“America is a lot of things, the greatest country in the world, absolutely,” Rubio said, talking about climate change. “But America is not a planet.”
Seriously — I can’t even…
Potential presidents? I’m not sure these people can be trusted around metal cutlery.
That is all. (Open thread)
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Elizabelle
Good morning Tom. Thanks for the new thread.
PS: I like seeing Pluto’s happy little face. Republicans? Not so much.
Matt McIrvin
Resolved: build a giant spindizzy so we can lift America off the planet when it’s no longer habitable.
WereBear
I was out and about last night and missed the “debate” on CNN. Thanks to all commenters. What a metaphorical train wreck!
Matt McIrvin
Or a flying saucer shaped like a giant guitar. That will also work.
Mack
The debate has probably been hashed and rehashed on the previous thread, but all I came away with was that Fiorina will be on the ticket, the only question is on top or bottom? (teed that up, didn’t I)
Jeffro
I totally called it: Oh, Marco! Oh, Carly!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/09/16/winners-and-losers-from-the-cnn-debate/
(Glad to see a woman neocon can saber-rattle as well as any male neocon too – yay for America!)
Mustang Bobby
What’s next, “It’s a dessert topping! It’s a floor wax!”?
NotMax
America is not a dessert topping either.
BGinCHI
“America is a lot of things”?
Commie pinko.
debbie
@Jeffro:
That video of a Minion near the beginning of the article tells me everything I need to know about the debate.
Morzer
Once again, Obama has betrayed us.
D58826
I’m not sure I’d truist them with cardboard cutlery!!!!!
RP
Laugh all you want, but that was one of the most coherent comments of the night.
Morzer
@D58826:
I wouldn’t trust them with Jay Cutlery…
Mustang Bobby
@RP: The next one being “Hamana, hamana, hamana.”
OzarkHillbilly
@RP: At least it wasn’t a lie. (when I heard he said that, I had to look it up to make sure)
NotMax
Questions not asked last night:
The spork: Boon or Bane?
debbie
Not to overly obsess on Fiornia’s hypocrisy, but here’s her remarks on Barbara Boxer’s hair:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XtPMq9xxOY
And here’s Boxer’s response:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqBvkiYaol0
Funny. Carly’s ideas are still so yesterday.
Baud
America is the planet.
Morzer
@Mustang Bobby:
I think the gurgling sounds made by Rand Paul’s cranial sprinkler system deserve a separate entry in the most coherent comment stakes.
Morzer
Sam Harris is going to really appreciate this comparison:
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2015/09/16/the-saga-of-slippery-sam/
MomSense
@debbie:
I have a video of my dog eating a Minion toy while the poor little plastic creature says “ok. oh oh oh ok.” It was very popular with the parents on Instagram who have been suffering the damned talking toys.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
Tom – I was worried that 700 comments risked breaking the blog (even more). Sorry!
;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
raven
@MomSense: Mr Bill!
gene108
What I like about Trump is he’s giving a big fuck you to the traditional “power brokers” behind the Republican Party, such as the Club for Growth, the various Fundie mega-church pastors, as well as the “think tank” crowd.
None of these guys were particularly serious about dealing with reality and were thinly veiled attempts at defrauding America for the ends of their pay masters, but Trump’s just established his own alternate reality, which is more popular than the alternate reality – tax cuts are always good, God hates
race mixing,Rock ‘n’ Roll,the rap music, fags, or whatever bullshit the “think tanks” are paid to push – these institutions have created.I’ll build a wall. I’ll deport everyone who is here illegally. I’ll make it work. I’ll get Mexico to pay for it, etc. has become more appealing than the crap the others have been peddling for decades.
It is fun to watch.
Patrick
@debbie:
There is such a hypocrisy. When any Republican makes fun of how Hillary or Chelsea Clinton look, it is funny and people like Fiorina don’t say a word.
Morzer
@gene108:
I think Trump is very much what a big chunk of the GOP base longs for. He’s the Man Of Destiny who can kick the asses of the Beltway RINOs and piss off liberals at the same time. They’ve spent decades cultivating a sense that their own chosen candidates have betrayed them – and here’s Trump, self-financed, free from the structures run by those same RINOs, and willing to say all the goofy, repulsive things that they long to hear, while mocking the aforesaid RINOs with a vengeance. I am not at all sure that the GOP base is going to abandon Trump easily, especially when the preferred candidate of the party elders is Jeb! – a man who looks and sounds like the principle of weak, compromising, elite RINO treason walking among them.
gene108
A situation we can correct by conquering the rest of the world and renaming this here planet.
I say we start with Canada.
No shots need to be fired. We just need to finalize the North American Union. Despite the cranks fear of the NAU, we have ten times the population of Canada. Hell, California has more people than Canada. We would so totally dominate the Canucks, by sheer weight of numbers, that they would cease to exist.
Same goes with Mexico. We out number them 2-3 to 1.
With North America firmly in our political control, we can than consolidate our control on the continent.
First get rid of the metric system where it exists. The long awaited end to French Imperial hegemony in weights and measures cannot come soon enough, if you ask me.
We then make
EnglishAmerican the official language of North America. I do not think Central or South America will come peacefully. War will be inevitable.At that point, I believe global domination will only be a matter of time.
It is possible.
I have won at Risk.
Kay
@gene108:
I don’t think it matters though because there’s a huge conservative campaign-industrial complex and he’s hiring them.
He’s not really going to manage this thing. He doesn’t know how. The same people who manage all of conservative politicking will run it. He probably thinks his will be different but it won’t. They know much more about the actual GOP electorate than he does, which is why he’s hiring them. They’ll influence him, not the other way around. I think the “outsider” theme gets harder and harder to sustain as his organization fills up with conservative operatives.
gene108
@Kay:
But he’s already broken the mold. Saying he’s going to tax billionaires a lot has broken the mold. Not totally condemning Planned Parenthood has broken the mold. Saying he’ll strengthen traditional Social Security and Medicare has broken the mold.
I know you’ve seen how, literally, Republicans read from the same script. They are not used to actual challenges to their script, from within their ranks.
The biggest challenge is should we cut taxes more or just eliminate state income taxes all together, as was proposed by Gov. Jindal.
Trump’s introduced his own script.
Even if he surrounds himself with GOP operatives, there’s no rewriting what he’s already written. And what he’s written seems to be very popular to the establishment Republicans dismay.
JPL
I thought Fiorina’s comment about not talking to Putin, was naive, foolish and dangerous. The media tells me she is strong on foreign affairs.
ugh
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone :)
Paul in KY
@NotMax: The fpoon, bane or boon?
MomSense
@Kay:
I guess the Kochs are learning about the perils of hiring mercenaries.
rikyrah
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@keithboykin
Ted Cruz says he would have nominated Edith Jones instead of John Roberts to the Supreme Court. #GOPDebate
Benw
Good morning everyone! I salute the commenters in the last few threads for watching the morons and keeping the rest of us entertained by your comments.
rikyrah
This is Rafael’s choice….
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Ten Things You Should Know About The Federal Judge Accused Of Racism
BY IAN MILLHISER
JUN 5, 2013 3:47PM
Earlier this week, several civil rights groups filed an official complaint against Judge Edith Jones, a former chief judge of the powerful United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, alleging that she claimed that African-Americans and Hispanics are predisposed towards violent crime and that the death penalty is a public service because it allows inmates to “make peace with God.” Though these allegations will need to be proven during the formal ethics process, they are entirely in line with Jones’ past record. Here are some other facts you should know about Judge Edith Jones:
1. Edith Jones Waved Off Horrific Sexual Harassment
A paper mill worker named Susan Waltman’s supervisor told her to have sex with a co-worker, “pinched her buttocks with pliers and tried to put his hands in her back pockets,” and fellow employees hung used tampons from their lockers. When she complained to a manager, she was told she should “expect this type of behavior working with men.” After she complained, an employee of another company that worked in the mill grabbed her arm while she was carrying a vial of hot liquid, and another worker stuck his tongue in her ear. One of her co-workers told her “he would cut off her breast and shove it down her throat.” He later dangled her over a stairwell thirty feet above the floor. Though she met with senior managers about these incidents, the harassment continued. At one point, a co-worker “grabbed Waltman’s breasts and directed a high pressure hose at her crotch.”
Judge Jones wrote a dissenting opinion claiming that this woman’s sexual harassment suit should be thrown out.
2. Edith Jones Thinks Victims Of Employment Discrimination Should ‘”Take A Better Second Job Instead Of Bringing Suit”
In a speech at the University of Texas, Jones claimed that employment discrimination suits “seldom turn on evidence of race- or sex-based discrimination” and generally involve “petty interoffice disputes, recrimination, second-guessing and suspicion.” She advised workers claiming discrimination to “[t]ake a better second job instead of bringing suit,” according to the Houston Chronicle.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/06/05/2108181/ten-things-you-should-know-about-the-federal-judge-accused-of-racism/
Patrick
@JPL:
What’s next; the media will tell us she did a good job at HP and knows how to run a business?
Morzer
@Patrick:
I am waiting for the soft-focus stories about how It Takes A Lemonade Stand.
Cervantes
@RP:
I’m inclined to agree.
Elizabelle
Good morning here.
Come on buds. We can get last night’s thread up to 800 comments! 776 comments and counting…
rikyrah
Twitter is a game changer…
…………
Meet the woman behind #IStandWithAhmed.
A Texas college student wanted to show her support for Ahmed Mohamed. Twenty-four hours later, her hashtag has started a movement.
More than 700,000 people have taken to Twitter to support Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old student who was arrested after bringing a homemade clock to school that was mistaken for a bomb.
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The hashtag was created by Amneh Jafari, who wrote, “If his name was John he would be labelled as a genius. Since its Ahmed he’s labelled as a “suspect”. #doublestandards #IStandWithAhmed.”
Jafari, a 23-year-old psychology student at the University of Texas Arlington (UTA), was shocked that such a young student was arrested in her state.
She told BBC Trending that as the oldest of nine children, with two siblings around Ahmed’s age, “it was so close to home.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-34264995
FlipYrWhig
That awful, dim, and conventional April Ryan, a reporter who for no discernible reason appears regularly on Lawrence O’Donnell, said about Fiorina something pretty close to this: “Even though she may have gotten many things wrong, she showed a wide-ranging command of the facts.” Sigh.
beltane
The only one of the Republicans running who isn’t completely ugly is Marco Rubio. I’d include Jeb but he’s a Bush and he looks like a Bush. The rest of them have faces better suited to radio.
debbie
@JPL:
Her entire plan was ridiculous. Rebuilding the fleet, putting troops throughout the Balkans, and on and on. Voodoo militarism.
Kay
@gene108:
I wish that were true but his Democratic positions get no play. They talk about his celebrity and his personality as the key to his success. The only people who are saying his supporters are drawn to his positions on Social Security and taxes are Democrats. I don’t think the money people care who carries the message, or even what the candidate says during the campaign. They just want to win.
FlipYrWhig
@debbie: That sounds like the plan for the Ottoman Empire.
OzarkHillbilly
@Patrick:What’s next; the media will tell us she did a good job at HP and knows how to run a business into the ground?
FTFY, no charge.
FlipYrWhig
@Kay: @gene108: Nobody supporting Trump is drawn to his positions on anything. It’s purely his confrontational nature. “I will do things, big things, good things, and if you think I can’t you’re an idiot.” How he’ll do it doesn’t enter into it.
Cervantes
@rikyrah:
Thanks for countering Ted Cruz on Edith Jones. She has been considered for a Supreme Court nomination more than once — and will be again when next we have a Republican president.
Kay
@MomSense:
The Kochs are playing a really long game and most of the stuff they care about happens at the state level. Walker would speed that up with federal action- labor, environmental laws, mostly- but they can get 90% to where they want to go without a President.
MomSense
@Kay:
I know. We have been dealing with a lot of Koch bills (and bad laws) since the 2010 clusterfuck election.
Jeffro
On a separate note, for some reason we have been receiving the Wall Street Journal at home along with the Post these past two weeks. It has been pretty useless – not really all that into business news on top of business news – but reading the editorials and op-eds has been insightful into the Establishment wingnut mind.
Until today when it just blew me away with the outright lies, one after another, in Daniel Henniger’s column about “the mad-as-hell” American electorate. A sample:
– “Some 30% of Republican voters want as their president the former host of ‘Celebrity Apprentice’. About the same percentage of Democrats prefer a 74-year-old Socialist who seems to believe federal revenue is created by pixies.
– “…Barack Obama bears responsibility for much of this madness. His conduct of the presidency, more than all the other pilloried persons in public life, led us to Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.”
– “Barack Obama is fundamentally apolitical. He claims Congress doesn’t work. That is an excuse…you think you’re mad? Talk to members of Congress, Republican or Democrat, and you will discover people also driven nuts by the virtual impossibility over two presidential terms of practicing normal politics.”
– “The political vacuum built up over seven years of the Obama presidency has now popped, in both parties.”
Wow – o – wowzers. Did y’all know Obama created both Trump and Sanders? Also he’s the reason Congress can’t get any work done. Take that, Obots!
Also, Sanders, you silly goose: revenues don’t come from pixies!! They come from job creators like the people who read the WSJ.
boatboy_srq
@Matt McIrvin: That only works for Boston…
Mack
@Kay: Yup.
FlipYrWhig
@Jeffro: Someone else wrote a similar column recently in a similar outlet. Michael Barone maybe? Same argument: people are mad at the establishment because Barack Obama broke it. SMH.
Benw
It’s been Okay if you’re a Republican for awhile now, but the curve that last night’s mess is being graded on in the media this morning is astounding. Like, Emporer without clothes level shit.
Kay
@FlipYrWhig:
I think he’s really hit home with his “I’ll get a better deal” message. It has a long history in politics- the new deal, for example.
If you talk to people who are really fed up and feel the country is fundamentally unfair that’s what they complain about- people make bad deals on their behalf. 90% of the opposition to US trade deals is the firm belief people have that government makes bad deals for working people. They don’t object to deal-making. They just feel no one is considering how it will play out for them. I watched his Iowa speech and they really respond to that part of his pitch. I’m sympathetic to them- I think they have a legitimate gripe. Bernie Sanders says the same thing but in a much more sophisticated way- he says you’re getting bad deals because you don’t have any political power. Economic inequality comes from political inequality.
rikyrah
Barbara BoxerVerified account
@BarbaraBoxer
As @CarlyFiorina attacked Iran tonight she failed to mention that while she was CEO she sold them computer parts, which was against the law.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Jeffro: –
So upping the taxes to balance the budget is believing in magic, in the WSJ world. Sounds about right for that lot.
Gravenstone
To be fair to little Marco, had he said that “America is not the planet”, he’d have made a bit more sense, with the added bonus of being correct. Not that such a sentiment will sit well with the America Uber Alles clowns.
Joel
Apropos. And, no, I didn’t watch.
boatboy_srq
@Kay: This may actually be Trump’s first real mistake. Hiring away talent from Kochistan – which has a whole battery of purity tests – could well alter his campaign to be more like what the Kochs et al actually want. OTOH, it’ll p!ss off the Kochs who not only want their idiotology but want to be the ones controlling it…
D58826
@Morzer: all he needs is the white horse
Peale
@JPL: the entire foreign policy discussion last night was about how to defeat so called enemies, as if that’s the only thing a foreign policy is about. Nothing about improving relationships, settling disputes peacefully, or even maintaining friendships. It’s like the only problems that matter are problems that can only be made worse through threats and belligerence and the U.S. Is prepared to make things worse in every imaginable situation.
Patrick
@Jeffro:
I wonder if the Wall Street Journal also think federal revenue is created by pixies. The WSJ favored the very expensive Iraq war, it favored Jeb Bush’s brothers expensive tax cuts etc etc.
debbie
Glenn Beck and his minions are smitten with Fiorina and think Democrats should be terrified of her. I’d love to see Hillary respond to her plans for the military, specifically these statements:
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http://www.inquisitr.com/2425719/carly-fiorina-gets-trigger-happy-at-gop-presidential-debates/#7MyMW0JEjyeYvtPp.99
EZSmirkzz
Must admit, I didn’t watch it, nor did I miss it.
I did however listen to Barnes and Barnes Fishheads. I think I came out ahead.
rikyrah
Here’s an interview with Ahmed. He can probably fix your car too, if it’s broke. I’m still pissed at what the did to him.
…………
ALL IN WITH CHRIS HAYES 9/16/15
All In Exclusive with Ahmed Mohamed
Chris Hayes talks with the Texas 14-year-old who was arrested and suspended for bringing a homemade digital clock to school, after a teacher said it looked like a bomb.
http://www.msnbc.com/all
boatboy_srq
@Jeffro:
Significant difference: pixies might not be real (that is a debatable point), but they’ve been cultural staples for over a millennium. “Job Creators,” OTOH, are a recently created fictional creature.
Patrick
@Peale:
They kept claiming that the US is not respected abroad. WTF – where the hell were these candidates when George W Bush was President? Obama was treated a heck of a lot better than Bush ever was when he made visits to Europe. Heck, Can Cheney even make visits abroad without fearing getting arrested?
D58826
@debbie: and the WSJ pixies will pay for all of this?
NorthLeft12
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: All you need to remember about the WSJ and the other conservative geniuses is that they believe federal revenue is increased by cutting taxes on the rich and corporations. Believing that federal revenue is created by pixies is more plausible IMO.
Peale
@boatboy_srq: or it will turn out that operatives are a bunch of crass, immoral, cynical flunkies who be,I’ve what whoever is paying them this week believe. I’ll go with flinkies.
boatboy_srq
@debbie:
Well, at least she has numbers for all those “moar ships and troops” Rmoney wanted. Where does she think, though, that all those brigades/battalions/crews will come from? And ships and nukes cost money and DoD/DoE resources (and we all know how the wingnut fringe of the GOTea feels about DoE)…
RP
@gene108: This is solid proof of cleek’s law IMO. The GOP base doesn’t really care about specific positions. They’re mad at planned parenthood because they’re told to be mad, but they don’t care one way or the other. Hell, abortion itself wasn’t that much of a hot button issue until the late 70s/early 80s. They’re just mad at the “left,” and will hyperventilate about any issue they’re told is a big deal.
debbie
@boatboy_srq:
My only concern is that this might usher in Cheney’s return to government. Who else could have been behind these plans?
Kay
@boatboy_srq:
Do they, though, or do they just start really far Right and then get what they get and move on? The operatives Trump is hiring will have organized primary states for the Koch’s. They will have identified very far Right voters. So does Trump move to those prmary voters or do they move to him? I know he thinks they’ll move to him, but I don’t. I think he’ll do whatever to get them.
FlipYrWhig
@Kay: I don’t know. I don’t like people or talk to many different ones. I trust your sense of what connects and what doesn’t. But I have a hard time telling the difference between “I’ll get a better deal” and “I’ll kick their asses.” IMHO all Trump is selling is strength and success. Same way he got a bunch of idiots to pay thousands of dollars for his real estate seminars.
boatboy_srq
@Peale: Amorality (outside what can be mined from Leviticus) seems to be a hallmark of the Teahad. Trump actually seems to have some shred of ethics – nothing any of us would respect, but ethics nonetheless – so they’ll be a bit out of place in his campaign. And are flinkies what we call the Job Creator imaginary beings?
FlipYrWhig
@Patrick:
When they say “respected” they mean “feared” (by Muslims and Russians) and “trusted” (by Likud).
boatboy_srq
@Kay: Reminder: I spent four years in a SBC university near-tailored to providing Reichwing cannon fodder (I sometimes think I majored in Hypocrisy), so I’ve seen it firsthand. The indoctrination starts early and goes long.
Patrick
@boatboy_srq:
To quote the Wall Street Journal: Maybe she thinks “federal revenue is created by pixies”.
boatboy_srq
@debbie: Fiorina could well be persuaded to bring the Cheney/Rumsfeld/Bolton trifecta back. But without the added DoD/DoE muscle they’re less capable. I’d love to see how she’d get the added spending past sequestration…
Debbie
And Beck’s now calling Rick Santorum the Churchill of the Middle East!
Patrick
@Debbie:
If Kim Davis can be Rosa Parks, then anything is possible.
Thoughtful Today
What’s for breakfast?
I keep eyeing* the cupcakes on the counter…
* Spellcheck doesn’t like the word eyeing, … nor apparently the word spellcheck….
Peale
@boatboy_srq: and while we’re building this new monstrosity to send Russia a message, russia will? What? Stop finding people to buy its oil? Do they think Russia will try to match our spending?
If I were Russia, I’d just talk smack about the U.S. Until it spent itself into oblivion.
rikyrah
Can Congress behave itself when the pope visits?
So last week, four House members — Democrats Dan Lipinski (Ill.), Juan Vargas (Calif.), and Republicans Jeff Fortenberry (Neb.) and Tim Murphy (Pa.) sent a letter to House Speaker John Boehner and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, asking them to put out some sort of guidance “to the House and Senate on the appropriate decorum, protocol and behavior. . . .”
Members could use info on “how to greet the Pope, proper attire [no jeans?] . . . among other matters of etiquette,” the letter said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2015/09/16/can-congress-behave-itself-when-the-pope-visits/
Just One More Canuck
@Baud: now that’s leadery leadership
boatboy_srq
@Peale: Russia can’t match US deep pockets for defense. What it can do is make common cause with all the other nations the US has p!ssed off over the ages (actually happening in Syria, and potentially occurring with Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, etc etc) and form a large enough bloc to oppose the US. Tensions with Europe, South America, Oceania and Africa would rise because none of them want to be caught in the middle and while they may not want to see Russia (especially Putin’s Russia) on the rise they’ll want to see Russia rising thanks to US provocation even less. Fiorina’s recipe is not one for success.
D58826
@Patrick: Given how she seems to be just throwing numbers out there to sound knowledgeable it’s easy to see how she ran HP into the ground. Oh wait that must have been a different Carly. Her evil twin maybe???
Debbie
@Patrick:
Even a Churchill who is promising to fire the entire State Department, I guess.
Morzer
@Debbie:
The young Churchill was an irresponsible, bellicose, somewhat bigoted maniac deeply distrusted by all side of the British political divide. The comparison may be more apt than Beck intended.
benw
@Thoughtful Today:
I’m bummed because the last few chocolate buttermilk banana muffins I’d been hoarding for breakfast this morning got moldy overnight.
Cervantes
Via @rikyrah:
Many of them should wear sackcloth and ashes.
Debbie
@Morzer:
You could be right. Churchill also attempted to subvert the American government to get us into WWII.
boatboy_srq
@Debbie: @Morzer: Best descriptor: Gallipoli-era Churchill.
Thoughtful Today
mmmyummm
“chocolate buttermilk banana muffins “
boatboy_srq
@Cervantes: WIN.
Thoughtful Today
hahahaha
MomSense says: “I guess the Kochs are learning about the perils of hiring mercenaries.”
PurpleGirl
@benw: Sorry to read that. I did the lazy thing since I didn’t buy a new can of coffee — I went across the street to the newspaper shop and bought coffee and a croissant. (Granted it’s a fresh, hot croissant but it fulfills my desire for something buttery.) I had the eggs and sausage to cook at home.
PurpleGirl
@boatboy_srq: Ah, but he paid a price for that debacle. While he wasn’t pushed out of the government completely, he did join the army and fight on the front lines. He regained some of the honor and standing he had lost. It was a long way to making him credible for his role during WWII.
Wouldn’t it be nice if any of the Bushes or Cheney faced the same consequences?
PurpleGirl
@PurpleGirl: my bad… it’s NOT a fresh, hot croissant. Noticed it too late to fix.
boatboy_srq
@PurpleGirl: That would translate as “chickenhawks to the front lines” for the modern US equivalents, wouldn’t it? that seems like the clearest lesson from that experience. So far the closest the Reichwing gets there are Scott, West and Cotton, who went into combat first: as of now the results are not especially impressive when it comes to either policymaking or mere Reichwhingeing.
boatboy_srq
@rikyrah: I’m waiting for someone to shout “you lie!” at the Pontiff when he speaks. That’ll go over well.
Elizabelle
@boatboy_srq: WaPost had an item up (didn’t click) about Boehner and Pelosi furiously putting together some guidelines for Pope Francis’s visit.
I take it they are not addressed TO the pontiff.
And Boehner was worried enough to drag Pelosi along for cover.
ETA: Whoops! I see rikyrah has the item up! Comment 89.
Apologies for reading from the bottom of the thread up.
Carry on, and thanks to rikyrah.
PurpleGirl
@boatboy_srq: Yes, it would. But our chickenhawks are no where near as honorable as Churchill tried to be.
PurpleGirl
@boatboy_srq: Well, that depends on if he speaks in English to the Congress or in Spanish. The Vatican has already said that only 4 of his 18 speeches will in English.
Bubblegum Tate
@gene108:
How long before a Gooper cites this as “foreign policy experience”?
Thoughtful Today
“upping the taxes to balance the budget is believing in magic”
You now understand Rightwingistan.
Cervantes
@Elizabelle:
!
Cervantes
@Bubblegum Tate:
I can think of a few whose résumés would be improved considerably if only they had played the game, never mind won it.
boatboy_srq
@PurpleGirl: Which just makes the comparison even more inappropriate.
mclaren
Actually, America is a planet for all intents and purposes — an alien planet full of bizarre space creatures who build creation museums and deny evolution and believe overwhelmingly (61%) that the Devil is real.
As a visitor from the planet Reality, I find the alien planet America extremely disconcerting, and have a great deal of difficulty communicating with its weird alien inhabitants.