– The map for the 7 proposed Seattle districts does a better job of keeping the downtown area in one district than the state or county districts.
– I have not finished reading the Living Under Drones report, but so far, it’s pretty awful.
– There will still be blown calls, but the NFL refs will be back, and will be significantly better than the old ones.
– The 36th is an interesting race.
– People in swing states don’t like bad policy either.
– Those forest fires fucked up the air.
The fallout from the 9/11 terrorist attack (Hillary said so, finally) by Al Queda on the Libyan Benghazi site is just getting started.
WaPo points out that the moves Team Obama is making have political undertones:
“For political reasons, it certainly was in the White House’s interests to not portray the attack as a terrorist incident, especially one that took place on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Instead the administration kept the focus on what was ultimately a red herring — anger in the Arab world over anti-Muslim video posted on You Tube. With key phrases and message discipline, the administration was able to conflate an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Egypt — which apparently was prompted by the video — with the deadly assault in Benghazi.
Officials were also able to dismiss pointed questions by referring to an ongoing investigation.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/....._blog.html
There might be some pretty tough questions about leaving our people unprotected on 9/11. Even the State Department on its own website posted a memo about ‘Terrorism and Important Dates’, and specifically referenced 9/11 in this post.
So that would look pretty bad, right, if the State Department wasn’t prepared on 9/11 despite posting that it was an ‘important date’?
Team Obama obviously thinks so. They removed that post from their website:
Bombshell: Obama Administration Deleted State Dept. Memo From Internet After Discovering Al-Qaeda Was Behind Benghazi Attack
http://www.thegatewaypundit.co.....zi-attack/
How obvious an admission of fault is this? Imagine the HA outcry if the GWB43 administration had done it.
Lib Despair continues to maintain that we should all just wait for the official report. Problem with that is that it’s been two weeks and the FBI is still in Tripoli. Apparently they haven’t been allowed into Benghazi yet, according to CNN.
So I’ll just have to point out what we do know.
2011 Q4 GDP increase: 3.1%
2012 Q1 GDP increase: 2.0%
2012 Q2 GDP increase: 1.3%
Two more months of unemployment data and at least one Q3 GDP estimate before the election.
It’s the economy that’s in freefall, not Romney.
How bad is the economy tanking? Because of some revisions to earlier figures, monthly new job creation in the past five months is less than half of what it was in the previous year.
In a press release, the department said it would likely raise total employment by about 386,000 or 0.3% in the year from April 2011 to March 2012.
This is a bit over an average of 32,000 additional jobs per month, which would bring the average monthly job growth during that span up to 194,000 from 162,000
By contrast, the economy has added an average of just 94,000 jobs in each of the five months since March.
We had 3.1% GDP increase in 2011 Q4. This slowdown can’t be blamed on Bush.
http://www.marketwatch.com/sto.....lcountdown
As kos points out here, the reason the “47%” tape is SO DEVASTATING is because it fits in a narrative that already exists in peoples’ minds – that Rmoney is a ruthless, greedy dick.
This ad, from Obama, is nothing more than Rmoney’s words, and pictures of people who fit the Republicans’ favorite term, “Real Americans” (though I don’t think that means what they think it means)
Watch for yourself, it’s devastating.
Shall we all start reading Kubler-Ross so we can deal with Cap’n Crunch’s emotions over the next few weeks?
“It’s the economy that’s in freefall, not Romney.”
Gawd, you’re pathetic. It’s now like watching a slow-motion train wreck.
Your candidate is getting his ass handed to him. I’m sure that Galtian shits like you littering blogs with smarmy comments is one reason why that’s so.
And in poll after poll voters trust Obama and Democrats on the economy over Romney. At some point you have to grasp that trickle down is exposed as a fraud and the voters have caught on. Blocking bills to out veterans to work, blocking any jobs legislation really, has taken its toll.
its about the economy. Its about the party that crashed it and then tried to lit a club on the steering wheel just to win the White House. They’re on to you.
@2,3
I absolutely agree with Cap’n Crunch that the economy sucks.
However, fact #1, it is vastly better than it was 4 years ago.
And fact #2, people believe Democratic policies will continue to make things better; corollary of course that doctrinaire Republican policies were responsible for the economic catastrophe that occurred under Bush II (I actually wrote a typo “Bust II” that would have been accurate as well)
In the midst of a catastrophic evaporation of demand, what is needed is massive government borrowing at effective negative interest rates (ie we profit merely by holding the world’s money) and SPENDING on infrastructure and capital investments – power grids, wind and solar, trains, schools, libraries, teachers, fire and police, municipal governments – we all get really cool stuff that will pay for itself multiple times over decades, AND we put people to work right now.
Now, it’s clearly questionable that we will get this under a second Obama administration, particularly if the House stays in the crazygreedy peoples’ hands, but there’s NO CHANCE that anything like that will happen under Rmoney.
People know that Rmoney is out to fuck them over.
@ 5
This time last week, Doctor Steve, you were insisting I denounce a video I had not seen, which had nothing to do with the 9/11 Al Queda terrorist attack on Benghazi that killed four Americans.
Perhaps if State Department would stop deleting evidence and start honestly answering questions the smarmy comments would be less frequent.
Cereal doesn’t bother to look at the links on OTs.
The salon piece speaks directly to why Willard.is flaming out hard. His only reason for being is the economy. And people who understand the Romyan budget plan hate it. Repeat after me, supply side economics failed huge and those who espouse its virtues will never get elected again.
@1
Cap’n Crunch is reduced to reproducing “BOMBSHELL!!!11!” posts from the Teahaddist fever swamp.
Gateway Pundit?! Several steps below Dana Loesch on the Missouri Tea Party ladder of shame.
From the comments there:
Semms all Cap’n Crunch has is reposts of insane Teahaddists commentary from the bowels of the craziest of the WPPPP (White People Plus Puddl Party) sites.
Does anybody remember “I make you think, you make me think.”? That was Cap’n Crunch’s original posing around here, when he was still wheedling, and not yet shrieking.
It’s going to be a long 6 weeks….
@ 7
people believe Democratic policies will continue to make things better
Some people do, yes. If this is that question 34 in the poll discussed on anther thread yesterday, it’s less than a ringing endorsement, for reasons discussed.
Yes, things were better than they were four years ago. But Obama didn’t pass TARP, Obama didn’t provide AIG, C, BAC large amounts of assistance (more than was needed, it’s turning out according to some reports), and he was the beneficiary of a quick response to an initial over-reaction.
Shorten your period of concentration – after all, in 2011 Q 4 we were in a decent recovery – and the justification for re-election is far less substantial.
Finally, I think it’s important to point out what no one around here ever mentions when they talk about how cheap it is to borrow large amounts of money at prevailing interest rates:
WE HAVE TO PAY THE FUCKING MONEY BACK.
All you are doing by advocating for more idiotic borrowing is burdening your children, Lib Sci.
Think about that. You’re stiffing your own children with the bill.
@ 10
Was the post about Team Obama removing the memo from the State Department web site incorrect?
No?
Then your attempts to divert the point to a few idiots who comment on it are themselves idiotic.
Why did Team Obama take down the post that referenced 9/11 and terrorism, Lib Despair?
“Some people do, yes.”
Doctor Steve sez you need to take a fucking reality pill, Bob. Hell, take two.
Your candidate is getting his ass handed to him and you’re no fucking help to him whatsofuckingever. Smarm posted on a local blog. What a fucking loser you are.
Regarding Benghazi:
1. State Department/Team Obama has been wrong, it’s turned out, about virtually everything they’ve initially maintained about what happened.
2. We know that State has criticized reporters on the ground (CNN-Stevens’ journal) for using information available to them.
3. We know @ 1 that State has begun hiding incriminating available information.
Rove-ian behavior, one might say.
“Some people do, yes.”
Doctor Steve sez you need to take a fucking reality pill, Bob. Hell, take two.
Your candidate is getting his ass handed to him and you’re no fucking help to him whatsofuckingever. Smarm dutifully posted each day at 8:00AM on a local blog. What a fucking loser.
@ 15
Unless you’re giving advice on some aspect of enema science, Doctor Steve, I don’t think your advice is credible.
My goodness, Cap’n, you’re going to get nauseated spinning that fast!!
Benghazi!!11!
Economy!!
Debt!!!
Enemas!!
We already know she’s not an Indian.
Now it turns out she’s practicing law without a license:
http://ethicsalarms.com/2012/0.....s-matters/
$675 per hour is an awful lot of money to be earning as a not-an-attorney.
What is with you and your incessant inclusion of my children in your smarmy posts?
To your ‘point’…
“idiotic borrowing” is borrowing a Trillion dollars to invade Iraq. “idiotic borrowing” is borrowing to have massive tax cuts benefiting the rich. “idiotic borrowing” is running a deficit as a consequence of supply side economics.
Sensible borrowing is borrowing to either/both provide demand as a buyer-of-last-resort, or for capital investments that will pay back multiples of the initial investment. That the borrowing costs are essentially negative is just icing on the cake.
Why are Republicans so dumb about money?
Is anyone else finding that posting is really slow today?
Romney must have a really big dick, what else could explain why he keeps tripping over it?
@11
So now all that sew-shul-ism fixed the economy BEFORE Obama entered office while all the deficits from it which enter the budget in later quarters remain Obama’s.
Ot must be mentally taxing to make these contradictory claims. My guy spent it and saved the economy. Your guy isn’t paying it back fast enough and that’s wrecking the economy.
“Bush isn’t running this year. At some point you have to take responsibility. Obama owns this economy. Except for the fact that it’s growing really slowly and we’ve seen almost three years of small growth. That’s Bush that did that.” Cereal, or words to that effect.
@18
That one got debunked a couple days ago.
@18
HAHAHAHAAA!!!
Puddl was braying about that a day or two ago, and it’s been long-since debunked by the head of the Massachusetts agency that oversees law licenses.
You really have jumped the shark.
Is your parachute packed? Looks like the mothership is going down….
Tax Cuts? What Tax Cuts?
The election hasn’t been held yet and Rmoney is already backpedaling from his tax cut promises. He isn’t ready yet to admit Obama’s economic policies have been right all along, though.
“Mitt Romney says Americans shouldn’t expect a big tax cut from him if he’s elected president, because the nation also has to think about how to tame out-of-control federal deficits.”
http://www.cnbc.com/id/49193890
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Of course, this doesn’t apply to Tax Cuts For the Rich (TM). Under the GOP, they rich will always get their goodies. Rmoney’s only going to screw the middle class.
@ 19
Assume for the sake of argument that GWB43 used poor judgement and borrowed a lot of money for dubious use.
Assume we have learned from that experience.
Why would you support Obama’s efforts to do the same thing?
Pointing to a guy you despise and saying ‘Bush did it, too.’ isn’t a defense of Obama. It’s an indictment, Lib Despair.
It’s the economy that’s in freefall
And yet. housing prices in seattle are slowly rising.
I see waiting for plates signs in the new cars around me. People are buying cars.
I heard a republican operative on the conservative talk station talking about how vegas is recovering.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/poll-.....81001.html
No place is doing great. but it is slowly improving.
Heck even Romney said: Economy improving ‘in spite’ of Obama
http://www.mnn.com/money/perso.....nfographic
Are we where we were in the glorious past under democratic administrations? No, not yet. Are we getting slowly better while hamstrung by terrible debt caused by 2 unpaid for wars and despite an obstructionist congress hellbent on power. Yes.
So go whine and try to spread your FUD some where else.
@26
But you clearly learned nothing, and you obviously never will. Now go back to worshipping voodoo economics.
@ 27
The bottom end of the housing market is recovering, in part because it’s oversold and people with cash who don’t want to invest in a 2-3% CD are buying small houses and renting them out for a 4-5% return in the form of rent and a likely 2-3% increase in valuation according to historic norms of home appreciation, in addition to the depreciation deduction they take.
That’s not a housing recovery. That’s opportunism.
Just about everything around me that’s a house under $200K is under contract.
Seattle is not the US. Looking around and seeing yard signs supporting Obama doesn’t mean he’s going to have a landslide victory.
Yes, there is some housing recovery. We’re nearing the end of the foreclosure crisis, unforeclosed inventory is thinning, and the easy money on oversold starter homes has been made. The rest now cost more.
That’s not an indication of an economic recovery, just an indication that people with cash did what they needed to do when their CD rates had plummeted and bond interest rates and pricing susceptibility to inflation are scary.
Nice try.
@26 “Assume for the sake of argument that GWB43 used poor judgement and borrowed a lot of money for dubious use.”
That’s not an assumption, it’s a fact.
“Assume we have learned from that experience.”
There’s no evidence Republicans ever learn anything from experience. The rest of us knew better all along.
“Why would you support Obama’s efforts to do the same thing?”
There are many layers to the answer …
1) We support Obama, but not necessarily everything he does.
2) He’s better than any alternative we’ve been offered.
3) The premise of your question, that Obama is doing the same thing as Bush43, is incorrect.
4) In rough outline, Obama’s economic policies are similar to what FDR did to pull the U.S. out of the Great Depression, which more or less worked. The austerity approach favored by Republicans from Hoover to Romney has been shown to make things worse, so why would anyone do that?
5) To the extent Obama’s economic policies have fallen short of what might have been achieved, that is largely due to Republican obstructionists in Congress, so why blame that on Obama? We should blame that on the Republican obstructionists. And how much sense does it make to try to solve the problem of Republican obstructionism by voting for Republicans?
“Pointing to a guy you despise and saying ‘Bush did it, too.’ isn’t a defense of Obama. It’s an indictment ….”
Bush was despicable on many levels, such as his warmongering, authorizing torture and kidnapping and lying about it, borrowing from China to give unproductive tax breaks to billionaires, supporting job outsourcing and tax breaks for financial sharks who dismantled healthy companies, etc. But I will defend Bush on his bank bailouts, which conservatives and tea partiers hated, because those bailouts saved us from another Great Depression.
@27 Who said the economy is in freefall? It isn’t. It’s growing. Too slowly, but it’s been growing steadily ever since Obama took office.
Also, while we might not be big fans of Obama some of us really hate what the far right, the tea party and the greed heads have been saying and what they’ve done to our country and want to see them go down in flames this November.
All along I thought it was the Chinese who were funding our deficit.
Silly me.
Turns out it’s Lib Sci’s children who are footing the bill:
Fed Virtually Funding the Entire US Deficit: Lindsey
http://www.cnbc.com/id/49180320
In that case, I’ll have the premium-cut filet mignon and a bottle of 1995 Spottswoode. Oh, and give the bill to the innocent-looking kid holding the protest sign outside the restaurant. Yeah, the kid standing next to the guy who makes Amy Goodman smell good by comparison.
Conservative trolls –
Romney is doomed.
You know it.
Give up.
@26
oh dear, it seems you aren’t following the logic. You are making the claim that Tarp (stimulus) worked. I agree. Obama’s stimulous also worked. One stopped complete financial collapse as an emergency measure the other stopped the bleeding and started a slow roll in the other direction. An even bigger stimulous would have been better. (You can google for economists, professional economists not radio hosts who pretend to be economists, including a nobel winner who agree with that assessment.)
You, like so many, are trying to claim that government spending to aid the economy under Bush was appropriate. But then one day in January, government spending to aid the economy is evil, the height of folly, Obamunism, enslaving or grandchildren….
All the while pretending that the portion of the current deficit attributable to TARP and the Bush tax cuts are Obama’s doing.
And you can’t figure out why voters don’t trust your side to run the economy anymore?
@27
in nothing but annecdotal evidence three houses sold in my neighborhood this month, all in less than 2 weeks and all at or above asking.
But, but, but, Rob McKenna says Washington is in a freeall and only he can save us…
@ 35
I think TARP worked. Once everyone is done doing their retrospectives it probably will turn out to be overkill. But clearly AIG needed support – the mark-to-market thing was killing them, as their assets were performing but just valued so low that their capital levels dropped dangerously.
I think ARRA created or saved some jobs. I think the manipulation of what jobs were put in those ‘saved’ categories is such that we’ll never agree on whether it was worth it. Hard to give credit to a program when the goal of capping unemployment of 8% was so divorced from the reality.
The money was spent unwisely and not swiftly. The market bottomed out and recovered before anything was disbursed and entered the economy. The trough was March 9th. Significant money didn’t hit the economy until a few months later. That’s not cause and effect in my book.
Have a good day, all.
I pointed out the difference between wise and idiotic borrowing.
That you can’t tell the difference merely underscores my question, Why are Republicans so stupid with money?
@ 31
Who said the economy is in freefall?
Well, this guy, for one:
GDP collapse puts U.S. economy into recession red zone
James Pethokoukis | September 27, 2012, 9:08 am
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/.....-red-zone/
Citigroup has also taken a shot at determining the stall speed: “Specifically, when U.S. growth has cut below 1½ percent on a rolling four-quarter basis, it has tended to fall by nearly 3 percentage points over the following four quarters, and the economy has typically entered recession.
How low will they go? US Senate Republicans target disabled veterans pay increase? http://blog.chron.com/txpotoma.....ear-stunt/
Speaking of Romney being doomed –
Over at 538, Nate Silver’s “now-cast” is approaching Darryl’s numbers quite rapidly:
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.n.....like-2008/
Silver’s “now-cast” has Obama beating Romney with a 97.8% probability. I’m not a statistician, but that 2.2% difference sure sounds like it would be within the margin of error.
Silver’s title:
“Sept. 26: Could 2012 Be Like 2008?”
also sounds vaguely familiar.
@39
hoo-her, stop, you’re killing me.
AIE, the Koch founded Think tank that pretty much invented Reaganomics. I see. Cereal defends a failed economic theory by quoting the guys who came up with the theory. I see. Want to try discrediting Copernicus by quoting Ptolemy?
@42
Beat me to it.
Cap’n Crunch reduced to spewing AEI and Gatewaypundit and CNBC drivel this morning.
The FUD wears thin, and becomes only fodder for mocking the messenger.
Got that parachute ready, Cap’n? The mothership is aflame….
The stench of troll misogyny in the morning..
Smells like… fear.. desperation..
@33 That meme is getting very tiresome, and not just because it’s untrue. It’s most tiresome facet is that Republicans are the biggest borrow-and-spenders of all. And nobody has their snout deeper into the public trough than whiny Republicans.
Strategic mistakes seem to be Romney’s biggest problem. This dodo thought he could win by bashing the black guy.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/27/.....?hpt=hp_t1
@ 42
Does dKos have any recent graphs showing US GDP growth?
I’m thinking any they have probably are truncated at 2011 Q4.
If you want to highlight bad economic news sometimes you have to go places that are not favorable to this president. Discussions of bad economic news do him no good right now.
I read dKos stuff all the time. Wouldn’t kill you guys to read what the other side is saying now and then.
Anybody here think 2012 Q 3 GDP growth will be above 1.0%? I don’t.
@47 Some things are simple no matter how hard you try to make them complicated.
http://www.tradingeconomics.co.....gdp-growth
Lib da dunce works wonders with words…
Where is the real ruling? Just because this person DOES NOT BELIEVE, doesn’t make it not so Lib da dunce.
HAHAHAHA. Keep braying with stuff from left wrong sites!
@47 “Anybody here think 2012 Q 3 GDP growth will be above 1.0%? I don’t.”
So what? Every financial commentator in the world says 3Q12 will be the “trough” of corporate earnings. Isn’t it nice to know we’ve hit bottom and things will get better from here?
This is a killer paragraph Lib da dunce… so much for that debunking…
correction @50: So what? Every financial commentator in the world says 3Q12 will be the “trough” of GDP growth. Isn’t it nice to know we’ve hit bottom and things will get better from here?
@ 50
Every financial commentator in the world says 3Q12 will be the “trough” of corporate earnings.
You’re either a liar or indescribably stupid. Actually, you’re both:
A taste of what economists are saying:
– It’s all unraveling this morning. OK in the US jobless claims fell and the consumer comfort index improved. But the downward revision to GDP and the chillingly large drop in Durable goods orders is enough to send chills up your spine. Yes, aircraft and defense orders were the bulk of the weakenss. But nothing there is reassuring. Have the NFL’s replacement officials been collecting economic data? Please tell me it is so. – Economist Robert Brusca
– Durable goods headline looks like an F, details look like a D. … The latest durable goods data point to some downside risk to our GDP forecast for the third quarter, though we are leaving our GDP forecast at 1.5%. – JPMogan
– … there is growing risk that a 2013 tax shock could push the economy into recession (and there is little the Fed can do to offset the fiscal shock). – RDQ Economics
– Today’s U.S. reports included a disastrous August durable goods … the ex-air equipment orders data are now tracking a recession trajectory, which may reflect fiscal cliff uncertainty that will eventually be reversed, but which send a notable red-flag for U.S. growth. … We lowered our 1.5% GDP growth forecasts for both Q3 and Q4 to 1.4% … – Action Economics.
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/.....-recovery/
@49 So now in the strange world of puddyisms, a legal expert’s professional legal opinion is the same thing as a “belief”?
“Wouldn’t kill you guys to read what the other side is saying now and then.”
Horseshit. We do. And when we quote the likes of Peggy Noonan calling Romney a “disaster”, you go into deep fucking denial and attribute those remarks to anybody but a goddamned Republican. Good Lord, you are truly one fucked up person, Bob.
You’re candidate is a fucking “disaster”, Bob. So the fuck are you.
@51 The simple answer to that one is it’s for the courts where she practices to decide; and if they don’t have a problem with it, neither should you.
@53 “You’re either a liar or indescribably stupid. Actually, you’re both”
The same rule that governs forward-looking statements about the economy applies here: The mere act of saying something doesn’t make it true and the actual results may vary from the predicted results.
“Republicans may soon lose a key talking point. According to data released Thursday, President Obama may now be a net job creator. In the year following Obama’s inauguration, the U.S. economy lost about 4.3 million jobs. But new figures released Thursday show 4.4 million jobs have been added back since then.”
http://money.cnn.com/2012/09/2.....?hpt=hp_t2
It just keeps getting worse for Mittens:
“President Barack Obama has opened up a significant lead among Catholic voters, a crucial swing voting bloc, according to a recent Pew poll. Obama leads opponent Mitt Romney among Catholic voters by 54% to 39%, according to the survey, conducted from September 12 to 16 by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.”
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/.....?hpt=hp_t2
Roger Rabbit
Do you think a 1.9% pay increase for our Disabled Veterans is too much? http://www.nextgov.com/defense.....g-dropdown
That stupid lying rabbit is making $2,700 in the stock market today. That doesn’t look like an imploding economy to me.
@60 No. I wonder who the gutless GOP obstructionist is?
RR @ 58
See @ 3.
Go ahead and promote his ‘net job creation’. Add a couple of jobs saved if you wish.
All that additional data does is make it more clear how things have stalled since Winter.
Have at it. Tell people that nearly 200,000 jobs per month were created in 2012 Q 1. It gives us the ability to point out that job creation has fallen more than 50% in the past several (well, five, now) months.
@49 & 51.
Oh I don’t know about what he believes, but he’s only THE LEAD COUNCIL OF THE BOARD that will hear a formal ethics complaint should the wingers file one. I’m guessing that he perused the initial blog claims and knows a thing or two about what might happen should they file a formal complaint.
If they had something, they would file such a complaint rather than blog about it.
Orly Taitz, The Dumb Strikes Back, Episode 5
Having failed to get a single court in the land to investigate her star charter, Clow-Princess Orly has travelled to the far-off land of Massachusetts, the seat of rebel power. There she will wave a blog item and screech loudly.
For this matinee performance, the lead of Orly will be played by William Jacobson
Double post, not sure why, deleted.
@60 Shameful, a Republican blocking a cost-of-living increase for disabled vets and then hiding from it? I take it that Republicans prefer to use that money to give their idea of a true American hero, sin peddler Sheldon Adelson, a huge tax break.
They love sending Americans off to die in their misbegotten wars, but when they return and need our help, Republicans prioritize tax cuts for rich people over the needs of those who fought for this country.
Who the fuck in their right mind would ever vote for a Republican?
@63
No problem. You can point that out and we’ll just say, “Hey, ‘member that Jobs bill that Obama proposed? Remember how they voted in the house? (trick question.) Remember all the jobs bills Repuvlican’s proposed that didn’t say, UnTax the rich? Remember the jobs bill that would immediately put veterans to work that the Republicans killed? Why its almost (wink, nudge) like they purposely hold up getting people back to work so they can win the White House.”
Hint, that argument is already killing your guy but you can keep trying the same tired failed economic theory…
People are voting for their pocket books. The economy is recovering slowly under democrats, but more and more know that the republicans would make the economy much much worse for them.
Roger Rabbit, My guess on who the mystery US Senate Republican blocking the 1.9% pay raise for disabled veterans would be Rand Paul.
http://www.politico.com/news/s.....81409.html
Since puddl and Cap’n seem to want to discuss Elizabeth Warren, I’ll repost this from the other thread:
I should say, there’s some fine character for you, puddl. Scott Brown is a lowlife, as we’re learning in greater and greater depth.
How ’bout this?
Both sides do it…suuuuure. What an ass.
Is this site being slashdotted??
Is there a bigger prick in the US Senate than that one?
Oh wait…so hard, so hard to choose…
Who is claiming both sides do it? This is the Elizabeth Warren, champion of the little person… NOT! She has done this as an adult; just a few years ago. Scott Brown at 14. BIG DIFF Dunceman!
Another FAYLED argument from Lib da dunce.
Scotty Brown, dipshit.
Why… is your sucky blog not being slashdotted and you want referrals from HA?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
@1 – if you watched the Rachel Maddow show, the day after the Libyan attack, you would have known that the attack was not related to the protests over the film trailer. So who cares. Only natural that in an election cycle that the Obama administartion would play it down. We are also learning more that the Bush Administration was being warned more of the 9/11 attacks before that event. So Politicians lie. They are all the same. But some worse than others. Republicans = Nazis
Are you stupid?
Well, don’t answer that, we know.
“Both sides do it” was Scotty Brown’s position with regard to the BLATANT RACISM that his staff orchestrated at a rally this week, when asked to apologize, which he has not done.
Doesn’t his racism bother you, puddl? What would your Jesus say about the tomahawk chops and the war whoops? Doesn’t that degrade his Native American children?
The answer to checksez, who usually is on the wrong side of the issue…
@21 – he does walk really funny. Either his dick or he’s got somehting stuck up his ass.
Oh Noes… Warren’s house of illegal cards is crashing even further…
Wow! The Internet will set you free!
Apparently your information is at least 3 hours old Lib da dunce. And why should he apologize… he didn’t do it. But he regretted his staff acting that way!
Did Obummer apologize for the Joe Soptic collaboration with his campaign?
And do the Braves fans need to apologize to the Cherokees when they do the war chop at games? 60,000 racists Lib da dunce?
What about FSU Lib da dunce? All those peeps racist too?
Golly did anyone see Ed Stuck on Stupid Schultz’s show eating up the satirical Roger Simon post on his show? What a dumb ASS Schultz is, along with other leftists in the slobbering heads up Obummer’s ASS libtard media!
@78
Nice link. You missed the point. If they think they have something they can file an ethics complaint. Why hasn’t the board exinerate Warren yet? Uh, there hasn’t been a complaint. But we do know what the lead council of the board that would hear such a non existent complaint thinks.
You can link to as many obscure right wing ‘legal’ blog posts as you like.
Hee, hee, this is rich. Puddy’s Oh No’s link is a rank legal amature. At least that’s my opinion.
In trying to claim Warren represented a Massachusetts Client in a Massachusetts court:
Why is this so funny? A first year law student is probably aware that the First Circuit Court of Appeals is a FEDERAL court. Sure, it’s physically located in Boston but it is not a Massachusetts state court.
Got any more obscure legal scholars you want to quote, Piddles?
LOL! Typical defecation from
#2
If shit could shit he’s it!
Yes that link was from quite a while ago. Here’s the latest:
b cs -t puddymoron -c
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| count |
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| 35107 |
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1 row in set
He’ll always be #2…
Ahhh Puddy broke 35,000. Great Onward to 36,000
DUMylButtspigotASS Can’t think of anything original… Another diarrhea stain from HA buttspigot.
Exactly you dumbASS checksez. Where does one represent a Massachusetts client in Massachusetts on a Massachusetts legal issue? The FEDERAL court is based at the John Joseph Moakley Federal Courthouse in Boston, Massachusetts.
dumbASS!
Nope you missed the point checksez… This is a great issue against Warren. She can get an ethics judgment to clear her name. Why hasn’t she done that?
Translation: stuck at #2.. IS #2.. Always has been and always will be..
No Puddy. You represent a Massachussetts client in the state of Massachusetts in the State Superior court.
You also represent any case that is originally heard in a state court in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island or Puerto Rico on appeal at the 1st circuit in Boston. But you are by definition NOT arguing a case in a Massachusetts court, you are arguing in a federal court. This shouldn’t be so hard for you to grasp moron.
@88
There has been no ethics complaint. Are you really so dense as to suggest that she file an ethics complaint against herself just so dopes like you can stop pointing to the fact that the Massachusetts bar hasn’t cleared her?
Mostly because the only sources of complaint are right-tard fever swamps, and puddl, a swamp to himself.
Don’t you think, if there were even a remote chance of this being real (which there isn’t) that some Republican lawyer would file a formal complaint.
Wonder why that hasn’t happened?
Only if you can’t run on your ‘accomplishments’, can only run away from your ideology, and can’t get any of the kings and queens you regularly meet with to stand up for you.
It looks like our trolls have abandoned Romney and are now trying to save Scott Brown. Good luck with that, seeing as how nobody on this blog can vote in that election.
Trolls abandoning Mitt. Big Money is next.
Keep arguing for her checksez… Please! She’s losing this big battle!
More tales fro the Republican saga…Lack of Character!!
My info is not old – I was refenecing what Brownie said – and he didn’t apologize for the behavior of his staff. Yes, he should apologize.
No. Why should he?
Yes, and yes. You realy don’t understand racism, do you puddl?
What would your Jesus do?
Only in your wet dreams.
Really Steve? Nobody has abandoned anyone. Maybe it’s a Psych 101 thing… Projection…
So you continue to think Mitt Romney killed Joe Soptic’s wife.
Very telling Lib da dunce!
Here’s a libtard’s take on the Warren fiasco. It ain’t pretty for Warren!
Ouch!
Just had to keep looking for the checksez Massachusetts Court vs Federal Court issue… Link given above… wrongly rejected by checksez
Proves once again checksez is usually on the wrong side of the issue!
The Warren law practice issue is getting thornier for her to keep up her “position”.
BTW it was the Boston Globe who first printed the issue, not Scott Brown!
@72 How about the one who provides the shield for the Mystery Republican targeting Vets Pensions Mitch McConnell? http://www.politicususa.com/se.....erans.html
OH NOES! We’re SKEWED!
Samuel L. Jackson debuts profanity-laced pro-Obama ad
UPDATE 1-Billionaire Soros pledges $1.5 mln to Democratic ‘Super PACs’
@100
You’re losing focus. It doesn’t matter if she won or lost the case. Your original link argued that she had tried a case in a Massachusetts state court. Q.E.D. the First Circuit Court of Appeals is NOT and never has been a Massachusetts court
Having the judgment go against her client doesn’t change the fact that it’s a federal court. That’s the only point im making and once again piddles, you’ve dug in your heels when a not crazy person would notice they’ve misread something complicated.
If you’re going to continue, I must insist you explain how a federal court is a state court.
@99
puddl sez:
He then links to a legal ethics site, which appears apolitical. I take his meaning to be that liberals are inherently ethical, and certainly more so than Teahaddists. I agree.
The site in question, Ethics Alarms, seems fine, though the page puddl linked to is just a reprint of more Jacobson – the guy who is a right-wing partisan hack and who has been going after Warren for some time – the guy who originated the whole law license issue.
From the comments at puddl’s link comes a sentiment I share, and wrote above:
Put up or shut up, homeslice.
Once again poor checksez, is arguing over the minutia and lost focus… even libtard lawyers are beginning to agree with the Cornell Law Professor. The original case was Mass Case Law moved to federal court. Since it started as Mass Case Law it holds she practiced in Mass!
Sucks to be your side!
Oop…I was wrong…about the proprietor of the website puddl described as ‘libtard’, and at first look that I thought appeared apolitical and innocuous.
A few quotes in the comments from the ‘libtard’ who runs that site:
Doesn’t sound like a ‘libtard’ to me. Sounds like someone giving cover to a hack like Jacobson while he tries to kneecap Warren, which he’s done in the past, and which comes just as Scotty needs a distraction from the attention on his “Native American Detector Vision”.
Still silence from puddl about the blatant racism shown by Scotty Brown, first when he told the world that Warren obviously wasn’t Native American because of the way she looks, and then releasing the racist hounds to tomahawk chop and war whoop at a warren rally – neither of which Scotty has apologized for.
Shameful, deeply depply shameful.
No, all day we’ve witnessed puddl dutifully carrying water for this racist, desperate to smear Elizabeth Warren in any way the fever swamp can cook up. Dutifully serving the right-wing as they stir up some of that really vile Boston racism, the stuff that slithers under the surface, not seen too much in the sunlight since the bussing riots, but there nonetheless.
As I said, shameful, and pathetic.
Poor lib da dunce… First Ethics Alarms is a libtard lawyer hack who was dissing the Cornell law professor as a conservative hack. Then when he realizes there is smoke and fire… Lib da dunce discounts this libtard lawyer position.
Ya see Lib da dunce doesn’t pay attention. Ethics Alarms attacked the Cornell law professor from the beginning. Now he agrees with the Cornell law professor.
So typical when your position sucks!
@109
When are we going to hear that call from you for Scotty Brown to apologize for the blatant racism that his campaign has so desperately descended into?
Isn’t that a far bigger deal than this non-issue about Warren’s license? Isn’t it?
Or does Scotty really have “Native American Detector Vision”?
Puddl sez…
Please point to a link for that, because reading his blog just now, the first reference to Jacobson’s latest attack on Warren on that blog is this.
Take a look at that link, everybody, to a post titled…
…and bedecked with a Drudge-derived photoshop of Warren with war paint and a feather headdress.
When are you going to start reading your links, puddl? When are you going to stop trying to pass yourself off as someone who knows things, and who doesn’t just cut and paste what his betters command him to? (…and we all know you’re not a regular reader of Ethics Alarms, despite you voice implying familiarity, give up the fraud)
War paint and a feather headdress? Did you think that was funny?
When are you going to start having some self-respect and call bullshit on the racism the Republicans slither into whenever they feel themselves losing?
Oh Piddles, you are so ignorant and you don’t even know it.
No. If she was council on the case before the appeals process, you’d have a point. But, in everything I’ve seen quoted, and I’m willing to admit that some evidence could still come up that she was involved in the Massachusetts Superior case, just because the case originated in Massachusetts doesn’t make the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals a Massachusetts court.
there’s a fundamental difference between a state case and a Federal appeal that you are either too stupid to grasp or, as I suspect, you know you’re wrong and keep digging in so as not to admit it.
If Roger Rabbit argues a case before the 9th Circuit Court in Seattle, even if the case originated in Washington, he’s not arguing in Washington State Court
This should be clear to even the thickest of dullards. But naturally, I’m dealing with Piddly so it’s no wonder he doesn’t get it.
Incase anyone needs help preparing for the second coming of Christ, I found a Mormon website that can help you out.
And where did Puddy say that? The record is right in front of you. The Ethics Alarms dude (a libtard) also agreed with it. Only your simple little mind can’t process those facts.
Stay stoooopid checksez, you are an expert at stoooopidity!
For fucks sake Puddy, keep up. That was my point. The ethics alarm guy wrote that the First Circuit proves Warren practiced before a state court. THAT’s why he, and you, are not smarter than a first year law student.
What you, and the linked post are insinuating is that you must be licensed in MA to appear before the FEDERAL appeals court. So you’re saying an attorney can’t argue before the Supreme Curt without being licensed in the district because that’s where the court is physically located. So no one who isn’t licensed in California can practice before the San Francisco based 9th circuit?
done.
Notice how Lib da dunce attacks Puddy? The evidence is so compelling he has nothing else. Now why is that? Because the bells are pealing. Elizabeth Warren’s candidacy is going the way of Martha Coakley. People in MA are asking about her law “practice” and Lib da dunce attacks Puddy.
Sad so sad!
Keep the faith checksez… Keep hoping for the best. Cuz Warren is dropping like a smelly turd. MA law is interesting… and it seems the Cornell Professor has identified how she broke rules. She hasn’t said he’s a liar. In fact she’s said nothing…
That’s the telling part!
No, I got tired of you driving the conversation with innuendo and trivialities – just like desperate little Scotty Brown is doing.
I wanted to talk about something more substantial – his blatant racism, the vileness he’s descending into to smear Elizabeth Warren. And you are silent. On racism.
You carry his water like a good little boy, patted on the head, doing your best to repost the most stupid and baseless and insipid drivel from the fever swamp.
Moreover, multiple people, myself included, have punched serious holes in what passes for an argument in your rambling, pointless posts.
Are you proud that you lack all credibility with people you can’t stop trying to impress? Or is that a non sequitur?
So, I tried to talk some sense into this guy over on Youtube:
But, all it did was get him more riled up. I should have known better. Hope he doesn’t go all Tim McVeigh when Obama wins in November.
A take on Elizabeth Warren, champeen of the little guy
Did any of you leftist fools use the PMSNBC video of Romney and Ryan in Ohio? Well it seems there is another of those PMSNBC disparities…
Gotta love the station of record for so many HA libtards!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Eric Holder has to go!
Oh wait… he’ll claim he knew nothing of this “deal”.
@120
WOW! You’ve uncovered…nothing.
And I think your mancrush Jacobson would be distressed that your cribbing his work without link or attribution.
puddy’s a THIEF!!!
Ahem.
The stench of your desperation grows more pungent by the day.
Buh-bye widdle Scotty…..
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
http://andrewsullivan.thedaily.....dolan.html
The Warren legal inspection continues.
Lib da dunce@123… Thief… that was a commenter you jackASS! This thread already has multiple Jacobson’s links. And… you jackASS his new posts are threaded to his old posts.
Lib da More Stupid than a box of dunce chocolates.
I have this theory that is why it’s hard to get people to want to pay for public schools.
Individually, so many people think I don’t have kids or my kids are grown, or my kids go to private schools so why should I pay for public schools? What’s in it for me?
communities, they don’t see any benefits for funding quality schools because the kids are going to leave and get jobs somewhere else, generating taxes for that other place. What’s in it for the community?
Jews are fleeing Obummer as stated two weeks ago..
Ahhh yes, you can get the latest in ObummerWear right here!
Wait for it… the copy cats will appear in
3….
2….
1….
Puddy calls it again!
And John McCain hilariously destroys Obummer on Benghazi regarding the sadministration’s fictional account of a “spontaneous” demonstration! Puddy wonders how Susan Rice sleeps at night!
Wait a mnute… they always carry RPGs to “spontaneous” demonstrations!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
If Defense Secretary Leon Panetta calls Benghazi a terror attack, why didn’t Obummer call it one in his UN speech?
Obummer’s silly speech at the UN claimed the dead Ambassador, the two retired navy seals and the other person were victims of rioters outraged by the anti-Muslim video. Reading the speech from da whitey house link, Obummer made sure to denounce film as “crude and disgusting” never mentioning Al Qaeda planned the attack long before 9/11/2012.
Why is this Obummer so weak on using the words terror attack?
And why hasn’t the slobbering head up Obummer’s ASS libtard media held Hillary Clinton accountable for the lies from the State Department on Benghazi security around the dead ambassador? Because they want Obummer to win again and they will make sure at all costs and coverups!
Google Maps works just fine on my Samsung phone.
http://www.apple.com/letter-from-tim-cook-on-maps/
Suck it, Apple.
US State Department finally figures out that maybe a country that overthrew and murdered its former leader last year still might not be all that safe.
US pulls out more staffers from embassy in Libya over security fears
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....story.html
Heckuva job, Hillary.
Oh my Mrs ylb’s union paid protesters at Romney/Ryan rally!
Obummer allies are union thugs and bullies!
More wasted union dues! Poof!
Fuck the puddypussypissypants.
President Obama has the same kind of lead with Jewish voters (thanks to Bibi boosting the President and screwing Romney during his UN address) as the President has with the Black electorate, and Willard “The Stench” (not my perjorative…this is what PAUL RYAN calls his running mate!!!) Romney has not only lost Florida, but the now election is lost.
R-money is in danger of collecting less than 200 Electoral Votes, and losing up to 20 seats in the House, and maybe the House itself.
I JUST FUCKING LOVE IT.
In rujax world 65% .EQUALS. 78%. In Florida that’s estimated to be approximately 50,000 votes you idiot!
And y’all wonder why Puddy calls this “being” the lowest of the low!
135 – yaaaawwwnnnn.
Which union is it again?
@138, right on time ylbuttspigot…
U R so predictable diarrheahead. Puddy PWNS you! Trust Puddy, not visiting your useless blog! Maybe slashdot will make your day and link Goldy’s site so you can receive cast off traffic!
dumbASS!
http://content.usatoday.com/co.....GXdPFHpUmw
Like I said:
“Fuck the puddypussypissypants.”
139 – Sigh… I don’t get it fool.. The money your wife pays for dues could be going to the fambly.. Why can’t she let the market decide on the value of her labor? She could be employed by a cheap labor conservative. That would be heaven for you.
I thought you said she was more conservative than you in some things..
Apparently she’s more socialist than you in others.
Very strange how you can live with that.
Hey!
Where was “The League of Delusionary Assholes” when US Sailors were killed in the attacks on the USS Stark under Reagan in 1987 and the USS Cole under ‘Lil Georgie in 2000.
Mother.
Fucking.
Hypocrites.
@ 142
First of all, your post is irrelevant. We should have learned from previous events and better protected our people.
Hell, remove the word ‘better’ from the above and it’s still an accurate sentence.
Second, the USS Cole attack occurred under Clinton’s watch, during the 2000 election campaign.
Nice try.
Seems like Susan Rice’s Sunday news show tour is turning out more and more to be nothing more than a big lie:
U.S. responded to Benghazi attack as terrorism on ‘Day One’: Source
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ti.....ction.html
Small wonder both Dems and Reps in the Senate are calling for a hearing.
What did Barack know and when did he know it?
Does Hillary get thrown under the bus before the election or does Team Obama wait until afterward?
If the former, what will Bill’s response be?
@143…
So what, jerk.
The President is winning, the Republican Party is in shambles…
…AAAAND…
…if I were the guys in Libya (and I am certainly glad I’m not) I’d be worried about waking up staring at the barrels of an armed Blackhawk.
Unlike St. Ronnie and Lil’ Georgie, this President takes out the bad guys…I thought “The League of Delusionary Assholes” liked the strong silent types.
Oh noes… blackhawks… rhpee6033 just wet himself!
2000… Clinton was preznit. Didn’t you once bray about Clinton and his “balanced budget” rujax? Sure you did! When did that “balance act” occur rujax?
Once again rujax is chronologically challenged… And y’all wonder why Puddy calls this “being” the lowest of the low!
Rujaxoff gets pwn3d.
USS Cole and bush…lol….just…….lol.
Epic fail.
A couple of days ago Romney was undignified or some shit.
There was a whole HA post about it.
Today:
Just throwing this out there. I wasn’t watching closely and haven’t gone frame by frame through any video.
Here’s my question:
BUSINESS
ANOTHER MSNBC SCANDAL? BLAZE READERS AT CAMPAIGN EVENT CLAIM NETWORK MISLED IN VIDEO OF RALLY CHANT (WITH AUDIO COMPARISON)
http://www.theblaze.com/storie.....lly-chant/
What if HA ran a thread based on a falsehood by MSNBC?
Is this an Emily Litella moment for HA?
So Cap’n, while you’re attacking MSNBC for allegedly giving Romney a sad, could you give us five itty bitty little improvements that Willard Mitt Romney will make in the lives of average working Americans, should he be elected President?
(I know that seems ever more remote, but that is why you’re defending him, right?)
Oh my, another s finding out more about the imaginary law license of Elizabeth Warren…
I don’t need no stinking license. I am a native american law professor at Harvard. Fauxcohantas or Lieahantas. Either works!
Of course nothing about her will be posted this evening in the Friday Night Comics section!
Ouch!
The other thing from the link is this…
Butt, butt, butt, all of her defenders claim she didn’t use her Harvard office to practice law. Therefore she’s not a member of the New Jersey bar either. Hence she’s not a member of any bar! And she told the federal courts she was a member in good standing in Texas! Oopsie…
So Roger SENILE Wabbit, were you ever on inactive bar status and told the court you were active?
What about proud leftist? Were you ever on inactive bar status and told the court you were active?
What about Richard Pope? Were you ever on inactive bar status and told the court you were active?
Hmmm…?
Wow.
Idiot poolboy puddl is shilling for his betters like crazy today!
Doing his best to drum up a complete non-issue – despite his best shrieking efforts has failed to demonstrate that there’s a there there.
Glaring is his utter siilence on the vile racism that white-boy Scotty Brown and his posse have been showing the world.
Nothing puddl? Nothing about the ‘obviously not a Native American’ x-ray vision? The war whoops? The Warren picture doctored with the war paint and feathers?
How convenient for you not to notice such vile displays of racism – you really are a good servant, carrying water for the worst people in the world.
You must be so proud.
When FAIL is just not good enough, only EPIC FAIL will do
D’oh!
“I didn’t know 10 year-olds value abortion………”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhV9aZOqmz8
“…… so wake the fuck up.”
Bwaaaaa haaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaa
Keep thinking that dunceman!
Now that the silly NFL referee lockout is over with, we can get back to what’s really important about football.
Why does TX has four more electoral votes? I believe this is why.
Why, yes — there will be a Victoria’s Secret at Cowboys Stadium
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/.....1;nfl.html
On the other hand, people are leaving New York in droves, and NY lost two electoral votes as a result.
The new Democracy Now! studio is located in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.[9]
http://www.google.com/search?c.....8;oe=UTF-8
Coincidence? I think not.
I’m not a fan of Allen West.
But I’m a fan of Allen West’s ad agency:
http://thehill.com/video/campa.....-in-new-ad
Best 30 seconds of political admaking I’ve seen so far this year.
Best black man in Congress!
Wrong again, poolboy. He’s the dumbest, most malignant motherfucker this side of…wherever you are.
A complete disgrace to the US House, and soon to be known as ‘former’ Rep Allen West (R-Loonytoons).
@ 162
A complete disgrace to the US House…
Which reminds me, how is Alan Grayson’s campaign going, anyway?
B I N G O!
Which proves he’s way smarter than dunceman! West is doing his job!
Found this on the nets…
Wow. That ad make Murphy look like Jane Hague..
I don’t believe Murphy was serving in public office at the time.. Nor was he driving.
So Murphy made a mistake. West fired a fucking gun next to a captive’s head who was innocent of wrongdoing. Not in the army’s interrogation manual afaik. He was fined and drummed out of the military..
And this idiot’s been on an ugly resentment binge ever since.
I wonder how the fundraising went after he accused his Dem colleagues of being communists. About as well as Michelle Bachmann’s after her Muslim witchhunt I’m sure.
So the puddypussypissypants is really stupid.
Did he ever tell anybody he was smart?
Hmmmm?
ALLAN WEST IS A WAR CRIMINAL AND SHOULD BE PROSECUTED.