from blah to bizarre - what a party!

michele's calling for the rapture, or something

bachman beats ryan, she was shorter

jerseyhoya wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:If I were the opposition party, I wouldn't do a response. Or I'd make it real short.

Yeah I don't think there's ever been a good one. I haven't watched any of the speeches tonight, but there's a positive reaction from the conservatives I follow on Twitter about Ryan's performance.

on the internet you can't see their flopsweat

dear people of Minnesota: You elected that.

And Al Franken.

I'm watching this on DVR, and I just got the part where Obama tried to make Boehner cry. Best part of the speech!

Word's getting around that the "response" hurts more than it helps. I heard earlier today that Ryan was the choice after Chris Christie, Marco Rubio and Scott Brown turned it down.

Good to see HENRY WAXMAN still looks like a muppet

Whenever I see the name of the new Rep from Arkansas (Womack) I do a really bad Sean Connery in The Rock impression

How does one 'disagree with virtually everything he (Obama) said in this state of the union tonight' as Joe Walsh did (R-Il) tonight?

Trent Steele wrote:she was probably hot in 1983

if she didn't pour on the makeup

The only SotU response I've ever been impressed with was Jim Webb in 2007.

It would make more sense to do it the next morning--so it could be an actual, y'know, response, rather than preset talking points offered immediately after the president's, in a much less compelling setting.

cshort wrote:Word's getting around that the "response" hurts more than it helps. I heard earlier today that Ryan was the choice after Chris Christie, Marco Rubio and Scott Brown turned it down.

I thought Ryan did a reasonably good job. He was quite disingenuous in suggesting stimulus spending during a Deep Recession is a bad thing or that it didn't help. Bachman likely advanced her cause by appearing to be less crazy than she normally does. Free national publicity for her presidential ambitions.

he didnt mention that he wants to get rid of medicare (and drive seniors into poverty), probably at the behest of the rest of the republicans who still want a job

The Nightman Cometh wrote:My history teacher was going on about Glenn Beck about how he is the real leader of the republican party, how George Soros is buying up all of our oil in the Gulf Coast, how Obama was taught by professors at Columbia that are specifically designing a plan to overthrow the capitalist system in America, and that the Russians have a machine capable of creating an Earthquake with the San Andreas fault.

I'm not kidding. Kill me.

Pick the one of your choice, research it very well, and then challenge him on it. At the very least, you could subtly ask during class where you can find out more information on one of the crazier topics. When he sends you to some insane website (or more likely, doesn't have anywhere to send you), you can say something that lets the class know how crazy it is to have a prof teaching stuff that's dismissed by any serious treatment of the material.

Seriously, this is your education. You have a right to have someone competent teaching you. If you don't feel comfortable challenging him in class, then talk to the department head or write a letter to a local or school newspaper.

td11 wrote:

Was he really crying again? Seriously, wtf? I'm starting to think he's genuinely unstable. It's not normal for an adult to cry at the drop of a hat all the time. Is he depressed? A drunk? Insanely sentimental?

Imagine if you worked with someone who started crying in the office all the time. Would you feel comfortable putting them in charge of the office?

At first it was just funny, but this is starting to get a little concerning.

TenuredVulture wrote:

mozartpc27 wrote:You know, if you watch a lot of politics and baseball, as I do, you get a skewed sense of how many southpaws there are out there really.

We secretly run everything.

Is that why toilets flush counter-clockwise?

td11 wrote:

Oh, I just couldn't resist