A win for the good guys, but seriously Justin, rethink the Republican thing…

After months of dodging complaints and defending their actions, Duke University’s College Republicans lost their charter and funding Wednesday night.

The university’s student senate de-charterd the club by a two-thirds vote and de-funded them by a 20-3 vote. If the university’s Student Organizational Finance Committee approves the senate’s decision by a majority vote, the ruling will stand for the next two years.

Senators were presented discriminatory e-mails and anonymous threatening messages received by former chairman of the club Justin Robinette and his supporters, who say they were harrassed by the members of the club.

The senate’s actions were a big victory for Robinette, who has claimed since April that he was impeached by the organization’s executive board for being gay.

Killer cartoon via. h/t Gawker.

Weekend crew? Via TV Newser.

Gosh, that feeling of doom and gloom I’ve had lately just thunked me across the head. What else could go wrong?

Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen says a saw has become stuck in a riser piper, stalling the latest attempt to contain the Gulf oil gusher, the Associated Press reports.

Allen said the goal is to free the saw and finish the cut later today. This is the second major cut in the effort to contain the spill.

The first cut with giant shears overnight was successful, Allen said.

Even the hard core “bacon” voters as Tweety would call them know the R’s are full of it. Via Taegan-

A key finding from the Public Policy Polling survey in Pennsylvania’s 12th congressional district was that only 28% of voters thought Republicans did a good job running the country under President Bush while 63% think they did not. That -35 spread is 15 points worse than the -20 spread for President Obama’s approval in the district.

“Voters in PA-12 are not real thrilled with how Democrats are running the country right now. But they have an even dimmer view of the Republicans, and until the party can present itself as a more appealing alternative it may not be able to make gains to the extent you would expect in this political climate.”

By GottaLaff

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After all that Tea Tantruming, after all the hats and vile signs and false patriotism… thud. J Sid can breathe easy… for now:

A new DailyKos/Research 2000 poll in Arizona finds Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) leading primary challenger J.D. Hayworth (R) by a significant margin, 52% to 37%.

Seems as if Yelly McSpeechy’s grating stumping and snide nastitude is paying off.

Paddy made a good point to me just now. If J Sid loses the primary, he’s freed up to do all the talk shows. Alllll those endless talk shows.

But back to the point of the post… the Tea Tantrumers are made of…

“Real America” fail:

By GottaLaff

Watching CSPAN2 now. I missed a lot of who voted aye or nay, seems I came in on the L’s. They’re voting on:

Bernie Sanders (I-VT) Amendment to the Tax Extenders Bill: Provides over 55 million seniors, veterans and disabled with a one time $250 emergency relief payment.

Levin just voted no, as did Lieberman, Landrieu, Shaheen.

The amendment just failed, 47-50.

Why they would trust Joe with something this important is beyond me. Hell, his BFF McCain isn’t even behind it anymore. Via Taegan-

“Just when you thought Joe Lieberman couldn’t frustrate and perplex liberals any further, he is going off to become chief sponsor of the most significant piece of socially progressive legislation that Congress will deal with this year,” reports the New York Daily News.

“Next week, the Connecticut senator will announce that he’s taking the lead on repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the 1993 law that prohibits gay people from serving openly in the armed forces. Since implementation of the statute nearly 20 years ago, the military has discharged some 14,000 qualified men and women, many of them serving in critical jobs like Arabic and Persian translation.”

**Apparently I’m not the only one who thinks this is a bad idea.

By GottaLaff

Debbie Downer:

Reports that health care reform talks are breaking down were apparently true.

Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) now says Democrats “should take a break of up to six weeks in the health care debate to allow the caucus to regroup and refocus on how to move a bill forward,” reports CQ Politics.

Dodd said it will be up to President Obama to get health care legislation back on track, perhaps by taking “a breather for a month, six weeks, and quietly go back and say the door’s open again.”

Yeah, good idea. Everyone in Congress will be refreshed and jump right in… and health care reform will pass in record time.

Right along with immigration reform.

By GottaLaff

This SITE Intelligence Group handout photo obtained November 10, 2009 shows Anwar al-Awlaki, a former US resident living in Yemen and accused al-Qaeda supporter, who commented on his website on November 9, 2009, that the attack at Fort Hood perpetrated by the alleged gunman, Major Nidal Hasan, is a “heroic act.”

(AFP, via newscom.com)

I have a feeling this guy is another one of those who will be pronounced dead about five more times before he actually pops off for real:

A week after U.S. and Yemeni officials said the radical Yemen cleric Anwar Awlaki may have been killed in a U.S.-backed Christmas eve air strike, a Yemeni journalist says Awlaki has surfaced to proclaim, “I’m alive.”

We need better aim.