Zazuka!

Nice one, Jane!

“Fitz today, Fitz tommarah, Fitz fo’evah!”

Lil Deuce Coup!

http://www.boston.com/news/nat.....ats_plans/

Canellos alludes to Joe’s threat to siphon off all the DemDollars to battle Ned. But I can’t really tell what Canollo’s point is, except to bring folks ‘up to speed’ on the CT sitchyation.

Does anyone have a clue how much Joe is worth?

BTW, I wonder how much chez Lieberman gets as a result of lobbying, insider tips, whatever. I don’t know anything about Lieberman’s financial worth or financial history, but in light of his comment about Lamont, I’d sure like to know. And, I mean really, aren’t Lieberman’s corporate backers worth a whole lot more than Lamont? They probably have the $$$ to “try” to buy every seat in the US Congress.

And I though Joe got scared by Lamont getting on the ballot. For just a second, I thought Joe might actually remember what it means to be a member of the Democratic party. You had me going!

Silly me.

Jane, I only scroll as much as I need, this ancient 12in laptop screen…so, you did REALLY get me…I was reading, and saying “WOW! He’s NOT!” Then, scrolling, I found out that no, he’s definitely not. Had me goin’ tho.

Good one.

I just heard Jason Leopold on Wisconsin Public Radio. He sounds somewhat plaintive in his insistence that Rove has indeed been indicted. Backs his story, but relates that one of his sources admonished him for going so far as to say that an “announcement” was “expected” in a particular period of time. In addition to his normal sources (whatever that means), he claims three addtional “independent” sources. He defines “independent” as those who called him without knowledge of the other sources.

Two of the callers were right-wing and hateful and went, predictably, straight up ad hominim - one said he was going to be sued (that one sounded like Henry the K.)

Couldn’t even speculate or explain why this hasn’t been made public yet. Said he published early Saturday because he was sure that the Post or the Times were going to break it that night, and he wanted to scoop.

He continues to talk to his sources, and they are all standing by the story.

Great job you had me goin for a few minutes. ;)

I agree I want to now know who is bankrolling Joe, I want to know what lobbists he has met with for the last 4 years and how many meals, and plane rides he got. How many relatives are on some lobbists payroll. He opened the door, I’ll start by finding his tax records and work my way from there.

We can pop this zit.

I got this in an email:

politicsnj notes the hypocrisy in Lieberman’s comments (http://politicsnj.com/default0406.asp)

“Having between $90 million and $300 million, Ned Lamont can not only try to buy a seat from Connecticut in the U.S. Senate, he can probably buy a seat in a couple of other states if he wanted.”

- Joe Lieberman, on his Democratic primary opponent, six years after coming to New Jersey to urge Jon Corzine’s election to the Senate.

the quote is from: http://www.courant.com/news/po.....tics-state

What Lieberman says about Lamont’s money is the usual trash talk and tripe I expect from Joey. As if Lieberman doesn’t have access to unlimited funding from the DLC, corporations, AIPAC, the RNC, and elsewere. Sheesh. What does this guy think? That we are a just a bunch of rutabagas who just fell of the truck?

damn, you had me going with those first couple paragraphs!

haha…i shoulda known…

Regarding Leopold, I don’t believe there are all these sources out there only talking to him.

Jane, you are the irony sensei for the irony challenged.

If only Lieberman would get into the dojo….

OT the Democrats who voted for Michael Hayden for head of CIA are:

Jay Rockefeller IV West Virginia
Carl Levin Michigan
Dianne Feinstein California
Barbara Mikulski Maryland

Honorable mention to that radical from Maine Olympia Snowe who did not let her Republican affiliation keep her from voting party line.

I think it is wonderful that these Senators could look past the uniform (and the illegal activities and the bureaucratic snafus) to support a man who pledges to take the politics out of intelligence. In this he follows in the proud steps of that other Bush appointee Porter Goss.

shorter le0p0ld: “My Precious…”

#14 - I certainly hear ya.

All Congresscritters have to publicly file personal finance declarations - it’s all public record — lemme see if I can dig out Holy Joe’s statement via the Web.

Poor, poor pauvre petit Joe, always the persecuted underdog.

Why does The Man always have to keep Joe down?

immanentize #15:

He’s lost his dojo, and he has to get it back.

In this he follows in the proud steps of that other Bush appointee Porter Goss.

I’m sure he’ll do a heckuva job.

Scott — whatever you find please come back and post, we’d love to see it.

…one more thing about wpr interview:
no good explanation about that phrase ‘24 business hrs.’

What an asshole Lieberman is! He rakes in truckloads of money from lobbyists and special interest groups, and he has the balls to criticize a man who CAN’T BE BOUGHT! Lamont has promised not to accept donations from lobbyists.

On the other hand, I do love it when Joe says shit like that…makes it SO easy to lambast him on my blog.

info from the 2004 campaign:

Sen. Joe Lieberman's fortune, estimated in the most recent financial disclosure statement at a minimum of $320,061, declined slightly from a minimum $375,058. In addition to his annual salary of $150,000, Lieberman received $25,000 in fees for sitting on the board of the Manger Family Trust, a fund connected to his mother's family, and he and his wife, Hadassah, pulled in more than $17,000 in income related to a book deal. The Senator's wife also earned $142,000 in speaking fees. She earned an unspecified fee of more than $1,000 for sitting on the board of the Faye Manger Trust.

I think Lieberman is in full shit in pants throw mud at everything mode. Logic has left the building. Next he’ll be accusing Lamont of not being a real Democrat like he Holy Joe is (while, of course, threatening to run as an independent).

al-Scooter says:
He’s lost his dojo, and he has to get it back.

ClAssic!!!! A keeper!

Am I dreaming, or has Tweety spent the whole freakin’ hour today on the Clinton marriage? This can’t possibly be happening, right?

Ahh the Wurlitzer is in fine form today,ain’t it?

NYT goes gossip rag on the Clintons.
A complete idiot from Exxon was on Fox comparing Al Gore to Goebbels.

And now Joe,sweet little lizard that he is.

Umm,I could be wrong here but isn’t damned near EVERY Senator a millionaire or more? Like Joe lives in a little hovel somewhere and clips coupons?Please.

Veritas78 says: We can pop this zit.

MWAHAHA
“Together, we can pop this zit.”

Leopold, for all his good intentions, appears to have been overzealous and went too far. I have my doubts about his sources since he claimed that if there was no indictment announcement he would “out” his sources.

As much as I am hoping for an indictment announcement (hoping for it tommorrow), the fact is that Leopold may not have gotten his story right and Rove and Luskin and Corallo can now play the victim and claim that the blogosphere is irresponsible.

In addition, the fact that the story appears to have been exaggerated has had an eerie effect…at least for me. For the last few weeks before the Leopold story was posted, I was logging on to FDL, TL, Truthout, RawStory, etc., looking for news of the Rove indictment….Now, I feel like a bubble has been burst and I not as interested as I was before in seeing TurdBlossom indicted. This does not mean that my desire to see the indictment occur has diminished at all….just that my hopes and expectations and excitement have been somewhat deflated…

I think what the whole debacle has shown me is that we cannot expect Fitz to ride in on a white horse, vanquish the WHIG, and bring justice to America. Pach wrote about this earlier and I agree.

The focus should be on taking Bush apart (politically) piece by piece and at this point, that means voting democrat in November and setting up the infrastructure to make sure that the elections in November are not stolen like Gore’s victory in Florida.

Everything else seems to be secondary. Thus, while I hope an indictment comes, I see now that Fitz is only a piece of the puzzle and that the rest is up to us all.

I think what Joe was really saying was, “I got nothin’.” (And I don’t mean financially…)

Damn, I had thought that my series on war profiteering was getting Grandpa Joe.

Wow. Joe Leiberman is against successful entrepreneurs!

I sure do hope nobody points that out in a campaign somewhere. It might damage his pro-business rep and cost him some votes.

Wow, Bayh voted against Hayden! Time to send another round of emails to the four DINO’s who voted for him.

In addition, the fact that the story appears to have been exaggerated has had an eerie effect…at least for me. For the last few weeks before the Leopold story was posted, I was logging on to FDL, TL, Truthout, RawStory, etc., looking for news of the Rove indictment….Now, I feel like a bubble has been burst and I not as interested as I was before in seeing TurdBlossom indicted. This does not mean that my desire to see the indictment occur has diminished at all….just that my hopes and expectations and excitement have been somewhat deflated…

The whole thing has started smelling awfully ratfucky to me, and I sometimes wonder if the kind of popped-bubble demoralization is in itself one of their goals.

Tell me again, why we didn’t get candidates to run against these four? I have had it with Feinstein. Is anyone running against her in a primary? What is wrong with these folks?

I was very much under the impression that jumping Joe had received 34 million from his uncle when he died. It was like three - four years before he ran with Gore.

On Chris Matthews political show that runs on the weekends with 4-5 reporters includes a “tell me something I don’t” segment. Kathleen Parker says, that the word on Rove is declination. And nothing is going to happen for three weeks yet?

Anyone know what that means?

after 3 terms as Senator, believe me: the Connecticut insurance companies know how true a friend they have in Holy Joe. They permit him a little class warfare hollering now and then as long as he brings home the bacon…

I was thinking that too, Eli #37.

Classic post, Jane.

You had me going too.

And, Christy, if you’re lurking; thanks for that portrait of JFK earlier, it’s my favorite of him

Evan Bayh wants to be Preznit real bad — really, really bad. For him to take any “courageous position” is pure political calculation. His vote against Hayden is quite encouraging to me: it shows he is polling that such an action will be popular in 2008. It’s a good sign for us…

Eli 37 — I was reading Boehlert’s book today on the plane and the part about GOP loyalists at the Note made me think about how they print that the GJ is scheduled to meet every Wed & Fri and the word “ratfucky” came to mind, too.

Oh Jane - you really had me going too - you gifted rascal!

Petro # 8 - Appreciate your post on Jason Leopold. I am reading his book, “News Junkie” (ISBN 0-97260822-4-1), published by Process,LA and out in a handsome quality paperback.

So far I’m in complete agreement with Greg Palast’s recommendation (blurbed on the front cover) that “Every journalist in America should read this, then quit or riot”.

Palast prefaced the above quote - “Bravo and my personal Pulitzer to Jason Leopold”.

I, for one, am rooting for this kid….well not really a kid….I’m just so much older. LOL!

How dare Ned Lamont come by his money honestly! Obviously, he is not fit to be a politician. Time for a mudbath.

Is Joe scared, or jealous? Maybe both. What Joe does not understand is that you can’t buy the grassroots.

Best gotcha of the day-with out a doubt!!

OT-I trust you all are working on site but I wanted to let you know that I am not getting the graphics and Iam going through terrible withdrawal pains……

Meanwhile, for Lamont’s campaign…

This morning I got an email from Jim Dean, Democracy for America (subject…”Joe Lieberman: George Bush’s favorite Democrat?”), and they’re fundraising for Lamont. This email was probably sent out to millions of Dean people and should bring great results:

“For years, Joe Lieberman has supported President Bush on issue after issue. He supported Bush’s crusade to dismantle Social Security and he folded on the nominations of Justices Roberts and Alito. Lieberman voted for the invasion of Iraq and he continues to stand in the way of real solutions that will bring our troops home. He has even supported attempts to label criticism of the war as unpatriotic. Last winter, he said, “It is time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be Commander-in-Chief for three more critical years, and that in matters of war we undermine Presidential credibility at our nation’s peril.”

On Friday, Connecticut Democrats said, “Enough.” The Connecticut Democratic Convention was the first opportunity for an open vote between Joe Lieberman and upstart challenger Ned Lamont. With the process heavily stacked toward insiders, Lamont was expected to collect just a handful of votes. Instead, he shocked the establishment and won more than twice the number of votes he needed to qualify for the August primary ballot.

Ned Lamont has won the support of DFA members across Connecticut and now he’s won a place on the ballot to challenge Joe Lieberman. When he’s elected in November, Ned will oppose the Bush administration’s misguided policies and he’ll stand with other Democrats for clean government, universal healthcare, and a moral foreign policy. I urge you to join me in supporting Ned Lamont today.”

(snip)

I was thinking that too, Eli #37.

The comments here totally make me feel like I’m in one of those sci-fi movies about a totalitarian future dystopia.

It’s good practice.

Heh, Olbermann just indirectly backed up one of Leopold’s older reports from months ago. Keith is having fun with this, methinks.

If I were president, I’d ask the Dixie Chicks to serve in my administration.

Great photo. Looks like they’re kissing to me.

Jane, I finally met Tom Swan (Lamont’s campaign manager) at the CtG signing in New Haven on Sunday. Great guy, a little nutty, but in a good way.

He tried to tell me that he’s a bigger Jane Hamsher fan than I am, so I quizzed him a bit. He didn’t even know you were once a producer and wrote perhaps the best book ever on making a Hollywood movie.

Suffice it to say…dilettante. (Hee-hee)

But he’s still a good guy. Hope he doesn’t see this!

*ilson,

Thanks. First one good thing about Lieberman, he has always been very good to labor. It is just that he does it in a sorta weazely Hoffa sorta way.

Now the put down: For some people, money is not their price. As we know from fairy tales, some seek beauty, some power, some prefer a simple apple. Joe craves attention. His purchase price is an invite to Meet The Press. Where some want stacks of green backs, Joe craves the Green Room. Hookers after a poker game? Not for Joe! He is happy to be the hooker as long as he gets to see the rerun, the video, the Tivo repeat of his ever-so-bland “wisdom” repeated by Fox News anchors.

The man will say or do anything for a five minute segment.

Additionally, his complaints about Lamont sound more like school boy envy rather than a serious critique of wealth in politics. Even his class analysis is infected by his whine.

BTW, does anyone have a link to the Krugman article re: Lieberman Lamont (monday) other than via Times Select? I’d like to send it to some folks. Sorry to ask, I tried to google, but wasn’t getting anywhere. Thx.

Marg, have you seen this button?

http://photos1.blogger.com/blo.....e_kiss.jpg

Eli, 37:

I’ve been saying that about Leopold’s “work” for quite some time.

Babs Comstock is as experienced at this stuff as anyone.

Well, Joe can always count on the GOP to bail him out when he gets into trouble. What? No?

They’ll carve “D’OH!” on his tombstone.

Does anyone know who has caved more times to this Administration Lieberman or Feinstein? On the Hayden vote, it’s just embarrassing to see Democrats posture like attack dogs and then roll over to have their tummies rubbed.

Hi Bob Adams!!!

Well, here’s the bright side- maybe the guy is just really really interested politics?

Also, completely OT,

We should be among the loudest to call for Jefferson’s resignation. Let the left clealy show we are the first to clean house, not just mist a little air freshener around and claim the stink is gone.

Can the Ladies of the Lake take point on this?

I’ve been saying that about Leopold’s “work” for quite some time.

Babs Comstock is as experienced at this stuff as anyone.

I guess the only silver lining here is that the liberal blogosphere didn’t go as credulously apeshit as they had hoped. Not even a whole lot of “Great, if true” posts from the high-profile bloggers (I had one, but who the hell cares?).

Oklahoma Kiddo #50 - Great Idea! If we can persuade the Honorable Al Gore to run for re-election I think it is a good bet the band would play at one of his inaugural parties. That sure works for me.

If my WW2 analogy holds up then this may be more our ‘ bridge to far’ rather than the ‘ battle of the bulge’ but like the man always says - keep the faith the pass the ammo!

Hi Valley Girl,

I found a link to the Krugman article on Lamontblog. The rest of the article is on the NYTimesSelect service, which I think is a pay thing.

http://lamontblog.blogspot.com.....ugman.html

Hah! You didn’t have me goin at all Jane!

My GOD that photograph. Can you IMAGINE having that braindead simian mass murderer’s filthy chimp LIPS that near to yours? ***omg*** (cosmic shudder)

Even Rape Gurney appears to be battening down his kisser.

Hi Bob, - yeah. But people here have noted that columns that are behind the firewall at NYT sometimes make it online (in full) on some other site. (reposted by someone in the counterculture no doubt) OH!!! but I may be able to find it via LexisNexis…

On the Hayden vote, it’s just embarrassing to see Democrats posture like attack dogs and then roll over to have their tummies rubbed.

At least Specter’s *officially* a Republican…

oh yeah! Congressional service is just Joe’s way of “stickin’ it to the Man”! doncha know?

I really don’t care whether Hayden got through the confirmation vote in the end….

It’s the fact that the Democrats made the process so damn painless. Nothing was revealed, nothing was probed, we — as citizens — learned nothing.

I hate how these guys value their access over the nation’s health.

Throw them all out.

anyone else here having trouble logging onto the Raw Story website?

Sharkbabe @ 65 -

Apparently its happened before.

VG, yeah the NYTimes sucks when it comes to making their archives available. Why they can’t simply stick a few ads in their online archives like everybody else, who knows? At least LamontBlog has three or four good quotable paragraphs from the article.

And Sharkbabe: yeah, what Laura must have to go through. Yechhh!

Thanks for drawing that obvious connection between Cheney’s wealth and Lamont’s, which of course had completely eluded me. Poor Joe. He’s like a droid stuck in an Empire garbage crusher. The walls slowly but relentlessly moving in.

karelroc @ 70 -

Yup. Rawstory seems to be down at the moment.

Yeah, Rawstory is returning an unknown content-type, causing our browsers to prompt for a download.

Eli #67

The question is how many Democrats are actual Democrats. Feinstein and Lieberman are the simply the worst of a bad lot. Hillary and Biden still back the war in Iraq, for example. The Democrats potentially had the votes to filibuster Alito but half of them bailed. I think even if Democrats win control of one or both Houses, there may be a lessening of abuses and a check on Bush’s propensity for disastrous choices but no real reform.

Bob Adams, how was the CTG party after Lamont’s great shwoing at the convention? Kos wrote he was really ‘jazzed’ (his word) about going. Did I miss the diary about the party?

Bob Adams- actually Jane did an article that had a lot of the text of the Krugman column. Maybe that’s a better way to go anyway, for my emailing intent.

http://www.firedoglake.com/200.....-triangle/

Lieberman financial info:

http://www.political-news.org/.....ments.html

Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, D-Conn., ranking Democrat, Senate Committee on Homeland
Security and Governmental Affairs.
Earned income: $158,100.
Honoraria, all donated to charity: None.
Major assets: Stock of Commercial Metals Corp. and other companies, mutual funds, and bank accounts, $220,000-$700,000.
Major sources of unearned income: Capital gains on sale of Texas Genco Holdings stock, $15,001-$50,000; dividends and capital gains from Commercial Metals stock, $15,001-$50,000.
Major liabilities: None.
Gifts: None.
Narrative: Lieberman received fees of $20,000 as manager of a family trust. He reported taking two privately funded trips. One was a two-day trip to Los Angeles paid for by the Friends of the Fulfillment Fund, a nonprofit organization that helps disadvantaged students. The other was to New York to deliver the keynote address at a dinner, and was funded by the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation. His wife Hadassah Lieberman, received $40,000 for three speeches last year at West Chester University in Pennsylvania and for two Jewish groups.

Tommy Yum @ 60

Yes, please! The left should — politely but firmly, in a we-won’t-take-no-for-an-answer tone — demand Jefferson’s resignation. Seriuosly, I’m an “innocent until proven otherwise” type of guy, but does any thinking person really believe this guy did no wrong? Even if it wasn’t criminal (hah!) at best it looks bad, highly unethical. Dollar Bill needs to go.

Then, there is the matter of his replacement. I can’t think of anyone (off the top of my head) who would actually do a good, honest job in LA-02. Any other NOLA people out there have any thoughts on this?

FWIW…I just learned a bit about what google cache is. Didn’t try the links on the page, but the cache is from earlier today. When ?. I don’t know.

I’ve admitted a few times here to being a loser, technologically, and otherw that’s all, really that’s all, but I can no longer cut and paste links into comments here in the comment box.

Cut and paste to MS Word works fine - any help here? Please? Am using Windows 2000 Pro and Firefox.

‘Jane, you great big nasty-wasty! Can’t a prune-pussed vote trollop be a frolicsome lapdog for power in this great country anymore without some busybody noticing?…Oh, the humanity!‘

;>)

oh my god! i was half-way thru reading, not believing lieberman came out against cheney… my mind was racing, “jesus, this could turn it around for him w/CT dems!!”… and then, jane, u pulled the plug…

very well played… !!

got to got to got to get rid of that greasy fucker lieberman… !!

tryggth 71, of course it has! the result is living in the WH!

Valley Girl…
Is that what you’re looking for? Up stream #68.

The question is how many Democrats are actual Democrats. Feinstein and Lieberman are the simply the worst of a bad lot. Hillary and Biden still back the war in Iraq, for example. The Democrats potentially had the votes to filibuster Alito but half of them bailed. I think even if Democrats win control of one or both Houses, there may be a lessening of abuses and a check on Bush’s propensity for disastrous choices but no real reform.

Sadly, I agree with this. There are some halfway decent ones, but at least half of them are either gutless, clueless, or corporate-owned (or all three).

I have idly wondered how many seats the Dems would need to take to have a functional, *voting* majority.

Joe’s money…

http://www.opensecrets.org/pol.....=N00000616

oh my god! i was half-way thru reading, not believing lieberman came out against cheney… my mind was racing, “jesus, this could turn it around for him w/CT dems!!”… and then, jane, u pulled the plug…

Until the gotcha, I just figured it was some kind of desperate last-ditch attempt to make CT voters think he’s a Democrat.

I personally would be interested in knowing what defense industries have contributed to his campaign.

GrandmaJ @77, I think you unintentionally invented a great new word “Shwoing!” (rhynes with “boing”) to describe NedLam’s success at the CT convention.

United Tech. 127K

Did anyone besides me find “How Would a Patriot Act” on their front porch today?

VG, YGM

I am sending you a Word version of Monday Krugman, enjoy

Valley Girl - This the one you’re looking for? It’s from Monday, the 22nd:

Talk-Show Joe
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0522-20.htm

I wish he’d just run as a repuke lican already.

I would reather a pepukelcan won then this judas sheep.

*ilson46201 says:
May 23rd, 2006 at 4:57 pm
Evan Bayh wants to be Preznit real bad — really, really bad. For him to take any “courageous position” is pure political calculation. His vote against Hayden is quite encouraging to me: it shows he is polling that such an action will be popular in 2008. It’s a good sign for us…
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I agree. I think those with their fingers to the wind are guessing that there’s (still) more to the NSA scandals than we know about, and it’s going to look REALLY bad when the dirty laundry all comes out.

Punaise just alerted me to the fact that Salon’s Daou Report listed my Monday night post today. WHOOOOOOO-HOOOOOO!!

My crumpet-free days are surely over!

Perfect, Jane. That’s as good as it gets. Go Ned.

Sadly, TRex, the Daou Report is behind the hookin’ Salon advertisement wall…

but,
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

TRex, aren’tcha glad I didn’t let you embarrass yourelf spelling wise?

Well done TRex, you deserve every bit of notoriety that comes your way.

Phil,

6 million in personal contributions — that’s a LOT of cocktail weenies.

TRex! Congratulations. It was indeed an excellent post.

JANE!!!! there are some “moderation issues” going on. Could you please have a look real soon???

TRex, aren’tcha glad I didn’t let you embarrass yourelf spelling wise?

Indeed, op99! I know my FDL homeez have got my back. Hell, yeah.

Now, excuse me while I go pour some latte on the concrete for my posse.

TRex, don’t forget us when you’re rich and famous.

You know, *ilson and I can agree to disagree about whether or not the search of Jefferson’s office was legal, but Hastert is REALLY working himself into a lather here: http://www.thehill.com/thehill.....erson.html

I just can’t believe that he’s getting upset on principle. They’ve spent the last five years falling over themselves handing Congressional power over to Bush, after all. And Jefferson was caught even more red-handed than Marion Barry. This was a purely Democratic scandal that was clear-cut and gift-wrapped for the Republicans, and they’re not happy with the gift. Why? My best guess is because there are a number of very active FBI investigations against a number of Republican members of Congress, and none of them ever even dreamed that the FBI could come storming into their offices. If they don’t fight this now, they know that they could be next. Furthermore, I think the FBI is well aware of this, which is way they went after a Democrat first. Whoever’s running the show at the FBI, they’re playing hardball. And Jon Stewart probably already has a nice collection of Republican Congressman saying, “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.” The next few weeks should be REALLY interesting.

I got gotcha’d too, great trick Jane.

Joe is a WATB for even raising this since he hangs out with all the Repub high rollers and hangs on their every word. I agree that it’s his desperation talking and with DFA endorsing Ned, he’s in a bit more trouble. I feel good for Ned, feel like the environment is changing through the increasing grassroots disgust with the never-ending scandals and lies from the administration. Just as we have long scrutinized each word and action coming from the Repubs and DINO’s, like DiFi and Joe, now I think there are more “just folks” who are doing the same and learning more about the political game.

That’s not to say we can relax; on the contrary, I think it means there are more open minds out there to hear our progressive message in the various ways it is being shared.

That’s the extent of my input tonight, thanks for many wonderful comments and links today and the fabulous posts by TRex, Jennifer and all our beloved hosts. A long day has left me sore and sleepy. Tomorrow is Wednesday, possible newsy day, so I’ll see you then.

ps, Let’s Jettison Jefferson! We need scrupulous honesty, not an invitation to more denial and sniping! Clean House and let in the sunshine.

Congrats to T-Rex !!!

one usually has to ’sit through’ an ad to view
Salon articles

fyi - tomorrow is Opening Statements at the Safavian trial - I mention it only b/c it’s at Fitz’s courthouse and didn’t want anyone’s ’sources’ to go off in the event there’s cameras & bobbleheads outside the courthouse on a Weds.

what am I thinking ?!!? like anyone’s going to cover the govt’s Chief Procurement Officer facing criminal charges - what with killer ‘gators and The Clenis still on the loose!

(this is so old now, you guys are fast)

#69 “I hate how these guys value their access over the nation’s health.”

It’s their access to health coverage they don’t want to risk.

THROW THEM OUT.

When Salon’s got something good, I don’t mind the ad wall, it goes quick.

And Rexy, I add my kudos! Funny and kickass post. Even your honest stage fright was sweet.

Although DiFi will win the primary I will be voting for Colleen Fernald. I hope many CA Dems will vote for Colleen and send a message to DiFi that being a Repub enabler like Joementum could have a short shelf life.

I would hope sites like FDL pick up on Colleen and give her some publicity. Right now elected officials like DiFi are so secure they feel that the Dem base will vote for them no matter how much they enable Repub talking points and support the evisceration of the constitution and the inexorable lurch towards a national security state where torture, detention without habeas corpus, wiretapping and spying on Americans can all be hidden under the cloak of “state secrets”.

One of the real important facts concerning Ned’s 33% is that it came from the small towns where the individuals were not pressured by a strong machine. This spells trouble for Joe.

General Clark has a ClarkCast out:

“ClarkCast 11: NSA wiretapping and Hayden”

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/

Its quite interesting.

GrandmaJ, look at CT Blogger’s pics of the CtG signing in New Haven at MyLeftNutmeg; we also had a one hour blog-summit with most of the CT blogsters and Kos & Jerome. It was time well and goodly spent.

http://www.myleftnutmeg.com/sh.....=1318#5373

Also, I have video of Jerome and Markos on my blog.

TRex, well done bro!

Sharkbabe, I always watch Salon’s adds — every single day in fact. It is just really annoying…. The old and original Daou report was free for all — real net neutrality….

Bob,

Just wantedto say again what a great job you are doing. Go go go! Get rid of Joe!

Meanhwile, ya gotta give up them stogies — they’ll kill ya.

Frank Probst

I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall of Congressional offices today just to see the look of consternation and dread on all those Congresscritter faces as they realized the secret files, the extra cash, the videos with the interns might not be as safe and sacrosanct as they once thought. The spectacle of Hastert defending anything on “principle” is alone conclusive evidence of where Congressmen hide their best and most incriminating dirt.

Loved Jennifer today too. Really well done different aspect of the same numbing crushing smothering banality juggernaut of corporate media. Elicited a lot of interesting comments too.

Thanks for such quality guests. Keeps thing interesting even as my inner fdl old-school self never stops dreaming of a Redd Fitzmas…