I would like to apologize to you for assuming that your private assurances to me regarding your desire to cooperate in our efforts to negotiate bipartisan lobbying reform legislation were sincere.”

Remember these words? McCain’s letter to Obama re. Obama’s actions on lobbying reform?

Here’s more:
When you approached me and insisted that despite your leadership’s preference to use the issue to gain a political advantage in the 2006 elections, you were personally committed to achieving a result that would reflect credit on the entire Senate and offer the country a better example of political leadership, I concluded your professed concern for the institution and the public interest was genuine and admirable. Thank you for disabusing me of such notions with your letter to me dated February 2, 2006, which explained your decision to withdraw from our bipartisan discussions. I’m embarrassed to admit that after all these years in politics I failed to interpret your previous assurances as typical rhetorical gloss routinely used in politics to make self-interested partisan posturing appear more noble. Again, sorry for the confusion, but please be assured I won’t make the same mistake again.

This guy is a less “krazy” Lindsay Graham.

So what are you waiting for darkblack? ;-)

I told Team FDL that I would refrain from working ‘blue’ onsite, Mark.

‘Think of the children’

;>)

He made a lot of noise getting his “anti-torture” bill through, but did not utter a peep of protest when Bush, while signing the bill, added a nasty little “signing statement” essentially saying that he would ignore the law as he saw fit.

McCain was savaged by the Bush smear machine in 2000. His family was savaged as well. There were nasty rumors that his wife was addicted to pain-killers, and that his adopted child was really the fruit of a liaison with a — Gasp! — black woman.

Despite all of this, he soon joined the ranks of the GOP and campaigned with alacrity for Bush in 2004.

That he chose to ignore the dirt thrown at him by the Bush smear machine, I suppose I can understand. That he chose to ignore the dirt thrown at his family, and campaign with the dirt-throwers, I cannot begin to comprehend. By sucking up to the people who disparaged his wife and child, he showed how little morals (and “family values”) he really has, and waht a dreadful opportunist he really is.

If that were not enough to highlight to what extent McCain is willing to prostitute himself in his naked pursuit of power, he has now publicly coopted the lunatic religious fringe by embracing Jerry Falwell.

God saves us from that creature! If we think Bush is bad, wait until we get McCain as President!

it would be an embarassment if McCain was being something that he really wasn’t. But McCain has proved himself to be pure phoney hack with absolutely no values or redeeming value time and time again. His recent blatant suck-up to the whack jobs isn’t embarassing, its just McCain being exactly who McCain is. Look at is as both revealing – showing the true McCain as well as, for McCain, liberating – no more phoney Mr. Maverick/moderate…at least until its convenient again.
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Or maybe not. Still, In 2000, John McCain learned that it doesn’t matter how the primaries go. Big Money picks the GOP candidate, and simply herds the religious right to the polls on election day. McCain is doing everything he can to get Big Money’s blessing long before the primaries, just as President Bush did.

The bit on Jon Stewart suggested he didn’t buy into the swill he’s peddling. But hey, neither does President Bush. Heading into his second term, Bush undoubtedly thought he could let his corporate flag fly, but look what happened to the Meiers nomination. There’s no reason to believe that McCain could ever stop pandering to the theocrats, either.

There are two possible outcomes here. One good and one bad. These fucks live and die together. They will be impeached together. This is the good outcome. Which will only occur after the DEMs take congress, at which time Pelosi, being speaker of the house, will become president, and she will pick Murtha as vice (they are buddies).

No the bad outcome, as represented by FDL commenter MarcLord in a previous thread post, claims Bush/Cheney are taking America (and the world) toward Marshall Law. See: http://www.firedoglake.com/200…..ment-67945

Now for a light-hearted free trade joke:
Why else are there Chinese troops in Latin America?
http://www.latimes.com/news/na…..;cset=true
Answer: They are less expensive than American troops! (ha ha ha)

Personally, I think it is because the Chinese don’t trust Bush.

If you click my homepage you’ll see I used these lyrics as a link:

Legion (Anachron)

Enveloped in a sentiment,
a sound that rushes over me.
Engage an impulse to pretend
I have a faith as pure.
Not forgetting what it means to dream.
Indulging everything.
Entertaining thoughts that I’ve the strength
of those I yearn to be.
Cheers and tribute greet the saviours.
Reckless thoughts survive.
Anachronistic and impulsive.

And what will happen?
Will I dream?
I am too scared to close my eyes.
For a second please hold me.
None can change in me these things that I believe.
But I don’t know what happens now.
I am too scared to close my eyes

Those of you who follow my gorillas guides blog will recognise some of the images Blumrich uses. And the Gadarene swine describes the current Administration and its supporters exactly IMO. As a side issue btw VNV’s lyricist and singer is Irish if you don’t know ‘em you should try some of their stuff.