Another one that’s more evil than stupid, except that admitting it was stupid. John Ehrlichmann admitted that Nixon’s War On Drugs was really a War On Blacks. And Hippies.
Producers of Judge Judy and Judge Joe Brown are making a pilot for another judge show, featuring Sarah Palin on the bench:
Mitch McConnell still says nope, noway, nohow, forget it…
And that’s why Obama picked him – not because he does not want any more progressive justice on the bench, but to make it clear and undeniable, to anyone who is still brazen enough to pretend to have any doubt, that the Senate Pubs are only playing partisan games here.
And now, of course, the curators of the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda will have no choice but to make certain overdue revisions to the boastful WOD exhibit there. Of course.
The State employee who is touching the paperwork now; this bill removes one opportunity to act on prejudice.
Seems like a fairly stupid reason to pick him. I don’t think Obama is that dumb. I think he’s just not a progressive. Like much of the Dem leadership, he’s just not that into us. Be a shame, come November, if that attitude winds up biting the Dems in the ass.
Yeah, because President Trump (or President Cruz, for that matter) would be SOOOO much better for the purity pony crowd than Hillary.
But if the situation arises and he turns around and says “I’m my own man! I’ll make my own decisions!”, his fans will cheer louder.
Using the Heritage Foundation for advice will buttress Trump’s credentials as right-wing and (repeating myself) stupid:
As I’ve said in another thread, many think it would; they are either very optimistic (“Once the country goes down the toilet, everyone will see that we were right, and the Democrats will shift left and sweep progressivism into power”) or very pessimistic (“Hillary or Trump/Cruz, the nation is fucked either way, so at least this way I won’t be party to its demise, and will have gone down trying to do the right thing”).
Oh, they would hate it. But I’ve been warning for years that the Dem centrists have been taking the progressive base for granted … they’re gonna pay, sooner or later. Just a matter of when.
What Progressive base? The one who is showing up in droves to not vote for the most Progressive Democratic candidate in decades? You have to face facts here - there is no Progressive Base. There’s a Progressive Wing, but if progressives abandon Hillary with all the numbers that they supported Bernie Sanders, she has nothing to worry about.
I say this as someone who is far more in line with Sanders politically than Clinton. But what I think is the best policy and what the overwhelming number of people in the primaries think obviously don’t mesh up and fooling myself otherwise won’t help anything.
Evil Captor: Progressives are able to read spreadsheets. We’ve learned from history.
Voting for Ralph Nader just puts GWB in the White House. Our current political philosophy is based on rational compromise, and maximizing on the basis of possibilities. When we can’t get everything we want, we accept less. We’re able to vote for the lesser of n evils.
We didn’t absolutely love the Affordable Care Act, but we got it in place as the best we could get at the time. We’re not so stupid as to put forward a plan we really, really love – sixty times – just to watch it fail. Republicans are still stupid enough to put forward a non-viable proposal – sixty times – just to watch it fail.
Republicans can’t read spreadsheets.
This nonsense again?
According to this paper
I am unsure why some people have trouble thinking that, in a state where Ralph Nader got nearly 100,000 votes and Bush won the state (and with it, the White House) by around 500 votes, that Nader had an impact.
I guess it makes them feel better? Tough. That war that Bush started through fake evidence? Gore - barring a sudden allegiance with Bush the Senior, Dick Cheney and a stake in Halliburton - doesn’t do that.
That’s blood on their hands, so I can see why they would like to wish it away.
Sorry, but that is just bullshit. If you want to cast blame for Florida, you can heap it upon two women: one named Harris and another named O’Connor (who at least apparently had the decency to feel a twinge of regret at the result). Or perhaps the Democratic Party, for not seeking a more appealing candidate.
The truly vile part of blaming Nader for 2000 is the underlying message that if you feel so strongly about the issues that you want to run for President, at least try not to be so popular, outspoken and effective that people might actually vote for you.
Whatever argument you want to make about the electoral impact of voting for Nader, this line is despicable and disgusting. It’s the equivalent of conservatives who argued that opposing the war in Iraq made you a supporter of Saddam. I always hope that liberals and progressives will refrain from descending to this sort of thing, but there are always a few who can’t help themselves.
If they’d own up to it, maybe I wouldn’t say it. But there’s way too many of them who didn’t learn from it. And they’re threatening to do it again. Even in this thread.
You’re a despicable piece of shit.