Serious Question

13 Comments

1. 

   drspittle on December 20, 2015 at 8:34 pm

   To paraphrase a Geico commercial:

   “Republicans would drink bleach if the Black Guy in the White House said it was bad for them. It’s what Republicans do.”

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     Snarki child of Loki on December 21, 2015 at 8:48 am

     “Republicans would drink bleach if the Black Guy in the White House said it was bad for them. It’s what Republicans do.”

     Yeah, well just look how those Republicans reacted after Obama told them he was issuing an executive order to remove the word “gullible” from the dictionary: they turned into Trump supporters.

     Thanks, Obama!

2. 

   dada on December 20, 2015 at 9:13 pm

   quoting  sen inhofe…climate change nutcase and all star troglodyte?

   nothing to see here.

   we now return to our regular programming.

3. 

   boran2 on December 20, 2015 at 9:27 pm

   Thousands of scientists couldn’t possibly be right.

4. 

   centerfielddj on December 20, 2015 at 9:33 pm

   Simple answer to BooMan’s simple question: No.

   I’ll also note that the chief publication distributed in Congress has had two of its stories linked by BooMan today. The first story quoted an Op-Ed in Breitbart, and this story quotes reporting from NewsMax.

   Damn liberal media…

5. 

   SirLurksAlot on December 20, 2015 at 9:55 pm

   “But the omnibus spending deal passed this week allows Obama to find GCF funding elsewhere in the federal budget”

    – looks like checkmate in eleven dimensional chess. truly a beauty to behold.

6. 

   clearskies on December 21, 2015 at 1:48 am

   They should all retire, to Florida.

7. 

   Errol on December 21, 2015 at 7:17 am

   what do you mean? it’s only a flesh wound

8. 

   rikyrah on December 21, 2015 at 8:48 am

   This is who they are

9. 

   pillsy on December 21, 2015 at 8:53 am

   Actual footage of Jim Inhofe (R-Mordor) and his staff.

10. 

    rikyrah on December 21, 2015 at 9:37 am

    Latest GOP Polling:

    A Fox News poll, conducted entirely after last week’s debate,

    1. Donald Trump: 39% (up from 28% in November)
    2. Ted Cruz: 18% (up from 14%)
    3. Marco Rubio: 11% (down from 14%)
    4. Ben Carson: 9% (down from 18%)

    ……………….

    There’s also the latest survey from Public Policy Polling, which was also conducted entirely after last week’s debate:

    1. Donald Trump: 34% (up from 26% in November)
    2. Ted Cruz: 18% (up from 14%)
    3. Marco Rubio: 13% (unchanged)
    4. Jeb Bush: 7% (up from 5%)

    5. Ben Carson: 6% (down from 19%)

11. 

    rikyrah on December 21, 2015 at 9:51 am

    From Steve Benen over at Maddow Blog, with his observations about the latest GOP Polling:

    Based on the latest, overall national averages, Trump isn’t just the leading Republican candidate, he’s actually dominating by more than 20 points. These same overall averages show the frontrunner, at least for now, with more support than Cruz and Rubio combined.

    When was the last time a Republican presidential candidate led by more than 20 points in late December and failed to win his party’s nomination? Never. It just hasn’t happened.

    Now, some caveats are probably in order. When I say “never,” I’m referring to the modern era: election cycles in which polling existed and in which Republican primary and caucus voters chose the GOP nominee in contested races.

    In other words, we’re basically looking at 40 years’ worth of presidential elections (for Democrats, it’s 44 years, but since Nixon ran effectively unopposed in 1972, it’s 40 for the GOP). In that time, no Republican had a national lead this big and ended up losing.

12. 

    Stephen Stralka on December 21, 2015 at 12:30 pm

    The only parallel I can think of is the Cthulhu cult. I always wondered what kind of people would actively collaborate in the annihilation of their own species. Now I know.