OK, Warrrenistas. You've had your little fun.

[MannyGoldstein]

Last edited Mon Jan 12, 2015, 09:59 PM - Edit history (1)

First, it was Larry Summers. Now Antonio Weiss.

Two rich and patriotic Americans that love their country, and who want to serve the 99%. Both unfairly prevented from serving the 99% (medium-rare, IIRC) by that difficult woman from Massachusetts that so many of you moonbats worship.

The 99% will not be served, thanks to Professor Warren!

And still, the crazed mewlings from you people!!! "Elizabeth Warren for President! A unicorn in every pot! Yay!"

First off, Elizabeth Warren has said she's not running, and unlike Hillary she means it. You can keep up with that "she only uses the present tense" nonsense, but you're not fooling anyone smart, like me... do you honestly think that woman is bright enough to understand how to use language with that kind of precision? She's a Harvard Law professor, not an English teacher, for chrissakes!

Second, as you people are reminded daily, Warren has far more power as Senator then she can ever have as President. Presidents are powerless. As we keep telling you, presidents are NOT dictators. Power-wise, they're somewhere between a project manager and a vice president of supply chain. For example, suppose your sick fantasy comes true, and Warren becomes POTUS: she'll no longer have a vote in the Senate to stop the presidential appointments that you hate so much, like Summers and Weiss.

Think about it. Think very carefully. And make sure that we keep her in the Senate. Let's really, really make sure of that. It's for your own good. You can trust me, I'm very smatr.

Regards,

Third-Way Manny

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. ...

Well done, Manny...........well done!

[Fumesucker]

2. Sharpening the contradictions again, Manny?

[MannyGoldstein]

4. That's my job.

Pay sucks.

But I entertain myself, so there's that.

[Electric Monk]

6. Your final sentence in the OP reminded me of this Simpsons bit

[MannyGoldstein]

9. You won't believe this, but...

I typed it as "smrta", began to correct it, thought of that same Simpson's bit, and decided to leave it as is.

[Fumesucker]

13. There's something to be said for the person who can entertain themselves

[daleanime]

27. That it's OK....

as long as they wash their hands after?

[BobbyBoring]

18. You entertain me too!

[MannyGoldstein]

20. I wouldn't admit that on DU

It'll likely be alerted on.

[peacebird]

3. You are "very smatr"

And I want the unicorns set free!

I also want Elizabeth Warren as our nom, instead of HRC

[Jackpine Radical]

17. I want pot in every unicorn.

[AtomicKitten]

40. I want unicorn-flavored pot.

[F4lconF16]

55. ...

[hootinholler]

64. I want pot grown in unicorn poo

That would have to be some kick ass weed.

[eppur_se_muova]

59. I don't normally post links to videos -- but just for you --

[peacebird]

60. LOL! Oh my, had forgotten that bit!

Thanks for the smile!

[Faryn Balyncd]

5. ...

[L0oniX]

7. Where ever you go ...there you are.

[RiverLover]

8. Does this mean I don't get my pony?

That was too funny! Thanks for the giggles TWM!!

[MannyGoldstein]

10. You'll get your unicorn...

[Caretha]

11. Execellent thread Manny

I enjoy them so much. Keep stickin' it up their rear, not only do they like it, it makes such a point

[Stellar]

12. I'm a Warrenista !!!!

[WillyT]

14. K & R !!!

[OldRedneck]

15. I DO NOT want Eliz. Warren to run for President

I want her to stay in the Senate so she can continue to block one-percenters who will serve only the 1% -- just as she did in this case.

Larry Summers and Antonio Weiss are creatures of Wall Street who do not give a rat's ass about the rest of us -- just so they and their super-rich friends can continue to pile up the money.

[earthside]

26. Because a Prez Hill ...

... would be making appointments of 1 percent sycophants?

(And we know she would.)

Better to have a President Elizabeth Warren who wouldn't make those kinds of appointments in the first place.

[JDPriestly]

29. I want Elizabeth Warren in the White House so that creeps like Summers and Weiss don't even

get on the appointments lists.

[Enthusiast]

66. Me too.

[Cosmic Kitten]

32. You forgot the "sarcasm" thingy, right?

[Fred Sanders]

37. A Senator has more power than the President...and still no sarcasm emoticon?

[Cosmic Kitten]

39. Indeed, it is all so confusing?!?

Best to leave the sheeple to sleep, eh?

[rhett o rick]

41. Wow, there seems to be a rash of posters clamoring for Sen Warren to stay in the Senate.

Hmmmm. Who do you think should run for president?

[MannyGoldstein]

47. Indeed, she must!

Unless she's promoted to being a member of a local school committee, or animal control, or something else with real teeth.

[merrily]

51. Food for thought: Third Way really took hold after Bubba was elected President.

There had been a strong conservative streak in the Party, esp. among Southern white male politicians, dating back to the Lincoln-Douglas debates, if not further but that wing never became the majority of the party until Bubba got elected (ironically, more because of party loyalty and Perot than because of the DLC. Nonetheless.....)

I bet fewer people know what Warren says than know what the President says. So, whether keeping her as one of a small minority of Democrats in the Senate best serves your long term goals depends on what your goals are.

There are good reasons why claiming Warren can do more in the Senate than she can in the Oval Office has been a Third Way talking point since people started talking about Warren for President, esp. in preference to the anointed Hillary.

[SammyWinstonJack]

78. ...

[Art_from_Ark]

16. I often wonder what Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson could have accomplished

*if only they had stayed in the Senate*. Imagine, giving up a cushy Senate seat to become a figurehead. It just boggles the imagination.

[MannyGoldstein]

19. And FDR never even had a chance

FDR who?, yeah, I know.

What could have been.

[Art_from_Ark]

25. And it's really sad that Lincoln didn't win his Senate race

Talk about wasted potential!

[dsc]

30. in point of act Lyndon Johnson did give up a very powerful Senate position for

a figure head position. It was a sad event which propelled him to power. Truman also gave his seat up to be Vice President but Roosevelt was clearly very ill by then so he was becoming President.

[merrily]

52. Luckily, fate (or voting machines) saved Kerry from making that same mistake, yet,

he continued to want something other than his Senate seat.

Dimson, however, never had to make that agonizing choice.

[pa28]

21. Hahaha! True, she won't be able to stop those terrible presidential appointments as president.

She also won't be able to resist job killing trade deals like the TPP or those Social Security cuts the White House budget office keeps proposing.

[MrMickeysMom]

22. Manny… of course this makes sense...

…So, why can't we think a bit more strategically by building the Senate necessary for looking deeply at policy?

No one seems to be too upset about how we let this present day SCOTUS get it's focus, do we? Yet, we had weak and unchecked work to let this happen.

It's a long season, and it isn't going to turn around unless we start to recognize that.

BTW, what's that sticker doing in your sig?

[MannyGoldstein]

36. Damned sticker.

Either ISIS or Liberals hacked my account...

[merrily]

53. It's not either or.

[Veilex]

23. "The 99% will not be served, thanks to Professor Warren!" - Yeah! Now how are we to pass the TPP?

[MannyGoldstein]

48. That's not funny.

We're not talking about the TPP now.

[merrily]

54. "Don't tell me what's funny."

That's what spouse said to me when I said, "That's not funny" while he was laughing at some joke. (I don't remember the joke, but my guess is I thought it was sexist.)

[Veilex]

58. I giggled a little.

[Depaysement]

24. Hillaryous!

[JDPriestly]

28. K&R.

[Agony]

31. bad

LOL

[DeSwiss]

34. ''She's a Harvard Law professor, not an English teacher, for chrissakes!''

- Damn! You almost had me!!!!!

I'm into the librarian/literary types......

K&R

[center]ELSIE GASKIN FOR PRESIDENT!!!

[/center]

[MannyGoldstein]

45. Yikes!

Que the Eartha Kitt growl!!!

[4dsc]

35. We'll take Bernie instead and make her a VP..

Too bad centrist are fucking up our party to the point we need someone with a populist message.

[840high]

43. That would excite me.

[YoungDemCA]

38. ....

[sibelian]

74. You are less in number of late.

And have less and less to say.

It is refreshing.

[SheilaT]

42. Well, I want my unicorn

pot or not pot, and I'm holding my breath until Warren runs for office on that promise or Hillary does. So there!

And why is there no "holding my breath until I'm blue in the face" smiley when I need one, huh?

[merrily]

56. Never fear. Hillary will run on whatever she thinks can win her the primary.

Will you put more stock in a campaign promise that in Hillary's support of DLC principles since at least official formation of the DLC?

[MrModerate]

44. Nicely done. Sadly representative of some "democrats" n/t

[ashling]

46. Bravo

[Maedhros]

49. Oh, I beg to differ Manny.

As we keep telling you, presidents are NOT dictators.

Claiming the power to execute citizens without due process of law, and based only upon the Leader's discretion, is the defining trait of a dictator.

Since all freedom-loving Third Way acolytes heartily endorse giving the President this power,they certainly do think that Presidents are dictators. At least, that's what it looks like.

[MannyGoldstein]

50. I guess haterz gotta hate

What you and your ilk conveniently forget is that in these cases, Obama is sworn to follow the secret process put into place by the President of the United States himself to ensure that nobody gets killed who looks Western.

[merrily]

57. Hmm. Summers, the Harvard President who claimed females had less aptitude in science and

engineering than males and that, rather than biases like his, were the reason women were underrepresented in universities in those fields. Will the Party that made so much of the "war on women" just ahead of the 2012 Presidential is going to take his word on Warren?

On January 14, 2005, Harvard President Lawrence Summers said that the underrepresentation of female scientists at top universities may be in part due to natural differences between men and women.

Why does this matter? Well, it looks as if Summers, who served in the Obama White House as director of the National Economic Council until the end of 2010, may be the front-runner to succeed Ben Bernanke at the Federal Reserve Board. That's based off new reporting from The Washington Post's Ezra Klein. A source close to Obama told The New York Times' John Harwood that Summers "should be" the choice to lead the Fed.

Alarms are already beginning to go off. The feminist advocacy group UltraViolet issued a statement Tuesday night saying, "Women will not soon forget if President Obama picks Mr. Summers." Some, including UltraViolet, are particularly peeved because for months the presumed front-runner was a woman, Janet Yellen. David Dayen at Salon has a story up Wednesday morning headlined "Sexist Larry Summers Will Destroy the Economy." That story also reports that the White House is leaning toward Summers. On Twitter, Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.; called the potential pick "disconcerting."

http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/what-potential-fed-front-runner-lawrence-summers-said-about-women-20130724

As we know, Yellen got that slot. Janet Yellen, first female to hold the position. Probably just coincidences.

[MannyGoldstein]

61. Well, in Summers' defense...

I've had a nice set of drill bits for more than a decade, never broke one. Last week Mrs. Goldstein decided to take up home repairs, snapped a bit.

I think we have all the proof that we need here.

[merrily]

63. Keeping home improvement tools intact is niether science nor engineering.

Besides, why did Mrs. Manny Goldsein decide to take up home repairs last week? Perhaps because owning a set of drill bits is not the same as actually using them?

The prosecution of Mr. Summers rests. The persecution prosecution of Mr. Goldstein is just warming up. (Pls tell Mrs. Goldstein I work cheap,)

[MannyGoldstein]

76. Look, I'm not debating you

unless we put some sort of handicapping system in place that gives me a chance.

If you're not a lawyer, it's a crime.

All I will say is that replacing the blinds was a high priority that I probably would have completed this year. Without breaking the drill bit.

[brooklynite]

62. Don't worry Manny...you DON'T need to keep her in the Senate

She's going to do that herself.

[Thespian2]

65. K & R

All good, Manny, all gude.

[11 Bravo]

67. Manny, you are an honest-to-God, dyed-in-the-wool, a-one ...

genuine, fucking DU treasure! Don't ever change.
Even when I disagree with you (and in this case I don't), you're as good as it gets.

[MannyGoldstein]

72. You eaned yourself an extra Benjamin this time.

Please remind me of your PayPal account info, thanks!

[Enrique]

68. rec for "Warrenista"

i'm picturing a Che-style banner with her image

[ctsnowman]

69. lol thanks for the post.

[BrotherIvan]

70. Well, I had LUNCH with Abe Vigoda

And HE said...well, I'm not going to tell you. But he also said, "She is not now, currently, running!"

[A Simple Game]

71. When you put it this way:

Second, as you people are reminded daily, Warren has far more power as Senator then she can ever have as President. Presidents are powerless. As we keep telling you, presidents are NOT dictators. Power-wise, they're somewhere between a project manager and a vice president of supply chain. For example, suppose your sick fantasy comes true, and Warren becomes POTUS: she'll no longer have a vote in the Senate to stop the presidential appointments that you hate so much, like Summers and Weiss.

it sounds just as stupid as it does when all of the others say it.

Another excellent post Third-Way Manny.

[tclambert]

73. "A unicorn in every pot." It is well known that unicorns went extinct on Noah's Ark

because Noah had to feed the tigers SOMETHING.

[demwing]

75. Damn! This should have been sent from the PRG!

How many scooby snacks will it take to get 3rd way Manny to change his home address?

[Katashi_itto]

77. Yeah you Warrrenistas. Time to STFU and vote Hillary, for only she can properly impoverish us

As is our destiny!

Plus we get to feel good about voting for someone with a big "D" at the end of their name.

[PFunk]

79. Fine. this means Im gonna vote green if the dems don't put up another progressive canadate

Cause this dem is not voting for DLC Hillary. And I think I'm not alone in this.