BREAKING: NHDP Chair Pens Letter to Secretary of State Stating Sanders Is a Democrat https://t.co/GtwNSR1Ua9 #fitn #nhpolitics
— Judy Reardon (@JudyReardon) October 29, 2015
Yes, my title is snark. Or, in the words of underrated author R.A. Lafferty: Tongue so firmly in cheek as to protrude from the vulgar bodily orifice.
From the linked article:
New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair Raymond Buckley has written a letter to N.H. Secretary of State Bill Gardner stating Sen. Bernie Sanders is considered a member of the Democratic Party. The letter will be submitted to the Secretary of State as part of a package establishing Sanders satisfies the New Hampshire state law requiring a candidate to be a registered member of the party whose nomination he or she is seeking in order to appear on a New Hampshire primary ballot…
Shortly after Sanders announced last spring he was seeking the Democratic nomination for president, Secretary of State Gardner questioned whether Sanders would satisfy state law since he is not registered to vote in Vermont as a Democrat. Vermont is one of several states that does not register voters by party affiliation.
In the past, Gardner has not found that to be an obstacle. He raised no concerns when former Vermont Gov. [Howard Dean] filed to run in the Democratic primary for President in 2004 or when George H. W. Bush filed to run for the Republican nomination for president in 1980 and 1988 and George W. Bush filed in 2000 and 2004, even though their home state of Texas does not register voters by party… But Gardner suggested that Sanders potentially could be treated differently from the two George Bushes, Al Gore and Howard Dean because the fact Sanders in the past has declined to accept Democratic nominations for U.S. Senate elections in Vermont.
Political parties, however, get to determine who their members are, not the government, according to the U.S. Supreme Court, and that is why Buckley’s letter to Gardner stating Sanders is considered a member of the Democratic Party is so significant…
Despite the ongoing speculation, there is no question that Sanders’ name will be on the ballot for the New Hampshire presidential primary. The only question is whether he and the Democratic Party will be forced to go to court to get his name on the ballot.
More details at the link. No idea why Gardner, who is himself a Democrat, would decide to be so punctilious about Sanders, except that he’s one of those Granite Headers Staters whose primary allegiance is to New Hampshire’s valuable “First in the Nation” status…
Baud
I never liked that Sanders wasn’t a Democrat, but he should be on the ballot.
It would have been an interesting issue if Sanders were from a state that allowed party registration.
Thoughtful Today
…
Will the Democratic Party screw a significant fraction of it’s membership?
Would the Democratic Party have three Republicans in the first of their few Democratic debates?
…
The second question answers the first for me. YMMV.
Mike J
Keeping Sanders out just means that the NH primary would mean even less than it already will. If you want to keep the quadrennial bucks flowing, you want a contest on both sides.
Omnes Omnibus
@Thoughtful Today: Who would you say were the three Republicans?
Baud
BTW, Baud is D to bone. I don’t need anyone to vouch for me.
Anoniminous
Nowhere is it written a person running for the Democratic Party nomination for President has to be a Democrat.
Baud
@Anoniminous:
Well, apparently it’s written in New Hampshire law.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: TT is a Bernista.
Baud
@efgoldman:
Own-side trolls are much worse, IMHO, because of the concern of precipitating a circular firing squad scenario.
Anoniminous
@efgoldman:
Not really. Primaries are an internal Party matter, not an assigned or assumed function of the states or Federal government. The national party could make such a rule, of course, but they haven’t done so.
Liberal With Attitude
@Baud:
Speaking of Glenn Greenwald, has he partnered up with Nader?
Liberal With Attitude
@Baud:
Greenwald/ Nader ’16!
Baud
@Liberal With Attitude:
I haven’t heard anything about what he’s doing. I can’t imagine he would ever support Hillary, but I don’t know how he feels about Bernie.
NotMax
What’s all this brouhaha about Bernice Anders?
She’s not even running.
Oh.
Never mind.
/Emily Litella
Southern Goth
Implementation of the Jeb function:
def Jeb(money):
with open(‘/dev/null’, ‘w’) as f:
f.write(str(money))
print(‘Stuff happens.’)
return None
brinks_trucks= 1000
brinks_truck_load = 1000000
Jeb(brinks_trucks * brinks_truck_load)
Anoniminous
@Baud:
Why wouldn’t Greenberg support Hillary? He was BFF with Bill.
Belafon
I don’t think this is a bad thing. Would you want Trump claiming to be a Democrat and being able to wiggle his way into any primary or caucus because he says so? The party decided Sanders is a member for the presidential election, so he is.
Peale
@Omnes Omnibus: It’s the standard BS that Hilary has never gotten over her Goldwater Girl days and only married into the Democratic party. So Webb, Chafee and Clinton count as former republicans.
Omnes Omnibus
@Anoniminous: Green-berg, -wald, what’s the difference?
Baud
@Anoniminous:
Greenwald?
That’s news to me. I thought he hated the Clintons. Maybe I’m confusing him with someone else.
Baud
@Peale:
That’s idiotic for all three, but especially Hillary.
Belafon
@Peale: I’m glad we also count Warren as a Republican. She’s been representing them so well in Congress.
Baud
@Belafon:
Reagan was a former Democrat.
So was Rick Perry.
Omnes Omnibus
@Peale: I know what TT was hinting at; I just wanted to see if TT was willing to come out and say that he thinks that HRC and the others are Republicans. FWIW, a good chunk of people who post on this blog, including its proprietor, were once Republicans.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
I never was! Bask in my purity.
schrodinger's cat
@Omnes Omnibus: What does it matter? Does one have to be a Dem from birth to pass some kind of a purity test specified by TT?
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Nor was I. Bask in mine.
mclaren
Well, that’s it!
I’m done!
They always betray you.
ALWAYS.
Anoniminous
@Baud:
My mistake. By clear and recent evidence: I can’t read.
schrodinger's cat
@Baud: I expected nothing less. We should put that in your bio along with the Trekkie credentials.
Baud
@schrodinger’s cat:
It’s an overreaction to the criticism that Sanders doesn’t consider himself a Democrat.
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodinger’s cat: You would have ask TT.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
Together we will eradicate the mudbloods.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Excellent.
Marmot
Well, it’s ’70s. Mediocre, moldy, and my lord, overdone.
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: I was. But only for like 4 years.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
Waiting for “Son of Frankenstein” to start. Not sure if Bela Lugosi Jr and Sara Karloff are supposed to speak before or after the show.
Marci Kiser
“Or, in the words of underrated author R.A. Lafferty: Tongue so firmly in cheek as to protrude from the vulgar bodily orifice.”
For all those who agree and want more:
https://sites.google.com/site/thebooksofsand/the-man-who-talled-tales—r-a-lafferty
mdblanche
Also in the news today, Paul Ryan was elected the new
Rex NemorensisSpeaker of the House.Omnes Omnibus
@mdblanche: Here in Wisconsin, we are so proud. Or something.
Gin & Tonic
In the WaPo, Weigel writes: “After the CNBC debate creaked mercifully to its finale, pollster Frank Luntz conducted his usual Fox News focus group. The story of the debate might have been the ethering of Jeb Bush by Sen. Marco Rubio”
I thought I knew English reasonably well. What the fuck is “ethering”?
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Bask³.
redshirt
@Gin & Tonic:
Really terrible rape metaphor.
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic: Exactly what it sounds like. As Hunter S. once said, “[t]here is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.”
magurakurin
@Omnes Omnibus:
no, he’s not. He’s a paid shit stirrer aka a ratfucker.
FIDO
NotMax
@redshirt
Wouldn’t that be rohypnoling?
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: And the evisceration of our election laws. They basically killed the agency I used to work for.
ThresherK (GPad)
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): Was it “Lon Chaney Jr” who was always on SCTV’s Monster Chiller Horror Theater?
Cause I could really do with watching “3-D House of Stewardesses” now.
benw
@NotMax: Balloon-Juice: we came to fight about Bernie Sanders. We stayed for the date-rape drug jokes.
Anya
I am sorry for the dumb question but did the house and senate pass the budget deal?
NotMax
@Anya
House, yes. Senate scheduled to vote at approximately 1 a.m.
Anya
@NotMax: Thanks! I guess this means Rand Paul didn’t filibuster
Belafon
@Anya: He did, for 18 minutes, 40 seconds.
amk
kkklowns say FU to rnc
rethugsdems in disarray.NotMax
@Anya
Empty promise from the get-go.
He was never going to, as his threat came too late into the process to do so. He could have held the floor only up until the scheduled vote at 1 a.m., but rather blathered on for less than 20 minutes and then relinquished the floor.
Omnes Omnibus
Hey, do you cat fanatics realize that today is National Cat Day?
mtiffany
Excellent, time to have the state party chairs of the Communist party write letters to their respective secretaries of State declaring all Republican candidates Communists. That would be a nice giggle.
amk
@Omnes Omnibus:
national cat day
Gin & Tonic
@Omnes Omnibus: Am I the only one in the room who didn’t get the reference? Is that really a common usage?
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Too late now to take Simone Simon to lunch.
lurker dean
notmax, i had the pleasure of visiting your island recently – nice place you have there!
sunset photo from notmax’s “roof” (i recall you mentioning you can see the isthmus):
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5633/22590796865_f8208a107b_k.jpg
SiubhanDuinne
@Gin & Tonic:
I didn’t connect the term “ethering” to rape. I was thinking of it more as anesthetizing. Back in the (my) day, if you were going to have a surgical procedure, they would put a big mask over your nose and mouth and knock you out with ether.
NotMax
@Gin & Tonic
Common? Not hardly.
It’s a fancy-schmancy way of saying he was shut down.
ThresherK (GPad)
@efgoldman: Oh that’s a hoot. Certainly on the same branch of the tree.
I don’t think I have ever been in one of the kind of movie houses these flicks were shown in. Apparently my youth wasn’t as misspent as the nuns warned it would be.
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
I can haz holiday?
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic: I don’t know about anyone else but references to ether take my mind straight to that.
@NotMax: I should have posted that sooner; I am sorry. But nicely played. You could check on Ms Kinsky’s availability though.
redshirt
@SiubhanDuinne: Its use in surgery made it readily available to steal and use for nefarious reasons.
At least according to the murder mystery books I’ve read.
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: We’re Leos. Of course it applies to us.
NotMax
@lurker dean
Nice photo. Went up the crater for sunset, then? Heckuva drive down in the dark.
Yup, straight on view of the isthmus and West Maui mountains from my front lawn.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Seriously? As a Clash fan, you can’t go with the obvious and far better “Sandernista”?
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Thought (mistakenly) I was the last one left who didn’t put a period after the Ms appellation.
ThresherK (GPad)
@efgoldman: His one foray into screenwriting, IIRC. I miss him, yet am sorta glad he wasn’t around for some of the crummy blockbusteriana since his passing, especially the short recycle times for things not old enough for people to miss.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack (tablet): Omnes must slam his hand in the desk drawer as punishment.
ETA: Adopted for the future though. One handed typing is a bitch.
divF
@efgoldman:
What about Faster, Pussycat ! Kill ! Kill ! – another Russ Meyer classic.
According to Wikipedia:
(Shakes head.)
ETA: This is in moderation. When it gets out, could someone tell what I did wrong ?
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: It was a typo on my part.
benw
Stares at @Omnes Omnibus for an extremely long time.
Suddenly leaps into the air for no discernible reason.
Walks out of room acting as if nothing happened.
seaboogie
@amk: I am going to miss this president and his administration. Not for everything, but for a lot of being smart, and for being able to be silly without being stupid. Bush idea of funny was looking under the desk for WMD. Hahhhhhh..
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Perhaps I can claim the tontine after all.
:)
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Gin & Tonic, @redshirt:
Think “putting to sleep,” or perhaps “vaporizing.” Stupid, opaque attempt at rhetorical cuteness. Not a rape metaphor.
James E Powell
@Omnes Omnibus:
TT is a Bernista.
Don’t you mean he’s a Sanderista?
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: Well, I was never in it, so there is no reason to violently off me. Just saying.
Omnes Omnibus
@James E Powell: I’ve already been admonished.
lurker dean
@NotMax: thanks, i can’t imagine having that view every day. the original plan was for sunrise, but the forecast showed rain for several mornings in a row. truth be told, i was more scared on the drive up since i could see where i’d be going if i screwed up.
the backside of haleakala from hana, now that was harrowing to me. although once past the rough and narrow cliff-side roads, it was very scenic.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Every day is cat day.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack (tablet): This is National Cat Day. Note the national and the caps.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Gin & Tonic:
Omnes was having a goof.
NotMax
@lurker dean
Hoping you had a wonderful and relaxing visit. Unusual amount of rain this summer and fall, for sure.
Stuffed in a drawer or box somewhere in the abode is a photo of a rainbow across the isthmus, stretching all the way from the ocean at Kihei to the ocean at Paia.
Admiral_Komack
@Belafon:
Somewhere, Strom Thurmond is laughing:
“Boy, you call THAT a filibuster?”
“Sheeiit!”
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Let me elaborate, now that I’m not constrained by typing on my clumsy tablet:
I consider every fucking day “National Cat Day.” Fuck cats. Fuck them up their stupid asses.
And, Christ, over the last two threads the IQ of this blog has dropped a good 20-30 points.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: Oh dear.
Steeplejack
@divF:
Pussy is one of FYWP’s forbidden words.
BillinGlendaleCA
@efgoldman: Kids these days.
divF
@Steeplejack:
With all the other bad words that make it through unscathed around here, that’s it?!
(Shakes head again.)
mclaren
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
No, I don’t think Jeb is scheduled to give a speech tonight.
lurker dean
@NotMax: it was a very relaxing and wonderful trip, i really enjoy the aloha and island time. as i’m sure is common, i checked for jobs and apartments in maui as soon as i arrived home. unfortunately what i found just doesn’t seem manageable, lol.
kihei to paia, that’s some rainbow!
BillinGlendaleCA
@Steeplejack (tablet): Omnes is a Clash fan? He never saw them live.
mclaren
@ThresherK (GPad):
Pales by comparison with Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine.
sharl
@Gin & Tonic: There is a current use of “ethering” that arose from the rap music world starting in the late 90s, which is how I suspect Weigel is using the word:
{Zombie Paul Harvey in his hip-hop outfit (he’s changed a lot since he died)}: “And now you know…the rest…of the story.”
Omnes Omnibus
@BillinGlendaleCA: Spell my name right. I did see Joe and the Mescaleros. One of the best concert experiences I ever had.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: Fixed it.
Omnes Omnibus
@BillinGlendaleCA: I was just a bit young and in Wisconsin to see them live.
Steeplejack
@sharl:
Except that stupid Urban Dictionary entry doesn’t actually define the term. You can sort of get it from the couple of examples given, but . . .
NotMax
@lurker dean
Instead of apartments (of which there are relatively few), look for what are called ohana cottages.
Homeowners are allowed to build a separate cottage on their property. Intended to be used by extended family (ohana), in reality they are rented out and the income used to pay (or help to pay) the mortgage.
Ohana rentals have slowly crept upward, but still values to be found in 1- or 2-bedroom cottages outside of the big towns.
redshirt
Is there such a thing as rural Hawaii? Backwoods/redneck Hawaii?
sharl
@Steeplejack: Yeah, they don’t define the term for readers, rather they feel the “definition” toward us. It’s Dictionary Truthiness.
lurker dean
@NotMax: ah, that’s good info. the scuba guide we used mentioned he had a rental on his property, but i didn’t realize that was a common type of long-term rental.
i’m back on east coast time fighting jet lag, but i suppose i need to try to sleep. thanks for the chat.
redshirt
@lurker dean: No way man, stay up all night, then do your day tomorrow. Then crash like a rock tomorrow night.
NotMax
@redhirt
Rural, definitely.
Even got cowboys.
Some photos of sparsely traveled areas.
@efgoldman
Mongoose and axis deer.
Although the Ulupalakua ranch here, besides cattle, pasture elk.
lurker dean
@redshirt: party on, garth!