Quote of the Day

I’ll take that bet.

OT, but of interest to KT and anyone concerned about the runaway use of filibusters by the Republicans.
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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_02/022243.php

I’ll second it.

“No I can’t. And don’t call me Shirley.”
- John Boehner, R-OH, House Minority Leader

It’s nice to see Obama out there not only defending his policies but also trying to lower the temperature of the rhetoric out there. At the very least it makes it tougher to demonize a guy who is out there voluntarily answering direct questions, sounding very reasonable and non-threatening, repeatedly reaching out to his detractors to try to get them involved in something more productive and substantial than scoring points.

I’ll double down on that bet …esp. after the background behind this feast…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/us/politics/04prayer.html
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Amy, are you there at this meal? What are they serving? Will they include divinity treats with the dessert? Hopefully mimosas are included.

But Mr President, the wingnuts of the Chai (tea) can score political points – and even win a Senate majority – without being resonable.

Think FOX – the leading News network and most trusted by the citizens of USA, the world’s IT powerhouse and the world’s superpower.

You still can’t comprehend, mr president, that you nearly lost the nomination and the presidency – because you can’t bowl straight, eh?

Chai party, that’s a good one.

Nearly lost the nomination? Maybe. Nearly lost the presidency? A margin of 10 million votes and 192 electoral votes isn’t an almost.

To quote, Colemam and his friend at the end of Trading Places in response to Billy Ray, “why can’t we have both”
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I guess one answer is that it will lead to more cracks in that overrated facade.

It just drives conservatives crazy that the Democratic president is also a man of faith doesn’t it? They can’t claim to have a monopoly on the god market anymore.

Well I guess the Barack Obama “pitty party” has now commenced.
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I thought it odd yesterday when he asked a roomful of Democrats to “stop listening to the cable news shows”, and instead go out and talk to your constiuents was a ruse. DOH!! Like they are really going to go into a roomful of Tea Party folks again like they did this past summer and be eviscerated. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
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Now this?
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What a friggin joke. Po’ little Barry. He can’t take the heat no mo’.
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Buck up buddy, it is only going to get 100 times worse, and the heat will be 100 times more. You unleashed the silent majority Barry, can’t handle it?
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Can’t you get those Sal Alinsky playbook ideas to work no more?
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You asked to be President. Now deal with it

It just drives conservatives crazy that the Democratic president is also a man of faith doesn’t it?

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Yes it kills them.. By the way have you seen Rev. Wright???

I think Rev Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright must still be counseling Barack. This sounds exactly like something ‘ol Jere would say….of course right after he completely tears down our country, calls in his chickens and pigs that fly and does the Hillary podium intercourse.
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“Do I hear an AMEN, brother???”
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“Do I hear an Alleluia sister???”
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For old times sake, can we get in unison……
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GOD DAMN AMERICA!!!!”
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Yes indeedy!!! You go Barry!!!

But when your “opponents” are irrational mouth-frothers who think anything and everything you do is wrong, simply because you’re not one of them, does it matter?

> This sounds exactly like something ‘ol Jere would say
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From this, can I take it that you’re admitting that you listened to the Rev, too? Otherwise, how would you know what he “sounds like”?

ooooh, criticizing America. The greatest sin of all in the mind of a conservative. If he’d said “God damn doctors who provide abortions!” that would have been OK though, right?

> You unleashed the silent majority Barry, can’t handle it?
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I’m really puzzled by this. If they were a “majority,” where was their vote in the last election? Why is Obama even president, if the majority didn’t vote for him? Aren’t the stakes highest for these quadrennial events? Wouldn’t conscientious people get out and perform the most fundamental civic duty knowing the stakes? Are you sure that this “majority” is actually, in fact, not some radical minority?
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And in what way are you Tea Baggers silent? If you’d shut up for any amount of time, I’m sure it would facilitate listening to others, among other things.

“God Damn Republicans” would have been a nice bit of irony, eh? Given that Repugs like to claim ownership of God.

Mr Nice Guy I think Rusty is just using a cleaned up version of his Sleeping White Giant he rolled out during 2008.

Excellent questions. Obama won the election by a wide margin, against the tea bagger poster girl Sarah Palin no less. Obama didn’t hide his desire to reform health care, nor his desire for a stimulus package which are (from what I can tell) the two biggest complaints the tea baggers have about him. Silent majority my rear end. Frothing ignorant and scared vocal minority is more like it.

Oh yes yes, keep on believing in the big tooth fairy who lives in the White House boys and girls.
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Explain away how you LOST the past 3 major elections.
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Shall I remind you???
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Massachusetts ring any bells?
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New Jersey ring any bells?
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VIRGINIA RING ANY BELLS?
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You people are so clueless. But please, keep on believing in “Change we can believe in”, please!!

Oh my, the silence is deafening!!
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What no cutsey comments from the far left fickled comedy team?
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P-nutty? Mr “nice” Guy? Anybody???
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Come on now, I’ll have to dig into my old bag of Jeremiah Wright youtube video clips and bring out his most infamous
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GOD DAMN AMERICA!!! rant!!!
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Dear Mr President:
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I was just wondering when you were going to make a comment about the way Rahm Emanuel recently disrespected the mentally challenged community?
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You know Mr President when Rahm said

“F-ing Retards”

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I guess when you are lecturing everyone on how they should be behaving, and your own Chief of Staff comes off with this sort of comment. One would think you would first address concerns in your own “House” first, then then come spewing garbage like you do to the rest of us, Mr President.
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I was just wondering is all.
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How about you Amy? Did you think anything differently?

How in the hell can somebody type with their hands tied behind their back?

Ya know, some of us have _work_ to do, Crusty. We can’t all sit around all day looking for conspiracies, clutching our pearls, etc.
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Besides, it’s not like you had a point in your previous two rants. I’ve heard more coherent grunts from the next bathroom stall over after someone’s had a big lunch.

Palin needs to be a little less selective in whom she decides to take to task when she suddenly decides that political correctness is OK again.

http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/palin-abandons-screw-political-correctness-mantra

That the best you got Nicey? So disappointed.
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When Gingrich and his co-horts took over the Senate in his Contract on America, he decreed that the joint activities that helped make the Senate a “civilized” group such as husband and wife dinners and the annual baseball game were to be discontinued. The activities that got members of the Senate to get to know each other as “people” in a non-threatening manner were thrown out in favof “shoot on sight” and “quickest lip on camera wins” philosophy. The Senate had been going downhill ever since and it is time for the Democrats to quit considering the Senate as a collegial group and make it the confrontational group that the hot heads want. Granted, nothing will get done but what is different than continually being asked to bend over and providing the tools.

freeinpa

charlieromeobr……”” It just drives conservatives crazy that the Democratic president is also a man of faith doesn’t it?”

Yes it kills them.. By the way have you seen Rev. Wright?”

Apparently, to freeinpa and his version of a Rorschach
Faith Test, “Faith” is personified in Rev Wright.

Are Chai wingnuts faithless?
Are you a faithless bastard, freeinpa?

charlieromeobr…“Nearly lost the nomination? Maybe. Nearly lost the presidency?..”

Had he lost the nomination of a major political party, the presidency would have been, eh, a bridge too far ..

[I prefer the drama in the first version. Here is a consolation prize: "nearly lost the nomination and hence the presidency"]

Someone may want to clue in Obama. Nobody is questioning his Kenyan citizenship or his nearly life-long membership in the Jeremiah Wright hate cult.

Indeed, textee, you ought to know that we are not questioning your priesthood, nor your participation, in the voodoo rituals of Santeria ..

cfukara

We are neither faithless nor clueless unlike liberals.

But thanks for another nonsensical response.

freeinpa: ” .. We are neither faithless “

OK, so, you have faith; many of your wingnuts of the Chai have faith; Pres Obama has faith; and Rev Wright has faith .. hey, we have birds of a, eh, faith!
god damn!