Friday, September 10, 2010
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Political Insurgency 2010
Everybody seems really freaked out about how the "Tea Party" candidates are likely to screw everything up in the elections this year. The Repubs are talkin' like they have the House majority sewed up already, but then again, there're lots of stories about how the establishment losers of the primaries refuse to show up at the little Party Unity rallies, where they're supposed to throw their support behind the insurgency winner.
If the Repubs are sure of a big win in November, why are they so upset about the Repub candidates who they say will win them the majority?
Two guesses:
1) The Repubs aren't really feeling confident - it's all just bluster.
2) If these Tea Baggers get elected, the Repub leadership will find it difficult if not impossible to hold any of the new members to party discipline.
If the Repubs are sure of a big win in November, why are they so upset about the Repub candidates who they say will win them the majority?
Two guesses:
1) The Repubs aren't really feeling confident - it's all just bluster.
2) If these Tea Baggers get elected, the Repub leadership will find it difficult if not impossible to hold any of the new members to party discipline.
Monday, September 06, 2010
Electioneering 2010
From TPM:
This guy Babeau is the sheriff of a border county in Arizona, and the guy who appears in John McCain's campaign video about "finish the danged fence". TPM actualy does some decent reporting, so they called around to other law enforcement offices, and couldn't get anybody to confirm anything Babeau said. In fact, while most stopped short of calling him full of shit, they all flatly contradicted the guy.
Here's a quick question: Since Babeau is supposed to be in charge of upholding the law in his jurisdiction, is he just pleading for help...or is he admitting to professional incompetence?
Assuming he's a capable agent of the law, I gotta wonder why he says such things. So I'm thinking it has everything to do with making sure certain middle class white people have something to be afraid of so that Big Daddy Politicians get more power.
These assholes pull this kinda shit because it works.
"Mexican drug cartels literally do control parts of Arizona," Babeu told the Times. "They literally have scouts on the high points in the mountains and in the hills and they literally control movement. They have radios, they have optics, they have night-vision goggles as good as anything law enforcement has."
"This is going on here in Arizona," he added. "This is 70 to 80 miles from the border - 30 miles from the fifth-largest city in the United States."
This guy Babeau is the sheriff of a border county in Arizona, and the guy who appears in John McCain's campaign video about "finish the danged fence". TPM actualy does some decent reporting, so they called around to other law enforcement offices, and couldn't get anybody to confirm anything Babeau said. In fact, while most stopped short of calling him full of shit, they all flatly contradicted the guy.
Here's a quick question: Since Babeau is supposed to be in charge of upholding the law in his jurisdiction, is he just pleading for help...or is he admitting to professional incompetence?
Assuming he's a capable agent of the law, I gotta wonder why he says such things. So I'm thinking it has everything to do with making sure certain middle class white people have something to be afraid of so that Big Daddy Politicians get more power.
These assholes pull this kinda shit because it works.
Right Rage Of The Day
Attempts to tear down Obama will never stop. It doesn't matter what he says or does, the "conservatives" will keep hacking away. Not because they think he's wrong; and not because they think they have better ideas; but because that's how they make their living.
Obama recently installed a new rug in the oval office that includes a quote from a speech by Martin Luther King: "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice".
Here's the video:
Obama recently installed a new rug in the oval office that includes a quote from a speech by Martin Luther King: "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice".
Here's the video:
Friday, September 03, 2010
Thursday, September 02, 2010
New Slogans Needed
Why aren't the Dems blasting the Repubs for saying (essentially) the the US is done - we can't do anything anymore.
Where's all that "Yes We Can"?
Where's all that "Yes We Can"?
The New Right Exposed
Read this from Conor Friedersdorf
There's this weird dynamic in the United States where some conservatives will praise the hard working kid who gets good grades in high school, completes all their homework, avoids behavioral and legal trouble, plays varsity sports, takes a leadership role in student government, and studies hard for his SATs... until he or she attends Harvard, at which point they're put in the coastal elite box, especially if they wind up in politics, media, or academia.
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