Discussion for article #224738
This article feels much more like something out of Tiger Beat than the headline would lead you to believe. This is something Iām seeing more and more out of TPM. When I see a headline that looks like a substantive story, I expect a substantive story. I donāt mind the fluff pieces, I know you need to keep grist in the millstones, but could you title them appropriately?
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Boner is just trying to keep the attention of the TP rabble in his caucus.
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I agree with CrackerJack. It seems like this is happening more often, a flashy headline and very little substance. Even sometimes the same story with a new headline. I like TPM enough to even subscribe but could do without misleading headlines.
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The suit is ridiculous on its face, without any real substance. (After all, they couldnāt get a single person who was ālied toā about keeping insurance to sue?? Besides, by any definition, this was no lie, since it was true of the original legislation that āgrandfatheredā in those with sub-par plans for a time.)
On the other hand, for Kapur to write that the WH is āunder siegeā is really, really a stretch, isnāt it? So SCOTUS threw out ārecess appointmentsā made only when the Senate was in pro forma sessions. Not much to see there.
The Hobby Lobby decision is so flawed and so motivated by male Catholic ideology that it will never be considered a serious standard, and it was even altered the next day with the Wheaton College decision.
I know that the cons have been on Sunday shows yelling that Obama has been reversed 13 times at the Supreme Court. How many times were other presidential administrations reversed in the same time frame? This article seems with its āWH under siegeā blather to be partaking of the conservativesā blather.
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"know that the cons have been on Sunday shows yelling that Obama has been reversed 13 times at the Supreme Court. "
Well, all that shows is the Koch brothers got what they paid for when they bought the Republican Party. Remind them of that, that a bunch of intellectual prostitutes like the Conservative 5 will be laughed, ridiculed, and forcibly ejected from the books of our laws once real adults get around to erasing all of the childish right-wing graffiti thatās been scribbled on our nationās legal framework.
You cannot take people like Scalia seriously . . . his ādecisionsā have been 100% partisan, motivated by pure self-interest and greed. Cons can crow all they like. Weāre going to smack them in their arrogant faces in November. Count on it.
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Yeahā¦The Orange One has already found a judge to play stoolie with this suit. I wish him the best
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Great story. I do not see anything wrong with the headline. Again great story.
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You want substantive? Youāll need to look elsewhere, itās in short supply here.
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Yeah, like the Sharyl Atkisson story. Who cares what a nothing reporter has to say after being fired.
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She was last monthās outrage magnet. July has brought us Alito, McDaniel and some others.
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āā¦including preparation for a possible Supreme Court vacancyā¦ā
Make it a double.
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You know, Iām sure heās correct about any lawsuits being thrown out, but I have to point out that he canāt really know that, since neither he nor anybody else has any clue as to the grounds on which Boehner will be suing in the first place.
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I donāt think Nedra Pickler (her real name!) has written a substantive story in her life.
In the immortal words of Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez, when you have to shoot, shoot. Donāt talk.
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Is there any presidential front that GOPers arenāt attempting to breach? Just my opinion but ābesiegedā fits the bill.
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I donāt know, Thereās something about āsecret lawsuitā that screams āgroundlessā.
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No, but everyone in the Beltway feedback loop seems to think she does. Itās the damnedest thing.
The Ugly, no?
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The fact that Boener isnāt filing says a lot. Thatās it, Iām going to sue Boener for frivolous threatening.
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