWII. But whatever. Agree to disagree.

 

That's a cheap rhetorical dodge. The implication of that phrase to pretty much anyone in the world would be "killed in battle in the European theater", not "got a disease from working in a war production factory." The former is exactly what she was trying to elicit emotionally.

[bmags]

who wants to bet she's against OSHA and the like?

[HuskyCaucasian]

It's only a matter of time until Mark Kirk says he never actually served in the military.

[Balta1701]

It's only a matter of time until Mark Kirk says he never actually served in the military.

IOKIYAR

[Rex Kickass]

IOKIYAR

 

This is an anagram I don't understand.

 

OR

 

TIAAIDU

[Balta1701]

This is an anagram I don't understand.

 

OR

 

TIAAIDU

It's become a standard use anagram. Google it. It's ok if you're a Republican.

 

Like, for example, things like visiting a prostitute or having an affair and trying to cover it up. Horrible if you're a Democrat, it's ok if you're a Republican Senator.

[Balta1701]

And the random deep thought of the day: Paul McCartney's crack about George W. Bush's lack of familiarity with libraries is far more controversial and worthy of discussion than Bush's glib claim that he would authorize torture again.

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[Balta1701]

I freaking love the Tea Party. This is their candidate in CT. Blumenthal's Vietnam stories gave the Republican a shot. That didn't take long.

When I asked Linda McMahon about the issue, however, she said she shared her husband's doubts. "There's some evidence sometimes of muscle disease, or cardiac disease, but it's really hard to know because you didn't know the condition of the performer's heart, or whatever, prior to," she told me. "So I still don't think we know the long-term effects of steroids. They are continuing to study it more and more, but I don't believe there are a lot of studies out there today that are conclusive."

[Balta1701]

Why Sarah Palin endorsed Terry Branstad in the Iowa governor's race.

There's a simple answer to the question, I think. He's going to be the next governor of Iowa, assuming that there are no stunning surprises next week and Chet Culver, the Democrat, doesn't mount a miraculous election year comeback.

 

Indeed, even as the last previous Republican gubernatorial nominee ahead of the Iowa caucuses, Branstad and his team would have quite a bit of influence over the field operation that a candidate Sarah Palin would need to recruit to win there

 

If you're thinking about running for president, and I think Palin really is thinking about running for president, you don't get on the wrong side of the guy who will probably be governor during the caucuses by endorsing his opponent, no matter how conservative and Tea Partyish Bob Vander Plaats seems to be. By the way: Vander Plaats's biggest proponent: Mike Huckabee, whose campaign he co-chaired in '08.

[Balta1701]

Sigh.

The director of a top American spy agency said Tuesday that he believed that material from Iraq's illicit weapons program had been transported into Syria and perhaps other countries as part of an effort by the Iraqis to disperse and destroy evidence immediately before the recent war.

 

The official, James R. Clapper Jr., a retired lieutenant general, said satellite imagery showing a heavy flow of traffic from Iraq into Syria, just before the American invasion in March, led him to believe that illicit weapons material ''unquestionably'' had been moved out of Iraq.

 

''I think people below the Saddam Hussein-and-his-sons level saw what was coming and decided the best thing to do was to destroy and disperse,'' General Clapper, who leads the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, said at a breakfast with reporters.

 

He said he was providing a personal assessment. But he said ''the obvious conclusion one draws'' was that there ''may have been people leaving the scene, fleeing Iraq, and unquestionably, I am sure, material.'' A spokesman for General Clapper's agency, David Burpee, said he could not provide further evidence to support the general's statement.

[KipWellsFan]

Sigh.

 

Has he been proven wrong?

[Balta1701]

Has he been proven wrong?

In the same sense that we can't prove that it wasn't JFK on his secret fake moonlanding set who set off the explosives on 9/11 that brought down building 7, no.

[Balta1701]

It warms my heart to know that, exactly like in Arizona, there is zero racially motivated hatred driving the protests against building a mosque near the site of ground zero.

At one point, a portion of the crowd menacingly surrounded two Egyptian men who were speaking Arabic and were thought to be Muslims.

 

"Go home," several shouted from the crowd.

 

"Get out," others shouted.

 

In fact, the two men – Joseph Nassralla and Karam El Masry — were not Muslims at all. They turned out to be Egyptian Coptic Christians who work for a California-based Christian satellite TV station called "The Way." Both said they had come to protest the mosque.

 

"I'm a Christian," Nassralla shouted to the crowd, his eyes bulging and beads of sweat rolling down his face.

 

But it was no use. The protesters had become so angry at what they thought were Muslims that New York City police officers had to rush in and pull Nassralla and El Masry to safety.

 

"I flew nine hours in an airplane to come here," a frustrated Nassralla said afterward.

[bmags]

well, whoever the misguided hack who was working for blanche lincoln, congrats, you put another corporate schill into the senate. On the other hand, i'm actually supremely glad that harry reid is facing a retarded tea part candidate.

[Balta1701]

well, whoever the misguided hack who was working for blanche lincoln, congrats, you put another corporate schill into the senate. On the other hand, i'm actually supremely glad that harry reid is facing a retarded tea part candidate.

The good news of the Lincoln victory? Again, it makes it that much harder to pull the derivatives legislation she introduced out of the FinReg bill.

[Rex Kickass]

Ahh, Democrats - never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

 

Blanche Lincoln wins a runoff to have the privilege of getting her ass kicked in November. Truth is, Halter had the better shot of the Dems keeping their seat.

[mr_genius]

Any predictions for the CA general elections?

 

Fiorina vs Boxer

 

Whitman vs Brown

[bmags]

Any predictions for the CA general elections?

 

Fiorina vs Boxer

 

Whitman vs Brown

 

i'm just so shocked fiorino won. She's such a terrible candidate. She was a failure as an executive, failure as a McCain flac, and the only thing remarkable about her campaign has been incredibly modern and awesome viral commercials. Otherwise she says a bunch of stupid s***.

 

Oh wait, she's republican. She'll probs be president.

[Balta1701]

i'm just so shocked fiorino won. She's such a terrible candidate. She was a failure as an executive, failure as a McCain flac, and the only thing remarkable about her campaign has been incredibly modern and awesome viral commercials. Otherwise she says a bunch of stupid s***.

She spent like $75 million of her own money.

 

The TV channels in California are absolutely thrilled she won.

[Balta1701]

Any predictions for the CA general elections?

 

Fiorina vs Boxer

 

Whitman vs Brown

The Dems will take both. The Republican primaries pushed both of those candidates so far to the right that it's going to be way too easy for Brown and Boxer to run the "Carly Fiorina said xxxx about immigration" ad.

[HuskyCaucasian]

Meg Whitman... the woman who bought Skype... but forgot to buy the core technology that makes it work.

[Balta1701]

OH COME ON

The Supreme Court stepped into another campaign finance controversy on Tuesday when it blocked Arizona from distributing campaign subsidies to publicly funded candidates facing big-spending opponents.

 

The justices granted a stay of a portion of the state's 12-year-old Clean Elections program, which authorizes public money for state candidates who bypass most private fundraising. The court stopped the state from providing "matching funds" to those candidates whose opponents are spending large sums of private money.

 

The court's action disrupts a funding scheme already well underway, with early voting beginning at the end of July for an August primary. One of those most hurt by the decision is Gov. Jan Brewer ®, who is a publicly funded candidate.

 

David Donnelly of the interest group Public Campaign said the action changes the rules in the middle of the game.

 

"We think this will throw the Arizona election cycle into chaos," he said. "There are sitting officials who have received public funds, including the governor. The court is preventing them from running the campaign they signed up to run."

 

Brewer and other gubernatorial candidates who agreed to public financing will see their expected money drop from a little more than $2.1 million to $707,447 under the state formula. Businessman Buz Mills, a privately funded candidate in the Republican primary, already has spent nearly $2.3 million.

 

But opponents of the law said it unconstitutionally limited the free speech of the privately funded candidates, who were forced to cut back their spending to avoid having their opponents receive more public money.