Mr. 87 Percent:
In case you can’t read the small type, it says “If you can’t give 100 percent, 87 is just fine.”
Can’t Bring Yourself to Type the Word “Ass”?
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Better headline:
Your vote only counts if I want it to. I am a Republican and I endorsed this ad and voter suppression.
Another MS Paint masterpiece. This is funny as hell.
You’d think the GOP would be a little more sympathetic towards gun control, considering the damage they’ve done shooting themselves in the foot.
Poor Mr. Boss.
Can you IMAGINE trying to defend Bush stink?
In private, these guys have pulled their hair out, but they have to keep the talking points alive.
No thanks.
Can you splice in the picture of Luke in the plaid shirt from his days at UW instead?
Too bad you’re Mr. Half-Assed-Week Ago. At the time you started it’s 96%. Yes, yes, it probably should be 100%, but at least get your percentages right when you publish stuff!
I think 87% is appropriate, because Esser prematurely called McCain the “winner” with less than a 2% lead and 13% of the precincts outstanding. And perhaps even more so, because the dynamics of the Republican Party rules guarantee absolutely nothing to a candidate with 26% to begin with.
And yes, Matty, the state Republicans now claims 96% reporting (same percentage basically as the state Democrats website has at this moment). But the Republicans don’t even break their totals down by county, while the Democrats do.
It would be nice to see the actual attendance figures from both parties. From what I hear, and my best intuition, 250,000 attended the Democratic caucuses, while only 25,000 attended the Republican caucuses. The Republicans had a few areas of relatively high attendance, while the Democrats had a few areas of relatively low attendance.
Actually, 87% effort would be a really good result for those guys. Much higher than the “gentleman’s C” they usually receive in their academic endeavors.
Of course, it’s all downhill from there – the “gentleman’s C” is the high achievement of their lives. Even though they break just about every toy/business/government they are given to manage, they just keep getting promoted and given another one to break.
My, aren’t Matty’s panties all in a big tight bunch?
Aw, Luke, you had your chance and you blew it. Will the man ever hold an office of responsibility in WA again? I have my doubts.
HI! MY NAME IS LUKE ESSER, AND I’M HERE TO COUNT YOU.
87% is an accuracy rate any bank would be proud of.
….AND I WILL COUNT YOU UNTIL I GET THE COUNT I WANT.
1, 2, 3, ugh maybe 4, we’ll see, 5, 6, 7……
Example of # 8, above: George W. Bush’s resume:
http://politicalhumor.about.co.....resume.htm
Or if you want something from a less humorous perspective:
“Bush as Businessman” (from May 1999):
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS.....kson.bush/
a quote:
“Looking at it from the perspective of a businessman, this was an awfully sweet deal for the business,” said Sodd. “Looking at it as a public official, we think it’s lousy policy to use government money to subsidize billionaires in the pursuit of their business interests.”
So Bush the businessman did prosper. But not by his bootstraps — with help from wealthy friends and taxpayer subsidies. ”
That reminds me of today’s news about the campus shooter, where we were reminded that most such shooters really don’t come from nowhere, and their really are plenty of warning signs available if those near to them care to heed them. Similarly, with Bush, there were plenty of warning signs. But why did anybody swallow that “compassionate conservative” or “successful businessman” crap?
Wa GOP: We have caucuses to select people who might be crazy enough to actually want to attend the next level. This is much more cost effective than, say, calling in the phone book at random….and the higher you go, the less commitment you have. The head count will be taken at the national convention just before the roll call.
So let me get this straight. You libs transpose the numbers for Sen. Clinton and Obama in Douglas County; Your Primary Vote Doesn’t count for anything (Nice use of taxpayer money by the way); And the “Super Delegates” in your Party are actually purchased;
http://www.boston.com/news/pol.....gates.html
Then, you have Luke Esser using Math to call the precinct delegate count (Accurately I might add). And somehow we are the ones that disenfranchise? Wow. Talk about hypocrites. That would be like your libs crying about the poor down trodden middle class Union workers, while hosting your DL events at a Non-Union house. You guys give new meaning to the Hypocrite
Since this is an open thread, what’s an economic populist? I’ve heard the term often recently, but I’m not sure how a farm movement from last century translates into today’s politics. What does the term mean to you all?
Gosh, that’s so inspirational! I think I need one of those posters to hang in my office, so my boss knows I’m willing to go for the 87% effort!
@ 18….
here is what a google gave me.
http://www.economicpopulist.org/
it does have a good post about the ‘tax rebate’
and i always gotta plug my boys and girls at Alternet.org
http://www.alternet.org/story/17758/
but to answer your question: i feel it is about “capping” Corporate profits to strengthen business and individuals.
redistribute the wealth of the world and narrow the gap.
Under the radar:
http://www.theolympian.com/new s/story/359127-p2.html
In 1992 when I-134 passed, the provision that prevented public financing of elections was hidden in the “small print” and was not the main point of the initiative. Previously, Seattle had been one of the first cities that provided some form of publicly-financed elections in the form of matching funds. It has gone down the memory hole because of I-134.
The new “local option” bill that was passed in this session allows for local CHOICE to finance elections through public monies, it is not a mandate. Additionally, any locality or jurisdiction that wants to finance their elections with public money must pass a popular referendum in order to do so. No state money is involved.
Washington Public Campaigns (washclean.org) has been at the forefront of this battle for years. Go to the website for more information about what makes voter-owned elections the next wave of democratic action on a local level.
Next, voter-owned elections coming to a referedum in Seattle this coming fall. Stay tuned.
B>BREAKING NEWS
Dave Reichert has just announced he will not seek re-election in 2008. Sources say he’s going to retire from congress and return to the King County Sheriffs department as a Deputy Sheriff’.
It’s also being reported that Dave will be assigned to the Special Victims Unit. Dave’s first case will be to identify the body of a local black man, about 6’ 2” tall, goes by the blogger name of Puddybud. Ironically, he was found dead, face down in his bathtub filled with milk, Life cereal, and a banana protruding from his anus. Deputy sheriff Reichert was quoted as saying “It looks as if we have a cereal killer on our hands.”
When asked if there were any suspects in the case, Deputy Dave responded “It must’ve been someone Puddybud knew, someone Puddybud trusted and that someone had to strong enough to hold his head under the milk until he drowned. Most likely a man. A man who could pack a banana in his anus. I will dub the suspect ‘PackMan’.”
More new on this developing case as details emerge.
For KIRO NEWS, this is Joe King reporting.
Read the comments: Telling very telling:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/.....y_id=24286
Hey ArtFart: Since You don’t acknowledge my words maybe the words of fellow donkeys will wake your sorry ass up!
The government is accepting requests for coupons to subsidize the cost of converter boxes for those who need them.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....digital_tv
Gotta love it, now tax dollars are going so poor people can watch television. Maybe the poor people would be better off doing some reading of books instead of watching the idiot box. An uneducated public is easier to control. Hhmm, which party is the party of entitlements?
Who controls the donkey system?
http://www.politico.com/news/s...../8535.html
Hey look the half a delegate must be Howard Screech Dean
——Clinton—Obama—Uncommitted
DNC—–138—–74.5—-192.5
Wash St–6——-4——-7
For Heilary:
Maria Cantwell
Norm Dicks
Tom Foley
Jay Inslee
Patty Murray
Ron Sims – WTF What a dummy!
For Obama:
Brian Baird
Chris Gregoire
Pat Notter
Adam Smith
Uncommitted
Ed Cote
Rick Larsen
Eileen Macoll
Sharon Mast
Jim McDermott
David McDonald
Dwight Pelz
GEE WASNT IT YOU FUCKIN IDOTS WHO SAID COUNT EVERY VOTE IN FLORIDA.AND NOW YOUR GOING TO FUCK YOUR OWN IN FL AND MI.YOU DEMOCRATS ARE A CLASS ACT.
87 percent of some unknown and irrelevant something that you cant provide a paper trail for too, luke.
the “87 percent of what” question took 2 days to answer — i doubt he actually even rectified the totally irrelevant pre-“caucus” sign-in sheets to the chosen delegates.
“heck of a job, brownie”