You have scored 50% on the Republican aptitude test. Your results indicate you are a free-market socialist. There has been a cell designated for your occupation at Guantanamo Bay after the 2012 elections. Don’t worry about turning yourself in – we will know where you are and we will come and get you.
I thought about starting a thread called “What kind of an asshole hates Michelle Obama?” but I guess wouldn’t have been able to use the word asshole in the Subject Line and no other word fits the description.
I was taught that one can always delegate **authority, **but never responsibility.
Having said that, I agree that Mr. Obama can appoint anybody to the position of left-handed coat hangers or whatever. He’s still responsible for whatever actions (or inaction) his appointee does.
And we are using our voice to order another round while eating all of the good nuts from the dish. It accomplishes the same thing, and at least gives us a buzz.
-Algher, not sure who to hate this morning - idiot Republicans in CA, idiot Republicans in DC, or the management of his former company that laid him off.
I don’t see what’s wrong with the general concept here. I object to someone being granted super-special public offices based solely on their marital status with no accountability to the public. If the president believes that his or her spouse is an appropriate person to whom to grant public policy tasks, then the spouse should be officially appointed to a named position in the executive department and should be subject to all the public participation/open government/sunshine laws that any government official or body is subject to.
Given that, I’m not quite sure I understand what Issa’s proposal is. Didn’t the whole Hillary Clinton health care lawsuit establish that she had to conduct public business in public?
There has been no indication whatsoever that Michelle is going to be in charge of any policy or even be included in any policy decisions. This is pandering to the people who believed that “whitey” crap, who took her ‘proud of America’ comments out of context and twisted them to make her look like an angry black woman, who just really hate the fact that Barack and Michelle Obama even exist, let alone occupy the White House.
Boy, I’m getting the vague idea that Republicans really do not want Franken in the Senate, do they? If a Democrat were this obstructionist you’d hear the screaming of Republicans all the way to Mars.
This happened yesterday but it qualifies:
Michael Steel to Obama: “I’m done” [reaching out to you]
Transcript from CNN interview:
Like President Obama gives a shit what Steele thinks. Who does this twerp think he is? Is he taking cues from Howard Dean and Bush’s close, bi-partisan relationship when Dean headed the DNC?
Why would a Democratic President even bother talking to the chair of the RNC? He’s nobody as far as the structure of the government is concerned. He doesn’t represent any population at all, he’s not in Congress. There’s no REASON for Obama to give him the time of day.
No kidding! I had to laugh at Steele’s “…I think he has got a little thing about me, that I haven’t quite figured out what that is.” That “thing” is probably along the lines of “who?” if someone were to ask President Obama about Steele. Steele’s ego is too hilariously huge.
Steele seems to think he represents the Congressional Republicans or something somehow. His job is to raise money for the party and decide which national races that money should go to. It’s not a governing position. It’s not even an ideological position. It’s a purely political position.
And I think the same of Howard Dean, if there’s any thought that I’m downplaying it only because it’s the RNC. Dean had the 50-state strategy. He was instrumental in growing the Democratic majority and getting Obama elected. But he would have had no reason to confer with Bush, at all. Of course, Dean knew that and never pretended that Bush was snubbing him or something.
I haven’t kept up with this thread, though goodness knows I could put something here every day, it’s just that I’ve been lazy, but these really deserved a resurrection.
Stupid Republican Bigotry of the Day
Move over Michelle! There’s a new batshit lady in town! (ok, she’s been around forever and has been batshit forever, but she’s not as young and pretty as Bachman and so doesn’t get the coverage).
I guess all the white people who supported white presidents get their popularity counted, but for some reason, black people who support a black president don’t count at all.
And this bitch had the nerve to say all this while Shepard’s mother sat in the chamber? What the fuck kind of people DO that? What the fuck kind of brain damage are we talking about here?