At the meeting, she apparently reversed herself on several things, including the VA, Social Security, and unemployment benefits.
There was no discussion of her attempts to shower the Tea Party candidate, Scott Ashjian, with “juice”, although she did use the term “favor buying whores” to describe politicians.
I thought this was the best part, tho:
Geezus. Just when I thought it couldn’t get much weirder.
Soo…the apology to Meg Whitman is in the mail? Or is it another outrage that only Democrats can cause?
-Joe
This is standard Republican hypocrisy, of a piece with the 1994 Republican revolution. (It’s one reason I have some respect for Joe Scarborough, who honored his own term-limit pledge.)
Something from the above article that I didn’t know:
So, as far as Congress-critters are concerned, it doesn’t actually matter whether she sponsors said bill or not. But, hey – why let facts get in the way?
Well, it does say “states”. So, presumably if enough federal congresscritters got together and make some federal legislation it’d fly.
And I’m sure that’ll totally happen. Just more bullshit to spout so that they can get to the all-you-can-lobby buffet.
-Joe
Ahh, good catch, on 2nd reading that appears to be right. I feel a slight desire to go look up the court case, but…oooo, shiny!
The '95 ruling was just on States, but the Constitution gives the limitations on who can run for Congres, so I doubt anything short of a Constitutional amendment would allow an extra criteria for qualification to be added.
Is she still ahead after that Sharia Law flap?
The tea baggers she is appealing to find that a compelling argument. Perhaps people in Nevada accept it as true. It may have helped her gain.
She has reversed all her positions ,now claiming SS, unemployment, and minimum wage are OK. The tea baggers know the code. She says those things to get elected but does not believe in them. When she gets in office, she will show her Beckian side and fight them all.
The kind of people who find that a compelling argument were already behind her though.
Right, but the dipshits for whom politics starts in late October will just have crazy Sharron saying that she totally isn’t against repealing all the stuff her dear old Daddy benefited from…even they didn’t give him quite enough money.
-Joe
Apparently the money is going to her head, too.
So, (as I noted in a Pit thread), it looks like she is claiming leadership of the Tea Party; they now have a face and voice to front for them.
No more claiming that the Tea Party has no leaders, folks. She is it.
It’s looking more and more like Sharron Angle’s supporters are just itching for a fight!
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She and hers are the epitome of class, I tell ya!
I often think our justice system comes down too hard on people, but spraying pepper spray into a crowd of your political opponents seems a lot more serious than disorderly conduct to me.
Their debate is tomorrow night (Thursday 14 October 2010). I wonder what her supporters will be up to there?
My guess: if there’s anything untoward that happens, the Angle supporters will try and claim that it was really a Reid supporter posing as an Angle supporter that started it, in order to try and make them look bad.
I can not believe polls have this race a tie. How can anyone vote for a woman who has the gift of gaff ? How many stupid things does she have to say before even tea baggers will dismount and run away in panic? She couldn’t find mainstream with an indian scout and radar.
Because Reid is disliked himself, and people probably don’t pay attention to polls or debates.
Just moments ago Rachel Maddow said she would show highlights of tonights debate right after the commercial break.
Debate just ended. If the goal of both was to avoid making gaffes, they both accomplished their goal.
I thought there wasn’t a lot of substance to the debate. Both of them dodged a couple of questions, but I thought Angle dodged more than Reid.
I thought Angle said some staggeringly stupid things, too, such as when she said that neither Elena Kagan or Sonja Sotormeyer knew the constitution.
I’d call the debate a tie, tho.
ETA: I did note that Angle, who claimed to be a teacher and not a career politician, later came up with a huge number of committees, boards and political positions she held while still a teacher or having to do with teaching. She’s certainly been a politician all her life, despite her claim to the contrary.
Also, despite saying it wouldn’t be her job as a senator to create jobs, she talked a lot about things she would do that would create jobs and stop people from losing their jobs. And she ragged on Reid for things she says has cost Nevadans jobs. She talks outta both sides of her mouth; that’s why she’s always smiling.
Such as?