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Official Election Day Thread

  • what's really interesting is that Rice formally withdrew from something that she was never formally nominated for.

    only remember this happening previously on some old SCOTUS prospects.

    terp11

  • terp11 said...

    what's really interesting is that Rice formally withdrew from something that she was never formally nominated for.

    only remember this happening previously on some old SCOTUS prospects.

    Pretty sure they're just giving her a chance to save face. They decided to go in another direction.

    sohlman6

  • Jindal with an excellent op-ed in WSJ. TL;DR: He says birth control pills should be sold over the counter to adults. Makes a great case, with a bit of a libertarian angle to it.

    Bobby Jindal: The End of Birth-Control Politics - WSJ.com

    In The Wall Street Journal, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal writes that over-the-counter sales of oral contraceptives will cut off a disingenuous attack line.

    online.wsj.com

    frode

  • And for our lib friends: considering the source, an interesting sort-of hit piece on Booker by the NYT.

    Promise vs. Reality in Newark as Mayor Booker Eyes Higher Office - NYTimes.com

    As Cory A. Booker weighs a run for New Jersey governor, many residents complain that his apparent focus on the national stage may have shortchanged his efforts to solve the city’s problems.

    www.nytimes.com

    interpid

  • interpid said...

    And for our lib friends: considering the source, an interesting sort-of hit piece on Booker by the NYT.

    Yeah I just read that too. Basically says he is good at making speeches and self-promoting but bad or apathetic when it comes to the nitty gritty of governing. Translation: he'll be a perfect candidate for president.

    neal990

  • Obama: I'm not a socialist - POLITICO.com

    President Barack Obama on Thursday brushed aside concerns that he favors socialism, saying in an interview with Univision that his policies are so mainstream that he would have been considered a moderate Republican in the 1980s. Via the transcript of the interview by Alina Mayo Azze of in Miami: AMA: One issue...

    www.politico.com

    sohlman6

  • sohlman6 said...

    meh, Nixon said that "I am not a crook"

    how did that turn out.

    terp11

  • sohlman6 said...

    Are those Facebook comments after the article?

    winterps

  • Tim Scott officially going to be DeMint's replacement. Only black senator, first black republican senator since 1979.

    neal990

  • sugarmag said...

    General civics reminder to beat down this tired Lib talking point, the Prez nominates and the Senate confirms SCOTUS appointees. Please look up Robert Bork on the Wiki. What drunken Teddy had the balls to stand up and say in the Senate chamber is 1000 times worse than anything the religious right would ever come up with.

    Following Bork's nomination to the Court, Sen. Ted Kennedy took to the Senate floor with a strong condemnation of Bork declaring:

    "Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is—and is often the only—protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy ... President Reagan is still our president. But he should not be able to reach out from the muck of Irangate, reach into the muck of Watergate and impose his reactionary vision of the Constitution on the Supreme Court and the next generation of Americans. No justice would be better than this injustice."

    Robert Bork died today at the age of 85.

    Was a Nixonian opportunist and a hack, but RIP to his HOF beard.

    NYCTerp05: i guarantee you my child won't turn out gay

    JemoTerp

  • Anyone want a job making $124k? Apparently there are some folks who don't. I'm sure Uncle Barack and the NLRB will come to the rescue.

    For months, negotiations have dragged on between the dockworkers union and the U.S. Maritime Alliance, which represents shippers and port operators. The fight has focused on how to divvy up container royalties, which have long been used to augment worker wages and benefits. The alliance wants to freeze the royalties at current levels, saying that the longshoremen are well compensated, receiving an average of $124,000 a year. The dockworkers have rejected the proposal.

    sugarmag

  • sugarmag said...

    Anyone want a job making $124k? Apparently there are some folks who don't. I'm sure Uncle Barack and the NLRB will come to the rescue.

    For months, negotiations have dragged on between the dockworkers union and the U.S. Maritime Alliance, which represents shippers and port operators. The fight has focused on how to divvy up container royalties, which have long been used to augment worker wages and benefits. The alliance wants to freeze the royalties at current levels, saying that the longshoremen are well compensated, receiving an average of $124,000 a year. The dockworkers have rejected the proposal.

    Exhibit A on the nefarious result of too-powerful unions and the coddling of them by our idiot liberal overlords.

    sigman58

  • Frank Sobotka agenda alert?

    "And I try to har-mo-nize with songs the lonesome sparrow sings... There are no kings inside the Gates of Eden."

    dixonownsyou

  • sugarmag said...

    Biggest piece of shit in Washington now belongs to JJ, Jr. Next stop, MSNBC sitting next to Rev Al and Rachel no dbout.

    Resigns his seat

    Is going to try to appoint his wife

    Waits to do it until Obama is out of the country and Middle East is in flames.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/11/21/rep-jesse-jackson-jr-resigning-from-congress-brother-says/?hpid=z1

    Jesse Jackson Jr. Accused of $750,000 Campaign Fund Fraud - Bloomberg

    Former Illinois Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. was charged by U.S. prosecutors with misusing $750,000 in campaign funds for purchases including a Michael Jackson hat and an Eddie Van Halen guitar.

    www.bloomberg.com

    Sdog

  • Sdog said...

    "Former Illinois Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. was charged by U.S. prosecutors with misusing $750,000 in campaign funds for purchases including a Michael Jackson hat and an Eddie Van Halen guitar."

    Poor parenting....

    tagterp

  • tagterp said...

    Poor parenting....

    Democrat and liberal blue blood.

    SATerp

  • A while back, they said he had a very serious anxiety disorder and was getting treatment at the Mayo Clinic. Could be bipolar, could be anxiety, could be related to knowing you were probably going to jail for massive fraud.

    "And I try to har-mo-nize with songs the lonesome sparrow sings... There are no kings inside the Gates of Eden."

    dixonownsyou

  • dixonownsyou said...

    A while back, they said he had a very serious anxiety disorder and was getting treatment at the Mayo Clinic. Could be bipolar, could be anxiety, could be related to knowing you were probably going to jail for massive fraud.

    yeah.

    think point #3 contributed mightily to illness 1 and 2.

    he'll plead out (some deal reportedly is in the works), but looking at "signifigant" jail time.

    terp11

  • sugarmag said...

    Anyone want a job making $124k? Apparently there are some folks who don't. I'm sure Uncle Barack and the NLRB will come to the rescue.

    For months, negotiations have dragged on between the dockworkers union and the U.S. Maritime Alliance, which represents shippers and port operators. The fight has focused on how to divvy up container royalties, which have long been used to augment worker wages and benefits. The alliance wants to freeze the royalties at current levels, saying that the longshoremen are well compensated, receiving an average of $124,000 a year. The dockworkers have rejected the proposal.

    No chance the average annual salary of a longshoreman is even half of 124K a year. None. Zero.

    cjterps98

  • cjterps98 said...

    No chance the average annual salary of a longshoreman is even half of 124K a year. None. Zero.

    Really? Don't those guys make a lot? It's a difficult job, plus they are at a choke point in the supply chain so they can charge more. $124k wouldn't surprise me at all.

    TheArsenal

  • cjterps98 said...

    No chance the average annual salary of a longshoreman is even half of 124K a year. None. Zero.

    they make like 8500 a month

    Pic Sigs are for losers.

    jgdomino