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Kevin Phillips on the Road to Damascus - ER - 11/17/2012 3:00:59 PM

Patraeus slams the door on conspiracy theorists - BuckGalaxy - 11/17/2012 12:29:29 AM
- Hey, if posting from Fox is out of bounds for us, please don't refer to Maddow. n/t. - RobVG - 11/17/2012 2:35:00 AM
  - They were direct quotes from Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). I'm open to evidence that shows it taken out of context - BuckGalaxy - 11/17/2012 3:23:22 AM
- It'd be nice if there was a transcript somewhere - RobVG - 11/17/2012 2:32:50 AM
  - The New York Times article - TB - 11/17/2012 3:21:20 AM
    - Glad you see the NYT as not a kidney filter - BuckGalaxy - 11/17/2012 3:29:05 AM
      - Re: Glad you see the NYT as not a kidney filter - TB - 11/17/2012 3:39:32 AM

There were 20 intelligence reports that indicated that anger about the film may be to blame - BuckGalaxy - 11/16/2012 6:20:00 PM
- What difference does it make? - ER - 11/16/2012 7:07:34 PM
  - Republicans have Scandal Envy - BuckGalaxy - 11/16/2012 11:59:30 PM
    - There's a lot at stake here. - ER - 11/17/2012 1:21:28 AM

John McCain is a very sad thing to watch - BuckGalaxy - 11/16/2012 7:46:03 AM
- Scheduling conflicts? - Lindy - 11/16/2012 3:50:49 PM
- Re: John McCain is a very sad thing to watch - Jody - 11/16/2012 3:43:42 PM
  - Jody, the man held a press conference demanding more intelligence at the same time as a briefing giving detailed intelligence. - BuckGalaxy - 11/16/2012 5:55:40 PM
    - Re: Jody, the man held a press conference demanding more intelligence at the same time as a briefing giving detailed intelligence. - Jody - 11/16/2012 6:55:16 PM
  - This is another idiot accusation, Jody. - TB - 11/16/2012 4:40:57 PM
    - Re: This is another idiot accusation, Jody. - Jody - 11/16/2012 7:02:43 PM
  - Nah, he just got confused about his schedule. It happens at his age. - ER - 11/16/2012 4:24:49 PM
- Maybe he read the transcripts Buck. - TB - 11/16/2012 3:31:32 PM
  - Here you go - BuckGalaxy - 11/16/2012 6:32:34 PM
  - He read the transcripts of an intelligence briefing that was happening at the same moment he was complaining about not getting enough intelligence? - BuckGalaxy - 11/16/2012 5:00:30 PM
- I used to really respect the man. - ER - 11/16/2012 1:35:32 PM
  - Me too.....then - Lindy - 11/16/2012 3:53:32 PM
    - McCain used to be the GOP "rogue". - ER - 11/16/2012 4:28:27 PM

The RNC finally makes sense, sees reality. Finally. - bowser - 11/16/2012 8:14:44 AM
- Beware of GOPs bearing gifts. - ER - 11/16/2012 5:01:03 PM
- Just another RINO. - ER - 11/16/2012 1:34:22 PM
  - Re: Just another RINO. - TB - 11/16/2012 3:38:51 PM
    - By the way, Romney is right. - TB - 11/16/2012 4:34:37 PM
      - Romney's gifts were to the mega-wealthy. - bowser - 11/16/2012 6:07:46 PM
      - Doing the right thing makes you popular. - alcaray - 11/16/2012 5:50:44 PM

California legislative supermajority - TB - 11/16/2012 5:44:21 AM

Patraeus sex scandal keeps getting weirder - BuckGalaxy - 11/13/2012 7:14:09 AM
- I believe there is far more to this than meets the eye. - bowser - 11/16/2012 3:23:54 AM
- Here's my take on it...they are playing this up as a "sex scandal" - Lindy - 11/14/2012 10:59:59 AM
  - I THINK I WAS RIGHT ABOUT THIS - Lindy - 11/16/2012 2:18:28 AM
  - What is it with Americans and sex? - Lindy - 11/14/2012 7:10:04 PM
    - We aren't getting enough. - ER - 11/14/2012 11:45:20 PM
      - I get it ER and I think you're on to something...LOL - Lindy - 11/16/2012 2:04:00 AM
        
        Which is why so many Republicans are uptight - Lindy - 11/16/2012 2:19:17 AM
        
        Male Republicans seem to do all right. - bowser - 11/16/2012 3:18:40 AM
- Re: Patraeus sex scandal keeps getting weirder - Jody - 11/13/2012 8:02:04 PM
- Slate breaks down the cast in this sex scandal - BuckGalaxy - 11/13/2012 6:06:42 PM
- Re: Patraeus sex scandal keeps getting weirder - Jody - 11/13/2012 5:05:48 PM
  - I agree there's nothing here criminal - BuckGalaxy - 11/13/2012 6:04:15 PM
    - National security? Good thing it wasn't the president or anything... - TB - 11/13/2012 7:05:53 PM
- 30,000 pages of emails in 2 years?.. 40 per day? n/t - RobVG - 11/13/2012 4:05:28 PM
  - Holy cats - TB - 11/13/2012 5:23:59 PM
- I know its only a wicked, and irrelevant coincidence, but.... - ER - 11/13/2012 12:17:20 PM
  - Delicious n/t - RobVG - 11/13/2012 3:56:59 PM
- Whoa! Jill Kelly was also fooling around with Gen. John R. Allen, the commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan - BuckGalaxy - 11/13/2012 7:28:10 AM
  - General Staff Groupies. - ER - 11/13/2012 12:18:08 PM
    - Braid bunnies? - alcaray - 11/14/2012 8:32:44 PM
      - Brass Bras? - ER - 11/14/2012 10:56:22 PM

"If Obama Loses..." - TB - 11/14/2012 8:35:07 PM
- If you look at what I wrote in the run up to the election - BuckGalaxy - 11/15/2012 4:35:34 AM
- The right hand rule for determining the spin vector - ER - 11/14/2012 10:52:22 PM
  - Re: The right hand rule for determining the spin vector - TB - 11/15/2012 12:43:22 AM
    - I was trying to create a multilayered visual/verbal pun. - ER - 11/15/2012 2:08:03 AM

Energy production soaring in the US. - alcaray - 11/12/2012 7:59:09 PM
- It makes no difference. Absolutely no difference. - ER - 11/14/2012 11:15:50 PM
  - Oil leases - TB - 11/15/2012 12:28:23 AM
    - What about the energy independence part? - ER - 11/15/2012 1:11:30 AM
      - Maybe podrock will come in and explain it. - TB - 11/15/2012 1:38:37 AM
        
        Yeah but the stock isn't all owned by Americans. - ER - 11/15/2012 1:53:00 AM
        
        Re: Yeah but the stock isn't all owned by Americans. - TB - 11/15/2012 3:16:48 AM
- Re: Energy production soaring in the US. - Jody - 11/12/2012 8:24:38 PM
- That's because fossil-based actually works. - TB - 11/12/2012 8:21:36 PM
  - Leave a child alone and it will eat nothing but candy. - bowser - 11/14/2012 8:07:42 AM
  - I predict that as conservatives eventually embrace the ramifications of global warming... - alcaray - 11/12/2012 10:51:36 PM
    - I have a feeling they'll be hating Obama for decades. - ER - 11/13/2012 12:27:02 PM
      - Oddly, they have started to like Clinton, the Antichrist. - alcaray - 11/13/2012 9:17:48 PM
        
        Not sure where you're getting that idea. - TB - 11/13/2012 9:34:09 PM
        
        Dunno what you said about race/Bill - alcaray - 11/13/2012 10:35:45 PM

GOP's media cocoon - BuckGalaxy - 11/12/2012 10:50:44 PM
- Big reality check - ER - 11/14/2012 3:37:29 AM
  - Introspection is good but it looks bad when they're all walking around banging into walls. - RobVG - 11/14/2012 3:34:04 PM
    - Republicans of the Serengeti - ER - 11/14/2012 3:39:14 PM
      - Good one n/t - RobVG - 11/14/2012 3:56:49 PM
  - "Common sense:" Agreeing with Democrats. - TB - 11/14/2012 3:55:07 AM
    - Jindal wasn't saying Republicans should adopt Democrat ideals, - ER - 11/14/2012 4:09:04 AM
      - Americans make a big mistake. - bowser - 11/14/2012 8:06:31 AM
      - No. The Democrats are saying that. - TB - 11/14/2012 4:20:27 AM
        
        I know what the Democrats say, - ER - 11/14/2012 4:43:15 AM
        
        You might want to notice that I haven't talked about what Jindal said at all. - TB - 11/14/2012 4:46:16 AM
        
        Well, isn't that exactly what I just said? - ER - 11/14/2012 4:49:15 AM
        
        Look... - TB - 11/14/2012 4:59:31 AM
        
        Yeah, BHO has such a hard time dealing with political opposition. - ER - 11/14/2012 12:19:44 PM
- Small reality check... - TB - 11/13/2012 10:29:19 PM

Summit meeting - TB - 11/14/2012 5:07:01 AM
- I don't understand. - bowser - 11/14/2012 5:54:10 AM
- Tomorrow Obama's meeting with 10 of the most important CEOs in America. - BuckGalaxy - 11/14/2012 5:41:10 AM
  - Hmmmm. The Leftie meeting is on Friday. - TB - 11/14/2012 5:45:55 AM

The election isn't over yet - BuckGalaxy - 11/12/2012 8:14:09 AM
- Ohio is still counting, too. - TB - 11/14/2012 5:26:32 AM

"The Optimizer" - TB - 11/13/2012 8:48:53 PM

We need more sensible conservatives. - BuckGalaxy - 11/12/2012 5:31:30 PM
- Re: We need more sensible conservatives. - Jody - 11/12/2012 7:37:56 PM
  - Jude 1:10 - ER - 11/12/2012 8:49:18 PM
    - And there was no private property. All of 'em were communist. - bowser - 11/13/2012 2:36:21 AM
    - Re: Jude 1:10 - Jody - 11/13/2012 2:02:01 AM
- David Frum is a conservative, in case you missed his bio at the top of the article. - ER - 11/12/2012 6:38:35 PM
- Can you cut the crap already? - TB - 11/12/2012 5:58:18 PM
  - "Nobody called 2004 a mandate"........say what? - Tony - 11/13/2012 7:29:23 PM
    - All right!! - TB - 11/13/2012 7:36:40 PM
  - Does this mean we won't have to endure any more links to your - ER - 11/12/2012 6:26:47 PM
    - Re: Does this mean we won't have to endure any more links to your - TB - 11/12/2012 6:58:58 PM
  - I have to do this again, if RobVG won't. - bowser - 11/12/2012 6:21:48 PM

Might as well beat Buck to it - RobVG - 11/13/2012 5:22:34 PM
- My focus has been more on rightwing media denial of establish facts, and the reality check the election presented. - BuckGalaxy - 11/13/2012 6:12:41 PM
  - Reality hasn't changed at all. - TB - 11/13/2012 6:23:16 PM
- Re: Might as well beat Buck to it - Jody - 11/13/2012 6:06:12 PM
- You beat me to it, too! - ER - 11/13/2012 5:32:38 PM

Reid's filibuster reform hits a snag - TB - 11/13/2012 6:18:20 PM

Meanwhile, in Europe - TB - 11/12/2012 11:18:01 PM
- It's not the systems. Here is it, the truth, in simply yet comprehensive terms. - bowser - 11/13/2012 2:32:22 AM
  - We're learning a valuable lesson from the Eurocrash. - ER - 11/13/2012 1:03:28 PM
    - I figured that would be the take-away lesson around here. - TB - 11/13/2012 5:32:41 PM

Antivirus John McAfee wanted for murder. - bowser - 11/13/2012 3:09:11 AM
- He failed to download the latest update. - ER - 11/13/2012 2:46:38 PM
- Fascinating story! - BuckGalaxy - 11/13/2012 6:38:40 AM

Morning Joe having a grumpy morning, but he's not mad at the dems... - BuckGalaxy - 11/13/2012 1:23:35 AM
- I like Joe. - ER - 11/13/2012 11:31:44 AM
- The right-wing masses are used to believing nonsense. Their filters are broken. - bowser - 11/13/2012 2:50:33 AM

Israel Fires into Syria, Violence Also Flares on Gaza Border - johannes - 11/12/2012 6:11:04 PM
- Re: Israel Fires into Syria, Violence Also Flares on Gaza Border - Jody - 11/12/2012 6:28:25 PM
  - That is an interesting concept. - johannes - 11/13/2012 4:21:59 AM

"My vote doesn't count." - TB - 11/12/2012 3:11:18 AM
- That's a relief. - bowser - 11/12/2012 7:30:22 AM
  - legit lol - BuckGalaxy - 11/12/2012 8:08:22 AM
- McCain got 6 million votes less than Bush 2004 - BuckGalaxy - 11/12/2012 5:33:48 AM
  - And Obama got 7.6 million fewer votes than he got in 2008. - TB - 11/12/2012 4:16:12 PM
    - Have you seen the economy? How on earth did you not beat him? - alcaray - 11/12/2012 7:24:19 PM
      - That's a remarkably good question. - TB - 11/12/2012 8:27:47 PM
        
        I can see why you wouldn't like those answers! - alcaray - 11/12/2012 10:11:46 PM
        
        Look at just some of the numbers: - TB - 11/12/2012 9:04:13 PM
        
        "No change in collapsing entitlements"? Did you forget how Obama gutted medicare? - alcaray - 11/12/2012 10:15:51 PM
        
        And there's the deeper problem. - TB - 11/12/2012 10:18:43 PM
        
        It's not rocket science - BuckGalaxy - 11/12/2012 10:48:03 PM
        
        Thanks for the textbook illustration. - TB - 11/12/2012 10:58:22 PM
        
        You did read the question, right? - alcaray - 11/12/2012 10:21:24 PM
        
        If you remember, I answered it before. - TB - 11/12/2012 10:57:06 PM
        
        Well. - alcaray - 11/12/2012 11:39:01 PM
        
        "Absolutely not." - TB - 11/12/2012 11:47:31 PM
        
        Economic are not the only issue. - alcaray - 11/12/2012 11:57:32 PM

Denial has poisoned the GOP and threatens the rest of the country too. - BuckGalaxy - 11/10/2012 6:28:46 AM
- "Mandates" - TB - 11/10/2012 4:10:02 PM
  - Obama has a clear mandate given to him by the voters and Conservatives. - bowser - 11/12/2012 5:33:28 PM
  - winning 50% of the vote twice is a rare accomplishment - BuckGalaxy - 11/12/2012 4:16:13 AM
    - Reagan did. - TB - 11/12/2012 4:30:34 PM
      - However you want to slice it, you guys got crushed - BuckGalaxy - 11/12/2012 5:40:49 PM
  - Re: "Mandates" - TB - 11/12/2012 3:16:02 AM
- Unfortunately, everyone who needs to read that, won't. - ER - 11/10/2012 12:23:01 PM
  - Well, if it wasn't just a rant, someone would. n/t - RobVG - 11/10/2012 4:26:57 PM
    - Re: Well, if it wasn't just a rant, someone would. n/t - TB - 11/10/2012 4:32:58 PM
  - This... - TB - 11/10/2012 3:33:03 PM
    - To an alien extraterrestrial visitor... - ER - 11/10/2012 3:57:38 PM
      - Amazing. - TB - 11/10/2012 4:18:40 PM
        
        You don't have a "point", only an obsession. - ER - 11/10/2012 4:43:55 PM
        
        You used the word "truth." I didn't. - TB - 11/10/2012 5:35:38 PM
        
        Re: You used the word "truth." I didn't. - ER - 11/10/2012 6:04:32 PM
        
        I see. No problems. - TB - 11/10/2012 6:11:35 PM

What is not going to happen now - BuckGalaxy - 11/10/2012 9:22:26 PM
- The reason they hate him so much, Buck, is they are afraid he'll become the new FDR. - ER - 11/10/2012 11:17:39 PM
  - He just might. - TB - 11/10/2012 11:43:03 PM
    - You guys have been trying to dismantle the New Deal for almost a century now. - ER - 11/11/2012 12:17:11 AM
      - Believe it or not... - TB - 11/11/2012 3:39:08 AM
        
        I don't believe a word of it. - ER - 11/11/2012 2:55:39 PM
        
        Control - TB - 11/11/2012 3:36:22 PM
        
        "In the absence of proper government, the powerful will simply take from the weak." -- Chris Hayes - ER - 11/11/2012 4:00:37 PM
        
        And the mob take from the few. - TB - 11/11/2012 4:27:23 PM
        
        "Protection from that is also a function of government." - BuckGalaxy - 11/11/2012 10:52:26 PM
        
        You missed the point. - TB - 11/12/2012 12:53:13 AM
        
        Oh yeah, you're right. Taxes have gone up for the wealthy over the last decade right? - BuckGalaxy - 11/12/2012 1:33:39 AM
        
        The tax rates are the same now as ten years ago. - TB - 11/12/2012 2:48:24 AM
        
        Table - TB - 11/12/2012 2:58:49 AM
        
        I've given it a lot of thought. - ER - 11/11/2012 6:05:07 PM
        
        No. You haven't. - TB - 11/11/2012 6:22:19 PM
        
        Hey mr tally man, tally me banana - ER - 11/11/2012 6:55:51 PM
        
        And one more thing... - TB - 11/11/2012 8:50:43 PM
        
        You'd love us to stop, wouldn't you? - ER - 11/11/2012 9:29:14 PM
        
        You've got nothing. - TB - 11/11/2012 7:24:32 PM
        
        You want to replace State Tyranny with corporate tyranny, - ER - 11/11/2012 7:51:00 PM
- Congratulations, you've saved Big Bird. - RobVG - 11/10/2012 10:10:07 PM
  - Yep. - TB - 11/10/2012 11:04:43 PM
- So... - TB - 11/10/2012 9:55:00 PM
  - Our side has plenty. - BuckGalaxy - 11/11/2012 4:34:55 AM
    - Was that a joke? - TB - 11/11/2012 2:38:59 PM
      - He's right, Tom. - ER - 11/11/2012 3:23:07 PM
        
        Well, I can't argue with that data. - TB - 11/11/2012 3:38:20 PM

Wapo breakdown of electorate - BuckGalaxy - 11/12/2012 1:51:57 AM

On the lighter side... - BuckGalaxy - 11/10/2012 12:06:57 AM
- Brown didn't "veer to the right." - TB - 11/10/2012 12:25:56 AM
  - Too rightward for Mass, perhaps. - alcaray - 11/10/2012 2:40:32 AM
  - Brown was one of the less fanatical gop senators - BuckGalaxy - 11/10/2012 1:11:18 AM
    - And btw - BuckGalaxy - 11/10/2012 6:38:04 AM
      - Joe Donnelly - TB - 11/10/2012 3:24:17 PM
        
        Buck? - TB - 11/10/2012 9:00:56 PM
        
        see my answer earlier - Tony - 11/11/2012 8:31:11 PM
        
        Joe Donnelly is a typical blue dog - BuckGalaxy - 11/10/2012 9:15:06 PM
  - It was just a cartoon. Don't go overboard. - ER - 11/10/2012 12:37:27 AM
    - Heh. Good one! - TB - 11/10/2012 12:42:48 AM

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