Stupid Republican idea of the day

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You can be smart and wrong. Or you can be smart in terms of dealing with the press, but dumb in terms of making predictions. Or you could be smart and also cynical enough to know that there are a lot of people who will buy a book by a Democrat predicting the demise of the Democratic party.

Zell is not dumb, I don't think. Just wrong.
 
elucidator said:
I utterly cannot fathom that vote. Can't get my mind around it, when I try, my mind hocks it back up like a cat with a hair ball. There's a pro-rape demographic somewhere? What the fuck are they thinking?
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It's pro-arbitration, not pro-rape. The big corporations who hire arbitrators with regularity have a strong and distinct advantage in arbitration when the worker only hires an arbitrator once in a lifetime. The corps win arbitrations nine times out of ten, which is about four times out of ten more than in courts with juries and judges. When the state makes you hear all the cases you can get, or you have to "get hired" by an arbitration company that requires repeat business, if you are the corp, you really want your regularly hired arbitrator. I am all in favor of arbitration for my large corporate clients and against it for the individual ones. If it is two equally strong commercial actors, then an arbitrator is fine. But the current system of mandatory arbitration of corporations using arbitration companies against consumers is absolutely corrupt.
 
How did a man this stupid end of as the Republican Minority Leader in the US House? Oh, that's right. He is a Republican.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/11/5/800886/-Late-Afternoon-Early-Evening-Open-Thread
 
Has anyone mentioned the special RNC meeting to approve a resolution to rebrand the Democratic Party as the "Democrat Socialist Party?" When even Michael Steele can see that your idea is stupid, it's really stupid.
 
If the First Lady is going to have a policy role then she should have exactly the same rules applied to her as other presidential advsors... Like say, Karl Rove. He spit at a Congressional subpeona and got away with it until GW was out of office.
 
Kolga said:
A guest on the Rachel Maddow Show last night (yes, yes, I know) said that Gov. Sanford has often made statements about how he dislikes being in the public eye, dislikes having to have a security detail, doesn't want to give out copies of his PUBLIC schedule...

Dude, I've got a solution for that. DON'T RUN FOR PUBLIC OFFICE. Jeez.
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Fame whores always say that. The husband on that sextuplet show, Jon and Kate Plus 8 said that just last night..."Oh, woe is us...we didn't want the cameras 24 hours a day and the tabloids screaming about us and the fame and not being able to just disappear for a couple of hours out of public view." Well, then they shouldn't have agreed to appear on a reality TV show exploiting their children!
 
Merijeek said:
But the best one was:

"Russell is a hero! While many of us bigots realize that we are a dying lot, and that we should keep our old-fashioned and ignorant opinions to ourselves, Russell speaks out loudly, and proudly, for racists and bigots that are in the closet and too afraid to make their opinions known. Go Russell!"
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That was some Grade A snark, right there.
 
elucidator said:
A scene in Havana, 1898

"Commandante! We have done as you ordered, we have destroyed the vessel, the Mayanyay!"

"That stinking fishing boat at the end of the pier! Good riddance!"

"Ah, no, Commandante, it was a big damn boat made of iron, with guns..."

"Aieee! Caramba!"

"Que?"

"Fuck!"

"Oh."
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Remember the Ma
 
GIGObuster said:
Uh uh. Just a simple question: Did Bush said that he was going to get a second UN resolution, no matter what? Did he told us the truth?
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I don't know. I do know that it's quite possible that he simply changed his mind, and possibly changed it on the basis of some of the hundreds or thousands of pieces of information he was getting daily regarding developments in Iraq.

The difference between you and me is that because he's my guy I'm willing to see alternative explanations; and because he's not your guy you are perfectly content to jump to the most damaging conclusion and make accusations of lying when any number of other reasons may be the actual explanation.

But I'm not gonna quibble over all this all night; I'm in the middle of a very interesting book about William F. Buckley and would much prefer to be spending my time reading it.

So I'm out of here for now. I'm afraid you'll have to call yourselves idiots for the rest of the night.* ;)


*Paraphrased from an insult by Debra Berone in Everybody Loves Raymond. No plagiarizer am I! No, siree!
 
And exciting drugs they're sure to be! Oxycontin, Viagra, maybe something for heart trouble and a topical to prevent the flesh from withering when exposed to the light of Earth's sun.
 
Frostillicus said:
How did a man this stupid end of as the Republican Minority Leader in the US House? Oh, that's right. He is a Republican.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/11/5/800886/-Late-Afternoon-Early-Evening-Open-Thread
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The women behind him clearly says "Amen". I guess he's preaching to the choir.
 
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