The Democrat Thread

[Balta1701]

This was coming from his chair of the council economic advisors, and was the starting point. It became apparent in the senate that people did not want more than 800 billion and so that's what happened. Krugman was fighting for significantly more than 1.2 trillion.

As I said, there were a few people saying that, but the people who actually were making the decisions were following the Larry Summers view.

[Balta1701]

One of the President's nominees to the Federal Reserve Board of directors, who, unsurprisingly has been held up in the Senate for many months due to doubts about his qualifications, just won the "Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences". For his work on understanding mismatches between employers and the labor market.

 

Sigh.

[Rex Kickass]

Sharon Angle needs to represent Nevada in the Senate because fake towns in Texas are ruled by Sharia law.

 

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/...0_10/026080.php

 

About a week ago, extremist Senate candidate Sharron Angle ® appeared at a town-hall-style event, and was asked about "Muslims taking over the U.S." In right-wing circles, the notion of some kind of invasion that would leave white Christians as a persecuted minority is fairly common, and the right-wing Nevadan stoked the fires of fear.

 

"Dearborn, Michigan, and Frankford, Texas are on American soil, and under Constitutional law. Not Sharia law. And I don't know how that happened in the United States," she said with her trademark incoherence. "It seems to me there is something fundamentally wrong with allowing a foreign system of law to even take hold in any municipality or government situation in our United States."

 

The underlying point of this was completely made up, since no one has allowed a "foreign system of law" to "take hold" in any municipality or government situation in our United States." But as it turns out, that wasn't the only thing Angle manufactured.

 

Dearborn, Michigan, has a large Muslim-American population, which in Angle's mind, makes it a hotbed for "Sharia law," despite this being insane. But what about Frankford, Texas?

 

After reading Angle's quote, I assumed Frankford, which I'd never heard of, must be another community with a large Muslim-American population. But as it turns out, that's not quite true.

 

The problem? Well, Frankford, Texas doesn't really exist. [...]

 

Dallas annexed the city in 1975 and all that remains is a church and cemetery, as a camera crew for CNN's John King USA found out when they visited on Friday.

[StrangeSox]

Sharon Angle needs to represent Nevada in the Senate because fake towns in Texas are ruled by Sharia law.

 

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/...0_10/026080.php

 

Tea party candidates continue to be crazy:

 

Sharon Angle claims Dearborn, MI and a non-existent Texas town are under Sharia law.

 

And Iott's SS fetish, which at first glance you can pass off as historical interest, but a look at their website shows they completely white-wash that division and paint them in the light of a fight against communism and a fight for personal freedom (of the master race, of course!)

 

Now I know what Balta feels like...

 

[Rex Kickass]

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/20...ceBook%2F%2F%2F

 

Family Research Council president Tony Perkins recognized National Coming Out Day by blaming recent youth suicides on the gay community in an online column for the Washington Post.

 

In the Post’s On Faith blog, Perkins wrote that the “homosexual movement” was responsible for creating a sense of despair that drives some gay people to suicide.

 

“Some homosexuals may recognize intuitively that their same-sex attractions are abnormal--yet they have been told by the homosexual movement, and their allies in the media and the educational establishment, that they are ‘born gay’ and can never change,” he wrote. “This--and not society's disapproval--may create a sense of despair that can lead to suicide.”

[StrangeSox]

That is some pretty convoluted thinking.

[CrimsonWeltall]

That is some pretty convoluted thinking.

 

Understatement.

 

 

[BigSqwert]

This made me laugh out loud:

 

West Virginia Senate hopeful John Raese is hitting the campaign trail with a plan to launch 1000 laser guns into orbit to shoot down rogue state missiles. "We need 1,000 laser systems put in the sky and we need it right now."

 

It's basically global missile defense but explained with the understanding of a five year old as opposed to the normal Republican's 12 year old understanding of the technology.

 

via

[CrimsonWeltall]

This made me laugh out loud:

 

 

 

via

 

I want to see him point his fingers around and say "PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW" at a debate.

[BigSqwert]

I want to see him point his fingers around and say "PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW" at a debate.

After looking at his photos I think this is a case of "Hey I'm probably going to die within 7 to 10 years so I want to see some cool s*** before I pass on."

[BigSqwert]

..oh and best user comment:

 

Is it too much to ask to get some frickin' sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their frickin' heads?!

[lostfan]

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/20...ceBook%2F%2F%2F

Maybe I should kill myself because I'm black

[BigSqwert]

To say that this one sad event is what it means to be gay in the United States equally "ruins" reasonable discussion on the issue.

One sad event?

 

[StrangeSox]

Christine O'Donnell needs to study science, constitutional law and Supreme Court decisions:

 

"What I will support in Washington, D.C. is the ability for the local school system to decide what is taught in their classrooms and what I was talking about on that show was a classroom that was not allowed to teach creationism as an equal theory as evolution. That is against their constitutional rights and that is an overreaching arm of the government."

[NorthSideSox72]

Christine O'Donnell needs to study science, constitutional law and Supreme Court decisions:

I saw an article about that debate. Apparently, when asked to comment on a recent Supreme Court decision that she didn't like or agree with, she couldn't remember a recent USSC decision. At all.

 

She was already behind by 19 points in the last poll, and apparently she struggled in the debate. I'd say she has basically no chance, which is good - one less crazy to worry about getting into office.

 

Anyone know if Reid and Angle have a debate scheduled?

 

[Balta1701]

This is what you call a buried lede. The Washington Post caught up with the guy that Dick Cheney shot a few years ago. This is how the article ends after 4 pages. It's a little stunning.

In the years since, Whittington has gone hunting only a few more times. But it's not the same as it was, he says. He's not gun-shy, as his father was after his accident so many decades ago. It's just . . . different now: "Some of my enthusiasm is gone," he says.

 

The shooting didn't bring Cheney and Whittington any closer. Although Whittington says they've exchanged birthday greetings, they haven't seen each other for two years. The last time they met was when they attended the funeral of Anne Armstrong, the ranch owner whose invitation drew the two men together.

 

Despite his scars, Whittington bears no ill will toward Cheney. He calls him "a very capable and honorable man" and adds, "He's said some very kind things to me."

 

But did Cheney ever say in private what he didn't say in public? Did he ever apologize?

 

Whittington, who has been talking about his life and career for hours, suddenly draws silent.

 

"I'm not going to go into that," he says sharply after a short pause.

 

Harry Whittington is too gracious to say it out loud, but he doesn't dispute the notion, either.

 

Nearly five years on, he's still waiting for Dick Cheney to say he's sorry.

[BigSqwert]

Cheney is a vile human being.

[StrangeSox]

I saw an article about that debate. Apparently, when asked to comment on a recent Supreme Court decision that she didn't like or agree with, she couldn't remember a recent USSC decision. At all.

Sarah Palin Part Deux

[BigSqwert]

I saw an article about that debate. Apparently, when asked to comment on a recent Supreme Court decision that she didn't like or agree with, she couldn't remember a recent USSC decision. At all.

 

 

Sarah Palin Part Deux

 

I'm sure her campaign will somehow spin it as a "gotcha" question trying to undermine her somehow. Palin set the stage for this victim style of campaigning where any time the candidate screws up they can claim to be victimized somehow.

[GoSox05]

I turned that debate on for five seconds and she was calling Coons a Marxist. So I turned it off.

[StrangeSox]

Well, I'm sure she's read Das Kapital and some of Marx' other works, I trust her evaluation.

 

Really, it's just the standard socialism/communism/marxism/leninism/maoism/stalinism conflation.

[Rex Kickass]

I saw an article about that debate. Apparently, when asked to comment on a recent Supreme Court decision that she didn't like or agree with, she couldn't remember a recent USSC decision. At all.

 

She was already behind by 19 points in the last poll, and apparently she struggled in the debate. I'd say she has basically no chance, which is good - one less crazy to worry about getting into office.

 

Anyone know if Reid and Angle have a debate scheduled?

 

I saw some of the debate in a bar, and I remember thinking to myself that Wolf Blitzer must have been really gassy, because she had a sneer on her face like someone was violently farting the whole time!

[NorthSideSox72]

Sarah Palin Part Deux

O'Donnell isn't nearly as slick as Palin.

 

[southsider2k5]

Sarah Palin Part Deux

 

That is actually a great comparison. I can't believe how many people have latched on to her as some example of the Tea Party's leadership and ideals, just like they did Palin, when the reality doesn't support that.

[NorthSideSox72]

I saw an article about that debate. Apparently, when asked to comment on a recent Supreme Court decision that she didn't like or agree with, she couldn't remember a recent USSC decision. At all.

 

She was already behind by 19 points in the last poll, and apparently she struggled in the debate. I'd say she has basically no chance, which is good - one less crazy to worry about getting into office.

 

Anyone know if Reid and Angle have a debate scheduled?

Answering my own question... I just saw that Reid and Angle have their one and only debate tonight. Angle has been even more reclusive than O'Donnell, so this should be interesting.