Fitz!!!

Gore!!!

Ann-be-gone!!!

Um adams apple!

Yep. The right blogs reacted to her statement either with glee or silence. I wonder, will Tim Russert ask his republican guests about her statements? Or will he just ignore them, and let the repubs silently acquiesce to her world view?

You know, I wrote to Wapoo today and Babington skirted my question re her republican-ess rather deftly.

>>>>>>>>>>>

New Hampshire: Thank you for taking my question, Mr. Babington.

I am not a fan of many of the political pundits that are frequent guests on television news shows because of their extreme partisanship on both sides. Ann Coulter’s appearance on The Today Show yesterday morning was the reason I did not tune in. But shortly after it was aired, the transcript and video clip was available on the web. I watched it in stunned disbelief. How in the world can any news outlet give her a platform from which to launch such hatred laden vitriol? She later appeared on Fox and MSNBC. Where is it written that the media provide her with a platform from which to launch her book and outrageous hate speak? This woman does nothing to educate America, she only seeks to create wounds that were never even there. How does her characterization of the 9/11 widows and her assertion that Democrats are godless serve the Republican party?

Charles Babington: I didn’t see Coulter’s appearance. Some “pundits” (on the left and the right) are really entertainers more than analysts (and I certainly wouldn’t lump them with “journalists” or “reporters.”). You either find their rap entertaining or you don’t. They are trying to stir up controversy, book sales and buzz. Many of the cable “news” shows, especially at night, clearly try to have sharply partisan people to initiate a political food fight. There is no pretense at nonpartisanship.

Her Pro Domme act always suggested to me that her fans were closeted masochists.

yesterday I tried to read Coulter’s first chapter (because it was a free link…uh Thanks Taylor…). I couldn’t work my way through it. She’s totally incoherent. Like Rich Lowry with a hangover.

The only base it can appeal to is the extreme racist/religious/supremacist faction of the Republican party. But she’s so desparate that I doubt she can even reach many of those.

She may as well just chant “Liberals athiests death blowjobs” over and over.

Actually, it looks like Kenneth Blackwell is challenging Ann Coulter for the title.

I like that.

“Ann Coulter Is the Republican Party.”

Screw “triangulation” (and vigorously so) - now there’s the way to get the middle.

Hang that freak around their necks like an albatross.

OT: Bradblog says the Busby/ Bilbray race results may be in doubt!

Well, guess what? Poll workers in San Diego County had much more than just “a few seconds of physical access to the machines” when they stored the voting machines at their house on the night prior to yesterday’s election!

You read that correctly. The most vulnerable voting machines ever created and used in an American election were given to random, volunteer poll workers in San Diego to keep in their houses overnight to do with as they please. The systems were “guarded” by little more than a thin strip of plastic “tamper tape” over some, but not all, of the machines dozens of vulnerable physical access points.

A spokesperson this morning from the San Diego Registrar of Voters office confirmed to The BRAD BLOG that “Yes, the machines were sent home with poll workers the night before the election.”

(all emphasis mine)

For the last word on election fraud, it’s got to be Bradblog. He has worked tirelessly on this issue, and broke the Clint Curtis scandal. Go read and weep.

RE #4:

Charles Babington personifys the corporate media attitude: there is no truth. There is no moral responsibility. There is no public ethic. If the hate sell, put it out there. “You either find their rap entertaining or you don’t.”

Totally amoral.

I can only imagine how our corporate media would treat the Third Reich.” You either find the anti-Jewish laws entertaining or you don’t.:

Bankrupt. Utterly bankrupt.

Ann…..why the long face?

She has to pop her mouth off when she feels the cold hand of irrelevancy. Anything for attention. She is proof that, whether factual or not, the GOP base will believe anything that spews off the Fox News airwaves.

She’ll be able to make all the insane comments she wants and fabricate her falsehoods from her cell where hopefully she’ll be sleeping because of voter fraud.

Sam: I love Ann Coulter. A little brash at times but always witty and thought provoking.

These are the failures of our education system. Does Ann have what are called - by most normal people - “thoughts”?

The woman is deranged and in need of serious medical attention. That she has to stoop so very low to whore her book with such shameless blame-the-victim trash, inflicting pain on those who have suffered quite enough, is plenty of evidence that she has clearly gone off the deep end for good. Code Blue. She deserves a public censuring by anyone with any decency. Who can possibly defend such a twisted argument drenched in such vitriol? A sad day for the human race. The press should be hounding Republicans for a response to her statements and her tactics.

Wait a minute…. I thought WE were the ones supposed to be unhinged.Maybe Cat Killer should do one of his 2000 mile away diagnosis on her. Is there some upper level functioning going on there?The broad is fucking crazy.Scary crazy.The definition of a predatory female.

Lobstergirl 11

Ann…why the long face?

Imagine the Ann Coulter / Ken Mehlman love child.
wait, don’t, for so many reasons.

Coulter is not just full of incendiary hate. She is plainly dumb as a rock, extremely uncomfortable outside the safe walls of Fox, and absolutely senseless under the mildest scrutiny. She was extremely defensive and fearful with Lauer.

(on his website email form seconds ago)
_____

Senator Ensign,

Do you disavow this week’s egregiously crude disparaging remarks about the 9/11 widows made by “conservative pundit” author Ann Coulter on the NBC Today Show.

If you do not respond I will take it that you support her extreme and vulgar views, and will spread that to every available media outlet accordingly.

Here’s a funny mAnn Coulter read. If you are offended by foul language and potty mouth, it may not be for you. It’s a little old but still funny:

Check it out here

Here is a picture that is true both for gore and hilary!

Hey Taylor! Annie is a cultural experience that few can avoid commenting on. That’s her whole gift. She’s a political exhibitionist.

Put em ON Annie- Put em ON!

The final numbers for the Busby/Bilbray race are out:

Bilbray 60,319 votes 49.33%

Busby 55,587 votes 45.46%

Busby got inside of four points- thanks mostly to two whackos on the ballot who took five percent away from Bilbray–Without them it would have been 45.5 to 54.5–Bilbray by nine points.

There is a fifteen point gooper advantage in registration- so Busby knocked off about six points of the presumed Bilbray total. Not bad- but there is no prize for second place or “pretty damned close”.

Busby was also selected to run again against Bilbray in November. Hope she decides to drop out. Time for someone else to take a shot. Busby’s had three now- that’s enough losing.

As sick as I am of coultergeist’s sadistic views and disgusting dialogue, she has once again made the headlines. This is her modus operandi. I’m not suggesting we not weed out mcarthy loving screechers like ann but she is laughing all the way to the bank, again.

The guy at the end of Ctg–’Democrats make me ashamed to be an American. Republicans make me ashamed to be a human being.’

[apologies if not exact quote. am offsite.]

Taylor, I posted the comments below to your post at taylormarsh.com, titled “The 9/11 Widows Bite Back”, and thought they were worth repeating here.

I missed Kathy Griffin because I clicked over to C-Span or something in disgust after watching only a bit of Coulter’s vitriolic, cruel screed.

I decided the only silver lining was exposing the type of people that typify the conservative Republican belief system nowadays.

I couldn’t personally watch the entire interview without becoming literally ill at the prospect that this hate speech is becoming all to common in the MSM.

I E-Mailed the Today Show telling them I didn’t appreciate them moving from Couric to Coulter, and that Imus had the hate crazies covered over there.

I did think Matt made an earnest, if not wholly ineffective attempt to challenge her, but then backed down when her adams apple started twitching viciously, eyes bugging, spitting and sputtering - Matt’s thinking, “oh no, she’s offended and I’m supposed to promote her latest book!” - and so he backed off.

Good for the Ladies! They clearly took the high road rather than crawling into Coulter’s conservative sewer.

Their impassioned focus on the real lessons of 9/11 and efforts to speak truth to power, against all efforts of the Bush Administration to thwart them I might add, have brought us virtually all of the meager progress we’ve made on security matters since the largest attack on innocent Americans in our nations history.

All of the victim’s survivors deserve not only our greatest empathy and respect, but our thanks as a nation for demonstrating so eloquently what true patriotism is all about. I’m in awe.

Indeed deranged, and should be made the poster child for the G.O.P…

especially if the “Ann Coulter is a Man” meme gets more traction their fervently homo/tranny-phobic base will be in for some very challenging cognitive dissonance.

http://www.rawilson.com/jokes.shtml

I’d like to ask her- Are your parents proud of you? Does your Mother even like you?

Who are her parents anyway? Where did she come from? What happened to her as a child? Perhaps if we offered her a little compassion, it might teach her how to offer it to others. Maybe she never had an ounce of kindness offered to her by her parents? Dont’t go down Coulter’s road- show her a better one.

Ann is a product of the “wingnut welfare” system — in Jane Hamsher’s immortal description. My career tracked roughly the same time period as hers in the conservative movement. (Two years ago I was essentialy purged because I did not drink the KoolAid on Bush and the war.) Clearly she is a talent, but on a high-functioning insane person-level (Washington is filled with this type). She is a regular on the right-wing speaking circuit. She is paid a great deal of money by these non-profit organizations to entertain the “base,” the financial supporters and to indoctrinate the young. She is emblematic of everything that has gone wrong with the conservative movement. The Right loves her, they subsidize her, and they have made her rich. But by advancing Coulter, the Right has also coarsened our political debates and given rise to a mass psychosis that is fed through the media. She needs to be handled directly — I salute Taylor for not be afraid to take her on…

Why is calling the President a liar acceptable speech, but telling the truth about those who oppose him is not.

What these guys fall to understand is that those who call Bush a liar back up that statement with the facts. Without the facts they are just as shrill and irrelevant as Coulter.

Coulter, when saying these widows enjoyed their husbands’ deaths is espousing an opinion not a fact or the truth. She cannot know what is in people’s hearts.
As someone more erudite than I said, she is entitled to own opinion, but not her own facts.

That’s the trouble with these bozos that Colbert has skewered so accurately. They believe their truthiness is just as valid as truth or facts. It isn’t and that makes them angry.

Just because Iraqis were supposed to greet Americans as liberators as they were promised, makes them lump the Iraqis in with everyone they believe should die.

Just because the media told them Bush would protect them better than anyone, makes them lump anyone who dares to question his performance, with those who are the “other”.

The ones who aren’t “with us”.

And they deserve to die, as Ann has so pithily said time and again.

That people find her opinions odious is a fact.

Whoa! NBC Nightly News is going to cover REPUBLICAN Ann Coulter in the next 30 minutes…

Emphasis mine.

Would Ann have an abortion if Osama bin Laden raped her?

We already know that Kenneth Blackwell would force Ann to give birth to Osama bin Laden’s rape-fetus even if she were dying on the delivery table. Yes that’s right, Kenneth Blackwell does not believe in any exceptions to abortion.

Would Kenneth Blackwell then adopt little Ann Bin Laden Junior?

Enquiring minds want to know.

If you want to insult Ann, hit it where it hurts the most: Coulter’s balls.

I don’t mean to insult transgenders transvestites hermaphrodies. Just this one.

Via the FReepers, Drudge has mAnn’s response to Hillary front-paged:

‘BEFORE CRITICIZING OTHERS FOR BEING ‘MEAN’ TO WOMEN, PERHAPS HILLARY SHOULD TALK TO HER HUSBAND WHO WAS ACCUSED OF RAPE BY JUANITA BROADDRICK AND WAS GROPING KATHLEEN WILLEY AT THE VERY MOMENT WILLEY’S HUSBAND WAS COMMITTING SUICIDE.’

Sorry about the caps. Apparently, she said this on Hannity’s show this morning.

angie @ 4

Babington may have ducked the question, but in today’s WaPo chat with the “Reliable Sources” duo, they took a similar question:

Alameda, Calif.: Is Ann Coulter dumping on 9/11 widows in her little black dress - all before breakfast, with children in the room - really the image that Republicans want one of their leading pundits to present as the face of the party?

(Or maybe this question should be posed to Robin for fashion critique: What does a fashionable Republican spokesperson wear when trashing widows before breakfast on national TV?)

Roxanne Roberts: I caught part of her interview with Matt on the “Today” show. I know being provocative is part of her act, but I think she went so over the edge this time that even diehard conservatives will distance themselves.

Ann Coulter: provocatively over the edge. That about sums it up, all right.

Maybe your question should have gone to the political gossip columnists . . .

Ann doesn’t believe her own shit. She is just a “base-head”, addicted to the crack cocaine of the republican party.

Cancer Cures @ 31

You may not mean to, any more than everyone who tells the jokes that skewer a particular group means to, but trust me on this, you do.

From what I have seen, there is no evidence that Ann Coulter is actually a transsexual, so treating her as the butt of a joke that says she is one is simply insulting to transgenders, transvestites and hermaphrodites.

I don’t know why people don’t get that and it has to be pointed out again and again.

Isn’t it enough that she is simply a thoroughly unpleasant person who spews shit for money?

Ah Ann Coulter, gas-bag of my dreams. I actually like it when she goes off. Because I know at least half the people in this country are rational. And these thinking Americans are not going to be swayed by Ann’s antics. And perhaps, just enough of the other half (the non-rational 1/2) will be persuaded that Coulter’s ravings are sanctioned by the Republican Party, and are so extreme they will thereby be revolted, to the point of voting intelligently for the Democrats, this fall and in 2008. I live in perhaps the redest of red states and consequently run into ‘Ann types’ frequently. And I have come to the realization (the hard empirical way) that I would accomplish more, and be far more self-productive if I just locked myself in a dark closet, rather than trying to reason with the Coulters of this world. I ignore them. Ann is the queen of trolls. When Ann rears her ugly hate filled “brain” all she really does is to reinforce those who already share her beyond belief, beliefs. Coulter is a lost cause. And so is her cause. Whatever that is.

bionic @ 35

Amen.

There are a thousand ways to go after Ann - a couple of hundred of which involve humor - without dumping on whole groups of other people.

R-Dub #21:

Not bad- but there is no prize for second place or “pretty damned close”.

Thank you!!!

We now return you to your regularly-scheduled Coultergeist bashing. Special thanks to GE for giving her air time on Today and Situation to set out her views without opportunity for anyone to answer.

Nice post, Taylor.

I agree that she is who they are today in many ways. But I think the Republican Party, theocractic - homophobic - authoritarian and anti democratic as it is…is more like a cross between Coulter and conservatism’s number one benefactor over the last 25 years, Sun Myung Moon. Since they changed so dramatically in the late 70s and 80s…they now mirror his agenda.

That is why he funded people like Falwell, LaHaye, Viguerie and spent billions financing their propaganda outlet, Moon’s Washington Times - which btw he boasts about using to “influence America.”

Without Moon the Republicans don’t control the government. Think about that, it’s a fact.

Of course, I am appalled. But not surprised; crikey, just a few months ago she was advocating murder/poisoning of USSC Justices. What’s attacking the motives of a few grieving widows?

When I was little, I loved pro wrestling. Even got caught up in the narratives of Sgt. Slaughter vs. The Iron Sheik. etc. Then I turned 12.

Ann Coulter is just pro wrestling in a black dress. Sad part is, many 40 year olds still think WWE is real.

Then you’ve got your “moderate Republicans” who know that Ann’s bullshit is over the line and try to equate her comments with a random lady in a “Buck Fush” t-shirt.

To their credit, CBS radio news led off one of its reports today with a comment about the 9/11 widows’ response to Ann Coulter’s slander. They actually relayed what the widows said in answer to Coulter first, then paraphrased Coulter’s slandering remarks.

It can now be revealed. Ann The-Screech-Woman Coulter is the offspring of a steamy and furtive menage a trois comprised of Rick Santorum, Rush Limbaugh, and Lynne Cheney.

Reports are that Rush had a difficult pregnancy, but that Ann was successfully delivered via a forceps and anal episiotomy procedure after a 24 hour pic-line IV infusion cocktail consisting of equal parts Dran-O, Clorox, and Metamucil failed to induce labor.

Such explains Rush’s subsequent chronic Jones for the Oxy.

See a tongue-in-cheek visual depicting “The New War On Terror: Afgh-Ann-A-Skank”…here:

www.thoughttheater.com

Bobby G - I think it’s OK to laugh at that….heh heh

I believe the only people who would listen to Ann are the KKK, or other bigot groups. But I also agree with you guys on the fact that a lot of the repugs agree with the poison she puts out. However on writing a book, if I were her I would not call myself an author but it looks like all the hate groups are keeping her above water, oh yeah, and Fox News, it would seem that any moderate who would hear her speak would shun conservatives, but this latest remark is one of the worst I’ve heard in a long time, for her remark about the widows of 9/11 she has to be a little off-balance intellectually.

When will Russert ask his Republican politician guests whether they agree with Coulter’s sentiments regarding the 9/11 widows?

After all, he asked Obama what he thought of Harry Belafonte’s comments?

Is there any difference? It seems to me the situations are quite analagous.

In fact, Coulter is a much more prominent face of her party than Belafonte is of his.

I’m thinking Russert should pose the question to McCain.

So, Mr. Russert, I’m waiting.

OT, it looks like C-SPAN might be covering the YearlyKos Plame panel! I really hope this turns out to be true. Here is a diary at dKos talking about the possible C-SPAN schedule:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/6/7/12335/21157

I agree Coulter is the visible face of the right and embodies their “values” but Moon is their molder, their savior, and should be who the nation sees when they see a Republican or a conservative.

Some of the right wing chumps bought into Moon’s “anti-communism” charade. When in fact, he believes democracy is a failed system also. He said decades ago, “American style” democracy is no model for the world, and that was before he set out to subvert it.

Dark Side of Rev. Moon: Buying the Right

Moon also made clear that his longer-range goal was the destruction of the U.S. Constitution and America’s democratic form of government. “History will make the position of Reverend Moon clear, and his enemies, the American population and government will bow down to him,” Moon said, speaking of himself in the third person. “That is Father’s tactic, the natural subjugation of the American government and population.”

Without Moon’s billions (mostly conned from the widows in Japan) and fronts, the Republicans do not control our government. The Republicans have become everything he set out to make them.

That is a sad but very true fact.

I think this info on Arlen/Cheney is updated:

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2....._0607.html

Seems Dick went behing Arlen’s back in lobbying SJC members on NSA/telecom hearings, etc.

But the other day he was saying the WH was inviting legislation on reporter’s being prosecuted. IMHO, that would be counterproductive. Bush signing statement, and no judicial review. Plenery exec = possession is 9/10 of the law.
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…”In a terse and highly unusual letter to Vice President Cheney, Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) today rejected the Bush administration’s insistence that a secret wire tapping program being conducted on U.S. civilians by the National Security Agency is legal, complaining that efforts by the White House to stonewall Congressional inquiries into the program “denigrates the constitutional authority and responsibility of the Congress and specifically the Judiciary Committee to conduct oversight on constitutional issues,” ROLL CALL reports Wednesday.
#

Specter’s anger peaked Tuesday after he learned that Cheney had been lobbying Republican members of the committee to “oppose any Judiciary Committee hearing, even a closed one” that involved telephone companies that have cooperated with the NSA. “I was surprised, to the say the least, that you sought to influence, really determine, the action of the Committee without calling me first, or at least calling me at some point,” Specter wrote in the letter, adding that “this was especially perplexing since we both attended the Republicans Senators caucus lunch yesterday and I walked directly in front of you on at least two occasions en route from the buffet to my table.”…

I think Ann Coulter is trans-species –

The product of a space alien DNA experiment that went terribly, terribly wrong — space alien maggots fertilized with DNA from Josef Goebbels.

This was the second and last failed experiment — Rush Limbaugh was created by the same space alien maggots bred with Hermann Goering DNA.

coulter performs a valuable service as she keeps her fans from torturing small animals for at least a few moments a day…

wxyz @ 48

That’s a great idea, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.

I just heard Dobbs say that they would have Coulter on at some later date to explain herself. I didn’t hear him say he would have any prominent Republicans on to defend her remarks. Seems like it will just be another storm like the swiftboating of Kerry. Plenty of false concern masking the spreading of the story.

“She’s launched a blistering attack on 911 widows and other outrageous statements. We’ll find out why.” That’s a quote from Dobbs promise of the show tomorrow.

Uh Lou. No you won’t. You’ll just be giving her air time to spew more shit.

Right. On.

I went to write a post on my blog with nothing but stmple statements like:

She’s a Republican.

She voted for George Bush.

She thinks of herself as “patriotic.”

She says of the widows of the Americans killed by terrorists on 9/11: “I’ve never seen people enjoying their husbands’ death so much.”

Are you Ann Coulter?

Ah, something like that. But Blogger’s down and I couldn’t do it. Thanks for this. This needs to be hammered home all over the blogosphere NOW. This is a moment for us.

Specter coming up on cnn and le loup garou!

Coulter’s job is to be so extreme O’Reilley’s crap appears sane by comparison, and hence, acceptable.

Repugs have crowd control down to the same science Goebbels did.

How I would counter:

Match and justapose a Coulter rant with Repug thoughts on the same subject.

Example:

Coulter - Fags should die!/Bush - pertinent marriage amendment quote.

Coulter - Druggies should die!/ Limbaugh’s mug shot.

Just so folks make the link between their leaders and the hatemongers.

Repugs at heart are 3rd grade bullies. And the only solution is to bloody their noses on the schoolyard where everybody sees it.

I have no cable…will predict Arlen will seem very stern. Let’s see what if anything the committee does. Like witnessess actually sworn in (even if in closed session)

So…what’s the current fantasy?

this person speaks for frightened white folks, who happen to include many democrats — i know lots of so-called democrats who think blacks get favorable treatment in court, who look upon latinos as endangering america’s culture [what culture are they thinking about?], who think palestinians are to blame for what the nazis did & who think we should attack iran now that we’ve down so well in iraq, provided other folks’ kids serve as cannon fodder [preferably black & latino kids]

ROFL! PATRICK thinks Coulter is SOPHISTICATED? Too funny. Is he 8 years old?

…done so well in iran…

I laughed out loud in surprise at John Robert’s response to Joe Biden on AC360 last night when Biden was dicussing the lack of accountability in the BushCo administration.

BIDEN: But somebody has to — think about this. You can’t answer this question, I know, but has there ever been an administration you can think of where no one — no one has been accountable for anything? Anything?

ROBERTS: Well, they’ve held several people accountable for certain things, Larry Lindsey they held accountable for saying that the war was going to be costly. General Shinseki they held accountable for saying it was going to take more troops.

BIDEN: And that was a truth. I guess you get held accountable when you move from the catechism, when you move from the script.

I know the truth in these statements are sad and pathetic, but Robert’s response seemed so not MSM. You know, truthful.

I put ann coulter’s name into the internet anagram maker (www.wordsmith.org/anagram/) and there were some good ones.

My favorite, however, is:

UNCLEAN ROT

Redundant, I know, but still apropos!

Well, I am holding my breath because the Judiciary is the last place we can place our hope…

He did speak out against the FMA… after fighting with Russ.

Specter say’s NSA spying a “flat violation of FISA.”

Well.

Tapper on ABC’s Nightly News did the “fair and balanced” bit after showing Cootie at a book signing spewing her venom to applause from her groupies. Tapper–”Lookie here, folks, the Democrats do it, too.”–as he showed someone (surely a Democrat) saying something that couldn’t compare with the Coulter hate. That pretty well left the W—h B—h off the hook. Ahh, the media, they are obsessed with letting the Republicans off no matter what devilment they are up to.

Peter Daou weighs in:

On Coulter, Slime-Traffickers, & the Media’s Craving for Blog Buzz ~ “This race to the bottom by the establishment media leaves the progressive netroots in a quandary: if the only thing these so-called ‘journalists’ want is to create an uproar, how do we respond? Some bloggers advocate ignoring slime-traffickers like Coulter and Glenn Beck, others attack them for the scum they peddle. My preferred tactic is to excoriate the media outlet that gives them a forum - it may play into their need for attention, but I think it’s imperative for us to create a public record of these media transgressions, if only for historians to understand how America sunk so far so fast.”

DexDexter @ 62

I hardly think “running them out of town” is holding them responsible as much as kicking them out of your club.

As a hometown boy I really wanted Roberts to be smart and incisive on CNN. I wanted to be able to brag (cause I never really watched him on CBS).

I am sorry to say he simply sounds like a real dimbulb, a tool if you will. He shoulda stuck to breathlessly hyping videos on Much Music.

Cheney went to rethugs on the committee yesterday (Hatch) and did not speak with Arlen the chairman.

There is no question that the statute has been violated, but there is a question whether Article 2 trumps it.

Blacks get preferential treatment in courts?!
Should mention that to the rediculously high proportion of black males 18-35 currently either behind bars or somehow involved in the Crim/Just system.

defacto ethnic cleansing or a sort.

oh, and that brown horde invading the american way of life from the south…IIRC, didn’t older maps of North America show states like Texas, Arizona, NEW Mexico, Colorado and California aligned within the Mexican boundary?

Specter is saying Article II trumps FISA, bullshit!

Snarlin’ Arlen, the Saturday Night Massa Cur - per Cujo359’s observation, the kind of dog who growls then chases those who flee, but cowers when confronted.

MS Right? Isn’t MS a feminist construct? No, surely she is a MISS or a MISTRESS, but never, never a MS……

off topic

So see the GOP try to run. But they can’t hide from their base. They need them. It’s the only way they can win in November.

sorry

how MANY TIMES have I said WE can’t win with electronic voting machines.

it’s not gonna happen

I heard on randi rhodes today brad blog is telling us the debolt machinese were taken home last night and that’s why we lost

n addition, Diebold’s Touch-Screen Voting Machines Have Built-In Wireless Infrared Data Transfer Ports

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002458.htm

ya know what?

we are not gonna win no matter HOW many people vote for oversite, we have GOT to get RID of electronic voting

that’s the only movement that matters right now

Bionic at 68

(I hardly think “running them out of town” is holding them responsible as much as kicking them out of your club.)

Good point.

Anybody watch NewsHOur? It seems that Little League will be hurt if the Estate Tax is not repealed. So now we know that Paris Hilton spends her spare change watching Little League. Parents be scared.

diogenes says:
June 7th, 2006 at 4:04 pm

Coulter’s job is to be so extreme O’Reilley’s crap appears sane by comparison, and hence, acceptable.

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Diogenes- I agree with that comment, tho I didn’t think of it before. Great point. I know this tactic from prev. times, but on the other side- I would give a specific example, but the intent just wouldn’t compare with that of Coulter.

This is a tough call (covering AC) because imo the right makes this mistake all the time - the wingnuts go after some nasty-mouthed rapper and the next thing ya know his album is #1. I certainly don’t want that to happen to AC’s book.

However, as a middle-aged caucasian/married for 16 years/father/teacher/ethical/fiscally moderate socially liberal human being I get plenty tired of being stereotyped by the worst of the left side of the spectrum. (Though really, at the moment, I can’t think of anyone outrageous enough to actually qualify as a smear. Ohhh no, Tim Robbins, Al Gore, Howard Dean, Jane Fonda…no please not Jane! *g*) Anyways, I’m not making my point very well…

Somehow the NeoRighties have succeeded in branding anyone and everyone on the left as extreme/unAmerican/cowardly/indecisive/blahblahblah. We need to tie Lil Annie Adams Apple around the necks of the entire GOP. We need to be aggressive and win the battle of words, the battle for the hearts and minds, and the battle for the soul of this country. Everytime she speaks (or is even talked about) it needs to be preceeded with the word “Republican” - we need to ask each and every Republican whether of not they agree with her nasty insensitive racist homophobic vitriol. Never back down, never let up.

Little Morphin’ Annie

So, if Arlen’s resigned to just acquiescing in the power grab w/o any review at all? Not even like the Supreme Court, or even FISA (who I would guess might dissent from Specter’s opiniion).

hey, raw story has a pretty good story going;

Senator slams Cheney for lobbying Congress on wiretaps

RAW STORY
Published: Wednesday June 7, 2006

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In a terse and highly unusual letter to Vice President Cheney, Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) today rejected the Bush administration’s insistence that a secret wire tapping program being conducted on U.S. civilians by the National Security Agency is legal, complaining that efforts by the White House to stonewall Congressional inquiries into the program “denigrates the constitutional authority and responsibility of the Congress and specifically the Judiciary Committee to conduct oversight on constitutional issues,” ROLL CALL reports Wednesday.

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Specter’s anger peaked Tuesday after he learned that Cheney had been lobbying Republican members of the committee to “oppose any Judiciary Committee hearing, even a closed one” that involved telephone companies that have cooperated with the NSA. “I was surprised, to the say the least, that you sought to influence, really determine, the action of the Committee without calling me first, or at least calling me at some point,” Specter wrote in the letter, adding that “this was especially perplexing since we both attended the Republicans Senators caucus lunch yesterday and I walked directly in front of you on at least two occasions en route from the buffet to my table.”

Specter has authored legislation to require the NSA program be brought under the jurisdiction of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which would require wire taps be signed off on by a judge prior to being initiated.

Specter warned Cheney that this stonewalling must end and that “if an accommodation cannot be reached … The Judiciary Committee will consider confronting the issue with subpoenas and enforcement of that compulsory process if it appears that a majority vote will be forthcoming.”

DEVELOPING….

Specter: I won’t back down, grrrr, well maybe, well ok, well I love everybody and I’ll be looking for the VP on the Situation Room.

blah, blah, blah. whimpering like a semi wounded cur into that good night.

punaise– Cujo’s description remains true.

Been looking all over for this one I saw. It’s by Steve Soto at The left Coaster. Cracked my ass up.His take on Anne.

Satan’s Chambermaid Emerges Again

Lobstergirl @ 30

You rock! Thanks from all of us in Ohio.

There are only two ways to use electronic devises for voting:

1) For scanning paper ballots as they are placed in boxes by the voter.

2) As a third check on the citizen’s vote after the vote itself and exit polling.

In any event, it is ludicrous that the software isn’t entirely owned by “The People” and administered through some independent creation of the judiciary, and/or legislative branchs.

The machines would be produced like any other commodity per our specs by private industry, who shouldn’t even know how to operate them.

We’ll never untangle the tentacles of monied control of our country until the vote can be counted on as accurate.

Specter always folds in the end

he’s ultimately willing to eck-Specter-ate all over the constition.

NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams ran the most telling bit of the Matt Lauer-Ann Coulter interview, and it was not pretty for Ms. Coulter. The Jersey Women’s response was also excerpted. I think Williams implied, pretty much, “Have you no shame at last?”

Let’s help Ms. Coulter sell some books. I am quite serious about this. Let every citizen know how one self-described Republican views the world.

Ms. Coulter thinks the widows are happy to be widows. Only a monster could think this way. This woman is, and I choose my term carefully, a psychopath, incapable of understanding ordinary human emotion, or any sort of empathy. Which, come to think of it, is not all that unusual among the more extreme conservative Republicans.

She may be whacko but she has the megaphone and her new book is at #9 with BN. Question remains, who are these people and are they breeding?

Oh and just one more thing. How is it possible that Specter et al still maintain that the preznit acted in GOOD FAITH when he breaks the law? I mean if I speed on a highway or ignore a stoplight and cause a serious accident and an officer of the peace stops me, can I just say– but I was acting in good faith?

Goopers are having themselves quite a week- whipping right through their agenda like a hot knife through butter.

Token measure on Gay Marriage- DONE

Now we move onto the dreaded “death tax”- the tax that no one EVER complains about while paying it. Goopers want to do away with it. Permanent removal is estimated to const a trillion or so over the following ten years. Doesn’t even PHASE the goopers- what’s a trillion dollars here or there- it’s the indignity shown to dead people that matters.

Next we move on to the flag burning amendment!

Democracy has become a joke- the government has become a very CRUEL joke- and the people? The PEOPLE?

They’re nuts!

Dex 62

A few “leading” dems like Biden (and Leahy on NPR this am) are whining like WATB’s about the secretive administration that rejects any oversight and that’s ALL they do is piss and moan about it. Why don’t they grow some balls and impeach these rat bahstads? It’s really getting ridiculous.

He’s held his ground away from the Grassy Knoll for over 40 years, though. Must be thet ‘Magic Bullet’. hmmm…maybe THAT’S what they use to keep him in the fold. Amazing that that IS actually the one thing he has EVER stood up for and stook to it. lordy…two coups in one lifetime…

About the picture at the top–brings to mind a quote from the late Richard Pryor:

“I’ve seen better looking faces on a iodine bottle.”

Regarding her screed on The Today Show–brings to mind a quote from the late Rodney Daingerfield:

“The last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.”

Ann Coulter is the loose nuke of the republican party.

Plano at 91

Ditto.

ooh. poor John Recess Appointment Bolton– ticked off that the UN spoke the truth about Rush and Fox called them for what they are– naysayers and underminers of the UN.

boo-effing-hoo.

Just wish he included Stormin’ Normin’ Coleman amongst the propagandists.

I am very pleased to hear that Ann Coulter is a smoker. What’s her brand? Perhaps I can send her a carton.

It’s still not enough to be AGAINST the awful things the Republican Party and its accolytes do.

Democrats and progressives must be able to articulate a positive program — beyond Harry Reid’s hopeful ‘we can do better’ (which is a good start).

That happened with Tester’s campaign in Minnesota; but not with Busby in So. Calif.

Here is a list of th Ary-Ann Coulter/Hutu Power roadshow schedule.

From KOS.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyo.....85342/8519

-GSD

She smokes Raleigh’s. Word has it she’s saving the coupons to by an oxygen tent.

“I am very pleased to hear that Ann Coulter is a smoker. What’s her brand? Perhaps I can send her a carton.”

Poles

Hey, all, I had appointments to keep, but wanted to chime in, even if it is a little late.

Ann Coulter is now holding court with Sean Hannity out here, where he’s invited everyone to a book store to help her sell books. He’s also giving her a whole lot of free radio time, because they love the way she revs up the base. I tuned in on the drive between biz stuff and it was hack radio of the highest order.

I have a pole, but I wouldn’t touch her with it if it were ten feet long.

By the way, it’s streaming online:

http://www.kxnt.com/

It is amazing that a woman with views that full of hatred is the darling of the so called Christian right…..talk about the Apocalypse.

-GSD

I was out of the house for the last thread. If Gore decides to run in ‘08, I will change my 30-year-status as non-affiliated to Democrat so I could work for him and vote in the primary. The way this country has been whirlpooling down the toilet, we don’t need a cautious and centrist president but one with brilliant ideas–another FDR but in his or her own way. (her=Boxer, not someone else)

The retort from the wives was consise and proper but it took to long and it didn’t work. One of them should get her in public and make a physical point. If it was my spouse, I would go after that bitch.