LOL."He's a smooth-talking man. But he does not know what he's doing."
Clinton was a smooth talker. Obama's very matter-of-fact when it comes to policy. Voters are so dumb.
LOL."He's a smooth-talking man. But he does not know what he's doing."
Diablos said:LOL.
Clinton was a smooth talker. Obama's very matter-of-fact when it comes to policy. Voters are so dumb.
That's surprising.Cubsfan23 said:http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...ns-still-blame-bush-over-obama/#ixzz1W40LiNyd
Bush gets more blame on the economy by 20 pts.
The heavy lifting in that report is from eliminating tax deductions. Not hard to see how that plays out. Eliminating tax expenditures -> Raising taxes -> dead on arrival in republican house.ToxicAdam said:Check out this weird coalition:
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/0...op-list-of-subsidy-cuts-urged-by-s-57924.html
Of course it will fall on deaf ears ...
ToxicAdam said:The politicization of natural resource estimation? I hope not.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/25/us/25gas.html
TacticalFox88 said:
PhoenixDark said:Red meat. He'll change his toon if any damage is done to a white Virginian neighborhood
Diablos said:Cantor is such a whiny cunt.
Have I mentioned that ProPublica is incredibly awesome?besada said:Two more reader's guides from the lovely folk at ProPublica:
Michelle Bachmann
http://www.propublica.org/article/guide-to-the-best-coverage-on-rep.-michele-bachmann-and-her-record
Ron Paul
http://www.propublica.org/article/our-guide-to-the-best-coverage-of-ron-paul-and-his-record
Yes. A lone-wolf poster wandered in here with the same inane drivel. He regurgitated the erroneous claim that Obama dropped $800 million on a trip to India. Of course, the claim was painfully preposterous. So we promptly refudiated him, and he has not poked around here since.Loudninja said:... 800 million? hahaha
TacticalFox88 said:
"what happened to the brave jews?" - paul mooneyAveron said:Wasn't Cantor the one Obama had to smack down during the debt ceiling debate after he ran to the media crying?
Averon said:Wasn't Cantor the one Obama had to smack down during the debt ceiling debate after he ran to the media crying?
Obama couldn't smack down a first grader.Averon said:Wasn't Cantor the one Obama had to smack down during the debt ceiling debate after he ran to the media crying?
For the first time ever, I'm actually rooting for the Hurricane to hit an area (his area).TacticalFox88 said:
empty vessel said:Thomas Paine-guin.
Bulbo Urethral Baggins said:Obama couldn't smack down a first grader.
I think the true story is that Obama got up and left the room like a child taking his ball away.
He was also the same guy Obama chided during the healthcare summit for using props.Averon said:Wasn't Cantor the one Obama had to smack down during the debt ceiling debate after he ran to the media crying?
Diablos said:Obama looks, frankly, like shit. I feel bad.
Hope he isn't counting on a youthful charismatic look to push him over the top in 2012. :|
mckmas8808 said:Great points, but what this really points to is that the Medicare age actually should have been lowered to 55 (if not lower).
This country takes so long to progress when the facts are so clear.
You're wrong. But who really cares.mckmas8808 said:It was reported by multiple people that it was the GOP that walked away. Stop lying to yourself. It's not healthy.
So would I support Rick Perry for president? Hell, yes! As the last nail that hasnt been hammered down in this country, I agree with Rick that there are already too damn many laws, taxes, regulations, panels, committees, and bureaucrats. While Obama is busy putting the hyphen between anal and retentive Rick will be rolling up his sleeves and getting to work.
Someone's bitter.PhoenixDark said:I doubt he'll be running on his looks. Although to be fair, it's not like he can run on his record either.
PhoenixDark said:I doubt he'll be running on his looks. Although to be fair, it's not like he can run on his record either.
eznark said:http://i.imgur.com/YgCDJ.png
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...ote.html?om_rid=Nsf8wB&om_mid=_BOVqiWB8c6ux45
I might be sold.
empty vessel said:Goddamn, Kinky Friedman is a moron.
ToxicAdam said:Kinky knows what's up. America needs a Real American in office.
TacticalFox88 said:
That's bullshit.eznark said:
Chichikov said:That's bullshit.
He's not more famous than Alan Veingrad.
eznark said:http://i.imgur.com/YgCDJ.png[IMG]
[url]http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/24/kinky-friedman-rick-perry-s-got-my-vote.html?om_rid=Nsf8wB&om_mid=_BOVqiWB8c6ux45[/url]
I might be sold.[/QUOTE]
Is "Kinky Friedman" some kind of pen name that Dave Barry uses?
Gruco said:For all interested, awesome This American Life on this subject:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/440/game-changer
ToxicAdam said:Shouldn't be a surprise, it was part of the debt ceiling deal.
Bulbo Urethral Baggins said:You're wrong. But who really cares.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20079304-503544.html
Are they? How would this work?eudaemonic said:This episode made me so angry... although I was already worked up over the idea that fracking and the earthquake in Colorado are related. But that's for another thread.
eudaemonic said:This episode made me so angry... although I was already worked up over the idea that fracking and the earthquake in Colorado are related. But that's for another thread.
mckmas8808 said:Can we expect by the fall that Romney will completely jump ship and be endorsing tea party like language when it comes to Climate Change? I think so. Perry is really putting pressure on this guy to go further right.
mckmas8808 said:Can we expect by the fall that Romney will completely jump ship and be endorsing tea party like language when it comes to Climate Change? I think so. Perry is really putting pressure on this guy to go further right.
mckmas8808 said:Mitt Romney Backs Away From Climate Change
Evan McMorris-Santoro | August 25, 2011, 8:58AM
Staring down a new rival who believes climate change science is partially some kind of international grant money shakedown conspiracy, Mitt Romney is stepping back from a view of climate change he outlined earlier this summer.
"Do I think the world's getting hotter? Yeah, I don't know that but I think that it is," Romney told a crowd in New Hampshire Wednesday, according to Reuters. "I don't know if it's mostly caused by humans."
Romney then tilted over and grabbed some of Rick Perry's Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)-endorsed ideas on the environment. That is, let's not spend a dime doing anything about it.
"What I'm not willing to do is spend trillions of dollars on something I don't know the answer to," Romney said.
Romney also said on Wednesday that he would make weaning the United States from imported energy from the Middle East a priority over reducing carbon emissions.
Still, using additional domestic nuclear, natural gas, and other resources could have a side benefit of cutting carbon emissions, Romney said. "My view is pursue a strategy which gets us into energy independence which has as a byproduct it gets us into less CO2 emitting."
He criticized a bill backed by President Barack Obama that would have capped carbon emissions and allowed polluters to buy and sell rights to emit carbon.
"I do not believe in cap and trade and I do not believe in putting a carbon cap" on polluting industries, Romney said.
This is a big change from the Romney of early June, who raised eyebrows when he went against Republican dogma and talked the talk of climate change.
"It's important for us to reduce our emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases that may be significant contributors," Romney said at another New Hampshire stop in early June.
"I believe the world is getting warmer, and I believe that humans have contributed to that," Romney said at the event.
Perry's poll numbers are surging, and there are signs that he's taken Romney's mantle as the early frontrunner in the 2012 nomination contest. Romney's new opposition to doing anything actively to prevent climate change may be a sign that he's trying to skew farther right to grab some of that Perrymentum.
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Can we expect by the fall that Romney will completely jump ship and be endorsing tea party like language when it comes to Climate Change? I think so. Perry is really putting pressure on this guy to go further right.
Oblivion said:Honestly, this is probably the most frightening thing about politics at the moment. Not specifially related to global warming, but rather what something like this represents. Here we have somebody running for the most powerful position on the planet, who is trying to tell his voters, "No, seriously. I AM stupid! I didn't MEAN to support all those scientists. I'm just like you! Honest injun!"
GOP primary voters tend to be more conservative than the whole of the GOP. That's going to be particularly true this season, where the Tea Party is more enrgized than the moderate wing of the GOP.Oblivion said:Honestly, this is probably the most frightening thing about politics at the moment. Not specifially related to global warming, but rather what something like this represents. Here we have somebody running for the most powerful position on the planet, who is trying to tell his voters, "No, seriously. I AM stupid! I didn't MEAN to support all those scientists. I'm just like you! Honest injun!"
That would be Palin or Bachmann.ToxicAdam said:Kinky knows what's up. America needs a Real American in office.