Civil Disobedience and that pic of Mitt

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Thursday October 18, 2012 · 5:36 AM PDT

2012/10/18 · 05:36

As I was watching the debate, I was trying to figure out where Obama learned the tactics to turn the tables on Mitt... I couldn't quite figure it out... Then I saw that pic of Mitt looking really pissed, and it dawned on me... Obama was engaging in civil disobedience to Mitt's aggression and turning it back on itself... And it brought to mind the images of George Wallace and James Meredith... Below the orange squiggles, the pictures speak for themselves...

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Monday October 15, 2012 · 2:30 PM PDT

2012/10/15 · 14:30

Paul Ryan has sunk to a new low...

From the New York Times:
The [Ryan] family put on aprons and washed several large pans, though they did not appear to need washing, according to a pool reporter. There also was no one to serve at the soup kitchen, as breakfast had ended

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Tuesday October 05, 2010 · 2:29 PM PDT

2010/10/05 · 14:29

With apologies to Monty Python and Arthur Miller, here is a transcript of Christine O'Donnel's inevitable impeachment hearing in the Tea Party Caucus...

TEABAGGERS: A witch! A witch! A witch! We've got a witch!
A witch!
TEABAGGER #1: We have found a witch, might we burn her?
TEABAGGERS: Burn her! Burn!
KARL ROVE: How do you know she is a witch?
TEABAGGER #2: She looks like one.
KARL ROVE: Bring her forward.
CHRISTINE O’DONNELL: I'm not a witch. I'm not a witch.

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Thursday December 17, 2009 · 12:58 PM PST

2009/12/17 · 12:58

Update: To be clear... I am persuaded that, given the way that this thing has been handled to date, we need a platform from which to make this bill better. I believe that it's easier to do that piecemeal after the bill is passed then to start from scratch. This will be easier if the chief compromiser is removed from the process.

Put me down with Ezra Klein and Paul Krugman. This thing has to pass. If it doesn't, it will set back the progressive cause for a generation. Better to pass the bill then make it better through reconciliation. But either way, we should exact a price, and after the White House response to Gov. Dean yesterday, the target is clear. It should be the compromiser in chief... Rahm.

See below the fold for details.

kant

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Saturday August 29, 2009 · 1:39 PM PDT

2009/08/29 · 13:39

Jacob Weisberg has a terrific article just up on the Newsweek site. In it he enumerates a number of Republican pieces of legislation which incentivizes families to encourage their aging loved ones to die. Most significantly, he he finds the fingerprints of Mr. Pull-the-plug-on-grandma Charles Grassley on a classic death-incentivizing bill. Weisberg states...

It was Grassley himself who devised the "Throw Mama From the Train" provision of the GOP's 2001 tax cut. The estate-tax revision he championed will reduce the estate tax to zero next year. But when it expires at year's end, the tax will jump back up to its previous level of 55 percent. Grassley's exploding tax break has an entirely foreseeable, if unintended, consequence: it incentivizes ailing, elderly rich people to end their lives—paging Dr. Kevorkian—before midnight on Dec. 31, 2010. It also gives their children an incentive to sign DNR orders and switch off respirators in time for the deadline. This would be a great plot for a P. D. James novel if it weren't an actual piece of legislation.

And there is much more.

Check out the whole article at the link below...

http://www.newsweek.com/...

kant

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Saturday August 22, 2009 · 1:01 PM PDT

2009/08/22 · 13:01

OK, we have alot of blathering and posturing about how badly/cleverly the Obama Administration is handling the healthcare legislative process... But I have a hunch that very few kossacks really understand the process by which healthcare bills will become law... So this is a request for a wiki of sorts, explaining how the various committees and the two legislative bodies come together in conference, and how leverage is wielded in forming and negotiating within that conference. One would imagine that Rahm has a very clear sense of this, but you would think that kossacks would be smarter about it. And yet I have not seen any gaming of that process on this site. So can anyone help? Please recommend if you want to promote folks to answer in comments... I will post all interesting comments in Updates to this diary.

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Friday September 19, 2008 · 9:45 AM PDT

2008/09/19 · 09:45

Nate Silver has a very important post at fivethirtyeight.com about an ad that is being run by the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund which characterizes Sara Palin as supporting sadistic hunting practices in Alaska.

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/...

According to a MediaCurves analysis, this is "the first ad in over a month that seems to have broken through", scoring extremely strongly according to their metrics and shifting a net of 6 points to Obama-Biden among a focus group who viewed the ad...

Here is a link to the ad...

http://www.youtube.com/...

Here is a link where you can donate to keep it running...

https://secure.defenders.org/...

UNBELIEVABLE RELAY=McCain Olympic Buzzkill

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Sunday August 10, 2008 · 8:49 PM PDT

2008/08/10 · 20:49

The Relay VIDEO OF RELAY IS NOW UP...

The American 4x100 relay team just staged the most extraordinary upset/comeback in Olympic swimming history and it kept Michael Phelps hopes of 8 gold medals alive. Cullen Jones became the second African-American to win a swimming gold medal. (Anthony Ervin was first.) French swimmer Allain Bernard had predicted that the French would "smash" the Americans and Jason Lezak ran him down by .08 seconds. It was one of the most exciting events I have ever seen. The announcers were euphoric. The ensuing commercials were...

Cullen Jones thanking his mom... for Johnson and Johnson...
Morgan Freeman deconstructing the power of Michael Phelps... for Visa...
Barack Obama is scary... "I'm John McCain and I approved this message..."

My seven year old son said it all... "Why did John McCain want to spoil our excitement?"

That moment was, no doubt, replicated in living rooms all over the country.

Will the MSM notice? Let's look for it in the polls.

ALL VIDEO BELOW FOLD...

kant

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Saturday August 02, 2008 · 5:36 PM PDT

2008/08/02 · 17:36

A McCain Presidency... Too Risky for America.

It doesn't have to be Barack, but his surrogates should go Daisy on McCain.

We begin with this: The last President that we had who spoke cavalierly got us into an unholy mess called Iraq... i.e. "Bring em on!!

Then we proceed to:

John McCain has demonstrated angry, erratic and risk-taking behavior and cannot be trusted with his finger on the nuclear button.

He jokes about wanting to bomb Iran.

Republican Senator Thad Cochran R-Miss., said about McCain. "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine," "He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."

More below...

kant

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Thursday July 31, 2008 · 10:15 PM PDT

2008/07/31 · 22:15

I am sick of these irrelevant lines of attack on John McCain...

How is John McCain's calling his current wife a c#nt relevant to his failure to support equal pay for equal work for women?

How is John McCain's dumping his disabled last wife for a beauty queen heiress relevant to his obstruction of universal healthcare?

How is Cindy McCain's theft of prescription drugs from a charity that provided those drugs to poor people relevant to his obstruction of affordable prescription drugs for all Americans?

How is the rumor that John McCain was more cooperative with his captors than he's lead us to believe relevant to his cosmetic condemnation of Bush's torture policies?

How is John McCain's rumored symptoms of pre-dementia disorientation relevant to his wanting to privatize social security?

How are John McCain's supposed "anger issues" relevant to his stated desire to Bomb Iran?

I'm just askin...

Penelope - the serial exaggerator - and Hillary

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Tuesday March 25, 2008 · 9:29 AM PDT

2008/03/25 · 09:29

I'd like to make a request. Could someone do a mashup of Penelope, the serial exaggerator from Saturday Night Live played by Kristen Wiig, and Hillary's serial exaggerations about Bosnia, Nafta, Northern Ireland etc? My hope is that this will shame Lorne Michaels into doing a skit with Amy Poehler as Hillary and Penelope trying to one up each other. Here is a link to a Penelope skit.

http://www.fanpop.com/...

Many thanks,
Kant

An olive branch to Team Hillary

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Thursday February 07, 2008 · 11:11 AM PST

2008/02/07 · 11:11

I am a life long Democrat. Never voted for a Republican and never will. But I am tired of Hillary supporters asking me if I will support Hillary if she gets it. So here is the olive branch: I will vote for the Democratic nominee whoever it is. But I will only support the Democratic nominee if they make this pledge...

I agree that whoever has the lead in pledged delegates credentialed by the DNC after all Primaries and Caucuses should be the Party's nominee and if I should have less pledged delegates then I will withdraw my name from consideration and support the nominee. I further agree that Michigan and Florida will not be counted as per the DNC rules unless their respective state parties reach an agreement with the DNC that is acceptable to both candidates.

If team Hillary accepts this then I will pledge not just to vote for her but to support her candidacy. If not, then I will vote for her but will withhold my support (financial and physical) because my fears - that she and her husband care more for themselves than for the democratic process or the Democratic Party - will have been realized.

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Is this so hard?

How is this relevant ...

Penelope - the serial exaggerator - and Hillary

An olive branch to Team Hillary