http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/01/19/the-political-mood-is-sour Comments On: The political mood is sour by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Sat, 18 May 2013 05:45:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by dottholliday]]> Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:24:29 -0600 Arkansas Times I want both my representatives (the one from my former district and from my present district) voted out for misfeasance, malfeasance, cupidity and stupidity. I also want both of my Senators removed from office for similar reasons."

Forgive my generalities. I was referring to the fact that while Congress' approval ratings are in the dumps, 85% to 95% of them seeking reelection will be reelected. So allow me to rephrase to fit your pedantry.

Almost everyone hates Congress, enough people love their Congressman enough to keep reelecting the bastard.
Posted by Gylippus]]> Sun, 20 Jan 2013 08:24:28 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Paul Covert]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 20:08:16 -0600 Arkansas Times I want both my representatives (the one from my former district and from my present district) voted out for misfeasance, malfeasance, cupidity and stupidity. I also want both of my Senators removed from office for similar reasons.
The one person I know who 'likes' or even tolerates the four is you and others of your persuasion.
Our state and the United States as a whole would prosper better with these three politician permanently benched.
Posted by dottholliday]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:05:19 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/19/the_secret…

Under the sun, nothing's new.
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 12:26:46 -0600 Arkansas Times
Take your pick.

Right wing violence in America has risen more than 400% since 2000.

Who says so?

West Point.

"The rise in attacks in the 21st century were significant, as 'Although in the 1990s the average number of attacks per year was 70.1, the average number of attacks per year in the first 11 years of the twenty-first century was 307.5, a rise of more than 400%.'"

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/19/west…
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 12:16:32 -0600 Arkansas Times
I still say that now is the time for the Democratic Party to buy billboards all over Cotton's district outside of cities with shopping and the sale barns to keep harping monthly on what he hasn't doen for the people of the 4th District. It isn't as expensive as some other approaches and it hits the voters everytime they drive by one. Is there any furniture in that place he rented to have a local address? Has he changed his voting registration to Arkansas from DC (if he actually voted there, anyway)? Now is the time to get in his face everytime you can because the Koches are getting his mug (like in mugshot) on TV all the time for a nobody from a small rural district in a state with no political power at all. The man is not a "Bill Clinton" and no amount of money will make him look better. You can dress up a pig but it is still a pig!
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:12:07 -0600 Arkansas Times
It was a campaign season that emphasized all of the worst aspects of democracy. And too many people revelled in it, making tons of money grinding out commercials, speeches, and screeds tweaking every prejudice possible. It was an el-auction, spending record amounts of money.

The public saw rancor, not solutions, as the politicians' promises. Voters despaired of ever hearing a truthful statement during the entire campaign. Instead they were beaten over the head with incessant blatant distortions paid for by shadowy moneybag backers. Fact-checking groups were overwhelmed and their corrections were drowned by the tsunami of political commercials and biased "talking head" panels.

People got tired of hearing politicians blather on, not listening to the voters. The politics of meanness is coming back to bite politicians in the ass.
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:59:23 -0600 Arkansas Times
Why are there so many white men around? Can't we get rid of them somehow....they are republican racists. We all know it.
Posted by Coolbreeze 101]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:56:10 -0600 Arkansas Times
Rape, gun control, a line-up of fiscal cliffs, those darn republicans, those darn democrats - are the ridiculously effective bipartisan opiates used to divide the masses. Meanwhile their sites are all still set on austerity for we the people, but not the aristocrats. Shock Doctrine continues, unabated.

Google has done more for Kansas City in the last year than the entire federal government has done for this country in over decade.
Posted by Eureka Springs]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:41:10 -0600 Arkansas Times
It's all upside - it fires up the Dem base, who are glad to see Obama finally getting a set of balls and standing up for what is right, rather than making compromises with the devil (see: Health Care). Perhaps Fighting Joe Biden is responsible.

Let's face it: we all know that anything proposed by the Republicans is bad for America, and anything they oppose is a good thing to implement. Gun control is no exception. The NRA's mission is to help the firearms business by increasing gun sales, and anyone who confuses that with "Freedom" is not paying attention to the NRA.
Posted by I_AM_THE_NRA]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 09:58:40 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by eLwood]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 09:19:14 -0600 Arkansas Times
House Speaker John Boehner has now unseated his Democratic predecessor Nancy Pelosi as the least-liked major congressional leader, a title Pelosi has held for several years.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 51% of Likely U.S. Voters now view Boehner unfavorably, while 50% feel that way about Pelosi. Just 31% have a favorable opinion of the Ohio congressman, compared to 37% who look favorably on the San Francisco Democrat.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_con…
Posted by eLwood]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 09:16:18 -0600 Arkansas Times

"a tactical retreat that most likely reflects their sense of their disadvantage against Mr. Obama."

Republicans are hoping that Obama will take a flamethrower to Democratic political capitol trying to push gun control.
Posted by Gylippus]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 08:38:36 -0600 Arkansas Times
This is more game playing and is the reason that Congress has a lower preference rating than bed bugs and cockroaches. However, they didn't poll them against their principal comparison, a 2-bit cheap whores. That might have been even but I doubt it.
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 08:37:16 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 08:16:05 -0600 Arkansas Times