Whoa, too bad Cliff didn't know about this when he wrote his book... Via Taegan-
"I don't like him. He is not a very pleasant person. He is nasty, mean; the skin of an onion would look deep compared to his. He has a short fuse, he is almost peculiarly unstable."
-- Former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R), in an interview with a Dutch newspaper, about Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).
As Ben Smith notes, Tancredo is also quite negative on Sarah Palin.
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Dems are making Cheney relevant by letting him drive the debate.
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Via Think Progress:
When Tea Baggers get angry, they get even more vile than usual, and that's sayin' something. Oh, but you already knew that.
As I posted yesterday, Michael Steele stood up ABC News. But there's more! He also blew off conservative Tea Baggy radio personality Dana Loesch, who tweeted her wrath. And in another tweet...
She also gave props to Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill (MO) for keeping her interview, writing, “So out of @clairecmc and @chairmanmsteele , McCaskill is the one who keeps her interview. #steelefail”And how did she get even? Because, as we all know, acceptance isn't the Tea Baggers' strong suit. There were bound to be consequences. And consequences there were!
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Liberal groups that have bankrolled much of the media campaign defending the Democrats’ health reform efforts reacted angrily Wednesday to reports that Senate Democrats may ditch, or significantly shrink, a public insurance option to win over moderates.One of two things will happen: Either their political donations will dry up, or the bill will yield better results than they anticipated, and everyone will kiss (or air hug) and make up.
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She made a few factual errors during the rant, but, hey, she's livid:
More here. Much more.Minch announced that she'd be dumping Bank of America, refusing to pay off her credit card debt unless she was offered a lower rate. She explained that she'd been a reliable customer even though she'd lost her job as a mental health case manager. She said bank reps refused to negotiate her interest rate when she called them to complain a few weeks ago.
"You are evil, thieving bastards," she said in her video. "Stick that in your bailout pipe and smoke it."
The video made a splash online, getting links from all kinds of venues and garnering over 96,000 views as of Monday morning.
Minch told the Huffington Post she fulfilled part of her threat on Saturday, when she went to her local BofA branch and closed out her checking and savings accounts. She took her money (around $5,000, she said) and put in a local community bank. She brought printouts of web pages that had linked to her video, but a manager wasn't interested in looking at them.
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House healthcare negotiations dissolved in acrimony on Friday, with Blue Dog Democrats saying they were “lied” to by their Democratic leaders.Er, correct me if I'm wrong, but there are already more problems with the Blue Dogs. Now there are additional more problems. Sigh.
The seven Blue Dogs on the Energy and Commerce Committee stormed out of a Friday meeting with their committee chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), saying Waxman had been negotiating in bad faith over a number of provisions Blue Dogs demanded be changed in the stalled healthcare bill.
“I’ve been lied to,” Blue Dog Coalition co-chairman Charlie Melancon (D-La.) said on Friday. “We have not had legitimate negotiations.”
“Mr. Waxman has decided to sever discussions with the Blue Dogs who are trying to make this bill work for America,” Melancon said. [...]
If the two sides cannot reach an agreement, the only hope for passage of the bill in the House will be to go straight to the floor, an option leaders shied away from endorsing but said was an option.
But the Blue Dogs issued dire warnings to leaders contemplating that approach.
"Waxman simply does not have votes in committee and process should not be bypassed to bring the bill straight to floor,” Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark.), the lead Blue Dog negotiator, said on Friday. “We are trying to save this bill and trying to save this party.”
Melancon said there would be 40-45 “solid no” votes from the 52-strong Blue Dogs, among other problems throughout the Caucus.
“If they try to bring it to the floor, I think they’ll find out they have more problems with the Blue Dogs.”
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Shame, shame, shame ...for using this woman to promote your own agenda. How sad that your message is so isolating that you grab any glimmer of an ally... even if it means destroying a woman for your own good.... Awfully ironic that Maggie Gallagher donations went into your own pocket... Someone is looking for a free ride, not fair use. ...Used titleholder for your own game... We're getting back to our business of beauty...They are not happy to say the least. They're saying Miss CA knew what her contract entailed. They went after her and the anti-same-sex marriage group.
"He is bitter and really angry. He is angry at the press, which he thinks is unfair. He is angry at Obama and angry at the voters. He has gone from being an angry old candidate to being an angry old defeated candidate."
--Bob Shrum said of McCain in an interview on Friday
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