It’s kind of predictable that the Republican Party’s major donors are pissed off at the party right now.
One top party fundraiser said the Wall Street financiers and corporate executives he counts on for support are “having fits” over the GOP’s brinkmanship strategy, especially related to a potential default if Congress does not agree to raise the debt ceiling later this month.
“The donors I raise money from understand the vital importance of credit markets and are upset that the U.S. credit system is being put at risk,” said the fundraiser, who requested anonymity because of his position in the business world.
Here’s an idea. Go found another party. The one you’ve been primarily using has a lot of mileage and its tires are threadbare. At this point, it’s a junker. Leave it to the rubes.
Google ads is absolutely convinced that I have nail fungus. I am just as sure that I do not.
google ads has the same idea about me. and it’s not as if I’ve been discussing nail fungus on gmail or anything.
I suppose talking about this is unlikely to make it go away…
Nail fungus, republicans, potato, potahto…
Nailfungus is hard to get rid of, advertisements are easier.
In opera browser i right click and choose block content, then i can choose what i don`t want to see and it will not show it again.
Adblock plus will block a lot of ads from most sources but some websites don`t like it all that much and seem to slow down or refuse to properly load.
If you are the owner cant you block specific ads google puts on your site through adsense?
Yeah, I have zero financial incentive to block ads or to encourage anyone else to do so.
I like the clothing ads and often click to the sites. seeing some great potential gifts for upcoming holiday season
I’ve been getting a lot of Blue Man Group since I bought tickets to see them at IU a couple of weeks ago and, yep, I’d go see them again in a heartbeat if they’re anywhere close by.
actually now their posting even larger more awe-inspiring pictures of, well I think I’ll call it the Leo Frigo Bridge and maybe they’ll replace those picture with pics of an empty collapsing bridge
Did somebody post that Congress was less popular than nail fungus?
They seem to think I’m a petite Chinese girl in need of hip new clothing. Compared to nail fungus, I guess that’s actually rather flattering.
but now that you’ve mentioned it, …
Or here’s a better idea: tell them it’s their own fucking fault for being such greedy pigs. Now we’ve got an insane party on one end that actively became this way because of their shenanigans, and the other end is becoming more and more populist. Not that I necessarily have a problem with the latter, but when their choice is an insane party that’s threatening default and another that is asking for slightly higher wages and some health care, maybe they’ll learn to just pay our workers. And they might. And then some years down the road they’ll forget again.
If the Mike Bloombergs founded their own party, they’d be irrelevant – they don’t have a natural constituency in either party nowadays. They were the Rockefeller Republicans a generation ago, but now they would have no takers on the Democratic side outside of what little Blue Dog Democrats exist. And their social liberalism would be absolute anathema to the Teabaggers.
That’s why they hitch themselves to the GOP – the rubes are too stupid to know any better who the puppetmasters are. Unfortunately, the puppetmasters are finding out what happens when the puppets start cutting the strings.
Still waiting for that moderate revolt. Moderates. Heh.
The thought of moderates doing much of anything other than uttering a mild sigh is rather difficult to imagine.
It has a blown head gasket as well.
cash for clunkers; those were the days!
The Republicans are getting creamed in the press.
WaPo prints amazing collection of excerpts from editorial pages across the nation. (Disregard the stupid cartoon at the top, which is quite different from what follows.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/10/02/the-view-from-the-op-ed-pages-gop-takes-a-
beating/
But does anyone read the papers anymore? Except to maybe read the sports scores?
I’d guess older people, raised on the newspaper habit, still do — being an old codger myself, it took an enforced vacation from being able to buy the daily paper to make me give it up.
And we all know to which party the older demographic normally skews, eh?
Maybe. Maybe not. A group of us old white males were discussing politics, specifically health care at the afternoon break today. I never new there were so many Democrats amongst us as one after the other ripped Bush and the Tea Party, and hypocritical Republicans like Larry Craig and Newt (Moral Majority) Gingrich. The one Republican got up and left in a huff when one guy pointed out that he was hypocrite for slamming Obamacare but taking advantage of it. My My My. The no longer so Silent Majority.
What does drive us all crazy is the constant attacks on our pensions from the Democratic Party and how everyone is leaving the Postal Service twisting in the wind as the psychotic Bush-appointee Postmaster General conspires with Darryl Issa.
The Postal Service situation is an outrage. Any chance of getting rid of the Bush appointee? (they can’t wait for everyone to have to use Fedex)
http://www.savethepostoffice.com/
Check it out. And the lead story today is totally on topic.
thanks, I’m bookmarking this site
Thanks, Errol.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002350291
Not much chance. I misspoke when I said “Bush appointee”, actually it was the postal governors that Bush appointed. Although all the governors can’t be from the same party, I beleive the Democrats are Blue Dogs.
I’m told that the current PMG made his bones at the Heritage Foundation advocating privatization of the Postal Service.
The USPS is supposed to be non-partisan but the Achilles Heel is that the “independent governors” are political appointees.
As for replacements by Obama, you know how he loves Republicans and Blue Dogs and hates Liberals.
By me, the five heads of the postal unions should be on the board, but that’s too Germanic for America.