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You are here: Home / Economics / C.R.E.A.M. / Open Thread: At Play in the Fields of the Lordly

Open Thread: At Play in the Fields of the Lordly

by Anne Laurie|  June 14, 201510:03 pm| 115 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Election 2016, Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality, Assholes, Romney of the Uncanny Valley

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Graham on Romney “We tried tall, good lookin’, smart, nice, great family. Vote for me. We’re not going down that road again!” Ha ha ha.

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) June 12, 2015

Politico spills the beans:

DEER VALLEY, Utah — Mitt Romney is working with an unlikely collaborator — Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino mogul who bankrolled Newt Gingrich’s 2012 campaign — in the hopes of ensuring that the GOP primary produces a mainstream conservative without any of the mayhem that marked his own race.

The two, who speak monthly, aim to convince the wealthy contributors bankrolling various candidates to work together to avoid the kind of primary election chaos that Romney believes laid the seeds for his defeat in 2012. The former Massachusetts governor is also considering endorsing a candidate to achieve his goal…

It was all on display at the E2 Summit this week, which drew around 250 of his most loyal donors and prominent supporters to the Stein Eriksen Lodge, a luxurious five-star ski resort…

For a failed nominee who waged a presidential bid that many in his party found disappointing, Romney maintains a striking degree of influence. In part, it’s because of his unique mix of business acumen and political skills, but it’s also a recognition of his deep access to the complex, jungle-like world of super PAC donors. In a party that lacks a unifying figure, he’s eager to fill the void…

I would have gone for the simpler headline: Monkeys Dance for Money, but that's me. http://t.co/h6zqQIzpMy

— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) June 12, 2015

As the Washington Post sees it, “Republican elite convene at Romney summit in search of a Clinton foil“:

… Republicans have 10 declared candidates and counting, but they have no front-runner — not even the descendant of the closest thing the GOP has to a royal family. Former Florida governor Jeb Bush has struggled ahead of his official campaign launch on Monday, and he skipped the Romney confab because he was in Europe.

The fluidity gave the hopefuls who came — from top-tier favorites (Rubio and Walker) to dark horses (Ohio Gov. John Kasich and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie) to long shots (Graham and former Silicon Valley executive Carly Fiorina) — an opening to court the business-friendly, establishment financiers who powered Romney to the nomination in 2012. Many of the donors are either helping multiple candidates or holding out until a likely winner emerges…

Looming over the three-day retreat at the Stein Eriksen Lodge was Hillary Rodham Clinton, the dominant Democratic candidate, who will kick-start her presidential campaign with a rally Saturday in New York. In hotel hallways, on ski-slope hikes and in fire-pit huddles, leading Republicans pondered how to win — and acknowledged that Clinton cannot be underestimated…

ICYMI last night, Mitt Romney gave a brutal PowerPoint (!) on "The Most Consequential Obama Foreign Policy Mistakes" http://t.co/888GEmUtZa

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) June 13, 2015

Mitt Romney has really struggled with the whole graceful loser thing post his 2012 drubbing https://t.co/1vZqjMHtxe

— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) June 13, 2015

it is impossible for Mitt Romney to not be Mitt Romney pic.twitter.com/P0s9QTT2wI

— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) June 13, 2015

Another WaPo article:

… Dusting off a page from his management consulting playbook, the former Republican nominee delivered a speech by PowerPoint to more than 200 corporate CEOs and other attendees of his annual ideas festival about what he deemed (and titled his slides): “The Most Consequential Obama Foreign Policy Mistakes.”…

“With all that bad news, is it not true that arguably President Obama is the worst foreign policy president in history?” Romney asked. “I think he is.”

Next came the slides about Obama’s first-term secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner. First, Romney showed a map of the globe, colored in for all the countries she visited.

Then he mocked her.

“Secretary of Schlep,” the next slide read….

She actually thought she should work to get stuff done! And for that Black guy, no less! Har har har!

Mitt Romney is giving a foreign policy speech to donors in Utah that essentially amounts to: I WAS RIGHT!

— Matt Viser (@mviser) June 13, 2015

Hometown paper, the Boston Globe, not impressed:

If the stakes were not so high, the rivalries not so cutthroat, the high-level Republican gathering hosted by Mitt Romney this week in the mountains of Utah would almost resemble a jolly summer camp. Almost.

Here is Marco Rubio, clad in athletic shorts and Nikes offering to play flag football with any takers. (He played offense the whole time, to show off his arm and avoid humiliating any millionaire campaign contributors with tough defense.) Who wants to go skeet shooting with Lindsey Graham? How about sunrise Pilates — or afternoon horseback riding — with Ann Romney?

Romney himself plays the role of head counselor, letting out a loud whistle and telling his guests, “Let’s get started!”…

Romney’s fourth annual Deer Valley gathering marks a renewed effort to cement the 2012 Republican presidential nominee’s status as a GOP elder statesman…

In a nominating contest marked by a series of cattle calls — gatherings of candidates in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina — the one Romney convened here was the most exclusive. General Electric Co. chief executive Jeffrey Immelt roamed the hallways. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates ate lunch on the terrace. Former NBA commissioner David Stern was buttonholed by several Boston-based fans wondering what he would have done with a scandal over deflated basketballs…

Our own front-pager Kay pointed out earlier that the GOP establishment has taken to treating Romney as the closest to an “ex-presidential elder” they have. It’s not as though they want to remind the voting public about the last Repub in the Oval Office, the guy before that (Dubya’s daddy) is well past his sell-by date, and Reagan makes a good target for hagiography but not so much for his RINO-by-current-standards time in office…

Romney, raising expectations on Bush: “I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that he has raised twice as much as all the others combined.”

— Matt Viser (@mviser) June 12, 2015

It would be fun if Mitt decides to spend this whole primary passive-aggressively messing with Jeb. https://t.co/duVYRt23qV

— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) June 13, 2015

More from the Globe article:

… One Republican, however, was conspicuously absent. Jeb Bush was halfway across the world, choosing to take an international trip instead of coming to Utah. Sources close to both Bush and Romney said that Bush tried to figure out a way to attend this conference — and finally sent his son Jeb Jr. instead.

But the former Florida governor’s absence was another sign of a relationship with Romney that no one describes as warm, and some say is downright tense. Some who have spoken with Romney privately say that he has been unimpressed with Bush, and they remember how Bush was one of the last politicians to endorse him in 2012.

There also are bitter feelings over how Bush started aggressively courting Romney’s donors and campaign aides this year….

There is still some wistful longing, as well as some second-guessing of Romney’s public flirtation in January of a 2016 run, which he ended after three weeks of frenzied speculation.

If he had waited, some advisers say, the party might now be turning to him, with such a chaotic field and the establishment favorite, Jeb Bush, unable to establish a clear lead.

“If Mitt had held his fire until now, the hydraulic pressure for him would be enormous,” said a former top Romney aide.

But those closest to Romney say they are now resigned to playing a role in a Republican world without him as a candidate (Some are quietly hoping he could become secretary of state in a GOP administration.)…

Clinton, O'Malley and Sanders were invited to the Romney confab in Utah via @mviser. All are in Iowa instead. http://t.co/rB5AnqzQLw

— Annie Linskey (@AnnieLinskey) June 13, 2015

The NYTimes, of course, keeps an eye on its target readership:

… In two days of luxury candidate speed dating that began Thursday evening — flag football with Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, skeet shooting with Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and speeches by no fewer than six 2016 hopefuls — about 250 members of Mr. Romney’s network took stock of the Republican field, hoping to find a candidate who not only excites them but who they believe can win a general election.

Former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida, who was in Europe and did not attend the event, was supposed to have already locked up this establishment donor base that just months earlier was urging Mr. Romney to consider a third run at the White House. But several stumbles by Mr. Bush left the party without a clear favorite…

“I think people want to be inspired,” said Spencer Zwick, Mr. Romney’s finance chairman. “I think they want to be inspired and they want to see a path to victory.” But, he added, “Donors, especially, want to know what is the path to victory, and I think there are a lot of donors who are not yet convinced that there is someone with a path to victory.”

Between sunrise hiking and panels aplenty and late-night drinks, something of a donor diaspora emerged. Some are sticking with Mr. Bush and the belief that he is most qualified to be president; some like Mr. Rubio’s message of generational change; others like Mr. Walker’s Midwestern charm and executive experience; and many remain undecided…

Mr. Romney appeared at ease, in a way he rarely was as a candidate. Though he has told confidants he is unlikely to endorse early on in the contest, he relishes his role as the unofficial father of his party and wants to win the presidency back for Republicans…

TPM is offering $500 for bona fide, publishable & exclusive photos of Mark Halperin doing pilates with GOP megadonors http://t.co/Z7UfR7zUcd

— Brendan James (@deep_beige) June 12, 2015

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115Comments

  1. 1.

    Corner Stone

    June 14, 2015 at 10:08 pm

    Cavs haven’t made shit in the last 10 minutes. They should be getting blown out right now instead of down by a handful.

  2. 2.

    Corner Stone

    June 14, 2015 at 10:09 pm

    Still say it’s Mitt or Jeb for the R nom in 2016.

  3. 3.

    srv

    June 14, 2015 at 10:13 pm

    They don’t get it. This isn’t a battle over 2016, this is a battle over which Dynasty will rule the GOP.

    There can only be one.

    If only Ron had had a higher sperm count.

  4. 4.

    Kropadope

    June 14, 2015 at 10:15 pm

    Graham on Romney “We tried tall, good lookin’, smart, nice, great family. Vote for me. We’re not going down that road again!” Ha ha ha.

    Pffft, when?

  5. 5.

    kc

    June 14, 2015 at 10:15 pm

    I need some of this grift.

  6. 6.

    Mike in NC

    June 14, 2015 at 10:19 pm

    @Corner Stone: Yup. Forget about the GOP Klown Kar sideshow. The Kochs will split their $900M between ads for Mittens and JEB! Covering all the bases, like good gamblers at one of Adelsons slimy establishments in Macau.

  7. 7.

    Steeplejack

    June 14, 2015 at 10:20 pm

    “If Mitt had held his fire until now, the hydraulic pressure for him would be enormous,” said a former top Romney aide.

    Phrasing.

  8. 8.

    Valdivia

    June 14, 2015 at 10:23 pm

    There was a quote from Mitt saying Obama was the worst FP President in history. Are these people high on crack?

  9. 9.

    rikyrah

    June 14, 2015 at 10:24 pm

    Willard is waiting for Jeb to flame out.
    He believes in the Prophecy.

  10. 10.

    srv

    June 14, 2015 at 10:26 pm

    Speaking of Romney, Florida or Arkansas?

    Jonathan Ford, 32, is behind bars arrested by County Sheriff’s Deputies earlier this week. The department says he was having sex with his dogs. People close to him say he was running the shelter “I Love Lucy Pet Rescue” down Old Hickory Road just outside of Hattieville.

  11. 11.

    Steeplejack

    June 14, 2015 at 10:27 pm

    Also, Philip Rucker’s tweet—“ICYMI last night, Mitt Romney gave a brutal PowerPoint (!) on ‘The Most Consequential Obama Foreign Policy Mistakes’”—is just a straight-up pimp for his own Washington Post story, titled “Mitt Romney Gives a Brutal PowerPoint Critique of Obama’s Foreign Policy.”

    WTF. One, the story is not as inflammatory as the headline makes it sound, and, two, the use of the word brutal carries the connotation that Romney lands some punches, but the details of his PowerPoint presentation as given in the story just sound like him talking some vague smack—pretty much like every other “strategic” PowerPoint presentation in history.

  12. 12.

    jl

    June 14, 2015 at 10:27 pm

    @Kropadope: I’m not sure how to read Graham’s statement. I guess the country will go for a guy short, bad looking, not smart not nice lousy family man like Graham, if he can convince us we need to to decisively confront all the dire existential threats to the US, which appears to be everything.

    After Graham finished ratting off all the extreme dangers we must decisively confront NOW NOW NOW in his interview today, i’m surprised he left off six foot killer penguins, and reanimated hyper intelligent therapod dinosaur hybrids. Maybe those will be in his next speech.

  13. 13.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    June 14, 2015 at 10:27 pm

    @Valdivia: Duh. The worst foreign policy president in American history was Neville Chamberlain.

  14. 14.

    Valdivia

    June 14, 2015 at 10:29 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: lol, of course

  15. 15.

    jl

    June 14, 2015 at 10:31 pm

    Let’s see if we can get this raccoon in the GOP primary. Powerpoint that, Mitt!
    And can Graham ride on an alligator? I think not. How can he decisively decisive both Russia and China at the same time?

    Meanwhile, in Florida, a raccoon is riding on an alligator
    http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2015/6/14/8778569/meanwhile-in-florida-a-raccoon-is-riding-on-an-alligator

  16. 16.

    Major Major Major Major

    June 14, 2015 at 10:33 pm

    SPORTSBALL WHO IS WATCHING THIS GAME

    M^4+i don’t know it’s sunday and i’m gay, 6?

  17. 17.

    Tree With Water

    June 14, 2015 at 10:34 pm

    From the horses mouth: “People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history”.

    Dan Quayle, in interview with Hendrik Hertzburg (October 1988).

  18. 18.

    Kropadope

    June 14, 2015 at 10:34 pm

    @jl:

    I’m not sure how to read Graham’s statement. I guess the country will go for a guy short, bad looking, not smart not nice lousy family man like Graham, if he can convince us we need to to decisively confront all the dire existential threats to the US, which appears to be everything.

    Everything, especially including a Graham presidency. He plans on using the military to force Congress to vote his way and to prosecute thought crimes.

  19. 19.

    Major Major Major Major

    June 14, 2015 at 10:36 pm

    I can’t shake the image of the whole Monty Python crew going “Stephen Curry?”

  20. 20.

    Anne Laurie

    June 14, 2015 at 10:36 pm

    @efgoldman:

    Who put the exclamation on Jeb! first? His campaign, or Professor Pierce?

    He’s been using it since his first campaign back in 1994 (or thereabouts). Back then it was his old man losing to Clinton, not his brother fusterclucking the world, that he didn’t want to remind people about.

    You know how thrifty those old WASPS — like Bar, the parent Jeb most resembles — are. It may be a little threadbare & it was never stylish, but when you pay for quality you might as well use it all up.

  21. 21.

    scav

    June 14, 2015 at 10:36 pm

    They’re really trying to impress us: Not the PowerPoint Presentation!? Nooooo!!!!!!!!

    Does this come before or after the dreaded Power Ties takedown?

  22. 22.

    Howard Appel

    June 14, 2015 at 10:37 pm

    He is going to step in to save the day after all of the current candidates implode.

  23. 23.

    MazeDancer

    June 14, 2015 at 10:38 pm

    @efgoldman:

    Apparently, Jeb! has been using the exclam since 1984. Pics of campaigns past: https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedAndrew/status/610096036120539136

    Don’t know if Jeb! is aware how often the ! is used to mock him.

  24. 24.

    gene108

    June 14, 2015 at 10:39 pm

    Cavs win or lose, Lebron should be the the MVP.

  25. 25.

    Major Major Major Major

    June 14, 2015 at 10:42 pm

    @gene108: That’s not how MVP’s work.

  26. 26.

    gene108

    June 14, 2015 at 10:42 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Worked once for Jerry West

  27. 27.

    jl

    June 14, 2015 at 10:44 pm

    @MazeDancer:Thanks. I thought that mysterious glyph ‘Jeb!’ had been around for awhile. But… what does it mean?

    Maybe we should add an asterisk for every campaign the guy has run since 1986. Then by now it should be Jeb!!!!!!!!, or sometting.

  28. 28.

    Corner Stone

    June 14, 2015 at 10:46 pm

    Looks like Cavs giving up on this one.

  29. 29.

    Gin & Tonic

    June 14, 2015 at 10:46 pm

    Curry!!

  30. 30.

    Corner Stone

    June 14, 2015 at 10:47 pm

    Can’t stand Steph Curry or GS. Not a fan of Cavs but fuck GS.

  31. 31.

    jl

    June 14, 2015 at 10:50 pm

    @Corner Stone: Glad you are enjoying the finals.

  32. 32.

    gene108

    June 14, 2015 at 10:50 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    I hate the GS fans. Seem like a bunch of rich tech-dude-bro’s, who are just front running.

  33. 33.

    Major Major Major Major

    June 14, 2015 at 10:51 pm

    Where’s your messiah now, Cleveland?

  34. 34.

    Kropadope

    June 14, 2015 at 10:51 pm

    @Corner Stone: What did Golden State ever do to you? I never even heard of them before this year, so I’m all the way in the bag for them right now.

  35. 35.

    MazeDancer

    June 14, 2015 at 10:52 pm

    @jl:

    Maybe we should add an asterisk for every campaign the guy has run since 1986. Then by now it should be Jeb!!!!!!!!, or something

    Very funny. Or an exponent with the single exclam could work, too.

  36. 36.

    Major Major Major Major

    June 14, 2015 at 10:54 pm

    @gene108: Some of us are crusty old salts that hate the demographic you just named. (‘crusty’ and ‘old’ by SF standards.)

  37. 37.

    redshirt

    June 14, 2015 at 10:57 pm

    Lebron needs to work on his baby hook. If he could master the shot he’d be truly unstoppable.

  38. 38.

    divF

    June 14, 2015 at 10:58 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:
    I don’t have a rooting interest in this one (my team is playing in the facility next door). However, if GS is going to win a title, *please* let it be now before they decamp to San Francisco. The Eastbay fan base that has supported them through the wilderness years deserves it.

  39. 39.

    Corner Stone

    June 14, 2015 at 10:59 pm

    @jl: I am! It’s been a hell of a series! I’ve been all over this blog commenting about how awesome it has been. It’s not over yet.

  40. 40.

    jl

    June 14, 2015 at 11:00 pm

    @MazeDancer: Oops, I forgot the difference between an asterisk and an exclamation point. Well, I was watching the finals.

    Better idea be an exclamation point for every win and an question mark for every loss. And an asterisk for every ‘contemplated run’ which wikipedia says were many. So if I count it right, it should be

    Jeb?!!**?

    The last ? is in gleeful anticipation of his coming loss in this primary. You are welcome, Jeb?!!**?, I’m glad to help.
    I hope all the GOP primary candidates manage to lose, including Mitt. They way the RNC is running things so far, it could happen. It is logically possible, I guess.

  41. 41.

    jl

    June 14, 2015 at 11:01 pm

    @Corner Stone: Well, more power too you if you can enjoy the series even if you don’t like the teams that much.

  42. 42.

    Major Major Major Major

    June 14, 2015 at 11:01 pm

    @divF: Agreed. Much more exciting than the last, which looked like a done deal from the start and was, indeed, a done deal.

    I just want to see LeBron lose, I dunno why. Well, I do: he’s got an ego the size of LeBron James. Not that he hasn’t earned it but petard + hoist is a fairly consistent human desire.

  43. 43.

    Corner Stone

    June 14, 2015 at 11:06 pm

    @jl: Two OT’s and the third game like 4 points!
    That’s intense, friend!

  44. 44.

    Arclite

    June 14, 2015 at 11:06 pm

    Gamer Dork:

    Bethesda E3 live feed: Doom 4, Fallout 4, etc.

  45. 45.

    Tree With Water

    June 14, 2015 at 11:08 pm

    @gene108: Quite the contrary. Warrior fans are among the most loyal in all the sports universe. They have faithfully supported the team for decades, through years and years of futile sucktitude. Besides, Cleveland is a cursed sports town and everyone knows it*, so don’t blame the Warriors if they win it all..

    * just why, I don’t know. But it is.

  46. 46.

    Mike J

    June 14, 2015 at 11:08 pm

    The E2 Summit is going on the week before E3? Makes sense.

  47. 47.

    RSA

    June 14, 2015 at 11:13 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Phrasing.

    I noticed that, too. As if management consultants don’t have a reputation for spewing self-contradictory nonsense already.

  48. 48.

    David Koch

    June 14, 2015 at 11:14 pm

    Kaili Joy Gray

    Spending Friday night watching Romney give a PowerPoint talk on how he woulda presidented is the saddest fucking thing I’ve ever heard

    45 retweets 66 favorites

    Kaili Joy Gray ‏

    Oh god no, not a critical PowerPoint! — two-term President Barack Obama

    3 retweets 9 favorites

  49. 49.

    El Caganer

    June 14, 2015 at 11:15 pm

    @Tree With Water: You sure that was the right part of the horse?

  50. 50.

    jl

    June 14, 2015 at 11:15 pm

    @Tree With Water: I can second that. I know several unbelievably loyal Warriors fans at work. They’ve slogged to every game they could for years, even when the Warriors were not only bad, but also boring, and everyone knew they were going to be a mess before the first game.

    Not sure what kind of people they are highlighting on the TV. Probably there are a lot of people jumping on the band wagon in the front seats, and probably a lot or rich snots. They probably have good seats up front. Real Warrior diehards are up high in the cheap eats, and they’ve been there for decades.

  51. 51.

    El Caganer

    June 14, 2015 at 11:17 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: And every Democratic candidate is locked in 1938.

  52. 52.

    David Koch

    June 14, 2015 at 11:18 pm

    Romney flip-flops on his Iraq war support

    Romney’s blame was not directed solely at Obama. He called former president George W. Bush’s 2003 invasion of Iraq “a mistake.”

    “I certainly supported it at the time, but today, given what we know, it was a mistake,” Romney said.

    he’s still hoping he can worm his way into the 2016 race.

  53. 53.

    catclub

    June 14, 2015 at 11:18 pm

    @Corner Stone: Cavs seem to die after three quarters last two games.

    I think Kerr is a good coach and knows this too.

    Actually, in all five games Cavs have barely hung on in 4th quarter.

  54. 54.

    Chris

    June 14, 2015 at 11:22 pm

    @David Koch:

    ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

    Well, he just torpedoed any residual chance he might have at getting the Republican nomination.

  55. 55.

    Gene108

    June 14, 2015 at 11:23 pm

    @Tree With Water:

    The people at Oracle Arena do not strike me as long suffering fans. Maybe the cost of tickets is such the long suffering fan cannot attend.

    Anyway, Cleveland does seem cursed. The injuries they have had this play-off run leaves a big what-if to me, because if they were healthy I think they could have swept this series.

  56. 56.

    jl

    June 14, 2015 at 11:23 pm

    @catclub: I’m a Warrior fan, but I have to wonder how the series would have gone if the Cavs had been healthy. Warriors have much more quality depth than most teams. I think that is why Cavs wanted to have slow physical games, and took Warriors three games to figure out a response.

    But, IIRC, Warriors-Cavs games in regular season were all close, and Warriors figured them out after a few games, even when Cavs where healthy.

    Being a responsible BJ commenter, I’ll go try to check after I submit this.

  57. 57.

    catclub

    June 14, 2015 at 11:24 pm

    @redshirt:

    If he could master the shot he’d be truly unstoppable.

    40 points after having the other team’s best defender on him is pretty close to unstoppable. Iguodala is defending really well, and he still gets 40.

    On another topic: Romney saying that ‘by any objective measure. Obama foreign policy has been a disaster’ is only slightly less crazy than McConnell saying it about Obama and the economy. Romney is still in the world where he expected to win in 2012. How is he going to be any help in 2016. I can imagine his help making it worse in 2016, so that his failure in 2012 looks a little better.

  58. 58.

    Mike J

    June 14, 2015 at 11:27 pm

    @Arclite: E3 was much better when it was industry only.

  59. 59.

    askew

    June 14, 2015 at 11:31 pm

    Man, does losing to Obama make his opponents whiny and pathetic. It’s a tossup to which is worse McCain or Romney.

    On a more random note, the season finale of Veep was perfection. Man, I love that show.

  60. 60.

    catclub

    June 14, 2015 at 11:31 pm

    @David Koch:

    he’s still hoping he can worm his way into the 2016 race.

    I agree. Only way will be if no one sews up the nom, which could happen given the massive field and enough money that no one needs to drop out. It is still extremely unlikely.

  61. 61.

    jl

    June 14, 2015 at 11:31 pm

    @jl: OK.looks like Warriors and Cavs split two games in regular season and they were not close at all, at least ten point lead for each game. Funny, I thought I remembered those games well. I do remember had Fear of LeBron haunting me during both games. Would the Warriors be able to handle him, and what did that foretell for the playoffs?

  62. 62.

    Chris

    June 14, 2015 at 11:32 pm

    @catclub:

    Well, I can see why they’re doing it, in both cases. They want to hammer home the “Obama worst ever ever ever” message, be it on economics or national security, because they figure it’s the only way they’ll ever overcome the public memory of how godawful their last president was on both issues.

  63. 63.

    catclub

    June 14, 2015 at 11:33 pm

    @askew: OTOH: I think the first question to People like Huckabee would be to ask why they were too chicken to run against the black guy, when unemployment rate was 8%.

    (Yes, I know it fell to below 8% in September, 2012)

  64. 64.

    Gin & Tonic

    June 14, 2015 at 11:35 pm

    @Gene108: Maybe the cost of tickets is such the long suffering fan cannot attend.

    In what major-city arena is that not the case? As a Knickerbockers fan I’ve suffered way longer than most, and I can’t afford to go to a game at the Garden these days.

  65. 65.

    jl

    June 14, 2015 at 11:38 pm

    @Chris: So far they stayed far away from the plausible in criticizing Obama. Maybe since in their minds he is an inadequate blah man, it is hard for them to do a convincing critique. And I still see little sign they understand Obama is not running for a third term. I don’t see them moving towards a coherent critique of Democratic policies that can encompass Obama and HRC.

    So, stuck on same old ineffective approach to both Obama and HRC. They got a superinfection of Obama and Clinton madness and they can’t shake it so far. Hope they never do.

  66. 66.

    David Koch

    June 14, 2015 at 11:39 pm

    @askew:

    Man, does losing to Obama make his opponents whiny and pathetic.

    It never fails

    “I have a wonderful life,” the wealthy socialite Her Baroness Lady Lynn Forrester de Rothschild told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday. “I want John McCain and Sarah Palin in the White House so other people can have that wonderful life.”

    After issuing her endorsement Wednesday, Rothschild resigned her membership of the Democratic National Committee’s Platform Committee. But she told Blitzer that she wouldn’t give up her party membership. “I’m going to stay a Democrat,” she said. “Ronald Reagan might have said it right — the Democratic Party left me, I didn’t leave the Democratic Party.”

    In a July interview with CNN, Rothschild explained why, despite Clinton’s calls for party unity, she couldn’t back Obama. “I don’t like him,” she said. “I feel like he is an elitist.”

    When the host asked if she was getting “grief” from Democrats displeased by her endorsement, Lady Rothschild got annoyed.

    “I’m getting it all the time, particularly from the likes of you, the liberal elite,” she quipped. “You’re the elite, not me.”

    That will never get old.

  67. 67.

    Cacti

    June 14, 2015 at 11:40 pm

    @catclub:

    Cavs seem to die after three quarters last two games.

    I think Kerr is a good coach and knows this too.

    Actually, in all five games Cavs have barely hung on in 4th quarter.

    Because of injuries the Cavs only go about 2 deep on the bench, and their starters are gassed in the waning minutes of the game.

    LeBron is average 45.8 minutes per game, which would be unsustainable for a month of regular season play.

    He’s also averaging 44% of the offense created for the Cavs, which is unprecedented in a Finals series.

    The Warriors are winning because they have the better team, and basketball is a team sport.

  68. 68.

    jl

    June 14, 2015 at 11:40 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Yeah, any long suffering fan of modest means who goes to lots of games year in and year out is up in the cheap nose bleed seats. And there are plenty of those among Warrior fans.

  69. 69.

    Tree With Water

    June 14, 2015 at 11:40 pm

    @Gene108: And yet they are, your impressions aside.

  70. 70.

    Corner Stone

    June 14, 2015 at 11:42 pm

    @catclub: It’s weird. Cavs seem like they don’t want to actually win any of these games. They get double digit leads and then just peter out.
    But it’s been balls out fun watching since neither team is my team.
    I still say the refs are giving people guarding LeBron a little too much leeway. He’s so damn good, and so damn strong that the refs expect 150% from him or they don’t call shit.

  71. 71.

    Corner Stone

    June 14, 2015 at 11:43 pm

    GS should be thanking the Celtics for this series. Oh well.

  72. 72.

    Cacti

    June 14, 2015 at 11:44 pm

    @jl:

    OK.looks like Warriors and Cavs split two games in regular season and they were not close at all, at least ten point lead for each game. Funny, I thought I remembered those games well. I do remember had Fear of LeBron haunting me during both games. Would the Warriors be able to handle him, and what did that foretell for the playoffs?

    The haven’t been able to handle LeBron, but no shame in that. He’s still the best player on the planet, Curry’s MVP award notwithstanding.

    But when Irving went down with a fractured kneecap in game 1, the Cavs lost their only credible second option on offense. Honestly, I was surprised it wasn’t a sweep after that.

  73. 73.

    Corner Stone

    June 14, 2015 at 11:45 pm

    @Cacti:

    The Warriors are winning because they have the better team, and basketball is a team sport.

    They definitely have the best team left, and that’s how this is going to go.

  74. 74.

    Steeplejack

    June 14, 2015 at 11:47 pm

    (Belated) DVR Alert!

    Forgot to mention earlier that Greed (1924), Erich von Stroheim’s damaged masterpiece, is coming up on TCM at midnight EDT tonight. “The ruthless pursuit of wealth drives a family to the brink of destruction.”

    Wikipedia:

    Probably Stroheim’s best remembered work as a director is Greed, a detailed filming of the novel McTeague by Frank Norris. He originally started it as a project with Samuel Goldwyn’s Goldwyn Pictures. Stroheim had long wanted to do a film version of the book. He originally intended it to be a highly detailed reproduction of the original, shot mostly at the locations described in the book in San Francisco and Death Valley. The original print ran for an astonishing 10 hours. Knowing this version was far too long, Stroheim cut out almost half the footage, reducing it to a six-hour version to be shown over two nights. It was still deemed too long, so Stroheim and director Rex Ingram edited it into a four-hour version that could be shown in two parts.

    However, in the midst of filming, Goldwyn was bought by Marcus Loew and merged into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. After rejecting Stroheim’s attempts to cut it to less than three hours, MGM removed Greed from his control and gave it to head scriptwriter June Mathis, with orders to cut it down to a manageable length. Mathis gave the print to a routine cutter, who reduced it to 2.5 hours. In what is considered one of the greatest losses in cinema history, a janitor destroyed the cut footage.

    The shortened release version was a box-office failure, and was angrily disowned by Stroheim. In particular, he blamed Mathis for destroying his pet project, since she was credited as a writer due to contractual obligations. However, Mathis had worked with Stroheim before and had long admired him, so it is not likely she would have indiscriminately butchered his film. The film was partially reconstructed in 1999 by producer Rick Schmidlin, using the existing footage mixed with surviving still photographs, but Greed has passed into cinema lore as a lost masterpiece.

    After that, two Japanese films by Yoshitaro Nomura that look interesting. (I haven’t seen either one.)

    2:15 a.m. EDT: Zero Focus (1964). “After Teiko’s new husband disappears on a business trip, she discovers a pair of mysterious postcards hidden away in a book that may be clues to his fate.”

    4:00 a.m. EDT: The Castle of Sand (1972). “Two detectives investigate the murder of an old man found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.”

  75. 75.

    Chris

    June 14, 2015 at 11:48 pm

    @jl:

    The problem is that their base doesn’t want “plausible” critiques, they want the loony-tunes stuff like death panels and birth certificates and secret Muslim allegiance and Weather Underground ties and being in league with the terrorists. “Plausible” just bores them. And as they’ve got to run the Republican electoral gauntlet before the actual election…

  76. 76.

    cmorenc

    June 14, 2015 at 11:50 pm

    @Valdivia:

    There was a quote from Mitt saying Obama was the worst FP President in history. Are these people high on crack?

    They are delusionally convinced that after a long, hard struggle, George Bush had successfully brought Iraq and the general Middle Eastern situation under lasting control, and Obama fucked it up by withdrawing soldiers from both places. Never mind that the troop withdrawal agreement to withdraw troops from Iraq (and the deadlines) were made while Bush was president, and that it was the Bush Administration who manipulated the installation of the strongly Shite partisan Malaki as head of Iraq’s government, whose discriminatory exclusion of Sunnis from power provoked the alienation and instability that provoked rebellion and created fertile ground for ISIS. Fact is, Iraq never was stabilized under Bush – the only way the lid temporarily seemed to stay on was to indefinitely keep 150k American troops in-country, but that did nothing to resolve the underlying instability and ethnic and sectarian hatreds. They seem to think that indefinitely keeping a couple hundred thousand troops spread across Iraq, Afghanistan, and newly expanded into the Syrian conflict, and engaged in direct combat, will somehow cure the situation and set the native people right in those places. And BTW, most of them also think the only reason we “lost” Vietnam was lack of willpower to stick that war out to successful conclusion.

  77. 77.

    jl

    June 14, 2015 at 11:50 pm

    @Cacti: Now that my memory is refreshed, the Warriors beat the Cavs in regular season when they could swarm them with the bench and play a very fast game, and tire them out (even when healthy) and won by 18. In the second game in regular season, the Cavs figured out how to slow the tempo, and Le Bron could not be stopped, Cavs won by 11.

    I don’t think a healthy Cavs would sweep, but if the Warriors could compete against a health Cavs in a seven game series, then maybe would be a see-saw of those two types of games with wider spreads. Maybe… I’m just guessing.

  78. 78.

    Cacti

    June 14, 2015 at 11:58 pm

    And since it’s an open thread…

    Trappistes Rochefort #10 brew is the f**king bomb.

    Those Belgian Monks know how to make some fine beer.

  79. 79.

    redshirt

    June 14, 2015 at 11:58 pm

    @Chris: Black goo or AKA Liberal Communism.

  80. 80.

    Mike in NC

    June 14, 2015 at 11:58 pm

    @cmorenc: See McCain, John

  81. 81.

    karen marie

    June 14, 2015 at 11:58 pm

    Mr. Walker’s Midwestern charm and executive experience

    I have a really hard time understanding how anyone could consider Walker to have “charm,” Midwestern or otherwise. I didn’t realize turning Wisconsin into a shithole and convictions of six staffers is the type of “executive experience” voters are looking for.

  82. 82.

    redshirt

    June 15, 2015 at 12:01 am

    @catclub: Sure, but with a baby hook maybe Lebron scores 50-60 tonight. He missed so many 3-6 foot shots that a baby hook could hit.

    If any other great player from the NBA past had the looks Lebron had, they’d score 60.

  83. 83.

    Steeplejack

    June 15, 2015 at 12:01 am

    Reds-Cubs tied 1-1 going into the bottom of the 11th inning on ESPN.

  84. 84.

    David Koch

    June 15, 2015 at 12:02 am

    Hillary gives strong defense of President Obama

    “I am going to do all I can to pierce the collective amnesia that the Republicans are trying to impose on people. We’re not supposed to remember that the 12 years preceding Bill Clinton quadrupled the debt of our country? We’re not supposed to remember that when he left office we had a balanced budget with a surplus? And if it had been continued would’ve paid off the national debt?

    We’re not supposed to remember that Barack Obama inherited the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression and had to pull us out of the ditch? And did a better job than he gets credit for? And we’re not supposed to remember that finally after five presidents trying all the way back to Truman, we got an Affordable Care Act?”

    Love that girl!

  85. 85.

    Cacti

    June 15, 2015 at 12:04 am

    @David Koch:

    Our Hillary is learning.

    It’s not 1996 anymore. Obama showed the winning formula for a Democratic candidate in the 21st century. You’re not going to win the Obama coalition by dissing and running away from him.

  86. 86.

    Steeplejack

    June 15, 2015 at 12:06 am

    @Steeplejack:

    And the Cubs win on an RBI hit by Starlin Castro!

  87. 87.

    redshirt

    June 15, 2015 at 12:06 am

    @Cacti: I hope so. Obama is the best and Hillary must utilize all the Obama love for her campaign.

  88. 88.

    Cacti

    June 15, 2015 at 12:11 am

    And since it’s an open thread…

    Courage Russian Imperial Stout is a damn fine beer too.

    So, I’ve only had 2 beers this evening, but at 11.3% and 10.0 % alcohol per volume, it was more like having 4, and I’ve got a mean buzz going this Sunday evening.

    They went well with the BBQ point cut of brisket I made for dinner this evening.

  89. 89.

    Cpl. Cam

    June 15, 2015 at 12:13 am

    Philip Rucker ✔@PhilipRucker
    ICYMI last night, Mitt Romney gave a brutal PowerPoint (!) on “The Most Consequential Obama Foreign Policy Mistakes” http://wapo.st/1cRy2Rj

    Let me guess.
    1. Invading Iraq in 2004
    2. Disbanding the Baathist Iraqi army
    3. Unsurgening the surge

  90. 90.

    catclub

    June 15, 2015 at 12:14 am

    @David Koch: Me too! Great!

  91. 91.

    David Koch

    June 15, 2015 at 12:15 am

    @Cacti: I’m so proud of my girl.

    She really deserves credit for growing. She got rid of all of her husband’s loser friends and turned to Obama’s wizkids.

    #ACA@5: 16m covered. Young ppl. Preexisting conditions. Women get better coverage. Repeal those things? Embrace them! – H

  92. 92.

    Chris

    June 15, 2015 at 12:16 am

    @David Koch:

    I love that she brings up the 1990s budget surplus. No fucking Republican should ever be allowed to talk out of his ass about how important it is to be responsible with money without getting hit with that.

  93. 93.

    redshirt

    June 15, 2015 at 12:18 am

    @David Koch: Are you being serious?

  94. 94.

    catclub

    June 15, 2015 at 12:21 am

    @Cpl. Cam: Yeah. The other side is on any issue they start out with ‘Obama is a total failure’ but end up with recommending doing exactly what he has been doing. Nobody is actually calling for invasion of Iran or Syria ( or eastern Ukraine). Nobody is even calling for 100k more troops in any of those places.

    But still, whatever Obama has been doing, must be wrong.

  95. 95.

    Mike J

    June 15, 2015 at 12:23 am

    @Chris:

    I love that she brings up the 1990s budget surplus. No fucking Republican should ever be allowed to talk out of his ass about how important it is to be responsible with money without getting hit with that.

    The argument is always that there was a Republican congress. The follow up question is to explain the Reagan years when there was a Democratic congress.

  96. 96.

    jl

    June 15, 2015 at 12:27 am

    @catclub: That is what I noticed with McCain and Graham. When asked what they would actually do after their denunciations, they come up with what Obama has been doing but a little more, and they would do it better some unspecified how.

    So, I guess if Obama is the worst most disastrous foreign policy failure as president in US history, we are doomed to have the most disastrous foreign policy failures as his would be GOP successors.

    Graham may sense this problem, which may be why he goes on deranged endless rants about all the decisive crises and scary enemies the US is facing right now, every second, all the time everywhere to finish up his campaign pitch.

  97. 97.

    Mike G

    June 15, 2015 at 12:31 am

    @Steeplejack:

    “If Mitt had held his fire until now, the hydraulic pressure for him would be enormous,” said a former top Romney aide.

    So the RomneyTron3000 is operating beyond its engineering specifications. Maybe he’ll suffer a catastrophic failure and be sent the fuck away to a junkyard.
    Rmoney operates on the classic Repuke principle that if a rich CEO asserts something loudly enough, that makes it true.

  98. 98.

    Tree With Water

    June 15, 2015 at 12:31 am

    @Cacti: I think she handled it adroitly, leastwise for not having handled anything at all. Sanders was right in calling her out before the vote, but she had her reasons to decline. Having declined, her statement today appears eminently reasonable. Well played..

  99. 99.

    Chris

    June 15, 2015 at 12:32 am

    @Mike J:

    Well, either that or to ask why the surplus disappeared as soon as there was a Republican Congress and a Republican president (early 2000s).

  100. 100.

    David Koch

    June 15, 2015 at 12:33 am

    @redshirt: Yes. I’m very impressed. Most people don’t change, but she’s converted.

    CNN–(New York City) Hillary Clinton took a page out of President Obama’s class warfare book.

    In her first major campaign speech, the Democratic presidential contender on Saturday tore into CEOs, hedge fund managers, Corporate America — and the Republicans who support them.

  101. 101.

    Tommy

    June 15, 2015 at 12:34 am

    I am hooked on StarTalk. Who knew Neil deGrasse Tyson had a talk show. I sure didn’t.

  102. 102.

    Bobby Thomson

    June 15, 2015 at 12:34 am

    @catclub: One could be forgiven for thinking that all Romney’s moves are really designed to stick it to Jeb! (since he can no longer run against Obama, and no one likes his loser stench). I don’t think so, though, because Rmoney’s not that clever.

  103. 103.

    KG

    June 15, 2015 at 12:38 am

    @Chris: their response will be that it only happened because Republicans controlled Congress and the only reason it didn’t happen this time is because Obama was a damn dirty evil communist… I know too many within the wingularity.

  104. 104.

    Bobby Thomson

    June 15, 2015 at 12:44 am

    @efgoldman: Usually goes the other way around and refs whistle people for breathing on the marquee players. Or they just let them charge at will like that asshole McHale.

  105. 105.

    Tree With Water

    June 15, 2015 at 12:46 am

    @Bobby Thomson: The Romney’s are a kind of Mormon version of Pinky and the Brain..

  106. 106.

    bago

    June 15, 2015 at 1:04 am

    @RSA: Phrasing!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyLWrKh2fB0

  107. 107.

    Chris

    June 15, 2015 at 1:04 am

    @Tree With Water:

    I’m thoroughly enjoying having both her and Sanders in the race. FDR was the one who told people to his left that they had to *make* him do things even though he wanted to do them, and having someone coming at her from the left is that in a nutshell.

  108. 108.

    Fred

    June 15, 2015 at 1:43 am

    News for Mitt: It wasn’t the brutal primary that killed your pathway to the oval office. It was that doofy, greasy smile on your country club tanned pie hole as you blithely blamed America’s troubles on all the hard working people (or used to be) you and your ilk victimized.
    Nobody wants to vote for the corporate suit who downsized their department, wrecked their town’s economy, raided their pension fund while sailing away on a company yacht.

  109. 109.

    El Caganer

    June 15, 2015 at 1:50 am

    Yep. Willard again in ’16. Only question is which of the goobers he picks for running mate to satisfy the teanuts.

  110. 110.

    Suzanne

    June 15, 2015 at 1:56 am

    I refuse to believe that Jon Snow is permanently dead. Perhaps I am in denial.

    Loved watching the Warriors win tonight. I wish that GS would stop going for the 3’s as much as they do and would drive in a bit more, but then Curry makes SK e of those beauties and I am just stunned. Mr. Suzanne is from the Bay Area, and he and his friends are just so excited. We get cheap season tickets to the Suns, thEn sell half of them and make a profit, but he and his friend just loooove going to see GS.

  111. 111.

    Amir Khalid

    June 15, 2015 at 3:04 am

    I just glanced over at Salon. Here’s the headline over the current top story on their front page:

    “JUST BE YOURSELF” IS NONSENE

    Oh dear.

  112. 112.

    dmbeaster

    June 15, 2015 at 3:57 am

    @Mike J: The quick response to the Republicsn Congress trope for the 90s is that the same Congress fiscally shit the bed as soon as Bush was elected.

  113. 113.

    Another Holocene Human

    June 15, 2015 at 4:30 am

    @MazeDancer: He has a bad case of FratBoyFace in those vintage photos.

  114. 114.

    Another Holocene Human

    June 15, 2015 at 4:38 am

    @efgoldman: Graham wins his SC primaries by quietly signaling to SC’s liberals that he’s sane and not a kook. I guess that’s why he goes nuts about defense, which more conservative liberals, moderates (are their any left?), and “serious people” share with conservatives in worrying about, instead of (usually) social issues.

    That doesn’t work in the national if the D race is hotly contested. For example if more wealthy and/or conservative Hilary voters think those wild-eyed crazy Sanders voters have a chance at taking it they’re going to march to the polls to make sure Hilary is the one. Last couple of cycles I believe African American voters dominated the D primaries.

    SC has white conserva-liberals, which is the demo Colbert’s sister was trying to grab (Sanford won). It has Black voters too, who her campaign seemed to have written off from the start. :((

    SC will flip parties eventually and when that happens a whole lot of people are fixing to stroke out.

  115. 115.

    My Truth Hurts

    June 15, 2015 at 8:40 pm

    I am pretty sure it is GWB who is the worst foreign policy president in US history. But hold on let me check…

    …

    …

    …

    Yep, it was George W. Bush!

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