Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) has a little slip-o-the-tongue (via Thinkprogress):
And we all know what he means by “score a victory for the Republican people.”
Dear Rep. Pence,
“No” means NO!
Love,
America
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Where’s the jobs Pence?
The fuckers ran on JOBS.
Where ARE the JOBS?
Republicans can’t solve problems. Republicans ARE the problem.
I’d like for the Republican party to be so weak and small that we could drown it in the bathtub.
@3
too bad we cant do that to both parties – and actually have some real democracy for a change.
What’s the big deal? Everyone knows Republican budget maneuvering is partisan politics at its slimiest. That’s been obvious from the get-go.
@4 Typical of the wingnut “Democrats are just as bad” crap we get when Repukes are caught with their pants down. No, Democrats aren’t the same as Republicans. They’re not great, but Republicans are much, much worse.
In other news, Wisconsin’s in-denial governor says yesterday’s Republican loss of a state supreme seat crucial to the survival of his union-stripping bill wasn’t a referendum on him. Sorry, buddy, it was … and, since you didn’t hear those 85,000 demonstrators outside your office, the voters sent you a loud and clear message yesterday in a language even you should be able to understand.
Meanwhile, organizers of a recall campaign against another Republican state senator are close to their signature goal, and are expected to file their recall petition tomorrow — the second against eight targeted GOPers in Wisconsin’s state senate. Replacing only 3 of those 8 Republican senators would give control of the state senate to Democrats and make it impossible for Gov. Walker to pass his radical agenda during his remaining 10 months in office.
will someone please turn off the rabbits O2 tank…the sooner we weed out the lemmings the better.
thanks in advance.
In other Wisconsin news, a county judge who kicked and pounded on her ex-boyfriend’s car as he attempted to escape from her has been charged with disorderly conduct. If she wasn’t such a bitch maybe he’d still be her boyfriend! Betcha she’s a Republican.
The stock market is down about 41 points in anticipation of a Republican shutdown of the federal government.
@9
that probably pales in comparison to what you have done to your wife.
slimball lawyers have a way not getting caught.
@10
Republicans must like falling stock markets. Remember how shitty it was when we went into Iraq?
Pawned talked in another thread that he didn’t approve of help to people. People needed to get jobs and earn everything.
So where are the jobs?
Where are the republican jobs programs they campaigned on? For Example: How does defunding Planned Parenthood create jobs? Where ARE the JOBS? Why did jobs go away during bush? Why aren’t Alabama and Louisiana economic powerhouses of the country? Where ARE the Republican generated JOBS?
@8. Getting to yah? Relentless truth can do that to you.
@11. Personal attacks. A clear sign of a person of weak character who is not winning the discussion.
Planned Parenthood and the EPA.
THAT’S what these asholes are holding the country hostage for. A MINISCULE postion of the budget.
THAT’S how insane max and npr and puddybitch and upton and the rest of these fucks are.
THIS is your republican party at work. Just like 1995…
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/.....cy-riders/
@11 This seems pretty illogical. If I had done what you imply, she wouldn’t still be my wife, would she? But then, rational thinking isn’t exactly a strong suite of wingnut fools …
@12 Actually, they do, because a falling stock market creates buying opportunities. You never want to buy stocks when things are going well.
@13
gimme a break john – personal attacks are the norm for this place.
neither party is interested in jobs – they are only interested in making the other party look bad. that should be pretty obvious.
@13 Actually, he conceded I’m a lawyer, not a courthouse janitor. No doubt that was a slip-up, for which he will be severely punished by his fellow trolls.
@17 “personal attacks are the norm for this place”
Why do you have a problem with us behaving like Republicans? After all, you guys do it, so why can’t we? Why should Republicans have a monopoly on Republican behavior?
17. NPR keeps getting PWN3D spews:
You continuously shill for republican positions and vomit dorimonson talking points. We get hip to bullshit like yours pretty fast here.
So, let the Senate pass the bill as is and Obama can make a few ‘signing statements’ upon signing the bill that would take out the problematical Republican verbiage.
Bush gave us copious precedent for this kind of weasely behavior.
@21
GOOD POINT! If I remember right from when Bush was President, there’s this theory of the “unitary executive” the Republicans believe in, especially at a time of war (which we’re in) which gives the President virtually limitless powers to do anything he wants. Huh! Thanks Dick Cheney! Obama can unilaterally just use “signing statements” to change any law passed by Congress and THEN intermediately sign it! SWEET!
He should do that (or at least threaten to) just to watch HOW fast the Republicans turn on their own policy (like Romney turning against his own health plan, or Newt turning against his idea of “mandated health insurance” from the 90s)
@7 RR:
Will you still be insisting WI supreme court results are a referendum on Walker if Prosser pulls it out?
’cause you seemed pretty insistent on that point earlier today.
Outside of Madison, Prosser took more of the statewide vote than Walker did a year earlier. Wouldn’t that indicate that all those state union employees in Madison were trying like hell to hold on to their bennies, and the rest of the state thought otherwise?
It being a referendum on Walker an’ all. Like you said.
nationalreview.com:
After Tuesday night’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election, a computer error in heavily Republican Waukesha County failed to send election results for the entire City of Brookfield to the Associated Press. The error, revealed today, would give incumbent Supreme Court Justice David Prosser a net 7,381 votes against his challenger, attorney Joanne Kloppenburg. On Wednesday, Kloppenburg declared victory after the AP reported she finished the election with a 204-vote lead, out of nearly 1.5 million votes cast.
On election night, AP results showed a turnout of 110,000 voters in Waukesha County — well short of the 180,000 voters that turned out last November, and 42 percent of the county’s total turnout. By comparison, nearly 90 percent of Dane County voters who cast a ballot in November turned out to vote for Kloppenburg.
where are the jobs indeed
Recount jobs available in Madison, WI. Bring your own blank ballots.
@22 The latest permutation, courtesy of Eric Cantor, is the House can pass legislation without the Senate or President by writing language into the bill saying it takes effect if not approved by the Senate and President by a certain date.
@26 Republicans think the only way they can lose an election is if Democrats stole it. It never occurs to them that they’re hated by nearly everyone because they’re continually trying to screw over 98% of the population.
@24 As of this afternoon, local Wisconsin media report Prosser picked up 200 votes, not 7381 votes, from Waukesha County due to a “clerical error” and got another 40 from Winnebago County, giving Prosser a 244-vote lead. Obviously it won’t take much of a change to heavily Democratic Milwaukee County’s vote totals to flip the race back to Kloppenburg again.
@ 29:
PRESS CONFERENCE AT 5:30 P.M.
Prosser gains 7,500 votes in Waukesha County
Reported by the Journal-Sentinel.
‘Flip’ this, wabbit.
@34…
…this isn’t a fucking football game asshole.
THios is the lives and livlihoods of thousands of good working people that are going to GET SCREWED in a hostile takeover of the government by wealthy right wing ideologues.
These cretin spent an enormous amount of money to disguise the fact that David Prosser is bought and paid for by the Koch Brothers.
What a motherfucking ashole son-of-a-bitch you are.
Prosser was up 30 points in the polls before Walker’s union-busting campaign was made public. Now Kloppenberg, who was prohibited by campaign finance law from accepting any donations at that point and was out-spent by 8 to 1, has won the election by a small margin, with a recount a near-certainty.
Yet somehow the Wingnuts are trying to claim that if Prosser manages to pull this out during the recount by the hair of his chinny-chin-chin, it’s really a referendum showing that the Wisconsin voters approve of his union-busting tactics? But if Kloppenberger wins on the recount, it’s just another Supreme Court race????
Walker is the real loser, regardless of the ultimate outcome of this Supreme Court election. His policies have become so infamous that even an incumbent Supreme Court justice with a near-certainty of getting re-elected just a few weeks before an election, now has to fight for his poliltical life just because he is believed to be allied with Walker’s interests. At this point, Republicans have to consider every political seat they hold in Wisconsin to be at risk.
@22: Bush et. al. could count on a VERY conservative court system to back up their B.S. Obama can’t, and I’d rather we don’t try to engage in tit-for-tat brinksmanship.
Looks like we wont know who the winner in the WI supreme court race is for a few days. But, that we’ve got a tie breaker on our hands here is a bit of victory for the Democrats.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....46230.html
“What appeared to be an easy reelection for incumbent Supreme Court Justice, David Prosser, ended up being a dead heat with newcomer, Assistant District Attorney JoAnne Kloppenburg — the apparent winner by 204 votes. Kloppenburg recovered from a 30% deficit in the non-partisan election just two months ago. Nearly one-and-a-half-million voters cast their ballots on Wednesday.”
By the way, reports are coming in that Republican party operatives were canceling media interviews and boarding flights to Wisconsin as soon as they could book a seat. They are compiling a huge media and legal team which learned it’s ropes in an early 1990’s Alabama Supreme Court recount ran by Karl Rove. They honed their skills in Florida in 2000, the Wash. Governor’s campaign in 2004, and the Alaska investigation of Sarah Palin’s finances a couple of years ago.
Based on past experience, we can expect the following: (a) daily leaked reports, from anonymous sources, of mis-handling of ballots in Madison; (b) protests designed to threaten and intimidate ballot counters; (c) lawsuits to overturn Kloppenberg’s victory, filed in the most Republican county they can find, and asserting rather dubious legal theories; (d) daily fundraising appeals nationally to get the Republican base fired off and sending in money, most of which won’t be spent on the election but used for other campaigns.
Um, Prosser had 55% of the primary vote and it looks like he’ll be at around 50.5% or so of the final tally.
After a month of the worst things imaginable alleged of him and of conservatives in general.
After a month of unions pulling out all the stops to beat him.
About 4.5% decline in his support.
Doesn’t seem like much of a Dem gain to me.
Fuck you, “Bob”
@36
Anytime an election goes from a walk in the park to a toss up, it’s a victory for the side the side that closed the gap.
# 30: Gee, I wonder what the Republicans would say if in 2004 Washington Gubenatorial election one small city reported, almost two days after the election, that there was some computer mistake in reporting their ballots, and suddenly one candiate had such overwhelming support that a net return of several thousand of votes were added to Gregoire’s total?
You would have heard them screeming to high heaven that the mere existence of those votes proved voter fraud. Yet in Wisconsin, it’s suddenly different?
I’m wondering what types of voting procedures Wisconsin uses, and whether their is a paper ballot audit available. I suspect not.
@39 If the GOP had a right-leaning guy saying the numbers made sense, they probably would stand down.
And you have a left-leaning guy saying it makes sense.
Twitter:
The numbers being floated about missing votes in Brookfield seem reasonable. Would be ~11% of Waukesha vote, same as in Prez election in 08.
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Nate Silver
aawwwww…poor rujax..HAHAHHAHHAHHAAHHHAHAHHHHAHAHHAHAHAHHHA
looks like rujax is having a froth attack
HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHHAHHH
Nothing gives a pencil-dick a feeling of power like being an asshole.
@42
once again:
HAHHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAAHHAHHHAHAHHA
oh my, after two days of talking shit about this election, I predict much crying and frothing tonight!
remember king county bitches!
owned!
@44…
…this motherfucker isn’t even a human being.
Sad for him.
I will be selling tissues(at a nice profit!) to all the leftnuts who are now crying.
god I love capitalism…
@45
and once again:
HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAAHHA
what? no more talking smack?
can I sell you a tissue?
owned!….and owned again!
I’m picturing rujaxoff beating his head into a wall and sobbing like a river……….
What DON’T you do when you are given an initial lead of 200 votes out of 1,500,000 +/- votes cast?
You don’t take a victory lap.
Question: How do you feel comfortable declaring victory when the margin is so thin? Justice Prosser’s supporters seem to think that they may be able to pull out a victory in a recount process.
Kloppenburg: You know, we ran a campaign that was focused on being positive and respectful and winning and we did win and we’re confident that the margin will hold… Because we’ve enjoyed a broad and deep state-wide support and we’re gratified that the numbers showed that.
@49
2 words pretty much sum up that quote:
self ownage.
Darwhyle was sure bragging it up yesterday – where you at Darwhyle? dumbass.
@49
2 words pretty much sum up that quote:
self ownage.
Darwhyle was sure bragging it up yesterday – where you at Darwhyle? dumbass.
hahahahahahahha