GOP @)!@ ...(2012)

2012 that is.
Mitch Daniels, was my earliest hunch, Huntsman was a close second. Ron Paul was an early hope, but Gary Johnson beat him to the announcement. Now when I say hope, this is from the perspective that there be a good candidate for Republicans and the 2012 race, not that they should have any shot at being good for the country. This does not take into considerations any impact of a third party or independent candidate, or any political calculus. I don't find any references in a search of my blog but could have embedded some comment or link that may mention them. I associate Daniels with a Chris Matthews* comment, and Huntsman with some China controversy, while Paul and Johnson are libertarian. Which may be why I have been focused on economics and Ayn Rand. I would like to have a good de bait on neo-classical economics. It is hard to imagine Mitt Romney making it but then the longer the so-called libertarian or tea party candidate split the vote he or these guys could run the fish ladder, and it is hard to imagine a third party candidate that would not be just another spoiler. I don't want to do the political calculus to rock that boat.

* one reason I might scratch Daniels, but then again

5-17-11 Related links: Needless to say** Label
(Republicans 2012)
One No Trump
Two No Huckabee***

**Calm Pend E Um has a reference to an anomoly
*** Raising Cain

Try Lemmings

Trigger No Metrics!

If the pen is mightier than the sword, the keyboard is a bacteria*. 

* I will refrain from second guessing, wikipeddling or digging up my Genetics textbook. (It is close enough for government work.)

[Note: saved in draft as time stamped, but released @12:50 PM unedited**, linked or labeled.]
** not to drag lemmings in, only the "Political Calculus" or "cultural calculus" and share n' angle'n.

Attorney General Gonzalez Retreats.

Congratulations Congressman Inslee.

The people have prevailed and more thanks to Daily KOS early on.

The New York Times was of help and the other Dems.
technical difficulties and other work keeps this brief
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Did Hillary Shoot Dems in the Foot?
In snooze mode this AM I heard something about a False Flag charge on the Stephanie Miller Show> Could it be this on the politics of fear? The political calculus is the fear at Rock the Truth as well.
On the strength of the comments from Democratic candidates they rate in the following order.
Kucinich: no comment. Already tough enough, already standing up.
Richardson
Edwards
Dodd
Obama: no comment?
Clinton
Standing up for what? Impeachment is the only way.
Standing up now is the way to tell who will stand up as President or is political calculus just using ones toes?

OK! This brief ramble is just about not falling for the Republican meme. Getting the message out that Democrats are not the problem and any problems will be the Republicans. Of course even in retreat, Bush blames the Democrats. See first story. Hence the need to pursue continued investigations and not let anyone off the hook.

The Big Tent vs. The Mess Tent in the Bush Bubble Error (err Era)

= = = = = = = =

Bush History Flip-FLop:
Vietnam, Korea or Japan

= = = = = = = =

What has happened.

Progressive Caucus Semantics

The political calculus:
Dennis Kucinich or Obama
or
Ralph Nader or Edwards
Nader / Bloomberg?
[Update or more of a sort: see comments in bottom brackets 1-3-07]
I was originally going to spin off on the first three words, but breaking commentary and news tweaked these lines.
More later. Maybe.

But these tangents are not really so wild, they revolve around the council one takes and that [**] one gives. Kucinich "the principled" or "the calculator". Nader "the idealist" or "the realist".
Standing up or compromising.
All are more than semantics.

Thanks to Brie Walker* and Thom Hartmann.

*Sitting in for Stephanie Miller.
[**] or which

[1-3-07: a straw poll was just distributed by the Democratic Party of Washington State so I will now add LOCAL to the LABELS for this post. I was going to make a comment but unfortunately I am making progress and asked a few preemptive questions which fine-tuned my course. They will do that. Questions that is. My original thought had to do with who the poll was distributed to, but it was broadly distributed and the best comment is on that site. "Congratulations to Kucinich supporters on their great organizing efforts." Not to take anything away from this comment, but Kucinich's comments in Iowa were the kernel of my original post and its Ramble and subsequent flip-flop. But strategy aside(or maybe I just can't or will not articulate it) I may stick my neck out for Edwards. I have too many theories but I will refrain from rationalizing this as one. But my alternate perspective given the latest input, is that Senators Dodd and Biden are pretty good guys or as the latter would say, "I really like" them, but the political calculus is not just from the base.

[UPDATE: 1-7-08 "strategy aside" link added ]

Political Calculus and the Political 4 Cast

Rachel Maddow presents an interesting perspective, which I stumbled* on mid-comment. I will call it the His-Story-Ann who stole X-Mass.

Well, not exactly. But it does have to do with political calculus and the 4 horseman of the 1%. AKA: Raw Money*** Class

[Where there is smoke** there is fire. Where there is friction, there becomes light. Three ends against the American middle, one for all against what's left.


* actually I walked into the room with MSNBC on.

[and by George]

**(Raw Money link added) not exactly

*** [3-19-13 update, Raw Money link:  http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#46550300
smoke: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#46550359 ]

Running List '08

YOU TOO CAN DO POLITICAL CALCULUS
A friend sent me the following Quiz which which upon my taking it seemed to rank the candidates based upon my own political calculus which is based on my very "course" filtering of the debates. Meaning I have watched extremely little of the actual debates but had used other avenues which filtered them and my equation.

Here is how they ranked in my opinion on the quiz:

Kucinich, Edwards, Dodd: 43
Clinton, Richardson, Obama: 38
Gravel: 35
Biden: 31
Giuliani: 21
Romney: 16
Paul, Huckabee: 13
Brownback: 11
Gilmore: 8
McCain, Hunter: 6
Tancredo, Thompson: 3

Here is how I last posted them.

Kucinich
Edwards
Obama
Clark
Richardson
Clinton, Dodd, Biden
Gravel

For another source of information GO HERE

Here is the orginal Running List '08 with dated updates where it should be noted that some candidate were on that were not running(Clark), and some were off that eventually jumped in (Clinton) between 12-4-06 and 2-1-07. From which I take this list:

For history sake I note MY original five candidates in this order: Edwards, Clark, Kucinich, Vilsack, Dodd

Hmm. I guess I was spot on. At least in my calculations and opinion.

[On a double take, my spot on is rather flat * as I still need to sort out Kucinich, Edwards and Dodd. More filtering will occur but another note of caution: Sometimes a candidate can agree with you on an issue (Ron Paul- Social Security) and be wrong on his take from it, and disagree with you on another (Ron Paul- Iraq) and take an even stronger stand in a potentially right direction. That is why more investigation is needed especially when they are tied. * Take it very carefully and it will not save your answers or your results (that I can tell), so my these numbers are based on my best recollection and retaking of the quiz. The numbers could very but the rank is as I recall.]

* In the long run this quiz did not sort out the original candidates for me, but they just happen to have been the earliest in the race, however the quiz ranked it close to my current feelings and will aid in the fine tuning.

Post-Pyth

Speaking of headings and lede or ships,

it was not that Greek to me,

other than Pythagoras and the pre-calculus of culture. 
In that *vane* or *weather* the GPS is communcating,
here are some points:

We're in Trouble: Salon / Gore
The Drone Weasels : Slate / Saletan
Secrecy Corrodes Democracy: Consortium News / Parry

While I have not fully read these, I have previously deployed their headlines or sorts *ofor* paraphrases.  Not that they aren't capable of mis-ledes or weasels or being Greek to any of us. 

E-Merging from this? 
It is not just about bending the law but the processes[*] that bend the law. 

[Owe/OW] (fn)

*bracketeds* = pun, [!] or (sic).
[*] late M-bed ? ['n-Oh-particular order!]

2-12-13 Please NOTE My comment below this post,
 Re: PC** and 4 moolahs / mediums.[and 4ms] WU who! [!] ? [speaking of *blank*volutions ! ('n bs)]

Update: LEGEND PAGE, (FC), Updates.

** caution see LEGEND and *aster*risks[!]
i.e. Re:Political Calculus *&* cultured dishes and dashes (O _ U _ C _ H ?)

Allen Concedes

to reality or the public good?
Nuf(f)[*] said? Need splainin?
Sorry for the tongue in cheek linguistics.

THE POINT:
Allen concedes to reality or his next project.

OR in my frame of vocabulary or discipline:
"Political Calculus"
Not that either political or calculus are necessarily wrong, they just don't tell you(or us) where to go.
Neither should a third category or duality: power or will.They are needs. They are natural. They are the reality of nuance, but not what should or could be, but sometimes flip-flop or freedom are not enough.
[*] 9-1-10 spellcheck(f), link under "Nuf(f) said", bottom link and label added

Technical Difficulties!

SOP= standard operating procedure
i.e. progress in progress or process in process
Poetic justice?  Or cultural calculus\yogurt or Pet Try dish. 
Flow of WB(William Blake) who coined "sciousness" or Al Gore who algorerhythmed the google tubes*.  Where am I going or coming from?  Not Alaska, nor Area 51[!].** 

A comment on the limitations and processes of communications and nature.

* reference Alaska Senator re: the inter-tubes
(FP1)
** nor Rush ah! (FP1) (a general endorsement of style and foundations)

Iron Knee of Inflation

Officials Warn Not to Inflate North Korean Threat
Verses "dangerously na•ve"*

*irony of diplomatic calculus
Note to FP!: Ctrl F first link "not read"

Awkward Segue: Ted Kennedy, R.I.P.

---
Are you talking about me?
..or the Republicans (tongue in cheek).
[This potential post including the title evolved in my head yesterday.** ]
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[Original title: Winding Down / Cracking Up.]

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[THE DREAM SHALL NEVER DIE *]
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AWKWARD SEGUE:
May Senator Ted Kennedy "Rest in Peace" with the potential success of health care reform. He now has the potential to role in his grave at the Republican comments in my first link.

Return to normal programming? My apologies for making light or political calculus(or physics) of the passing of an icon. It seems the Republicans lifted a preemptive glass of whine, and it is time for the Democrats get the bread out. I did not want to break or cast it...metaphorically.

[Post post mourning Steve Clemons: my heart goes out to those closer to him.]

*last update/edit
** timing clarified 8-28-09 (italics here and there)

Supreme Court Jest Ice?

Where is the ice going? Well here is where it is coming from:

The New Yorker*: Rational Irrationality.

Well, not exactly: Obamacare Supreme Court Case is a Bad Joke.

Actually I will be intentionally preemptive**.

Is it some form of martial arts political calculus?

Maybe I have too much hope for Obama or too much faith in The New Yorker.

Bottom line, I have yet to read the article, but wanted to jump*** on the band wagon.(NOT!)

Not to make a federal case out of it, but I do intend to read more on this later.

* not that I have read it yet, but I like the heading.

** Jujitsu before reading.

*** case study[!] Reid sarcastic[!] Me...not read[!]

(also see "federal": not to mention Romney on Russia and Leno.)

[Seattle Times ]

[3-29-12 ALEC: Stand your Ground, Supreme Court Activism/ both sans comment.]

[Follow-up:

Seattle Excerpts, interesting hodge-podge of exchanges. If the constitution is not a living document, what is federalism? Killing two ironies in one comment?

Justice Antonin Scalia: Mr. Kneedler, what happened to the Eighth Amendment? You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages? And do you really expect the court to do that? Or do you expect us to give this function to our law clerks? Is this not totally unrealistic? That we're going to go through this enormous bill item by item and decide each one?

Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler: Well ...

Times "seemingly split over ideology"/

But Roberts and Kennedy also asked enough pointed questions of the law's challengers to give the overhaul's supporters some hope. In any event, justices' questions at arguments do not always foretell their positions.

Activism: "Justices Split".

Intentionally: Read Healthcare Jujitsu, Political Jujitsu, what's the difference? The party and the people. It would seem to me that Obama is the master, even without single payer as a goal. It might be called "free market" jujitsu where that is what could be flipped by even an option. The "free market" economic fantasy is under threat of being flipped as the fraud it is, under even the offer of competition. Maybe there is the jest ice.

Tangent of the day.^

[See original lede: Bingo on Faith, in paragraph two. Almost Bingo cubed !^^]

^ now that is an irony

^^ see bold "two" link re:cubed, but apologies for last four links.^^^

^^^ or penta coastal or cost us [!]

[Fixing News: as opposed to breaking, I must update the Fixing . But what kind of market is it when if you don't participate you die? Ask Raw Money. On the other hand, he is correct: "We can't play the game like that." Let alone are banking and insurance really commerce? I they aren't, maybe they aren't people, maybe they are Leviathan? i.e. governments bailiwick or not!][Ed on Hannity: the journalist calling the journalist read, or the con calling the convict con(pot meet kettle/camel meet domino) ]

[3-30-12 Justices Meet...

Book Review De...viewed... not to put a spin or pun on it. But I will depun a bit on the self-fulfilling profits. ]

Cut the Cow Pie!

"Open source intelligence" or We Gee Bored?
Or grow the pie?

SEGUE:
Not to pun on CP or PC, but Craven Politics?
I think we found the opposite of PC, or pie cutter. 
That's a more eh? 

My original intent was to pun or posit the opposite of PC. 
Politial Correctness, the Whine of Progress.
But it*** may be parsed* as Craven -v-  Politics.

* Romney / Obama
[Foot note or b**PS ?]
**(ad?s)  wonting to avoid gee/PS.
*** that posit

[Pardon my dimentional(and anachronistic) asterisks and acronyms, but B**ingo.]
[Note under ac"ron"yms is an anachronism. i.e. late link re: callus political calculus ]
[speaking of anachronism: just turning on Thom Hartmann with Mike Papantonio with caller on justice appointments question of obstruction and my pinnacle of politics]

[Note (2.0) The triangles are not the pie(or pi cutter), they are two dimensional, i.e. a tetrahedron.   Speaking of spell check. ]

NOTE: Charts of Sorts.



Do Nothing Filibuster

First I must say there has been progress. (Updated)

But there is need for a flip-flop while it is still a high wire act if you do the math.

On the bright side a comparison to the Republican wave of 1994 and the 1997 congress shows Democrats getting things done. But if we could get it together there are 10 Democrats that are so called "not progressive", and some of the best known "progressives" rated "only kinda" number another 11.(from above: you do the math) But Democrats should be able to get it together to highlite the fact that they have made progress despite their numbers and the media coverage.

A recent whine of the right about the media could be the occasion for investigations, but that would be too much on the table. So maybe I have made my own flip-flop here or lost momentum in the math of getting it together. But when it comes to accountability, it is easy to get fired up again.

Basically the math is so difficult, not just because of the unity of Republicans and the diversity of Democrats, but the bulk of problems that have resulted from the variables in the equation of our constitutional government, and what is for someseemingly {*} only political calculus.

[BREAKING/BROKEN? If there were ever time for a filibuster: THIS IS IT! not to mention INVESTIGATIONS!]

{*} go there see [*]

vis a vis

partisan
furcation
~~~~~~~
We R all Right?
Left ? In Sync ?

[...]
Reading In Progress[***]
"Timing is everything."
NOTE:(b.s.) "amigoes"*

*need to unMbed Amit Goswami
Q-3
Ghost Busters
"buying a stairway"
String Cheese Theory?
Dimentionalism(sic) // (s.c.)
Para-model -- //
From Political Calculus to Theoretical Physics
Dateline: August 10th, 2005

Interesting Segue?

Lede or Ship of Culture.
On any given day?
Political Calculus and the Political 4 Cast
In Tent and Con Sequences ?

Today is the 10th Anniversary
of the beginning of the Iraq War. 
There is not much text to this but note the sequence or anachronism of the headline, subheading and lede, not to mention RM's part in it.  

Now, back to regular change, to pun on programming and leadership, and to be placed* in later context.**

* is it something about covalence, or just nuance and object-shun-ism?
** the difference between the Democrats and Republicans

[FP? ** the difference: A, B, C.(sc)^, then placed*etc.]
^ scroll click anomoly

FOOTNOTES PAGE TWO AUGUST 2013

8-1-13:"up date"(sc)(b.s.)(1)Connecting the Dots(sc), Culture War (2)(a), Way, Too Point Oh?(sc), Noble, No Bell, Nobel(sc), Congress- - to boldly go..., Everything is on the Table!.

8-5-13:  (b.s.) a.Pun it?, b.Trilemmas and Cultural Calculus, c.Enough Smirking!, d.Dark Matter, Anti-Matter, e. Careful Consideration , f. , g. , h. Con Fluence... , i.Knot Even , j., k.Carpe Diem!, l.Certain Sources..., m. , N .by Stiob?!?, o., P.Middle C? , Q. / [T-Row Price?]

8-9-13 (37) "dealing with" (MSNBC "All IN" & Thomas Roberts) (P.S. re:Bromance)

8-20-13 Boatload of FP needed.  4. a C Sick? , b , c , d , e , f , G , h , i Square This!  j , k , 5. a, b, c by Stiob?!? - 6. a, b() Nailed It! T-point Oh! , c CU T-party, d , e , f, g , h Square This! , ... q Tea Party Down Grade

8-21-13 Miranda Lefts? 1. a. b. c. d.  /   2.  A. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. i. j.
8-22-13: FC /  changey thing to reads.
8-26-13 Lemon Ship may be the best name for the dynamic metaphor as I sort out how it has evolved.  Does it stem from partisan ship?  But it does refer to concentrates and dilutions.
8-27-13 Knot so Out of the Blue? 
8-28-13: A Black and White Chat, that is the ticket.(FP3)

POLITICS

NOT A DIRTY WORD!
But it is in the eye or ear of the beholder.
Embedded in the previous postings are two points about accountability.
Politics and timing.
They seem to play a big part in the planning of any endeavor.
These too, are not dirty words.
Except possibly in the grip of the wielders of power.

But I digress, the particulars are that accountability is part of the process and success of our process. There must be investigations because they are political and because of the timing. The arguments must be held and there is never a better time, especially for politics. But the actual particulars of accountability are what role politics has played and will play and whether they preempted accountability. It is not just a coincidence[*] that Watergate involved the Nixon/Ford administration and their respective views on what is legal and what is political. It is the same characters and the polarity between the president being unitary (Nixon) and accountability (the process) being political (Ford), not to mention subsequent success and failures of economics, war and foreign policy. I won't get into the respective overlap and/or disconnect between committees and their intelligence sharing and responsibilities, but I will note the relation to issues in the current political campaigns and the press for or on the bottom line, the people.
[As usual I have embedded too much in rhetoric, another word that is not dirty, except in how it is used, and in which the administration and probably McCain places its only hope. But the point of politics and timing being important hinges on the process and the administration has been preemptive with too much. Now rhetoric is lost in anachronism, while accountability was lost before September 11th, 2001.]

[*]footnote: "positive polarization" and somewhere there was a political calculus of the Bush impeachment, but this is only the rhetoric and all that is needed in this rhetorical war on aftermath and preempting of hope.

Political Calculus

Or Real Economics?More Trickle Down for New Orleans?
Or just what the doctor ordered.
Just say no economics>

Trickle Down Employment or Intelligent Design?
Or is the tripartite design of the stimulus the design that gives an alternative to bipartisanship or return to partisanship?

I'm guessing recalculations might be in order.
P.S. Has Louisiana's economy really not been hit as hard a most or is it like the global warming scam? It would seem that following Katrina and with the slow trickle down of aide, the needs and opportunities could be the reason or is it season. I am inserting irony here, others can insert the facts or economics of comparative recovery from disasters. Does this translate to hope or luck in Louisianna and for whom?

[Did we include apoplectic in the Four Eh?*]

* or montage

Back Log and 4 Mat

Hit and Run Republicans, simply reflects the open field and many tents in which leadership is hard to locate. Not exactly hit and run, but more like running from various factions and issues.
As projected now by Chris Cillizza or 2B soon [*], but here is the point of my format. Democrats as well have their wings, but the political calculus depends upon whether there are closed or open primaries, especially when it comes to independents and progressives verses(sic) tea partiers** and disappointed liberals, not to mention the fluid* or radical moderates.(not to overly characterize)

[Hi! See Noon? Or midnight sessions where "Senate Republicans use the rules to stop things, Senate Democrats are going to use the rules to keep everybody working late."]

*pun on the oversea's similar difficulties and disappointments and party electoral process differences.[***]

** no disrespect but there are at least two major factions I call the Palin and Paul wings, both uncertain about whether they are running for or from the Republican Party.

[Teeter Totter? Gamble and Investments.]

[***] Not so puny. Plus it was only natural google that(or which) intersected the links.]

[*] 4wards ho!