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[Phoenix Dark]

Gun control was never going to pass with Obama in the White House; he inspires too much hatred amongst the NRA crowd.

20 plus suburban kids got killed, and even that couldn't propel a watered down, weak background check bill (that was sponsored by two senators with A ratings from the NRA) through the senate. There's no hope on this issue given rural representation in the house and senate, gerrymandered districts, and Obama in the White House; and there won't be next time if Hillary is president either

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

It's not going to happen for a long, long time.  I'm talking many, many years.  Better get used to that.

[AdmiralViscen]

I don't think anyone ever expected gun control to pass, but I don't think rational people consider a simple background check at time of purchase to be gun control.

I am friends with some gun nuts and they thought it was a victory that the only part of Obama's push that made it to the finish line were background checks, and they thought it was a good idea to boot.

[Eric P]

well damn

[Rufus]

But how are you supposed to fight the gubmint without semi-automatic rifles?

[Yoritomo]

Ar-15s are modern muskets and money is modern speech.

The constitution is awesome.

 

[Human Snorenado]

Welp, looks like Sanford's wife got him good with that lawsuit

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/poll-colbert-busch-opens-up-9-point-lead

Gonna be fun to have Colbert's sister in Congress for a year or whatever

[Dickie Dee]

It'd be funny if none of Colbert's clips can be used as attack ads against her since he's using ostensibly saying right-wing things.

[TakingBackSunday]

I saw sanford at chile's in nashville two weeks ago

his son is a fucking special fellow

[Phoenix Dark]

:skip

[Joe Molotov]

For a second I thought that said "John Walsh" and I was sad. Joe Walsh is a broke-ass, washed-out, racist Tea Party assclown who doesn't a second of TV time unless it's during a VH1 Remember the 10's segment on broke-ass, washed-out, racist tea party assclowns.

[Joe Molotov]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2013/04/23/bush-is-back/

Aside from the “memories fade” point, many of his supposed failures are mild compared to the current president (e.g. spending, debt). Unlike Obama’s tenure, there was no successful attack on the homeland after 9/11.

7 1/2 years of job growth

[Great Rumbler]

Take away all the really horrible, terrible, awful things that happened during those 8 years and Dubya was actually kinda okay!

[Brehvolution]

I'd expect nothing less than high class ball washing from Jen Rubin. 

[Joe Molotov]

I forgot to quote this line too:

Only when we see a robotic, cold president like Obama do we remember fondly the tender, tearful love of country Bush often conveyed and the steely anger directed at our enemies.

  :jada :krs :leo :merchant :favre :babylawd

[brawndolicious]

The best thing about Bush was that no one could take the awful shit this country did during those eight years seriously.

[Phoenix Dark]

Don't see how anyone can take Rubin seriously after she completely embarrassed herself during the campaign/election. I only read her tweets now, for comedy

[Great Rumbler]

Mark Sanford debating a cardboard cutout of Nancy Pelosi.

[Steve Contra]

He looks nervous while she's cool and composed.

[Phoenix Dark]

He went from being a potential 2012 presidential candidate to debating a Nancy Pelosi cardboard cutout on the corner of some small town.

(the only thing Obama has truly done perfect over the last 5 years is make republicans go utterly insane)

[Human Snorenado]

Oops!

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/former-romney-intern-charged-in-nude-picture-blackmail?ref=fpblg

[Phoenix Dark]

Oops!

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/former-romney-intern-charged-in-nude-picture-blackmail?ref=fpblg

"next time shave your bush first. You're a professional woman with a degree, not some jungle woman"

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[Phoenix Dark]

The brothers accused of planting bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, and later murdering a police officer in Cambridge, are "twisted, perverted, cowardly knock-off jihadis" who failed to instill fear in the American people, Vice President Joe Biden said at a memorial service for the slain officer Wednesday.

"It infuriates them that we refuse to bend, refuse to change, refuse to yield to fear," Biden said at the afternoon event honoring of Sean Collier. "The doctrine of hate and oppression, they've found out cannot compete with the values of openness and inclusiveness. And that's why they're losing around the world."

The service for Collier, a campus police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, came more than a week after the two blasts killed three people and wounded hundreds. The accused perpetrators shot Collier to death in his cruiser Thursday night as he was responding to a loud disturbance call, setting off a series of events that left one of the suspected bombers dead and the other the subject of a day-long manhunt.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/04/24/biden-says-knock-off-jihadis-cant-break-american-spirit/?hpt=hp_t1

[Steve Contra]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2013/04/23/bush-is-back/

Aside from the “memories fade” point, many of his supposed failures are mild compared to the current president (e.g. spending, debt). Unlike Obama’s tenure, there was no successful attack on the homeland after 9/11.

7 1/2 years of job growth

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Fuck you for trolling me into reading that.

[Joe Molotov]

Sorry, someone hacked my account and posted that.

[Steve Contra]

Prole has done the same thing on Facebook with WSJ op-eds.  :'(

[Joe Molotov]

Here's something to make up for it; Pat Boone trying to oldsplain the national debt:

I’ve often thought of the Republican and Democrat parties in comparison to Daddy and Mama. Mama was unfailingly generous, always preparing big meals and letting us kids know we could bring our friends home for dinner, without even calling home for permission. She took in stray animals (and a few stray people) and sometimes asked Daddy if we could help some neighbor near us who was in need. And I would hear Daddy respond, “Margaret, I’m having trouble paying our own bills. If we keep trying to help everybody else, we’ll have to find somebody to help us!”

In my analogy, Mama was the “Democrat” and Daddy the “Republican.” Both are good hearted, caring people, but one was generous to a fault and  the other was trying to preserve the structure and live within our means, so we could survive as a family!

http://rare.us/story/pat-boone-wed-all-better-become-conservative/

[Human Snorenado]

Conservatives discover the worst thing about Tamerlan Tsarnev

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/04/tamerlan_tsarnaev_got_mass_welfare_benefits

The nerve!

[Phoenix Dark]

his wife worked 80 hours a week while he sat on his ass doing nothing? as if he wasn't already an asshole for the bombing, this is like icing on a poop cake

[Great Rumbler]

Man, that dude was living the life. Should have just played video games or something instead.

[Mupepe]

his wife worked 80 hours a week while he sat on his ass doing nothing? as if he wasn't already an asshole for the bombing, this is like icing on a poop cake

Give the man some credit.  He did do something

[Brehvolution]

Here's something to make up for it; Pat Boone trying to oldsplain the national debt:

I’ve often thought of the Republican and Democrat parties in comparison to Daddy and Mama. Mama was unfailingly generous, always preparing big meals and letting us kids know we could bring our friends home for dinner, without even calling home for permission. She took in stray animals (and a few stray people) and sometimes asked Daddy if we could help some neighbor near us who was in need. And I would hear Daddy respond, “Margaret, I’m having trouble paying our own bills. If we keep trying to help everybody else, we’ll have to find somebody to help us!”

In my analogy, Mama was the “Democrat” and Daddy the “Republican.” Both are good hearted, caring people, but one was generous to a fault and  the other was trying to preserve the structure and live within our means, so we could survive as a family!

http://rare.us/story/pat-boone-wed-all-better-become-conservative/

 

[Steve Contra]

I'm glad Pat Boone thinks of poor folks needing assistance as from another family, like they aren't even American.

Also you could just as easily read that as Pat Boone throwing Israel under a bus.

[Joe Molotov]

Isreal is family, welfare recipients are the stray animals Democrats sometimes can talk the Republicans into letting us take in.

[Great Rumbler]

Conservatives discover the worst thing about Tamerlan Tsarnev

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/04/tamerlan_tsarnaev_got_mass_welfare_benefits

The nerve!

Government-funded terrorism. Looks like Alex Jones was right.

Here's something to make up for it; Pat Boone trying to oldsplain the national debt:

I’ve often thought of the Republican and Democrat parties in comparison to Daddy and Mama. Mama was unfailingly generous, always preparing big meals and letting us kids know we could bring our friends home for dinner, without even calling home for permission. She took in stray animals (and a few stray people) and sometimes asked Daddy if we could help some neighbor near us who was in need. And I would hear Daddy respond, “Margaret, I’m having trouble paying our own bills. If we keep trying to help everybody else, we’ll have to find somebody to help us!”

In my analogy, Mama was the “Democrat” and Daddy the “Republican.” Both are good hearted, caring people, but one was generous to a fault and  the other was trying to preserve the structure and live within our means, so we could survive as a family!

http://rare.us/story/pat-boone-wed-all-better-become-conservative/

I agree with him, the image of liberals as caring, giving, hardworking mothers and conservatives as drunken, abusive, layabout fathers is quite apt.

[Brehvolution]

Drunken, abusive, and just got home from losing the mortgage payment in a poker game. He has the nerve to complain about how the wife won't sleep with him. Turns on fox news and blames the liberals.

[Phoenix Dark]

http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/wed-april-24-2013-bassem-youssef

some of the most potent ether I've seen

[Joe Molotov]

Why are these crazy people in charge of our economy?

[Great Rumbler]

Jobs:

The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for February was revised from +268,000 to +332,000, and the change for March was revised from +88,000 to +138,000. With these revisions, employment gains in February and March combined were 114,000 higher than previously reported.

Unemployment is at 7.5%.

[Brehvolution]

South Carolina's house passed a bill that make implementation of Obamacare a crime.  Good Jon, GOP.

[Phoenix Dark]

Jobs:

The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for February was revised from +268,000 to +332,000, and the change for March was revised from +88,000 to +138,000. With these revisions, employment gains in February and March combined were 114,000 higher than previously reported.

Unemployment is at 7.5%.

332k is the highest non Census month in a decade. And the Dow just reached 15k. Just imagine if Romney was president right now.

[Mupepe]

seems like it will be a good day for my 401k

hey

that rhymed

[Brehvolution]

Jobs:

The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for February was revised from +268,000 to +332,000, and the change for March was revised from +88,000 to +138,000. With these revisions, employment gains in February and March combined were 114,000 higher than previously reported.

Unemployment is at 7.5%.

332k is the highest non Census month in a decade. And the Dow just reached 15k. Just imagine if Romney was president right now.

That was the plan. Romney getting credit for the recovery without doing a thing.

[Joe Molotov]

South Carolina's house passed a bill that make implementation of Obamacare a crime.  Good Jon, GOP.

Have they arrested Obama yet?

[Joe Molotov]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/03/world/meast/israel-airstrike-syria/index.html

itshappening.gif...?

[Mandark]

http://www.fa-mag.com/news/harvard-professor-gay-bashes-keynes-14173.html

Harvard Professor and author Niall Ferguson says John Maynard Keynes' economic philosophy was flawed and he didn't care about future generations because he was gay and didn't have children.

 

[Positive Touch]

 
harvard professor, folks

[Great Rumbler]

Sounds more like a fifth grader.

[Yeti]

http://www.fa-mag.com/news/harvard-professor-gay-bashes-keynes-14173.html

Harvard Professor and author Niall Ferguson says John Maynard Keynes' economic philosophy was flawed and he didn't care about future generations because he was gay and didn't have children.

 

Gay people are incapable of having empathy for other people! Wait, no, it's just Niall Ferguson who is incapable.

[Phoenix Dark]

Israel has entered the game


welp, here we go fellas. Thanks a lot, Mandark.

[Great Rumbler]

Man, that was a fierce explosion.

[Phoenix Dark]

Man, that was a fierce explosion.

Sounds like something Keynes would say.

[Van Cruncheon]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/30/1205911/-Conservatives-less-likely-to-buy-same-lightbulbs-if-you-tell-them-it-will-help-the-environment

[Mandark]

Worst part is that I read the link title and thought "that sounds about right."

Conservation used to be fairly bipartisan, even if environmentalism has more closely been associated with Democrats.  But climate change has turned into a very, very partisan issue (not gonna link-chase right now, but I think the percent of Republicans saying it's a sham has increased independent of actual scientific news) and that colors political opinions about "the environment."

People still tend to care across the spectrum when there are clear public health issues.  Folks who don't respond to "saving the environment" will still give a shit about stuff getting in the air, drinking water, etc.  It's just the really important but distant and intangible stuff that's easy to think of in tribal rather than real terms.

[brawndolicious]

A lot probably assume the bulbs are less bright or won't fit their lamps. It is easier to compare the packaging than the dimensions and lumens produced.

[Barry Egan]

http://thomasfriedmanopedgenerator.com/

[Mandark]

http://thomasfriedmanopedgenerator.com/

That is amazing.

I think GS is right about the light bulb thing, too.  I'd imagine that telling people a dish was healthy/vegan/whatever would have similar effects.


And then there's this: US air force sexual assault prevention unit chief charged with sexual battery.  Not sure this goes in the politics thread, but we don't have a dedicated topic for irony.

[Joe Molotov]

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/huckabee-benghazi-will-drive-obama-from-office-90964.html#ixzz2SaG5p75F

What happened with Benghazi is not a “political issue” — “this goes all the way to the heart of the integrity of the United States government,” Huckabee said.

 

[Great Rumbler]

"Iraq? Err....what's that?"

[Phoenix Dark]

Someone has testified that the military called off the rescue mission, but there are also reports that it's unlikely they would have arrived in time; instead they might have just further escalated the violence. Everything else is FUD. No, Obama didn't casually watch them all die on some HD feed while chuckling to himself. I agree the WH has bungled this thing and hasn't had their story straight, but you get into dangerous territory when you accuse the president/government of willingly letting soldiers die, and watching it unfold live. It's a disgusting allegation that I'd expect to be coming from the gutter of the far right, not mainstream republicans.