USA USA USA, what a crock of shit. Political system is bought, Supreme Court Justices are crooked, banks are out to break everyone, Sarah Palin is worshipped as the next great President, WTF? Corporations are sitting on Billions in cash and will not hire anyone? Americans are America's worst enemy.
Republicans today are monsters. and to think, great presidents like Teddy Roosevelt, Abe Lincoln and Dwight Eisenhower came from that party. Now the republican party is the party of assholes like Reagan, Bush , and Cheney.
As to the idea that everyone's buying everyone off, I'll put this back out there:
When Adam Smith was detailing and outlining Capitalism, he was living under a monarchy. He tended to look at Republics with a bit of disdain. My point being this - When you start to mix Capitalism and a representative government, in which those representatives can be corrupted more easily than a centralized ruler as such, you're going to have problems. I think we have the right system, but we've gotten corrupted.
This is further proof of why the two party system is a complete sham. Never vote for someone just because they are a Democrat. Only vote for someone because you agree with most everything they say and you can verify they have a record of honesty and morality. And never ever vote for someone simply because you're voting against someone else. These assholes in power get away with it because most people (including most Democrats) are fucking retards who should be eliminated from the genetic pool.
@Lpoolboy Sure, happens alot. Alan Spector changed from republican to democrat when dems sweep in and took control in 2006 and super majority unstoppable control in 2008. Unfortunatly the magic bullet theory guy couldnt dodge the bullet this time. Good run, almost 50 years in office...
@VocabWord I think saying Ana's EXTREMELY intelligent is stretching it abit..in alot of stories her opinions go on emotion instead of logic (the guy that used his money on hookers instead of his family- she was outraged, even though it was his money) and some others also. there's a reason she covers celeberaty news and cenk does politics in general
@Minkki82 Using emotion doesn't make you unintelligent. Dr. McCoy was an emotional fellow, especially when compared to Spock, and he was a pretty good goddamn doctor!
if you think Ana has the ability to raise a family, be a home maker/wife and get elected Governor and achieve high ratings taking on oil interests as Palin did, and run for VP, become an author and run a high profile in politics as Palin, you're a fucking retard, simple as that
face it, you hate Palin because she's pro life, in other words you feel that what goes on in a woman's crotch has bearing on political abilities
@genie0390 I don't agree with pro life but thats a small thing compared to believing the Univserse itself is 6,000 years old and that there is a massive conspiracy in the scientific community to create the evolution myth.
Also your saying i'm sexist for not liking a female candidate based on her religious views...
Then wouldn't you be sexist against men for opposing Stalin! apparently you believe that a penis effects someones bearing on political abilities.
@genie0390 If you think palin did any of these things, you are mistaken. Her kids have all been in trouble with the law, pregnancy, etc. and for the most part have no parental guidance because mama palin is out pimping herself to idiots like you. She was elected as governor, but quit halfway through. That impresses you? Seeing that she pays people to write what she says - fb, twitter, books, you name it, I would hesitate on worshipping her intellect if I were you. Palin is a hating scam-artist.
@genie0390 My statement had nothing to do with Ana. I merely assumed that, in characterizing Ms. Palin as a fount of knowledge, you were being facetious. I don't think even her most ardent supporters would claim with a straight face that Ms. Palin is the intellectual light of the western world.
Finishing my response to JoeEDangerously re recalls, while states may not impose term limits on members of Congress, there is no such limit on their power to enact laws providing for popular recall of state or local/municipal officials. On a hunch, I checked out the NCSL site, which turned up a comprehensive listing and summary of extant state recall laws. On the state level, the practice originated, I believe, with the celebrated Gov. Hiram Johnson of California. Bob LaFollette followed suit.
@shaneu1 Correction. I intended to say in the first sentence that states may not enact laws providing for the recall of members of Congress, for much the same reason that the Supreme Court in the Thornton case invalidated all state laws fixing term limits on members of Congress.
@scottsway Thanks. I again propose that all progressive forces, from Greens to disaffected Democrats to those who are permanently alienated from the political system, coalesce to form a viable Socialist party. The old "not a dime's worth of difference" cliche is the truth, superficial appearances notwithstanding, given domination of both parties by monied interests. Remember: it only took Labour 20 years or so to replace the declining Liberal party as the official opposition in Britain.
Here's my prediction Manchin won't switch, he'll use his position as a powerbroker to bully Harry Reid just like Ben Nelson and LIEberman do. Manchin isn't dumb enough to trust the GOP to honor their side of the deal. One would hope.
Can we kick West Virginia out of the Union? As the climate change situtation gets worse it won't matter whether they elect Democrats or Republicans b/c both will fight any environmental legislation that hurts the big coal industry.
@MassLiberal1 I'm afraid that's right. Junior Gore killed his chances in The Mountain State in 2000 by having ranted on about the evils of fossil fuel in a book he supposedly wrote (was it titled "Earth in the Balance," or some such?) West Virginia had voted for a Republican for President only two times, I believe, in the last 60 years or so (Nixon in '72 and Reagan in '84). Even Dukakis, an enviro, won there in '88. Dumping on the coal industry angers owner/operators and miners alike.
In india, if u represent a party and u win a senate seat, they u cant switch to other party. either u should resign the position in the party and the senate seat and start over or u should represent yourself till the end of the office as a non party candidate and u can switch to the other party in the next term. btw we have a multiparty system. that is u can represent any party with in the millions of party.
We are being manipulated by those who've seized power years ago.
Teaparty people, progressives, green party -- all of us are fighting each other instead of the tyrants at the top.
We need to stop and think. All of us. None of us are completely right about anything but while we're all trying to prove we're right our overlords are quietly, slowly, stripping us of our liberties and our collective ability of accomplish great things.
@oscarandsam As far as I'm concerned, it's too late for the USA. Only once they're bankrupt and too many people are starving, will they revolt - and by then it might be too late. I just hope they don't take the whole world down with them.
Oh Jebus, just tell Obamapussy and the Demopussies that if they switch parties Glen Beck will stop saying nasty things about them. Guanranteed the majority of the Demopussies would accept.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again- there is no reason to add the R or D to a politician's name; they're exactly the same anyways. They're all corrupt, they're all greedy, they're all hypocrites.
I don't know why Cenk is surprised up in Canada in 2006 when the Conservatives own a minority government. One of the ridings that Liberal actually a riding in Vancouver putting the fear of god that the Conservatives are horrible and blah blah blah. Wins by 10pts. Less than a day later he crosses the floor to Toryville, next election didn't even bother to run again. Liberals to the NDP
@AjaxFerrariLeafs The funny thing is, Canada's conservative party (with a minority anyways) is left of centre. They'd be called socialists and all the jazz by the Fox News crew, for sure.
At least we're not quite so corrupt up here, but all politics will be corrupt..
Does this state have a recall statute for Senators? If so I would think that they could recall this guy and put in a true progressive, if they have one.
Speaking of "for sale" signs, let's ditch the pretend "two party system" most of America votes accordingly with. ...unless you like smoke being blown up your ass by your respective party. Hey, these rich fucks don't get richer without your goddamn complacency.
Joe Machin is just another one of Sarah Palin's DICKLESS and BALLESS BITCH and PUSSY! Palin is SUPERIOR to Machin in every single way for he wears the skirt in his family while his wife wears the pants!
Nice job smearing Byrd's legacy. Yeah, he was in the KKK like freaking 50+ years ago. In the past few decades he actually worked quite a bit in favor of positive race relations, and admitted that his membership in the KKK was wrong and pretty much inexcusable.
But then we have assholes like you that seem to forget that there was a whole lot more to the man than when he was in the KKK as a young man. Dumbass.
Republicans are the ruin of America. We were once a great nation, but Republicans destroyed and continue to destroy this country.
Republicans should be jailed. They're intellectually inferior, anti-progress, hateful, morally bankrupt, and the would rather destroy their own country than see it move forward.
REPUBLICANS ARE AMERICA'S CANCER. CUT THE CANCER OUT!
@scottsway Agreed, but I increasingly think the Democrats aren't much better. The congressional party is about as much in the clutches of corporate giants, notably the insurance industry, as is the GOP. I'm slowly realizing that the true progressive forces in this nation must eventually unite to form a Socialist party. Many "Teabaggers" saw that the GOP establishment was promising them one thing and doing quite another. I fear that we may need to face a similar reality about the Democrats.
@shaneu1In all honesty in the modern Democratic Party has no liberals. Most of them are 3rd Way Centrist Democrats following the ways of Bill and Hilary Clinton. The only real liberal senator America has at the moment is Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Whose is a Independent who caucuses with the Dems. The true New Deal Roosevelt Democrats are dead. Having lost a majority of power during the Reagan Revolution and the corporate takeover of the Democratic Party by Rahm Emanuel and the DLC.
Cenk, Joe Manchin was only elected for 2 years to serve out the remainder of the late-Sen. Bob Byrd's term. Manchin is up for reelection in 2012 and will on the same ballot as Obama who is extremely unpopular in racist, white West Virginia. The fear is that Obama could take him out. Nevertheless, this guy was elected as a Democrat. He should stand on his principles.
Hey Tea Party people, if you guys are such fiscal conservatives where is the bill to forever ban wasteful earmarks? How about a bill that bans congressional members/aides and their family's from getting cushy jobs with high salary's from corporations lobbying them? That's right you will never see any of those bills, you've been had son!
@Xenite227 Its no mistake that after 30 years of this country getting increasingly horrible in math and science, we have become a "Tea Party Nation". We've been dumbed down enough to believe their crap.
I tell you what if the Republicans made me a millionaire i would switch to the Republican party sooo if any Republicans are ready i don't want a check cash deal only!
The fact that people in this country are fool into voting for republicans should make them ashamed, it's like being retarded and being able to do something about it and choosing to stay retarded. - people amaze me!
Somebody ought to pull joe lieberman's two inch dick out and staple it to the Torah or Koran if they could possibly manage it. Why do we have jerk offs like this running the most important part of Congress? Are the American People so Fuck-in Stupid they even think people like this could make this Country Better? Chop his little thingy off and get with the program America, he's a LOOOOOSER!
I am from West Virginia and I voted for Joe Mancin and I will be royally pissed off if he is converted by money, but I would not be surprised if he did, all politicians are scum
So where's the new set Ana was promoting? It feels like TYT is dying off. New set but Cenk is in NYC, ready to cut anchor and set sail. This sounds like shit over Skype or phone or whatever.
I should add that, as most pro politicos are well aware, party switchers often fare poorly after, as congressional party-switching was called back in the sixties, "pulling a Wayne Morse" and walking across the aisle. Arlen Specter is but the latest example. Consider the examples of "Presidents" Wendell Willkie and John Connally, soon-to-be former Rep. Parker Griffith (Ala.), former Congressman and losing gubernatorial candidate Mike Parker (Miss.), "Senator" Sam Yorty, and many others.
Well actually, party switchers in the state of Georgia have done pretty well for themselves. Outgoing Governor Sonny Perdue enjoyed 8 years as a governor and in-coming Governor Nathan Deal before this election was a U.S. House Representative for 16 years.
Both were Democrats before doing the ol' switcheroo. Then again, Georgia is a pretty conservative state.
@willia3r Yes, the Democrats-turned-Republicans have generally come out all right in the South. Perdue, Deal, Richard Shelby, Rodney Alexander of Louisiana, Mac Collins of Georgia, and back in '64, old Strom Thurmond, to name but a few. One odd exception: George Wallace, Jr., who switched to the GOP with daddy's approval, but hasn't flourished electorally since, despite several efforts.
@chaumont20 Retirement or the electorate have already decimated the "Blue Dog" ranks in the House. There aren't many "RINO" types left there either, the kind to whom the Birchers used to refer as "pink elephants." Christopher Shays and Jim Leach, for example, were booted by Democrats. Michael Castle crapped out in the Delaware primary, a victim of conservative primary voters' perception of him as a RINO. An incidental result of the foregoing phenomenon is more intense partisan polarization.
The problem here is the political system in this country is reliant on politicans being easily-bought sheep and voting according to the party line 100% of the time or whoever pays them the most.
During the nineties Sens. Richard Shelby (Ala.) and Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Colo.) switched to the GOP, but there were specific reasons for that, particularly in the case of Campbell, who faced the prospect of a strong Democratic primary challenge. Manchin has little incentive to switch, and Lieberman would lose if he ran as a Republican in a two-way race. As for Nelson, Nebraska has often elected conservative Democrats (e.g., Sens. Zorinsky and Exon). In sum, GOP efforts will likely fail.
@RBLA818 I did a quick Google search, apparently they do it for state officials, but not congress or senate. Not 100% sure, though. Does someone know? I'm curious now.
@shaneu1 Someone asked whether West Virginia has a way to recall elected officials. I did a search, and it wasn't clear. So is it possible, and are there different procedures for different offices?
@xJoeEDangerouslyx Well, I am supposed to be a political scientist as well as a lawyer (please omit lawyer jokes), so I guess I have enough credibility to answer that question. First, the rule is that states may not enact laws providing for the recall of members of Congress. The most recent Supreme Court case usually cited for that proposition is U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton, 514 U.S. 779 (1995), which invalidated all state laws that imposed term limits on members of Congress.
Good move. I think that, in order to eliminate the corruption in the current American political system, we should replace all elected representatives with inanimate objects. The republicans will be led by a furby, and the democrats can be lead by either a pet rock or Keanu Reeves... :P
No, it's not illegal to switch parties and it shouldn't be. The framers did not anticipate this phenomenon where a group would lazily elect a letter as opposed to working to make sure they elected the best candidate. This douche switching parties is just a symptom of the greater problem. He's a conservative who only ran as a democrat because the GOP wouldn't run him, he has no ideological loyalty and the state party didn't ask him to have any when they nominated him.
We don't have a functioning democracy, we do have a functioning plutocracy. The Romans did too, but they also had poisoned drinking water (lead pipes). The latter brought down the former. We have the Internet which poisons the Republicans (exposes their hypocrisy). Go TYT!
I'm not sure this is that big a deal. He was conservative already, I doubt the letter before his name being R or D would really change how he votes anyway
@Nemesis000000 Indeed its not a big deal. In theory there is no party alignment in America once they are voted in - all members are free to vote independent of their party on any given issue.
@bj4paul Spectror found the Republican Party getting far too conservative for many of his own positions, and the catalyst for his party switch was that the primary voters were likely to suppport a far more conservative nominee; unlike Manchin who won consistently in WV as a Democrat and might be viewed too center in the next Republican primary.
@huckfinn22 True. Spector is a textbook case of the dangers of party-switching; he did it twice. Spector always pitched himself as a centrist-liberal Republican in Pennsylvania. By 2010, he knew that, given the very conservative composition of the GOP primary electorate, he would lose the GOP primary, so he switched back to Democrat. The problem he then faced was the very liberal nature of the state's Democratic primary electorate, for whom he wasn't liberal enough. Result: No more Spector.
@MrDustock ... Well, I live in Australia, and there are very few guns in ANYBODYs hands, either government or private. More guns brings more fear, and more fear brings more violence.
"In this country we have corporations that buy politicians, we also have politicians that buy politicians. We don't really have a functioning democracy" bingo
Why would there be laws against it? Party affiliation means zilch. Democratic and Republican voters need to wake up. These parties are useless. I hope this helps them see that.
I say we have a rule that after a period of time, people can do a recall vote to recall there elected official and replace them with someone else in a special by election. that would fix this problem for all seats. Like say after 2 years for senators they come under review, and a poll is done to see if the voters want someone new, and if they do, new election.
Wow. Suprise, suprise. I guess the whole idea of having polititans with any real integirity is an outdated idea. As long as the politicians get to line thier wallets and be on the commitees that keep thier own interests running, they don't care what the end results are. And it just shows how desperate the Republicans are.
Enraged at the results of the 2010 election, some leftists are no longer willing to wait quietly through the Gramscian/Fabian process of incremental totalitarianism. MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell freely admits he's a socialist. Tim Wise openly boasts of the progressive plan to obliterate America through demographics. Now Ted Rall noisily calls for an armed socialist revolution in his aptly named The Anti-American Manifesto. Excerpt via Verum Serum:
USA USA USA, what a crock of shit. Political system is bought, Supreme Court Justices are crooked, banks are out to break everyone, Sarah Palin is worshipped as the next great President, WTF? Corporations are sitting on Billions in cash and will not hire anyone? Americans are America's worst enemy.
derberg19486 1 year ago
Republicans today are monsters. and to think, great presidents like Teddy Roosevelt, Abe Lincoln and Dwight Eisenhower came from that party. Now the republican party is the party of assholes like Reagan, Bush , and Cheney.
mr19932001 1 year ago
I'm from WV, and Joe Manchin ran for governor as Democrat, but he has always been a republican at heart! Dirty man!
2013dbailey 1 year ago
I'm getting more and more disillusioned with democracy. Frankly communism, and facism don't strike my fancy either..
I'm kinda thinking we should call the grand experiment a failure and create an American monarchy.
GhostInTheShell29 1 year ago
oh man worst 2 presidents in America's history back to back, completely useless charlatans
capucchan8 1 year ago
are the republicans some sort of mafia or something?
ussumane22 1 year ago
@ussumane22 As Beaver Cleaver used to say, "kinda sorta." I've occasionally thought that the party could be prosecuted under the RICO statute.
shaneu1 1 year ago
As to the idea that everyone's buying everyone off, I'll put this back out there:
When Adam Smith was detailing and outlining Capitalism, he was living under a monarchy. He tended to look at Republics with a bit of disdain. My point being this - When you start to mix Capitalism and a representative government, in which those representatives can be corrupted more easily than a centralized ruler as such, you're going to have problems. I think we have the right system, but we've gotten corrupted.
dEdGrimley 1 year ago
This is further proof of why the two party system is a complete sham. Never vote for someone just because they are a Democrat. Only vote for someone because you agree with most everything they say and you can verify they have a record of honesty and morality. And never ever vote for someone simply because you're voting against someone else. These assholes in power get away with it because most people (including most Democrats) are fucking retards who should be eliminated from the genetic pool.
MarmaladeINFP 1 year ago 8
They even want to change the R from Toy's R Us.
Useyno 1 year ago 2
Money money money, moooneh
xIntoThePitx 1 year ago
Wait, they can do this? Oh man American politics is fucking retarded.
Lpoolboy 1 year ago 4
@Lpoolboy Sure, happens alot. Alan Spector changed from republican to democrat when dems sweep in and took control in 2006 and super majority unstoppable control in 2008. Unfortunatly the magic bullet theory guy couldnt dodge the bullet this time. Good run, almost 50 years in office...
TheCameljockie 1 year ago
@TheCameljockie
Arlen Specter was always pretty on the fence and often more in line with the Democrats anyway.
dEdGrimley 1 year ago
Ana may be good looking but she is no Sarah Palin when it comes to knowledge and common sense
genie0390 1 year ago
@genie0390 Yeah, Ana's extremely intelligent, unlike Palin. I love that since they're both female, you HAVE to compare them. Sexism much?
VocabWord 1 year ago 2
@VocabWord I think saying Ana's EXTREMELY intelligent is stretching it abit..in alot of stories her opinions go on emotion instead of logic (the guy that used his money on hookers instead of his family- she was outraged, even though it was his money) and some others also. there's a reason she covers celeberaty news and cenk does politics in general
Minkki82 1 year ago
@Minkki82 Using emotion doesn't make you unintelligent. Dr. McCoy was an emotional fellow, especially when compared to Spock, and he was a pretty good goddamn doctor!
VocabWord 1 year ago
@genie0390 I assume you offer the plaudits for Ms. Palin with satirical intent.
shaneu1 1 year ago
@shaneu1
Sarah Palin was Governor of Alaska and scored high job approval ratings under tough conditions. Name me something that Ana has achieved?
why is it that liberals like to argue against the obvious?
genie0390 1 year ago
@genie0390 Ana has achieved Basic geography knowledge, Basic biology knowledge, Basic history knowledge.
Things Sarah Palin, has not and will not ever achieve.
In her 6000 year old universe with no evolution.
GhostInTheShell29 1 year ago
@GhostInTheShell29
if you think Ana has the ability to raise a family, be a home maker/wife and get elected Governor and achieve high ratings taking on oil interests as Palin did, and run for VP, become an author and run a high profile in politics as Palin, you're a fucking retard, simple as that
face it, you hate Palin because she's pro life, in other words you feel that what goes on in a woman's crotch has bearing on political abilities
fuckin simpleton
genie0390 1 year ago
@genie0390 I don't agree with pro life but thats a small thing compared to believing the Univserse itself is 6,000 years old and that there is a massive conspiracy in the scientific community to create the evolution myth.
Also your saying i'm sexist for not liking a female candidate based on her religious views...
Then wouldn't you be sexist against men for opposing Stalin! apparently you believe that a penis effects someones bearing on political abilities.
GhostInTheShell29 1 year ago
@genie0390 If you think palin did any of these things, you are mistaken. Her kids have all been in trouble with the law, pregnancy, etc. and for the most part have no parental guidance because mama palin is out pimping herself to idiots like you. She was elected as governor, but quit halfway through. That impresses you? Seeing that she pays people to write what she says - fb, twitter, books, you name it, I would hesitate on worshipping her intellect if I were you. Palin is a hating scam-artist.
maryp1217 1 year ago
@genie0390 My statement had nothing to do with Ana. I merely assumed that, in characterizing Ms. Palin as a fount of knowledge, you were being facetious. I don't think even her most ardent supporters would claim with a straight face that Ms. Palin is the intellectual light of the western world.
shaneu1 1 year ago
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Republicans:
Reasonable
Rational
Realistic
Democrats:
Delusional
Demented
Demonic.
tehant1liberal 1 year ago
And listing a bunch of words that begin with the same letter proves what? Is THAT the best you have?
1RadicalOne 1 year ago
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@tehant1liberal
Democrats:
Reasonable
Rational
Realistic
Republicans:
Delusional
Demented
Demonic.
scottsway 1 year ago
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TheDeathsHead 1 year ago
@tehant1liberal
Republicans
Reprehensible
Racist
Ruthless
TheDeathsHead 1 year ago
@tehant1liberal That's rather sophomoric, don't you think?
shaneu1 1 year ago
GOP is good at Bribes.
DillonDee1 1 year ago 13
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"GOP is good at Bribes."
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Obviously you forgot about Democrats giving out free cigarettes to poor blacks for votes.
JimboVids 1 year ago
@DillonDee1
"bribes"?,..you mean like what Pelosi and Reid did to get the votes to pass Obowma's crazy Health care Bill??
genie0390 1 year ago
Like rats jumping off a sinking ship! Ha hah
RAMKING61 1 year ago 3
Finishing my response to JoeEDangerously re recalls, while states may not impose term limits on members of Congress, there is no such limit on their power to enact laws providing for popular recall of state or local/municipal officials. On a hunch, I checked out the NCSL site, which turned up a comprehensive listing and summary of extant state recall laws. On the state level, the practice originated, I believe, with the celebrated Gov. Hiram Johnson of California. Bob LaFollette followed suit.
shaneu1 1 year ago
@shaneu1 Correction. I intended to say in the first sentence that states may not enact laws providing for the recall of members of Congress, for much the same reason that the Supreme Court in the Thornton case invalidated all state laws fixing term limits on members of Congress.
shaneu1 1 year ago
@shaneu1 spot on shane once again! Sorry for the canned statement previously as I do agree with about the current state of the democratic party.
scottsway 1 year ago
@scottsway Thanks. I again propose that all progressive forces, from Greens to disaffected Democrats to those who are permanently alienated from the political system, coalesce to form a viable Socialist party. The old "not a dime's worth of difference" cliche is the truth, superficial appearances notwithstanding, given domination of both parties by monied interests. Remember: it only took Labour 20 years or so to replace the declining Liberal party as the official opposition in Britain.
shaneu1 1 year ago
Here's my prediction Manchin won't switch, he'll use his position as a powerbroker to bully Harry Reid just like Ben Nelson and LIEberman do. Manchin isn't dumb enough to trust the GOP to honor their side of the deal. One would hope.
trajan74 1 year ago
CNN reported it on election night...sorry, too late
KiheiLawyer 1 year ago
this should be the next topic of daily rant
browngom 1 year ago
The fact that this can even happen legally is just more proof our country and government is beyond repair, the corporations have won.
TheUSMetalhead 1 year ago 3
When Cenk is on the phone on the TYT channel he looks like he is interviewed and not presenting...
Melpheos1er 1 year ago
Can we kick West Virginia out of the Union? As the climate change situtation gets worse it won't matter whether they elect Democrats or Republicans b/c both will fight any environmental legislation that hurts the big coal industry.
MassLiberal1 1 year ago
@MassLiberal1 I'm afraid that's right. Junior Gore killed his chances in The Mountain State in 2000 by having ranted on about the evils of fossil fuel in a book he supposedly wrote (was it titled "Earth in the Balance," or some such?) West Virginia had voted for a Republican for President only two times, I believe, in the last 60 years or so (Nixon in '72 and Reagan in '84). Even Dukakis, an enviro, won there in '88. Dumping on the coal industry angers owner/operators and miners alike.
shaneu1 1 year ago
Isn't this bribery at the highest order?
knave2 1 year ago
In india, if u represent a party and u win a senate seat, they u cant switch to other party. either u should resign the position in the party and the senate seat and start over or u should represent yourself till the end of the office as a non party candidate and u can switch to the other party in the next term. btw we have a multiparty system. that is u can represent any party with in the millions of party.
Gokulvlogs 1 year ago
We are being manipulated by those who've seized power years ago.
Teaparty people, progressives, green party -- all of us are fighting each other instead of the tyrants at the top.
We need to stop and think. All of us. None of us are completely right about anything but while we're all trying to prove we're right our overlords are quietly, slowly, stripping us of our liberties and our collective ability of accomplish great things.
We are NOT each others' enemies.
oscarandsam 1 year ago
@oscarandsam As far as I'm concerned, it's too late for the USA. Only once they're bankrupt and too many people are starving, will they revolt - and by then it might be too late. I just hope they don't take the whole world down with them.
Xerxes4242 1 year ago
Joe Manchin saw this video three times today. Jim Demint started the recession.
m4chjas 1 year ago
Even if they switched all 3 of these sellouts, they'd need to switch 4 to get the majority in the Senate. Not going to happen.
Nebiros21 1 year ago
@Nebiros21 It's strange how they'd have a 100% mandate with 51 seats but the Dems need 60 - and even that isn't enough.
Xerxes4242 1 year ago
Oh Jebus, just tell Obamapussy and the Demopussies that if they switch parties Glen Beck will stop saying nasty things about them. Guanranteed the majority of the Demopussies would accept.
MeketoaI 1 year ago
LOL, and they whined about Obama offering Sestak a job. Republicans are hypocrites.
dlhitch2007 1 year ago 2
I've said it before, and I'll say it again- there is no reason to add the R or D to a politician's name; they're exactly the same anyways. They're all corrupt, they're all greedy, they're all hypocrites.
rhian116 1 year ago
Hey man lay off they're just doing their jobs lol...
upplsuckimcool16 1 year ago
@upplsuckimcool16 They do anything? That's news to me.
rhian116 1 year ago
@rhian116 That may be true, but when it comes to policy, there are some distinct differences that make one party much worse than the other.
jstutz2003 1 year ago
@jstutz2003 That is true. I'd still prefer a dirty Democrat to a dirty Republican. Hell, I'd prefer a dirty Democrat to a squeaky clean Republican.
rhian116 1 year ago 3
I like the old set better...
Blacksoljah 1 year ago
Hey, not to play into the creeps' hands, but Ana looks really good today.
eirefrance 1 year ago
I don't know why Cenk is surprised up in Canada in 2006 when the Conservatives own a minority government. One of the ridings that Liberal actually a riding in Vancouver putting the fear of god that the Conservatives are horrible and blah blah blah. Wins by 10pts. Less than a day later he crosses the floor to Toryville, next election didn't even bother to run again. Liberals to the NDP
AjaxFerrariLeafs 1 year ago
@AjaxFerrariLeafs The funny thing is, Canada's conservative party (with a minority anyways) is left of centre. They'd be called socialists and all the jazz by the Fox News crew, for sure.
At least we're not quite so corrupt up here, but all politics will be corrupt..
Xerxes4242 1 year ago
Murrikkkans have dun goofed.
Too bad murrikkkans almost seem to outnumber americans.
Tounushi 1 year ago
Does this state have a recall statute for Senators? If so I would think that they could recall this guy and put in a true progressive, if they have one.
Boomer1949 1 year ago
So he took all of that democratic money and support, and as soon as he gets in, he switches parties? Is he going to refund all of that campaign money?
Paint a dollar sign on a tennis ball, and throw it across the house floor, see how many in congress chase it!!
TruthAndMoreTruth 1 year ago 3
Anna, we hadn't had a functioning democracy in a long time, possibly since the beginning.
OriginalBeast 1 year ago
If this does happen, it may be a salutary lesson to the Democrats to put forward genuinely progressive candidates in the future.
rickelmonoggin 1 year ago
Divine comedy.
AceHoale 1 year ago
democracy in america lol, this is shit they want to export around the world?
planetmax83 1 year ago 3
Speaking of "for sale" signs, let's ditch the pretend "two party system" most of America votes accordingly with. ...unless you like smoke being blown up your ass by your respective party. Hey, these rich fucks don't get richer without your goddamn complacency.
identityisrelative 1 year ago 3
lmao!!!! It gets better and better everyday.
vjacq88 1 year ago
For a show that just got a flashy new set, they sure are shy about showing it off....
CheapBeer09 1 year ago
get rid of blache lincoln and then you get joe manchin
Chriseycarlyeah324 1 year ago
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Joe Machin is just another one of Sarah Palin's DICKLESS and BALLESS BITCH and PUSSY! Palin is SUPERIOR to Machin in every single way for he wears the skirt in his family while his wife wears the pants!
ecwaufisxtreme 1 year ago
Heh, How can a politician lie to get elected?!?!?!!! zomg
DoctorMeh 1 year ago
Manchin adamantly denied that any such discussions took place and declared in no uncertain terms that he will not defect.
wayne388 1 year ago
@wayne388 OK, but Manchin on the campaign trail sounded like Ronald Reagan. Even some Democrats know that Conservatism wins every time it's tried.
chaumont20 1 year ago
Reomcrats? Rut Ro.
codediporpal 1 year ago
Nice new studio design
snowboarder1019 1 year ago
anna sound really stupid somtimz..........im sure im not the only one who noticed.
ZingZee123456789 1 year ago
isn't it fraud?
sonicase 1 year ago
Republicans are like cockroaches...once they're in you house you just can't get rid of them. They're very efficient parasites.
1140Cecile 1 year ago
Our Gov is disolving in bullshit. Elect me President I'll issue every one in congress a shovel.
babblake1 1 year ago
When the fuck did they legalize bribery?
VirusofLife182 1 year ago 13
@VirusofLife182 I'm sure if you asked them they'd say its not illegal until you're in court. Or if the Democrats are doing it.
ZetoTarken 1 year ago
@VirusofLife182 anything is legal if you have enough money
jamesuslovesu 1 year ago
everybody needs to calm the fuck down, he rejected the offer
HRH787 1 year ago
This guy isn't worthy of Sen. Byrd's seat.
eluvre 1 year ago
@eluvre Do you mean Sen Robert (KKK) Byrd (D) WVa. A grand Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan. A lifelong Democrat.
chaumont20 1 year ago
@chaumont20
Nice job smearing Byrd's legacy. Yeah, he was in the KKK like freaking 50+ years ago. In the past few decades he actually worked quite a bit in favor of positive race relations, and admitted that his membership in the KKK was wrong and pretty much inexcusable.
But then we have assholes like you that seem to forget that there was a whole lot more to the man than when he was in the KKK as a young man. Dumbass.
sheepthing 1 year ago
@sheepthing I wonder if Robert (KKK) Byrd (D) WVa would have asked Kendrick Meek to get out of the Florida Senate race. My guess is yes.
chaumont20 1 year ago
There is just no hope. Sad to say we are the evil empire. Sit back, put some popcorn in the microwave and watch the end come.
jukeboxfrank 1 year ago
Republicans are the ruin of America. We were once a great nation, but Republicans destroyed and continue to destroy this country.
Republicans should be jailed. They're intellectually inferior, anti-progress, hateful, morally bankrupt, and the would rather destroy their own country than see it move forward.
REPUBLICANS ARE AMERICA'S CANCER. CUT THE CANCER OUT!
scottsway 1 year ago 5
@scottsway Agreed, but I increasingly think the Democrats aren't much better. The congressional party is about as much in the clutches of corporate giants, notably the insurance industry, as is the GOP. I'm slowly realizing that the true progressive forces in this nation must eventually unite to form a Socialist party. Many "Teabaggers" saw that the GOP establishment was promising them one thing and doing quite another. I fear that we may need to face a similar reality about the Democrats.
shaneu1 1 year ago
@shaneu1In all honesty in the modern Democratic Party has no liberals. Most of them are 3rd Way Centrist Democrats following the ways of Bill and Hilary Clinton. The only real liberal senator America has at the moment is Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Whose is a Independent who caucuses with the Dems. The true New Deal Roosevelt Democrats are dead. Having lost a majority of power during the Reagan Revolution and the corporate takeover of the Democratic Party by Rahm Emanuel and the DLC.
scottsway 1 year ago
Ana's looking radiant.
Raelsatu 1 year ago
There is no such thing as democracy when there'es representation. These people don't represent you..
conthemon 1 year ago
Cenk, Joe Manchin was only elected for 2 years to serve out the remainder of the late-Sen. Bob Byrd's term. Manchin is up for reelection in 2012 and will on the same ballot as Obama who is extremely unpopular in racist, white West Virginia. The fear is that Obama could take him out. Nevertheless, this guy was elected as a Democrat. He should stand on his principles.
Leahcim506 1 year ago
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Political parties are such bullshit.
awsomenesscaleb 1 year ago
Hey Tea Party people, if you guys are such fiscal conservatives where is the bill to forever ban wasteful earmarks? How about a bill that bans congressional members/aides and their family's from getting cushy jobs with high salary's from corporations lobbying them? That's right you will never see any of those bills, you've been had son!
Xenite227 1 year ago 71
@Xenite227 Hey Democrats when are we going to see this years budget. Oh, that's right you forgot.
chaumont20 1 year ago
@Xenite227 Its no mistake that after 30 years of this country getting increasingly horrible in math and science, we have become a "Tea Party Nation". We've been dumbed down enough to believe their crap.
eirefrance 1 year ago
Why don't we just let people buy votes? Like, $10,000 for one vote. It's just apparently skipping the middleman.
Dradeeus 1 year ago
@Dradeeus Because then they're paying the poor. They would never wanna do that.
TTEchidna 1 year ago
Wow. You Yanks are buggered...
Catsass1111 1 year ago 35
@Catsass1111 Are you British? If so, the ascendancy of Mr. Cameron and his party leave you even more "buggered" than we.
shaneu1 1 year ago
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@shaneu1 Cameron is better than the alternative, but britain is buggered as well
planetmax83 1 year ago
@Catsass1111
Don't rub it in
Psycho5275 1 year ago
@Catsass1111 lol u a brit?
snowboarder1019 1 year ago
@Catsass1111
Our biggest problem is a fucking Australian.
newdimensionfilms 1 year ago
@newdimensionfilms ken ham?
red2seata 1 year ago
@red2seata
Rupert Murdoch. Ken Ham's not too great either.
newdimensionfilms 1 year ago
@Catsass1111 Please....help....
aaronsande 1 year ago
@Catsass1111 Yes, right properly buggered.
Thaibebop 1 year ago
we really do live in a toilet of a country, and the lawyers that run it are the turds floating in the degenerate sewer we call our political system.
paragshah2112 1 year ago
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shaneu1 1 year ago
I tell you what if the Republicans made me a millionaire i would switch to the Republican party sooo if any Republicans are ready i don't want a check cash deal only!
elmajfudd 1 year ago
@elmajfudd Of course you would. You would vote your class interests, and the GOP would assuredly be your party of choice.
shaneu1 1 year ago
@shaneu1 JUST GIVE ME THE MONEY THE HELL WITH PEOPLES INTEREST aint that the way they work LOL "JUST GIVE ME THE MONEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
elmajfudd 1 year ago
Ana its called an oligarchy. The trick to suceed in an oligarchy is to be the ones ruling not the people being ruled.
34601k 1 year ago
The fact that people in this country are fool into voting for republicans should make them ashamed, it's like being retarded and being able to do something about it and choosing to stay retarded. - people amaze me!
Dahgrostabphri 1 year ago
Somebody ought to pull joe lieberman's two inch dick out and staple it to the Torah or Koran if they could possibly manage it. Why do we have jerk offs like this running the most important part of Congress? Are the American People so Fuck-in Stupid they even think people like this could make this Country Better? Chop his little thingy off and get with the program America, he's a LOOOOOSER!
BabylonsKing 1 year ago
There should be laws that someone in political office cannot accept money from another party.
ChiefDen4 1 year ago
I am from West Virginia and I voted for Joe Mancin and I will be royally pissed off if he is converted by money, but I would not be surprised if he did, all politicians are scum
TheJsmth1234 1 year ago
Remember people you are not free you are free range you merely vote for the farmer but you are still cattle
darkblood626 1 year ago
So where's the new set Ana was promoting? It feels like TYT is dying off. New set but Cenk is in NYC, ready to cut anchor and set sail. This sounds like shit over Skype or phone or whatever.
miguelin97223 1 year ago
I should add that, as most pro politicos are well aware, party switchers often fare poorly after, as congressional party-switching was called back in the sixties, "pulling a Wayne Morse" and walking across the aisle. Arlen Specter is but the latest example. Consider the examples of "Presidents" Wendell Willkie and John Connally, soon-to-be former Rep. Parker Griffith (Ala.), former Congressman and losing gubernatorial candidate Mike Parker (Miss.), "Senator" Sam Yorty, and many others.
shaneu1 1 year ago
@shaneu1
Well actually, party switchers in the state of Georgia have done pretty well for themselves. Outgoing Governor Sonny Perdue enjoyed 8 years as a governor and in-coming Governor Nathan Deal before this election was a U.S. House Representative for 16 years.
Both were Democrats before doing the ol' switcheroo. Then again, Georgia is a pretty conservative state.
willia3r 1 year ago
@willia3r Yes, the Democrats-turned-Republicans have generally come out all right in the South. Perdue, Deal, Richard Shelby, Rodney Alexander of Louisiana, Mac Collins of Georgia, and back in '64, old Strom Thurmond, to name but a few. One odd exception: George Wallace, Jr., who switched to the GOP with daddy's approval, but hasn't flourished electorally since, despite several efforts.
shaneu1 1 year ago
@shaneu1 How about you take our RINO's and we take your Blue Dogs.
chaumont20 1 year ago
@chaumont20 Retirement or the electorate have already decimated the "Blue Dog" ranks in the House. There aren't many "RINO" types left there either, the kind to whom the Birchers used to refer as "pink elephants." Christopher Shays and Jim Leach, for example, were booted by Democrats. Michael Castle crapped out in the Delaware primary, a victim of conservative primary voters' perception of him as a RINO. An incidental result of the foregoing phenomenon is more intense partisan polarization.
shaneu1 1 year ago
@shaneu1 You can have John McCain, Lynsey Gramm, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins anytime you want them.
chaumont20 1 year ago
@chaumont20 I'd welcome the two ladies of Maine, but I'm not so certain about "ole Mac" or Lindsay Graham.
shaneu1 1 year ago
The problem here is the political system in this country is reliant on politicans being easily-bought sheep and voting according to the party line 100% of the time or whoever pays them the most.
TurMoiL911 1 year ago
HAHA fooled you, I'm really a Republican. FUCK YOU!!! and the Republican horse you road in on asshole
Saucypants1000 1 year ago
During the nineties Sens. Richard Shelby (Ala.) and Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Colo.) switched to the GOP, but there were specific reasons for that, particularly in the case of Campbell, who faced the prospect of a strong Democratic primary challenge. Manchin has little incentive to switch, and Lieberman would lose if he ran as a Republican in a two-way race. As for Nelson, Nebraska has often elected conservative Democrats (e.g., Sens. Zorinsky and Exon). In sum, GOP efforts will likely fail.
shaneu1 1 year ago
Can't he be Recalled??
RBLA818 1 year ago
@RBLA818 I did a quick Google search, apparently they do it for state officials, but not congress or senate. Not 100% sure, though. Does someone know? I'm curious now.
xJoeEDangerouslyx 1 year ago
@xJoeEDangerouslyx What exactly is your question?
shaneu1 1 year ago
@shaneu1 Someone asked whether West Virginia has a way to recall elected officials. I did a search, and it wasn't clear. So is it possible, and are there different procedures for different offices?
xJoeEDangerouslyx 1 year ago
@xJoeEDangerouslyx Well, I am supposed to be a political scientist as well as a lawyer (please omit lawyer jokes), so I guess I have enough credibility to answer that question. First, the rule is that states may not enact laws providing for the recall of members of Congress. The most recent Supreme Court case usually cited for that proposition is U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton, 514 U.S. 779 (1995), which invalidated all state laws that imposed term limits on members of Congress.
shaneu1 1 year ago
I'll vote for a plant before I vote republican...
MoPapparani 1 year ago 3
@MoPapparani
Good move. I think that, in order to eliminate the corruption in the current American political system, we should replace all elected representatives with inanimate objects. The republicans will be led by a furby, and the democrats can be lead by either a pet rock or Keanu Reeves... :P
ProtoRez 1 year ago
No, it's not illegal to switch parties and it shouldn't be. The framers did not anticipate this phenomenon where a group would lazily elect a letter as opposed to working to make sure they elected the best candidate. This douche switching parties is just a symptom of the greater problem. He's a conservative who only ran as a democrat because the GOP wouldn't run him, he has no ideological loyalty and the state party didn't ask him to have any when they nominated him.
Jermbot15 1 year ago
On the local level, WV normally will vote Democratic. However, we are also no stranger to backroom deals with the good ol' boy
IcyKitty 1 year ago
We don't have a functioning democracy, we do have a functioning plutocracy. The Romans did too, but they also had poisoned drinking water (lead pipes). The latter brought down the former. We have the Internet which poisons the Republicans (exposes their hypocrisy). Go TYT!
menthol5 1 year ago 2
I'm not sure this is that big a deal. He was conservative already, I doubt the letter before his name being R or D would really change how he votes anyway
Nemesis000000 1 year ago
@Nemesis000000 Indeed its not a big deal. In theory there is no party alignment in America once they are voted in - all members are free to vote independent of their party on any given issue.
gary83uk 1 year ago
GREEN PARTY needs to get on the map !
Tekavolver712 1 year ago
America's gonna fall into three parties pretty damn soon.
bighugejake 1 year ago
Just like Arlen Spector switching to Dems a couple years ago. Cenk cheered bigtime, man is he a hypocrite. He should be a politician
bj4paul 1 year ago
@bj4paul Spectror found the Republican Party getting far too conservative for many of his own positions, and the catalyst for his party switch was that the primary voters were likely to suppport a far more conservative nominee; unlike Manchin who won consistently in WV as a Democrat and might be viewed too center in the next Republican primary.
huckfinn22 1 year ago
@huckfinn22 True. Spector is a textbook case of the dangers of party-switching; he did it twice. Spector always pitched himself as a centrist-liberal Republican in Pennsylvania. By 2010, he knew that, given the very conservative composition of the GOP primary electorate, he would lose the GOP primary, so he switched back to Democrat. The problem he then faced was the very liberal nature of the state's Democratic primary electorate, for whom he wasn't liberal enough. Result: No more Spector.
shaneu1 1 year ago
@MrDustock ... Well, I live in Australia, and there are very few guns in ANYBODYs hands, either government or private. More guns brings more fear, and more fear brings more violence.
dangerouslytalented 1 year ago
*giggles* republicans have a tendacy to have really dorky portrait pictures :p
Swamoez0rs 1 year ago
"In this country we have corporations that buy politicians, we also have politicians that buy politicians. We don't really have a functioning democracy" bingo
NeccoWecco 1 year ago
@testaccount1729 ABC is saying 53 and 2 independents, but far enough, if this guy, Lieberman, and whoever this Nelson guy is turn, we are in trouble.
KangaKucha 1 year ago
Why would there be laws against it? Party affiliation means zilch. Democratic and Republican voters need to wake up. These parties are useless. I hope this helps them see that.
TheGiantRobot 1 year ago
@MrDustock Oooo somebody brings guns and it is all love and sunshine and rainbows? To bring a gun is an explicit threat.
dangerouslytalented 1 year ago
I say we have a rule that after a period of time, people can do a recall vote to recall there elected official and replace them with someone else in a special by election. that would fix this problem for all seats. Like say after 2 years for senators they come under review, and a poll is done to see if the voters want someone new, and if they do, new election.
KangaKucha 1 year ago
Wow. Suprise, suprise. I guess the whole idea of having polititans with any real integirity is an outdated idea. As long as the politicians get to line thier wallets and be on the commitees that keep thier own interests running, they don't care what the end results are. And it just shows how desperate the Republicans are.
theallseeingoracle 1 year ago
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What good would that do? The conservative Dems will vote with Republicans if they want
RattleheadIV 1 year ago
Enraged at the results of the 2010 election, some leftists are no longer willing to wait quietly through the Gramscian/Fabian process of incremental totalitarianism. MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell freely admits he's a socialist. Tim Wise openly boasts of the progressive plan to obliterate America through demographics. Now Ted Rall noisily calls for an armed socialist revolution in his aptly named The Anti-American Manifesto. Excerpt via Verum Serum:
UrbanMilitare 1 year ago
@UrbanMilitare Except most of us have not ever heard of Ted Rall or his antiamerican manifesto, let alone have read it or agree with it.
dangerouslytalented 1 year ago
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@UrbanMilitare Damn bro! How many sock accounts do own? lol
BeatManSpank 1 year ago
"done" "how are there no laws against this" "everyone is buying everyone"
theelbowfromthesky 1 year ago