Displaying 2,491 To 2,520 Of 16,275 Comments Note to the GOP: Keep talking, obstructing and holding ‘debates.’ Please! Poll-itics: South Carolinians have soured on Nikki Haley, President Obama’s approvals up Only 34.6 percent of those surveyed – 1,073 registered S.C. Democrats, Republicans and independents – said they approved of Haley’s job performance, according to the poll. Far more – 43 percent – said they disapprove of the way the Republican is handling her job as governor. […] Haley’s approval rating is lower than that of President Obama, a Democrat, according to the poll. Obama has a 44.8 percent approval rating in strongly Republican South Carolina, according to the Winthrop poll. And more: VIDEO- Poll-itics: President Obama leads Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich in Florida and S. Carolina President Obama’s standing has improved in Florida, always a key presidential battleground state. Forty-six percent of registered voters in the state approve of his job, which is up five points since October. In hypothetical match-ups, the president leads Romney by seven points (48 to 41 percent) and Gingrich by 12 points (51 to 39 percent). In South Carolina — a reliable Republican state in presidential contests — Obama’s approval rating stands at 44 percent, and he holds narrow leads over Romney (45 to 42 percent) and Gingrich (46 to 42 percent).
H/T GottaLaff » Posted By bito On December 11, 2011 @ 3:33 pm Once there, you can then highjack the thread. In effect, you have changed the subject and tenor or the conversation and the writer of the original post has lost their ability to moderate the conversation and that creates a free-for-all that gets the conversation far off the original mark. vs. PPOV: All comments are subject to the Terms of Use. Off topic comments may be moved to Time Out for OT or Help Desk. Abusive comments will be removed and members who post them may be moderated, suspended or banned. That and our members have a thing for “those Pesky Facts.” » Posted By bito On December 11, 2011 @ 3:20 pm The Koch Brothers, ALEC and the Savage Assault on Democracy http://www.thenation.com/blog/165077/koch-brothers-alec-and-savage-assault-democracy » Posted By bito On December 11, 2011 @ 11:37 am I can understand the humor in that one k’es. I was at Christmas gathering many years ago when cam-recorders became ‘cheap.’ The moment the present opening was done, they all gathered around the tube to ‘watch’ it. 😆 I said WTF (sorta) and said Huh? Weren’t we all just there? We can’t remember 5 minutes ago?” “Is it real or is it Memorex? 😉 » Posted By bito On December 10, 2011 @ 5:50 pm KQ, I’ll match you on that one and raise you one. 😉 Flip: “Exercise a no-fly zone this evening … Provide help to the rebels to replace [Qaddafi] … All we have to say is that we think that slaughtering your own citizens is unacceptable and that we’re intervening. And we don’t have to send troops. All we have to do is suppress his air force, which we could do in minutes.” — March 7, 2011 Flip: “I don’t think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering. I don’t think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate. …. [Paul Ryan’s Medicare proposal] is too big a jump.” — May 15, 2011 http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/11/newt-gingrich-flip-flops.html Speaking of Iraq, this from our news widget got a WTF from me. I didn’t think this and millions of others didn’t think so either: BAGHDAD – In the beginning, it all looked simple: topple Saddam Hussein, destroy his purported weapons of mass destruction and lay the foundation for a pro-Western government in the heart of the Arab world. [….] In 20-20 hindsight, the U.S. probably should have seen it coming. By 2003, communal rivalries and hatreds, fueled by years of Saddam’s suppression of Kurds and Shiites, were brewing beneath the lid of a closed society cobbled together from the wreckage of the Ottoman Empire after World War I. Saddam’s rule of terror kept all these passions in the pot. Lift the lid and the pot boils over. Remove Saddam and a new fight flares for the power that the ousted ruler and his Baath Party had monopolized for decades. http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111210/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_war_america_s_legacy It take hindsight for me, but it take blinders in the Neo-Con GWB administration. » Posted By bito On December 10, 2011 @ 4:17 pm Patsy, not a good enough tease to get a click from me. 🙂 Let me make a stab (into the back of PBO) Newtie and AH? » Posted By bito On December 10, 2011 @ 3:16 pm Bernie Sanders Explains How Citizens United Has Killed America’s Democracy Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Bernie I like and agree with most of time, Ratagain, not so much and Dylan’s mention of Buddy Rommer is just one of the many reasons I don’t. Buddy and Dylan are alike in a few aspects: Both parties are the same and PBO hasn’t done enough while neglecting to mention that it is Congress that passes, or blocks, bill/laws. PBO takes money form the Wall St. and the banks, he’s just “one of them.” If PBO was in the pocket of the banksters, why did he push for any regulations? GWB would have vetoed any bill close to Dodd-Frank and an R controlled congress wouldn’t have even brought it up to be vetoed? » Posted By bito On December 10, 2011 @ 3:03 pm When she first moved to CNN, they had her on a show introducing her and she was discussing a bill in congress. She was busy explaining the bill, she was asked a question on it and she said “well, I haven’t really read the bill…..” » Posted By bito On December 10, 2011 @ 1:51 pm Aftermath of 2008 economic collapse: biggest global banks still…REALLY big After three years of deliberations, the Financial Stability Board at the Bank of International Settlements recently released the names of 29 financial institutions it had deemed to be “globally systemically important.” Eight of those banks are in the United States, and their names are familiar. Using data that had already been collected by Global Finance Magazine, as well as other data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Moody’s, and the financial reports of individual companies, the data visualization below shows how big each bank (as measured by total assets) was at the end of 2008, 2009, and 2010, as well as at the end of June of this year. (Assets are shown in billions of dollars: for example, $3,650B represents $3,650,000,000,000 or $3.65 trillion). It turns out that most of the banks are bigger than they were in 2008. » Posted By bito On December 10, 2011 @ 1:08 pm Khirad, I was about to post this when my little ‘puter decided to crash but of all the parody’s of his add that I have watched, this is the best. You-Tube seems to have removed quite a few for “violating standards.” Hmmm, wonder what those were? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMctunLNumE&feature=related » Posted By bito On December 9, 2011 @ 7:00 pm Sue, that is close to what I was thinking but with an evil twist on your part. 🙂 » Posted By bito On December 9, 2011 @ 4:05 pm Brokeback Texan I realize you have probably seen this all over the innernetz and I apologize. However, I am contractually obligated as a progressive liberal blogger to have it on my blog. I give you: Rick Perry, Brokeback Texan. [img]http://bloggingformichigan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/BrokebackPerry.jpg[/img] Yes, the jacket Rick Perry wore in his anti-gay, homophobic, anti-Obama campaign ad was the exact same one as Heath Ledger wore in his role as gay cowboy Ennis Del Mar. And, with that, kids, we have a wrap. » Posted By bito On December 9, 2011 @ 2:42 pm Oh Noes Rick! Look out ❗ [img]http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=nickramsey1467A32DD-BF97-B5E8-E186-9D8BA9194C80.jpg&width=380[/img] http://thelastword.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/08/9303261-perrys-anti-gay-ad-gets-photobombed » Posted By bito On December 9, 2011 @ 12:19 pm Yep ke’s, I am a pain in the arse ain’t I? I do like my links and blockquotes, of course it’s all selfish, I refuse to give up the executive jet, the condo in Hawaii and waste it on having to hire a lawyer on some plagiarism charge. That one, I’m 99.99999999999….% positive. (BTW– I still need to talk to Adlib about this ‘personal chief thing.) Really k’es, are the Republican Senators serious? Do they expect PBO to just rule by edict and just their edict? I fully understand the hyperbole of many politicians, but do they think we are all stupid/ignorant? Yeppers, another rhetorical question. 🙂 You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27074.html “Ole Abe'” may have been right then, but he didn’t have cable “news”, scream shows yapper radio to contend with either, he only had to deal with civil war and that slavery of humans things, eh?. » Posted By bito On December 8, 2011 @ 9:23 pm Excellent funk! I both laughed and said in in my serious voice “perfect, exactly” Thanks. » Posted By bito On December 8, 2011 @ 8:25 pm Exactly k’es, I liked the part where he said (paraphrase) “It’s way the law was written and passed, if they (R’s) want ton change it pass a bill, I can’t change it because because of their demands to change it.” I watched 85.47219% ( 😉 ) of the mark-up the Dodd-Frank bill, and their proposals lost in committee(s)and they fought this bill every step of the way. Do they not believe in a representative democracy? (rhetorical!) » Posted By bito On December 8, 2011 @ 1:05 pm How in the hell am I supposed to tweet that? 😆 » Posted By bito On December 8, 2011 @ 12:55 pm Oh horse pucks, AdLib, this renowned scientist is here to say different: Inhofe questions EPA study of contaminated well water near gas drilling in Wyoming U.S. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., dubbing himself “the leading advocate for hydraulic fracturing in the United States Senate,” sent a letter this week to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Lisa Jackson accusing her of “contradictory” statements about the common but controversial oil and gas drilling practice. […] In fact, the EPA recently released a report finding a solvent called 2-Butoxyethanol (2-BE) in domestic well water in the Pavillion area, and 2-BE is a common constituent of fracking mixtures. The EPA did not conclude definitively that the 2-BE in local well water came from EnCana fracking operations, but is expected to release a more conclusive report soon. […] The EPA has been investigating the Pavillion case since 2008 and has been engaged in extensive well water sampling in the area since 2009. Area residents have been instructed not to drink their well water because of elevated levels of benzene, and EnCana’s deal to sell its drilling operations in the Pavillion area recently fell through, in part because of the EPA findings. EPA Announces Final Study Plan to Assess Hydraulic Fracturing/Congressionally directed study will evaluate potential impacts on drinking water EPA Releases Draft Findings of Pavillion, Wyoming Ground Water Investigation for Public Comment and Independent Scientific Review » Posted By bito On December 8, 2011 @ 12:52 pm Just watching this k’es. America’s love of guns and intolerance of others piled on doesn’t make a good mix. » Posted By bito On December 8, 2011 @ 11:55 am ICYMI President Obama Speaks on Confirming Richard Cordray December 08, 2011 President Obama says he’s not giving up on confirming Richard Cordray as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau after the Senate blocks a vote to put Cordray in place to help protect American consumers from unscrupulous financial operators. » Posted By bito On December 8, 2011 @ 11:48 am Sue,no use betting, I just read a post on a “conservative/TP” site the other day tearing into the Methodist Church. Wow, what a nest of heathen commie, pinko, fascists, I never knew! I was going to tweet it to you but I didn’t want to be associated with it or some one thinking the site supported it. It was written by a self proclaimed “Christian.” » Posted By bito On December 8, 2011 @ 11:06 am k’es on twitter today there have been many, many stories about his various “dealings” being posted. What Newt Gingrich Isn’t Telling You About His Literacy Program http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/newt-gingrich-earning-by-learning A 1995 Mother Jones investigation revealed that the program’s all-volunteer army came at a hefty price. The group paid its Atlanta volunteers $500 each; nearly half of the total budget of the Houston branch of the program went to one salaried staff position. » Posted By bito On December 7, 2011 @ 7:07 pm k’es, it seems he wasn’t Mr. Popularity. http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7390945n » Posted By bito On December 7, 2011 @ 6:42 pm Newt Gingrich blasts 1990s ethics investigation of him, calling it partisan » Posted By bito On December 7, 2011 @ 5:09 pm Em, I have this recurring thought about these demonstrations and that is that participants should make a copy of their voter registration cards (black out any personal info, if one wants to), laminate them and wear them on a lanyard/pocket clip like an employee ID/press pass when going to their congresspersons office. Let them know right off that you are a voter! I would also like to see voter registration drives, where legally possible, at all these events. » Posted By bito On December 7, 2011 @ 2:40 pm How does he keep what he says sorted out in his mind? Newt too. Or does it not matter to them? » Posted By bito On December 7, 2011 @ 1:53 pm Mitt Romney wants to repeal Obamacare but doesn’t actually understand what’s in the bill http://elections.americablog.com/2011/12/mitt-romney-wants-to-repeal-obamacare.html PHILIP KLEIN: You’ve said that on day one of your presidency, you would grant Obamacare waivers to all 50 states, as you pursue full repeal. But under the language of the health care law, waivers are subject to a number of restrictions, and wouldn’t apply until the year 2017. So what immediate and specific relief would your executive order provide for individuals and businesses, assuming it’s issued on January 20, 2013? ROMNEY: Well, I will certainly pursue repeal, and that’s something which will occur if we have a Republican House and a Republican Senate, my guess is it could be done pretty close to day one. If that’s not the case, and I have to go through the waiver process, we will do our best…… […] KLEIN: But what do your lawyers think as to why these waivers could take place, because I have the law here, and it says that it applies on January 1, 2017 – under the “waiver for state innovation.” ROMNEY: When you say “it” — “it applies”? KLEIN: The “waiver for state innovation” — under section 1332. ROMNEY: The waiver for state innovation? KLEIN: Yes, that’s the waiver that I believe that you’re talking about when you talk about state waivers. That’s what your campaign has said. ROMNEY: Oh, they say it’s that in particular? KLEIN: Yeah. ROMNEY: Then I’d have to have Ben Ginsberg, our lawyer, sit down. If you really want to go into that and tell you what — if that’s important to you, we’ll have Ben Ginsberg give you a call and talk about what provision of the law we would seek to employ. Wow really? You mean I can’t just break the law? Huh! ROMNEY: Well, I will certainly pursue repeal, and that’s something which will occur if we have a Republican House and a Republican Senate, my guess is it could be done pretty close to day one. That’s a pretty big if, 60+ seats in the Senate? » Posted By bito On December 7, 2011 @ 12:18 pm Hmmm, I have mixed feelings on this. Why didn’t the mother ask the question instead of “using” her 8 year old child? Bumper stickers and signs are props, not 8 year old children. Given, Michelle is homophobic, that is her “stchick” but did you feel that the child was “filled with personal conviction” or just giving rote? » Posted By bito On December 6, 2011 @ 7:10 pm I do like Deaniac’s writings, he is spot on in my book with most of them. » Posted By bito On December 6, 2011 @ 3:09 pm Michael Steele and Johnathon Alter got into today when Mike tried to spin the lack of jobs was PBO’s fault. Alter: You are insulting the listeners to this program, the R’s have not proposed. voted on or passed ONE jobs bill…. Alter was hot! (Careful, Johnathon, don’t test your remission.) » Posted By bito On December 6, 2011 @ 3:06 pmComments Posted By bito
What, it’s not real unless it’s on tape/digital anymore?
Flop: “I would not have intervened. I think there were a lot of other ways to affect Qaddafi … I would not have used American and European forces.” — March 23, 2011
Flop: “I made a mistake. And I called Paul Ryan today, who’s a very close personal friend and I said that. The fact is that I have supported what Ryan has tried to do on the budget.” — May 17, 2011
If that is true, why do they, along with the R’s, bash PBO and the Dems all the time for their “regulations and restrictions”? And Dylan in one rant say “The Dodd-Frank bill is weak (it was filibustered and only got the bare number of votes) and then in the next say PBO should have passed a better bill, without ever mentioning the Senate?
And she was being pushed as a news analyst? More like a hair flipping, perfect smile, pretty face. IMHO
My thought was “who on his staff let him wear that jacket?” I like your version better! Did someone on his staff or the production company do it on purpose? 👿
http://www.eclectablog.com/
Release Date: 12/08/2011
Gingrich colleagues slam his experience
Earlier in the interview, when he first says he will repeal it, he states:
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