Here is how CNN is covering McDaniel’s unwillingness to concede because he thinks it is wrong the blahs were allowed to vote. At any rate, I love it.
It’s nice to see the media call these tea party tantrums what they are.
by John Cole| 79 Comments
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Here is how CNN is covering McDaniel’s unwillingness to concede because he thinks it is wrong the blahs were allowed to vote. At any rate, I love it.
It’s nice to see the media call these tea party tantrums what they are.
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schrodinger's cat
I will be happy when they start calling McCain the sore loser that he is.
shelley
They are the party of obnoxious brats. If they don’t get exactly what they want, it’s ‘Conspiracy! No fair, no fair! I hate you-I hate you…I hate you!”
The Dangerman
I wonder what he thought of Operation Chaos in 2008 (and you KNOW if he could have pulled off an Operation KKKaos to win, he would have done so).
dmsilev
The wailing and gnashing of teeth from the professional conservatives is hilarious. My favorite so far is Erick Erikovich:
Don’t cry, Erick, you still have ‘hating blacks, women, homosexuals, poor people, Latinos, etc.’ in your party’s platform.
schrodinger's cat
TP threads needs a moment of Zen.
dmsilev
@schrodinger’s cat: We all know that this excellent news for John McCain.
Ash Can
When you’ve lost CNN…
OzarkHillbilly
@schrodinger’s cat: And here I thought I was gonna click thru and see a cat named Zen…. Cool stuff.
MomSense
@schrodinger’s cat:
Great, photo!
schrodinger's cat
@OzarkHillbilly: Thanks! I am never sure if the photos from my India trip are relevant to interests of the denizens of Tunchland.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Anybody wanna place bets on when that’s edited? I say within an hour.
catclub
From Political Animal:
I wish it were true. If it were true they would vote for Childers or sit out the election. I doubt it.
raven
Isn’t the Virginia law that says a primary loser can’t run as a write-in called the “sore loser” law?
schrodinger's cat
@raven: What if the loser changes parties?
raven
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: It’s been there all day. It has moved to a lower section now but it’s still on the front page.
schrodinger's cat
@MomSense: Thanks!@OzarkHillbilly: Since you spoke of Zen cat, here she is.
catclub
@schrodinger’s cat: What about “can’t run ” has anything to do with parties? Write ins are by definition not on the line owned by the party.
ETA: Above is excessively snarky, since it is all about things that benefit the two major parties, ONLY. I would not be surprised if the law is written so that you cannot get on the line for some other small party, even though that assumes that the only entities that matter are the two major parties.
FlipYrWhig
@catclub: Who’d’a thunk that there’d be a thousands-strong mass of people who had managed to convince themselves that the Republican Party… of _Mississippi_… was TOO LIBERAL?
Comrade Dread
@dmsilev: There’s also bombing the bejeezus out of brown folks and launching unnecessary wars to prove America’s ‘resolve’. All Republicans can agree on that.
schrodinger's cat
@catclub: Seems particularly mean and unsporting.
OzarkHillbilly
@schrodinger’s cat: Oooooohhhhhhhmmmmmmmm……
On the subject of caves, it is amazing how many have been hijacked for religious purposes. I even got married in a cave.
Calliope Jane
Eli Wallach died? That’s really too bad. 98 is a great run, sure, but still too bad. I think he’s on the commentary for How to Steal a Million; going to have to watch that.
McDaniels apparently began his not-a-concession speech with “We had a dream.” The cluelessness is strong with that one.
schrodinger's cat
@OzarkHillbilly: Hi Batman! A cave wedding is pretty cool.
Morzer
@Calliope Jane:
“A dream to some, a nightmare to others”
Patrick
@dmsilev:
Yet, 47% of all voting Americans still like it. And that platform is still enough to win their party the House this fall, perhaps even the Senate. Go figure…
schrodinger's cat
@dmsilev: What about telling women what to do with their bodies?
MikeJ
I actually think open primaries are a horrific idea, but the Republicans have had control of everything in Mississippi long enough that if they really disagreed with it, they could have changed it long ago.
am
unrelated…http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/58105457-78/officer-kendall-dog-police.html.csp
dmsilev
@schrodinger’s cat: I think that falls under the ‘hating women’ clause.
schrodinger's cat
@dmsilev: My bad, I only read the block quoted part.
Belafon
@Morzer: Thanks for the Excalibur reference.
MomSense
@dmsilev: @schrodinger’s cat: I’m sort of shocked that he identified the Repub platform so succinctly and accurately and especially shocked that he seems to think that platform is a bad thing.
The problem is the things he would add to that platform since I really don’t believe he wants to say yes to anything Obama tries nor do I think he will want to rein in corporations.
Trollhattan
The next tea party hero lives in or near Mukilteo, WA.
srv
Mormon’s lose the right to not be gay:
CONGRATULATIONS!
@dmsilev: I’m not sure what Erick the Fuckhead thought the GOP stood for. That’s what it has stood for (substitute Dem president as needed) since before World War 2.
Oh yeah, and beating up on darkies and poors and queers. That’s a somewhat more recent development, albeit one that predates my birth.
And yes, Erick, that is “not much of a platform”.
Mike in NC
The GOP will endorse Santorum’s man-on-dog sex before it turns it’s back on Wall Street and it’s corporate masters.
Kay
@Mike in NC:
The Tea Party could endorse campaign finance reform. Sherrod Brown has a great bill.
Of course, then they couldn’t pay Tea Party Express organizers 450k for losing a Senate primary in an overwhelmingly GOP state so I doubt EE will be on board.
Patricia Kayden
@am: Sad. Recently read a story on Pharyngula about a police officer slashing a chained dog’s throat in Baltimore. And I also recall a few years back when police officers shot and killed a Mayor’s two dogs on what turned out to be a mistaken drug bust.
Frankensteinbeck
@MomSense: and @CONGRATULATIONS!:
Given who and what he’s been cheerleading, I believe he wants fucking over minorities to trump tongue-bathing the rich. Reagan wedded the racists to the MBAs with the holy vow of ‘Let’s all be assholes together’. That alliance is under strain for the first time I can remember. I doubt seriously it will break, but the racists are so pissed they want to burn the country down, and the MBAs aren’t that stupid.
srv
@CONGRATULATIONS!: Oh, the butthurt in that thread.
We need to help these peeps out. Let’s form the Benghazi Party and split the Tea Party vote.
Pete
Very disappointed that based on this image, John Cole clicked through to the “Bride SnapsSelfie, Dies 8 mins. later” article. DON’T FEED THE CLICKBAITERS!
PurpleGirl
@schrodinger’s cat: The denizens of Tunchland love photos of anything. In this case, the ones of your trip are interesting and especially nice to see since I doubt I’m ever getting to India.
CONGRATULATIONS!
@Patricia Kayden: Not sure how far you got with that story, but the little good news to come out of it is that his fellow officers arrested him on the spot, and the chief fired his sorry ass the next day.
schrodinger's cat
@PurpleGirl: Thanks! I actually didn’t do much of the tourist thing, you know going to the Taj and the like. Just hanging out with friends and fambly, in and and around the city of Bombay.
ETA: You should go to India, it can be overwhelming but is never boring.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@PurpleGirl: Plus, it is cool to see a temple devoted to the inventor of the wheel.
SatanicPanic
@Trollhattan: ugh what is up with Washington and weird animal stories?
Morzer
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/tea-party-chris-mcdaniel-voter-fraud-democrats-black-voters-thad-cochran
Morzer
@SatanicPanic:
I thought Mike Huckabee had been quiet for too long.
schrodinger's cat
@Morzer: Their outreach efforts to the minorities are laudable. Not.
muddy
Any odds as to whether the Democrat in the general will have ads with the Cochran bestiality talk? Or would that be uncivil?
Morzer
That word race-baiting you keep using, I do not think it means what you think it means.
SatanicPanic
@Morzer: Wait, what? That’s an odd use of the Uncle Tom epithet
gogol's wife
@SatanicPanic:
Yes, I’m still trying to get my head around that. So the Black Panthers voted for the Tea Party guy?
And I shudder to think what’s behind this NewsMax headline: “Boehner Sues Obama for Abuse of Power.”
Morzer
@SatanicPanic:
Far be it from me to speculate on the thought processes of Rush Limbaugh.
muddy
@SatanicPanic: How can poor Flush tell the difference, he knows they all look the same. Uncle Tom refers to a black person in a negative way. Thus one can use this term for any behavior of any black person that one doesn’t care for. Duh.
ETA: Behavior … that one doesn’t care for, clearly he already hates the people themselves.
Morzer
@gogol’s wife:
Abuse of Power = Winning An Election While Black
gogol's wife
@SatanicPanic: @Morzer:
The exegesis:
“I wonder what the campaign slogan was in Mississippi the past few days, ‘Uncle Toms for Thad’? Because I thought it was the worst thing you could do as an African American, vote for a Republican. The worst thing you could do,” Limbaugh said on Wednesday. “But somehow they were made to believe that voting for old Thad would be fine and dandy. And why? Because they were told Thad’s done a lot for black people in Mississippi. Must be the first time they were told that.”
Morzer
@gogol’s wife:
It tells us that Limbaugh’s mind is an unredeemed septic tank of ignorance and malice – but we already knew that.
SatanicPanic
@muddy: That must be it. Kind of like how conservatives are all invested in Obama being “not a real black”. Like, OK, that’s an odd thing for them to get hung up on, but like Morzer I’m not going to puzzle over it too much.
muddy
@gogol’s wife: Yeah, that’s why they voted for him. “Because they were told Thad’s done a lot for black people in Mississippi.” FFS. It’s so amazingly rude that he picks the most childlike simplistic view of why people act politically. How could these simple folk have had any notion of strategic crossovers in primaries? Like it’s new.
Or is it that he knows he is lying to *his* rubes and they swallow it all, and thus thinks everyone is a rube? That’s probably the real reason, but I don’t think he has that kind of self-insight.
Mike in NC
@Morzer: Boehner wants to sue Obummer for failing to authorize the re-invasion of Iraq. Good luck with that, Johnny.
SatanicPanic
@gogol’s wife: wow, that’s racist
SatanicPanic
@muddy: and this from the guy who came up with Operation Chaos
Morzer
@Mike in NC:
Is that the official version, or your interpretation?
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@muddy: AAs as simple, childlike people is one of the oldest tropes in the racist book.* It is simply vile.
*There are probably bonus points for mentioning love of singing and dancing.
Morzer
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):
Not to mention the beneficial effects of slavery.
Bubblegum Tate
@shelley:
…tyranny
…voter fraud
…fascism
muddy
@Morzer: And sharecropping.
Morzer
Jamelle Bouie has a nice piece on how Thad Cockroach survived:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/06/thad_cochran_wins_with_mississippi_s_black_voters_african_americans_help.html
rikyrah
I was listening to the local Black talk radio station. They were discussing the election in Mississippi. Folks called in with relatives down there, and they were like, do you know that Mississippi gets FORTY-FIVE PERCENT of its state budget from FEDERAL MONIES.
Cochran is responsible for a lot of that…the other guy said he would cut it out.
Black folks voted their economic interests.
As usual, the White Working Class was willing to vote against their economic interests.
Villago Delenda Est
@SatanicPanic: Rush’s definition of “Uncle Tom” is someone who thought the Emancipation Proclamation was a good idea.
David Koch
Lincecum throwing No-hitter in the 9th!
Howard Beale IV
@David Koch: And he succeeds!
Elizabelle
@rikyrah:
Yup. Kansas: come on down to the Gulf Coast. We gots your soulmates down he-ah.
Elizabelle
@David Koch:
Sounds like a name straight from Latin, or the name of the next blockbuster pharma product.
Roger Moore
@gogol’s wife:
He’s threatening to sue, just as soon as he can come up with some grounds that won’t be laughed out of court. I’m not holding my breath.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Roger Moore: No court is going want to touch a case lie that with a ten foot pole. They will all scream “POLITICAL QUESTION!” at the top of their lungs and run away. And I don’t blame them.
SiubhanDuinne
@OzarkHillbilly:
Married in a cave, cool. And I am so glad to see that you are a fan of bats! I’ve been wearing my various bat sanctuary rescue t-shirts the last few days and getting quite a range of reactions!
#lovemesomebats #notlikeozzyosborne
PaulW
Boehner planning to sue Obama over executive orders, although he can’t even point to a specific EO that would be the cause of the lawsuit.
It’s as clear an attempt to force an impeachment on Obama – make EOs illegal, then impeach Obama for making EOs – as anything else. There is no other explanation for it.
http://noticeatrend.blogspot.com/2014/06/executives-order-speakers-chaos.html