A 1 week extension. Will have to wait and see what brilliance the House will come up with by then
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 28 February 2015 18:01 (nine years ago) link
data collection forevah
http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/nsa-spying-wins-another-rubber-stamp-20150227
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 February 2015 18:03 (nine years ago) link
Sad.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 28 February 2015 19:12 (nine years ago) link
gonna miss ya: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/us/politics/senator-barbara-mikulski-of-maryland-to-retire.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
― Οὖτις, Monday, 2 March 2015 16:39 (nine years ago) link
Gonna be a fabulous week with Bibi in town.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 March 2015 16:40 (nine years ago) link
matthew yglesias sees a constitutional crisis coming:
http://www.vox.com/2015/3/2/8120063/american-democracy-doomed
rolls together poli sci stuff about presidential (rather than parliamentary) systems, polarization, the "executivization" of governance and constitutional hardball
― goole, Monday, 2 March 2015 20:24 (nine years ago) link
The best we can hope for is that when the crisis does come, Americans will have the wisdom to do for ourselves what we did in the past for Germany and Japan and put a better system in place.
Hmmmmm, not sure of the crisis coming or that these other systems are better
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 March 2015 21:06 (nine years ago) link
I would love to have a parliamentary system
― Οὖτις, Monday, 2 March 2015 21:39 (nine years ago) link
The best we can hope for is that when the crisis does come, Americans will have the wisdom to do for ourselves what we did in the past for Germany and Japan and put a better system in place rising coastal waters swallow every major city.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 March 2015 21:44 (nine years ago) link
nearer my God to theeeeeeeeee
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 March 2015 22:01 (nine years ago) link
so HRC and those emails: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/us/politics/hillary-clintons-use-of-private-email-at-state-department-raises-flags.html
I can't figure out WHY she used personal email for four years and no one brought it to her attention. In Florida Rick Scott has conducted a lot of public business on private emails precisely so he can get around one of the country's fiercest public disclosure/sunshine laws and I'm mad as hell about it. As usual with the Clintons they choose mystery.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 13:56 (nine years ago) link
I can't figure out WHY she used personal email for four years and no one brought it to her attention. In Florida Rick Scott has conducted a lot of public business on private emails precisely so he can get around one of the country's fiercest public disclosure/sunshine laws and I'm mad as hell about it.
Your second sentence answers your first sentence.
― drash, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 14:02 (nine years ago) link
iit's the "and no one brought it to her attention" that's left unanswered. you would hope that one of her handlers would realize it was a problem early on and tell her to quit it. but then again, other agency heads also used personal email over the last few years and endured minor scandals, and i'm sure others are still doing it today.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 14:08 (nine years ago) link
i am not an HRC fan by any stretch but she could have killed and grilled puppies and i'd still vote D, compared to what i'm hearing out of scott walker/JEB/ben carson/rand paul/ALEC/etc. if/when the yglesias crisis comes i hope that how outnumbered and old fox/gun/KKK nation is affects for the better whatever new set up
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 14:47 (nine years ago) link
if she killed and grilled puppies it would be a misdemeanor in that world
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 15:00 (nine years ago) link
the house finally gave up on the DHS funding/immigration thing.
coincidentally, this was announced just before netanyahu's address, which will probably dominate the news
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link
aren't they smart
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 15:54 (nine years ago) link
tbh even if it was a slow news day, otherwise, i don't have a good feel for how much people care about the GOP/DHS/immigration shutdown thing. the other day I was trying to explain it to someone who hadn't heard anything about it, and unless you're the author of a book on communicating succinctly, it's nearly impossible to explain in a concise manner. and even after the explanation, the person didn't really care at all. it's hard to get a good read of whether anyone cares about this shit at all. the results of the most recent mid-terms suggest that not many people do.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 15:58 (nine years ago) link
a handy list:
* April 2011: House Republicans threaten a government shutdown unless Democrats accept GOP demands on spending cuts. * July 2011: Republicans create the first-ever debt-ceiling crisis, threatening to default on the nation’s debts unless Democrats accept GOP demands on spending cuts. * September 2011: Republicans threaten another shutdown. * April 2012: Republicans threaten another shutdown. * December 2012: Republicans spend months refusing to negotiate in the lead up to the so-called “fiscal cliff.” * January 2013: Republicans raise the specter of another debt-ceiling crisis. * September 2013: Republicans threaten another shutdown. * October 2013: Republicans actually shut down the government. * February 2014: Republicans raise the specter of another debt-ceiling crisis. * December 2014: Republicans threaten another shutdown. * February 2015: Republicans threaten a Department of Homeland Security shutdown.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 5 March 2015 04:07 (nine years ago) link
http://www.salon.com/2015/03/05/the_right_has_fked_up_minds_meet_the_researcher_who_terrifies_gop_congress/
does anyone read much in this vein of "political psychology"? this was a very interesting interview, but my inclination is to think that the types of analyses the interviewee advocates underplay the role of clannishness or group affinity in determining political affiliation.
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Friday, 6 March 2015 18:41 (nine years ago) link
maybe this has been discussed on (an)other thread(s)
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Friday, 6 March 2015 18:44 (nine years ago) link
it's hard not to conclude -- even being generous -- that "conservatives" are a bit touched
case in point
http://news.yahoo.com/conservative-case-against-enforcing-immigration-law-120000524.html
"Removing all 11.2 million undocumented immigrants, both forcibly and through Mitt Romney's infamous "self-deportation" policy, would take about 20 years and cost the government between $400 billion and $600 billion. The impact on the economy would be even larger, according to the study: Real GDP would drop by nearly $1.6 trillion and the policy would shave 5.7 percent off economic growth."
and still they won't shut the fuck about it
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 6 March 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link
that's not really what the interview is about, though -- it's a misleading headline, because the interviewee pointedly disclaims that he's talking about social pathology.
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Friday, 6 March 2015 18:50 (nine years ago) link
although i think it might be relevant insofar as maybe "conservatism" isn't about the sort of quasi-libertarian principles its exponents claim it is about.
nothing much on ile about John Jost, from that Salon article.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 March 2015 18:56 (nine years ago) link
the Tom Schweich suicide story is fucked up on so many levels.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 6 March 2015 19:17 (nine years ago) link
http://www.mediaite.com/online/joe-biden-on-ben-carsons-gay-choice-comments-i-mean-jesus-god/
might as well enjoy this
― goole, Friday, 6 March 2015 19:21 (nine years ago) link
"Removing all 11.2 million undocumented immigrants, both forcibly and through Mitt Romney's infamous "self-deportation" policy, would take about 20 years and cost the government between $400 billion and $600 billion. The impact on the economy would be even larger, according to the study: Real GDP would drop by nearly $1.6 trillion and the policy would shave 5.7 percent off economic growth."and still they won't shut the fuck about it
they'd probably spout some bullshit about the massive savings generated by these mooching freeloaders being deported or all that 1.6 trillion being redistributed to all the hard working white people who will take the jobs in the fast food restaurants, janitorial services, picking produce in fields and meat processing plants that are vacated........
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 6 March 2015 19:40 (nine years ago) link
it's Crooked Dem Fucker Indictment time
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/03/06/391255700/source-justice-department-prepares-to-charge-sen-menendez-with-corruption
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 March 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link
heeeyyy sup
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/mark-dayton-minnesota-governor-profile-scott-walker
turns out a depressed loser who doesn't want anything can't be cowed and can't be hurt (that's always been my read on the guy) (helps to be rich as shit to begin with too)
― goole, Friday, 6 March 2015 21:10 (nine years ago) link
i always thought herb kohl was a litle like that, only he was also kind of ineffectual
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Friday, 6 March 2015 21:15 (nine years ago) link
did dayton ever have anything to do with running the target corp? unfortunately like a lot of big-box chains they are known for union-busting, which would seem to cut against dayton's political agenda.
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Friday, 6 March 2015 21:19 (nine years ago) link
no i don't think so. he's an heir to the original family. the dayton's name isn't on anything anymore (except a parking ramp downtown, in my heart)
― goole, Friday, 6 March 2015 21:20 (nine years ago) link
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/bob-menendez-theory-iran-feds
this is p funny (BUT THEN WHAT IF)
― goole, Friday, 6 March 2015 21:23 (nine years ago) link
great moments in liberal website photo editing:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/texas-gop-sign-former-fetus
― goole, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link
tbf he looks like a fetus
he also looks like a grown up donkey lips from salute your shorts.
http://www.fanpop.com/images/polls/2127_3_full.jpg
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:16 (nine years ago) link
If you had to pinpoint the moment this worldview began to crystallize, it would probably be around the first debt-ceiling showdown, in 2011, when Obama tried repeatedly and desperately to cut a budget deal with House Speaker John Boehner only to realize, eventually, that Boehner did not have the power to negotiate. The administration has now decided that in many cases, even adversarial bargaining fails because the Republican leadership is not capable of planning tactically. “You have to be careful not to presume a lot of strategy for this group,” Pfeiffer said. “I’ve always believed that the fundamental, driving strategic ethos of the Republican House leadership has been, What do we do to get through the next caucus or conference without getting yelled at? We should never assume they have a long game. We used to spend a lot of time thinking that maybe Boehner is saying this to get himself some more room. And it’s like, no, that’s not actually the case. Usually he’s just saying it because he just said it or it’s the easiest thing to solve his immediate problem.”This analysis puts the administration at odds with the reading of American politics that still dominates much of Washington reporting. Many political journalists imagine that the basic tension for the White House lies between Obama’s liberal base and appealing to Americans at the center, who will be crucial for tipping elections.Pfeiffer believes the dynamic is, in fact, the opposite: “The incentive structure moves from going after the diminishing middle to motivating the base.” Ever since Republicans took control of the House four years ago, attempts to court Republicans have mostly failed while simultaneously dividing Democratic voters. Obama’s most politically successful maneuvers, by contrast, have all been unilateral and liberal. “Whenever we contemplate bold progressive action,” Pfeiffer said, “whether that’s the president’s endorsement of marriage equality, or coming out strong on power-plant rules to reduce current pollution, on immigration, on net neutrality, you get a lot of hemming and hawing in advance about what this is going to mean: Is this going to alienate people? Is this going to hurt the president’s approval ratings? What will this mean in red states?” And yet this hesitation has always proved overblown: “There’s never been a time when we’ve taken progressive action and regretted it.”
This analysis puts the administration at odds with the reading of American politics that still dominates much of Washington reporting. Many political journalists imagine that the basic tension for the White House lies between Obama’s liberal base and appealing to Americans at the center, who will be crucial for tipping elections.
Pfeiffer believes the dynamic is, in fact, the opposite: “The incentive structure moves from going after the diminishing middle to motivating the base.” Ever since Republicans took control of the House four years ago, attempts to court Republicans have mostly failed while simultaneously dividing Democratic voters. Obama’s most politically successful maneuvers, by contrast, have all been unilateral and liberal. “Whenever we contemplate bold progressive action,” Pfeiffer said, “whether that’s the president’s endorsement of marriage equality, or coming out strong on power-plant rules to reduce current pollution, on immigration, on net neutrality, you get a lot of hemming and hawing in advance about what this is going to mean: Is this going to alienate people? Is this going to hurt the president’s approval ratings? What will this mean in red states?” And yet this hesitation has always proved overblown: “There’s never been a time when we’ve taken progressive action and regretted it.”
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/03/dan-pfeiffer-exit-interview.html
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 18:57 (nine years ago) link
better late than never, sigh
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 18:58 (nine years ago) link
Usually he’s just saying it because he just said it or it’s the easiest thing to solve his immediate problem.
he's not the brightest oompa loompa
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:02 (nine years ago) link
“There’s never been a time when we’ve taken progressive action and regretted it.”
smdh. is it any wonder that half the voting age population never votes.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:08 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2015_03/lets_give_em_something_to_talk054580.php
Kilgore:
I dunno about you, but I’d rather have HRC debating, say, Bernie Sanders or Martin O’Malley than Ron Fournier or the many hounds at Politico. It would feed the hungry media beast in a way that would if nothing else chew up words otherwise available for narrative-driven obsessions of the media’s own choosing that have little or nothing to do with what she’d do as president.
versussome comments on the posting:
media just wants to obsess on HRC the same way they did on Gore, so no matter what issue a Sanders might raise, they will just focus on HRC alone
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 12 March 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link
I heard the question being asked on npr this morning and it was the stupidest fucking thing I've heard this week
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/03/11/3632393/john-kerry-obliterates-marco-rubios-conspiracy-theory-iran/
RUBIO DO U KNO WE ARE FIGHTING ALONGSIDE IRAN IN TIKRIT RIGHT NOW YOU DUMB FUCK
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 12 March 2015 17:43 (nine years ago) link
Kilgore seems little concerned about the email thing, while others are a little bit more unhappy, meanwhile Jeb Bush chuckles as his private emails issue was largely uncovered.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-democrats-are-alarmed-about-clintons-readiness-for-a-campaign/2015/03/11/36c0763a-c818-11e4-aa1a-86135599fb0f_story.html
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/03/11/two-names-the-press-omits-from-email-coverage-c/202847
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 12 March 2015 17:44 (nine years ago) link
How about that Secret Service (D'oh):
Two Secret Service agents suspected of driving under the influence and striking a White House security barricade disrupted an active bomb investigation and may have driven over the suspicious package itself, according to current and former government officials familiar with the incident.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-agents-disrupted-bomb-investigation-at-white-house/2015/03/12/0eb74590-c8c4-11e4-aa1a-86135599fb0f_story.html?hpid=z1
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 12 March 2015 19:31 (nine years ago) link
onion is on it
WASHINGTON—Expressing gratitude for helping her escape certain punishment, Malia Obama quietly thanked two Secret Service agents Thursday for taking the rap after she crashed a government vehicle into a White House barricade while returning from a late-night party. “Thanks so much, you guys; I promise I’ll be way more careful next time,”
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 12 March 2015 19:45 (nine years ago) link
Prince Andrew of New York had this guvmint email archiving figured out -- his admin PURGES all official email after 90 days! Til now, I guess. A true Clintonite down to his corpuscles.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/cuomo-calls-policy-criticism-email-purges-29616981
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 March 2015 19:16 (nine years ago) link
as a paralegal that has to deal with compliance for discovery requests and lawsuits this shit is a circus
if this was something like bank of america instead of the gov't you'd have like 50 different backups of everything
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 13 March 2015 19:40 (nine years ago) link
fun charts too
Spending channeled through the tax code tends to overwhelmingly benefit the wealthiest Americans.
According to an analysis of $340 billion in tax subsidies for housing, education, retirement and savings in 2013, the top 1 percent received about $95 billion, more than the $90 billion received by the bottom 80 percent combined, said the Corporation for Enterprise Development, a nonprofit organization that seeks to build assets for low- and moderate-income families.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/18/business/economy/taxes-take-away-but-also-give-back-mostly-to-the-very-rich.html
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
, the top 1 percent received about $95 billion, more than the $90 billion received by the bottom 80 percent combined
reminds me of this fun chart:
http://www.motherjones.com/files/income-inequality-2.0.gif
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 19:05 (nine years ago) link
I should save up my pennies to buy a lobbyist for myself
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 19:06 (nine years ago) link