jerseyhoya wrote:GOP Supercommittee Members

Hensarling (co-chair), Upton, Camp, Portman, Toomey, Kyl

Portman and Camp are smart. Toomey and Hensarling will make the base happy. Kyl and Upton are there to fill the Washington stooge quota I guess.

Camp may be smart, I haven't seen any evidence on health care generally. And he sure looks like a straight party-first guy - so his smarts may not matter.

Toomey's a loon

EDIT: wow, I have no idea what health care knowhow will have to do with Camp's role on this committee

jerseyhoya wrote:I'm sure the reason he's not being allowed to debate is that he's gay and not because he doesn't meet the third criterion there

Serious question - Do any Dems who supported Obama in the primary wish Hillary was president now?

Not really, because I still don't like the idea of hereditary dynasty any more than I did four years ago. But I'll admit getting one thing terribly wrong: I thought the Republican tendency to deny the legitimacy of any Democratic president, and to deploy massive resistance against any Democratic initiative, was much more about hatred of the Clintons than it evidently is. She might not have had an easier time than Obama, but I don't think--I don't know how--it could have been worse.

dajafi wrote: She might not have had an easier time than Obama, but I don't think--I don't know how--it could have been worse.

I feel it would have been worse, because of the history, because it would have been endlessly regurgitated, and because many a dem has twinges about the - shall we call it "complex"? - characters of both Clintons, whereas Barry fairly sparkles with integrity by comparison.

But she probably would have been a better negotiator, having no illusions about the possibility of compromise.

I'm glad he won, but thoroughly underwhelmed.

When in doubt about riots, blame single parent families and promiscuity. It's cheap and effective!

Wizlah wrote:When in doubt about riots, blame single parent families and promiscuity. It's cheap and effective!

Oddly enough, that same thing just happened in Philly in response to our recent rash of mob attacks. Although, honestly, I can't really gripe with the mayor's comments.

tim pawlenty doesn't like bobbleheads

not liking bobbleheads = not liking baseball

pawlenty fail

jerseyhoya wrote:I'm sure the reason he's not being allowed to debate is that he's gay and not because he doesn't meet the third criterion there

Serious question - Do any Dems who supported Obama in the primary wish Hillary was president now?

No, but I do admit that I have been more than a little disappointed with President Obama's performance. That said, I feel like I have no choice but to support him in 2012 because the GOP is running nothing but extremists and those who will do little but coddle the wealthy for four years. I cannot believe I am about to type this but if I had to choose between Obama and Christie right now I would seriously consider casting my vote for Christie. I cannot imagine myself voting for any of the current GOP field over Obama though.

I've been visiting family for the last week, and my dad for reasons I cannot fathom watches a lot of MSNBC. I think the amount of attention paid to politics (as opposed to policy and issues) is ridiculous. There's simply something wrong with people who care about this Iowa thing, and the amount of attention MSNBC paid to the Wisconsin recall also seems to be targeted at a portion of the population that has some kind of pathology. I suppose you could say the same thing about Fox News, but I wouldn't know about that since my dad doesn't watch that channel.

I mean, I have a PhD in political science, and thus have a predilection to be interested in this stuff. But I really don't care about Wisconsin or Iowa right now. I don't care about how many people think Obama deserves to be re-elected either.

dajafi wrote:I've decided it would be really funny if everyone referred to Rick Perry as Tyler Perry.

All should feel free to create Photoshop expressions of this.

If he uses the Journey song Don't Stop Believin', I will photoshop him with Steve Perry's circa 1981 hair and sideburns.

Wizlah wrote:When in doubt about riots, blame single parent families and promiscuity. It's cheap and effective!

Is that the answer to the question: What would Arnold do? Pre his discovery that he is an adulator parenting a bastard that is.

"CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE, MY FRIEND!!!!!!!!!" - MITTENS ROMNEY

Pretty big Kinsley gaffe from Mitt

Hell of it for him is It will get worse if he makes any attempt to explain what he meant

Why? Because then he'll have to explain why his 'peopleations' are so very often better friends to some people (who look like him) than others (who look more like they have actually baled hay); then things could get ugly

I happened to flip on the debate at the outset of Bachmann's moments of fame - she's talking, saying words, but not any actual recognizable sentences. She's making Pawlenty look good, and that's not easy.

newt, not knowing which candidate to slam, nips at the moderator for his "gotcha" questions

golfclaps for huntsman defending his stature as a genuine republican despite not hating obama and believing he's a traitorous martian socialist.

Cain stoutly maintains shariah law has no place in the US - imbeciles in the crowd cheer

candidates devolving into some peculiar version of the 2 Minutes Hate re immigration

phdave wrote: But to state that you defeat the culture war through "consistent, relentless reason"? Oh yeah? Haha. Since when? That's insane.

Yeah. Sullivan is giving the American public and its leaders WAY too much credit there. What kind of ivory tower is he living in?