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  • Ya gotta hand it to Blago;

    [Read the article: "My name is Roland Burris, the junior senator from Illinois"]
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    one stroke of the pen and he's turned this whole thing into a pissing contest by proxy between the US Senate, Jesse White and Roland Burris. I'm glad my cats aren't this clever, I'd be doomed.

    Meanwhile, Reid does his best to ensure that the Democrats don't make any actual gains from the Nov. elections by refusing to seat both Franken and Burris. In the words of Jed Clampet, "pitiful, just pitiful..."

  • @Arcarsenal

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    I think a recall provision would be a disaster in Illinois. Recall provisions have to be used responsibly and the politicians in Illinois are incapable of that. A recall intiative would become a standard strategy for any losing party in the Governor's race.

  • Ann Coulter should be given all the airtime

    [Read the article: What ban? Coulter appears on "Today"]
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    she wants to sell her image as a mainstream Republican.

  • Nothing more that Palin's pathetic and desperate

    [Read the article: Palin now attacking her defenders]
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    attempts to keep her name in the news cycle. Years of this crap ahead.

  • Yeah, but what about

    [Read the article: Bushes already moved out of White House]
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    Cheney?

  • I can't imagine the Bushes ever being

    [Read the article: Bushes already moved out of White House]
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    short of money.

  • #44 - Read this out loud:

    [Read the article: "To: #44, From: #43..."]
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    I am wee todd it

    I am sofa king wee todd it

  • I have no problem with making

    [Read the article: Obama repudiates Bush interrogation policies]
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    our true enemies "disappear" during the night. It sure-as-shit beats invading countries. The anarchy of "international law" requires any country that wants to survive to have the capabilities for "black ops". That goes for the US, France, Tongo, Netherlands, Lichtenstein, ect. The problem occurs when you write it into law and make it Standard Operating Procedure like former President Fucknut did. A return to the pre-9/11 status is ok by me.

  • Leave it to the Republicans to choose a solution

    [Read the article: S.F. liberals to host new Gitmo on Alcatraz?]
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    that would cost 10x the price of a similar facility on dry land. Out of cultural spite.

  • Blago's lead attorney,

    [Read the article: Barnum and Blago]
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    the hyperbolic Ed Gensen, quit on him Friday. Gensen said that he's used to clients ignoring his advice, but Blago doesn't even listen.

  • Outraged, quivering-lipped Republicans

    [Read the article: Obama moves on fuel, emissions standards]
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    should remember it was their fellow-Republican Ahnuld who lobbied for stricter laws governing the fuel economy of cars in California. Aren't recall elections great?

  • @rm2gro

    [Read the article: Barnum and Blago]
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    I came up with 2 endings for the last reel:

    1. He is holding state troopers at bay by wildy thrashing at them with his desk name plate when they shoot him with a tranquilizer dart and thow a net on him.

    2. He is holding state troopers at bay by wildy thrashing at them with his desk name plate when he falls backwards through the atrium of the Thompson Center and land 16 stories down in the food court.

  • Blago is unfit for office

    [Read the article: Geraldo chases down Blagojevich -- literally]
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    but the impeachment proceedings are a travesty as well. The Illinois Senate didn't decide on the rules of procedure until it was obvious that they didn't have enough evidence to actually convict him of a crime.

    For a long time I've believed that public servants should be held to a higher level of responsibility than the letter of the law, but this is no way to do it.

  • The GOP sees the current economic situation

    [Read the article: Obama meets with House GOP]
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    as their chance to get rid of that pesky middle class once and for all.

  • Besides the humanitarian benefit,

    [Read the article: Quote of the morning]
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    it leads to the development of new treatments and preventions that stimulate the health services sector which is one of the only strong aspects of our current economy.

  • @Nathan Coker

    [Read the article: Blagojevich surprises, delivers in closing argument]
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    If Blago's strategy was to try to influence the jury pool, his attorney, the notoriously shifty Ed Gensen, wouldn't have quit last Friday. I think Blago's just freewheeling it cause he doesn't see that he still has more to lose.

    His media blitz provides the opportunity for him to make inadvertent admissions and inconsitent statements that can be used against him in a Federal Trial. Everytime Blago opens his mouth on the subject he is, in essence, testifying.

    I also don't think we've seen an end to the indictments. Fitzgerald made the Obama seat controversy public because there was no keeping a lid on it. But he has also been talking to Rezko and his cronies and that may produce more indictments.

  • Rest assured that Fitzgerald will continue

    [Read the article: Blagojevich removed from office]
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    with his prosecution of Blago and his cronies. I'm sure Fitzgerald will even be interested in hearing what Blago has to say to save his own skin. Blago's has already intimated that he's willing to take everyone down with him. May get him a few years off his sentence and exact vengeance on a few legislators. And I'll say it again: more indictments on the way from Rezko's dealmaking.

  • The Cheney Doctrine in a nutshell:

    [Read the article: Cheney resurfaces, warns of new terrorist attacks]
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    Evil must be met with like Evil.

  • In addition to a salary cap

    [Read the article: Only on Wall Street: A $500,000 salary limit is "draconian"]
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    I recommend a thorough tax audit for the past 7 years for every executive of every firm that receives TARP funds.

  • @-- lakejohnson

    [Read the article: On stimulus, Dems ready to go it alone]
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    I agree with you completely but injecting money seems to be the only tool left. The Repubs aren't putting any alternatives forward, just engaging in a pissing contest on the details. Yes, this is a crap shoot.

  • Mission

    [Read the article: GOP may be counting its chickens too soon]
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    Accomplished!

  • Yo tengo tres

    [Read the article: The Internet is made of kittens]
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    gatos.

  • Federal Funding for Public Schools

    [Read the article: Stimulus deal in trouble again?]
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    The Republican Party benefits from a nation of dumbfucks.

  • Gregg is probably just

    [Read the article: Gregg withdraws Commerce nomination]
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    following Limbaugh's orders.

  • As an Army Recruiter acquaintance once said to me:

    [Read the article: America's narcotic of choice]
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    I'll take an honest pot-head over a lying drunk any day.

  • @-kreoth

    [Read the article: America's narcotic of choice]
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    A timely point. 2 judges in Pennsylvania were indicted last week for wrongfully convicting minors and sending them to an institution in which they both had a secret ownership interest.

    As for Sheriff Fancy Hairdoo in South Carolina, he's carrying over 30 unsolved homicides on his books.

  • @Amerigo

    [Read the article: America's narcotic of choice]
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    Snoop Dogg and Tommy Chong were similarly contrite when they got busted. I'll bet the lesson he really learned is not to trust anyone outside his close circle of personal friends.

    Remember kids:

    The nail that sticks up gets hammered hardest.

  • Whatever happened to the

    [Read the article: Bristol Palin says abstinence "not realistic"]
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    wedding?

  • IIRC Rush said

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    that he hoped Obama fails in expanding the size of Federal Government. He chose the words precisely and deliberately so the media would take the words "I hope he fails" and make an issue out of them. That way, he would get more negative attention and plenty of opportunity to correct people on what he really said as an opening to shoehorn in all of his arguments against Obama.

    ..and here we are. Mission Accomplished.

  • Glad to see the moral compasses

    [Read the article: One way to get Republicans behind the stimulus]
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    functioning so well.

  • Murdach owns a number of publications

    [Read the article: Wolff: Murdoch probably "livid" over Post chimp cartoon]
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    that will desire access to President Obama over the next 4 years.

  • Burris would get eaten alive

    [Read the article: Report: Burris won't resign, but won't run again]
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    in the Democratic Primary.

  • What a stupid law

    [Read the article: Finally, Congress acts quickly to avert disaster]
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    I just stop my car at the state border, take my monkeys out and make them walk across the border themselves, then pick them up on the other side.

  • Simple 2-word answer for Repubs who want

    [Read the article: Holder says Feds will stop medical marijuana raids]
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    to attack Obama on this issue: States Rights.

  • Wow. I'm actually embarassed for

    [Read the article: Dear Republicans: Please stop trying to be cool]
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    them. Old white folks throwing away thier dignity like that in a desperate attempt to catch a train that has long since left the station. Pitiful, just pitiful.

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