Claire McCaskill: The Good News Is, Our Emissions Are Down, Because of the Recession
From March 28, 2011. Via Gateway Pundit.
After she realizes what she's said, she insists she meant this sarcastically. Doesn't sound sarcastic. It sounds like she's calling this a "silver lining" (her words) for real. And it does reinforce something about Obama and the Obama Democrats: People are not their priority. Jobs are not their priority. Prosperity is not their priority. They have higher priorities. They wouldn't mind jobs -- but it's not their top priority. Their top priority is global warming and "fairness." As Obama said, when Charlie Gibson asked him if he'd raise capital gains taxes even if such a hike resulted in, as it has historically, lower tax revenues: He would still raise taxes, because "fairness" is more important than real-life consequences. They tend to think this way. They love "The Masses" in the abstract, but aren't big fans of actual people. There's a very strong Eggs/Omelet type of thinking here. And speaking of:Neera Tanden, a former aide to both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, had this to say about the relationship of the two presidents:It's also like attempting to run a 300 million strong country without ever having managed so much as a hot dog truck, but I take your point.Clinton, being Clinton, had plenty of advice in mind and was desperate to impart it. But for the first two years of Obama’s term, the phone calls Clinton kept expecting rarely came. “People say the reason Obama wouldn’t call Clinton is because he doesn’t like him,” observes Tanden. “The truth is, Obama doesn’t call anyone, and he’s not close to almost anyone. It’s stunning that he’s in politics, because he really doesn’t like people. My analogy is that it’s like becoming Bill Gates without liking computers.”
Comments
Posted by: Eisenhorn at October 16, 2012 02:11 PM (KvKOu)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 16, 2012 02:12 PM (TMB3S)
Posted by: The Mega Independent at October 16, 2012 02:12 PM (kIT3G)
Posted by: The Mega Independent at October 16, 2012 02:12 PM (kIT3G)
we need another Depression so we can get cheap labor for projects like the Hoover Dam.
Posted by: tasker at October 16, 2012 02:12 PM (r2PLg)
He'd like to turn us into Zimbabwe. In a fair way that is
Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 16, 2012 02:12 PM (1Jaio)
Posted by: The Mega Independent at October 16, 2012 02:13 PM (kIT3G)
Mission Accomplished!
Posted by: Claire McCaskill at October 16, 2012 02:13 PM (wYVte)
Posted by: VW Zao at October 16, 2012 02:13 PM (I7O5y)
Posted by: massideas at October 16, 2012 02:14 PM (v32fM)
Posted by: Solo4357 at October 16, 2012 02:16 PM (NBOA5)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at October 16, 2012 02:22 PM (Uu1Hi)
Akin's one comment is nothing compared to the littany of crap coming out of her mouth and the taxpayer dollars going to her husband's business.
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at October 16, 2012 02:22 PM (e0xKF)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at October 16, 2012 02:23 PM (8y9MW)
Secondary and tertiary at best if not completely superfluous.
Power.is.everything.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 16, 2012 02:23 PM (qrpxS)
Posted by: © Sponge at October 16, 2012 02:23 PM (UK9cE)
Posted by: RoyalOil at October 16, 2012 02:23 PM (imtbm)
This certainly explains why he abondoned Mubarak ... the who foreign policy without being personal thing
Posted by: Leon Jaworski at October 16, 2012 02:23 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Anita Dunn at October 16, 2012 02:23 PM (/YJYi)
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Far more than that, IIRC.
Claire is one of the dimmer bulbs in the Senate and this is from a caucus that includes Patty Murray and Barbara Boxer.
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at October 16, 2012 02:23 PM (e0xKF)
Posted by: Roy at October 16, 2012 02:24 PM (VndSC)
Posted by: Solo4357 at October 16, 2012 02:24 PM (NBOA5)
Tis a sad day in America. Truly sad.
Posted by: © Sponge at October 16, 2012 02:24 PM (UK9cE)
Don't need an analogy. It's called Narcissism.
Posted by: El Kabong at October 16, 2012 02:25 PM (HWj39)
Posted by: eastvalleyphx says fuck islam at October 16, 2012 02:25 PM (GRvW4)
Posted by: joncelli at October 16, 2012 02:25 PM (RD7QR)
Reminds of that line in WALL STREET.
Gekko talking about Protestants:
"They love animals; hate people."
Posted by: soothsayer at October 16, 2012 02:26 PM (jUytm)
Posted by: Soona at October 16, 2012 02:26 PM (7Qom/)
Beats me. Same thing we do with a Senator Murkowski, I would think.
Posted by: Meiczyslaw at October 16, 2012 02:26 PM (4+LTj)
He adores me...
Posted by: Mirror, mirror, on the wall. at October 16, 2012 02:26 PM (VndSC)
Posted by: Travis at October 16, 2012 02:26 PM (/gUgY)
You see this all over the democrat communities. They have major websites. Flat out hoping for global economic collapse because they globar warming alarmists are fucking serious about incredibly desperate the sitation is.
Posted by: Z Ryan at October 16, 2012 02:26 PM (tsC/8)
Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at October 16, 2012 02:26 PM (+inic)
Posted by: AmericanDawg at October 16, 2012 02:27 PM (XIsD/)
Posted by: T at October 16, 2012 02:27 PM (esIfP)
Um, watch him vote the right way 97% of the time?
Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at October 16, 2012 02:27 PM (+inic)
Find out your ambassador is dead on Sept. 12th--party like a rock star six days later--
Jay-Z and Beyonce
President Obama will be hosted Sept. 18 in New York City by rap mogul Jay-Z and wife Beyonce. The fundraiser, organized by the two longtime Obama supporters, will be held in the rapper's swanky 40/40 Club in the heart of Manhattan. Tickets are priced at $40,000 and the exclusive event will be limited to about 100 guests.
Posted by: tasker at October 16, 2012 02:28 PM (r2PLg)
Posted by: Todd Akin at October 16, 2012 02:28 PM (TUbIM)
Who says this won't be a cakewalk?
Posted by: SH at October 16, 2012 02:29 PM (gmeXX)
Hopefully, watch him caste votes to confirm two SCOTUS nominees from President Romney.
Posted by: Roy at October 16, 2012 02:29 PM (VndSC)
Piss off the hipsters, vote Akin.
Posted by: boulder hobo at October 16, 2012 02:29 PM (MMvfL)
Posted by: tasker at October 16, 2012 02:29 PM (r2PLg)
A thousand times, THIS.
Posted by: George Orwell what knows that poor people don't know how to show up to work on time at October 16, 2012 02:29 PM (AZGON)
Posted by: @PurpAv at October 16, 2012 02:30 PM (R/ktM)
Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at October 16, 2012 02:27 PM (+inic)
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This. He may be a buffoon, but, at least he's a conservative buffoon.
Posted by: Soona at October 16, 2012 02:30 PM (7Qom/)
Yeah......Sometimes science sucks balls. Especially when they're all sucking at the government teat.
Posted by: © Sponge at October 16, 2012 02:30 PM (UK9cE)
Have a solid vote when it comes to confirming judges.
Posted by: SH at October 16, 2012 02:30 PM (gmeXX)
You know, honestly, it seems like it wasn't so much Todd Akin who did this as it was the pack of RINOs and GOP-E hangers-on *supposedly on our own side* who couldn't shut up about it for weeks on end, and who helped to keep what should have been a 24-hour news cycle and done gaffe going in the public eye.
Thanks guys.I really thought you actually wanted to take the Senate back. Guess I misunderstood you.
Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at October 16, 2012 02:31 PM (+inic)
Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at October 16, 2012 02:31 PM (wR+pz)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 16, 2012 02:31 PM (7vSU0)
Posted by: General Zod at October 16, 2012 02:31 PM (2+bRt)
He's up by four.
Posted by: HeatherRadish, Crankypants at October 16, 2012 02:31 PM (/kI1Q)
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We need to start setting out traps for them, as their numbers are getting too big to be supported.
Anyone got some Pabst and a bear trap we can put outside a thrift shop?
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at October 16, 2012 02:31 PM (e0xKF)
Posted by: Jones in CO at October 16, 2012 02:31 PM (8sCoq)
http://tinyurl.com/4svmbum
Posted by: JackStraw at October 16, 2012 02:32 PM (TMB3S)
Posted by: marcus at October 16, 2012 02:32 PM (GGCsk)
The prince was erecting the foundations of a power base, diving into countless local races by endorsing candidates, seeding the region with mayors and other local officials who would be loyal supporters. But he could be mercurial, former associates say. Jackson sometimes boasted that he was a reincarnated Greek chariot driver, Coconate said. “I really thought he had a problem with reality,” Coconate said. “He’d get in his own little world. He’d come out with outlandish things.” At one of Jackson’s hangouts — a Turkish bath — he’d prance naked, demonstrating martial arts moves, while the others stayed wrapped in towels, said Frank Avila Jr., a former supporter who is a Democratic operative.
Jackson’s language could be shockingly inappropriate, especially for someone who grew up at the epicenter of the modern civil rights movement, former associates say. Coconate, who is of Italian heritage, recalls Jackson calling him “Scungilli Head,” a reference to an Italian seafood dish. Jackson called older African American lawmakers “plantation Negroes” and whites were “lemonheads,” according to Coconate and Avila. Frank Watkins, a spokesman for Jackson’s congressional office said, “I’ve never heard him say anything remotely like that. It sounds completely foreign to me.”
Avila was doubtful about Jackson’s offer to help him in what would eventually be an unsuccessful race for Water Reclamation District commissioner. It was a minor race, he said, but Jackson insisted that he take a $12,000 poll, using Jackson’s pollster. Jackson also required him to use an expensive photographer to snap shots of them together, only to discover that he would merely be digitally added to a stock image of Jackson.
Campaign spending questions have been raised for years about Jackson. In 2007 and 2008, Jackson’s campaign spent more than $22,000 on nine trips to Ozio, a restaurant on M Street in downtown Washington, where his alleged mistress — a former swimsuit model — worked.
Posted by: The "arist" formerly known as "The Arist former known as Prince" at October 16, 2012 02:32 PM (e8kgV)
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The funny thing?
That may actually save him here, as it means his gaffe has already been beaten to death while Claire Bear's gaffes are coming fast and furious.
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at October 16, 2012 02:32 PM (e0xKF)
In theory, the CFC ban fixed that problem.
Trouble is, the science basically said that (chemically speaking) there was already enough CFC in the atmosphere at the time of the ban to completely obliterate the Ozone Layer. The dirty secret was that no one had a clue whether free CFCs would actually circulate up that high.
Posted by: Meiczyslaw at October 16, 2012 02:33 PM (4+LTj)
Posted by: tasker at October 16, 2012 02:33 PM (r2PLg)
Posted by: Sticky Wicket at October 16, 2012 02:33 PM (L7hol)
and Gateway also has a story about Biden getting caught in another lie, this one about playing football in college.
Posted by: mallfly at October 16, 2012 02:33 PM (bJm7W)
"At one of Jackson’s hangouts — a Turkish bath — he’d prance naked, demonstrating martial arts moves, while the others stayed wrapped in towels, said Frank Avila Jr., a former supporter who is a Democratic operative."
Chicago democrats sure love those Turkish bathhouses.
Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at October 16, 2012 02:33 PM (f+TdG)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 16, 2012 02:33 PM (tf9Ne)
Posted by: PR at October 16, 2012 02:33 PM (KHo8t)
Posted by: Honey Badger at October 16, 2012 02:34 PM (GvYeG)
Posted by: Jones in CO at October 16, 2012 02:31 PM (8sCoq)
Well, at least she's not in danger of falling off the stage and injuring herself like the Stones.
Posted by: joncelli at October 16, 2012 02:34 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Jones in CO at October 16, 2012 02:31 PM (8sCoq)
Looking forward to the Major Wardrobe Malfunction
Posted by: Red Shirt at October 16, 2012 02:34 PM (FIDMq)
The issue isn't which way he will vote. The issue is that he is a dumbass and turned what would have been an easy victory into a struggle...one that we have not yet won.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 16, 2012 02:34 PM (2b4yb)
Because frankly elections aren't going to fix this problem. This mentality will not go away with voting.
So what's left?
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 16, 2012 02:34 PM (BuSM8)
http://tinyurl.com/4svmbum
"-React to criticism with rage, shame, or humiliation"
"-Exaggerate achievements and talents"
"-Have unreasonable expectations of favorable treatment"
It's like reading an A&E Biography about him.
Posted by: El Kabong at October 16, 2012 02:34 PM (HWj39)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 16, 2012 02:34 PM (oSFWF)
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How much of that is them being on the down low and how much of that is the belief that it will be hard to conceal a wire if you're only wearing a towel?
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at October 16, 2012 02:34 PM (e0xKF)
Posted by: dfbaskwill at October 16, 2012 02:34 PM (71LDo)
I wonder what that says about me?
Don't answer that!
Posted by: Truman North at October 16, 2012 02:35 PM (l3Dgn)
Posted by: @ParisParamus at October 16, 2012 02:35 PM (pMxhO)
Posted by: Red Shirt at October 16, 2012 02:34 PM (FIDMq)
yeah she's smokin hot- I downloaded a video of her covering Tina Turner's "Proud Mary" and it's effing awesome
Posted by: Jones in CO at October 16, 2012 02:35 PM (8sCoq)
millions of third worlders EVERY YEAR with the ban on DDT. "
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 16, 2012 02:33 PM (tf9Ne)
FIFY
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 16, 2012 02:36 PM (2b4yb)
The Akin thing may work out for everyone in the end. It wasn't just the RINOs that attacked him, it was Rush, Levin and others as well. To get all the GOP united like that took an incredibly asinie statement. Arguably, that prevented any lingering damage to Mitt. The Dems decided to make their whole convention about contraceptives, and were only saved by Clinton.
As many of us said then, Akin could still, and would likely win. That may be true. So the GOP made its point, brought everyone together and could still get that seat. Let's hope it works out for everyone.
Posted by: SH at October 16, 2012 02:36 PM (gmeXX)
Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at October 16, 2012 02:31 PM (+inic)
Yeah we totally should have risked the presidency and multiple senate and house seats by supporting the words of the braindead jackass that could have dropped out and have someone even more qualified step in and win it. That's the ticket
Posted by: buzzion at October 16, 2012 02:36 PM (GULKT)
Yup, Claire. That's what people from Missouri really worried about.
What does Obama have on the Clintons?
Posted by: Mo the Girl at October 16, 2012 02:36 PM (eYqtQ)
Posted by: Greg at October 16, 2012 02:36 PM (ovpNn)
She has since walked this back.
SCoaMF thugs got to her.
Posted by: tuesday at October 16, 2012 02:37 PM (LpQbZ)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 16, 2012 02:37 PM (tf9Ne)
Spooky, isn't it? I don't play a doctor on TV but this is a pretty easy call.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 16, 2012 02:37 PM (TMB3S)
I wonder what that says about me?
Don't answer that!
Posted by: Truman North at October 16, 2012 02:35 PM (l3Dgn)
_______________________
Masochistic.
Posted by: tasker at October 16, 2012 02:37 PM (r2PLg)
the belief that it will be hard to conceal a wire if you're only wearing
a towel?
Add in the fact that Chicago is freakin' cold, and you need a way to thaw out. Then you'd have all the bases covered.
(But I like that "hard to conceal a wire" one best.)
Posted by: Meiczyslaw at October 16, 2012 02:37 PM (4+LTj)
Posted by: mallfly at October 16, 2012 02:37 PM (bJm7W)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 16, 2012 02:37 PM (2b4yb)
Well, no, *he* didn't do that. The people, even those supposedly on our own side, who kept the gaffe going long after it's shelf life arethe ones who did that. Akin apologised and explained what he meant the next day. Some folks on here are still burbling about it, two months later.
Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at October 16, 2012 02:38 PM (+inic)
Posted by: Roy at October 16, 2012 02:38 PM (VndSC)
Posted by: Z Ryan at October 16, 2012 02:26 PM (tsC/
But you have to admit, that since in the long run, we are all dead, in really doesn't matter if liberal policies hasten along the natural process. The trick will be preserving the quality of life for the deserving progressive nomenklatura when the proles are storming the gates of the gated community. I don't think the libs have figured out that the proles may well have more ammo and firepower than the hired security guards that man those gates.
Posted by: Hrothgar (Rhetorician at large ) at October 16, 2012 02:38 PM (Cnqmv)
At least they don't lie about what they're selling you.
"Let me put my processed meat by-product in you."
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at October 16, 2012 02:38 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: maddogg at October 16, 2012 02:38 PM (OlN4e)
millions of third worlders EVERY YEAR with the ban on DDT. "
You know that's an intended consequence, right?
Can't let 'em have mosquito spray, can't let 'em have fossil fuel alternatives to dung fuel, can't let 'em have modern agriculture...they gotta die to Save Teh Planet.
Posted by: HeatherRadish, Crankypants at October 16, 2012 02:38 PM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: @ParisParamus at October 16, 2012 02:35 PM (pMxhO)
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Ya that's what I thought getting Bin Laden was all about.
I really thought it was that--simple.
Posted by: Barak Obama at October 16, 2012 02:39 PM (r2PLg)
Is it too early to start drinking?
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It's 5 o'clock somewhere.
Posted by: Jimmy Buffett at October 16, 2012 02:39 PM (e0xKF)
Trouble
is, the science basically said that (chemically speaking) there was
already enough CFC in the atmosphere at the time of the ban to
completely obliterate the Ozone Layer. The dirty secret was that no one
had a clue whether free CFCs would actually circulate up that high.
Posted by: Meiczyslaw at October 16, 2012 02:33 PM (4+LTj)
In other words, it was likely there until technology was able to see it, they panicked, blamed it on CFC's because, who would question.
Now, 30 years later, the hole is still there, expanding and contracting as it always has, but it's not a problem because we banned CFC's.
Posted by: © Sponge at October 16, 2012 02:39 PM (UK9cE)
Posted by: Barry at October 16, 2012 02:39 PM (SO2Q8)
I hate those fuckers so much. But I reserve my most caustic words for that whore Rachel Carson. I hope she is enjoying the gang rape in hell that she so richly deserves.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 16, 2012 02:40 PM (2b4yb)
This is why liberals focus on income inequality so much. They do not care that our poor have a higher standard of living than about 90% of the world's population (made that up but it sounds about right). They don't care that our poor have cell phones, cable TV, cars, air condition, are obese instead of hungry, and have free healthcare with great doctors. No all they care about is that the "rich" have more, a lot more.
Posted by: SH at October 16, 2012 02:40 PM (gmeXX)
Posted by: maddogg at October 16, 2012 02:40 PM (OlN4e)
Posted by: Ronster at October 16, 2012 02:40 PM (H5i76)
No, wrong, start thinking instead of emoting.
Akin's comment was stupid. What was even MORE stupid was the way the "Right" worked hand in glove with the media and the Democrats to keep the comment in the public eye far longer than it should have, and made it appear far more serious than it really was.
Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at October 16, 2012 02:40 PM (+inic)
Posted by: marcus at October 16, 2012 02:40 PM (GGCsk)
Posted by: Bouncing Beatnik at October 16, 2012 02:40 PM (zS9LP)
Missouri. Proof that Obama did in fact heal the planet. Say goodbye to
those electoral votes Republicans.
Posted by: Greg at October 16, 2012 02:36 PM (ovpNn)
I have to ask.....
Are you really that stupid?
Posted by: © Sponge at October 16, 2012 02:40 PM (UK9cE)
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Charlie Gibson???
Never heard of him.....
Posted by: Charlie Gibson at October 16, 2012 02:41 PM (C8hzL)
Apparently Stewart's never been married or dated. Because vagina goalies exist. They're known as "women".
Posted by: Ian S. at October 16, 2012 02:41 PM (B/VB5)
Stranger things have happened.
Posted by: mpfs at October 16, 2012 02:41 PM (iYbLN)
Posted by: Honey Badger at October 16, 2012 02:41 PM (GvYeG)
Posted by: Soona at October 16, 2012 02:42 PM (7Qom/)
Posted by: maddogg at October 16, 2012 02:38 PM (OlN4e)
I said in an earlier thread that Obama is just an incompetent communist wannabe. Clinton is evil. He is pathological.
Posted by: polynikes at October 16, 2012 02:42 PM (m2CN7)
Posted by: Adam at October 16, 2012 02:42 PM (/YJYi)
Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot and the Turks have nothing on the environmentalists.
I know how to fix every one of the "intractable" problems of the third world.
It's called prosperity.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 16, 2012 02:42 PM (2b4yb)
#95
There's no other excuse for their opposition to GM 'yellow' rice either, which has the potential of saving half a million third world lives every year.
Posted by: Sticky Wicket at October 16, 2012 02:42 PM (L7hol)
Posted by: SH at October 16, 2012 02:42 PM (gmeXX)
Why not? It's 5 o'clock somewhere in the world.
Oh, and I always get a chuckle when I read the phrase "Posted by CharlieBrown'sDildo"
Just something very....very.....Moron about it.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at October 16, 2012 02:42 PM (sbV1u)
Posted by: John Carpenter's The Commenter at October 16, 2012 02:42 PM (e0xKF)
Posted by: © Sponge at October 16, 2012 02:40 PM (UK9cE)
It's not the real Greg.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at October 16, 2012 02:42 PM (TpXEI)
Posted by: HeatherRadish, Crankypants at October 16, 2012 02:38 PM (/kI1Q)
The progressive view is that is better that they die rather than our chirren (at least the ones that escaped abortion of post-abortion infanticide).
Posted by: Hrothgar (Rhetorician at large ) at October 16, 2012 02:43 PM (Cnqmv)
You too, huh?
Don't worry, those marks fade.
Posted by: Cory Booker at October 16, 2012 02:44 PM (sbV1u)
See, Greed and Gluttony are not virtuous motivations.
And liberals are all about them Virtue ethics.
Posted by: Meiczyslaw at October 16, 2012 02:44 PM (4+LTj)
Well, you do realise that there *is* a difference between "standing behind" it, and simply shutting up about it, right?
Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at October 16, 2012 02:44 PM (+inic)
Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at October 16, 2012 02:40 PM (+inic)
Right back at ya!
The MBM was happy to keep it in the public square for as long as it took to push Akin even lower than he was. it had nothing to do with the Right.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 16, 2012 02:44 PM (2b4yb)
Posted by: Thorvald at October 16, 2012 02:44 PM (1V6Pv)
Posted by: maddogg at October 16, 2012 02:44 PM (OlN4e)
That is how the just know all there is to know about science.
Posted by: Vic at October 16, 2012 02:44 PM (YdQQY)
Claire McCaskill: The Good News Is, Our Emissions Are Down, Because of the Recession
This was a double gaffe. Not only was she exposing the "climate science" fraud, but she was also admitting that there was still a recession going on. Remember that by 2011 we were supposedly into our third "Recovery Summer," in the midst of a booming economy.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at October 16, 2012 02:44 PM (4df7R)
Guess she has been taken to the woodshed. Posted by: Ronster at October
16, 2012 02:40 PM (H5i76)
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Thug for Life
Posted by: fixerupper at October 16, 2012 02:45 PM (C8hzL)
Akin's comment was stupid. What was even MORE stupid was the way the "Right" worked hand in glove with the media and the Democrats to keep the comment in the public eye far longer than it should have, and made it appear far more serious than it really was.<<<<
Good thing you're here to root out the impure traitors to the cause. Putting sneer quotes around "Right" is super-effective. Hits like a fuckin' MOAB.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at October 16, 2012 02:45 PM (rL2Ar)
Posted by: SH at October 16, 2012 02:45 PM (gmeXX)
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The first rule of "Recovery Summer" is that there has never been a "Recovery Summer".
The second rule of "Recovery Summer"? See rule #1.
Posted by: The MSM at October 16, 2012 02:46 PM (e0xKF)
Posted by: Ian S. at October 16, 2012 02:41 PM (B/VB5)FIFY
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 16, 2012 02:46 PM (2b4yb)
Posted by: Picric at October 16, 2012 02:46 PM (am5O9)
Of course, because Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, and Ace of Spades HQ don't qualify as the Right.
Thanks for clearing that up.
Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at October 16, 2012 02:46 PM (+inic)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at October 16, 2012 02:46 PM (8y9MW)
how much of that is the belief that it will be hard to conceal a wire if
you're only wearing a towel? Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at October 16, 2012 02:34 PM (e0xKF)
When it is a known gay bathhouse, it is being on the down low. If you are worried about wires, you meet in the locker room of a random gym.
Posted by: Will Never Vote For a dhimmocrat at October 16, 2012 02:46 PM (kXoT0)
http://tinyurl.com/btk2kdm
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 16, 2012 02:46 PM (tf9Ne)
How were they supposed to shut up about it? Refuse to do media interviews? Respond with "no comment" to any questions about it? That would have gone over really well. It doesn't matter what they said or did, the MFM was going to run it into the ground regardless.
Posted by: Adam at October 16, 2012 02:47 PM (/YJYi)
Posted by: Zombie Ronald Reagan at October 16, 2012 02:48 PM (C8hzL)
Posted by: maddogg at October 16, 2012 02:48 PM (OlN4e)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at October 16, 2012 02:46 PM (8y9MW)
Yeah, I have better things to do than memorize hashes. I thought we weren't supposed to sock actual names, regardless of suck level?
Posted by: © Sponge at October 16, 2012 02:48 PM (UK9cE)
Posted by: Will Never Vote For a dhimmocrat at October 16, 2012 02:48 PM (kXoT0)
Not so much "impure traitors" as ridiculous morons who decided that helping the Left retain the seat was more important than trying to take the seat.
Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at October 16, 2012 02:48 PM (+inic)
Posted by: Thorvald at October 16, 2012 02:49 PM (1V6Pv)
In a 3-0 ruling, the appeals court said that material support for terrorism was not an international-law war crime at the time Hamdan engaged in the activity for which he was convicted.
THIS is why you can NOT put terrorists in a civilian court.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 16, 2012 02:49 PM (oSFWF)
Posted by: Tim the Enchanter at October 16, 2012 02:49 PM (izA2D)
Posted by: buzzion at October 16, 2012 02:49 PM (GULKT)
As for Akin, if I lived in Missouri, I would vote for him in order to
vote against mccaskill and to get closer to that lovely phrase, Former
Senate Majority Leader Reid.
Posted by: Will Never Vote For a dhimmocrat at October 16, 2012 02:48 PM (kXoT0)
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I live in Missouri. That was Plan A from the git go. It was also Plan B.... and C.
Posted by: fixerupper at October 16, 2012 02:50 PM (C8hzL)
The MSM wasn't forcing Limbaugh, Levin, Coulter, and Ace to continue to talk about *without being asked* over and over again.
Was the comment newsworthy? Sure. For a day or so. Was it worth continuing to undermine the candidate's campaign after it was abundantly clear that he wasn't going to drop his campaign, just because a few FisCons thought he should? Nope.
Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at October 16, 2012 02:50 PM (+inic)
Posted by: © Sponge at October 16, 2012 02:40 PM (UK9cE)
It's Jeremiah socking Gurgie again.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at October 16, 2012 02:46 PM (8y9MW)
If the Sock don't Fit!
You Must Acquit!
Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at October 16, 2012 02:50 PM (ovpNn)
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And, perversely, may actually save Akin's chances of election.
As I mentioned above, this makes his comments old news while all of Claire Bear's stupidity is new.
It's making people think "Yeah, he may be an idiot, but not nearly as much of one as this corrupt fucking harpy."
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at October 16, 2012 02:51 PM (e0xKF)
Posted by: Soona at October 16, 2012 02:51 PM (7Qom/)
deaths. All these third worlders are no longer around for Zero to
distrubute our wealth to. Hummmmm......>>
The money never makes it to the general masses so the distribution will not in any way be minimized by their deaths.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 16, 2012 02:51 PM (tf9Ne)
12 Today, Ace is not an ewok. He is Hand Solo.
This is why I keep coming back. Never noticed the fap "chicken challange" missing in the side bar....how may days?
bverwey
Posted by: bverwey at October 16, 2012 02:51 PM (OW6WG)
Posted by: SH at October 16, 2012 02:40 PM (gmeXX)
They are a bit more subtle than that. They don't mind the rich having lots more than the poor. What they really mind is that the wrong kind of people have more than the poor. Obama is a multi-millionaire many times over based on the 250k$ rule for defining millionaires (and might even be a billionaire), but you will NEVER hear a lib complain about that (Jay-Z, Beyonce, etc. also fall into this category).
Let Bain make a profit, or the Koch Bros prosper, and suddenly there is a public outcry about how evil they are as exploiters of the poor.
Earned wealth is inherently evil!
Redistributed wealth is meritorious at the food stamp or Solyndra executive level!
Posted by: Hrothgar (Rhetorician at large ) at October 16, 2012 02:51 PM (Cnqmv)
Posted by: Lurking Canuck at October 16, 2012 02:52 PM (NF2Bf)
have fossil fuel alternatives to dung fuel, can't let 'em have modern
agriculture...they gotta die to Save Teh Planet. Posted by: HeatherRadish, Crankypants at October 16, 2012 02:38 PM (/kI1Q)
But, we can let the women have abortions on our dime, even though their muslim husbands or other male relatives will beat them to death for it.
Posted by: Will Never Vote For a dhimmocrat at October 16, 2012 02:52 PM (kXoT0)
bverwey
Posted by: bverwey at October 16, 2012 02:51 PM (OW6WG)
I think he just alerted that the conquest was over and he was going to rub one out earlier.
Posted by: © Sponge at October 16, 2012 02:52 PM (UK9cE)
Sure. Keep believing that. Instead of simply saying, "Hey, we disagree with that statement. It was dumb, and he shouldn't have made it," let's keep reminding people over and over and over again about it, even on our owjn blogs, radio shows, etc.
Totally freaking brilliant.
Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at October 16, 2012 02:52 PM (+inic)
Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at October 16, 2012 02:50 PM (+inic)
Social cons weren't happy with the pathetic idiot thinking women that got pregnant from a rape weren't really raped as well dumbass.
Posted by: buzzion at October 16, 2012 02:53 PM (GULKT)
Usually, someone with the kind of comic chops will take the applause and move onto the next one-liner. Not our Claire.
Posted by: EsausMessage at October 16, 2012 02:54 PM (6c62F)
Posted by: Tim the Enchanter at October 16, 2012 02:49 PM (izA2D)
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Never liked Tina Turner or her rendition of "Proud Mary".
Posted by: Soona at October 16, 2012 02:54 PM (7Qom/)
Socialism has killed many, many more millions than mere malaria. (Speaking of which, Romney should ban air conditioning in Federal buildings in Washington, D.C. And end mosquito control. Sure, some may die in D.C., but just imagine how much safer the rest of us will be!)
Posted by: Thorvald at October 16, 2012 02:54 PM (1V6Pv)
Captured on the field of battle not wearing the uniform of a sovereign nation.
Battlefield execution.
All fixed. (and legal according to the GC)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 16, 2012 02:55 PM (2b4yb)
Love it. I live in Oklahoma and have spent a lot of time in Missouri and I knew that to be the case. I figured everyone except the shrillest of abortion fans would shrug and say to themselves, "Screw it, a vote for Akin gets rid of that scrunt mccaskill."
Lesser of two evils is a law that usually remains in force. Especially when the difference is as big as it is with Akin/mccaskill.
Posted by: Will Never Vote For a dhimmocrat at October 16, 2012 02:56 PM (kXoT0)
Posted by: Honey Badger at October 16, 2012 02:56 PM (GvYeG)
What planet do you even *live* on?
Aside from the ludicrous interpretation of the comment that you've applied, did you even bother to notice the SoCons sticking by him, even while admitting that they didn't agree with his comment?
Which is what the entirety of movement conservatism should have been doing.
But let's face it - what was driving a lot of the continued attacks on Akin was the fact that he's a SoCon, and FisCons thought this was the perfect opportunity to knock out a candidate they weren't comfortable with, and replace him with one more to their liking. Regardless of what the result of the primary election was.
Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at October 16, 2012 02:57 PM (+inic)
I'm in
Posted by: Khan at October 16, 2012 02:57 PM (NF2Bf)
Not so much "impure traitors" as ridiculous morons who decided that helping the Left retain the seat was more important than trying to take the seat. <<<<<<
Yes. Because if it's not to your liking, there can be no difference of opinion. There's your way, and there is deciding to help the Left/Media.
Which implies that we know you're right, we just choose to help the Left, because...
Well, you haven't really resolved that paradox.
We either know what we're doing and are traitors who choose to give the seat to the Democrats (which is what you said), or we're idiots who don't know what effect our actions have, which you implied...
No, you didn't. Both times you said that we CHOSE to GIVE the seat to Democrats.
Is that not treason, in your view? Don't be shy.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at October 16, 2012 02:58 PM (rL2Ar)
Correct.
He's a member of AQ (insert proof). -> Guilty. (Short SHORT trial.)
Congrats, indefinite detention because he's guilty of being an enemy.
Instead, we've passed a bazzillion little laws trying to -retroactively- make every-fucking-thing a person "at war with us" might do a crime.
Posted by: Al at October 16, 2012 02:58 PM (MzQOZ)
Usually, someone with the kind of comic chops will take the applause and move onto the next one-liner. Not our Claire.
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I need to vent a bit here.....
Claire is too fucking dumb to deadpan anything. Like TFG, she says what somebody writes for her.... When she strays out off script, she says shit like this.
I've met Claire. I cannot stand Claire. I cannot stand the fact she represents my State. She is dull witted, vapid waste of skin that sucks the souls out of newborn children. She is immoral, corupt, and most dangerously..... just plain stupid.
Posted by: fixerupper at October 16, 2012 02:59 PM (C8hzL)
Posted by: Will Never Vote For a dhimmocrat at October 16, 2012 02:56 PM (kXoT0)
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I always figured that most of the people who were making the most noise about this have never been west of the Mississippi.
Posted by: Soona at October 16, 2012 02:59 PM (7Qom/)
The interpretation he admitted to you idiot. Were you not aware of him talking about in his "apology" how he admitted that he only recently learned that yes it was possible for a woman to get pregnant from a rape.
Thus when he did his whole "shutting things down" line he really did think that any woman that got pregnant from a rape wasn't really raped.
Posted by: buzzion at October 16, 2012 03:00 PM (GULKT)
Thus when he did his whole "shutting things
down" line he really did think that any woman that got pregnant from a
rape wasn't really raped.
Posted by: buzzion at October 16, 2012 03:00 PM (GULKT)
Making him one seriously mental mutherfucker that has no business being in MY GOVERNMENT.
Posted by: © Sponge at October 16, 2012 03:02 PM (UK9cE)
I said that, because that's essentially what you did. In the same way that people supporting Virgil Goode and Gary Johnson are choosing to hand the Presidency back to Barack Obama.
Seriously, if you can't get it together to support the candidate who was chosen by his constituency, then you're helping the other guy. That's the way the two-party system works. You can beclown yourself trying to deny it in this case, but ultimately, reality reasserts itself - if you were involved in continuing to help undermine Todd Akin's campaign, then you were helping Claire McCaskill keep her seat. You were helping the Democrats block future efforts to repeal ObamaCare. You were helping the Democrats keep President Romney's SCOTUS nominations from taking a seat on the Court.
Was Akin's comment stupid? Incredibly. Was it worth a losing a Senate seat over? No way.
Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at October 16, 2012 03:03 PM (+inic)
I guess it was that R50-O46 that stiffened his resolve some.
bverwey
Posted by: bverwey at October 16, 2012 03:04 PM (OW6WG)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at October 16, 2012 03:06 PM (rL2Ar)
Posted by: buzzion at October 16, 2012 03:08 PM (GULKT)
Count me in.
Posted by: Mindy Cohn at October 16, 2012 03:11 PM (Ks4nX)
I loathe Akin as much as anyone, but I don't think Claire McCaskill being a Senator another 6 years is going to make me feel better about it.
Posted by: McAdams at October 16, 2012 03:12 PM (OLioJ)
Oops, no. Go back and read both his original comments AND the comment im his apology TV ad again.
In his original comment, he said that pregnancy due to rape was "rare" - not that it was non-existent, so right off the bat, your interpretation of events is incorrect.
Now, Akin claimed to have heard this "from doctors." Okay. A case of perhaps misinterpreting information from experts by a non-expert, who knows. What would a doctor have told him? Probably that pregnancies from rape are "rarer" than other types, which is true, mainly due to the issue of a rapist having a lower chance of having intercourse with a woman during the fertile period in her cycle than of a husband doing so with his wife *when they're TRYING to hit her fertility point*.
Incorrect understanding on Akin's part? Sure. But he did NOT actually say that rape NEVER results in pregnancy, nor did he ever imply that if a woman was pregnant, it must be because she wasn't really raped.
That was nothing but spin applied by people who *wanted* for that to have been what he said, so they could use it against him.
This being said, his comment in his apology AD was not "retracting" an earlier statement about pregnancy never resulting from rape. He was clarifying the opposite - which has to be interpreted in light of what he *actually* said earlier, not what you *heard* he said through second-hand information or which you *hoped* he had said so that you could join in calls for undermining his candidacy in this race.
Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at October 16, 2012 03:15 PM (+inic)
Posted by: Ian S. at October 16, 2012 03:15 PM (B/VB5)
Posted by: steevy at October 16, 2012 03:15 PM (6o4Fb)
Interesting. So you don't think Newt Gingrich and Jim DeMint are "mainstream"?
Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at October 16, 2012 03:18 PM (+inic)
Posted by: ToursLepantoVienna at October 16, 2012 03:23 PM (F9l4e)
Posted by: Michelle Obama at October 16, 2012 04:09 PM (HCdcF)
Posted by: Claire McCaskill Finding Another Silver Lining at October 16, 2012 04:11 PM (HCdcF)
Claire McCaskill: Lining her husband's firms' pockets with Federal 'silver'
Posted by: Fire Claire McCaskill In November at October 16, 2012 04:17 PM (HCdcF)
Posted by: Redd at October 16, 2012 04:19 PM (f0ies)
Who gives a fuck about Missouri's senator. Let Missourians figure it out.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 16, 2012 04:33 PM (z1N6a)
They love "The Masses" in the abstract, but aren't big fans of actual people.
People stink. No, literally. Ask Harry Reid. And let me tell you, it ain't no bed of roses standing next to an ewok after he's spent a night humping Marco Rubio's trash.
Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie ® at October 16, 2012 04:56 PM (1hM1d)
When it comes to the economy Calire Obama have a way of shutting it down.
Posted by: SCFOAMF returns at October 16, 2012 04:59 PM (3oPjL)
Posted by: biancaneve at October 16, 2012 05:05 PM (6bYlh)
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