Oh, and it looks like Bachmann's response to people denouncing her allegations is to double down on them.

http://www.startribune.com/politics/...163137126.html

So if she didn't sue, maybe that would also mean she's really a terrorist...Sounds like a nasty catch-22 Abedin has herself in.



That and/or she'll pull the Glenn Beck Defense: "I was only asking questions. There's nothing wrong with asking questions."

EDIT: Just saw your next post mckerney...how did I know Beck would pop up somehow?

From the article I posted above, she's already done this. And on Glen Beck's show.

With Bachmann's district not existing anymore and her now running against a 6 term incumbent hopefully this latest round of bat shit insanity is what kills any chance of reelection she had.

Called it!!!

Senator Joe McCarthy would be so, so proud of her and her minions.

No kidding. That was right out of Uncle Joe's playbook

SI

I wonder if Bachmann thinks this is a good way to give herself one final push for a shot at being Romney's running mate. She might just be crazy enough to believe that.

Indeed. What's the old saying? "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Or something like that.

Louie Gohmert: Aurora Shootings Result Of 'Ongoing Attacks On Judeo-Christian Beliefs'

"This shooter happened because of attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs and because no one else was packing..."

I've self edited about five times here, because every thing I came out probably would have ended up with me in the box, but to use this tragedy to attack "Evil Libruls" is.. unconscionable.

She is probably getting paid a boat-load of money to act crazy and pull news cycles away from Romney's taxes and Bain dealings. Not sure if I am more sad that people do this, or that it works.

What the...

Unconscionable? More like "business as usual." We don't have to wait to long before the politicos start the "this proves we need more gun-control" versus "this shows we need more lax carry laws." Very predictable.

Whoa! A Sun Tzu sighting!

Is the Penalty Box overcrowded or something?

Yup.. and regardless what side of the argument anyone is on, to start the argument this soon in the wake of the tragedy lacks complete tact, class and compassion on behalf of the lawmakers and anybody espousing their beliefs.

As opposed to a legal war?

Yes?

In most cases, without a UN resolution or acting in self-defense, a war can be declared illegal.

Desert Storm is an example of a recent legal war that the U.S. was involved in.

She's not running in that district. She's running in a district she doesn't live in that is pretty conservative. Might be a little close but she should still easily win.

It's pretty crazy that living in the district is not a requirement.

It's actually relatively common as I've come to find out now that I'm a bit more involved in politics. What's crazy is the amount of shuffling of districts that takes place. Representatives both at the state and federal level regularly get their areas moved around in an attempt to make districts more Republican or Democrat with the excuse being a shift in population. Take a look at any given district map and you'll see some wacky districts that make no geographic sense other than it ensures election of one candidate or that another candidate has an uphill climb for reelection.

As a result, they had to make rules where you can run for a district you don't live in. The upheaval would be too great if that were not allowed.

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SI

Even with redistricting, you are still a member of a district and can run for office in it. I do think a politician should live in the district they are running in. We had a similar situation years ago when Dan Seals who lived outside the district ran against Mark Kirk. I know the redistricting can cause some funky maps, but as long as you are part of one, you should run in your own.

Chemical and biological weapons issue. Would not be good if some of this stuff got into the wrong hands. Good practice for a North Korea or Pakistan scenario with their nukes. Hope we really have a plan.

CIA joins the hunt for Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons - Telegraph

Regardless of pro/con Obama, this is a major step forward for the gay community and an Obama milestone.

U.S. military can wear uniform in San Diego gay pride parade: Defense Department – CNN Security Clearance - CNN.com Blogs

The irony, of course, is that had we illegally deposed Saddam Husseing in 1991 instead of sticking to the letter of that "legal" mandate, we would have avoided the 12 years of police action and the Iraq War all together. FWIW, the UN doesn't declare "legal" wars or "illegal" wars, it only declares "full consensus" wars, which are ideal, but not always realistic to achieve, for what should be obvious competative reasons between our industrialized (and legal) nations.

The Obama and Romney stance on guns. I think Romney wins NRA support by default (not necessarily by merit).

Gun Rights: Obama, Mitt Romney's Views Have Evolved

See, I thought the whole reason George H.W. Bush didn't go after Hussein after accomplishing the objectives of Iraq War I was that his advisers were saying "if Hussein falls, there's going to be sectarian violence and we'd be stuck here playing traffic cop," along with concerns that Iran would attempt greater influence over a Hussein-less Iraq.

Which...isn't that exactly what's come to pass over the last 10 years?

Well, first of all, I don't disagree with our decision to end the Gulf War when we did. How were we supposed to know that Saddam Hussein would not accept the terms of surrender and force a second war? I only mention this as hindsight, that we might as well have taken care of it then instead of wasting 12 years on diplomacy and policing that were destined to fail and help bring about the fierce terror group Al Qaeda.

Iraq had nothing to do with bringing about Al-Qaeda.


I do wonder how true some of that is. Whether it's real or whether it's some people from that administration sticking their chest off pretending like they knew all. We'll probably never really know.

If JiMGA wasn't in the box I have no doubt he would disagree and would grumble about this being another sign of the long slow decay of our empire and our morality and blah blah blah.

Man I don't miss not having that viewpoint.

But our troops being in Saudi Arabia did, which were there because of Iraq.

That happens regardless of whether we killed Saddam or attempted diplomacy with him. Al-Qaeda didn't come about because George HW Bush didn't take out Saddam which is what Dutch is implying.

This is what I am referring to.

BBC News - Tax havens: Super-rich 'hiding' at least $21tn


This couldn't have any negative effect on the global economy, could it?

Too bad we don't have anybody around here currently to come up with a solution like eliminating taxes on the super wealthy and making it so the word can stash their funds here. That would surely pick up our economy, right?

So who would pay taxes if the rich don't have to pay any? And how would this pick up our economy?

The majority of infrastructure development (ie. roads and suchlike) is undertaken by government, these are huge undertakings which generate lots of REAL non-temporary jobs for people ... these in turn would then generate further jobs as companies expand production to fulfil demand from these workers.

Governments presently have cut back HUGELY on employees because they need to try and balance their budgets ... if the trillions which have been stashed had been taxed instead then these jobs would exist and the world economy (esp. in the west) would be in a slightly better place ...

Sadly this lack of investment in infrastructure also impede job creation by making it more expensive to undertake ventures (ie. poor roads mean more upkeep on vehicles, poor internet backbones mean slower traffic etc.).

Do not question Romneynomics! We'll just eliminate unnecessary expenditures from the government, like the people that check to see that meat isn't diseased!

THE THREE LAWS OF ROBOTI... ROMNEY

1st Law: "Romney, in a state of uniform beliefs, tends to remain in that state of beliefs unless the National RNC is applied to them."

2nd Law: "The relationship between Romney's money m, its accumulation a, and the resulting funds F is F = ma. The vector of F is anywhere away from the US"

3rd Law: "For every Romney quote, there is an equal and opposite quote."

Americans for Prosperity may have opened donors to public scrutiny by entering state race - Sunday, July 22, 2012 | 2 a.m. - Las Vegas Sun

Potentially an interesting development that would rip the blindfold off AFP for everyone that still doesn't believe/doesn't realize that they're a front-group for the Koch brothers.

Nevada will say they have to disclose and AFP will say, Fuck Off!. It will go to court and five years from now we'll either have an answer from the Supremes or Nevada will drop the case.

And considering state bans and disclosure laws (Montana) were also just struck down, it has a snowball's chance in hell of happening. TRANSPARENCY BAD!

SI

No way, the flyer I got in the mail said they were a grass roots organization of two million members.

Thing is, I remember reading that during the drumbeat that led up to Iraq War II. This isn't Monday morning quarterbacking stuff where shit happened and they said "Oh, I totally saw that coming."

This is stuff that was being said before we had boots on the ground in Iraq in 2002.

From the Daily Telegraph:



Just call him a @igger and get it over with.

One more thing that nobody ever thought would happen, changed under the Obama administration, that he might as well take credit for. I mean, if the crash of '08 gets blamed on him, why not? ;)

Obama keeps promise of NCAA Playoff.

People blame Obama for the '08 crash? Where the hell have I been??? :)

Agreed. I thought we were blaming him for not pulling us out of it like he promised and spent hundreds of billions to do, but not for the original crash.

So here is what I don't understand. What the hell were we supposed to do? The spending was going to take place no matter who was in office. Bush had already spend a bunch on the bank bailouts and economists far and wide supported the massive spending that had to take place to arrest the decent.

Was it stupid to project the size of the recession? Hell yes. Was it worse than anyone figure it would be? Hell yes.

How is it that certain people on the right now completely forget the place that the country was in then? Is the argument that merely cutting spending was going to fix everything? Because I am of the mindset that if more cuts were put in place at that time, that we would be mired in the middle of a depression right now, instead of years removed from a recession.

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My eyes just exploded: http://mindymeyer4senate.com/index.html

I didn't know that you were able to run an election campaign from myspace.

James O'Keefe's latest video. Haven't seen any public comment from any of the involved parties yet.