But that could have been a perfectly innocent gesture of simple non-partisan malice!
Alas for Christie, it’s looking now like malice in blunderland.
This isn’t quite as ‘stupid’ as the usual GOP silliness, but it does point out the fact that the party of limited and decentralized government is unhappy when they can’t be authoritarian as well.
Senator Ted Cruz attacks Obama for not locking up marijuana users in Colorado
Everyone equivocates like a motherfucker when it comes to “state’s rights,” depending on if they agree with where things are going or not (notice libs are in favor of them now because their pet issues are gaining steam, not so much when it’s the opposite). I’d say this was more of a dickish Republican idea of the day.
It would be . . . highly unusual and novel, for the feds to go around busting people for simple possession. I doubt they even have a procedure for that.
Meet candidate for governor Larry SECEDE Kilgore. In previous attempts at gaining office, his platform included the death penalty for gays, public flogging for the use of “vulgar sexual language”, and strict adherence to bible teachings. Now he has changed his middle name to SECEDE and is willing to set aside these concerns and encourage the gays to join his fight for secession.
. . . so that Texas can become an independent republic where gays can be put to death.
But their taxes will be much lower, so it evens out.
ETF! Where the fuck have you been? 
Eh, I wandered off and got lost in this big old forest with lions and tigers and bears, oh, my! Then when I was running away from some ugly witch with a crunchy cookie-smelling house I fell down a rabbit hole and things really got weird. :eek:
Oh, and along the way I managed to trade in my old hip for a shiny new bionic one, which did complicate my life for a while there.
But yeh, here I am again. Did you really miss me? Aw, shucks… digs toe shyly into ground
Oh, almost forgot to note, I’m on the verge of passing one of life’s great milestones: Next month I qualify for Medicare! Go me! 
Nah. I just wondered where you’d been. 
Just kidding! Welcome back, and congrats on the new hip!
But what about the Yellow Submarine?
The Walrus stole it so he could run off with the spoon.
"… including the news that Ailes tried to gear Fox’s 2012 coverage to “elect the next president.”
Not a comment on BG, but on the quote.
Bolding and stuff mine. “tried”??? I’d go with “mission accomplished” along with, “brainwashed the whole lot of them to actually believe”.
Well, yes, he did succeed in electing the next president . . . but not, I think the one he wanted . . .
Genius plan in Missouri to stop Obamacare! The answer? make it illegal for insurance companies to accept the subsidies!
Genius!
Welp.
I know I can’t ask for campaign donations on the board, but I think I may run for state legislature and say, “You don’t have to agree with me, because I’m not going to caucus with anybody or get anything done in this kooky state, and I’ll still be a better legislator than these screwballs.”
Seriously? How much wasted effort goes into spiting Obamacare? Who buys this?
Desperation. And it only seems like stupid desperation, it is more likely calculated desperation, the fear and terror of men who have made very comfortable investments, men who were looking forward to years of solid returns.
What’s right about Obamacare is how much it resembles single-payer plans, whats wrong with it is where it doesn’t. And the implementation of Obamacare is what will make that more obvious. Sooner or later, we are going to start asking ourselves why we legislate a profit for health insurance companies, when it is all nothing more than an actuarial calculation. Obamacare blocks the more heinous means by which a health insurance company can squeeze some extra money, so how will HealthPartners outgrow Blue Cross?
Plan A is health insurance that is risk balanced by coverage, the premium reflects the risk, the amount of coverage for that risk, plus the profit. Plan B is risk balanced by coverage, the premium reflects the risk, the amount of coverage for that risk. Period. You don’t need to do the math, your kid can do the arithmetic. Don’t have any kids, a goldfish.
We’re a mite slow, but we will catch on. We don’t need them, we assure them a profit only because they have the political power to demand it, and make it stick. And to keep that from happening, they will grasp any reed however slender that might have even the possibility to make that nightmare go away.
True Geometry fact:
If you place desperation, money and stupidity as points on a plane and then draw lines from them to their common center, the point where they all intersect will be the Republican Party and also the DNC.
This was the real triangulation Bill Clingon was doing during his Presidency. It explains why he signed the repeal of Glass-Stegall into law. You can’t argue with it, it’s rocket math!