Ned and Fitz!

Netz!

Like to order 250 of those card please.

are those the fabled Nutmeg Mountains in the background?

Did Joementum promise to support a Dem candidate, if it’s not him? Is it still being contemplated that he would get national Dem money if he runs as an independent?

So much for Ned Neutrality. Go Lamont!

YEAH!

Boy, those people look like they’re really enjoying each other’s company, don’t they?

Good on Jepson! Hope there are lots more where he came from.

Any word on the Spacely Sprockets endorsement?

“….his wife Betty…”

Too many teeth in that picture. Candidates need to remember to limit blinding enamel exposure. Voters won’t be able to read ballots.

George Jepson? didn’t Hanna-Barbera do a TV cartoon series about him?

Looks like they cropped out their dog, Astro.

*ilson – that’s way #8 and 9 refer to.

NEDRENALINE !!!

what a beautifully balanced statement from Jepson

considering we are all strong supporters of Lamont’s, we are really having too much fun mocking the photo, you know!

where does Al Gore’s non-endorsement of Liebersplat* fit into the scheme of things?

*kudos to whoever coined that one

Speaking of Lierbersplat,while out blogging this morn I got some joementum on my shoes.

I once knew someone who, on her divorce, decided she wanted a hopeful, optimistic surname and picked “Jetson.” Very beautiful woman, but every time I saw her, I had to stifle a giggle.

Gore’s non-endorsement is a way for folk to turn away Lieberman fundraising entreaties without guilt…

Erm.. I believe the gentleman’s name is spelled “Jepsen”.

Congrats to Ned. And George didn’t even get around to mentioning that Joe thinks rape victims should have to go hospital shopping for pregnancy preventative treatment.

OT – I’m EPU’d below with an answer to someone who asked in some thread for more info on the wetlands decision.

Q. What do they call a gathering of Joementum supporters?

A1. A sellout crowd.
A2. Staffers.
A3. Fox News.

punaise, I prefer Lieber”baby” since he is definitely not Lieber”man,” and he’s workin’ that whine into a wail.

Can’t wait to hear Lieberbaby’s response to the Jepson endorsement – thank you, George. No equivocating there, for sure.

Ding!

Ding!

Ding!

And tha winnah is …. al-Scooter!

Just love great news on an cool, foggy Carmel morning. What a beautiful family! Go Ned!

Environmentalists and conscienous golfers may want to send some thanks and a little love to the Concerned Residents of Pebble Beach and Monterey County. The brave little non-profit tirelessly continues its grass roots campaign against the Pebble Beach Company (Clint Eastwood, Peter Uberroth, etc. et al) from subverting the California Coastal Commission and destroying the pristine environment of Del Monte Forest.

http://www.cr-pb.org

Yikes. CNN’s got pix of Houston starting to look like NOLA in the first week of Sep ‘05.

OT – Cheney still thinks insurgency entered its “last throes” in may 2005:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/…..-throes-2/

lotus 25 -

Yeah. And my honey is enroute to Baton Rouge today, changing planes in Houston. I am not a happy camper. Will have elevated BP till I hear that she’s safely in at BTR.

angie,

in case you didn’t see it (EPU), left you a note of thanks for the “occupation” piece

a little ray of sunshine there!

Great photo! Where are soccer shinguards on the kids, though?

OT: From Today’s Froomkin The Cheney Supremacy.

Ever time I read this I get steamed. It seems to be the narrative for the NeoCon/BushCo methodology.

“‘That’s not the way the world really works anymore,’ he continued. ‘We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out.’ ”

This is in defiance of the basic logic of how action and awareness works, from the the level of cellular dynamics, right up to individual autonomy.

The problem is, if they genuinely believe this it illustrates a gross ignorance on the part of those policy makers ‘actions’. Its like some addled adolescent explanation for why the rules shouldn’t apply to them. Like an excuse habitually trotted out by some priviledged ivy league punk insulated from the consequences of his actions by wealth, prestige, and courtiers. Hmmm, now who fits that description…

I can see this coming from Bush; it has that kind of sub-intellectual ‘let them eat cake’, swagger to it. I could also see him having said it, and then more junior officials parroting it around to others. It has the feel a Straussian apologetic also however, so its possible someone laid this explanation in front of Bush, in a dumbed down fashion, and it became an internal ‘white house’ talking point.

For an administration official to be suggesting that policy is inscrutable because, ‘We’ve decided we’re just going to flail about, because we’re the biggest fish in the bowl.” is lunacy, they should have been called on that right away. Yet I’ve been reading this passage as the narrative used for justification for over two years now. And here it is once again, in what is probably its original context courtesy of Froomkin.

Its like a left brain deciding to go its own without the right brain. Action without reflection will work, for awhile, but sometimes the action is wrong, or based on wrong impressions, and then reflection is needed to apply correction so that subsequent ‘actions’ are not wasted.

Thats one of those funny things we use to base our ideas of history and memory on. But Nooooo…since America is an empire, it doesn’t need history or memory, it’ll just make em up as it goes along. I guess thats where Faux news comes in.

I guess this is the money quote, in my estimation.

“What you’ve got is everything — and I mean everything — being run by the political arm. It’s the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis.”

grr….apologies for the long-ish rant, and for being off-topic, again.

Eh… Houston has terrible drainage problems, but I don’t think it’s even possible to get anywhere near as bad as NOLA.

There is a question about the Lamont/Lieberman race that I have not seen addressed. Many have commented on how hypocritical and disloyal Joe would look if,before the primary, he began circulating petitions for an independent race. Some have suggested that other people might do that on his behalf while leaving him with deniability. I seem to recall that in my state, in order for signatures on a petition to be valid, the candidate must somehow authorize them. Is this the case in Connecticut? If so, that would make it harder for Joe to have it both ways. Is there any Connecticut insider here who can address that issue? I’m sure Lamont’s staff people know the answer; maybe one of them could delurk long enough to tell us. Go Lamont.

We the voters must put all politicians on notice that they will be replaced if they do not properly represent us.

Good luck to her and you, BobbyG. I don’t recall ever flying into Houston so can’t tell you how the airport’s situated (but nothing’s very high there … ‘cept the buildings).

Which Houston Airport is she flying into?

Haven’t seen the news and sorry to hear Houston is looking like NOLA. But wonder if Babs will think that it’s “working quite well for them….”
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What a great looking family.So much for liberals and progressives being unwashed and tye dyed,eh?

I just saw a shot of a guy on a bicycle up past his hips in water.

neurophius #33

I just read somewhere this morning that Lamont supporters are watching the Conn. state house for public filings, which apparently are required should Liberman gather sigs. for indy run.

bumblebums @ 11:50 am (#20) – Erm.. I believe the gentleman’s name is spelled “Jepsen”.

It’s spelled that way on the Lamont press release.

CNN: 3 more soldiers being charged w/ murder, etc., will get Art. 32 hearings, being held in confinement — for murders of 3 Iraqi detainees last month.

Saw it, cbl. Thanks!

Attn Powers that Be: bad link on CT Blog above

Cujo359 @ 12:04 (#41) – It’s spelled that way on the Lamont press release.

That’s unfortunate.

Oops.

Misunderstood your comment, Cujo359. Never mind…

all this news of rain and flooding evokes Led Zeppelin’s haunting “When the Levee Breaks”, the last line of which turns out to be a startlingly prescient indicator of Joe’s fate:

“Going down… going down now… going down….”

NYT on S. TX flooding:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06…..r=homepage

playing Devils Advocate: what’s to prevent scheming Lamont supporters from standing in front of newspaper offices circulating petitions putting Joe on the ballot as an independent? There’s most likely a law against it — any petitions surely have to be approved by him…

OT: Meanwhile, the Australian Army may be the only thing standing between a wave of giant toxic toads and, ummm, whatever it is that giant toxic toads eat.

http://www.wowozanga.com/2006/…..tralia.htm

And I thought scotch broom was a disaster. (H/T to Slashdot).

Speaking of “Independent Democrats,” I’d be happy to lump Joementum in with Jim Hurysz, the local whackjob who runs as an “Independent Democrat” against our Democratic congressman.

I’m generally pretty soft-spoken, but when he showed up during the campaign two years ago at a Deaniac grassroots event I helped organize, and claimed he was following Dean’s admonition to get involved in politics, I bitched him out and told him in no uncertain terms that Dean hadn’t said to try to get a Congressional nomination and when you lost, declare that the local Democrats were meanies and take your marbles and try to take advantage of the good name Democrats have worked hard to build to undermine the candidate those Democrats have nominated.

Come to think of it, pretty much the same applies to Lieberman. “Independent Democrat,” my ass!

Cujo: I’m glad the Australian Army is fighting giant toxic toads over there so we don’t have to fight them in the streets of Indianapolis ! God Bless Prime Minister Howard !

BobbyG:

In Houston, the worst problems this morning were reported in the southeastern part of the city, in the area around William P. Hobby Airport, and in Pasadena to the west. The National Weather Service reported that at the airport, almost 6 inches of rain fell within 75 minutes.

At a televised news conference, Mayor Bill White said he toured the area by helicopter this morning, and saw “block after block after block flooded.”

She may get to BTR faster than the Houston passengers get to Hobby (if that’s where they’re spozed to land).

Redshift: in Indiana we have a “Sore-Loser Law” whereby if you lose a primary you cannot run for that same office independently or on another ticket in the fall.

*ilson46201 @ 12:14 pm (#52) – Actually, there are cane toads in Texas, and several other places. I guess they’re not as much of a problem in Texas, because they resemble the local fauna.

THIS JUST IN!

Slate racist Mickey Kaus is dating ultra-skank Ann Coulter

Clearly Mickey has more than a touch of Eddie Murphy.

*ilson at 54 — that’s a darn good idea. Wish we had that everywhere.

spector and lieb cut from the same cloth..rubber stamps..

The way I read the CT Sec. of State site…

1) – Nominating Petition for “New Party” or “No Party” candidates for U.S. Senate must be filed with Sec. of State by 4:00 on August 9th:
http://www.sots.ct.gov/Electio…..n/2006.pdf

2) – Required form is called “Application for Nominating Petition”, and requires the “Candidate’s Statement of Consent”
http://www.sots.ct.gov/Electio…..ED602b.pdf

Hm, aReader 59, that doesn’t say the candidate’s consent is required to gather signatures . . .

about Kaus having the touch to date Coulter — he’s evidently got the touch for Sarin, VX or Ricin too …

*ilson, maybe they’ll get carried away, bite each other, and croak.

At top of Page Two of CT form, this text appears:

“Each of the undersigned consents to the placing of his or her name in a nominating petition as a candidate for the office specified…”

I take it Lieberman would have to authorize any gathering of petition signatures, prior to the gathering.

http://www.sots.ct.gov/Electio…..ED602b.pdf

Getting warmer, aReader . . .

Yay Ned!
My two cents: I think it is surprising that Lieberman doesn’t bolt now. I think he needs signatures and time to position himself as an “Independant.” If he stays in the primary he loses crucial time pretending to be a Democrat, albeit Bill O’Falafel O’Reilly’s favorite Democrat. (I guess O’Reilly must be fuming at the “terrorists,” I mean CT Dems. )

Lieberman & his minions have really put themselves in a tight corner. On one hand they call Weicker & Ned “Republicans” like in the stupid commercial. On the other they, e.g. Droney, imply that Ned and his supporters are left-wing liberal wackos and weirdos.

“We are an empire now . . “

that cretin actually committed that to print ?!?!?

is he going to start going out in public without the latex mask ???

as someone who has raised 5 kids to never say hate when they mean ‘dislike’

I HATE THESE MONSTERS !!!

apologies to cretins everywhere

Q — What do you call Mickey Kaus and Ann Coulter at the bottom of the ocean?

A — A toxic waste dump, but probably worth it.

What do you call Mickey Kaus and Ann Coulter at the bottom of the ocean?

A Very good start

Condolezza Rice warns North Korea against testing a long-range ballistic missle. It’s okie-dokie for us to do that, but not them. No hypocrisy there. Right? If I were North Korea, or for that matter anyone else, looking around at what Bush has wrought in Iraq and perhaps plans to do to Iran, and whatever other lunacy he might be cooking up, then I’d be testing everything I have too.

Here are Nominating Petition instructions:

http://www.sots.ct.gov/Electio….._ED607.pdf

- A candidate for an elective office who is not nominated for such office by a major or minor party may secure a place on the ballot by filing a nominating petition

- Before the Secretary of the State may issue nominating petition … the application must contain … a signed statement by each candidate that he consents to having his name on the petition

cbl: all Cretans are liars anyways

From the application to start gathering signatures:

“Be sure to enclose page 2, Statement of Consent signed by each candidate; page 3, Town Clerk’s Statement, signed by clerk of each candidate’s town of residence (multiple copies of page 3 may be attached if necessary); and Application for Reservation of Party Designation if required.”

It sure looks to me like the candidate has to sign saying they intend to be on the ballot before you can start collecting signatures.

so if anybody gets discovered covertly circulating valid petitions for Joe, Joe can’t disavow them if the petitions are properly signed by Joe? it looks like it…

aReader 12:25 p.m.

Thanks for the info. on Connecticut election laws. The wording of the documents you have cited seems to suggest that nominating petitions must be issued by the Secretary of State, and that applications for those petitions must include the candidate’s authorization (apparently prior to the petitions being signed by voters). That is how I read it, anyway. If that is the case, it would seem to require Lieberman to show his cards prior to the primary election and open him up to charges that he is trying to have it both ways–unless he were to withdraw from the Democratic primary at the time he began authorizing petitions to be circulated for his independent nomination. In any event, it appears the voters would know what was up well before the primary.

cbl @ 68

A: An insult to bottom-feeding scavengers everywhere.

~

Only questions about Conn. Nominating Petitions…

Does issuing a Petition become a matter of public record? If so, then just monitor the Sec State to keep Joe honest. If not, then Joe can begin collecting signatures under-the-radar.

Oooo, juicy times in Ye Olde Nutmeg State . . .

I’ve also heard the Lamont Lawyers are watching the ‘petition-issuing office’ like hawks, awaiting Joe trying to sneak petitions out under cover of darkness …

PS – Here is index of CT election forms online:
http://www.sots.ct.gov/Electio…..cform.html

aReader 12:42 p.m.

I would be shocked if issuance of a petition to be placed on the ballot were not a public record. I would assume that Connecticut has some kind of open records or freedom of information act. I hope the press is monitoring developments at the Secretary of State’s office.

aReader, thanks again for your great work on those CT regs.

“62
lotus says:

*ilson, maybe they’ll get carried away, bite each other, and croak.”

If they start croaking, let’s get on the phone to the commander of the Australian Army task force for the global war on frogs.

Well there you go, ET: two problems, one solution!

Of course it could turn out that the CT secretary of state is an old crony of Joementum, in which case watching like hawks (*ilson) would be a necessity.

There is a movie called ‘Cane Toads‘ (IMDB link) which as it turns about is an unintentionally hilarious documentary, about how the Australian government had imported these giant ‘cane toads’ to combat vermin that were pestering some sugar cane plantations, only to find out that the cane toads had nothing to do with sugar cane, and no interest in the vermin causing the original problem.

The result was a landscape littered with these large, rapidly breeding venomous toads that had no natural enemies. Likely the australian gov’t is still trying to find ways to check the cane toad population.

Its still cited as one of the most classic examples of govenmental bungling on record. I guess Bush has knocked that down, or perhaps there is a move underway to diminish the apparent incomptence of this admin, but putting it in context with other contenders.

At late night last night I queried about whether or not we should support Lieberman if he squeeks out a narrow victory, which is possible. I’ve donated 2x to Lamont, and don’t live in CT, but I would support Lieberman – reluctantly – if he does win.

Connecticutblog link should be fixed now. Sorry about that, gang.

Christy’s favorite WaPo pundit – David Broder – wrote an op-ed piece that appeared on Saturday, I think. http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..01561.html

Here’s the Lieberman quote on his Iraq war position that really frosted my cupcakes:

“I know I’m taking a position that is not popular within the party,” Lieberman said, “but that is a challenge for the party — whether it will accept diversity of opinion or is on a kind of crusade or jihad of its own to have everybody toe the line. No successful political party has ever done that. (emphasis mine)

That word – jihad – is what sent my blood pressure through the roof. Invoking a word like jihad against his party is reason enough – on top of everything else – for him to be shown the door.

OT, but Christy, have you been to http://www.dailyhowler.com today? Somerby gives you major props for the Lapdog book discussion and post you wrote.

Neurophius – You asked yesterday in book club if anyone is doing a VWR (Virtual War Room). I don’t know but I’d sure be interested in discussing the idea further. Now what?

time for Joe to “toad align” and declare his support for the winner of the Dem. primary.

OT – Sorry if this was covered yesterday, but I couldn’t find it.

My Unwitting Role in the Rove ‘Scoop’
by Joe Lauria

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..01754.html

Edward — I, for one, would support the winner of the primary. I’m hoping for Lamont. But a Dem controlled House and Senate is the single most important driving force for me this fall.

Sophist & cbl:

That history’s actors quote has bothered me ever since I first read it. I’ve never been able to pinpoint its philosphical roots (not that I know much about philosophy, a bit of a handicap), but I think it might have some origins in Boyd’s concpet of the OODA Loop:

http://tinyurl.com/sydnw

I know Deadeye’s a big fan, though he seems to have misapplied the concept. No surprise, there. But that might account for the we-do-while-you-study part.

The rest I see as being Hegelian: the world should be run by a tiny elite, the rest of us are pawns in their game, etc. Very Skull & Bones-y.

Hey, just a thought.

OT, but I’m telling y’all, don’t mess with us small women:

Saks Restores Petite Sizes After Outcry

Mommybrain at 89 — that’s great, except it was Peter Daou’s piece. I tried to make that clear when I posted, but apparently it wasn’t completely clear. It was Peter’s great writing, not mine. (I just couldn’t get our software to put Peter’s name at the top — I have got to learn basic programming for WordPress…)

If Lieberman somehow wins the primary we can issue clothespins to Dem. voters to hold their noses while they reluctantly do the right thing.

lotus at 94 — hehehe Damn straight! Good for Saks.

Ed*ard Teller at 12:49 pm

I agree, I think it would be important for the netroots to support Lieberman if he wins the Democratic primary, in order to refute the “terrorists” label and to support a Democratic takeover of the Senate. Lamont himself has pledged to support Joe in the general election if Joe wins the primary. But if he has enough strength to win the primary, I would guess a victory in November would not be much of a problem, and that we could concentrate our efforts on races in other states. Lieberman certainly has not earned our active support; it would be strictly a pragmatic decision to elect a Senator who at least still calls himself a Democrat.

If you don’t mind, Christy, I’ll email Howler and let them know.

Punaise – toad align *snort*

E.T. : I’ve donated money to Lamont but if (God forbid) Joe wins the Primary — I will wish him good luck in his race in the General! That’s all…

I just don’t see how Lieberman is better than any garden-variety republican. I wouldn’t vote for him if I were a CT resident. I’d vote Indy or Green if it came to that.

lotus – Saks Restores Petite Sizes After Outcry

…with the condition that new garments be certified by Underwriters Laboratories:

“Saks UL healing”

Mommybrain at 99 — thanks, I’d really appreciate it. :) Peter deserves all the credit.

Gawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwd, punaise. You just too fast, boyfrien’.

mommybrain

As I recall, ck and I had a couple of exchanges about a Virtual War Room (VWR)(ck suggested the term). I think it is important for the Democrats to assemble some mechanism for putting out a consistent message the way the right does. I see two problems:

1) It would require some resources (I would think several full-time people); and

2) To really be effective it would need coordination with the DNC and with Democrats in Congress, and with issues like Iraq dividing Democrats, I don’t know whether that is possible. It is hard to project the image of a consensus if we don’t even have one.

I would be interested in hearing from Christy, Jane and Pach on this issue. How do we generate a voice strong enough to be heard over the Mighty Wurlitzer?

Jenny – a Democratic majority – even if it is gained with Lieberman as one of the Democrats – will give the Dems the right to run the show, and isn’t that what we’re fighting for the opportunity to do?

Were I a CT resident, I would hold my nose and vote for Lieberman if he were the candidate, since we can change nothing else until we change the big picture.

T @91 – Leopold’s goose is cooked. But when he was on the Dave Ross show KIRO-AM this morning, all he did was whine about Lauria and claim befuddlement at how anyone could think he was not on the up an up. Ross, who ran 2 years ago as the Dem against Dave Reichert in the 8th dist. (the seat Darcy Burner is now campaigning for) never once brought up Leopold’s credibility on the issue of outing his sources who screwed him on the Rove story!

Pissed. Me. Off.

I called in to aske the question myself, but they weren’t taking questions. Nice. I left a message for Ross on his voice mail asking for an explanation as to letting Leopold slide like that. I’m going to keep after him until I get an answer. Used to really respect Ross.

Journalistic ethics firmly stuck in the toilet bowl.

y’all see Condi stumble all over her North Korea remarks ??

it’s b/c these clowns have no idea of what to do in the face of a threat not of their creation – chickenshit clown

Punaise

Let’s hope Lieberman doesn’t decide to leapfrog over the primary to an independent candidacy. It would be much nicer if he would simply croak.

Ned looks a little like Flanders in this pic. Diddly doo. Which isn’t a bad thing. Esp. when he’s running against Lieberman, who has that devout thing going for him.

ooh I just looked again- doesn’t he look a bit Quayle-like? Forgive me.

Hi Anne -

I’d normally agree, but Lieberman in particular is so bad for the party, he undercuts us every chance he gets. He does great damage, in my opinion.

Well, ha, I’m glad I don’t live in CT because I’d be in quite a quandry about it. That being said, I’ve decided, from my gut and heart, to vote my conscience from now on. I’ve never veered from straight Dem ticket until now, but I feel very strongly about voting for someone who represents me. I don’t know how else to handle it. No more triangulation for me.

Just one woman’s feeling. And thanks for your response. :)

Punaise

We may end up having to support Lieberman in the general election, “warts and all.”

Anne at 23, would that be “big black Lieberbaby buggy bumpers? A new tongue twister!

btw, this is a radical departure in my way of thinking. I went nuts when dem friends voted for Nader in 2000. Absolutely made me livid. But they wouldn’t listen.

Ed*ard Teller
It’s not necessary to support Lieberman. If he wins the primary, he wins. The Republicans are not putting a whole lot into the campaign because they obviously like Joe just fine.
Personally, I think Lamont just has to win. A Lamont win will revive voters and help CT Dems win house seats. Lieberman has the opposite effect. seriously. He doesn’t look too shiny, purty or clean. Voters in CT are depressed by corruption in DC, the rackets in CT & Lieberman’s got the whiff of DC corruption.It depresses the heck out of me too.

his looks were the only thing Dan Quayle had going for him (except his newspaper-family inherited fortune)

Best to deal with Lieberman like a band-aid… just “ribbit” off.

The Courant quotes polling showing Joe winning a 3 way race w/56 percent. But, imho, that’s based on nothing concrete. I firmly believe Lamont is an ‘idea whose time has come.’ Courant articles over the last couple days quote veteran politicos who admit they have no idea what will happen if Joe goes this way or that. One is quoted as saying ‘It’s all in the gut.” If we have sized up Joe that’s one thing we know is lacking. And, conversely, just the opposite for Ned.

Fer instance, just go back to say last Nov (I don’t know when Lamont started his move, but just say Nov)– who could have imagined such an entrenched Sen like Joe would face a party convention challenge just months later, and would easily convert to a primary challenge.

imho, Lamont wins, easily. His team is effiecient, and Joe is running Lotus 1-2-3 campaign. He can’t tack (or even ‘attack’) w/o problems in both consistency and message.

but that don’t mean Ned don’t need all the help he can get.

Best wishes Ned!

“Float like a butterfly; sting like a bee! Rumble, young man, rumble!”

Lamont’s smile is real. Quayle’s was just a chimpy fear grimace.

sheeesh! … next some fool will ask if anybody knows exactly which protocols Lieberman uses on his website !

Christy at 95, In Word Press I think you would need to create a user name for him, which you may not be a high enough level user to do.

op99 at 121 — I do have the ability to do it, if I only knew how without screwing up the whole website. *g* (I opted for explanation at the start of the post instead. Thought you guys would appreciate actually having a blog. lol)

Question: am I “pink” because I’m a new commenter/moderation or… just curious!

Don’t know ’bout Word Press, but I can testify that Christy is highest-possible-level!

if Jane and ReddHedd dont have high enuff administrative rights on this site, who would?

Jenny at 123 — the pink just shows you where your own comments are in the queue, so you can find them more easily. :)

Jenny, you’re pink until you refresh the browser — then you go as gray as us ol’ folks.

Jenny – I completely understand what you’re saying, and agree that Lieberbaby is not good for the party. But…

I think, to some extent, the Dems being in charge in the Senate would go some distance to neutralize the toxic effect Lieberbaby has at present. Not suggesting that it won’t be important in a Dem-controlled Senate to have Dems in alignment, but I figure that a lot of the crap that has made its way onto the floor would never have gotten there to be voted on in the first place if the Dems had been in charge.

I’m from Maryland – we’re going to have our own brand of problems with a multi-candidate Dem primary for Sarbanes’ seat, with the winner likely facing Michael Steele, the current lt. governor. Kweisi Mfume is one of the primary candidates, whose main opponent is Ben Cardin. Cardin, leaving the House to run for the Senate, is probably better qualified, but some think that Mfume – an African American – is the only one who might be able to draw the black vote away from Steele, who is also African-American.

Well sports fans, just faxed everybody on the Commerce Committee about net neutrality, plus my own Senators.

Limping off the field…

Jenny: you’re left-of-center so you are ‘pink’ — if you supported the dictatorship of the proletariat, you’d be scarlet red !

OT – again. I love my traitorgateporn!
shoephone, thanks for the color around Leopold/Lauria.

I reread the Lauria piece and it’s just a hit piece on Leopold…and maybe he had it coming. But, it does nothing to refute any of Leopold’s claims, only his alleged methods.

Just saw the link to my blog. Thanks, Christy!

I’ll be taping Ned at the Norwalk DTC meeting tonight. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to ask him some questions about today’s endorsement.

Hee hee. Thanks folks. It ain’t easy bein’ pink!

twolf1 #27

Cheney still thinks insurgency entered its “last throes” in may 2005

Louis XVI: These revolutionaries have got nothing.
Napoleon: The Russians are ready to break.
Hitler: The Russians are a spent force.
Custer: OK, we have them cornered!
General Westmoreland: We can see light at the end of the tunnel.

Cheney just another of history’s visionaries?

Wow, Anne, I haven’t heard much about your MD race. Primary in August, I guess? That’s sticky one you’re describing. What makes Cardin stand out?

Anne -

I’m originally from Maryland too!

Well, all I know, re: Lieberman, is we plot and we plan and we try to see the big picture, but then we wind up making so many concessions, playing the game, that we wind up losers in politics and losers in our souls. I’ve made a pact with myself this time and I hope and pray I don’t do any damage.

another smart-ass answer:

Jenny: Girls get pink, boys get sky blue here — some of us are more the rainbow type !

Christy at #92,

Certainly.

May I suggest you, Jane or Pach look more fully at Diane Benson, who is running against Don Young for our sole house seat here in Alaska. On the surface, Young doesn’t appear to be vulnerable, but this will be the first time in a while here where voter dissatisfaction is very, very high. People are going to be pulling the lever against the most unpopular unindicted governor in the contry, so Diane has appeal. Young had two sqeakers in the past when voter satisfaction was low.

MyDD is growing more positive about Diane all the time. Here’s a link to her campaign page:

http://www.bensonforcongress.com/

Diane’s son, a soldier, was severely injured in Iraq last winter. She’s been visiting him at Walter Reed, and has been visiting wounded soldiers here too.

If Diane started getting some national attention, some serious netroots support, she could possibly surge.

Christy @103 – Done and done.

Neurophius 105 – If we build it, will they come? do you think this could begin as a volunteer effort?
PS Did we meet at YKos? I heard your name in the Caucus at one point and looked around but…

al Scooter at 91

Thanks for the link to the OODA cycle stuff.

*ilson46201-

I like rainbows! I’d pay big bucks to join the FDL rainbow coalition!

Edward at 138 — I’ll pass the info along for Howie — maybe he can do something on her for his Blue America series. :)

T – agreed. Lauria is pissed about someone impersonating him (I can understand that) but I wish there was more substance on the heart of the matter. Have to admit though, at this point I don’t think truthout should be continuing to pay Leopold a salary.

Color commentary – I love it. Grew up listening to Vin Scully, the best.

Dean on Wolf: “You can’t trust Repugs to defend America — not because they don’t want to defend America, but because they’re not SMART enough to defend America.”

*ilson46201

…next some fool will ask if anybody knows exactly which protocols Lieberman uses on his website !

surely not the Protocols of Sign-on?

Whoa, al-Scooter 91, that’s pretty heady stuff for our boyGeorge, wouldn’t you agree? When anyone but the “history’s actors” do that stuff, it’s called magical thinking.

All that quantum stuff – to paraphrase Inogo Montoya – Those theories, I don’t think they mean what they think they mean.

Just testing out the waters recently to see how it felt. In the CA race a couple of weeks ago I voted for an artist/greengrocer or something like that (ha!) instead of DiFi. And I felt damned good about it too.

Republican Hoosier Senator Richard Lugar is on the ballot this fall. This will be his 7th race (36 years already in office). Indiana Democrats have put nobody up against him yet: the primaries are over and so was the State Convention. The State Cmte will eventually nominate somebody. He was horribly conservative when first elected but the entire national spectrum has shifted so far right that he is now the 6th most liberal GOP Senator! He never changed…

How Kennedy looking of them.

I’m probably being a bad influence. I’ll take myself out the door now. :)

Nice talking to you all and see you soon!

punaise 145 – you are Quick Draw McGraw!

Vin Scully – ah, the velvet voice. National treasure. Made listening to the Dodgers during Murdoch’s reign palatable.

punaise: that crack is so elderly!

Cardin has represented his district well over the years, is liberal but not radical, hits all the right notes on social issues, etc.

What irks me is that the only thing Mfume and Steele have in common is the color of their skin, but splitting the black vote would work well for the GOP, so there seems to be an effort afoot to suggest that if Cardin wins the primary it will be because Dems don’t think an African-American is worthy to be the candidate – thereby shifting black votes over to Steele in protest.

It’s ridiculous. The Dems need to put up the best candidate who can keep Steele out of the Senate – he’s been bought and paid for by the national GOP machine, and will do their bidding. Have had enough of that, thank you!

MB #147:

That’s one more reason why (per Suskind), Deadeye’s the brains of the outfit. If he could be conned into telling the truth, Man of Action-Figure would be saying, “I am history’s puppet…”

LOL – forgot the Elders part

Afternoon!!

Lotus, I like teeny wimmins!

Punaise, many elders are bald and have no part. Just zayin’

al-Scooter @ 92,
Wow! Thanks for the link. That’s fascinating. John Boyd appears to have come up with some powerful concepts and they were based upon personal experience in actual combat.
As it relates to Cheney though I’m guessing that Cheney took OODA and further refined it to simply DA then applied it against the US (as in United States rather than us as in you and me). Think about it. All the pieces fit! And it works better than perhaps John Boyd himself could have imagined. The results for the US appear to be just as predicted by the OODA theory.
:)

“… there seems to be an effort afoot to suggest that if Cardin wins the primary it will be because Dems don’t think an African-American is worthy to be the candidate – thereby shifting black votes over to Steele in protest.”

How Rovian is THAT, huh, Anne? How quick-on-their-feet are the Cardin people? What horse is Mfume riding?

OFG,

The blog you didn’t mention yesterday no longer exists ; )

mommybrain – touchee, I mean toupee: Pate ‘n place

Us teeny wimmins lak you too, OFG! (Even those of us whut lak other teeny wimmins!)

OFG – not to burst your bubble, but petite sizes aren’t necessarily for tiny women, just short ones – so we don’t have to hem everything we buy!

sophist @31
I think rove said the empire thing. I doubt bush can pronounce “judiciously”, though it would be fun to hear him try, & “as you will” doesn’t sound cowboy enough.

thus the hemming and hawing…

Oh shit, an aborta pork!! Christy gots whiskers!

Did OFG just part his moorings?

EPU’d 150 last thread, Dune Messiah says

I just called Hutchinson’s office… they say that she does not have a position on Net Neutrality and is waiting to hear from constituents…

Calling all TEXANS! To the faxes!

Well, I’m not fat, just short for my weight!

mommybrain 139, I sent BobbyG a good pic of neurophius, maybe he’ll put it up in his fdl dirctory if we ask real nice. :)

That’s over my head Lotus.

Haw Haw

no comprendo #167, OFG

So now we’re even again, OFG. I’m still tryin’ to figure out your 167.

Ja have a good day so far?

MB, Vinny’s the only reason I watch MLB anymore. Unfortunately, he and Tommy Lasagna are quite the GOoPers. Tommy even cut a commercial trying to convice seniors to back SS piratiztion a couple of years back.

al-Scooter, can we use OODA theory to counteract them?

OFG – 167 moi, non plus.

Op99, thanks. Look for a package near the end of the week ;).

al Scooter and Hmbldog

You probably already know this al, but John “40 second” Boyd was an aide to Tricky Dick Jr. in Gulf War I

It’s too bad he didn’t learn anything from him

Punny,

A blogger, that I did not mention, severly bitchslapped Jane, CHS, and all FDLer “flying monkeys” is apparently out of business. I notified CHS via email, and she had the “whiskers” apparently, to pull the plug. Don’t know how that’s possible.

al-Scooter – noooooooo, say it ain’t so about Vinnie! ARGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH. Lasagna is just like many members of the Italian side of my extended family, so no surprise there. NO,nononononononono, not Vinnie!

mommybrain,

OFG does not speak french, he does think it tho.

thanks, OFG, you had us, ummm, puzzled

lotus – unfortunately, Mfume seems to be making some of those noises about “worthiness” himself, so this is playing right into the GOP’s hands.

I’m not worried about Cardin – he has more money and wide support – but I hate these ugly campaigns.

Our governor has hired the guy who ran Saxby Chabliss’ campaign against Max Cleland, so we are expecting a down-and-really-dirty campaign here. Bobby Ehrlich is a Bush wanna-be who goes beyond arrogant, and I can’t wait for him to go be someone else’s problem.

Wow, OFG — between you and punaise, we’s really tearin’ up the peapatch out here ’safternoon!!!

Sorry, whiskers is a more acceptable euphamism than cajones.

sigh: work beckons.
must….close…..Firefox….

ofg – “moi, non plus” means “me, neither” in french.

Dish, ofg, dish. Tell us more and can you obliquely say who? Do you have any quotes?

Vinny may have eaten too many Jimmy Dean’s sausages in the old days. Never thought of him as political.

To his credit – he is a famous Redd Hedd.

Oog, condolences, Anne — and Maryland. Thanks for the update, though.

OFG,

Maybe the tons ‘o traffic we sent his way crashed him?

I can only hope. He was quite the blogwhore on C&L, too, IIRC.

John in Sac’to #179:

Boyd on Schwartzkopf: “Hi-diddle-diddle, right up the middle.” IIRC, Boyd was the one behind the “Hail Mary” flanking manuver.

You’re so right about learning. Boyd never would’ve taken bin Laden’s sucker’s bet. We need another like him, pronto.

That recent “flying monkeys” thing made me exceedingly anxious. That may have been when I started in on the Margaritas.

Your making a BIG mistake throwing Joe off the boat. This will be very interesting to watch.

Texas lady’s name link goes nowhere but to a dead aol.com page.

t..r…o…l…?

MB #178:

Sure. Clintonistas used it to great effect vs. Poppy in ‘92 and Viagrabreath in ‘96. Rove’s bitch-slapped Dems with it ever since. IMO, neuro’s comments about a virtual war room are spot on.

Hint,

First word:

A movie about creating dinosaurs

Second word:

Rhymes with “dork”

It was a top ten screed in which Ms. Hamsher took frst place in the dubious awards for the cannabalistic treatment of Wankette. The poster was blogwhoring on another site, due to limited traffic on his/her own. I have no quotes as it was mostly a personal ad hominem attack on one very close to my heart when she is in a state of grief. CHS, responded and Pach told me to hold my fire because attention is what this person craves.

I too try to build traffic, but I refrain from rampant blogwhoring. If someone wants to visit my site, i’m easy enough to find.

187 mommybrain, email me and I’ll send you a link. It’s a mentally deranged stalker that can’t get over fdl not jumping right on his isse. Think jp. opera99 at rochester dot rr dott com. And I found another one that’s even more certifiable. I hope our hostesses are protecting themselves from these kinds of nutbags.

Uh-oh, somebody from Texas (#193) says we’re making a BIG mistake giving Joe the boot.

I guess we must be on the right track!

al @ 191,

He got the Hail Mary idea from a Roman General right??? (fuzzy memory)

Hugh @ 134

What if Faux “News” had been around …

Well, if that’s all 193 can offer, no use messing with her. Joe’s jumped off the boat all by himself, and 193 is most welcome to him while we wave buh-bye.

Tremendous news. And I hear that George Jetson’s boss, Cosmo Spacely, will be chiming in with his endorsement soon.

We’ll take all the cane toads you got! Just please god don’t send over Micky and Anne!

They might breed!

Have mercy!

OT on the pardon thang…Should the Chief Investigator be keeping a sharp lookout for a self-flagellating albino looking jerk with a revolver hidden under his cowboy hat?

Just, you know.

shoe #189:

To his credit, he keeps his politics out of his telecasts. And it’s Farmer John, but LOL anyway!

BTW, the late Jim Healy used to play a Bob Uecker imitation of Vinny that was a dead ringer, right down to the Farmer John plug. Almost too funny for drive-time radio.

Any word on Jane and her mother?

They cain’t get enuf of us’n in Texas. Lak gooood BBQ.

Nothing new today, OFG 204.

al-scooter – I still miss Helen Dell.

We should all be so greatful to Bush’s favorite democrat, Rape Gurney Joe. Perhaps the lady from Texas is new here and is unaware of our efforts to require democrats to be democrats.

OFG #196,
W.O.W. Did I totally miss something there.GONE!. Person who remains unnamed still had bad mojo for our ladies over a rant he had with that lady journalist who was kidnapped in Iraq. The only time I have ever seen Christy tear someone a new a-hole.I was AWOL all weekend and missed something big me thinks.

Another lifelong Vin Scully fan here. (despite his politics which, so far as I know, lean to the right. Oh well.)

Oilfieldguy – You are a gentleman and a scholar. Don’t bother with that JP character.

New thread-a-la.

OFG at 179 — I didn’t pull the plug, he did it himself. I just called him on his obsessive crap with Jane — this was really the wrong week to pull that shit, and I for one was having none of it.

Folks, the Dodgers in general lean way right . . . yet another reason why the SF Giants loath them.

john sac #200:

Prolly from Scipio Africanus, who did the all-time classic move. When Hannibal had crossed the Alps and was creating havoc on the Italian peninsula, the other Roman general (Fabius) could only think of harrassing raids to slow him down. Scipio took an expeditionary force of castoff soldiers, sailed across to Carthage and forced Hannibal to return home, then defeated him on his own turf.

Is there a lesson for Dems vs. Rove in all that? I report, they decide.

Good on ya Christy!

The ladies here are good with daggers. I’m more of a lead pipe type.

Peterr 213 – they lean especially right when they put on the Bonds shift.

(oops, I’m not here, really….)

JWR @ 2:13 pm (#210) – He was a good announcer. While I never lived in LA, he was on the network baseball broadcasts enough that I came to recognize him.

cartaGOP delende est

OFG and Op99 – I do remember his name but I don’t think I bothered reading his comments much. Left almost no impression.

I’m off to have a blogging lesson – how to link, etc. See ya later, all you ‘gators. I’m going to be mulling over the VWR, al-Scooter, neurophius and ck. I’d sure like to be a part of that.

Katymine, it’s only 92 today here, but with an outrageous (for us)40% humidity! I’m feeling swampy.

shoe #208: Me, too.

Peterr #214: BALCO Bonds is a Gnat, through and through.

Cujo359 2:17 pm – Whether at the stadium or watching the game on TV, pop and me always had the portable radio with us. But Vin’s still a good announcer, though he scaled back the number of innings he’d broadcast a number of years ago.

I need some good news – how long ’til Lamont tops Lieberman in the polls?

No argument here on Bonds and BALCO . . . I’m a Cubbie fan, myself, and can’t stand either the Giants or the Dodgers.

Gimmie Harry Carey, God rest his soul, broadcasting from the Wrigley Field bleachers on a sunny September day . . .

Texas Lady,

Are you Kay Barely Hutchison?

Say solong to Odious Joe.

-GSD

Peterr,

You’re wrong about the Dodgers and Giants. Giants owner gave more money to the GOP than the Dems. On the other hand Dodgers owner McCourt gave 100% of his contributions to Dems.

Dover Bitch

Wasn’t aware of McCort’s giving, but going by LaSorda and Scully. As for Peter McGowan, he spreads the wealth around – gotta keep both sides happy, in the grand corporate lobbying tradition.

Yeah, but Magowan gave the max $2000 to Bush and did not support Kerry. The big point though is that the Giants fans have hated the Dodgers since not long after the Civil War! :)

beat L.A.! beat L.A.!

Lovely picture. Only problem, that is not Connecticut in the background. Nutmeggers know the highest elevation is about 1400 feet. Get them in front of the Connecticut River or a buoy on the Sound and they and he will be all set.

Joe now knows he’s in BIG trouble with Connecticut voters. It seems to have come as quite a surprise to him. I wonder if it has crossed his mind that as he has misread the strength of opposition to his candidacy, perhaps he has also misjudged what is in the best interest of this nation? It’s time for him to do some sould searching about how he has gotten things so wrong. Until he gets a clue it’s not a good idea to return him to the Senate.

I tried to get ‘ “Ho” Lieberman ‘ propagating awhile back, just as a friendly nickname, you understand, but with this running-as-an-independent nonsense, it seems more and more appropriate… Once again, the Republicans lower the bar!