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With Plan A and Plan B tits up, Plan C lasted less than a day.
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/18.....lling.html
Trump’s idea of Plan D is to “elect more Republicans.” I assume he means 2018. Apparently controlling the WH, both houses of Congress, and SCOTUS isn’t enough for these idiots to govern. He doesn’t get it. GOPers will never be able to govern — because they don’t know how.
Yertel’s plan for gaining power involved breaking institutional norms. At least some of those institutional norms enabled the legislative functioning of the Senate. Having broken it, having celebrated breaking it, having mocked their opponents and detractors for questioning breaking it, should anyone really sympathize with Hillbilly-Traitors complaining about a “broken Senate”?
Hey, HA libbies:
Even though Ed Mole has chosen not to mount a write-in candidacy for the Seattle mayoral race, you can still write his name in.
“Other than the salacious nature of it, I don’t see what the story is,” said Murray. “The system vindicated me. They withdrew the case.”
http://www.seattletimes.com/se.....d-in-1984/
It’s a slogan a little too long for a bumper sticker. Although this would fit:
The system vindicated me.
@ 2
…should anyone really sympathize with Hillbilly-Traitors complaining about a “broken Senate”?
No.
Since Dems passed ACA without a single Republican vote and with full knowledge that it had extremely serious flaws, no one should sympathize with the Dem plight when ACA collapses, either.
4,
Dem plight?
Tell it to the half dozen Hillbilly-Traitor Senators who stand to lose their seats. After all, there’s a very good reason quacks like you practice in Blue states and not in Kansas or West Virgina.
If Hillbilly Traitors continue to cut off subsidy payments to struggling marketplace insurers in those states, they’ll have only themselves to blame.
You traitors continue to struggle with this simple concept that these things you delight in breaking merely for the sake of “triggering” the hippies are the things you depend on for success.
Go ahead, keep breaking the furniture. We’ll be relaxing at the bar.
Only.
(((Goldy))) @GoldyHA 11m11 minutes ago
(((Goldy))) Retweeted Nick Cassella
To be clear, only 26 of those 70 law enforcement officers who died in line of duty were shot. The rest, car accidents, heart attack, etc
To be clear, only one of those two members of Congress who were shot in the past decade was targeted for political reasons.
Unfortunately for the Dems, the GOP worked on converting Blue Dog districts to GOP districts at the exact same time as Dems decided to ignore their Blue Dogs. We couldn’t have flipped a thousand seats without your abandonment of Blue Dogs, Dems. Thank ye!
Democrats See Conservative Blue Dogs as Key to Winning House
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-17/democrats-see-conservative-blue-dogs-as-key-to-winning-house
Blue Dogs are the ones Goldy and Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit will tell you aren’t worth pursuing.
Actually, not really fiscal conservatives at all.
But then again, neither are racist Hillbilly-Traitors.
@3 And here’s Doctor Dumbfuck dancing on the grave of a dead horse because he can’t think of anything else to do with his talents.
Murray is finished. Put a fork in him; he’s done. You’re not gonna have him to kick around anymore. Get over it and move on.
This is a big news day. There’s lots to talk about. Such as the utter, abject, total collapse of the GOP’s war against health care for the masses. They’ve got the House, Senate, and White House, and couldn’t even repeal Obamacare.
Let’s talk about that. We could have real fun trying to figure out why the whole Republican Party can’t chew gum and walk at the same time. Let’s start with Trump and this simple proposition: Whining isn’t leadership. Now take it from there.
@4 “without a single Republican vote and with full knowledge that it had extremely serious flaws”
Do you see the correlation, or does it fly over your pointy head?
Why do I always have to spell out things for you, Doctor Dumbfuck? Do you have a brain tumor, or were you simply born stupid?
When Obamacare was being considered, Republicans chose obstruction over constructive input. If their constituents had any brains, they would treat that as a firing offense.
@5 “there’s a very good reason quacks like you practice in Blue states and not in Kansas or West Virgina”
No paying customers in those places. So Doctor Dumbfuck comes here to feed in the insurance trough. People who process chicken entrails don’t make enough to afford him.
@6 Granted, even one is too many, but that rationale also applies to innocent unarmed civilians, dipshit.
@7 But Republicans have no problem with both of those shooters having unregulated access to guns, including the crazy one. Same goes for theater shooters, school shooters, nightclub shooters, church shooters, and cop killers. Republicans want everybody to be armed, everywhere, all the time. To hell with your personal safety, that’s not important, only upholding their out-of-context interpretation of the Second Amendment matters.
@8 “Blue Dogs are the ones Goldy and Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit will tell you aren’t worth pursuing.”
This needs to be qualified. Historically, Democrats have been for the working class, which is why I’m a Democrat. But if they’re stupid and racist enough to vote for Trump, then we don’t want ’em. In those cases, we commend their souls to the tender mercies of the GOP, like Saint Peter sending his rejects to the Horned One.
10,
I really don’t understand the point here with the trolls on this one.
Are they happy that some kids got fucked with? Sounds like it. Milo supports it. And they are still backing Milo with the hate-money.
It’s not as if some “more conservative” candidate is going to get elected. By any measure Ed Murray sounds like he was a pretty pro-business, pro-developer Mayor. Just because he’s out-gay and supports equal rights doesn’t make him a communist.
The Hillbilly-Traitors are stuck in the 1980s still fighting the culture wars they already lost a long time ago.
@16 They have to go after a washed up and ostracized lib pol because they can’t defend anything their own guys are doing.
“Just because he’s out-gay and supports equal rights doesn’t make him a communist.”
Oh, but it does, it does.
11,
big difference is that “…without a single Republican vote…” Democrats passed Obamacare and an additional 25 million people have access to medical care. That makes Hillbilly-Traitors furious. Not being able to reverse it despite “owning” control is just the cherry on top.
Even though Ed Mole has chosen not to mount a write-in candidacy for the Seattle mayoral race, you can still write his name in.
Even though you have chosen to remain wholly ignorant about the most basic attributes of American politics, we could still write your name in, too. What’s your point, Dumbfuck?
Since you’ve ducked addressing the most recent failure of Republicans to do anything like what they told you they would do on the ACA, you can contemplate Seattle going from having a gay mayor who once empowered gays, to having a gay female mayor who once empowered women. I’m sure you’ll enjoy that immensely, should it happen.
Just watched an interesting video over on YouTube concerning some crazy racist professor named Naima Lowe. Man, that is one racist fucking bitch there! No wonder Evergreen is such a fucked up place!
Say what you will about Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi as being effective leaders, I don’t really care for either of them, however Mitch McConnell has demonstrated he is pretty much worthless as a Senator with regards to leadership.
What has he done in the last 7 years? Nothing but obstruct people with real leadership skills. He has nothing to show for the last 7 years, nothing. Even with control of the House, Senate, and Executive branch, McConnell has failed to show any true political savvy and leadership moxie, in fact, he has failed dramatically time and time again. So much so, Trump stated that, “he wouldn’t own this” (meaning the failure to pass new health care legislation. Reid and Pelosi? Passed it without a single Republican vote.
My observation is this country is augering into the ground not due to only a political divide, but a serious void of any real leadership. I mean when you have a control of all branches of the government and have invoked the “nuclear option” for rules, and you still can’t pass legislation, by golly that is the definition of ineffective leadership, at all levels. It is a disgrace and how people like Puddy and Dr. Dumbfuck and even remotely support these “leaders” is simply amazing. Goes to show their real character and composition.
20,
(1) How do you know you are white?
@21 Whining is all Republicans are good at, and whining isn’t leading.
23,
I’d say they’ve gotten pretty good at breaking shit.
Persian Gulf, the economy, the Senate, public lands, science, the Constitution, Murrah Federal Bldg, NATO, Spicer, dozens of federal laws, Dixie Chicks, the ocean…
22
Go watch the video yourself, and if you don’t see the Lowe is a racist cunt you’re either willfully ignorant, a moron or a bold-faced liar.
Black people can be racists, too, asshole!
@24
Well they are also good at trying to force bullshit economic policies, protecting corporate interests, looking out for the 1% by throwing banking regulations out the window and constantly trying to give the 1% tax cuts. and evading military service.
The other thing they are really good at is having no moral compass. I will never understand why these hypocrites constantly foam at the mouth about abortion is murder and they must save every fetus, yet in nearly the same breath the rail and fight every form of social network to care for all of these babies, even in instances of rape.
They can’t even pass basic health care to allow for the care of these children. They want to cut Planned Parenthood, food stamps, social services, reduced lunch programs, pre-school, public education, the list goes on and on. It is high time that if they demand the repeal of Roe v. Wade, then they should be forced to provide programs for people forced to have these children born. They certainly don’t act very “Christian” most of the time. They say they are, but they are only “Christian” when it suits their need.
Viva Le Drumpf!!!!!
LONG LIVE IRELAND!
As much as (Repukilan) politicians suck, the problem is the stupidity of the people. As we continue to bicker back and forth the World has bigger problems. We can’t see the big picture. The people are the real problem. Take responsibility and be accountable., if you want anything better.
http://thehill.com/policy/defe.....ler-robots
@25 She and Milo should get married.
“Black people can be racists, too, asshole!”
Sure they can, and some are, but that doesn’t mean all are. As with white racists, you have to deal with them individually.
The worst thing about Kopechne’s death, 48 years ago today, is that it happened on the way to the private beach.
Kennedy didn’t even get to fuck her.
@26 It’s simple. They want to be the boss. At work, they boss the employees. At home, they boss the wife and kids. In politics, they try to boss you. If you conform, you’re one of them, but they’ll fuck you anyway because you were put on this earth for their enjoyment. If you don’t, you’re a fucking communist.
@30
It depends on your perspective. Some would say that since she died as a result of a car ride she indeed got fucked by Kennedy.
What? No #EddieWillNeverEverBePresident hashtag?
@30 “Kennedy didn’t even get to fuck her.”
How do you know? Were you there? Lots of people fuck in the car before they get to the beach. Odds are that’s how you got here.
I found this on a restroom wall 48 years ago:
“There was a young senator from Mass.,
Who found a nice piece of ass,
But after he found it, he fucked up and drowned it,
And now his bright future is past.”
Probably put there by a Republican. There were a lot of Republicans in that neighborhood back then.
It was widely believed afterward that incident kept Kennedy from becoming president. It’s hard to say. He tried to displace Carter in 1980 and failed, but it’s very difficult to defeat a sitting president of your own party. Off the top of my head, I don’t know if it’s ever been done. In the Senate, Teddy Kennedy was a lion, and a champion of liberal causes. He had flaws, but so did Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II, and he was a far greater man than you’ll ever be, Doctor Dumbfuck.
@33
Probably more along the lines of some some cheap “2-buck-chuck”, a gas station condom, and no Roe v. Wade as the law of the land.
@25,
(2) Have you alwars been white?
So, Chris Cilizza, now of CNN/formerly of WaPo and Roll Call, did one of those Reddit AMA things today.
I don’t think it went as he expected.
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/6o1ea5/im_chris_cillizza_editor_at_large_for_cnn/
People are really, really, really unhappy with Cilizza and CNN.
Comedy gold.
@3 & @37
Gee, no comment about J. Dennis Hastert, convicted felon and self-admitted child sex abuser, being released from prison today? You seem so infatuated with Ed Murray I would have thought you would have been all over this:
“Mr. Hastert, 75, the longest-serving Republican House speaker in history and once one of the country’s most powerful politicians, pleaded guilty in 2015 to withdrawing $952,000 from his accounts at four banks in at least 106 separate transactions that were small enough to allow him to evade reporting requirements.”
Hastert admitted to sexually abusing at least 4 boys, “The plea deal does not explicitly say that Mr. Hastert sexually abused Individual A, but at his sentencing last year, the former House speaker admitted for the first time that he sexually abused the teenage wrestlers he coached at Yorkville High School in Yorkville, Ill., where he worked from 1965 to 1981. Federal prosecutors have said that Individual A is one of at least four boys, as young as 14, molested by Mr. Hastert decades ago.”
It isn’t comedy gold, in fact it is sad and pathetic, but it is the Republican gift that keeps on giving. From Speaker of the House, to felon. Nice role model and leadership and living up to those Conservative values. Well done!
@38. Boob probably has given Hastert a blowjob. It would be two faced to rank on him now.
@ 38
Yeah, the GOP sure knows how to pick it’s leadership.
Only the finest for Ronald Reagan’s baby boy.
Lulz.
@ 38
Two points in reply:
1. Noted. I had not heard. It’s one of the reasons I spend time on HA – I see stuff here that I don’t see elsewhere. More than I would like to admit, it’s to my benefit.
2. At @10 I have Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit ‘splainin’ away Murray ’cause he’s done. Still in office but no longer a mover and a shaker. Using that rationale, what is Hastert? Even less relevant. ‘Get over it and move on.’, sez the Dumbfuck. Right back atcha.
It’s easier to play ball with y’all if the goalposts would stop moving for just a few minutes.
Here is the link to the quotes @38, I forgot to provide the source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/us/dennis-hastert-released.html
@41 Moving goal posts? Really? That is your defense? There is a huge difference between Murray and Hastert. Murray is just a mayor of a large city; however Hastert was the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, second in line in the succession order for the POTUS. Former Speakers usually have considerable influence at a national level, former mayors, not so much.
It just appears you have a huge man-crush on Murray, is it projection or admiration (or both)?
Speaking of moving goal posts, wasn’t it you who brought up Ted Kennedy in this thread? WTF does he have to do with anything anymore? Talk about get over it and move on. Hypocrite.
Goal posts. Right.
To be fair, he may have a point. After all, the Hillbilly Traitors make it fairly easy for us communists.
Hillbilly Traitor goal posts are:
– Get tax cuts for the very, very wealthy at any cost;
– Piss off the bleeding heart liberal hippies;
Full Stop.
Damn shame the Hillbilly-Traitors painted themselves into a corner on Simpson-Bowles and fiscal Teahadism. Tends to make the first goal a perpetually moving target having absolutely nothing to do with Democrats.
Which leaves them with very little room to do anything now other than piss off Keith Olberman and Rachel Maddow. Give Fuckface credit for figuring this out well ahead of the rest of the inbred, beer-drunk mob.
Such a fascinating response from @42 & @43.
Nuthinness personified by those two DUMMOCRETINS!
Gotta love CNN DUMMOCRETINS eating each other and one jock strapping terrorists!
http://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/.....ke-tapper/
http://twitchy.com/brettt-3136.....ta-shakur/
Gotta love the sick mind of DUMMOCRETINS. Oh wait… we have prime examples of sick HA DUMMOCRETINS!
Gotta love Dana Loesch!
KAAAAAAAAAAAAAABLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
http://twitchy.com/brettt-3136.....op-killer/
https://twitter.com/FDerron/status/887360185488084993
DAYUM funny!
https://twitter.com/FDerron/status/887360185488084993
DAYUM funny!
Nothing like a cold beer and some good conversation!
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