Please join us tonight for an evening of politics and conversation over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally. Material for tonight’s discussions: The hurricane that is the G.O.P. convention, Rob McKenna’s refusal to release his tax returns, and, perhaps, today’s Arizona, Vermont, Alaska and Oklahoma elections ….
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OK, how do I search the DB so I can determine which of the HAers said Romney wasn’t going to be nominated?
http://politicalticker.blogs.c.....omination/
Dang.
Obama lead declining in Iowa
“PPP’s newest Iowa poll finds Barack Obama’s lead in the state declining all the way to two points. He’s at 47% to 45% for Mitt Romney. In July we found Obama ahead 48-43 and in May it was 51-41.”
http://www.publicpolicypolling.....-iowa.html
Down from 8 to 2 in two months. Evidence of a Ryan bump. Proximity to WI. Obama approval significantly under water.
Don’t miss the last sentences:
There’s not much doubt at this point- Iowa’s a swing state and the landscape there looks a whole lot more like 2000 or 2004 than it does 2008. Obama’s unpopularity gives the GOP a great chance at reclaiming the state.
That’s from a left-leaning pollster.
(Sorry about the formatting inconsistency)
Unfortunately (again), I can’t attend DL – I have another business dinner.
Biographical profile of the Fort Stewart alleged terrorist/militia leader/killer: “Aguigui was home-schooled in the Chelan County town of Cashmere ….”
http://seattletimes.com/html/l.....ot29m.html
Terrific.. Schooled in right wing idiocy it would seem.. Now the right wingers want tax payer money to fund ‘products’ like this.
Aguigui and partner in crime Roark didn’t come from Seattle.
They came from the kind of places that the asshat troll “little maxee” thinks are some sort of paradise.
Whole lotta dumbassery going on in places like that. Dumbassery that gets people killed.
[repeat]…
Im surprised you didnt mention anything about him being in the military…we all know how much you loathe people in the military.
Here’s a good one for the klynical klown and the other tools..
Sher Valenzuela’s powerpoint on how to build a business…
with government funds:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrew.....erpoint-on
She built that!
Did some klown asshat say anything worth reading?
Republican convention is a snoozefest.
@11
arent they all?
How about an asshat convention?
sure, held in your basement.
@11 Not anymore. They’re kicking the Paulistas to the curb! First day of the convention and the GOP is already tearing itself apart! har har har!!!
At one point, delegates from Maine walked off the convention floor in protest of a Republican National Committee decision to replace 10 of the 20 delegates Paul had secured in the state. That move prevented Maine from submitting Paul’s name for nomination. … Bronza said the treatment from national Republicans toward Paul supporters had him seriously weighing whether he would vote for Mitt Romney in November.”
http://politicalticker.blogs.c.....?hpt=hp_t2
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Looks like the GOP’s new leaders can’t stand criticism or competition.
“Now that delegates have converged on Tampa, … one has to wonder whether there is enough room in the arena for all the conflicting and contradictory elements of the modern Republican Party.”
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/28/.....?hpt=hp_c2
har har har!!!
The GOP’s true colors:
“The GOP platform committee … defeated a proposed amendment that said all Americans should be treated ‘equally under the law’ as long as they’re not hurting anyone else.”
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/28/.....?hpt=hp_c2
har har har!!!
Next week in Charlotte NC. Lots of ASSes in funny hats!
Thanks for playing!
Yes Republicans are a party of the big tent. Unlike the jackbooted goose high stepping union loving thuggery you must toe to be a DUMMOCRAPT!
Thanks Roger SENILE Wabbit
Scott Walker… Wisconsin Guvnur!
Nuff SAID!
@8 I was in the military and he likes me.
@19 Like what? I’ve attended more Democratic caucuses and conventions than I can count, and nobody ever kicked me out, shouted me down, or arrested me. And I’ve never seen a union man wear jackboots or goosestep. But rightwing fascists, now, that’s a different matter …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
Herr Adolf didn’t like unions either.
Big tent my ass.
Ann Romney – FAIL.
Read the comments.
Actually, meant to put up this one for the comments.
http://politicalticker.blogs.c.....?hpt=hp_t2
Fliers passed out by conservative activists in Florida:
“Over the past year Voter Fraud has become an important issue in Florida. Governor Rick Scott has spearheaded the issue by creating new Voter ID laws to curb illegal voting. But the fear remains that it may be too little too late. Florida gun owners are uniting to bring a new law to the table called Protect the Polls. The logic behind Protect the Polls is simple. If you are a legal gun owner in the state of Florida and you suspect someone on Election Day is committing voter fraud you can shoot him or her with your licensed weapon and not be charged with a crime. Precedents have already been set allowing these rights, like the important Stand Your Ground law, and in this case, there is more at stake than just one person’s life; this is for the life of this great country.”
http://protectthepolls.com/What_is_PTP_.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Dunno if this is a hoax or for real.
Twitter:
David Shuster
@DavidShuster
GOP attendee ejected for throwing nuts at African American CNN camera woman + saying “This is how we feed animals.”
@TakeActionNews #TAN
Thats right Conservatives, you stay classy.
LMAO! Nice to know you’d stay awake during an asshat convention.. After all you’re an asshat..
But sorry my basement is not open to racists.
However..
LMAO! I don’t attend asshat conventions. I do recommend one for you though. It’d suit you quite well given your comment record here. And there’s the added bonus of hooking up with “little maxee”, the asshat troll of these threads.
On Wednesday will anyone who watched or read about the snoozefest which is the Republican Romney Coronation being talking about Slick Willard or his wife?
Or maybe the meme will be about waiting 4 more years for America’s most morbidly obese governor, Ruths Chris Christie.
“Let’s make one thing really clear,” Christie said Wednesday …. “There are three words that are not in my speech Tuesday night: ‘The Jersey Comeback.’”
“There’s a reason for that. When Christie took office in Jan. 2010 unemployment was 9.7 percent. It dropped to 9.0 percent earlier this year, but has since ballooned to 9.8 percent – the highest it’s been in 35 years.”
http://tinyurl.com/9hjkx9v
The bright side of Republican tax cuts for millionaires is that when millionaires are paying no taxes at all Republicans won’t be able to give them any more tax cuts.
@32
Iowa has a rather low unemployment rate. It probably has something to do with having all sorts of farm subsidies and old people with SS and Medicaid that need taken care of.
You’ve never been to a DUMMOCRAPT (Asshat) convention? Well living vacariously on your wife’s salary Puddy understands your lack of funds. You choose to be po!
Yes Roger SENILE Wabbit, New Jersey has taken a hit in the financial services sector, the one Obummer has been hammering over and over and over. Big Pharma Roche closed it’s research center another area Obummer hammered over and over. No one is gambling in this economy so gambling jobs are down SENILE Wabbit.
There you go! Simple to explain even to a old SENILE wabbit!
@ 32
Hey, RR, this is good stuff.
Why is NJ’s unemployment rate higher?
Maybe it’s because more of their citizens are actually still out there trying to find jobs:
For starters, the state has a higher labor force participation rate than the rest of the United States. About 66 percent of Garden State residents are part of the workforce, compared to 63.7 percent nationwide. A similar labor force participation rate would push unemployment across the country to about 8.8 percent.
Read more at http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/.....FYqIymU.99
What do you think Obama’s chances would be if the US unemployment rate was at 8.8%, RR?
Would you still be as much of a jerk about NJ’s problems?
@ 34
It might be partly due to subsidies, I suppose. Their labor participation rate is 70%. The fact that this number is so high probably mens that they don’t have a whole lot of people receiving non-labor assistance.
http://iwin.iwd.state.ia.us/pu.....conomy.pdf
will your old lady be turning tricks as usual? I know you guys could use the extra money..
Hmmm… Fraggy doesn’t people like her!
@38
They’ve got all sorts of subsidized crops and old people to take care of, plenty of work!
@40,
Just keep tea bagging; eventually you’ll get that job sucking the shit out of Rmoney’s ass.
Nope… gman does that, not Puddy. So scream0 @42, scram!
I see you like scrotums… interesting!
Remember SENILE Wabbit… New Jersey has 700,000 more DUMMOCRAPTS than Republicans. So it must be some of those DUMMOCRAPT job creators who are no longer job creating!
@38
Mostly it’s the farm economy, people gots ta eat.
Outside of farming Iowa has a pretty diverse economy, they make John Deer stuff, IBM has stuff in Iowa, the University Of Iowa is a big employer with a big medical center.
@43,
Scram yourself.
You keep up the weak stuff, you’ll just be another guy who applied to suck the shit out of Rmoney’s ass. You gotta work harder for the job.
At this rate, you won’t even get to be Rmoney’s shoe shine boy.
meme1 appears to be HA’s house felching expert.
ewww…..just ewwwww……the shit you freaks come up with makes me want to hurl…
@47,
Hey, I’m not the one applying for that job, take it up with spuddy.
This is a fucking liberal blog…the puddypussypissypants knows that. He’s the one who should get the fuck out.
No I don’t attend events that only exist in your pin head.
Perhaps you and your bud little maxee the asshat can hook up and make whoopee over something..
Paultards get the shaft during the coronation:
http://www.motherjones.com/moj.....ou-tyrants
Nice lesson. Big money candidates don’t care about the little guys and their quaint notions.
@19 “Thanks Roger SENILE Wabbit”
For what? Quoting a CNN reporter in Tampa? Ah, but you know more about what’s going on in Tampa than major news organizations with reporters on scene, don’t you?
Puddy Know-It-All is omniscient. He knows everything, even when he knows nothing.
@36 It’s Obama’s fault! It’s Obama’s fault! It’s Obama’s fault! Yeah! Dang Obama for trying to regulate those greedy crooked bankers! Romney will let them do whatever they want! Then everything will be fine!
@45 “people gots ta eat”
People gotta drive, you mean. Very little of the corn Iowa grows gets eaten by you stupid humans. About half of it is used to make ethanol for gasoline. Most of the rest is fed to livestock.
@33. After that, they’ll start giving them subsidies.
Did you take some memory pills Roger SENILE Wabbit?
Remember Obummer owns the economy. Joe BiteMe said so… Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz said so…
Hey buttspigot… Maybe the Paulians will vote for Obummer? Remember the ASShat convention is next week in Charlotte, NC. Your peeps!
Donkey – ASS
hat – hat
ASShats… Thanks for playing
Very simple for most people except HA’s buttspigot!
You know the favorite station of HA libtards PMSNBC was on one of our flat screens tonight so Mrs Puddy could watch the libtards in action.
What did Mrs Puddy almost miss? Thank goodness Fox News is programmed into the controller!
PMSNBC as racist as Lib da schmuck, rujax and headless dorky dorkman lucy! Shoeshine king Meme1, fits that mold too!
PMSNBC doesn’t want you to know blacks like Republicans. Blacks run as Republicans. Blacks hold BIG TIME offices as Republicans!
Nope PMSNBC – RACIST teevee!
@43 “…..always on you mind…..”. Isn’t that part of the lyrics of some love song? Thanks Puffy for thinking about me all the time but I’m not interested.
Fuck you.
Demonstrate how I am a racist, puddles.
Oh wait, you don’t provide intelligent discourse, you merely whine “Racist! Racist!” when someone around here points out that the Republicans’ recipe for success is stroking the collective id of angry elderly white people, and any others susceptible to overt and covert appeals to race resentment.
You have raised idiocy to an art form.
I tried to listen to NPR live broadcast of the convention on my way to my business dinner last night. Getting stuck in lots of detours and one-lane traffic between Mercer and Denny gave me lots of time to do so.
So I listened to one speaker (name unkown) compare Obama to Mao, saying that Obama lifted his re-election slogan from Mao. I turned it off, I couldn’t take any more of that sort of garbage. I turned it back on, only to hear another speaker saying that liberals were like bad dogs, sometimes you have to beat them.
That pretty much did it for me listening to the convention speeches. I plugged in a classic rock CD for the next half-hour.
So while the Republicans were trying to convince viewers that the Democrates were the party of hate and division, and the Republicans were the party of God, hope, and diversity, Rush Limbaugh was editorializing on the hurricane making landfall in along the Lousianna coast.
Look folks, I can’t make this stuff up, so I will have to quote it….
Perfect thing for you to attend with your “friend” the asshat troll, little maxee..
But I think you asshats will be upstaged by the Democratic Convention.
Enjoy your hookup with your “friend”.
@ 60
Oh wait, you don’t provide intelligent discourse, you merely whine “Racist! Racist!”
Glad you know how it feels to be on the receiving end, Lib Despair.
@63
The only “hookup” going on is ith your wife and her boyfriend…
Wow, did deathfrogg ever get slapped down by Jethro on a past thread–
I looked back and saw where deathfrogg poured his heart out about being treated unfairly. He is quite bitter. Hopefully he can rid himself of that baggage and move forward. Sounds like deathfrogg believes he was created randomly, has no soul and a short hopeless life. I suspect that is precisely what he is going to get unless he changes his belief system
Sucks to be deathfrogg.
@56 “Obummer owns the economy”
He doesn’t own the crash — that’s your boy Chimp. Obama owns the improving part of the economy.
@62 That’s an example of what 250,000 Oxycontin pills do to the human brain.
Corporations have $2 trillion of cash they’re not using to hire, so why does anyone believe cutting corporate taxes will lead to job creation?
Bank Regulation, Rmoney-Style
“Romney may give the financial industry … a revamped Dodd-Frank that would accommodate … the most profitable and riskiest activities while preserving a patina of protection for investors and consumers. …
“‘There’s this perception that banks hate everything in Dodd-Frank, and that’s just not true,’ said Mark Calabria, a former top Republican aide on the Senate Banking Committee. ‘From a bank’s perspective, you’d rather have … control over the process.'”
http://www.businessweek.com/ne.....=bloomberg
Roger Rabbit Commentary: I suspect there’ll be something in R-Money’s regulation reforms that says if a crooked banker steals your home you can’t sue. To Republicans, “reform” always means taking away your right to sue people who hurt you (physically or financially).
You would have thought Lib da schmuck would like being compared to PMSNBC. They think exactly like him. That’s how you know the PuddySmackdown worked. Lib da schmuck delivers the telling phrase!
@70, Phil Mattingly Roger SENILE Wabbit…? Seems he’s another Ron Paulian.
When did you start swinging libertarian Republican SENILE Wabbit?
This is just horrifying. Watch the video.
Child was bullied by students, teacher, say Kopachuck parents
The video footage is six months old, captured from multiple angles by teens with mobile phones in a Kopachuck Middle School classroom. In the images, more than a dozen students drag a smaller boy around the room, holding him like a hammock, peeling off his socks, writing on his feet, stuffing a sock in his mouth, holding a pillow over his face and covering him with chairs.
Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/.....rylink=cpy
The teacher who helped make this happen has been transfered to a job at the district office, not fired. Reading through the comments at the article there’s statements from his former students saying this was right in line with how this guy acts.
Unreal.