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Geez! Elizabeth.
He cleaned it upâŚ
He was thinking âbitchâ.
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The disturbing thing about this and many other head shaking stories is that only the political junkies ever hear about them.
Itâs a damn shame too.
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I think calling a woman âsweetheartâ is maybe worse, as itâs a condescending, dismissive thing to call someone. At least âbitchâ is a direct affront and could justifiably be responded to with a quick knee to the nads.
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Bogartsian Baker, The Maltese CretinâŚ
âHey sweetheart, what ever happened to your student loan bill?â
The worst part wasnât the âsweetheartââŚit was that he touched her arm uninvited. At least to me. Then again, I have a touch issue. Had he touched me like that, he would not be able to campaign the rest of the season.
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The fundraising pitch centered around an interaction Baker had with a local Massachusetts reporter
Daniel:
Try to break yourself of the habit of using âcenter aroundâ. Both âcenter onâ and ârevolve aroundâ are perfectly good expressions, but the conflation of the two into âcenter aroundâ is a nonsensical neologism. Although you will find it defined in English dictionaries, Oxford Dictionaries (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/center) has this caveat:
The construction center around (as opposed to center on, or revolve around) has been denounced as incorrect and illogical since it first appeared in the mid 19th century. Although the phrase is common, it defies geometry by confusing the orbit with the fixed point: the earth revolves around (or its revolution centers on) the sun. A careful writer will use a precise expression, such as centers on, revolves around, concerns, or involves.
Sincerely,
Your friendly neighborhood Grammar Gestapo
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Good on Ms. Warren for pushing back on the constant tide of misogyny that flows from the conservative cesspool. However, the proper way to bash a GOPer is thus:
Disclaimer: Gallagher is one of the conservatives in the cesspool, so I donât mind ripping him off.
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Funny that someone who enjoys smashing things for entertainment is a conservative.
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It was blocked by a GOP filibusterâwhich you would have known had you bothered to do a modicum of research instead of tryingâand failingâto be cute.
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âI donât think Charlie Baker is a bad guy,â Warren said.
Your bar for what constitutes a bad guy is a lot higher than mine.
Sweetums has selective memory.
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But Senator Miss Ann said :
" Ann Romney: âWar On Womenâ Is âRidiculousâ And 'Offensive"
Gallagher ⌠damn, I adored him and laughed with him in the '80s: the Phoenicians, learning to read, âyou donât have a baby, the baby has youâ, etc. Great stuff.
But he got old and cranky and weird. I didnât know he got all conservative too. I tuned out when he got all pissy that he wasnât the greatest comedian of all time.
Love the use of him here!! 
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Way to go Thunder! Just looking for some action. BTW, does 538 ever take a day off? I hear he cuts the crust off his sandwiches.
Looking at the closeness reflected on the PollTracker coupled with the fact that Ms. Coakely got beaten by that lightweight Scott Brown, Iâm disappointed that the good folks in Mass. couldnât find a better candidate than Martha Coakley.
Coakley got beat by Massachusetts progressives who didnât want to support her in 2010, some of whom even supported Scott Brown because they thought he couldnât be that bad. Coakley is average, but thatâs how democracy works.
Hard to accept that with a filibuster proof Senate on the line in 2010, progressives would forsake their party and president and vote for a goofball like Scott BrownâŚAlso hard to accept the notion that Martha C. is âaverageâ. An average Dem. in Mass. should be able to beat Scott Brown. But I guess thatâs how democracy worksâŚ
Elizabeth Warren should put her energy into learning about foreign policy issues and opposing US militarism (to which she, apparently out of ignorance, acquiesces).