Rep. Mark Takano:
It seems like we’re having a hard time finding the next Speaker, so I created a Craigslist ad to boost our search. pic.twitter.com/JrYX5w9OVA
— Mark Takano (@RepMarkTakano) October 8, 2015
Priceless.
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Rep. Mark Takano:
It seems like we’re having a hard time finding the next Speaker, so I created a Craigslist ad to boost our search. pic.twitter.com/JrYX5w9OVA
— Mark Takano (@RepMarkTakano) October 8, 2015
Priceless.
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redshirt
Typical liberal. Has to advertise on Craigslist.
Whereas every Republican has
Brinks. Trucks. Backing up.
Beat that, Libtards.
Aleta
You know, Baud ….
David Koch
redshirt
I like the mockery. More of this, Democrats.
Bring it to those Republican fuckwads!
David Koch
Boehner is reported pleasing with this guy to run for Speaker.
Baud
Thanks, Takano.
David Koch
Baud
@David Koch:
Please don’t go into details about his attempts at persuasion.
Germy Shoemangler
off topic:
Patricia Kayden
Love it! He really summed up the Republican Party’s kamikaze stance.
I cannot read enough about the disarray. This is fun.
http://www.dailydot.com/politics/gop-house-republicans-in-disarray/
gah
Wow, that’s some funny shit. I may have a new favorite congressman…..and he’s from the cesspool that’s Riverside….who’d a thunk it?
Baud
@Aleta:
It would give me a platform to take on Hillary.
Roger Moore
I hope his social media staffer gets a bonus, or at least an attaboy, for this one.
jl
Baby sitting? I thought experience controlling juvenile delinquents would be more appropriate.
Roger Moore
@gah:
The IE is now bluish purple rather than venomous red. I guess it has something to do with a lot of working-class Latinos moving there for the jobs in logistics.
Aleta
@Baud:
and a scaffold
FlyingToaster
@David Koch: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
There is nothing that Ryan wants less than the Speakership. Not one single thing.
I want Charlie Pierce’s Emperor of Crazy, myself. I don’t think the Freedom Caucus will tolerate anything less that Louie Gohmert.
FlyingToaster
@jl:
No, because you have to give the kids (reps) back to the parents (districts) without any visible bruising.
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
Bravo, Rep. Takano. Very well done.
Baud
@Germy Shoemangler:
Side effects include weight gain.
David Koch
Over at Red State, Erickson says the rumor, which House GOP Walter “Freedom Fries” Jones (R-NC) alluded to yesterday, “may have led to McCarthy’s collapse. It has become a louder buzz over the past few days with more and more people on and off the Hill talking about it.”
These adulterers are the ones spitting on gays, piously saying gays will ruin the “sanctity” of marriage.
Pigs.
Baud
@Aleta:
I feel that commenting on Balloon Juice has given me the experience I need to deal with the House Republican caucus.
Smiling Mortician
From RawStory:
Aside from “emboldened,” which is the ugliest damn word to come out of the Bush era, I really can’t stand the misuse of the word “conservative.” Those to the right of McCarthy aren’t interested in conserving more of anything: not money, not lives, not resources, not rights, not the planet.
And Orwell’s just nodding from the probably-not-that-great beyond, like “Yup.”
Richard mayhew
@redshirt: no the typical conservative just goes to airport bathroom and taps his foot
rikyrah
I still think this is the best shade of the day.
Talking Points MemoVerified account
@TPM
Rep. Charlie Rangel makes himself a smoothie to watch House GOP chaos (PHOTOS) http://bit.ly/1LoSpPQ
RK
The search is over. The Duck Dynasty guy is taking the job with unanimous support.
Davis X. Machina
@David Koch:
Someone seems to have sicced some Law on sites pushing the Ellmers story
Botsplainer
OT- In response to the Louisville hooker recruiting scandal, super fan My Mom blamed it on the culture of the black players, black coach and madam, and said that’s it’s “trash”.
I made it a point to mention the pasty white frat boys at IU and forced public cunnilingus as a hazing measure. Also mentioned Jerry Sandusky, Larry Whatsisname at Iowa State and a host of other scandals.
She’s full of fucking shit.
RK
@David Koch: Is McCarthy a moralist? He may not be.
bemused
@Patricia Kayden:
Rep Tom Price wants an interim speaker for the next 15 months which would “allow the House to complete the business in a responsible manner”. I can’t stop laughing.
David Koch
@Davis X. Machina: A ‘Cease & Desist’ order !? Wow. This confirms the affair. You don’t go to full battle stations over idle gossip, you do it when you are about to be torpedoed.
gf120581
@Davis X. Machina: I’m a little bit suspicious about that story, not the least of which it seems all too convenient that Renee Ellmers, who one of the top so-called RINOs on the Freedom Caucus’s hit list, is the one McCarthy is supposedly screwing. It seems like an attempt to kill two birds with one stone.
dmsilev
@Baud: That’s probably the worst thing anyone has ever said about the commentariat here.
gf120581
@bemused: Laughter is the wisest approach to this whole clusterfuck.
Oddly, I’d say that strengthens Daniel Webster’s case, since thanks to redistricting he’s probably going to lose his seat next fall, so hey, it work’s perfectly!
SFAW
@Davis X. Machina:
I know your intentions were good, but please don’t have a live link to that motherfucker Johnson’s website, without posting a warning. Although I usually check to see where it’s going to direct me, I don’t think I remembered that GotNews was his.
redshirt
@David Koch: D8
dmsilev
@redshirt: You sank my Speaker!
bemused
@David Koch:
Might be true but the timing is interesting. I wouldn’t put it past some anti-McCarthy Republicans to have planted the story. They eat their own just as easily as Dems.
Baud
@dmsilev:
Give Cole time.
redshirt
@dmsilev:
LOL. I knew it!
bemused
@gf120581:
I’m going to enjoy until or if the ceiling caves in.
Thoughtful Today
[Republican] SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE [Craigslist ad]
“Proven ability to work with irrational people who pursue narrow priorities at the expense of millions of others”
…
Inability to work with irrational people isn’t a bug for the next generation of Republican Speaker, it’s a feature!
Davis X. Machina
@SFAW Primary sources are best. Mom taught me that… and all those AP students of hers.
frosty
@Baud:
I’m afraid you’re overqualified.
Elizabelle
Love it! Takano’s is one of the 2-3 best Tweets I have ever seen.
Ad does not appear to be on Craigslist at the moment. They shoulda left it up.
SFAW
@David Koch:
But as any Rethug can tell you, some pigs are more equal than others.
SFAW
@Davis X. Machina:
I don’t disagree re: primary sources. Just include a trigger warning or whatever they’re called.
It’s not quite like being Rick-rolled, but not everyone recognizes that motherfucker Johnson’s URL.
Elizabelle
@frosty: Don’t you and Baud think PBO and Michelle might be knocking back a second martini and laughing themselves sick?
Maybe even a secret call to Speaker Boehner, who is feeling really zippity doo dah over retiring from this clusterf*ck? Although he might be in the job until January 2017?
Mandalay
@David Koch:
From Jan 24, 2015:
It would be irresponsible not to speculate that shit will be meeting fan in near future.
Baud
@Elizabelle:
Hate to say it, but that might be the best thing.
redshirt
@Elizabelle: I doubt Bo drinks much. Certainly not martinis. Maybe a lite beer now and then, watching a game on TV?
Baud
@Mandalay:
It would be absolutely insane.
Elizabelle
@redshirt: It is a school night for PBO. Tipping a cocktail to him now.
ThresherK
@SFAW: Well, you’re steps ahead of me in the “if you smell something, say something” alert squad. I never knew it was ol’ Chuck Johnson.
On that page they promote their article, “Here is Ahmed’s phone number so you can ask him questions the media won’t.”
Eww.
Corner Stone
@Botsplainer:
Say what now?
Elizabelle
@Baud: Might indeed. Would love to be a fly on Boehner’s wall too.
David Koch
@Mandalay: great catch, finding that link from January.
bemused
@Mandalay:
I thought there were similar rumors about Boehner.
Baud
@Elizabelle:
Fixed.
Baud
@bemused:
Boehner and McCarthy? Wow!
David Koch
I think before @Baud: becomes Speaker we have to make sure he’s not having an affair like McCarthey or a secret 2nd family like Rubio.
David Koch
@bemused: Oh that’s true. Not only is he a corrupt drunk, but he’s been banging lobbyists for a long time.
redshirt
@Elizabelle:
Every night is a school night for the President of the United States of America.
FSM Bless BHO, best President I’ll ever know.
bemused
@David Koch:
Too bad Boehner didn’t tell Kevin to stick to lobbyists.
bemused
@Baud:
We couldn’t be that lucky.
Botsplainer
@Corner Stone:
I shit you not.
http://gawker.com/alpha-tau-omega-shuts-down-indiana-chapter-over-sex-ac-1735458825
Baud
@David Koch:
Unlike Obama, I will be fully vetted.
RK
Rep. Walter Jones’ letter to the Republican Conference all but accuses McCarthy of adultery.
rikyrah
The Atlantic ✔ @TheAtlantic
New research shows: Black workers really do need to be “twice as good” http://theatln.tc/1hrFJzK
9:54 PM – 7 Oct 2015
Gimlet
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/10/08/3710494/jeb-bush-says-his-own-brother-did-too-much-to-protect-voting-rights/
President George W. Bush is not a hero to voting rights advocates. His Justice Department gave the greenlight to voter ID laws, a common tactic by conservative lawmakers which prevents many younger, low-income and minority voters from casting a ballot. And Bush appointed two justices that joined the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision striking down much of the Voting Rights Act. Nevertheless, at an event in Iowa on Thursday, Bush’s own brother claimed that the former president did far too much to protect voting rights — and that he should have placed more emphasis on states rights instead.
Legislation President Bush signed reauthorizing much of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, according to Jeb, imposed too many “regulations on top of states.”
One of the most effective provisions of the Voting Rights Act, a provision that requires states with a history of racial voter suppression to “preclear” their new voting practices with officials in Washington before those practices can go into effect, was scheduled to sunset in 2007. Despite some of his other actions that were less supportive of voting rights, President Bush signed legislation extending these provisions for another 25 years.
Gin & Tonic
@SFAW: It’s not quite like being Rick-rolled
More like being goatse’d?
sharl
@Davis X. Machina: I ain’t clicking on that link to the Rage Furby’s site… although the creep’s lame attempts to drag former Gawker writer Adam Weinstein into Mr. Furby’s “legal actions” against Gawker were kinda entertaining, as related by Weinstein in a series of tweets yesterday.
Mr. Furby must have come across Weinstein’s tell-all tumblr piece about the inside process of how Gawker fires people (Weinstein was one such person), and figured he might find an ally in Weinstein. If in fact that’s how RF thought, he didn’t read AW’s post closely enough.
rikyrah
Chicago Reader @Chicago_Reader 1h1 hour ago
Read and weep: the indictment of Barbara Byrd-Bennett, Mayor Rahm’s front woman at CPS isn’t pretty.
http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2015/10/08/the-indictment-of-barbara-byrd-bennettmayor-rahms-front-woman-at-cps#more
Aleta
@Baud:
Those photos of you lying unconscious in the Latin Quarter are still TS.
Gin & Tonic
@Corner Stone: Some frat-boy thing at U of one of those states in the middle that starts with an I.
David Koch
Gimlet
@David Koch:
Stuff happens.
FlyingToaster
@Botsplainer: Alas, not in any way surprising.
I was on campus (in the dorms, Willkie North) for the first “Sigma Nudes” suspension. And for a girl falling out of a 3rd story window of a frat on North Jordan.
And I’ve always assumed connections in Indianapolis kept Fijis on campus.
Baud
@Aleta:
TS?
David Koch
A guy
Cole gives somebody a hard time about using the internet. What a dumbass. Pot call kettle
Pogonip
Also in employment news, a friend forwarded me a resignation letter (don’t know if it’s real or not) that says the person is sorry to leave but needs to “prioritize self-care.”. Isn’t that a nifty subtle way of saying “Take this job and shove it”? I’m going to use that. ” Sorry, I can’t shovel the driveway, I feel the need to prioritize self-care.”. “Sorry, I can’t come to your Mary Kay/scented wax/expensive purse sales pitch–oops, party–I feel the need to prioritize self-care.”. I really like that.
Gin & Tonic
@A guy: You’re not even trying, dude. You have to step up your game.
Aleta
@Baud:
classified (TS)
David Koch
Tommy
@rikyrah: Ouch. My great state of Illinois has many issues, given. But reading all these comments I will say this, we can vote. It is easy to vote. Mom runs elections in her district and it is so easy to vote. Same where I live. I often note I can vote faster then order a Big Mac.
Baud
@Aleta:
Ah. Good.
I’d love to talk about it, but, you know, national security.
Elizabelle
Kevin Drum with The Young Guns book cover. LOL.
Aleta
@Baud:
At the Komitet we used to call you James Baud.
Mandalay
So it looks like a letter sent yesterday is what made Mr. Dumbass withdraw:
I think everyone in Washington knows what McCarthy did, and why he withdrew, but nobody is coming out and saying it.
Yet.
raven
@Mandalay: Grayson is taking credit.
proterozoic
David Waldman
@KagroX
Are there moderate Republican rebels we should be arming?
David Koch
He’s too modest, but @Baud should really take the credit.
Corner Stone
@Botsplainer: I am totally tongue tied.
Baud
@Aleta:
There’s a Pussy Galore joke in there somewhere, but I need to be more tactful now that I’m a public figure.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Mandalay: Alan Grayson just took credit for McCarthy’s scalp, he says “we’ve taught them a lesson”. Chris Hayes, basically: “Dood, come the fuck on!”
@Elizabelle: That’s why I’ll miss McCarthy a little bit, at IIRC 51 (me in three years), he got people to call him a “young gun”. But if Ryan breaks down and grasps the steaming wet bag of lizard turds, bloggers will get to use those douche-bro work out pictures again.
Baud
@David Koch:
I can and do.
(What are we talking about?)
Corner Stone
There is zero, and I mean zero, reason for the zombie eyed granny starver to take the chance at Speaker.
I would be asking Johnny Bones what I ever did to him that he’s putting my name out there so hard.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
He should literally say that. He could use the ratings.
bemused
@Elizabelle:
Good one.
Mandalay
@raven:
Well that is hardly out of character for him, but I think McCarthy’s (ETA “alleged”) extra curricular activities with Congresswoman Ellmers is a far more plausible cause.
eric
@Corner Stone: this is so obvious that even a monkey could see it, like evolution and climate scie…..oh wait. there may be a chance after all
Roger Moore
@David Koch:
That is sheer genius.
JPL
@Mandalay: Shep Smith had Jones on and challenged him to tell all. Jones didn’t.. Mediate link
eric
@Mandalay: why would you make this a story that a dem took a republican down, when the far better story for the dems is that reactionary republicans took down the conservative republicans? self important blow hard.
Tommy
@Baud: LOL he could. When I cut the cable his show was one I didn’t like losing. Always felt he was smarter than the people he covered. Not sure that is good for your future.
redshirt
Fox should sponsor an America’s Next Speaker show.
Elizabelle
Murder videotaped, so the late Mr. Scott’s family got justice.
eric
@redshirt: Trump hosts!
JPL
@raven: Earlier the Donald took credit. Maybe the two can argue on twitter to decide who was not responsible.
lamh36
https://twitter.com/costareports/status/652211197840916483
beltane
@redshirt: Not on Fox, of course, but Donald Trump would be the perfect host for such a show.
Elizabelle
@bemused: Some of his readers are complaining it’s too soon after Umpquah, so maybe it will change. But I laughed.
Corner Stone
@eric: It’s completely hilarious because the clown accepted the VP spot with Romney a couple years ago. That’s not Establishment?! And then he made a budget deal with D Senator Patty Murray (fuck her that fucking sucked for real people). And now both Boehner and McCarthy are on record saying he’s the only guy who could do it.
And *this* is the guy the RWNJs are going to vote for?!!
HAHAHAHAHAHA
eric
Jeb Bush could do it, he doesnt seem to be doing anything at the moment.
redshirt
@eric:
lol. Carson is the band leader.
eric
@Corner Stone: Exactly….if there ever was a RINO (to those loons), he is the ring leader. Boehner wants to be gone and there is no one else. I can only imagine what Obama says to Boehner next time they talk…..ha.
eric
@redshirt: The speaker job is yooge.
Renie
@David Koch: If they’re crying over this b.s. how do they expect to handle Putin or ISIS?
When my rep (yuck) Peter King starts to sound reasonable, then you know the GOP is a complete disaster.
BillinGlendaleCA
@RK: Or card playing.
bemused
@Elizabelle:
That didn’t even enter my mind but I was giggling at the big red X’s and missed the target thing. Drum probably should have left that out and instead photoshopped goofy photo of Ryan in backward baseball cap.
Schlemazel
@lamh36:
Boner must really HATE Ryan to do that. It would certainly kill the dipshits career. I think he is smart enough to know that it would end his reputation as a genius wonk but who knows?
SiubhanDuinne
@A guy:
What in the world are you on about now?
rikyrah
@Tommy:
And Illinois has just made it easier to vote. There will be same day registration and voting beginning with the March 2016 primary. What I mean is that there is now ELECTION DAY same day registration and voting.
trollhattan
@Patricia Kayden:
I see what you did there.
beltane
Just wait until David Brooks explains it all to us.
Mandalay
@JPL:
He didn’t need to. He stuck his stiletto in deep yesterday, and his work was done.
Smith is a pompous ass for acting like he is entitled to have people spill every last detail of the dirt on his show.
Patricia Kayden
@David Koch: Hilarious. The Benghazi “scandal” is good for something after all.
Jeffro
@lamh36: Maybe Speaker-In-Waiting Ryan has some skeletons in his own closet…dude spends a lot of time at the gym, who knows who has been ‘spotting’ him lately? it would be irresponsible not to speculate.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Tommy:
Well up in the northern part of the state, they vote early and often.
pseudonymous in nc
@Mandalay:
DC is a company town, but it’s also a town where who you keep company with during the week — as opposed to when you’re back in your district — is something everybody keeps quiet about.
If Orange Julius is actually asking Ryan to step up — and Costa is usually pretty solid with his sourcing — then he’s really enjoying being the man with the poison chalice.
trollhattan
@Mandalay:
Okay, I guess I get the attraction.
SiubhanDuinne
@Elizabelle:
LOL. I had completely forgotten about the Young Guns, and certainly hadn’t been consciously aware that two of them were Cantor and McCarthy.
Ryan must be feeling a bit spooked.
Good.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
Twenty-two minutes before I leave work for a long weekend.
Tick. Tick. Tick.
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne:
Rachel may talk about that. She always made fun of the young guns thing.
Patricia Kayden
@eric: Or better yet Cheney. His heart is stil going strong.
redshirt
Emilio….
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Rachel had a segment on Walter’s letter last night.
ETA: She pointed out that Rep. Jones always just signs his letters with “Walter”.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
I missed last night. Staying up tonight to watch it.
Mandalay
@Elizabelle:
I’m suspending judgement on that until we see his killer go down for a very long sentence.
Nothing can bring back the dead, but apart from the financial settlement the cops on that police force are also now carrying body cameras, so some good has come out of a horrific incident.
Felonius Monk
@Baud: How’s the campaign going? Can I be Secretary of Fun?
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I DVR Rachel’s show, I’m usually out walking when it airs here.
Patricia Kayden
@Elizabelle: Let’s see if the cop is found guilty. That will be justice. Shame that tax payers have to fund this settlement instead of the cop’s union.
Roger Moore
@Schlemazel:
Or maybe he actually thinks Ryan is the best available choice for Speaker and cares more about having a good Speaker than he does about Ryan’s career. Basically, every establishment Republican who’s a plausible candidate and runs away rather than stepping up to the challenge is outing himself as a selfish careerist who doesn’t give a damn about the party.
Omnes Omnibus
@Patricia Kayden:
????
Morzer
http://deadspin.com/police-video-shows-teen-girl-graphically-accusing-kevin-1735279363
catclub
@Renie:
I heard Charlie Dent of OHIO on the radio. He talked about a bipartisan Speaker election. I could not believe my ears.
NPR claims they got him on as a moderate Republican.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Roger Moore:
All of them Katie.
Morzer
http://deadspin.com/police-video-shows-teen-girl-graphically-accusing-kevin-1735279363
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Patricia Kayden:
Edited for technical accuracy.
Baud
@Felonius Monk:
Swimmingly.
I don’t know if you saw my question the other day. I was curious if you were actually a Thelonius Monk fan. If so, maybe can be my Secretary of Jazz. If not, you can be the head of DOJ’s criminal division in charge of wayward abbots.
Morzer
http://www.alternet.org/investigations/are-sex-abuse-and-charter-school-scandals-catching-sacramento-mayor-kevin-johnson
Anyone else think that we need to talk about Kevin? Frontpagers? Anyone?
trollhattan
@Morzer:
He’s a pip. He was later accused of sexual conduct at his charter high school and more recently, at city hall. And is married to Michelle Rhee for the trifecta of icky.
Elizabelle
@catclub: Charlie Dent of PENNSY, but same diff.
He’s a lot of outlets’ go to. He seems to be an actual moderate Republican and telegenic too. He’s a good guy.
Morzer
@trollhattan:
That’s detailed in the Alternet piece. He is indeed quite something – and he’s exactly the sort of perverted crook that Democrats should be cleaning out of the party and making publicly accountable for his various crimes and abuses.
Elizabelle
This seems a good thread to throw commenter AnonPhenom’s question in. Hypothetical, but an interesting question:
trollhattan
@Morzer:
One thing I know about Kevin Johnson is that he loves him some Kevin Johnson and likely has eyes on higher office. We’ll see how the state party accommodates his dreams, or not. They’ve had more than a few scandals recently, but is our party learning?
Felonius Monk
@Baud: I did miss your question the other day. Sometimes I comment and run, then get busy and forget to check back in.
Yes, I am a fan of Thelonius Monk. I’d be honored to serve as Secretary of Jazz. That’s just as good as Secretary of Fun. And maybe between sets I could help the DOJ chase down the wayward abbots to help minimize the amount of monkee business we have to contend with.
/Vote for Baud — Vote Early, Vote Often, Vote Everywhere.
Citizen Scientist
@Botsplainer: The Sandusky matter will always be worse, and I’m a Penn State fan (not living in denial).
Patricia Kayden
@Omnes Omnibus: The cops should have to pay for their own misconduct.
Omnes Omnibus
@Patricia Kayden: Do you feel that way about every public employee?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
the rumors just get louder…
Schlemazel
@Roger Moore:
So you expect Ryan to polity decline.
Baud
@Felonius Monk:
No worries. I do that too. I’ve been listening to more jazz recently, so I’m happy to have you on board as Jazz Secretary.
Kay
This should be fun to watch:
It’s wild how it spread so fast in that one small corner of the workplace.
Elizabelle
@Patricia Kayden: I think so too. Or pay into an insurance policy that the local police pays; not the taxpayers. Would be a brake on bad behavior. Money talks. Paying it out talks loudly.
Morzer
@trollhattan:
For my money, Kevin Johnson belongs in prison along with his fraudulent wife and anyone who pushes either of them for higher office is going to bring down a disaster on the Democratic party. If you wanted a poster boy for every vicious Republican slander aimed at black people, you couldn’t do much better than Kevin Johnson.
rikyrah
Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka
Remember that night in 09 Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy, Ryan plotted to derail Pres. Obama’s agenda?
Oh sweet Karma
https://twitter.com/ryanbeckwith/status/652177507656052736 …
1:29 PM – 8 Oct 2015
Morzer
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Looks like the crazy GOP girl who was hunting Renee Elmers as a RINO might just get lucky. What a wonderful world we live in.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
…and weirder and weirder and weirder
Frankensteinbeck
The possibility of Paul Ryan being put forward for Speaker hadn’t occurred to me. He’s a complete plutocrat tool who may have fooled just enough Teabaggers into thinking he’s a True Believer. From Boehner’s perspective, that’s the perfect combination.
Kay
@rikyrah:
The Young Guns!
Baud
@Kay:
Shooting blanks.
Morzer
@Kay:
If Ryan is the next sacrificial victim of the Cargo Cultists, it would certainly give Joe Biden a nice boost. He could run on the basis of having kicked Paul Ryan’s skinny ass once already.
Elizabelle
@Frankensteinbeck: Paul Ryan ain’t fooled K-Thug.
Dr. Krugman illustrated his blogpost, FlimFlam Fever, with our fave picture of the buff Ryan/Eddie Munster in the back-turned baseball hat, dressed for the gym.
Morzer
@Elizabelle:
We should advertise Ryan vs Gowdy as the Bumble In The Jumble and sell tickets.
Frankensteinbeck
@Elizabelle:
Paul Ryan has fooled no one who isn’t a complete dumbass who neither knows, nor cares, how government works. That may include enough Teabagger congressmen to get him elected, and certainly includes most media pundits and reporters. The logical next step from that – that Teabaggers are actually smarter than Village Talking Heads – disturbs me.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Elizabelle: If Ryan agrees to take this job, which he seems to know would probably be his last, the one good thing is maybe, just maybe, the presidential candidate might be forced to talk about his/their budget and “entitlement reform” plans. Please proceed, Congressman.
Mike in NC
@Morzer: Expect Renee to announce retirement to spend more time with her family, thus opening up the seat to theTea Party whackjob.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I’d guess Dickie Lowry has good sources
the comments on Lowry’s tweet are a hoot, Ryan the RINO, this was all an elaborate eleven-dimensional plot by the Establishment!
Couldn’t happen to a smarmier son-of-a-bitch.
Mandalay
@eric:
I didn’t. I very explicitly made it about a Republican who took a Republican down.
Try reading posts before running your mouth fuckwit.
Kay
@Morzer:
I’m pro-primary, generally, but I don’t think Biden is a good candidate for 2016. I think he’s polling even or better than Clinton because he isn’t running. I know a lot of people disagree with me on this but Biden was never considered an economic populist as a Senator so I’m having a bit of trouble with what seems like a created narrative around him since the Vice Presidency. I never really believed he “helped” Obama win with white working class voters- I just don’t think the VP matters that much. I think people vote (or don’t vote) for the President, not the Vice President.
I just think if it’s Biden or Clinton, Clinton’s better. I wouldn’t support him in a primary, anyway, and I thought he was a fine VP.
Aleta
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Suspect it won’t be long before suggestions appear to blame anti-Christians
Frankensteinbeck
@Mandalay:
I got the impression he meant Grayson, not you.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mandalay: Ever think that the commenter might have been talking about Grayson?
David Koch
Last 7 Republican Speakers/Leaders
McCarthy………….adulterer
Boehner…………..drunk, lazy, corrupt, adulterer
Cantor……………..extortion, adulterer
Delay………………corrupt, hot tub adulterer
Hastert…………….corrupt, pedophile, adulterer
Livingston…………corrupt, hookers, S&M masochist, adulterer
Gingrich…………..corrupt, adulterer
Party of family values. Defenders of the sanctity of marriage.
NonyNony
@Mandalay: Pretty sure he’s talking about Grayson here, not you.
ETA: Ninja’d by Omnes
Omnes Omnibus
@NonyNony: Frankensteinbeck beat me by a nose.
Elizabelle
@David Koch: Cantor an adulterer? Never heard that one.
Someone who had to sun himself on a rock, maybe.
What’s the source for Livingston being into S&M? Was Livingston even Speaker a full week?
NonyNony
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m surrounded by ninjas.
Mandalay
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
If that particular rumor is true then McCarthy was one ice cool customer in front of the cameras a few hours later. He acted like he didn’t have a care in the world.
OTOH, if he has been having an affair in DC for months with a Congresswoman while publicly making moves to become speaker then he is probably exactly the kind of reckless risk-taking pathological liar who would shine in front of the cameras in that situation.
Patricia Kayden
@Omnes Omnibus: Not unless they are killing people on cold blood. Plus federal employees can be held liable for criminal conduct.
David Koch
@Elizabelle: source was Larry Flynt.
Mandalay
@NonyNony: @NonyNony:
Then he should refer to him as “Grayson” not “you” when he replies to my post, especially if he chooses to lob bombs.
Kay
@Morzer:
I don’t know, Morzer. Does Biden really want to talk about this?
Obviously student debt is not solely the fault of Joe Biden, but between some very pro-creditor advocacy he did and the tough on crime stuff- good for this cycle, or maybe a bad idea? Clinton has some of the same problems but that’s almost another argument against Biden, because then they’d both be running away from it. I think the big winner in a Clinton v Biden match could be Bernie Sanders, quite frankly, unless Clinton runs to to the Left of Biden and why would Biden want to run to the Right of Clinton? I don’t know where he fits.
catclub
@Pogonip: I think the Mary Kay rep would claim that Mary Kay is all about self-care.
Now, self abuse …
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Kay: I think, for a host of reasons, it’s a mistake for Biden to get in, and he’ll regret it. But whatever he decides, I’m with Kilgore, Pierce and Sargent and whoever else wants to join the “shit or get off the pot” caucus.
Omnes Omnibus
@Patricia Kayden: The city was settling to avoid a potential lawsuit against it. That settlement should not preclude a suit against the officer. Given that the officer will not have deep pockets, such a suit would not result in much.
Omnes Omnibus
@Omnes Omnibus: The city hired and trained the cop. The city was responsible for the supervision of the cop. The city has a great deal of responsibility for what happened.
Aleta
As city taxpayers see millions paid out, or their towns bankrupted, because of illegal police activity, it may actually motivate a majority to care about the integrity of their police force. Would be good if the legal costs and awards bring change faster.
Morzer
@Kay:
I don’t think Biden should run. I am on record as thinking that the Biden dithering is about getting something from Clinton in return for an endorsement and staying out of the race.
That said, if Uncle Joe did run, advertising his vast kicking of Paul Ryan’s ass wouldn’t be a bad calling card.
Omnes Omnibus
@Aleta: Yes, the cities have to decide that they will not tolerate that kind of behavior from their police forces.
Aleta
@Omnes Omnibus: The huge costs should motivate those who don’t go for that civil rights stuff.
Achrachno
@gah: Hey! We elected him — you didn’t. I doubt you know what you’re talking about.
Paul in KY
@Smiling Mortician: They are more like Jacobins or some of the loonies that populated the pre-revolutionary Duma in Imperial Russia.
Paul in KY
@Botsplainer: If I had been in college & someone was pushing a free hooker on me, I would have found it very difficult to say no.
The only caveat is that cool bball players should be getting more female attention than geeky Paul in KY was getting at time.
Paul in KY
@Morzer: Looks like that process has started.