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A Repub gets replaced with another Repub, and this is new-thread-worthy?
But the new nominee is more conservative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . oooooooh scary! . . . . . . . . . . .lol
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Please check your man card at the door
You can re-apply for probation after demonstrating an ability to throw a spirl, hit a curveball, and survive a keg stand.
LOL........in my defense, the only reason that I tried to think of other Cher songs was to play off of the title of this thread,
so I am appealing my (man) suspension.
...and the only reason that I know so many titles, is that I am a few decades older than most of you.
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I've got my work caught up, so I started to think of other Cher song titles that I could use for today's political threads.
President Obama --- "If I Could Turn Back Time"
Elizabeth Warren --- "Half-Breed"
Sandra Fluck --- "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)"
Middle-Class Americans ---- "Believe"
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Why the !@#$ was Starr investigating Paula Jones's accusations as part of Whitewater?
What a completely !@#$ed-up investigation.
That's the problem with ALL Independent Counsel investigations (not just Mr. Starr's)Tom,
they have "open-ended" powers that can lead anywhere.
boy, is this thread off from Mr. Obama's egotistical ad...............................lol
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Rep. Paul also unsuccessfully ran for President in 2004, and 2008.
The belief that this time Gov. Romney will have to "give" him something for his (and his supporters) backing is just the wishing of the left for some continued division in the GOP, as the primary season ends.
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All the cases are jumbled, it is hard to keep track of what's what. He obviously is a man of low moral character, but Monica Lewinsky is irrelevant to both cases.
Well, while I certainly do not want to debate this nonsense again, Adam.
I would point out that if Mr. Clinton was having a "relationship" with a WH Intern, it certainly would not have been irrelevant in the Paula Jones harrassment case.
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No, it was Whitewater. All part of Kenneth Starr's circus.
Independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr's report to Congress alleged that President Clinton committed perjury, obstructed justice, tampered with witnesses and abused power. Of the 11 counts laid out by Starr, five allege that Clinton lied under oath in his Jan. 17 deposition in the Paula Jones case and again in his Aug. 17 grand jury testimony. -
This pos is really aging delegates for some reason, what the heck will this wacko do at the convention with his mob of moronic followers?
This pos.............................. is really aging delegates for some reason,...........what the heck will this wacko do at the convention with his mob of moronic followers?
(U.S.Congressman).......................(Gibberish)..................................................(Wacko,mob,moronic), ignorance on display
You are frightened of everything. You call it caution. You call it common sense. You call it practicality. You call it playing the odds, but that's only because you're afraid to call it by its real name, and its real name is fear.
- Mick Farren
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"Irony can be awfully ironic sometimes" - Cdr. Buck Murdock
Obama Advises French Not To End Austerity Measures: (Really ? ? ?)President Obama’s spokesman warned the new socialist president-elect of France not to implement his campaign agenda of ending austerity measures, indicating that such a reversal could damage the world economy.
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French President-Elect Francois Hollande called for an increase in government spending and taxes.
If France crashes, it offers America a preview of where Obama’s policies will take us, so he… doesn’t want France to implement Obama’s policies.
He doesn’t want that heads up. Not before the election.
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Biden's and others remarks certainly gives the impression the administration is relaxing its gay marriage stance. But is it smart or not?
Best case scenario for the Obama campaign is if gay marriage supporters take these comments as a winking endorsement from the White House, and leave it at that. It’s a bit risky at this point for the president to personally come out in favor of gay marriage, particularly when many black Democratic voters adamantly oppose it. He wants to avoid that if he can lest his position alienate a key constituency (he’s already in trouble with seniors), but maybe he can’t avoid it.
Like Chuck Todd says, the less “Wall Street money” Obama takes in, the more important “gay money” and other fundraising sources become. Beyond that, if the economy continues to stall, The One will become increasingly desperate to change the subject — so much so that he might prefer to roll the dice on backing gay marriage in hopes of creating a sensational distraction. It’d be a risky play, but if the new post-austerity Europe performs the way everyone expects, the odds of the U.S. economy recovering before November will deteriorate and he’ll be a very long longshot to win.
A culture-war campaign could be his Hail Mary pass. Anyone seriously believe it would work, though?
For now, he likely hopes that message has been subtly transmitted to gay rights advocates through Biden’s remarks, because as we know, (because he accidentally told us), after the election Obama will have a lot more "flexibility" on certain controversial issues. Gay marriage, anti-missile defense, deficit spending, you name it.
Joe Biden's calculated ploy to suck up to gay marriage advocates
Pundits are racing to cast the vice president's embrace of gay marriage as a gaffe. But make no mistake: It was a deliberate political gambit
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Possibly Zimmerman. I see your point, but Booster doesn't know that. Total shot in the dark on his part.
Please................................enough "violent" imagery on this board.
Didn't the Arizona shooting teach us anything ?
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Show Me the ‘Savage’ Spending Cuts in Europe, Please
By Veronique de Rugy
Austerity is destroying Europe, we are told. In fact, this “anti-austerity” slogan was a big reason for the victory of newly elected socialist François Hollande to the presidency of France. Interviewed in The Economist a few weeks ago, Hollande’s campaign director said “We are not disciples of savage spending cuts.”
But then, I look at the data and I am asking: What “savage” spending cuts?
Look at this chart Following years of large spending increases, Spain, the United Kingdom, France, and Greece — countries widely cited for adopting austerity measures — haven’t significantly reduced spending since 2008. As you can see on this chart:
•These countries still spend more than pre-recession levels
•France and the U.K. did not cut spending.
•In Greece, and Spain, when spending was actually reduced — between 2009–2011 — the cuts have been relatively small compared to what is needed. Also, meaningful structural reforms were seldom implemented.
•As for Italy, the country reduced spending between 2009 and 2010 but the data shows and uptick in spending 2011. The increase in spending represents more than the previous reduction.
The most important point to keep in mind is that whenever cuts took place, they were always overwhelmed by large counterproductive tax increases. Unfortunately, that point is often overlooked. This approach to austerity — some spending cuts with large tax increases — is what President Obama has called the “balanced approach.”
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We have a law where a 28 yo man could shoot a 17 yo with skittles and claim "he was standing his ground." Obviously, the Taliban are POS but let's not act all high and mighty. We got more than enough of our own issues.
How embarrassing for you.
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exxon's revenues are larger than a great many country's budgets. it's more like country in it's own right than an american company separate from the govt.
So..........whats the cutoff ?
Where is the arbitrary "too much" revenues line, to be considered an American Company?
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Its funny how the "media" insists that Romney needs to "backtrack" from the "extremists, but frets that Mr. Obama might be "backing away" from the left.
Its almost as if they have decided one side is right and one is wrong......lol
NBC: Romney Must 'Backtrack' From the Right, But Obama Will Suffer 'Damage' If He Steps Back From the LeftTalking to Meet the Press host David Gregory on Monday's NBC Today, co-host Ann Curry pushed for Mitt Romney to move away from conservatives: "...does he have to work really hard now to backtrack off of some of his positions in the past, as he was trying to win the primary...?"
In a stunning double standard, in her very next question, Curry fretted about President Obama distancing himself from Vice President Biden's support of gay marriage: "There's been some backtracking, it seems, by the White House. Is it possible that the White House could cause itself some damage in backtracking too much off of this?"
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With all the focus on the empty seats at his kickoff event, I wish more people had paid attention to what he said,
"Now we face a choice," the president intoned. "For the last few years, the Republicans who run this Congress have insisted that we go right back to the policies that created this mess."Wait! What? The Republicans lost control of Congress way back in November, 2006. They won control of the House in an historic electoral blowback against Obama ignoring the economy and his insistence on Obamacare. John Boehner became speaker 16 months ago. The GOP still doesn't control the Senate.
So, once again the ongoing mess on Obama's watch is somebody else's fault. It may actually have been lucky for him that more than 4,000 of the Ohio State seats went empty. Those folks might have gotten the joke and laughed him off the dais.
Say goodnight, Gracie.
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The mainstream media will attempt to spin French President Nicholas Sarkozy's loss today to Socialist challenger François Hollande as a rejection of "austerity" policies--and to urge American voters to reject the deficit-cutting politics of the Tea Party when we go to the polls in November. In fact, there are important lessons from France--and they are the precise opposite of what the media is telling us.
First, to call Sarkozy's policies "austerity" is to insult both austerity and socialism. The French government--like other European governments--sought to close its budget gap primarily by raising taxes, not by cutting the size and cost of government. Neither Sarkozy nor Hollande had the courage to confront the basic, failed structure of France's welfare-state economy, which is the fundamental cause of its budget problems.
Insofar as French politicians have relied on tax increases as the key to deficit reduction, that is far closer to the policy of U.S. President Barack Obama and his Democrats than to the approach of the Tea Party and the Republicans. Even so, American media commentators like Joan Walsh and Paul Krugman are blaming Congress and "austerity" for slow economic growth--though federal spending keeps growing.
Sarkozy lost because, like nearly a dozen other European leaders, he lacked the courage to make the harsh but necessary reforms to set France right. The lesson for both Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. is that political cowardice is no longer an option.
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From today's New York Times, yes......the New York Times.
The Party of JuliaFTA:
At the same time, the slide show’s vision of the individual’s relationship to the state seems designed to vindicate every conservative critique of the Obama-era Democratic Party. The liberalism of “the Life of Julia” doesn’t envision government spending the way an older liberalism did — as a backstop for otherwise self-sufficient working families, providing insurance against job loss, decrepitude and catastrophic illness. It offers a more sweeping vision of government’s place in society, in which the individual depends on the state at every stage of life, and no decision — personal, educational, entrepreneurial, sexual — can be contemplated without the promise that it will be somehow subsidized by Washington.
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The incredible shrinking labor force
If the same percentage of adults were in the workforce today as when Barack Obama took office, the unemployment rate would be 11.1 percent. If the percentage was where it was when George W. Bush took office, the unemployment rate would be 13.1 percent.
That helps explain a seeming contradiction in the unemployment numbers — the rate keeps dropping even though job creation has been soft.
In April, the U.S. economy added a mere 115,000 jobs, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Friday. In a normal month, that would not even be enough to keep up with new entrants into the labor market. But in this economy, it was enough to drive unemployment from 8.2 percent down to 8.1 percent, the lowest point since January 2009.
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I know in theory that sounds good, but we already gave Julia free condoms and she STILL had a kid...and she apparently doesn't even have a man in her life.
Sure she does.............The Men in Julia’s Life
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Lol what a troll. The guy who killed him v. the guy who said he would not have the balls to go into Pakistan to kill him.
This is a ridiculous misstatement also, but I believe you knew that anyway.
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Whoo-hoo!......................Red Dawn II !
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Tea Party Takes Down Lugar
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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Brian Bolduc
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