Among the Walker campaign's extravagances: a full-time traveling photographer. http://t.co/xlmQWFIiBw
— Reid J. Epstein (@reidepstein) September 22, 2015
To throw himself in front of anyone going in for the bald shot. https://t.co/4SeRYtUPBY
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) September 22, 2015
There is so much schadenfreude to be savored! Here’s Politico, being all earnest’n’insider-y (http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/scott-walker-quits-2016-213912):
It’s almost always bad news when a candidate’s spouse calls an emergency meeting.
But that’s what happened late last week when Scott Walker’s wife, Tonette, and his campaign chairman, Mike Grebe, reached out to a small number of longtime Walker aides and summoned them to the governor’s mansion on Monday morning…
Walker had just limped out of a disappointing second presidential debate. The governor had spent weeks preparing for the showdown, knowing his political life depended on it. He’d practiced giving punchier answers and making sure to use up all his allotted time.
But the reviews had been brutal. Donors were grousing, and money was drying up. It was a painful turn for Walker, who had quickly vaulted to the top of the Iowa polls, powered by a fiery January speech in Des Moines, only to drop precipitously in the summer amid Donald Trump’s rise. He had gone from front-runner to also-ran in a matter of months…
Shortly after the meeting wrapped, Walker arrived at his decision: He was out. It was a shocking and sudden move that blindsided many of Walker’s closest allies, threw the power of super PACs into doubt and opened opportunities for rivals to pick up patrons, staff, and supporters…
Seems obvious Walker's whole "clear the field to save the party" thing was tacked on *after* he decided he stood no chance of winning.
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) September 22, 2015
Mr. Pierce, at Esquire (http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a38122/scott-walker-implosion-chaos-theory/):
Nothing became Scott Walker’s campaign like his leaving of it (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/09/21/scott-walker-suspends-presidential-campaign/). This is what he would have you believe. That he was “called” to drop out – by the Deity or by his various sugar daddies, or both – so that real conservatives could coalesce behind one candidate in opposition to the barbarian at the gates. In doing so, Mr. Big, Bold, and Unintimidated delivered his remarks and then scarpered, taking no questions about how he managed to squander money and time on a campaign that didn’t last as long as the one currently promoting George Pataki. This was death by asterisk…
Once again, I admit that I was one of the people who overrated the goggle-eyed homunculus hired by Koch Industries to manage their Midwest subsidiary formerly known as the state of Wisconsin. I thought he, or the people around him, would be smart enough to let his union-bashing, duplicitous resume do the talking up until the actual primary balloting began. As we have now seen, this was somewhat optimistic. Confronted by opponents he could neither arrest nor hide from, Walker found that facing down Donald Trump was harder than rounding up singing Grandmas…
The fact is that the Republican party’s primary process is now an exercise in chaos theory. Things happen that are not obviously connected to one another. There is nobody controlling the process, so the process itself is running amuck. Scott Walker failed as a candidate only partly because he is Scott Walker. He also failed as a candidate because his party is failing as a party. He was one of a baker’s dozen of independent entities, all orbiting independently, and all subject to unpredictable gravimetric forces of which Trump is only one. Sooner or later, there is a collision. Scott Walker is the rubble that remains after one of those, endlessly spinning around a dying sun.
And Walker had so much to offer as a candidate…
Walker just looked lost on national issues.
— Michael B Dougherty (@michaelbd) September 21, 2015
Also, international issues. Other than that he was good. RT @michaelbd Walker just looked lost on national issues.
— Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner) September 21, 2015
At Buzzfeed, even the Insiders’ Insiders are shocked (http://www.buzzfeed.com/kyleblaine/scott-walker-is-dropping-out-of-republican-primary-race#.myp3W17dJ):
Even late last week, Walker wasn’t showing outward signs of planning to drop out.
Republican pollster Frank Luntz, who hosted Walker at a breakfast at his home in Los Angeles on Thursday, the day after last week’s debate in California, said in an email that it was a “total shock” to him that Walker was exiting the race. He said there was no indication that anything was amiss at the breakfast and Walker didn’t hint at the looming campaign suspension…
Luntz said he predicted that many of Walker’s donors would migrate to Marco Rubio, because “a lot of Walker supporters had Rubio as their second choice, and a lot of Rubio supporters had Walker as their second choice.”
But “nothing happens for a while because you have to go through a grieving period,” he said.
Grieving the lost paychecks, I guess.
It's actually astonishing how much money Walker's campaign burned through in 70 days. https://t.co/pz1zejL2ao
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) September 21, 2015
Who was the last presidential candidate to drop out without filing a single FEC report?
— Reid J. Epstein (@reidepstein) September 21, 2015
From the Wall Street Journal (http://www.wsj.com/articles/scott-walker-to-drop-out-of-presidential-race-1442868289):
… There were plenty of factors in Mr. Walker’s downfall. He gave a series of unsteady answers on the question of whether he supported a pathway to legal status for immigrants in the country illegally. He also inserted himself awkwardly into the policy debate over China, refused to take a position on evolution and compared his efforts to fight unions to battling Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
But his biggest problem appeared to be fundraising. Many of his top donors expressed concern in recent weeks that, as the result of those stumbles, he wouldn’t raise enough money to maintain a large campaign staff…
Top donors had been raising concerns for weeks about the size of his staff, and some were quietly prodding the governor to replace his campaign manager, Rick Wiley. Mr. Wiley was in Washington when Mr. Walker made his announcement in Madison, Wis. Mr. Walker employed dozens of aides at the Madison headquarters, as well as in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. His staff even included a full-time traveling photographer, a luxury not even well-financed candidates like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush employed.
Mr. Walker leaves the field even though two super PACs who supported his candidacy had plenty of money and had reserved as much as $16 million in television ad time in three states. The lion’s share was expected to be spent in Iowa and South Carolina.
Unintimidated and Our American Revival, the two committees, raised $26 million in the first six months of the year, according to their July disclosure reports. Some $10 million came from two families—roofing billionaire Diane Hendricks, who gave the Unintimidated super PAC, $5 million, and TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts and his wife, Marlene, who contributed $5 million.
Super PACs can accept donations without contribution caps, and they are prohibited from coordinating with the candidates’ campaign, which must comply with a federal donation limit of $2,700 per person for the primary. Because Mr. Walker didn’t officially enter the race until July 13, his campaign has yet to disclose how much it raised to finance its staff and perform other core duties…
Hmmmm….
Walker donor says Karl Rove told him in March: "Tell Walker to watch his pennies, I've heard Wiley likes to spend money."
— Reid J. Epstein (@reidepstein) September 22, 2015
Honest question: who do you think Walker wants to drop out of the race as well?
— Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner) September 21, 2015
With Scott Walker out of the race, how will we get that wall that he promised built on the Canadian border?! Who will now stop this menace?!
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) September 22, 2015
Maybe Walker really quit because that Koch impersonator DJ called him and told him to.
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) September 22, 2015
Candidates smart R political types tell me would be helped by Walker exit: Kasich, Rubio, Cruz, Jeb, Huckabee. In other words, no one knows.
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) September 22, 2015
srv
You missed your fave boy, Mr. 528, giving The Walker the Win. Must be Climatologist Maths.
Trump is unstoppable. So many Cracker Units until next November.
Baud
Jeb! spends all of his spare change on trolls.
Major Major Major Major
Open thread?
Tattoos fucking hurt.
http://imgur.com/ATTT7B8
amk
all your linkys are time travelling back to 2010.
Schlemazel
Reposted from last thread because it is so sweet!
NEW POLL SHOWS ALL CANDIDATES BEAT TRUMP HEAD TO HEAD EXCEPT ONE!
Would right to retch care to guess who that one is? Mr. Unlimited corporate cash!
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/polltracker/public-policy-polling-iowa-september
divF
@Major Major Major Major:
Yikes! It hurts just to look at that high-contrast black.
That’s why I will never be tempted to get a tattoo.
srv
Germany or Florida?:
When you’ve lost Newsmax, you’ve…
beltane
@Baud: Trolls come cheap compared to full-time travelling photographers.
Anne Laurie
AMK: ???
The hand-pasted article links work when I copy’n’paste to a new tab. The twitter links, I can’t read, because I’m using a proxy to access this site and the ninjas don’t seem to like twitter…
Mike in NC
Frank Luntz needs to lay off the doughnuts. The creep has gotten absurdly fat to judge from recent photos.
Anoniminous
@Major Major Major Major:
That is part of the appeal for some folks.
Major Major Major Major
@srv: that is frakking hilarious.
amk
@Anne Laurie:
all your twitter links circle back to this.
https://balloon-juice.com/2010/01/28/status-quo/646117019348107264/
beltane
@srv:
That sounds lovely. Remember that Jeb? also wanted to put Margaret Thatcher on the $10. Maybe it’s all part of his secret plot to cede the United States back to England.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: Glad to see you again.
No Baud! 2016! tattoo?
mai naem mobile
I heard that there were rumors that there’s a story coming out about a child out of wedlock/affair and that was the reason for the Scotty boy’s sudden drop out.
Mike in NC
@srv: Trump has neatly disposed of Perry and Walker. Jindal and Christie are next on the chopping block. Florian and Carson are roadkill. He’s got JEB! by the nuts and will have him on the ropes before the end of the year.
TopClimber
I understand that Walker suspended his campaign, but did not drop out. Does this mean his Super PACs can still spend cash advancing his Kochian crapola?
Kay
@beltane:
It makes me laugh because the photos of him were so bad. He was always all slumped over with his mouth practically hanging open, and his stare-y eyes. That photographer hates him :)
rikyrah
love this sentence
beltane
@Kay: The photographer was a wage earner. This alone would be enough to make him/her hate Scott Walker.
Baud
As much as they should all drop out, Walker’s early, humiliating departure is extra sweet given his successes in Wisconsin. I hope the stench stays with him.
JPL
@mai naem mobile: If true, that would be hilarious.
amk
@efgoldman:
yup, while most of bj’ers were bed wetting over the bald spot, omnes held steady.
has cole gotten over his christie kreme booboos yet?
Mnemosyne
I’m plotting out my holiday knitting. It took me a while to decide what to make for the reconnected nieces in Florida, but I finally decided to make a stuffed animal (probably a dog) for the 9YO and this camera-shaped bag for the 15YO:
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/camera-purse-2
Also, too, G got into the MLIS program at San Jose State — yay! It’s an online program, so fortunately no moving is required. He’s going to also apply to UCLA just in case he hates going to school online, but this way he can get started in January rather than having to wait until the end of October of next year to start.
Jim, Foolish LIteralist
Huh. Scottie would have been the second-to-last of the seventeen I’d expect to hear that about.
Mike J
The links seem to go to a subscribers only WSJ story, so even if they did work they;d be useless.
Redshift
@TopClimber: IANAL, but as far as I recall, yes, they can.
divF
Pierce’s extended metaphor is almost correct. Replace the word “gravimetric” (which refers to a measurement technique in analytical chemistry) with “gravitational”, and it is something Poincare (the mathematician, not the politician) could have said with a straight face. As such, it is a florid, but completely accurate characterization of GOP primary process.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: bunch of my colleagues did their MLIS there (Illinois myself). Congrats!
jl
@Jim, Foolish LIteralist: Maybe all of those Wisconsin hot rolls and ham tweets and facebook posts from Walker were code talk for an affair? Let’s see what develops.
Omnes Omnibus
@Jim, Foolish LIteralist: @mai naem mobile: That story has been floating around for years. Unless someone was coming out with definitive proof, I wouldn’t put too much stock in it.
Omnes Omnibus
@divF: Why wouldn’t the politician be able to say it with a straight face?
divF
@jl:
When the “ham rolls” thing first came up, I couldn’t help but think of the SCTV “Cabbage Rolls and Coffee” accordion and clarinet piece.
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
G was seriously considering U of I but SJSU is the right combination of price and accreditation at this time. He’s heard that there can be a pro-UCLA/anti-SJSU bias in Los Angeles, which is another reason he’s still going to apply to UCLA, but SJSU is a perfectly fine and ALA-accredited program.
Cervantes
@divF:
Given his audience Pierce should probably have said “gravitational,” I agree — but “gravimetric” is not a term limited to chemistry; for example, it’s used in measuring variation in gravity (so to speak).
divF
@Omnes Omnibus:
The politician certainly could (he was first cousin to the mathematician). It’s noteworthy that the math lingo is so close to correct that (with the single fix) the mathematician could say it without being embarrassed.
ETA: Cervantes points out the other use of gravimetric. While much closer to correct, it is still jarring to my ear, so I would prefer gravitational.
cmorenc
@Annie Laurie (quoting Charles Pierce):
Unfortunately, the failing GOP still comprises a large enough slice of the electorate, in enough places, and still retains majority numbers in enough places (statehouses, Congress, governorships, even sometimes the US Supreme Court) – that this failing party still has enough life and power left to it to inflict devastating, perhaps irreversible damage on the country before it eventually weakens enough to lose its threatening grip on the country.
JPL
@cmorenc: One of my sons stopped by after supper and he mentioned that there used to be some sane ones. Once they lose their hold on the country, it will be decades before they become forceful again. imo
PurpleGirl
@Mnemosyne: The purse is nice. Stuffed animals are also nice. What does MLIS mean?
Jim, Foolish LIteralist
@Omnes Omnibus: in other Wisconsin news, it looks like your tea-bagger senator wants to retreat to move forward
I don’t know if he actually gets around to calling for a ban on fetal tissue research instead, but that seems to be what he’s babbling about. Kelly Ayotte is calling for a clean bill, I think from the Senate floor, and their class of 2016 classmate Mark Kirk is also against the shutdown.
Major Major Major Major
@PurpleGirl: masters of library and information science
Omnes Omnibus
@Jim, Foolish LIteralist: He is nervous about Feingold.
divF
OT: if you have a Mac laptop or desktop computer and the power management suddenly goes nuts (battery monitor goes away, fan is going with no load, wifi is unavailable), be aware that the cure for this is to reset your System Management Controller (SMC).
This happened to me today just as I started lecturing to my class – an awkward and unpleasant moment – and it took me until now to diagnose and fix it. Google “Mac SMC reset” to find out more.
Mike in NC
@jl: Was Walker hiking the Appalachian Trail way out there in Wisconsin?
Morzer
Lest we forget:
http://www.theonion.com/article/aides-rush-stage-rotate-scott-walker-back-directio-51322
Too little, too late.
Mike J
Watching Memphis Belle on TCM. They were showing nose art form other planes. I don’t think most Americans knew that Old Bill wasn’t giving a V for Victory.
PurpleGirl
@Major Major Major Major: Thank you.
Morzer
@Mike in NC:
My theory is that Walker’s people began the “child out of wedlock” story as a way of adding credibility to their human-like product. Now he doesn’t have the money for a new backstory, so they’ve repurposed this one to explain why he’s slinking off the stage in ignominy.
amk
@Jim, Foolish LIteralist:
It’s hilarious the thugs walk into their own ‘traps’ with their pants down all the time.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@PurpleGirl:
Sorry, stepped away to get my frozen waffles out of the toaster oven. Yes, G is going to become a librarian. Ironically, it’s probably a much smarter choice than going back for an MBA or a law degree, because the field is only a little oversaturated.
divF
@Major Major Major Major:
Sounds like a degree program offered at Miskatonic University.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne (tablet): if you pursue a data track you’re totally set right now…
Morzer
@Major Major Major Major:
Not “Miley Loves Icecream Sundaes”?
divF
@Major Major Major Major:
Especially a Big Data track.
Major Major Major Major
@divF: that section of my resume has “Big Data” in scare quotes and one of my bullet points is “actual scientist”
Helen
Glen Beck just said that he had his people call the Pope’s people and offer to teach the Pope about capitalism.
I just can’t even.
divF
@Major Major Major Major:
LOL. But is it a good pickup line?
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@divF:
Now I’m tempted to get him one of these buttons:
http://www.cafepress.com/+miskatonic_u_library_sci_225_button,1355749335?utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=1355749335&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=sem-cpc-product-ads&utm_content=search-pla
Keith
@amk: It’s in honor of Koch Brother Circular Firing squad
ThresherK (GPad)
@Morzer: After clicking on that, it’s time for a (another) laugh.
http://www.theonion.com/article/extension-cord-stage-steals-spotlight-jeb-bush-dur-51343
Roger Moore
@TopClimber:
Technically speaking, it’s not his Super PAC, so the end of his campaign should have nothing to do with what it does next. Super PACs are supposed to be independent entities, so there’s no reason for one to go out of business just because the candidate it happened to support dropped out of the race.
divF
@Mnemosyne (tablet):
Great!
I had not seen any explicit reference before – it was just a loose association on my part.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@Major Major Major Major:
That’s what I keep telling him. He’s leaning that direction, but he wants to learn about the books and archiving aspects, too.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@divF:
The same vendor has “Cryptozoology Department” designs as well. G is tempted, but is afraid actual Lovecraft fans would figure out he’s just a poser.
Omnes Omnibus
Our media at work.
JPL
@Helen: Maybe Beck can explain to the Pope why it’s okay for hedge funds to buy up drugs that are needed by few and raise the price 5000 percent. Alan Grayson was right that the plan is to let them die.
The Lodger
@Morzer: “Child out of wedlock” didn’t stop the Palin family, after all.
Mike J
@The Lodger: When I hear child out of wedlock about a Republican candidate, I assume the story continues “with a black prostitute” and was spread by the Bush family.
divF
@Mnemosyne (tablet):
Easy to solve – get him the Library School button and an appropriate Lovecraft collection to celebrate his starting the MLIS program (there appears to be a free ebook online).
Mike in NC
@Mike J: Are you familiar with the WW1 cartoons of Bruce Bairnsfather? Quite popular on the Western Front.
The Lodger
@Cervantes: Looking for a solution to the seventeen… wait a minute, sixteen… make that fifteen-body problem.
Actually, considering this cast of characters, I’m rather surprised Pierce brought up the concept of gravity at all. Well, maybe if you include Christie.
Mike J
@Mike in NC: I know he painted the nose art on the plane in question. He was already famous as a cartoonist, but I don’t know much about his WWI work.
I have no doubt the yanks in the squadron knew which way round to hold their hand for V and which way for an insult.
Wag
@Mike in NC:
Not the Appalachian Trail. In Wisconsin they hole the Ice Age National Trail. Seriously. It exists.
http://www.iceagetrail.org
NotMax
Occurred to the ol’ gray matter that as s/he has admitted to working for “the campaign,” RtR’s simultaneous representation as the name of the superPAC to promote the candidate, while being a campaign staffer, may well run afoul of legalities.
A minor infraction, but implicit coordination nonetheless.
Legal beagles, thoughts?
Of course, RtR could just be lying. Wouldn’t be the first time.
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: I wouldn’t base a case on anything RtR said.
benw
Count me in as one who thought it would be Walker or Bush in the general, with Walker being the most troublesome. I blame Trump.
GxB
@mai naem mobile: That story has been floating around since before the recall election. IIRC there was another Scott Walker at Marquette who knocked up his girlfriend in the early ’80’s. Not saying it’s impossible, in fact I’d put money on the creep having a few skeletons in his closet, but there is little desire and conveniently few resources to nail Scoot in this state currently.
I think it is more a case of good ol’ Chuck ‘n’ Dave realizing they had a turkey in the race and didn’t feel like pouring money down that rabbit hole anymore.
Gian
the Northern Wall under president walker would be to keep US residents IN
and Canada would help pay for it
Omnes Omnibus
@benw:
No. Walker was always going to sputter on a national stage. He was never as strong as he looked.
Ruckus
Buh-Bye, Scotty!
More like
Good. Fucking. Riddance.
Petorado
I believe the secret to the grifting is that you get out while there’s still money left to put in your own pocket.
That said, how Walker didn’t burn down the Republican house with his platform of slagging the common worker and talking all about he was against the rights of the average working stiff for the benefit of those working to stiff them is beyond me. I mean what were all those polled white, working class voters thinking?
GregB
As a resident of NH I am sad at all of the lost job potential for building the Great Wall of Canada.
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
Good yontif, Pontiff.
burnspbesq
@JPL:
Not ever. Not about anything.
JCJ
@Omnes Omnibus:
I am amazed at the anti-Feingold commercials that are running on TV. There is some incoherent one about Feingold supporting the Iran deal and tonight I saw two from the Club for Growth which basically just say “he’s a liberal.” I hope you are correct that they are nervous.
Omnes Omnibus
@JCJ: I haven’t seen any in Madison. Interesting.
Roger Moore
@The Lodger:
Isn’t the traditional solution to dig graves in the basement?
Roger Moore
@Petorado:
I thought it was to get out as soon as there is no more money to put in your own pocket. Actually, though, with political campaigning, it’s permissible to keep raising money to pay off debts after you’re out of the campaign, so maybe you shouldn’t get out until the campaign is deeply in debt from all the money you’ve been using to line your own pocket.
lamh36
JCJ
@Omnes Omnibus:
I saw the two from Club for Growth tonight on ESPN during a baseball game I had on while working in the house. The Iran one has been on several times. Maybe they are only running them in the Milwaukee area. No idea about Green Bay or LaCrosse.
Omnes Omnibus
@Roger Moore: And that is point of suspending rather than ending.
Omnes Omnibus
@JCJ: I’ll ask my Wausau peeps if there is anything going on there.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@Petorado:
The white, working-class voters were thinking that Walker only meant he wanted to take union protections away from Those People, not them.
The only difference between Trump and the other candidates is that Trump says loud and proud what they bury in dogwhistles.
divF
@Roger Moore:
Nothing in his
lifecampaign became him like the leaving it.Omnes Omnibus
@Roger Moore: Send Teddy down to dig another lock for the canal?
Mike in NC
@Mike J: Quentin Tarantino’s WW2 film spoof “Inglorious Basterds” showed the importance of understanding finger gestures by country.
Jim, Foolish LIteralist
Some pundit yesterday pointed out that Rubio has been staying out of any Trump spats– and that’s the smartest thing I’ve seen him do– but if Trump decided to go after Li’l Marco on immigration, it could wound Rubio. Here we go, with the A word:
PurpleGirl
OT: This morning I asked the BJ hive mind for thoughts on a case of animal cruelty. I have an update: The attack took place in Rhode Island, not CT. Four of the five men have been arrested. One is on his way back to MA on outstanding robbery warrants, the others are being held in RI. RI has a strong animal anti-cruelty law and is taking the case seriously.
The kitty — Zoe — is home with her family. She is expected to recover well, but it will take time. With the broken leg, she can’t climb but is getting around otherwise. Not eating a lot but is drinking water and using the litter box. And she is loving her family. So that is good.
I want to thank the BJers who answered me this morning for their comments and support regarding the incident and my desire to write to the State’s Attorney.
Morzer
@Roger Moore:
I suggest two bottles of relish
Amir Khalid
Great news! The Bay City Rollers , a 1970s boy band from Edinburgh, Scotland (not the Bay City in either Michigan or Texas) are reuniting! For the glory of Scotland!
Omnes Omnibus
@Amir Khalid: Great news or harbinger of doom?
Irony Abounds
I’ll tell you who benefits from Walker’s withdrawal: the American people. Even he had only the slightest chance of winning, any chance was worse than no chance at all. One more complete fuck down the drain. Praise be to whichever deity floats your boat.
M31
@Kay: those were the good photos
PurpleGirl
@efgoldman: The kitty originally came from Alabama and the family in RI adopted the kitty from a shelter in CT. The shelter had a kitten cam for several years and has a concerned and active internet community. So people were pretty upset by the incident. I did some research into RI law and saw comments that RI takes these cases seriously. It made me feel better.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Neptune, you asshole.
Jim, Foolish LIteralist
@Amir Khalid: S-A-T-U-R. D-A-Y. NIGHT!
Amir Khalid
@Omnes Omnibus:
Aren’t Neptune and Poseidon names for the same deity?
Omnes Omnibus
@Amir Khalid: Hence the acrimony.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: It’s like academic politics; it is so vicious because the stakes are so small.
NotMax
@efgoldman
Damn activist Romans. Have to trample all over pantheon originalism.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Dear god. Even my ancestors skipped from MA to NY to OH to WI.
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Uphill. Barefoot. In the snow.
:)
srv
For your AM entertainment
, Obama’s finest:
JCJ
@Omnes Omnibus:
That is what I love about balloon-juice. Heated arguments over such important topics! And I agree, it is Neptune. @efgoldman is all wet!
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: Some was through a swamp or two. We shouldn’t leave that out.
@efgoldman: But Pennsylvania?
Aleta
@Omnes Omnibus: W/ due respect, that’s a lot of assumptions.
Omnes Omnibus
@Aleta: Explicate, please.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Major Major Major Major: No shit, Sherlock. Tats hurt, then they itch.
ETA: Then after a few years, they fade.
RK
It’s the perfect time for Jeb to have a new and truly energized roll-out starting with a new logo. I suggest Jeb#$@&*!
Colbert suckered punched Trump with the Mason dig. Surprised to see that coming from him.
James E Powell
I keep wondering – and this is not a slate pitch – would every Democrat, but especially Clinton, be best off running against Jeb?
Jim, Foolish LIteralist
@RK: I found it boring.
If we’re gonna play #confessyourunpopularopinion: I miss Letterman.
Dmbeaster
@srv: Almost as funny as Trump using stock photos of SS Nazi soldiers to demonstrate American values.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne (tablet): Better a Librarian than a Libertarian.
RK
@James E Powell: Nobody knows of course but I think the conventional wisdom may be that the Bush name is not a winning one now.
notorious JRT
I beg you; put some of this stuff below the fold.
RK
@Jim, Foolish LIteralist: @Jim, Foolish LIteralist: I didn’t find it amusing either and find Colbert having to place nice with these guys off-putting even if there’s a critical subtext.
Amir Khalid
It’s a bit ironic that this cycle’s least photogenic presidential candidate felt the need for a full-time photographer.
sm*t cl*de
@Roger Moore:
I prefer to think of that as “carbon sequestration”.
Sherparick
@beltane: Yep, that 1776 thing was apparently a horrible mistake and misunderstanding. Meanwhile, I don’t think dropping out when you are polling <1% means to much. On the other hand Diane Hendricks, the Ricketts family, John Menard, and Kochs will be looking for new pawn to invest in while executing the strategy of turning the U.S. into "Galt's Gulch."
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Petorado:
Anyone but a Demoncrat. But noticed they flocked to Trump’s Socialism for White People.
Paul in KY
Once again: BuWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Tripod
The trains Talgo built for Madison-Milwaukee service are still sitting there in Milwaukee. The state finally lost the contractual legal battle and ownership has reverted to the manufacturer. The taxpayers of WI are taking it in the shorts because Walker tanked the deal.
White GOP voters reside in an odd fantasy world where all criminals are minorities, don’t own cars, and are reliant on public transportation to do their crimes.
gex
My favorite quote: “Top donors had been raising concerns for weeks about the size of his staff”
When the entire party is organized around FYIGM, everyone is a grifter. I guess they thought Scott was going to treat himself and his people the way these folks want to treat the bottom 99%. But Scotty’s used to thinking himself in the league with the 1%.
mclaren
I accidentally read that as “Among the Walker campaign’s other extravagances, a full time-traveling photographer.”
Now that would be C*O*O*L!
“Hey, how about traveling back to the Library of Alexandria and taking some pics we can photoshop me into?”
“Sure thing boss, How about if I pick up some shots of Cleopatra endorsing you while I’m at it?”
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–mclaren
mclaren
@efgoldman:
And so why isn’t this being done in California, where the 9th circuit appeals court says there’s an “epidemic of prosecutorial misconduct” with prosecutors flagrantly lying about and witholding evidence in criminal trials?
http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-lying-prosecutors-20150201-story.html
Drivel geysers like Omnes Omnibus will rush out of the shower to explain why prosecutorial misconduct in CA doesn’t require removing the law licenses of the offending prosecutors, but no one with a nervous system is buying that horseshit.
mclaren
Sweet sweet schadenfreud…