Author Topic: Politics 09: Fire Reid and Steele. (Read 75502 times)

metroid composite · « **Reply #550 on:** September 08, 2009, 04:31:07 PM »

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/08/opinion/08tue1.html?_r=4&hp

Wait, what?

Xeroma · « **Reply #551 on:** September 08, 2009, 05:40:36 PM »

Needs a log-in :/

metroid composite · « **Reply #552 on:** September 08, 2009, 06:01:56 PM »

Quote from: Xeroma on September 08, 2009, 05:40:36 PM

Needs a log-in :/

Weirdly I was able to get in without a login when Mumei linked me. (I don't understand why NYT requires logins--logins are free so...zuh?)

EDIT: try this link:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2009%2F09%2F08%2Fopinion%2F08tue1.html&ei=apumSqmHBY6nnQeN2p2uBw&rct=j&q=%22A+Threat+to+Fair+Elections%22&usg=AFQjCNEOnnk1vHL_QlmKX78JdQGjEbyV8g

NotMiki · « **Reply #553 on:** September 08, 2009, 08:46:10 PM »

I'm concerned about this, but I'm gonna wait to see what the court actually decides before exploring the full ramifications.

Though the court has been willing to rip down race- and gender-based protections with no respect for precedent, it may be more guarded on this issue.

Grefter · « **Reply #554 on:** September 09, 2009, 09:23:02 AM »

Be very afraid. I didn't expect this to come up in the US for a very long time, some of the third world or Eastern Europe in maybe 20 years, but not the US now...

NotMiki · « **Reply #555 on:** September 09, 2009, 02:42:06 PM »

oh, this has been on the radar for years.

superaielman · « **Reply #556 on:** September 09, 2009, 11:17:02 PM »

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjE2MjBkMTVlZjBhYjNiNjdlZTUwOTNmYTcwZjllY2I=

Story covering some of the problems Harry Reid may run into during his re-election bid next year. (I also did not know that Ensign had been caught with his pants down. Nevada'd be better off if both got tossed from office.)

Grefter · « **Reply #557 on:** September 10, 2009, 02:43:38 PM »

On the radar, sure, but I expected you guys to keep up the appearances of the private and public sector for longer than that.

NotMiki · « **Reply #558 on:** September 15, 2009, 03:34:08 AM »

http://thehill.com/capital-living/in-the-know/58693-rep-stark-to-constituent-i-wont-pee-on-your-leg

UNHAPPY CONSTITUENT: "Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining."

REP. STARK: "I wouldn't dignify you by peeing on your leg. It wouldn't be worth wasting the urine."

And you thought nothing good was coming out of the healthcare debate.

metroid composite · « **Reply #559 on:** September 15, 2009, 06:19:27 AM »

Speaking of politicians saying stuff...

http://www.politico.com/click/stories/0909/did_obama_call_kanye_a_jackass.html

Apparently President Obama called Kanye West a jackass.

Grefter · « **Reply #560 on:** September 15, 2009, 09:05:07 AM »

THIS JUST IN, SORRY GUYS, WE REPORTED THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS A HUMAN BEING WITH OPINIONS THAT PEOPLE CAN BE DOUCHEBAGS, PLEASE DISREGARD THIS MESSAGE.

Edit - Actually you know what I hope comes from this? The White House makes a comment apologizing to Kanye West for him being such a jackass.

superaielman · « **Reply #561 on:** September 15, 2009, 01:36:35 PM »

Quote from: metroid composite on September 15, 2009, 06:19:27 AM

Speaking of politicians saying stuff...

http://www.politico.com/click/stories/0909/did_obama_call_kanye_a_jackass.html

Apparently President Obama called Kanye West a jackass.

Maybe Obama -does- have a little Nixon in him after all.

Cotigo · « **Reply #562 on:** September 15, 2009, 04:46:23 PM »

We can only hope, now that we have to make sure China likes us again.

metroid composite · « **Reply #563 on:** September 15, 2009, 10:26:59 PM »

Quote from: Grefter on September 15, 2009, 09:05:07 AM

THIS JUST IN, SORRY GUYS, WE REPORTED THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS A HUMAN BEING WITH OPINIONS THAT PEOPLE CAN BE DOUCHEBAGS, PLEASE DISREGARD THIS MESSAGE.

Well yes, it's just amusing to hear someone normally so emotionally reserved make a comment like that. It's like...I remember an English teacher pointing out to me how one character in a book wept regularly, and it was so common that it was barely worth mentioning...but there was another character who only cried only once, and the reader stood up and took notice the one time he did cry.

Also, audio:

http://www.tmz.com/2009/09/15/obama-caught-on-tape-calling-kanye-jackass-taylor-swift/

superaielman · « **Reply #564 on:** September 16, 2009, 05:12:18 AM »

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/us/politics/16acorn.html?hpw

ACORN at it's finest.

Grefter · « **Reply #565 on:** September 16, 2009, 11:20:06 AM »

Quote from: superaielman on September 15, 2009, 01:36:35 PM

Maybe Obama -does- have a little Nixon in him after all.

Fuck you to.

NotMiki · « **Reply #566 on:** September 16, 2009, 02:58:13 PM »

Quote from: superaielman on September 16, 2009, 05:12:18 AM

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/us/politics/16acorn.html?hpw

ACORN at it's finest.

I'll buy that when the actors tell us how many ACORN offices they visited to get the footage they were looking for. ACORN is not a well-organized group, and it's hard to take what individual members of it do as some kind of indication of overall ACORN policy without a good look at the ratio. You could spend a few months going to Burger King restaurants and paint a similar kind of picture (though why you'd seek housing advice at BK is beyond me).

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wires/2009/09/16/peres-un-gaza-report-make_ws_288268.html

The less I say about the Israeli response to this UN report the better. Israel refused to cooperate with the investigation becuse they said it was biased against them. Why, pray tell, was it biased? Because the people who crafted the mandate, which was to explore the possibility of war crimes by both sides during the Gaza war, believed Israel had probably committed war crimes.

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Yeah, no shit, Israel, they're investigating you because they think you probably did something! God, what a great defense! "I won't comply with this murder investigation because the cops think I'm a suspect!"

(Israel goes on to say, of course, that the UN finding that war crimes were committed by them is all the proof they need that the fact-finders were biased against them.)

Cotigo · « **Reply #567 on:** September 16, 2009, 04:28:39 PM »

Israel. Truly the shining beacon of democracy in the Middle East.

NotMiki · « **Reply #568 on:** September 16, 2009, 09:01:47 PM »

Now, Israel is somewhat justified in its UN persecution complex in general, because the UN has been used by states that hate Israel as a means of unfairly criticizing it, both in the past and not too long ago, but the mandate of this specific investigation, and the even-handed reputation of the investigators should be enough to convince them of the legitimacy of it.

I mean, it's not difficult to see an investigation was warranted: civilians were shot, hospitals and schools were bombed, white phosphorous was used in areas with high civilian concentrations. Stuff happened that, if intentional, would qualify as war crimes.

Quote from: Makkotah on September 16, 2009, 04:28:39 PM

Israel. Truly the shining beacon of democracy in the Middle East.

Funny, Israel attempts here to delegitimatize a UN investigation by refusing to participate in it, then denouncing the results as illegitimate because they didn't participate. Sounds a lot like Iraqi democracy circa 2005, what with the Sunni boycott.

NotMiki · « **Reply #569 on:** September 17, 2009, 06:28:01 PM »

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/17/insurance-company-must-pa_n_289841.html

$10 million in punitive damages to a health insurance company was just upheld by the Supreme Court of SC, apparently one of the most pro-business in the country.

They dropped a teen from coverage after he got HIV while he was on their plan.

Huge punitive damages for wrongfully dropping coverage seems to be a trend these days (the Supreme Court recently upheld a similar verdict). I wonder if the courts have taken it upon themselves to enact healthcare reform in their own way (while apparently thumbing their noses at the "tort reform" movement). If this kind of punitive damage is a real possibility, you can bet it'll make insurers be a lot more careful about who they drop from coverage.

EDIT:

Turns out one of the ACORN employees caught in the "sting" made a bunch of stuff up because she thought it was a joke. Shocking, I know.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/17/AR2009091703248.html?hpid=topnews

EDIT2:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/us/18voter.html?hp

Well this is intersting. An Indiana appellate court just struck down the Voter ID law the Supreme Court upheld last year, explicitly accepting some of the same arguments the Supreme Court rejected. The law's constitutionality under the Indiana Constitution was challenged, and Indiana's constitution provides broader protection in its “Equal Privileges and Immunities Clause” than the "Equal Protection Clause" in the US Constitution does. So now it's off to the Supreme Court of Indiana, which will have the last word on it (unless the US Supreme Court thinks their decision is unconstitutional, which is unlikely in the extreme).

Laggy · « **Reply #570 on:** September 23, 2009, 07:49:37 PM »

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/22/whoops-anti-acorn-bill-ro_n_294949.html

Funnier result: Lockheed and other companies all lose federal funding due to the overbroad nature of this bill.

I almost want this to happen.

For the curious, this site provides a decent list of companies under federal contract and their history of misconducts.

Idun · « **Reply #571 on:** September 26, 2009, 09:19:09 PM »

So how do you guys feel about McKenzie Phillips' different 'coming out' as if she needed to?

NotMiki · « **Reply #572 on:** October 01, 2009, 07:35:00 PM »

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/progressives-prepare-to-pressure-reid-to-include-public-option-in-senate-health-care-bill.php?ref=fpa

This makes me so happy.

superaielman · « **Reply #573 on:** October 02, 2009, 05:09:31 AM »

On the other hand, Alan Grayson is an idiot and a symptom of everything that is wrong with the health care debate. E: There has to be a fine line between Reid's usual worthlessness and Pelosi defending the inanity and spite behind Grayson's holocost statement.

NotMiki · « **Reply #574 on:** October 02, 2009, 10:15:16 PM »

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/texas_governor_stymieing_panel_probing_flawed_deat.php?ref=fpb

Rick Perry.
Occupation: Governor.
Likes: The Death Penalty.
Dislikes: Science, admitting mistakes.

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Author Topic: Politics 09: Fire Reid and Steele. (Read 75502 times)

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