Do you recall any outliers in your presidential voting history, including primaries?

I've voted for every Democratic nominee in the general election beginning with Walter Mondale in 1984, the year I turned 18. But the first vote I ever cast was in the 1984 Democratic primary. I didn't like Mondale and I thought Jesse Jackson was kind of cool at the time. I was just an 18 y/o white kid from the Bay Area that didn't know a thing about Jackson but didn't like Mondale. I cast my first ever vote for Jesse Jackson. Of course, I voted for Mondale in the general election.

It still makes me chuckle today.

Bill Maher: Bush's first comments on 9/11

After setting up the Republican panelists (Boris Epshteyn and John Fund) -- both absolutely frothing at the mouth and still perpetuating the Obama Benghazi Myth -- Maher quotes Bush's comments immediately following 9/11.

Bush: "apparent act of terror"
Maher (sarcasm): One plane, maybe not, but two planes....?

Bush: we'll hunt down the "folks" who did this
Maher: folks? really?


Matt Taibbi was awesome! He spoke about his article in RS, Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital, just thrashing Romney and Leverage (*=Debt*) Buy Out scheme. Dipshit 1 & 2 went after him, but really had nothing, and immediately changed the topic to "Obama increased the debt by 65%."


http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-20120829

Help get the word out (more poor messaging)

I was listening to the Ed Schultz Show (radio) last week and a guy calls in, says he makes $255,000, and won't vote for Obama because his taxes are going to go up about $8000 if Obama gets re-elected. He calculated that by taxing *all* of his gross income at 39% versus taxing *all* of his gross income at 36%. A soft ball, right? Ed's going to hit this one out of the park? Right?



The guy -- who I initially assumed was a Republican tool when he threw out the $255,000 number -- then asked something reasonable (paraphrasing), "I'm confused, is it *all* of my income or just the amount over $250,000? If it's the latter, then that's not a big deal at all." Ed farted around and then told the guy to suck it up. What an opportunity lost! I called his show but couldn't get through, so I emailed and tweeted him.

Fortunately, someone calls in and *almost* explains it correctly. He explained that the 3% only applies to the $5000 over $250K. Ed says, "That's what I understand." So this caller says that the guy will only pay an extra $150 in taxes (3% of $5000).

Hopefully, every single one of you reading this have already noted that this explanation misses the mark, too.

What I was hoping to hear Ed say was something like this:
Dude! Your taxes won't go up at all! Surely your taxable income is well under $250,000. Right?! Heck! You can make $270,000 and probably not be affected! First, the tax rates aren't applied to your gross income, they are applied to your *taxable* income (AGI). Second, the tax rates are *marginal* rates. So, the 39% tax rate will be applied to just taxable income above $250K. In other words, if you make $270,000 but have $25,000 in deductions, your taxes won't go up at all!

Bigger than Benghazi? Oh yeah...

Typical Republican, "Look over here" slight of hand. And, per usual, the media, Democrats, and President look over there. Had this guy succeeded in detonating this bomb, Obama's presidency would be over! But the Fed's got him on Obama's watch!! And on our own turf, no less!!!

For fuck's sake, why have we let this one get away?

October 17th, 2012

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(Nafis) met an undercover agent that supplied him with what he thought were explosives on Wednesday morning. After meeting up, they both traveled in a van to a warehouse, the Justice Department said.

That’s apparently when Nafis told the agent he had a "Plan B."

If Nafis felt his attack was about to be thwarted by cops, he would invoke the back-up plan, which involved a suicide bombing operation, the criminal complaint alleges.

When the pair arrived at the warehouse, Nafis began putting together what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb inside the van. Then they drove together to the target: The New York Federal Reserve Bank. As they drove, he armed the purported by putting together the detonator and the explosives, the criminal complaint says.

The van was then parked next to the bank. The pair went to a nearby hotel, where Nafis apparently recorded a video statement meant to be shown to the American public in connection with the attack.

"We will not stop until we attain victory or martyrdom," he said, according to the criminal complaint.

He then tried, several times unsuccessfully, to detonate the device, which was actually inert explosives.

Nafis was then arrested.

Republicans get away with this shit...

...because Dems are flat out terrified of them. They get away with bloody murder because they know if Dems try to respond they'll be accused of being...fascists, totalitarian, a mob of angry black men (just fill in the blank). And it sticks! By contrast, the Rs truly are a mob of fascist, totalitarian, angry white men...because Dems are terrified to call them out on it. Imagine if Pelosi had gone after Rove. Of course she stood down like a good Democrat. Now imagine if the shoe was on the other foot. We know what the Rs would do. And the Dems would serve our own up on a platter a la Anthony Weiner.

You have a point

Actually two.

The friend in Arizona prefaced her response to me by stating, I know your a die-hard Democrat...

I told her, actually, I'm far to the left of the president and often at odds with him.

Here, you'll find two camps of Democrats: those fiercely loyal to Obama, and those of us who are often critical of him.

And therein lies the difference between Dems and you clowns.

What MSM won't show you from Chicago

Pardon the interuption...

I just returned from a truly amazing event here in Chicago. I joined the NATO demonstration, one attended by a crowd north of 10,000, and featuring powerful speakers from the US armed forces and Afghan community. The two dozen former military enlisted were there to denounce the war, their participation, their medals of "dishonor"--which, to a person they called a symbol of terror covered in a lie right before throwing them toward the very buildings which housed the conference--and to apologize for being agents of terror against the Afghan and Iraqi peoples. They added, the enemy is not 7000 miles away, the enemy is right here, in the board rooms of multinational corporations.

Here are my pictures, I hope you can view them.


<OK, I'll figure out how to post the rest of these pictures.>




...now, back to CNN/NBC/ABC/CBS and their voyeuristic coverage of police brutality.

This joke isn't funny anymore!

When the President/Democrats say, "These were good ideas when they were your ideas, but suddenly they're not any longer (big smile), ha ha ha..."

Not funny.

This is how the country continues to get pulled further and further to the right. We wind up espousing their ideas. They then have to come up with more ludicrous (hyperbole) ideas, e.g., their war on women, to make their bad ideas of years past look reasonable when Dems sign off on them.

It's their game. They are winning because Dems are afraid to look center left, whatever that means today, because as far as I can tell, Republican ideas are erroneously being termed "the center" rather than "right of center." The right is mere hyperbole, there to pull the country further to the right. And it works!

Do ad hominem attacks make the anxiety go away for some of you?

No way of knowing what the OP is referring to, but if it's something like...

Ratigan: "...although they will never admit it, this recovery is a Republican's wet dream because the jobs that are returning are ununionized and lower paying than those they replaced. Just what Republicans wanted all along. Where's the 'Mission Accomplished' banner, now?"

She-AW, I remember all the scrutinizing that took place here, amongst Democrats, when the Bush admin. released favorable unemployment data. We picked those numbers to pieces.

But now it's different?

Why has no one called out Rachel Maddow for her misandry?

Was her "Man Cave/OB-GYN For Dummies" bit hilarious or was it misandristic?


Are we done yet?

Some of yous are completely ridiculous. The Truth Hurts.