this is what i was thinking of
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/swing-vote
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 May 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link
bobby jindalmao
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/05/01/exclusive-bobby-jindal-block-obama-trade-deal-to-stop-him-from-doing-more-harm-to-america/
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 4 May 2015 17:42 (nine years ago) link
Wow, this guy is in the House?!!
http://boingboing.net/2015/05/01/computer-scientistcongressman.html
https://twitter.com/RepTedLieu
― Vic Perry, Monday, 4 May 2015 18:28 (nine years ago) link
those internal 'liberty score' ranks on breitbart are something... not sure what to think..
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 4 May 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
Breaking: Hillary Clinton Gains Favor, Times/CBS Poll Says
― Mordy, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 22:38 (nine years ago) link
looking like she's gonna adopt a lot of leftist/populist talking points, as this is the expedient thing to do to unify her party. seems to me the big question is going to be coattails - can the Dems take back Congress on the back of her presidential campaign - which seems like a big "if" given current gerrymandering of House seats. If that does actually happen there may be a brief window where some decent legislation gets passed, maybe a climate change bill, or an immigration bill. I'm not particularly hopeful though.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 22:44 (nine years ago) link
Im not gonna believe anything Hillary says in light of the 08 Obama list of promises of which he delivered like 5%
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 23:15 (nine years ago) link
idk why you have to bring Obama into it, Hillary is plenty untrustworthy on her own
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 23:24 (nine years ago) link
That poll confirms the Beltway chatter of the last three months matters fuck all to voters, as do her chances to ruin those voters.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 23:26 (nine years ago) link
Normal people do not give the slightest squeeze about who to vote for in 2016 now.
― Vic Perry, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 01:12 (nine years ago) link
Hillary is a fucking piece of shit, piss on her and the Fellated War Criminal.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 03:46 (nine years ago) link
(that's for Mordy and his highly evolved moral sense)
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 03:48 (nine years ago) link
u kno what tho i can take it. it seems like yr much more miserable than i am. maybe bc hillary is going to be the next POTUS.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 03:53 (nine years ago) link
perhaps, she'd fit nicely in that gallery of assholes
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 03:54 (nine years ago) link
yeah looking at the Clintons some more in my dying years will make me even more miserable, get your popcorn.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 03:55 (nine years ago) link
http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/president-barack-obama-eats-popcorn-everett.jpg
― Mordy, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 03:56 (nine years ago) link
but back to Congress:
when does Bibi speak again?
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 03:57 (nine years ago) link
former speaker Jim Wright dies: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/07/us/politics/jim-wright-house-speaker-who-resigned-amid-ethics-charges-dies-at-92.html?ref=politics&_r=0&gwh=2AE6B4C1BCD62365697D74DCF184AB4D&gwt=pay
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 May 2015 02:49 (nine years ago) link
nice to see the courts starting to do their job re: the Patriot Act and the NSA: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/appeals-court-rules-nsa-record-collection-violates-patriot-act/2015/05/07/c4fabfb8-f4bf-11e4-bcc4-e8141e5eb0c9_story.html
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 7 May 2015 15:54 (nine years ago) link
Yes. Not gonna think about possible appeal or Congressional action.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 7 May 2015 18:50 (nine years ago) link
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--1HILRGV8--/o5u63o3xrktxcvrjoifq.jpg
newt
oculus rift
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 9 May 2015 16:53 (nine years ago) link
https://www.yahoo.com/politics/why-obama-is-happy-to-fight-elizabeth-warren-on-118537612596.html
― Mordy, Sunday, 10 May 2015 20:39 (nine years ago) link
Hersh story have potential to credibly damage anyone? Seems... a bit tinfoil hat.
― akm, Monday, 11 May 2015 13:55 (nine years ago) link
A link, sure there's more
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 11 May 2015 14:01 (nine years ago) link
It's nice to see that Matt Bai is still perpetrating the unreadable Beltway brownnosing that was his signature at the NYTimes, so thx Mordy.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 May 2015 15:25 (nine years ago) link
fyi unreadable does not mean the same thing as "I can't read."
― Mordy, Monday, 11 May 2015 15:26 (nine years ago) link
...right to left
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 May 2015 15:40 (nine years ago) link
don't you accuse us of going the other way most of the time?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 May 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link
holy fuuuuu
http://i.gyazo.com/58fdbf5dac8201cf423a2da5dfb84b22.png
The fate of the bill was further in question when eight pro-trade Senate Democrats emerged from a strategy meeting to declare their opposition to the motion to take up the bill.
“This is a group that is thoroughly committed to getting this bill passed,” declared Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, the ranking Democrat on the Finance Committee. But he criticized “a lack of a commitment to trade enforcement.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/13/business/senate-vote-obama-fast-track-trade-deal.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 18:08 (nine years ago) link
did
did wyden just piledrive his tag team partner
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 18:09 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/hURWMXb.jpg
You know, I hate Harry Reid, but I'm going to miss him all the same.
― pplains, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 18:13 (nine years ago) link
DELICIOUS IRONING
“If there are senators with concerns about particular details of the trade agenda before us, that’s all the more reason to vote to debate it,” Mr. McConnell said. “Let’s have those conversations in an open and transparent way. But we can’t debate any of the provisions senators want to consider if they vote to filibuster even getting on this bill.”
― goole, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 18:57 (nine years ago) link
wow
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 18:59 (nine years ago) link
cloture vote failed
two weeks ago this thing was supposed to sail through the senate and we were just fighting to make it a close vote
this is blowing my mind
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 19:00 (nine years ago) link
senator turtleman speaking now really sounding like he's ready to bring this back around asap but we just knocked a leg off this tripod
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 19:01 (nine years ago) link
at least Bam can console himself with the drilling off Alaska he signed off on this week.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 19:03 (nine years ago) link
on the Trade Adjustment Assistance bill - just curious, but how do they define "workers displaced by trade agreements"?
obviously it's a good idea, but wondering how it works logistically. it's one thing when an auto manufacturer in the U.S. gets bought out by an overseas company, which then shuts down the plant. but what about situations where the connection isn't so obvious?
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 19:03 (nine years ago) link
xpost yeah, it's gonna be a ton of fun when there's a Deepwater Horizon in the Arctic Ocean. i swear our collective memory span is about 14 seconds
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 19:05 (nine years ago) link
social security birth to the earth, or no deal
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 19:07 (nine years ago) link
maybe repeatedly kicking your own party in the balls to get this passed was a bad route to take for our boy barry.. when mitch mcconnell is your ally in getting something passed ur fucked.
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 19:16 (nine years ago) link
bbbut 'bipartisanship'
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 19:19 (nine years ago) link
a group of workers have to file a petition and the petition is investigated by DOL to see if trade 'contributed notably' to the layoffs, basically looking for a shift in the company's production to some country where we have a trade deal
that's about 102% of what i know about TAA tbh
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 19:21 (nine years ago) link
this is encouraging!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 19:58 (nine years ago) link
incredible
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 20:11 (nine years ago) link
"This is about trying to accomplish something important for the country that happens to be the president’s No. 1 domestic priority,” Mr. McConnell said.
lol how does he say this with a straight blobfishface
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 20:13 (nine years ago) link
very slowly
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 20:16 (nine years ago) link
I like how the implication is that Obama's no. 1 domestic priority is just, y'know totally coincidentally, important for the country
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 20:18 (nine years ago) link
This take on it makes it just sound like a slight delay
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2015_05/fasttrack_sidestepped_by_senat055516.php
Democratic fast-track supporters, including original cosponsor of the TPA bill in question, Ron Wyden, refused to let the bill go because Republicans would not agree to schedule voters on two related bills, one on currency manipulation and another on trade preferences for African countries.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 21:23 (nine years ago) link
Oh Chuck Schumer:
From that NY Times article Hoos posted
But if Democrats successfully force Mr. McConnell to include that currency measure in the trade promotion bill, the negotiations could collapse.
“I’m strongly against it,” said Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker. The way forward is likely to be a negotiated package of trade-enforcement amendments that would be guaranteed a vote, Republican leadership aides said. Before talks collapsed Tuesday morning, talks on that amendment had begun, with Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, offering to drop the currency measure in exchange for a promised vote later this Congress.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 21:30 (nine years ago) link