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Jon Stewart On WI Recall: ‘The People Have Been Soundly Defeated By Other People’

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Midwestern populism is certainly a topic that doesn’t get all that much play on the Daily Show, but when it does, Jon Stewart makes sure to point out how hard it is to follow the will of the people. If the Tea Party were “the people” in 2009, and “the people” staged a recall election against Republicans in Wisconsin, where Democrats were defeated by “the people,” then… who are The Real People?

Stewart began with a reminder of the raucousness of 2009-10 Tea Party rallies, jokingly answering several protesters demanding their country back: “this is a terrible misunderstanding; we were told it was a timeshare.” He then turned to the next big populist movement: the Wisconsin recall, which he found plenty of MSNBC personalities raving about as one of the greatest political events of modern history. Then he turned to one MSNBC host in particular that had a special message for the union protesters: Al Sharpton, who could not escape ridicule for his “resist we much” gaffe. “That was either a screw-up,” Stewart joked, “or some profound Yoda shit.”

Stewart then turned to the actual people on the ballot, which he joked belied the intensity of the political struggle by looking so pleasant. “People from the Midwest,” he remarked, “no matter what their political stripe, never looks like assholes. They all look very nice.” He contrasted candidates Sandy Pasch and Alberta Darling with New Yorkers– “that’s the problem with us here in New York– we’re very pleasant but we all look like assholes.”

After all the turmoil, Stewart noted that the populist movement towards the recall had been defeated by another apparent populist group against it. “The people have been soundly defeated by other people,” he quipped, “you’ve got to feel for the people.”

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  • Anonymous

    The Libs/Progs and the Unions tried to take over Wisconsin’s government through these outrageous recall elections and they failed. Seems everything they try they fail at…except failure it’s self. They succeed nicely at failure.

  • http://twitter.com/LippyBroad lippybroad

    Who cares about Stewart…someone fill me in on Ed Schultz, please!

    Did he sob like a little girl? Did those crazy veins pop right out of his fat neck?

    Please tell me there’s video of some kind there. After all, this is the same guy that cried and threatened to burn down 30 Rock when he found out there was no room for him on the election night panel last year.

  • Anonymous

    Ha, Ha   The Hobbits again!

  • Texan

    The hobbits kicked your progressive ass last night. What say you?

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    I thought the Tea Party was immaterial…..haha….any of you Libs looked at your plastic messiahs polls lately?…ouch!!

  • Anonymous
  • BLUEBUNNY

     THE PEOPLE ARE SPEAKING LOUD AND CLEAR! WE ALL JUST HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE WHAT THE PEOPLE WILL DO NEXT! FOR I AM SURE ALL PEOPLE WANT WHAT IS BEST FOR ALL AMERICA’S PEOPLE!

  • Anonymous

    Resist we much?

  • http://twitter.com/LippyBroad lippybroad

    Um, shouldn’t that kid be pissing on some fat f ck SEIU slob?

    Because ally’all got pissed on last night.

    How does it feel to be a loser? 

  • Anonymous

    Problem is the idealogs believe they representative of the country even though they are just in agreement with a base.

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    It seems like the Tea Party is about to be swept out of office!!

  • Texan

    Were you on extacy again last night?

  • Anonymous

     In what world? Reality never was a nice place for Democrats… All of your ideas and programs have a history of failing time, and time, and time again. Yet you keep trying them. Because somehow. THIS TIME! It will be different. Yeah right.

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    But it sure looks like your Tea Party program is failing America!

  • Anonymous

    The Tea Party program is failing America? Trying to bring America’s budget back into a positive direction? Your Democratic Congress and President, put us in a 1 trillion dollar deficit hole, for the past 3 years. You have owned Congress since the 2006 elections, until this year when the Republicans took back the House. You had a larger majority than the Republicans have had in 80 years, and you didn’t pass one budget the entire time you were in control! No ma’am. Your idiotic, self-destructive, America-destroying, ideals are killing our nation. 

  • Anonymous

    And another topic devolves into the usual partisan slap fight. Want to know why America is stuck in the rut? Read the above. Insults, anger, hate and the like. Not one constructive or helpful remark. Just more of the usual spew of nonsense.

    Until folks stop with the endless partisan hackery, we are going nowhere.

  • Michelle

    Oh Staci, you are delusion, my friend:

    (Rasmussen)
    — More voters still think the average Tea Party member has a better
    handle on America’s problems than the average member of Congress does,
    but there’s a sharp difference of opinion between Democrats and
    Republicans.
    A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey
    finds that 42% of all Likely U.S. Voters believe the average member of
    the Tea Party has a better understanding of the problems America faces
    today, while 34% think the average member of Congress is more clued in.
    Twenty-four percent (24%) are undecided.

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    Hun, Most Americans don’t like the Tea Party and think their bad for America.
    http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/30/poll-shows-more-americans-have-unfavorable-views-tea-party/?src=twr

  • Anonymous

    It is the total intransigence of both sides that is failing America. The refusal to negotiate in good faith or reach a compromise that is actually good for the people is what is eating away at this country.

    Here are facts
    10 years of deficit spending with no revenue increases.
    10 years of uncompensated for tax cuts (Obama has been cutting taxes, too).
    10 years of a Congress of cowards afraid to do anything serious.
    2 consecutive administrations in that 10 years that were hopeless on a good day.

    This is both parties. Both. They all had a hand in it. The GOP Congress and president ran up massive debt. Now a Dem Congress and president are doing the exact same thing. In fact a Dem Congress and GOP president ran up almost $2 trillion in 2 years.

    This is not one party or one ideology. It is the result of blind ideology coupled with cowardice in Washington. For the last decade.

    Want to know why I went No Party Affiliation over 20 years ago? Read the crap in this thread, let alone others. Who would want to be aligned with either side? They are both corrupt and have both failed America. As to the Tea Party, well, a one line policy is no policy at all. Same for the unions on the other side. Single thought governance is not governance at all.

    One day, we will have adults in office again. Until then, well, I suppose it will be more of the yelling and insults.

  • Michelle

    We can both find polls to tell us whatever we want to hear.  For instance, new polls out today, show Ozero has a record low approval rating (40%)and a record low approval among I’s (31%)  His disapproval rating is only slightly below that of the Tea Party.  Good luck winning re-election with those numbers!!

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    Were still in the dog days of summer!   We have a long ways to go, so just calm down.  

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Hey, we here in Wisconsin are fending off the leftists. They threw all their millions of confiscated union dues at us and were not able to takeover the senate.

    Oh boo hoo you frelling lefties. In one week let us just see if we can kick out two of the flea baggers.

  • Michelle

    I’m plenty calm, now that the reign of Ozero is coming to a close.  It’s you libs that seem a little testy these last few days.  But we understand, it’s been a rough week for your Messiah.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Oh, cry me a river. You don’t like the partisan wrangling? Move to North Korea, I hear no one speaks out there and everyone gets to eat grass. I guess that is the way earth should be treated, people should become cattle.

  • Texan

    538? ROFLMBAO!!!!!

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    I heard something like 40 million came from Koch industries and other corporations.  

  • Anonymous

    You’re in WI? Whereabouts? Not the specifics, just generally. :)

  • Darladoon

    “fending off the leftists”?

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Central, one of the Dem strong holds.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Wow, link please. The latest I heard, the total expenditure on this election was $32 million. $11 Million on the Republican side and $21 million on the union side….erm I mean Democrat side. Hmmmm, those leftists again saying they are not the rich politically connected ones.

    Oh, I forgot the continuous free advertising by LSDNC. Didn’t you just love the Partisan Electioneering provided by LSDNC? What they called election coverage.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Statists, big government proponents, progressives, liberals, socialists, communists, but I repeat myself.

  • Anonymous

    Here’s some current headlines of Tea Party successes for you:

    memeorandum: S&P Raises State of Ohio’s Credit Rating; Cites GOP

    Indiana has $1.2B budget surplus | The Star Press | thestarpress.com

    Wisconsin Added Half the Jobs in the Nation | Independent Sentinel

    Kaukauna Area School District projects $1.5 million surplus after contract changes to health care, retirement savings – The Post-Crescent

  • Anonymous

    Teabaggers don’t use the phrase “The People” so much ever since it became clear the large majority (by 30%) of The People want more taxes for the wealthy and hands off Social Security and Medicare.

    Democrats = The People

    Republicans – The Rich People.

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/151951/6_shady_right-wing_groups_pouring_money_into_today's_wisconsin_recall/?page=entire

    A lot of the money was considered dark money which is considered secret money.  

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    Why did Wisconsin’s unemployment rate go up?  You have some bad info.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    You link me to an article that states EXACTLY the same number I gave. BUT, it does not give the breakdown does it? It gives a short list of right wing sources of expenditures and not ONE source of left wing. Yeah, great breakdown there Staci, could you provide me a more slanted source, I am thinking maybe from the DNC itself maybe?

    Anyway, I am sure the article should have included the thousands of paid union members calling millions of households here in Wisconsin.

    Funny, I got two calls and informed them that if they were union members they could, if they wanted, quit paying their union dues if they wanted and donate the money to their favorite charities instead. Both callers did not know that. Are you in a union Staci? Did you know that you could opt out of your union dues and place your money into your favorite charity instead? I would say that 98% of union members do not know this. I wonder why the lefties never spread that information?

    Just something interesting for you to think about.

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    Unions can’t even compete with corporations they out spend unions by huge amounts of money.  Right wing groups give secretly, so its not none exactly known how much they give.  You should tell Rush he’s in a union.  

  • Anonymous

    Wrangling is one thing. Read this stuff. Read your own! Your answer, since I disagree with the endless partisan games, is to send me to a brutal dictatorship. I guess that answers my question. there can be no intelligent conversation. No actual statesmanship. Dare to speak out and be banished to North Korea. Nice, very nice.

    There has always been wrangling, but it is no longer that, nor is it any form of governance. It is simply nastiness geared towards the next election and the people be damned.

    This isn’t wrangling. It is open hatred. And that simply does not work.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Staci, give me a SOURCE that shows how much the Republicans spent in total. Please find one. I quoted an article I read earlier today, it had the EXACT same numbers as the one YOU supplied for the total, yet YOUR source did not do a breakdown of the different parties.

    YOU also made a statement that Koch industries spent 40 million, do you like to use hyperbole and then when you are shown the truth, you will not admit you were wrong? I will supply you my source if you would like, but I think that is unnecessary because your source backed up my numbers without doing a breakdown of the numbers. Hmmmm, does that not make you wonder just a little bit? Is there something in your head saying………..hmmmm, maybe Dave is right.

    They have a name for that little voice in your head, it is called a conscience, let it out, it will do you good.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Ahhhh, the next thing you are going to say we need compromise.

    Why does compromise always follow with someone reaching into my wallet?

    Let me explain just one thing to you. While living in California, I did a breakdown of my earnings and expenses for the last two years I was there. My EFFECTIVE tax rate was 67% and the following year was 72%.

    That includes all taxation including sales, property, licensing, registration, federal, state, county, city, etc etc etc. I kept track of EVERY dime spent those two years using software. I researched every taxation that was placed upon me. There are some that are so buried within our system it was hard to ferret them out.

    BUT, the largest one is not included in that number. It is inflation and by the price of gold right now, I am so glad I got out of the market when I did.

    Yeah, I am a pure commodities guy now, protecting the little the government allowed me to keep.

    Sorry, compromise is not in my vocab anymore after doing that research.

  • Anonymous

    Arguing about which side gave more immoral money than the other is a complete and total waste of time.

    If you can’t discuss the merits of your side, you are just mudslinging and wasting time. 

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    I am thinking of creating a tshirt or bumper sticker with something like-

    Why do leftists like McCain and idiots on the internet think calling us Hobbits bothers us?
    The Hobbits destroyed the evil Sarumon and Sauron.

    maybe-

    Hobbit and proud of it!

    Hobbit that will defeat the evil leftists/statists.

    Being a Hobbit, I love my leaf, why does leftist government make more than 50 times what the farmer does?

    Hobbit here, what does that make Obama? Sauron or Sarumon? What does that make the leftists?

    All kinds of great idears there.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    If the Tea Party are Hobbits, what does that make Obama and McCain? Sauron and Sarumon?

    What does that make the other leftists? Orcs and trolls? I think Shrillary is one of those mountain trolls.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    20% libs, 35% indys, 45% cons.

    I am a member of the 35%, how bout you?

    By the way, you got that wrong.

    Democrats=government leaches like, crony capitalists, government workers, welfare state

    Republicans=government leaches like, crony capitalists, subsidized businesses

    Independents=taxpayers sick of both leftist parties

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    I’m an independent that tends to lean to the left.  

  • Anonymous

    No matter how you try to spin this as a big win for corporate America you still lost 2 seats in spite of the fact that corporate America threw much more money into this recall.

  • Anonymous

    You lost 2 seats last night.  We didn’t lose any.  We gained two. 

  • Anonymous

    You people really are confused.  You lost two seats last night.  We didn’t lose anything.  We gained two.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    “corporate America threw much more money into this recall.” Can you provide proof or are we just supposed to believe your bull?

    By the way, the Repubs balanced the budget without taxation. They DID NOT steal road money like Doyle did. They DID NOT take federal money, EXCEPT for the forced loans for the extended unemployment insurance payments forced by the feds.

    You can go blather and bloviate someone not informed. By the way, the unions and the other leftists have sunk what, $50 million into Wisconsin now attempting to take back the government? Too bad we here in Wisconsin do not want higher taxes. We do not want a police state. We do not want a nanny state. As soon as the concealed carry goes through, the union riots and attacks will stop. The next election will also require you to provide an ID to vote. Hmmmm, Wisconsin, a former bastion of progressive, aka liberal, aka socialist power has been neutered.

    By the WAY!
    I am now forming a corporation!

    Maybe if you do not like corporations, you should go work for yourself if you think it is so easy to run a business and rip off your workers. I should see if Kramerica is available or if Seinfeld holds a copyright. LOL

  • Anonymous

    The whole bunch of you are quite confused.  You lost two seats last night.  We didn’t lose anything.  We gained two seats.

  • Anonymous

    It’s “leech”, not leach.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    I was thinking LEACH FIELD.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Staci, how do you expect 6-9 months of say 60 people to turn around a juggernaut like the US in that amount of time? I mean REALLY! Heck, Obama and the Dems had the economy for over two years and what did they DO? Give tons of money to their union cronies and states to stop gap union jobs and you expect the TP caucus to turn things around in 6-9 months?

    Wake up and smell the gold plated latinum.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Well you displaced two seats plus the amount of
    wasted revenue that was blown for the process of losing! Maybe they can tax the
    poor to make it up or just charge it to the unions!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: You are confused the people spoke and said you are full of dung and you cost the state needed revenue in the process. Revenue that could be used to hire more teachers but they will just have to cut some more of them now to make it up! Hahahahaaha………. As GOP Gov thats what I would do!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: cut/paste  cut/paste……lib?

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Obama the downgrader is a demarodent! Tea Party is just shinning the light on him!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Obama is the president! Thats why all states are losing jobs! Duh….

  • Anonymous

    Fact: The votes will still favor the GOP’s coarse that is in motion and will have to accelerate it now due to the lost time!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Ha!!!!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PFTHGT65XC6A3QVVMN2GT7ECTI Deedss Deed

    lets go go—-wwwjordanforworldcom

  • Anonymous

    Happily, Leftists have been outed and destroyed. They LOVE speaking of ‘The Middle Class’ and ‘Working People’ in what they HOPE is seen as an all-inclusive tone. But in actual FACT, these are protective, disguised phrases to describe UNION people ONLY. If you are a ‘middle class’ or ‘working’ person NOT in a Union or part of the ‘Pub-Lick’ sector, you are the ENEMY.

    So, YES…certain, selfish, UNION hack people have been DEFEATED by OTHER, more sensible and less-selfish people.

    Leftists can no longer spout terms like ‘working people’ and ‘middle class’ without everyone KNOWING that they are only looking out for the UNIONIZED and Pub-Lick Sector versions of those people.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Plus wasted state revenue!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: DISQUS error!

  • Hugo Daun

    Wisconsin…

  • Anonymous

    So…all that money spent by the unions and the Republicans still control the State Government; the unions forked over money willingly (but the union members didn’t) to try to undo an election and the tax payers had to fork over money because the unions (and the media) misrepresented what was going on.  For shame.
     
    PS and OT:  I saw the controversial picture of Obama with the soldiers bodies returning to Andrews – my bet is he did it for the movie….how disgraceful. 

  • Anonymous

    And what do you say of this coming Tuesday where 2 Democrats are being recalled?

  • Anonymous

    The point of Democrats throwing everything they have at this was to take the Senate and stop the Budget Repair Bill. You failed, just like you failed to defeat Prosser, and failed to stop it with your fleebagging terrorism and your Capitol hostage taking and the rest of your thuggish, juvenile actions. You lost, again.

    Heh.

  • Anonymous

    So that was your plan all along? Spend 25 million in out-of-state funds and 5 million of in-state funds and NOT take over the Senate? AND on top of that possibly lose those 2 seats next week and have gained NOTHING in the end. I’m sure all those union members who’s money got spent on this are sure glad when they go on strike they won’t have money to buy their kids diapers or formula because their union dues were spend on this exercise of mental masturbation. Good job…….

  • Anonymous

    Bitter much? I’m no fan of Grover (I’m a George Will & Charles K. kinda guy) but you seen to be coming off a little angry…. Why so serious?

  • Anonymous

    Bingo!

  • Anonymous

    That’s great. And what did you get for your prize? A $30,000,000 bill and NO power. Good job. Good luck next week. ;)

  • Anonymous

    Can you please come up with something new. Good luck next week.

  • Anonymous

    Things have really turned around in a hurry in Wisconsin. They think they’re going to recall Walker, but he’s got one very useful thing on his side: Reality. The numbers don’t lie.

    http://tinyurl.com/44oeee3

  • Anonymous

    Dyslexics of the world UNTIE!!!

  • Anonymous

    Really? Not the 5 years of Dem control of the house and senate and 3 years of a Dem Prez?

  • Anonymous

    Wanna see the Dem popularity in the house and senate???

  • Anonymous

    It’s down .7% from last year. Numbers are hard, huh? http://tinyurl.com/3e8s76b

  • Anonymous

    WI added HALF of all the jobs created in the US last quarter. Walker did his job and got the results he promised ALL the people of WI he would get. His job is to get ALL the people in WI working again. Not just the union thugs. Reading in fundamental but thinking is hard.

  • Anonymous

    You read wrong. A TOTAL of 30 million was spent by BOTH sides… TOTAL. And it was pretty even on BOTH sides with a slight advantage in spending going to the Repubs. Most of the Dems money came from out of state unions. Did you complain about THAT???

  • Anonymous

    Are you claiming all the Dem money came from IN-STATE??? If so please say it loud so the whole class can hear you.

  • Anonymous

    And how much out-of-state union money got spent? Please show your work.

  • Anonymous

    Wrong in every way something can be wrong.

  • Anonymous

    HA!!! times 2.

  • Anonymous

    You mentioned $40 million. There’s no $40 million in that piece. In fact, it suggests that the total spending of all groups is $31 million.

    In a foretaste of what Election 2012 will look like, the recalls have
    shattered spending records on both sides. Mike McCabe from the Wisconsin
    Democracy Campaign estimated $31
    million had been spent already—nearly 10 times the $3.75 million spent
    on all the state races in 2010. But more importantly, they’ve seen a
    flood of so-called “dark money” from groups that don’t have to disclose
    their donors thanks to the Citizens United ruling.

    Where did you hear $40 million? Or, rather, do you believe everything you hear?

  • Anonymous

    Heh. I just did that on Tuesday.

  • SMC

    The Hobbits never actually defeated Sauron…Gollum did. 

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    No, I’m lean and mean. But seriously, thank you tea party: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Kuo8lb6Bg&feature=mh_lolz&list=LLvczlKgi8Mtc

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Fact: Staci Chase is just a govpuppet parrot! Talking Points only poster!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Out of office straight into the Whitehouse!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Out of office straight into the Whitehouse!

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    What’s a hobbot?

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Enjoying the minority? The fleebagger Democrats are up next on the chopping block.

    I guess your whole strategy was to remain in the minority, right?

  • Anigmanm

    It is all part of the demoncraptic plan, spend money that accomplishes absolutely nothing useful but waste other peoples money.  I think the only business that benefits sells tissues, them demonrats sure do cry alot.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Um, no. Gollum fell into the fires of Doom while trying to steal the ring of power from Frodo (he bit Frodo’s finger off, just like that pro-Obama protestor bit the finger off of a tea partier in 2009).

    Are you sure you want to use Lord of the Rings as a well of metaphors for what’s happening these days? The ones in power are Democrats, champ. Sauron and Saruman were the status quo in LOTR, and the rest of Middle Earth, including the hobbits, were resisting and casting them off.

    And they succeeded.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Obama raised more money from private (and foreign) donations than any President in history. And union donations.

    He also got more corporate donations than any President in history.

    If you’re trying to make an argument about corporate money being a “rightwing” phenom, you’re failing at it.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Some leftwingnut blog said it.

    Therefore, it became the truth instantly, becuase the facts weren’t truth-y enough for them.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Enjoying the minority in WI?

    Seriously – let us know.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    No, you’re a leftwinger who pretends to be an independent because you think it disguises the fact that you’re a leftwinger.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    No, you’re a leftwinger who pretends to be an independent because you
    think it disguises the fact that you’re a leftwinger.

  • ExPat ExLawyer

    David asked for a legitimate source, Kitty.

  • Michelle

    Tell that to the fat cat donors Obama’s been hosting at fundraisers the last several days.  No one is buying that talking point anymore.

  • Michelle

    Why are libs always reluctant to admit it? 

  • Michelle

    Washington (CNN)
    — President Obama is scheduled to attend two fundraisers in New York on
    Thursday to benefit his re-election effort, two Democratic sources tell
    CNN. One is a reception for 15 people at a hotel. Following that he’ll
    attend a dinner for approximately 50 people hosted by film producer
    Harvey Weinstein and Vogue Editor Anna Wintour, according to the
    sources. The dinner will be held at Weinstein’s apartment, one of the
    sources said.Tickets for both events are $35,800 with proceeds going to the Obama Victory Fund, whose proceeds are shared by the re-election campaign and the Democratic National Committee.Earlier
    this week the President attended two separate events in Washington. He
    attended a fundraiser with approximately 140 guests at a private
    residence with its proceeds also going to the Victory Fund. He also went
    to a reception that night which was a donor outreach event.Are these “the people” you are talking about?

  • http://twitter.com/grimcity Neal Boyd

    Love him or hate him, that was one of the most succinct pieces I’ve seen about WI since the recall elections. The midwestern-look comment had me rolling, too. Couric vs Hunt! haha

  • Anonymous

    Finally a common sense post on here.  They are few and far between.  Thanks

  • Anonymous

    And by removing compromise from your vocabulary, you assure more of the same.

    Without any form of compromise, government cannot function in a representative democracy. It simply cannot work, as we have seen for the last decade. Both parties are dug in to hardened positions and jettison anyone that dares suggest honest negotiation and compromise. And this is the core of the problem. The insults and yelling and such are a product of that hardened blind ideology.

    If you are using California as a guide for taxation, then you have chosen one of the highest taxed states in the union along with New York and New Jersey. That is not representative of most of the country.

    My point is that reasonable people can have productive conversations on issues without the rancor that pretty much is currently paralyzing the nation. Until we can set the trash talk aside and discuss things, we are doomed to remain right where we are.

    Absolutism is the province of tyrants and dictators, yet it has become the method for both of the corrupt and tired parties. And that absolutism is the problem.

    Do I think Obama or Congress gets it? No they do not. Congress is now officially incapable of getting anything done and Obama seems content to watch from the sidelines.

    I would love a strong leader like a Reagan or LBJ. We need one of those. And not a blind ideologue.

  • Anonymous

    That is an excellent point. Both sides are deep into the money game.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    You forgot all of those seniors on social security and medicare. Wait, that’s welfare state, but they vote Republican predominately. Doesn’t that blow your bs apart? And what about the military? Aren’t they government employees? Don’t they predominately vote Republican?

  • Anonymous

    Still bitter about loosing your job with Geico?

  • richs

    One point I’d like to comment on.  When you say uncompensated tax cuts, this sounds like the Government is giving the people something.  Taxes should be cut and spending should be cut.  We have entirely too much wasteful spending in all areas of Government.

  • Anonymous

    They’re called “concern trolls”. They pretend to be thoughtful and to deeply consider the merits on each side of a topic, but _always_ come to some far left loon conclusion regarding whatever they’re typing about. When people claming to be independents _always_ come up with a leftist conclusion, they’re leftist puppets, plain and simple.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000841936241 Matt Seegz

    Oh, the projection.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000841936241 Matt Seegz

    You mooks are still convinced he’s some Libbrul Soshulist Muzlim Manchurian candidate, aren’t you?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000841936241 Matt Seegz

    He’s trying to be clever with the in-jokes but he dropped it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000841936241 Matt Seegz

    So in other words, your tin foil hat is about three sizes too small and it’s cutting off the circulation to your brain?

    THE RED THREAT STILL LIVES HELP ME TED NUJESUS.

  • Tedderman

    Stewart in his usual attempt to be “funny” misses what led to the “peoples” decision.  Republicans used every cheap, dirty political ploy they could muster to subvert the will of the people.  Forcing the Democrats to hold a primary against false or made up candidates and postponing the elections in order to allow the furor to die down.  Koch brothers and Karl Rove groups mailing out misleading information about the date of the election and informing those who received the mailers to have their ballots in two days after the election. Filling mailboxes and airwaves with countless false and misleading mailings and ads, while slinging mud at the opponents.  This election is not the true will of the people , it is in fact a combination of angry and confused people making the best decision they can given all the misinformation they’ve received.

  • Tedderman

    Stewart in his usual attempt to be “funny” misses what led to the “peoples” decision.  Republicans used every cheap, dirty political ploy they could muster to subvert the will of the people.  Forcing the Democrats to hold a primary against false or made up candidates and postponing the elections in order to allow the furor to die down.  Koch brothers and Karl Rove groups mailing out misleading information about the date of the election and informing those who received the mailers to have their ballots in two days after the election. Filling mailboxes and airwaves with countless false and misleading mailings and ads, while slinging mud at the opponents.  This election is not the true will of the people , it is in fact a combination of angry and confused people making the best decision they can given all the misinformation they’ve received.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000841936241 Matt Seegz

    Kitty, shut the hell up. They’ll be recalled again in a heartbeat. Two seats out of a possible… what was it, six? That’s not a fucking prize, that’s bullshit.

    How many of you teabagger-abiding assholes stayed home AGAIN instead of voting?! How DARE you people drop the ball after people sacrificed their time and effort protesting? You call yourselves democrats?! I call you wastes of goddamn space!

    Get your lazy asses back out there and PROTEST! Fight fire with fire!

  • Anonymous

    Not much intellectual level currently in Wisconsin.  Further proof of the history of RightWing goose-stepping continuation  -  no matter what.

  • Anonymous

    a name the baggers hate. McCaine said it when he was calling out the Tea Party. google it.

  • Anonymous

    honestly, I didn’t even hear it.(work computer) So I guess I should have before I posted it.

  • Anonymous

    Stewart is correct in point out that the Tea Partiers as well as the Trade Unionists are all Americans and all are seeking a sense of fairness.  The wave of recall elections was unparalleled in the nation’s history. Before this year, there had been just four recall elections of Wisconsin lawmakers. Two incumbents were recalled, while two survived the efforts.  To be sure, the DEM/Labor coalition wanted to take the majority in the Senate, but it didn’t happen.  However, the composition of the Senate changed.  The swing vote in the Senate is a Republican, Schultz, who votes on the issues.  His decisions are not bound by ideology that
    is tired to the Governor.  For Americans,  the majority is not as important as having fairness.

  • Moosenuts99

    THE MOVIE?

    WTH are you imagining?

  • Anonymous

    I make a triple digit salary my friend. I just don’t happen to be one of the rich greedy people.

  • Anonymous

    idk but I can’t wait until Gov. golpher face gets re-called.

  • Anonymous

    30% is a large majority?  lol

  • Anonymous

    mooks are liberals.  I would imagine just like you matt.  

  • UpChuck.Liberals NoBO12

    Hobbits are smart and resourceful as well as very brave, thusly as a TEA party person I’d like to thank McCain for giving us that label.  We all know that Liberals are Smurfs, they only sing one tune and can’t learn anything else.

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    Giving corporation money while they moved jobs out of states didn’t help and it caused the unemployment rate to go up under Walker.  

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    The Tea Party experiment is self destructing all over the place.  

  • UpChuck.Liberals NoBO12

    This is but a foretaste of the disaster to come for the Socialist morons.  Which IF they had any brains at all, poors Smurfs, they look to see what Socialism has done to Europe and England.  But no worries, it can’t happen here.  

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    I think you forgot about record filibusters in the Senate.  The wars and the big tax cuts were there before the Democrats took over. 

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    But big corporate money came from out of state.

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    That was the final total that was spent plus that used dark money.  

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    Corporation won’t give as much to democrats because it’s against their better interest.  They like that Republicans give them tax cuts to ship jobs oversees and allow them to have tax shelters in the Cayman Islands.    

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    Way more came from corporate donors and from outside Republican groups. 

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    Admit what Bachmann?  

  • Anonymous

    Right-wing oose-stepping? Yeah, typically civil thing for a lefty to say. You don’t agree with them, call them Nazis. You moron!

  • Anonymous

    What do you mean, “tends to”?

  • Anonymous

    You’re out of your mind. Do you know how much money the unions spent on the recall? Besides that, the dems (notice I don’t capitalize the word) are going to lose two seats belonging to two of the “Fleebaggers” who left the state rather than carry out their duties.

  • fanofgrendel

    This was playing last night about the time tub-a-guts Ed Shultz and Crazy Larry O’Donnell were talking up the historical great Democrat victory. (as if there was one)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4WOERGOXVCBWOGBWZNIX3NX4KY A B

     nice try – only problem is your side lost seats. the rightwing now only has a 1-seat majority in legislature (and these were in red districts, too), that will evaporate next year with the next batch of recalls. momentum is on the Democratic side, no matter how much you try to spin it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4WOERGOXVCBWOGBWZNIX3NX4KY A B

     nice try – only problem is your side lost seats. the rightwing now only has a 1-seat majority in legislature (and these were in red districts, too), that will evaporate next year with the next batch of recalls. momentum is on the Democratic side, no matter how much you try to spin it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4WOERGOXVCBWOGBWZNIX3NX4KY A B

    “demoncraptic?”
    Is that supposed to be funny. why do all conservatives argue like 5-year-olds?

  • Anonymous

    You prix just really can’t stand to lose can ya?

  • Anonymous

    BY 30%. Real total approximately 70% favor increased taxes somewhere.

  • Anonymous

    Fundraising is done by both (all) sides. Ignore it as a political issue. The closest thing it comes to in terms of political significance is that a candidate who can’t get any funds is clearly not going to get voter support when it counts.

  • Anonymous

    What is a mook? Is it like a kook?

  • Anonymous

    Good pun, then.

  • Anonymous

    Just so you know, I do not attack corporations (in general) or Corporate America. I know the vast majority of corporations are good American citizens, and it is legitimate to seek advantage. Individuals do that too. It is politics. It is also up to politicians to find the right balance.
    Politicians should be like umpires keeping it fair while people vie for advantage.

  • Anonymous

    what?  How do you jump from 30% favor increase to 70?

    Hmmm I wonder what the % would be if only people who payed federal taxes could voice their opinion?

  • Anonymous

    B_F_D was trying to say that the 30% of voters who want more taxes collected are more than the majority, while those who don’t want more taxes are in the minority. He should not have thrown in the 30% figure because adding percentages is not informative. More than 20 different polls have shown that the majority of voters do want more taxes, and the actual figure is about 70% in favor of that,

  • Baymvay

    “I make a triple digit salary my friend.”

    Libtard classic!!!  So, are you on the high end or low end of those triple digits?  I mean, $200-$500 per year is pretty impressive, but if you’re making almost $1,000 per year…well then, sir, color me impressed AND envious!!

    By the way, NO ONE as  grammatically or orthographically challenged as you makes SIX-figures per year.  Now, it’s almost 10 o’clock Eastern time, it’s time for you to get to bed to ensure you make it to middle school on time tomorrow.

  • waiting for 11-2012

    remember moose — you heard it here first……..i’d give odd on that pic making it into the film.

  • waiting for 11-2012

    oops — i’d give odds*

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    The Nuge had a great article at the Washington Times.

    Here you go-http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/10/presidential-master-of-economic-disaster/

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Too bad we do not live in a representative democracy huh KeevaS?

    We are a democratically elected Constitutional Republic. The reason the founders made it hard for legislation to be passed, because they knew statists love to steal from the citizens and take rights.

    By the way, what compromise on spending cuts can you show me from over the last 30 years. I would like you to show ME ONE budget cut in the past 30 years. That would be a downward turn in Federal government spending. I will be waiting…………………………………………

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    SS and medicare are deducted from my paychecks, where did that money go? Oh, that is right, the government spent it on other things, you know, spending more than they take in and setting up the largest ponzeii scheme in mankind’s history.

    If Bernie Madoff gets life, shouldn’t anyone that spent SS or Medicare on anything but those, end up with life or more?

  • Anonymous

    I think a hobbot it a hobo robot.

  • Baymvay

    LMAO!!  Whatever you have to tell yourself in order to sleep at night.  Dims/Libs/Soc’s/Com’s/UnionThugs cherry-picked the six districts they thought gave them best chance of undoing the will of the people in the previous election.  There was one singular goal, one pursuit:  To take back the Senate.  They failed. 

    Next week Republicans take a crack at regaining the two seats they lost this week. 

    Oh, and you did lose last night.  You failed to achieve your objective, you spent an enormous amount of money in the effort, and you lost political capital.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t try and cash that check you just wrote.

  • http://en.gravatar.com/robb714 Robb714

    The Cain train has left the station (other candidates) and is building momentum. Now if he can just get on the right track and continue to pick up steam, he will not have any trouble mowing down Obama, like a penny on a rail, come next year. I am starting to get a tingle up my leg already, let’s just hope he doesn’t get derailed by incompetent advisors like all the other candidates obviously have. If he gets behind #100MillionScissorsProject and #EnergyFreedomProject he could pick up some extra support for sure. Brohter Al needs to get off the going the wrong way train and eat some more collards. And then there’s this http://newsflavor.com/world/middle-east/robbs-deposed-despot-dictator-rehab-ranch/

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