All it took was a changeover of Presidential Administrations years later and, voila, Team Pelosi won the day! She's such a politician it makes me sick.
This should have been forced down the Bush Administration at the time it was all happening, but the Dems in Congress are too WEAK. Now that they have literally all the power, they start to talk tough. I have no respect for them at all.
]]>Lighten up, Francis.
I guess they call it Political Correctness. I call it uptight and humorless.
This ad is served by a sort of ad-conglomerator where TPM has very little control of its content and the advertisers get to choose which audience or site they want to target. TPM gets paid for this and I find it appropriate and smart. This ad model keeps a very important channel of news media viable in general. Specifically it keeps THE BEST political news website viable. - you think TPM could survive if it had to pay an ad sales team? And knock on every corporate door and ad agency in America? No, it couldn't.
And I've visited this so-called offensive t-shirt site. I think it's funny. I think it's hilarious. I've bought a shirt at one of these sites - it was for a party where we had to find funny t-shirts to give to a person who was a girl I'd met once (we drew names). It had a romantic pic of two people hand-in-hand on the beach and it said, "I like long walks on the beach and anal." People thought it was funny. Mostly because it is supposed to be. This Cat t-shirt you mention is funny too. And if you can believe it, I can laugh at that pic without actually being a person who would kill a cat or even remotely wish a cat harm. I'm a dog person, but I've had cats and loved them. The shirt, shockingly, did not make me want to harm cats and I'm quite certain if I saw a cat harmed that shirt would in no way dull my outrage.
I'm more offended by your attempt at censorship.
Protest if you like, that's your right. Boycott if you must, that's your prerogative. Try to recruit others if you wish, that's your time and effort. And then... disappear from this site so I don't have to continue to hear the whining about more and more specific nuanced perceived offenses, that'll be my relief.
I personally would rather just see how long a post is up front so I can decide if I have time to read it at the moment or not. Also, I don't like having to click to a new page to continue reading one post. TPM loads quite slowly sometimes for me - is that true with others?
]]>I almost hope Bush does though, so the bad "Bush" taste in America's mouth will linger longer.
I wonder though, is there some chance Palin the Governor will appoint herself Palin the Senator? Not really, since Alaska will have to hold a special election and Palin will not have a chance to appoint anyone.
]]>If you can't provide a link to a direct quote that isn't taken out of context and not loosely interpreted (much less grossly misinterpreted) then your credibility on this site is over for me. I'm tired of the imposters and the haters, aka trolls and the like. Pathetic person with nothing better to do?
My thoughts on what she may have meant if she made any such comment is to lower expectations due to the constraints from the current economic crisis Obama's inherited.
]]>When the government openly declares war on all muslims and encourages us "real" Americans to fear different people, to rat out our neighbors for mere suspicion, it's not surprising this mindset trickles down.
After all, when they're all terrorists, who the fuck is gonna care if you rob one of them, or worse?
]]>McCain the blue blood child of privilege labeling Obama an elitist - the child of a single mother who succeeded on his own hard work and brains. Unbelievable.
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