Archive for the ‘Democratic Stupidity’ Category
It’s Shit Like This, Unions
A friend of mine told me that his generally politically uninterested and not tech-nerdy 16 year-old daughter came home yesterday complaining about Protect-IP or SOPA, the Internet blacklist legislation. “Do you know what they’re going to to to do the Internet?” she asked. Well, according to the AFL-CIO’s testimony at yesterday’s hearing, they’re going to [...]
November 17, 2011
· 
mistermix ... World Peace · 
128 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Stupidity
Bad Optics
Finally got around to watching that 60 Minutes piece on insider trading in Washington, and while the majority of the people profiled were Republicans, the one who just looked terrible was Pelosi. She looked evasive, defensive, and just didn’t look trustworthy. Brian Baird came off really well.
November 14, 2011
· John Cole · 109 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Stupidity
Louisiana Just Banned Legal Tender
Again, this makes no sense: Cold hard cash. It’s good everywhere you go, right? You can use it to pay for anything. But that’s not the case here in Louisiana now. It’s a law that was passed during this year’s busy legislative session. House bill 195 basically says those who buy and sell second hand [...]
October 20, 2011
· John Cole · 96 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Stupidity, General Stupidity
An Odd Omission
I’m doing some telephone canvassing (not enough) for the No On Two campaign in Ohio and I’m finding out something that is extraordinary to me. None of the people I’m talking to know that many, many charter schools in Ohio are run by for-profit operators. They don’t know this because I live in a low-income [...]
October 11, 2011
· Kay · 33 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Both Sides Do It!, Democratic Cowardice, Democratic Stupidity, Election 2011, Even the "Liberal" New Republic, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment
Senate Poised to Kill Jobs Bill
And of course the usual suspects in the Democratic party are going to give the GOP cover: Obama has been touring the country, aiming to put pressure on the GOP to act. But Senate Democrats have indicated they are feeling some heat. Last week, Democratic leaders revised Obama’s bill, scrapping his proposed offsets. Instead of [...]
October 11, 2011
· John Cole · 111 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Stupidity, Election 2012, Our Failed Political Establishment
Good job
I am cautiously optimistic: Earlier this year, Ohio Gov. John Kasich® signed a sweeping bill intended to make it harder to vote in his states’ elections. Kasich’s anti-voter law drastically cuts back on early voting and erects new barriers for absentee and even for election day voters. Today, however, opponents of Kasich’s war on voting [...]
September 30, 2011
· Kay · 33 Comments
Posted in: Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Democratic Stupidity, Domestic Affairs, Election 2011, Election 2012, Fuck The Middle-Class, Our Failed Media Experiment, Republican Venality
Give-a-Shitter Status: Broken
This graph shows the difference between Democratic and Republican enthusiasm. There are a number of ways to read this graph. Either we’re back in Nader for President territory going into the 2012 election, or Democrats are more disappointed with Obama than Republicans were with Bush right after Katrina. I’m sure after President Romney and his [...]
September 30, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 218 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Stupidity
Move over, big dog
What the fuck? And that’s not the first time I’ve asked this about him over the past few years. Former President Bill Clinton tells Newsmax that Washington should not raise taxes until the slumping economy is turned around — and says President Obama’s plan to increase taxes on the wealthy won’t solve the debt problem. [...]
September 21, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 92 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Stupidity, We Are All Mayans Now
Friends. Everybody Needs Them
Honestly, is there anything more useless than “moderate” Dems: President Obama’s deficit-reduction plan—complete with tax increases on the wealthiest Americans—won high marks from his liberal base encouraged to see Obama back in fighting mode, but the plan is set to hit a brick wall in Congress—even in the Democratically controlled Senate and the bipartisan super [...]
September 20, 2011
· John Cole · 68 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Democratic Stupidity, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor
Now That the Charade is Over
This is the least surprising thing you will ever read: House Republican leaders say they are rejecting President Barack Obama’s jobs proposals to rebuild schools and blighted neighborhoods, and help keep state and local employees on the job. In a memo to GOP lawmakers that was also issued publicly and reprinted in The New York [...]
September 17, 2011
· John Cole · 93 Comments
Posted in: Black Jimmy Carter, Democratic Stupidity, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment, Sociopaths, Teabagger Stupidity
Glad To See Things are Proceeding as Expected
Mistermix already linked to this, but it really made me laugh: President Obama anticipated Republican resistance to his jobs program, but he is now meeting increasing pushback from his own party. Many Congressional Democrats, smarting from the fallout over the 2009 stimulus bill, say there is little chance they will be able to support the [...]
September 15, 2011
· John Cole · 173 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Stupidity, Our Failed Political Establishment
The Menagerie Speaks
We haven’t heard much from them since their pack was decimated last year, but the jobs bill brought a few of the almost-extinct Blue Dogs out of their dens, baying: “I have said for months that I am not supporting a repeal of tax cuts for the oil industry unless there are other industries that [...]
September 15, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 129 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Cowardice, Democratic Stupidity
Giving Away Our Base?
Dave Weigel at Slate discusses the Great NY-9 Debacle, and finishes by pointing out a new Republican meme that really does worry me: ... Actually, this disastrous election gave the Democrats a few hints. The party tried, and failed, to wound Turner by telling voters he’d provide one more Republican vote to weaken entitlements. That [...]
September 14, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 226 Comments
Posted in: C.R.E.A.M., Democratic Stupidity, Election 2012, Fools! Overton Window!
My Take on NY-9
Special elections are nothing but risk and pain for the incumbent party. The office holder usually resigned for some ugly reason that splatters onto the incumbent party’s candidate, the incumbent party is often a sclerotic and shortsighted enough to nominate a weak machine favorite who hasn’t ever participated in a contested election, tons of money [...]
September 13, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 138 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Stupidity
A Traitor Speaks
A former Republican staffer on the House and Senate budget committees explains how the modern Republican party co-opted low-information white voters who should want to vote for Democrats: How do they manage to do this? Because Democrats ceded the field. Above all, they do not understand language. Their initiatives are posed in impenetrable policy-speak: the [...]
September 4, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 187 Comments
Posted in: Decline and Fall, Democratic Cowardice, Democratic Stupidity, Republican Venality
