Clarence suffers self-loathing to the nth degree. Explained once that people may make fun of his accent.

Had to wonder also about the multiple references to Loving v Virginia where SCOTUS found anti-miscegenation statute unconstitutional. Clarence is married to a white woman. Surely they are not trying to persuade ol’ Clarence because he follows whatever Tony Scalia does.

Tony sounded very gay in his snarky falsetto: “How can I decide if I don’t know the date? How? Give me the date, waaaaaaaaah.”

Photo looks more like a Grateful Dead bandmember than a pre-Christian era Jew who would not know how to relate to modern time Sunday morning tele-evangelicals pushing prosperity.

Boehner has yet to pull the rabbit out of his hat: an actual vote in the House. The wingnuts couldn’t agree to $1MM, how will they do 400K? We can count on them to saw the woman in half.

Any deal short of total Dem capitulation would not get through the Senate: Rand Paul spent a good hour on the floor today ranting about class warfare and jealousy toward rich people. He likely would put a (secret?) hold on any deal.

In the House, Boehner has no control whatsoever over his flopping member(ship). He’s been playing the bluff game for years now: pretend there’s possible agreement among the baggers, when there is none, then wait for the deal to collapse then blame POTUS — to fix blame take any true statement about the repugs, substitute in the word Dems and voila. Works everytime!

Brilliant and well-researched expose. Better than the NY Times could do. Impressive.

Abu Graib stateside. Torture guideline: Strip the prisoner and mock him. Except, this is an US citizen on the US homeland. A kid who VOLUNTEERED to serve in the Army and even shipped out to a battle zone, thereby putting his life in jeopardy for his country. Then he gets abused this way before ever convicted of anything. His abusive captors should be prosecuted for violation of US military codes; but if not, then in violation of the Geneva Conventions.

This country needs better CEO’s, CFO’s, investors. The 1% are ruinous to the economy. The repugs have the HOUSE where every committee chair person is an angry middle aged white male. Wow. That really represents the country…

IMPEACH BOEHNER NOW. Dereliction of duty. Treason. Interference. Blocking from behind. Behavior unbecoming a speaker. Irrelevance. Putrid pussilanimity.

The numbers really don’t matter: it’s the constituencies the pols serve. The repubs see the dems coddling the huddled masses and giving out “gifts” to buy off a base of voters, while the repubs counter with privatizing services in order to create new repubs, i.e. the 2% CEO/CFO class that comprises their base.

The difference being the 2% plutocrats don’t want to pay a cent in taxes but the 99% are expected to pay for everything, including their own “entitlements.” In my case, 40 plus year working life, a stiff like me pays payroll taxes that include a large chunk of Social Security and Medicare taken out of each pay check. Hundreds of thousands already paid in over the decades.

Politico clearly can stuff it for ignoring the fact that the 99% pay as we go such that the money has already been collected, and in the case of Social Security, raided to prop up repub transfer of wealth to the 2%.

Bibi needed to ratchet up the fear factor in anticipation of upcoming elections in Israel: clearly the US prevented him from bomb-bomb-bombing Iran, so he had to resort to earlier formula and bomb Gaza, blast the air-raid sirens, pump his iron-fist.

Bibi has the Iron Shield missile defense in place, but a few rockets nonetheless got through, in order to justify the massive over-response. Jets versus slingshots.

Three Israelis to date have been killed, but it takes such a sacrifice to keep Bibi in power with no end in sight to the continued violence.

Cynical politics as usual.

How pathetic is it that what were the confederate states so quickly went to Rombo early in the evening? The electoral map was red all over until late into the night. What’s wrong with these people?

The red states in the south receive the greatest amount of federal $$$ while contributing the least $$$ to the federal government. These states also have the greatest to benefit under Obamacare. Clearly, changing the way we elect the Prez will not change the outcome in these states.

If it were football, we might make some headway. Howzabout being a black football player at Ole Miss with their rebel flag and yadda yadda. Maybe we have seen the end of the southern strategy and outcomes likewise will change.

The repubs kept the House because of gerrymandering the districts, not any “mandate” for them to continue tax cuts for the rich.

In California the districts, thanks to a last act by former repub governor Schwarzenneger, were set by an independent commission, and the dems won a super majority in both houses of the legislature. Also, the repubs put on the ballot a measure that would have repealed the new map, which failed miserably.

Without gerrymandering, the dems would have won back the US House.

As for Rick Scott in Florida, Karl Rove, and the Rombo campaign, their misplaced optimism was due in large part to waiting for the voter machines and/or suppression to kick in to change the outcome, which apparently didn’t happen, due at least in part to the Justice Department fighting back this time around.

The Supreme Court fixed it for Bush, set the stage with Citizens United to fix it for Rombo, and now will take up fixing it for the next repub by declaring the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional.

The beat goes on.

It was the coverup!

Betrayus and his allies were probably waiting to see first who won the election.

If Rombo wins, then the repubs could cover it up and “fix it”, so they kept it under wraps within the repub power structure and didn’t want Senator DiFi knowing about it; however, once Obama won, Betrayus and his fellow repub Cantor had to let the cat out of the bag. The cover up they were planning became impossible.

Maybe if Rombo won, to give Betrayus the benefit of the doubt, he could then resign to give the new President his own CIA director without the affair ever needing to be mentioned.

On a related matter, apparently his previous prostate surgery was successful: he was able to dingle a couple of ladies it appears and kept all his bodily functions. Maybe he’s writing a book and wants to amp up sales with the salacious undercurrent. As a general, he already has blood on his hands.

Progressive thinkers may fear that if the rules in the Senate are modernized to eliminate the 60 vote blockage, then when the repubs hold the majority again (and let’s face it, they will some day), they will be able quickly to put the full proto-fascist state into operation.

But, really, can their hateful anti-gay, anti-woman, anti-immigrant stands ever again prevail given the changed electorate?

Harry Reid and the other dems in the Senate need to take the chance now that this is the best time to change the rules and break the logjam, rather than worry too much about less than likely negative possibilities anymore. Now is the best time to make change.

When Obama wins the electoral and rombo the popular, doubt not that the repubs will be screaming bloody murder and try to change the system.

Relax. Rombo says that he knows of no legislation now that he supports that would cause a Rombo administration from denying women the right to control their own body. Of course, the crazies in the House can helter-skelter gin up some legislation pronto LATER.

Phew, the stink is overwhelming, but the good thing is that rombot is lying his ass off; therefore, it is not a foregone conclusion that he is set up to steal the votes in Ohio (altho his buddies last year bought the voting machine company that counts votes in certain counties).

Buying ads in Minnesota, when he is clearly losing there, could create a false backdrop to deflect attention from an undeserved win through fixing the machines in Ohio.

The false bravado of leading where he is clearly losing builds a case for the big switcheroo.

The Dems had better have a legal team (in sufficient numbers) ready to pounce in Ohio should Rombo’s buddies fix the results.

TheOracle nailed it. The repub party has sold its soul, if it ever had one, to elect the rombot, whom the right wingers dislike for his less than fascist positions, but are willing to tolerate for the win.

While the House of Reps under the repubs are totally out of touch with the country, anti-women, anti-middle class, pro-1%, hot for bombing Iran with Bebe. This time around, having been previously burned by the bushies (e.g., raising the debt limit multiple times, passing prescription drugs, etc.), the right wing nuttery will murder moderate Mitt and we’ll only see the right-wing-Mitt in a rombot administration.

I’m voting for Obama for many reasons, including the US Supreme Court: two new justices likely will be seated in the next four years and the country likely would not survive two new scary Scalia monsters.