Obama sure creates the space (4.00 / 2)

He criticizes Democrats for "congenital" compassion. It's not an infantile comment, but close enough to make Bachman seem less insane. In effect, he's changed nothing since he was elected.

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by: ThirdCoast @ Sat Sep 18, 2010 at 20:52:10 PM CDT

He's Changed Nothing & She Claims He's Changed Everything (0.00 / 0)

I think it's a weee bit more complicated than you make out.

"You know what they say -- those of us who fail history... doomed to repeat it in summer school." -- Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season 6, Episode 3

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by: Paul Rosenberg @ Sun Sep 19, 2010 at 06:22:22 AM CDT

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10% factor (4.00 / 2)

JFK once observed that you could get 10% of the people to vote for anything.  In most cases, the Tea Party has yet to do that.

Christine O'Donnell won 30,561 votes.  Delaware has 621,746.  She won 4.9% of the vote.  

Sharon Angle got 70,452 votes from 1,049,878 "active voters in Nevada.  That's 6.7%.

Rand Paul won easily but still managed only 206,986 votes from 2.885,433.  He got 7.1% of the registered vote.

Nikki Haley won 233,733 votes in the runoff or 9.0% of the vote.

Only Joe Miller seems to have edged up to 10%.  I couldn't find a registration total but he got about 10.8% based on 2008 registration.

Tea Party candidates have had a hard time reaching the "nut level" in 2010.  Liberal/Progressive Democrats could make an equal or greater impact if they are organized.

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by: David Kowalski @ Sat Sep 18, 2010 at 21:47:38 PM CDT

Well, JFK didn't say EVERYBODY could get 10%! (0.00 / 0)

And your examples clearly show it takes some talent to accomplish that. Those right wingers are short on this. Like they are short on intelligence, knowledge and values!
:D  

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by: Gray @ Sun Sep 19, 2010 at 06:59:53 AM CDT

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Call the NRA (4.00 / 1)

2nd Amendment

I do not subscribe to the NRA or the USSC view of this amendment (though gun control is far from my top issue).

But it is pretty clearly viewed as a negative right by the NRA and they are pretty damn fanatical about it. They should know that this idiot opposes their sacrosanct negative right.

"No, his mind is not for rent to any god or government" - Neil Peart

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by: T. Jacobsen @ Sat Sep 18, 2010 at 23:14:49 PM CDT

That clip is unbelievable (4.00 / 1)

Your comments are beautiful, Paul.  You capture the situation exactly.  I just can't get over that clip.  Let it stand as a permanent warning of infinite stupidity.

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by: perdita @ Sun Sep 19, 2010 at 01:46:41 AM CDT

"Gilda Radner"? You mean, Rita Hayworth? (0.00 / 0)

Sure, she was much better looking than Bachman. But isn't this a quite shallow way to look at the problem?
:D

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by: Gray @ Sun Sep 19, 2010 at 06:56:10 AM CDT

Shallowness Is In The Eye Of The Beholder (0.00 / 0)

Or the subject being treated.

Take your pick.

There was nothing shallow about Gilda.  She was the best.

"You know what they say -- those of us who fail history... doomed to repeat it in summer school." -- Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season 6, Episode 3

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by: Paul Rosenberg @ Sun Sep 19, 2010 at 09:43:51 AM CDT

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Indeed, Rita's Gilda would have been great in 3D! (0.00 / 0)

The shallow twodimensional cineographic technology of that time doesn't properly reproduce that...

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by: Gray @ Sun Sep 19, 2010 at 10:26:15 AM CDT

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Yum...yum...yum... (0.00 / 0)

...applesauce good!
P.S. "Sticks and stones may break our bones, but facts will never sway us." ~ Teabagger's Creed (also works for neocons, Team B, and Team BII)

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by: DICKERSON3870 @ Sun Sep 19, 2010 at 19:55:18 PM CDT