Afternoon Miscellany

It’s a shame, but is unsurprising, that Cilizza doesn’t mention polling in Minnesota where Emmer is losing to all three Democratic candidates.
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And mocks the one, Dayton, of the 5 running-Tom Horner is the Independent-who has actually won statewide.
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Regarding Arizona:
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Many right wingers forget one thing about workers. documented or undocumented: they are, also, residents, tenants and consumers.
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Scare too many workers away – mostly undocumented – and your stores, pizza shops, coffee shops and many other consumer based businesses will shut down as your residential real estate will go vacant.
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With such a terrible economy to start with, I wonder if, after it drives Arizona deeper into recession as undocumented immigrants move out if, a year or two from now they will be sending buses across the boarder to bring people back to Arizona.

Sorry, here is the link to the poll-
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http://tinyurl.com/2g3lljx

And let’s not forget the looney left rationalizing law breakers with sob stories. Of course you ignore the other side of the ledger sheet the higher cost of law enforcement, emergency rooms, education etc.

But let’s celebrate the law breakers. Liberals always do!

The Slate article on Brietbart stated that he doesn’t care if he is perceived as an a$$hole. It gets him attention. Like Fox, like Drudge, like Politico he gets attention from the traditional media. Doesn’t matter how accurate or worthwhile, get attention.

Megan McArdle makes the case against Elizabeth Warren’s scholarship.
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I don’t mean to be rude, Alex — but the idea that Megan McArdle has any standing at all to criticize Elizabeth Warren’s scholarship is absof*ckinglutely insane.
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What kind of background does McArdle have? A whole semester’s worth of economics in her MBA program and a well-worn copy of Atlas Shrugged? She rightfully gets ridiculed at the Atlantic blog for not being able to handle basic arithmetic, and has shown repeatedly she doesn’t have the slightest understanding of economics.
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Here’s a takedown of her from Thomas Levenson:
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Megan McArdle in fact knows very little — not nothing, but not much either — of the formal apparatus of modern economic thought, nor of the rich bodies of content knowledge real economists have developed on a number of important questions, including, most important for the present discussion, medical economics and political economy.
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… I don’t read McArdle much because I know she doesn’t know what she’s talking about, and the glibness of her ignorance and the infantile quality of her ideology (that brand of libertarianism present in populations that include my nine-year-old and that can be summed up “you can’t tell me what to do”) p!ss me off. Why read annoying, uninformed –if glibly written — dreck?

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He goes into greater detail after that. Worth a read.
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http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/why-andrew-sullivan-is-right-about-megan-mcardle-but-not-in-the-way-he-thinks/
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Sorry, but I care about a fifth-grader’s opinion of Warren’s scholarship about as much as I care about McArdle’s. Actually, the former would probably express it in a less petulant tone.

But let’s celebrate the law breakers. Liberals always do!
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Right, maybe someday soon we’ll start turning convicted criminals into well-paid commentators for our side like conservatives have with G. Gordon Liddy and Oliver North? Or former addicts like Glenn Beck?
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Such respect for the law on the right. Such deep, abiding respect for the law.

Andrew Sullivan somehow found this hilarious video. What a high opinion they have of Saint Sarah in China:
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http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/07/palinpalooza-a-view-from-abroad.html
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Dying to hear the translation. Can this be the next 1000 words?

Nevermind the translation…Make this the next 1000 words!!

Here’s a great example of McArdle’s stupidity and immaturity.
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http://agonyin8fits.blogspot.com/2010/07/hunting-of-snark-cookie-of-gratitude.html
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Given her childish outlook on the world and her child-like math skills, I guess it’s not surprising she’s a libertarian.

Christ, that is funny.
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Did you catch the Fox News scroll? “Hell prepares welcome mat for Cheney.”

Sure doesn’t take much to amuse a lib. Now you can go back to your teletubbies kevie!

Running off a cliff with the story.

“Just as the Department of Agriculture and this Administration will review its actions, I also hope this starts a conversation in the media about how it operates.”

We owe the Chinese much more than our economy

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“Right, maybe someday soon we’ll start turning convicted criminals into well-paid commentators”
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Another failure by our college dropout. All you named were working in the private sector. Liberals elect thier criminals: You had a murderer as a Senator, a felon for President, a tax fraud and tax cheat as Secretary of Treasury (and Head of IRS) and Congressman who was head of tax writing committee. Let’s not forget the treasonous Senator from VT who leaked classified info while sitting on Intelligence ctm, of course Demo solution was to “punish” by putting him as Head of Judiciary Ctm

Once again your indignation is only matched by your hypocrisy and stupidity

Yeah, Alex, seriously: Megan McArdle. You’re kidding, right?

Another failure by our college dropout. All you named were working in the private sector. Liberals elect thier criminals:

http://www.republicanoffenders.com/
Republican Convictees (1998-2008):

Abramoff, Jack
Adams, Tom
Adams, Jim
Aiken, Steve
Alishtari, Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali
Allen, Bob
Allen, Claude
Allen, Bill
Alonos, Miram
Anderson, Tom
Ankeney, Randal David
Aragoncillo, Leandro
Atchison, John David R.
Bakker, Jim
Barclay, Bruce
Barnes, Martin G.
Barter, Merrill Robert
Beaird, John
Bena, Parker J.
Beres, Lou
Beverage, Sam
Biggins, Bob
Binder, Alan
Bird, Calvin
Bland, Wilton Frederick
Blessing, Louis
Bloom, Philip H.
Blundell, Brian
Bobrick, Bill
Boggio, Scott
Botes, Stephan
Boylan, Joe
Brady, Kevin
Brock, Darrell
Broderick, Thomas
Brooks, Howard L.
Brown, Shawn
Bryan, John
Bundy, Ted
Burcham, Tom
Burghoff, Matthew
Burt, John Allen
Butler, John
Cagle, Charles “Chig”
Cappelli, Angelo
Carona, Deborah
Carona, Michael S.
Carpenter, Jared
Carroll, Cherie
Casamento, Ricahard
Casseday, Randall
Childers, W.D.
Childs, Keola
Cianci, Vincent
Clark, Donald Ross
Coan, Kevin
Collins, John J.
Colyandro, John
Condos, James
Constantine, Lee
Cooper, Nathan
Corrigan, Larry
Cortelyou, Scott Eller
Coughlin ,Paul
Coutretsis, Andrea
Cowdery, John
Craig, Larry
Cramer, Carey Lee
Crawford, Lester
Cunningham, Randy “Duke”
Curtin, John R.
Dasen Sr., Richard A.
Davis, Ronnie
Davison, Pat
DeLay, Tom
Delgaudio, Richard A.
DeShon, Ronnie Gene
Dibble, Peter
Dickens, Joshua
Disponett, Dave
Doolittle, John
Doyle, Dan
Doyle, Victoria
Doyle, Brian J.
Druce, Thomas
Druen, Dan
Elizondo, Nicholas
Ellef ,Peter
Elliott, Matthew Joseph
Ellis, James
Fabian, Alan
Fawell, Scott
Federici, Italia
Fields, Vincent
Fleischman, Donald
Fletcher, Earnie
Floren, Livvy
Flory, Michael
Floyd, Larry Dale
Foggo, Kyle “Dusty”
Fossella, Vito J.
Fox., Galen
Franklin, Larry
Gallagher, Dennis
Gardner, Richard
Garofalo, Dave
Gillin, William
Giordano, Philip
Glavin, Matthew
Gosek, John
Goyette, Richard R.
Graves, David
Grethen, Mark A.
Griles, J. Steven
Groe, Trish
Habay, Jeffrey
Hamilton Jr., John J.
Hansen, Shaun
Harbin, Ben
Harding, Russell
Harris, Mark
Hazlette, Tim
Healy, Chris
Heaton, William
Heldreth, Howard Scott
Hicks, Brian
Hiller, Bradley R.
Hintz, Mike
Hoffman, Debra V.
Holland, Robert
Holt, Delecia
Hooks Sr., Michael
Hopfengardner, Bruce D.
Horsley, Neal
Houchen, Pamela J.
Hughes, J. Marshall
Hurley, Steven M.
Iadanza, Richard
Matricarid, Edmund III
Isenhour, James K.
Jacoby, Mark
James, Rayfield
Janklow, Bill
Jensen, Scott
Jones, Jody
Juliano, Richard
Kaelin, Jeffrey
Kauffman, Allen D.
Kelty, Matt
Kerik, Bernie
Kidan, Adam
Kimmerling, Earl “Butch”
King, Lawrence E. “Larry” Jr.
Klaudt, Ted
Kline, Ronald C.
Kohring, Vic
Kontogiannis, Thomas
Kott, Pete
Knapp, Max
Lambert, James R.
Law, David
Lay ,Michael Aaron
Leonard, Richard
Leung, Katrina
Libby, I. Lewis “Scooter”
Limbaugh, Rush
Linnen, Stephen
Loeper Jr., F. Joseph
Looper, Byran “Low Tax”
Loren-Maltese, Betty
Lukens, Donald “Buz”
Luongo, Gerald J.
Malloy, Patrick G.
Malone, Lance
Manuel, Thomas G.
Martin, Hayes
Mathes Jr., James R.
Matricardi, Edmund III
Matthews, Jon
Maysky, Eugene
McCurnin, Joseph
McGee, Charles
McGuire, Patrick Lee
Meadows, Cory
Merla, John
Michael, John
Mixon, Michael
Monteleone Jr., Joseph
Morency, Nicholas
Murgatroyd, Dick
Murphy Jr., Glenn
Muschany, Scott
Nash, James J.
Neal, Rebecca
Newton, Chris
Ney, Bob
Nguyen, Tan
Nielsen, Jeffrey
Nighbert, Bill
Nixon Jr., Kenneth E.
Noe, Bernadette
Noe, Thomas
Noonan, Thomas J.
Novak, Lawrence
Nugent, Johnny
O’Grady, Raymond
Oleen, Lana
Ortloff, George Chris
Owens, Leonard Ray
Palughi, Anthony J.
Parker, Brent
Patti, Jeffrey
Pazuhanich, Mark
Privette, Coy
Prokos, Alexandra
Pugh, Edward
Rader, Dennis L.
Randall, Tom
Randall, Jeffrey Kyle
Rathmann, Rolf
Ravenel, Thomas
Raymond, Allen
Regola, Robert
Renzi, Rick
Rice, Steve
Ring, Kevin
Ringo, Robert R.
RoBold, Warren
Rosen, Steve
Rowland, John
Rudy, Tony
Russell, Beverly
Ryan, George
Safavian, David Hossein
Scanlon, Michael
Scannapieco, Matthew V.
Schepp, Brent
Schofield, Robert T.
Schrenko, Linda
Scott, Randy
Seidensticker, Mark
Shaner, Matt
Shortridge, Tom
Siljander, Mark Deli
Skandalakis, Mitch
Skiles, Paul
Slocum, William
Smeltzer Jr., Fred C.
Smith, Rick
Stanley, Roger “The Hog
Stevens, Ted
Stillwell, Roger
Stroupe Jr, Wade
Stumbo, Bobby
Sumrow, Ray
Swartz, David
Symington, Fife
Taff, Adam
Taft, Bob
Tanonaka, Dalton
Tate, Mark
Tebano, Armando
Teele, Arthur
Temple, Merle
Thompson, Joe
Thompson, Donald
Thomson, Gary Russell
Tobin, James
Treffinger, James
Trout, Harold Anthony “Tony”
Tristano, Michael
Turbyfill, Basil
Van Vleet, Rick D.
Vanderwall, Robin
Velella, Guy J.
Vellanoweth, Robert
Volz, Neil
Wade, Mitchell
Walker, Derek
Walters, Nick
Warner, Larry
Weissmann, Keith
Weldon ,Terance
Westberg, Craig
Westlake, John E. “Jack”
Westmoreland, Keith
Weyhrauch, Bruce
White, C. Stephen
Wilkes ,Brent
Williams, Robin
Wilson, Bob
Zachares, Mark
Zimmerman, Al

What kevin and slowp said. McArdle has close to zero credibility.

Thank you kevin. I started to reply and gave up. I have no respect for anything she says.

“Of course you ignore the other side of the ledger sheet the higher cost of law enforcement…”
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Not proportional the population. Undocumented immigrants have the lowest crime rate of all.

“..;emergency rooms…”
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Covered by their employer.
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“..education..”
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When they pay rent they property tax. When they leave, the property value goes down there is less money for education.
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Then, of course, the economy will slow down due to their not spending money further eroding tax revenue.
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In theory wages will go up, but, if they are left with only Americans who only want to get paid a living wage, unemployment will raise.

“Sure doesn’t take much to amuse a lib. Now you can go back to your teletubbies kevie!”
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2/3rds, it’s 6:00 on a Friday.
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It’s it about that time when you put on your 1980s tight leather pants and mouse your hair 1980s style like Duran Duran?

While this administration knee-jerked and shoved a person wrongly accused of racism out of a job, at least it reacted…unlike the prior administration, who tended not to react to even legitimate issues like DoD employees accessing child porn on government computers.

Thanks, Slowp, for saving me the trouble. Given the number of Republican congressmen who’ve been rushed off to jail just in the last few years — Bob Ney, Duke Cunningham, etc. etc. — that was a spectacularly stupid line of argument, even by Freeinpa’s low standards.

a felon for President
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Sorry, gramps. Nixon’s all yours.

Steve Benen had a nice recap of Politico’s race to the bottom:
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* Just days after Breitbart published misleading garbage, and he admitted to not having done any due diligence or used any professional standards, Politico named the activist one of the nation’s “50 Politicos to Watch.” Breitbart is one of those special few, Politico said, who “set this city’s agenda.” The accompanying profile — in the “scenemakers” category — included quotes about his “mystique” and “wit.”
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* Politico Executive Editor Jim VandeiHei equated Breitbart with the Huffington Post, only one of which feature actual reporters, editors, and professional standards. He went on to equate MSNBC and Fox News, which is as common as it is misguided.
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* Politico made a candid concession about its interest in traffic. Greg Sargent summarized, “This is actually an important concession: Frivolous items about Sarah Palin do degrade our discourse, but we need to do them, because the simple fact is that people click on them in droves.”

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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_07/024872.php

I was in Flagstaff the other day on my way to CA. We stopped to eat at a Chinese restaurant, The waiter apologized for the the slow service, explaining that their workers were afraid of immigration, and they could not find people to work.
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So much for taking jobs away from Americans.
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By the way all the rest stops in AZ are closed along with the State Parks.

“Grassroots” tea party organization for the billionaires.

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/07/23/rove_group_billionaire_donors/

Virtually all of the $4.7 million raised by Karl Rove’s new conservative outfit was contributed by just four billionaires, three of whom are based in Dallas, Texas, and two of whom made their fortune in the oil and gas industry.

How is that hopey changey working out for ya? eh Rusty?

So much for taking jobs away from Americans.

Right wing nutjob bloggers see racial conspiracy in the depths of an ice cream cone. Forgot to take their crazy pills en masse.
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http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/07/president_obamas_vast_ice_crea.html
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The Black Panthers are big in Maine, apparently, though they hide really well. In white-owned ice cream shops. Beware.

Here’s the nicest way I can think of to phrase my thoughts on McArdle:
McArdle is a jackass and a numbskull. I could achieve better results by putting a power drill through my frontal lobes than by listening to her advice.

Gallup Poll Update July 23, 2010
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……Approval Rating…..Disapproval Rating
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Obama …..44%…………………..48%

Palin……..44%…………………..47%
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As Liberals like to say everyone loves Obama and hates Palin.
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I don’t believe Palin will be running for President in 2012 but it’s interesting that Obama’s ratings are the same as hers.

it’s interesting…
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Actually, it’s kind of odd to have approval ratings as low as Palin’s when she hasn’t done anything but shoot off at the mouth. Just imagine what her ratings would be if she did something other than self-promotion.

Thanks kevin, this is great stuff!

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/23/rangel-speaks-and-asks-for-time/?hp
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With the token obligatory post I believe I saw here in the swamp, Charlie is able to go through his investigation and such almost unscathed.
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In his first news conference since learning his fellow lawmakers would put up him on trial for ethics violations, Representative Charles B. Rangel urged his constituents and the press to be patient, saying he would not address the specifics of the charges against him until the proceedings begin next week.

But Mr. Rangel, who snapped at reporters in Washington on Thursday, appeared determined to strike a softer tone at Friday’s appearance, even offering a public apology to one reporter, Luke Russert, whose question on Thursday — about whether the charges would cost the congressman his job — Mr. Rangel dismissed as “dumb.”

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Yes, the softer side of one of the most corrupt politicians who has ever served in the Congress.
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Any bets that Charlie may get a room with a view in some cushy Federal Prison? Perhaps next to his buddy and pal Maddof?
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While Charlie has some troubles, the rest of the Democrat machine in Congress should step up and take notice. The People are coming after the rest of them this fall, during the election.
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Isn’t life grand?!!!

Actually, it’s kind of odd to have approval ratings as low as the Wonder Boy’s numbers, especially when he won with such majorities not more than a few months ago.

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But, our dear little friends on the left, they continue to support the lunatic from Chicago with very high approval ratings. Goes to show how stupid the left really is.
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The vast majority of Americans see how incompetent, how uneducated, how inept, and how unskilled the former community organizer is at being a President. Goes to show you might be able to act real well, but when it gets down to the real work, Obama is a complete FAILURE
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Jobs anyone??

I like how you seize on that poll and ignore these more recent ones:
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In the time since that Gallup poll, Pollster has these available — YouGov has Palin’s approval rating at 37% favorable, 51% unfavorable; Quinnipiac has it at 35% unfavorable, 49% unfavorable; Politico has it at 39% favorable, 53% unfavorable; Bloomberg has it at 33% favorable, 55% unfavorable; and PPP has it at 37% favorable, 52% favorable.
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Compare the graph Pollster has (links are causing posts to fail) of Palin’s ratings, where the unfavorable line is growing and the favorable is shrinking, with Obama’s, where the opposite is true. Oh, and his favorables are at least ten points higher.

3X,
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You are now becoming like Rusty and freepizza in terms of going on reruns.
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You are showing the same statistics day after day after day to the same group of people who disagree with you. .
It would seem as if you are trying to gather as many explanations as to why your information is incomplete, faulty or misleading as possible since every time you post those numbers, which are almost a week outdated and show Obama having greater positive scores than negative, fewer negatives than before, more positives than before and Palin with more negatives than positives with her negatives raising faster than her positives.
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Are you writing a book on why the Tea Party comes up with unreasonable explanations and stealing our posts for material to explain it with or do really believe that showing the same people the same data several times will result in a different response this time?
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In a word: NEXT!

Altman is filling space, Kevin. McCardle’s won’t recognise “scholarship” if it stares her in the face. Mostly, her output is of a crappy quality. How she continues to put out mindnumbing junk at the Atlantic tells you something about her editors.

Charlie Rangel looks dirty, and it’s time for him to go.
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Meanwhile, while one of our congressmen is under investigation by the House ethics committee, one of your senators is the subject of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_07/024878.php
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Say goodbye to Sen. John Ensign, folks. Isn’t life grand?!!!

Hysterical. The right-wing outrage machine’s ability to get worked up about literally anything Obama does is just amazing.
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As one of the comments on the Bangor Daily News article notes, thank God the president didn’t order French vanilla.

The vast majority of Americans see how incompetent, how uneducated, how inept, and how unskilled the former community organizer is at being a President.
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You might want to have some explain to you what “the vast majority” means. Here’s a clue — not even the Gallup poll that 3x cites supports the idea that even “a bare majority” thinks that, much less “a vast majority.”
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Here’s a better example: A vast majority of Swampland readers think you write these posts from a mental institution.

Once again, Rusty, you’d be much more tolerable if you didn’t always have your extreme partisan and racial implications.
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Both parties have corruption issues, but, sadly for you, it appears that for the past fifteen years that white Christian guys from the Republic Party are doing far worse and having more corruption problems than anybody else.
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No, I am not in Rangel’s district and do not support him since it is clear that he is corrupt.
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Also notice that, just like with Shirley Sherrod, Democrats have no problem with ousting a Democrat if they suspect there is a major problem.
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From now on, though, due to the Sherrod incident, if the so-called ‘facts’ come from Fox, it is only fair to presume that they are lying.
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You Republics are still holding to G Gordon Liddy and paying him big bucks for being a criminal mastermind.
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Rangel will not get a radio or TV show out of this.

Is it true?
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Did the racially mixed president order vanilla fudge swirl?
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How come MSM doesn’t know what kind of Ice Cream he ate!.
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Many thanks to Kevin for the props on my disdain for McArdle. I actually posted a response to Felix Salmon’s citing of her as a plausible critic of Warren’s scholarship (http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/07/23/why-obama-will-nominate-warren/).

McArdle’s picture is in the dictionary next to the phrase “useful idiot.” My latest attempt to explain why she is not to be taken seriously on Warren or anything can be found here: http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2010/07/24/why-friends-dont-let-friends-cite-the-atlantics-business-and-economics-editor-further-to-the-megan-mcardle-is-always-wrong-chronicles/

Sorry for the blogwhoring, but the notion that Megan McArdle is in fact seen as an informed critic who can help frame debates about matters of real human consequence has to be quashed sometime; I like to do my part.

Hey 3x!
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Good news! I’m totally convinced that she will be the best looking president we’ve ever had!
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I’m going to contribute to he 2012 campaign fund as soon as she opens one…

What does it mean when I indulge in a two scoop French Vanilla ice cream cone?

Don’t they have a recession there?
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Isn’t it like 9.1%?
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http://www.google.com/publicdata%3Fds%3Dusunemployment%26met%3Dunemployment_rate%26idim%3Dstate:ST040000%26dl%3Den%26hl%3Den%26q%3DArizona%2Bunemployment%2Brate&sa=X&ei=RqJMTPHMAobEsAPBptVI&ved=0CCQQ4wEwAA&usg=AFQjCNEtt–eQuoZqSJcYyJNVPO2pBlSxg

Oops. That was trashy.
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http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=usunemployment&met=unemployment_rate&idim=state:ST040000&dl=en&hl=en&q=Arizona+unemployment+rate

Yes, the softer side of one of the most corrupt politicians who has ever served in the Congress.

Teshimide
http://japonesparatodos.blogspot.com

I’ll be glad when Rangel is gone. He’s an insult to the institution, and that’s saying something.
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I look forward to Rusty’s similarly-framed indictment of John Ensign.
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Any second now…