I was guessing DesJarlais too. The “pro-life, family values” candidate who agreed to his own wife’s abortion, and says he had an open marriage arrangement with her he had affairs with a number of patients, at least one of whom he also pressured to have an abortion.
I’m sure he followed up with “and I’ve received plenty of supporting PMs, so there !”
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Aint this the kind of thing that gets you a visit from our friends at the Secret Service?
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To be fair, they’re not going to give the chairs to Democrats. My count (a quick one done by pictures) shows 24 women and 2 minorities out of 240 Reps*. So demographically, it would be worth 1.9 chairs.
In other words, yes, Boehner should be blamed for not diversifying his committee chair positions. But it’s also the electorate’s fault in that 90% of the Republican House is white and male.
*going by the current crop not 2013’s because they’re also not giving the chair to a Freshman.
It’s only jarring if you weren’t paying attention the last 30 years or so…
So, no minorities make over $50,000? Gotcha.
Reminds me of Ian, Spinal Tap’s manager. When asked why the band was playing to smaller and smaller crowds he hemmed and hawed before saying, “Their appeal is becoming more selective.”
They should really get an electric appliance of some kind to bring their turd polishing process up to the industrial scale.
Rich old white guys vote for Rmoney - what a surprise. They also won the toothless, racist, tobacco stained, gun toting, trailer trash demographic - you know - the Republican base.
Too bad no one asked him about the Asian-American vote. Republicans see them as kinda white. More than 3 to 1 for Obama. As a group, they are highly educated, conservative in nature, family oriented, and high earners. Should have been a slam dunk for Rmoney. Turns out they value government services, value education (you know - the science-y stuff), value health care and are willing to pay higher taxes to get the benefits IN THE LONG TERM.
Why yes, I am stealing Rmoney from elsewhere:D
So in reality Romney won.
If Obama’s voters only got 3/5ths a vote, he would have.
John Boehner yesterday spojke against raising taxes on the upper 2% (those making more than $250,000, apparently), saying that
If you’re in the topmost 2%, it seems to me that you’ve stopped being a “small business” by most people’s definitions. We’re not talking Mom and Pop’s corner store at this point. If it does, I’m cleaqtrly in the wrong line of work, and ought to open one myself.
Obama officials have stated that the propoosed legislation wouldn’t affect 97% of small businesses (which still makes me wonder about that residuum).
I can’t find an e-news story that repeats the quotes I heard on the radio yesterday, but this one has the Boehner line quoted:
Here’s FactCheck on the “Small Businesses Hurt” claim from earlier this month:
Not really a slam dunk. Asian Americans are generally *fiscally *conservative, but socially liberal, and mostly vote for Democrats. There also just aren’t very many of us.
No need. When it comes to polishing scat, Fox News goes to 12. It’s two shinier, innit ?
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This is a topic for another thread, but …
Why would most Asian Americans have that point of view? Culture? Is it the experience of immigration? (Just looking for brief summary.)
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I think the first question would be: Is that true? And what is meant by Asian?
My Chinese/Vietnamese/Korean friends growing up were all over the map. The stereotype of a Chinese helicopter mom is very (personally, if not politically) conservative.
Does this generalization include India and all the countries with ‘that kind’ of Asian?
It’s hard to generalize about such a diverse group, of course, and I’m not an expert on Asian culture (beyond having grown up in one). Take the following as my opinion on the subject, rather than hard facts.
The fiscal conservatism is a combination of things. Some grew up in communist or poor democratic socialist states, which tends to breed a pro-capitalist mentality. Non-Hispanic immigrants generally also tend toward fiscal conservatism because they are mostly skilled workers in high earning fields, or entrepreneurs (partly because immigration requires a certain level of risk-neutrality, and partly because US immigration policy is designed to select for those people).
The latter factor also partly explains why we are socially liberal - views on things like abortion tend to correlate with education level. In the specific case of abortion, Asian countries mostly have abortion on demand with very little debate. There’s also the fact that much of Asia is overpopulated, so abortion is simply a fact of life. Asian religions are mostly neutral or mildly pro-life, so you rarely see the sort of anti-abortion fanaticism in Hinduism, Confucianism or Buddhism that you do in many Christian denominations. With regard to things like gay marriage, I suspect most Asian-Americans would be neutral or opposed, but would be unlikely to base their vote on the issue. Arguments like “we must defend traditional marriage” are unlikely to hold much water with people whose views on marriage traditions differ broadly from the Western norm.
This paper includes some hard research you might find interesting (particularly on Asian-American voter priorities).
ETA: bup, yes. The “helicopter mom” distinction you make is a good one. I imagine most Asian parents would be horrified to discover they had a gay son, but wouldn’t give two shits about other gay people wanting to get married or something.
Stupid Republican idea of the year: a head tattoo.
Reminds me of this :p.
Also, according to Pew, Asian Americans are more likely to believe that hard work entails success.
John Husted apparently still hasn’t given up on rigging the election - now, he’s just plain throwing out ballots because they were transported in the wrong kind of envelope.