Political quotes of the moment

[Cain]

Doubt it, he'll be remembered as the Peanut Farmer 2.0.  Clinton, on the other hand...there is a guy with some serious charisma.

Also, lol, Bush Snr haet wingnuts:

Bush's condescension toward the movement had occasionally seeped out. "I'm a conservative, but I'm not a nut about it," he had said. And he once classified the right wing as the "extra chromosome set."

[Cain]

This was nice, I thought.  Certainly an antidote to the usual political rhetoric one has to put up with:

Come on now. She [Pelosi] is nice. How many of y'all have met her? She is a nice person. She's a nice person. You know, let me give you a little lesson here. I hope you will listen to me. Just because somebody disagrees with you doesn't mean that they're not a good person. And I want to tell ya, I've been in the Senate for five years and I've taken a lot of that because I've been on the small side, both in the Republican Party and the Democrat Party. Just because I don't agree with them, it doesn't mean I'm bad. It means I have a legitimate point of view that's different than theirs. And what we have to have is make sure we have a debate in this country so that you can see what's going on and make the determination yourself. So, don't catch yourself being biased by Fox News that somebody's no good. The people in Washington are good. They just don't know what they don't know.

That was Senator Tim Coburn (R-OK) discussing Fox News style political hysteria.

I mean, he's wrong, of course.  The "people" in government are actually twisted and evil servants of the Old Ones, plotting our eventual doom, but at least it's not partisan political stupidity, and that's a start.

[AFK]

Of course this is one of the guys who was holding up legislation to extend unemployment benefits.  It's also hard not to wonder when he shows up on Fox News to profusely apologize and backpedal.  But I'd love to be pleasantly surprised. 

[BADGE OF HONOR]

http://www.newsmap.jp/#/n/us/view/

Shows a visual representation of the popularity of news stories, sortable by country/topic.

(Didn't know where else to put this and didn't feel like making a new thread)

[Triple Zero]

Interesting. Good visualisation, too.

[Cain]

That's pretty cool.  Didn't Kai post it a while back?

[LMNO]

I think so.  I check it out every so often at work, it can be both amusing and depressing, depending on what minor think takes up most space (Tiger Woods at the Masters rather than PedoPope or Dead Polacks).

[BADGE OF HONOR]

That's pretty cool.  Didn't Kai post it a while back?

I have no idea.  I was a little skeptical at first but it seems to have a good spread of sources.

[Cain]

Republican teabagger hero Carl Paladino is running for governor of New York, because he's the kind of asshole always forwarding vulgar racist emails to everybody. And like all of these assholes, now that he's been called out for it, he's "sorry if you were offended" because of course he is not a racist, it's just funny to send racist emails about Barack Obama, because lol coloreds. If this story sounds familiar, that's because approximately every 10 days another teabagger/Republican is publicly shamed for sending racist garbage to colleagues and subordinates, and then there's the usual "oh sorry if YOU were offended by my latest forward of Obama with a bone through his nose eating watermelon or whatever."

TPM reports:

   

An online news outlet in New York state has obtained dozens of emails, many of them racist and sexually graphic, which it reports were sent by Carl Paladino, the Tea-Party-backed Republican candidate for governor of New York, to a long list of political and business associates. One email shows a video of an African tribal dance, entitled "Obama Inauguration Rehearsal," while another depicts hardcore bestiality.

... as opposed to the more romantic "couples bestiality" porn, where the guy *kisses* the horse before he schtups it.

Anyway, go Carl Paladino!

http://wonkette.com/414771/tea-party-hero-and-ny-gov-candidate-always-sending-racistporno-emails#more-414771

[Requia ☣]

Glenn Beck is the new Abbie Hoffman
The out-of-power right has built a counterculture, just as the left did in the '60s

 
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/republican_party/index.html?story=/opinion/feature/2010/02/23/counterculture

[Cain]

The Taliban will probably develop like the Saudis did. There will be Aramco, pipelines, an emir, no parliament and lots of Sharia law. We can live with that.

Unnamed American diplomat in 1996, quoted in Ahmed Rashid's book, Taliban.

[Requia ☣]

So the dictatorship, general brutality and harboring of terrorists would have been perfectly acceptable to the politicians as long as they sold us oil?

I have a really hard time not believing that 

[Cain]

Works for Saudi Arabia, doesn't it?

[Cain]

LAWL

Aftergood, who is affiliated with the Federation of Americna Scientists, is basically a liberal good-government type, a technocratic apologist who believes that civic officers and public servants with generally good intentions sometimes go astray; that secrecy is a sort of pathogen attacking the body politic; that "sunlight is the best medicine." Were the principle focus of his work the operations of the local school board or county council, it would be less laughable, certainly less naive.

Marc Thiessen is a 500-lb. child-raping, blood-addicted reptilian shapeshifter come to this earth to sup upon the tender marrow of little girls.

IOZ, with his usual charming prose.

[Adios]

OMG, That was funny!