Here a simple but devastating demonstration of why the Republicans are not playing by the rules.
Any other distraught New York Giants fans want to join my campaign to put the team in the NBA finals?
Here a simple but devastating demonstration of why the Republicans are not playing by the rules.
Any other distraught New York Giants fans want to join my campaign to put the team in the NBA finals?
Perhaps a piecemeal approach. If they won’t negotiate the title, maybe the Dodgers will at least agree to replay individual innings.
Congress gets 5% approval in new AP online poll.
Perhaps they should demand higher approval ratings.
This just goes to show that you can get 5% of the people to take a side in any poll question. This explains the 4% of Democrats who claim to get their news from Fox.
But seriously, the problem with the question is who is being blamed. The Dems blame the GOP, the wingnuts blame the Dems, and the informed-by-CNN types blame both parties equally.
And then there is the Obamacare polling problem. The media loves to hype the “53% don’t approve of Obamacare” without mentioning that 20% or so of the non-approvers hate that it isn’t single payer or something equally effective and simple.
LOL. That about sums it up. Meanwhile, go A’s! (though if they lose the next game, Bay Area fans might try sending letters too – though it didn’t work for the Giants this year.)
That’s good satire from Mr. Kaplan.
As for you, BooMan, you want the New York Giants to get treated better than teams from The Heartland??
Elitist.
No, I want to see Jason Pierre-Paul post-up against Kevin Durant.
Jason will never see the ball. The full-court press will force Eli and his incompetent teammates to turn over the ball before they cross half-court.
Ball? I want them to play with a puck.
Calvinball.
Or Calvinpuck, if you like.
Obama Snubs TV Reporters at Press Briefing
By Kenneth T. Walsh
The White House press corps is buzzing because President Obama did the unexpected Tuesday afternoon: He stiffed network television reporters at his White House news conference by not calling on a single one of them.
Obama granted questions to correspondents from The Associated Press, Bloomberg, Huffington Post, Reuters, NPR, The New York Times, Financial Times, Roll Call, Agence France-Presse, CBS Radio and Real Clear Politics.
As the hourlong session progressed, it became clear to the reporters in attendance and many in the viewing audience that none of the front-line network TV correspondents had gotten questions, which is extremely rare.
Toward the end of the encounter, TV reporters, who mostly sit in the first row, seemed restless and some began shouting questions instead of waiting to be called on. This prompted Obama to say, “I’m just going through my list, guys. Talk to Jay” – a reference to White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.
In fact, many non-TV reporters welcomed the snubbing of the TV stars because Obama and Carney usually allow the television correspondents to dominate such question-and-answer sessions, and many other journalists don’t get to ask questions.
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/Ken-Walshs-Washington/2013/10/09/obama-snubs-tv-reporters-at-press-
briefing
Well, yes, the Republicans don’t believe in rules.
But isn’t it time to start asking the news media to start covering how many deaths have resulted from the GOP government shutdown?
But the GOP members of Congress and the media are acting like this is something that is limited to the Beltway and doesn’t amount to much.
And the GOP has be squirming and dodging with a la carte legislation to avoid the publicity of having trashed popular programs.
And you know the income range of the Tea Party folks in the Carolinas. They are much more upset that the Pisgah Inn off the Blue Ridge Parkway is closed during fall color season than they are about anything else.
I say, return the hostage Giants and Dodgers teams back to Manhattan and Brooklyn, where they belong!
I guess it’s a waiting game until we see whether Booman is right and Boehner will relent. Presumbably if that’s the case than Boehner is waiting for tactical reasons and at some time when everybody has had enough fun he will raise the debt ceiling.
I personally don’t think enough people are contemplating the possibility that the TP caucus simply wants to default. That all this whining about the ACA or the debt or their precious feelings is just posturing. That they’ve sat in closed rooms with Koch money and determined that they will either break Obama with their hostage taking, thus staging a coup, or they will default and create economic chaos. They will then effortlessly pivot to blaming whatever economic chaos ensues on Obama. Look, they’ve already done it with the shutdown. This crazy talk about how default won’t be so bad-that then allows them to say it wouldn’t have been so bad if Obama had only done x, y, z, which the press will then dutifully report. They probably won’t be very successfull with it in the short term, but think about it a year from now. America is in a depression, misery everywhere, basically permanent economic decline is at hand. And republicans will be blaming democrats for it all day every day. It won’t matter that they pulled the trigger. Basically, I think it’s quite possible that the TP caucus and the Kochs have concluded that creating a depression is actually their best chance at enforcing their agenda nationwide. And of course, when the economy is terrible the austerity gospel will return with a vengeance.
Related to this, there is probably thinking that by creating an economic crisis they will be forcing Obama to take some drastic action and then will have an opening to impeach. And if things are bad enough they won’t need much of an opening. Any Benghazi will do.
*sigh*
I think I speak for Mets fans everywhere when I say that this is the greatest idea in the history of humankind.
I don’t tweet – let alone retweet – often. But this is getting shared, widely, with non-political friends. It’s very effective – hilarious, absurd, and absolutely spot-on.