It's an odd phrasing about "used to be a conservative". Is he saying he's no longer conservative or doesn't identify with the current ones?
I'm guessing the latter, shame he got skipped in line to run for President.
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It's an odd phrasing about "used to be a conservative". Is he saying he's no longer conservative or doesn't identify with the current ones?
I'm guessing the latter, shame he got skipped in line to run for President.
Interesting that he identified himself as, "I used to be a conservative".
The quote overall is similar to one Bill Clinton was known for.
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Consumer sentiment increased in February, the 6th consecutive monthly increase.
Skiptastic
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Where did you meet him? I'm guessing he's back in state to do a little campaigning?
Wolfgunblood Garopa
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As if conservatives' tendency to exploit people's fears and hot button emotional wedge issues is something new.
It is an interesting quote, though.
Yeah. With Mourdock hammering him for "globetrotting" in the primary, Lugar is really trying to hit that "6th generation hoosier" stuff. I talked to him about NDAA and I think he thinks I am a terrorist now. I'm probably on some watch list.
Black Republican
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looks like El Santo is on the Indiana Ballots after a recount
Wolfgunblood Garopa
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The National Retail Fuel Price Average for Regular gas was $1.84 per gallon in January 2009 when Obama took office. In February, 2012, it is now $3.60 a gallon.
What are the causes, and what, if anything, could have prevented it?
What are the causes, and what, if anything, could have prevented it?
If you want more than a bumper sticker answer:
http://omrpublic.iea.org/currentissues/full.pdf
If you want a bumper sticker answer:
"Record profits don't come from nowhere." [US demand is flat, OPEC supply is at some potential risk due to Iranian sabre-rattling]
What could have been done to prevent it? We could have left Iraq alone in 2003 and they'd still be acting as a counterbalance to Iran and pumping much more into the global markets.
Learn2read
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Jeebus...
Someone smarter than me should correct this, since it's just based on what I've pieced together, but this is what I think is the case:
-- Gas prices go pretty well in hand with crude oil prices. Crude goes up, gas goes up.
-- 2009 was the peak of this last recession, wherein there was a lot of market selloff, including the materials sector (which includes oil). Thus, cost per barrel of crude was much lower. I think it just recovered to pre-2009 levels.
-- Since then, we've been recovering (which would naturally draw up the price), and a lot of speculators are getting involved (which artificially draws up the price). See also gold.
-- Only other thing that can really affect oil price is supply, which is a really convoluted overall scenario but is probably remaining relatively stable? I don't know that part. I know the OPEC name isn't getting thrown around much and we're not as dependent on them as people think anyway.
So other than subsidies, blocking speculation, or otherwise fiddling with the crude market, not really a lot that can be done. But again, I'm not super-educated on the topic.
You call that a bumper sticker?
"If you like $6 gas, Vote Obama"
Looks more like the bumper stickers I see
Indoctrination mills? Like church?
Sounds like Jeb Bush wants to run as a moderate Republican for the 2016 presidency.
Skiptastic
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I was just talking to someone about this yesterday: although it's been a while since I've seen the ads, I do remember Lugar ads some time last year to curry favor in the primary. What I haven't seen? Any ads for the gubernatorial race. What the hell is going on?
PS. I can't see Lugar losing, even with the hammering going on.
Flying_Phoenix
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So titles I've thought of. Your thoughts?
Grounded in Reality
American Faze
America Resolved
America in Construction
*...in Construction.
*Whatever the topic of the day goes in front of here. So if we are talking about say Obama's reelection campaign then the title of the day's episode will be "Obama's Reelection in Construction." Same if we were talking about Rick Santourum that week it will be "Santorum in Construction."
People really do have goldfish memory. It isn't like Iran and Israel haven't been "aggressive" before.
Grounded in Reality
American Faze
America Resolved
America in Construction
*...in Construction.
*Whatever the topic of the day goes in front of here. So if we are talking about say Obama's reelection campaign then the title of the day's episode will be "Obama's Reelection in Construction." Same if we were talking about Rick Santourum that week it will be "Santorum in Construction."
People really do have goldfish memory. It isn't like Iran and Israel haven't been "aggressive" before.
By that time he probably figures that the average American will have forgotten the Bush name.
As gas prices go up, I better gear up for the onslaught of dumbasses on Facebook who are going to be shouting and blaming Obama for them.
Good on the WH reporter. Fuck Obama and his administration for doing this.
I don't know what it has to do with the discussion at hand, but many presidents de-facto wrote laws and handed them to congress.
So that SuperPac is now going to help senate races?
I'm seriously asking.
Also, now getting Bob Casey, Jr. re-elected is more important that holding to your principles (and campaign promises)?
In practical terms, what do you think he's going to do?
About time, I want to hear Obama address that issue.
His record on it is shameful.
Edit: video of the exchange here.
Jay Carney looks out of his league.
"TAPPER: So the truth should come out abroad, it shouldn't come out here?"
OrsonWells.gif Jake Tapper, OrsonWells.gif.
Mortrialus
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There goes his only chances of becoming a brokered candidate.
I'm not understanding Tapper's point though. What does feeling sorrow for a reporter dying have to do with prosecuting whistleblowers?
Sure you can have a legitimate argument about prosecuting sources for reporters, but it just seems that he's using the incident to make himself stand out.
Sure you can have a legitimate argument about prosecuting sources for reporters, but it just seems that he's using the incident to make himself stand out.
Byakuya769
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Sanctity is great and all, but if they tie one hand behind their back and their opponent keeps beating them like a red headed step child with Super PAC money, they're never going to be able to overturn it.
They should use it to their advantage as long as they have the desire to get rid of it when they have the capacity to. I honestly don't know if they truly want to though, so...
We're so fucked.
And not doing anything about it would cement their influence and ability to entrench those interests further. Ginsburg being replaced by Justice Hardright isn't going to help the cause.
I think the point he's trying to make that the US is praising freedom of the press abroad while fighting it at home.
But they're not fighting freedom of the press though, that's where my disconnect is. Where are they cracking down on the press?
Byakuya769
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... Does using waterboarding, or not using it, have a direct effect on your election prospects?
Skiptastic
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FP: Podcast Title ideas
The Stop Making Sense Podcast
The Political Speakeasy
I don't quite get what "*Blank* in Construction" is supposed to mean. I've never heard that turn of a phrase. I've heard of deconstructed or under construction, but not that.
The Stop Making Sense Podcast
The Political Speakeasy
I don't quite get what "*Blank* in Construction" is supposed to mean. I've never heard that turn of a phrase. I've heard of deconstructed or under construction, but not that.
Not countering Super PAC spending with the same could result in horrific policy and damange done to the US and its populace. You can make a good moral argument for why the wholesale (attempted) purchasing of elections by corporations and a handful of super wealthy should be countered. There is no such counter argument for waterboarding.
gutter_trash
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Romney will end up being the nominee regardless.
Santorum is ruining himself, he just blew off his Michigan lead and Mitt will win there + early voting
Super Tuesday will be interesting though since it's multiple states on the same night
Santorum is ruining himself, he just blew off his Michigan lead and Mitt will win there + early voting
Super Tuesday will be interesting though since it's multiple states on the same night
cartoon_soldier
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And his favorables have been tumbling.
mckmas8808
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LOL. Romney gives speech in virtually empty Detroit stadium:
http://dailykos.com/story/2012/02/2...rd-Field-roundly-mocked-on-Twitter?via=blog_1
Also, I just have to post this pic any time there's any reference to shitty audience turnout:
http://dailykos.com/story/2012/02/2...rd-Field-roundly-mocked-on-Twitter?via=blog_1
Also, I just have to post this pic any time there's any reference to shitty audience turnout:
Three months is an eternity in politcal terms, especially during an election. How the economy fared over the summer will matter much less than the months leading up to and during the election.
Huh? I think I get what you are saying, and it's wrong, but I don't want to assume.
Dude Abides
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The electoral college is bad too. Should Dems stop focusing on battleground states?
Also, waterboarding is illegal already and was at the time.
LOL. Romney gives speech in virtually empty Detroit stadium:
http://dailykos.com/story/2012/02/2...rd-Field-roundly-mocked-on-Twitter?via=blog_1
Also, I just have to post this pic any time there's any reference to shitty audience turnout:
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/02/24/432150/romney-versus-obama-speec/
If we didn't have water boarding, we wouldn't have gotten the intelligence that eventually led us to finding and killing Bin Laden.
Come on, keep up, Ghal!
Mortrialus
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Romney charging people money to see him and getting low turnout is his own fault.
I though the Detroit Economic Club was hosting the event. How is Romney charging people?
I don't plan large-scale events in that area. I imagine there are a number of factors involved when you are assembling that amount of people and security and media is also taken into consideration. Maybe Ford Field was the easiest (and most accessible) of buildings to make it easier once they exceeded their 700 person capacity?
Mortrialus
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So he's simply poorly choosing events that limit how many people he reaches?
happyfunball
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Easy on the personal attacks TA. Even if this was a paid event, inviting the press to a tiny gathering in a massive stadium is just not wise. At the very least they should have gotten rid of all the empty chairs if they had a good idea of attendance.
You seem angry for some reason.
What are you even talking about now?
Stupidity regurgitated has that effect on me.
BotoxAgent
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that's quite a number of old white people
and the fact that he charged people money to attend just further shows how politically tone-deaf he is.
I voted for him here in FL. Would consider doing it again
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