The Lamont campaign has released a new campaign ad, and it is incredibly well done — the filming, the editing, effects…everything. And it makes me laugh, in that sick feeling in the pit of your stomach but you have to laugh or you’ll just throw something at the teevee because it’s so true sort of way. If you haven’t seen it yet, go and watch it now. In the ad, President Bush’s image is speaking, but the words coming out of his mouth are pure Joe Lieberman. And I mean that.
This ad is incredibly effective, which is probably why the Lieberman camp has gone bonzer yo-yo about it. My favorite take on the reaction came from Colin McEnroe of the To Wit blog on Hartford Courant online:
Yesterday, they were especially fun. First, they made the ordinarily level-headed Paul Bass very mad when they issued an altogether ooky anti-Lamont flyer which contained a falsehood which they falsely attributed to Bass. Isn’t it fun to watch Paul get so mad?
Then, they responded to a Lamont commercial which attempted to deceive the voters into believing that Lieberman’s voice sometimes comes out of President Bush’s mouth, much in the vein of the now scientifically discredited documentary “Look Who’s Talking.”
In response, the Lieberman press secretary issued list of “facts,” a political term meaning “things which, if they were true, would make our jobs a lot easier.”
Here are my two favorite facts:
- Joe Lieberman has been a scathing critic of the Bush Administration. This would be “scathing” in its mostly idiomatic and colloquial usage as a substitute for “fawning.”
- Joe Lieberman is the only person in the United States of America who ran against George W. Bush twice, and beat him once. This is an apparent reference to 2000, when Lieberman ran against Bush the way Dan Quayle ran against Mike Dukakis in 1988 and the way Ed McMahon was the long-running and widely respected host of the “Tonight” show. This is also an apparent reference to 2004, when Lieberman wanted to run very badly, and I guess you could say he did.. Actually, he didn’t get to run against Bush at all that year. He ran against people named Dean and Kerry. After he finished unambiguously fifth in the New Hampshire primary, he subsequently announced he had tied for third.
Now THAT is laugh out loud funny, right there. Read the whole column and tell me you aren’t laughing out loud at the Lieberman people. (This is wicked snark, and it makes me happy just to read it. I bet the Lieberman campaign manager is less happy, though…that would be "less happy" in its idiomatic and colloquial usage as a substitution for "completely freaking pissed and increasingly panicky.")
Oh, and the Paul Bass article that McEnroe references? Scathing.
…Of course, this flyer does not appear on Lieberman’s campaign web site. In his personal appearances and interviews, Lieberman continues to claim he supports "bipartisan" politics that rises above nasty, personal attack ads.
"Here’s a man who is a sitting U.S. senator, who has been a candidate for vice-president. He ran for president. And he’s behaving like some lowlife," Tom D’Amore remarked Monday morning in the wake of the new flyer. "It’s just amazing. This is, pardon the pun, really Bush-league policy.
"That’s a pretty good pun, actually."
"It shows the senator is desperate," Tom Swan said. It shouldn’t be surprising that George Bush’s favorite Democrat would resort to Karl Rove tactics."
Ouch.
You know what else is laugh out loud funny, though? The fact that The Hotline has now picked up on Curious Jim’s "Joe-Nertia" phrasing — in fact, it’s the title of their Lieberman/Lamont campaign update segment. Mwahahahaha.
Oh yeah, feel the Joe-nertia. I’m feeling sluggish just thinking about it…
(Graphics love to the ever fabulous Dubya’s World.)
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Ned!
Kobe!
Rootz !
I’m scathing on thin ithe now…
Fitz!
RITZ !!
That was a great ad. The best part was the people behind Ned saying “So do we.”
klyde — I know. I just loved the entire ad, from start to finish. :)
By way of Raw Story: http://www.boston.com/news/nat…..ge?mode=PF
Lots of stuff out there on the internets about how Joe’s campaign people are losing it.
This is heading into Katherine Harris territory!
I just read there were more Libby filings yesterday. Is that true?
No, nothing new is posted on Fitz’ website.
Well at least Joementum gained some temporary sanity re: Flag Desicration Amendment…can’t say that about Ben Nighthorse-Campbell wannabe Ken Salazar
http://www.senate.gov/legislat…..vote=00189
Heh-heh. Damn, but that was satisfying!
Anybody out there got skills to do some graphics like those in the Lamont ad, the fade from Joe-nertia to Bush? We should do that whereever possible with every Repug candidate.
And I’ve got one I’d love to start with if you’re up to it.
Christy:
Great graphic! I hope that voters in Connecticut are paying attention.
The ad is superb, well done and exactly what we need now – innovation and humor.
PS: I’m glad you like my reference to all of us being like “Bowfinger”. I hope that in Novemeber we can all yell: “Gotcha’ Succers!”
Franco says: “I just read there were more Libby filings yesterday. Is that true?”
June 28th, 2006 at 6:10 am
Do you have a link, please?
reading stuff like this here is good for my soul. good snark to start the day. but the reality here in connecticut is that there is not much local newspaper coverage and limited TV coverage of what is really happening. the ad is great and hopefully gets folks thinking. i have two LTE about ned and holy joe that have not been published. i will keep trying as well as promote ned appearances at local events (like the Niantic Lobsterfest this saturday noon).
That’s a good commercial.
holy crap! And the Lieberman camp are completely mad to alienate Paul Bass like that. I suspect Paul Bass was always a forgiving soul and a little soft toward Lieberman even though political views differed. A lot of people in New Haven are/were like that.
How did Lieberman vote on the flag burning amendment?
Jomentum is another one who would enjoy remaking historical quotes through the Bush-World filter
Webb yesterday – Allen is Bush-league.
Lamont today – Leiberman is Bush-league.
I like the new guys on the block.
OT -Good for Catherine Crier for tackling the voting machines issues.
Sorry for the OT -
Jane and her devil dogs.
AIEEE!
Fitz-a-palooza!
I’m heading to Foxwoods to drown my
sorrow with the slots.
We need a miracle Fitz, to ambush this lying,
deceitful administration.
Bring them down, only indictments work.
Bay State Librul
Ned Lamont made a very good choice when he recently hired Bill Hillsman as his ad man.
http://connecticutlocalpolitic…..lsman.html
I live in MN and Hillsman was a big part of why Paul Wellstone was able to defeat incumbent fat cat Rudy Boschwitz. That was a classic David versus Goliath political race with Boschwitz outspending Wellstone by a huge margin. It was Hillsman’s ads that really helped to catapult Wellstone to victory (and become a great progressive Senators and voice of reason).
Here’s the ad that I still remember from that race: http://www.bnmhost.com/bill_hillsman/fast_512k.mov
Wellstone was a Progressive’s Progressive. God, I still really miss Paul Wellstone.
Sorry for getting a little off topic.
I hope that Hillsman’s ads can work some magic for Ned Lamont in Connecticut. He’s off to a very good start with this first effort that morphs Liberman into Bush. That’s right on the mark and I can’t see how it won’t hit a chord with progressive minded voters in Connecticut.
I don’t know…it’s posts like this that upset the delicate flowers at TNR.
Maybe we should spare their feelings.
Naaaah.
.
Stephen at 15 the link is: http://www.usdoj.gov/usad/iln/…..edigs.html
hey jack walsh. go to the Sun. better food, nicer atmosphere. only another 12 miles away from foxwoods
Cathy 18 – Joementum voted “nay”—DINO’s voting FOR the amendment are: Bayh/Dayton/Feinstein/Johnson/Landrieu/Lincoln/Menendez/2 Nelson’s/REID/Rockefeller/Salazar/Stabenbow
Spork_incident, great picture, thank you for sharing. And Jane, I didn’t realize (I can be terribly dense) that Kobe and the others were standard poodles. I love those dogs, I worked with a librarian for four years that had a pack of them, lovely beasties.
Okay, that link didn’t work (damn). Try this one (very sorry). http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/osc/index.html
Thanks Pete for the tip, the Sun shines and
we beat Pedro tonight?
Jack
Sorry for the OT -
Jane and her devil dogs.
AIEEE!
Are we doing that, then?
Very well, for those of you who missed the night shift.
Oh, and I like “Joenertia.” I was expecting him to re-brand himself as “Joetorum”…
McEnroe’s post is priceless — as are the comments on it (they sound just like us)!
Joe-nertia be headed for Joe Blown.
Dadhusker-
Thanks. I’m just glad it got defeated.
Once again the Lamont campaign displays Testicular Fortitude and attacktics.
Go Ned!!!!
There was a filing by Libby’s team seeking an extension of time to file some discovery objections/concerns with the court. It wasn’t contested. All relating to morning briefings that Libby received. Nothing major
Congrats to Curious Jim on the coinage.
I am wondering if other people in CT are encountering the same phenomenon. I am seeing Lamont bumperstickers and lawn signs, but none for Lieberman. Another thing, sometimes you get honked at on the highway if you have a Lamont sticker. Once it scared the crap out of me (road rage & all ) but it turns out the guy doing the honking was a serious Lamont supporter and shouting he was voting Lamont (on the highway.)
Oh golly — some dam in MD is leaking, evacs ordered. I do hope no FDLers are in the way (not that I want anyone else to be).
SP CPA at 8
I will believe Specter is going to do something when we SEE HIM DOING IT. and not before.
Tired of being jilted by him.
As for Joenertia, it is truly getting better by the day! Watching Schumer is going to be lots of fun too!
I just want to re-emphasize what Klyde said at 4.
This campaign ad is already a mini-classic. The morphinmg at the end is even more fun than the “look who’s talking” at th ebeginning.
But the real passion of the piece comes when Ned, at the end, says “I’m Ned Lamont and I aprove this message.” When I was first watching, I thought — that was a little intense and seemed a wee bit un-Neddy.
But then came the fabulous ending — with enthuisiastic supporters waiving Ned signs yelling out: “We do too!!”
I have been wondering how long it would take to make what is a campaign law requirement into part oif the central message of the commercial. Ned did it. Not only did th eadd tell everyone that Lieberman is Bush, it also demonstrated how earnest — and real — Ned is as a candidate with a huge amount of everyday people who have his back.
Immanentize predicts that this technique will be used in 80% of all political adds in ‘06.
(OK, THAT was an easy prediction to make….)
Go Ned.
Just what I whispered, Peterr. Good morning!
Steve Clark says:
June 28th, 2006 at 6:32 am
Thank you for the link. I had already visited that page before your replies and did not see anything new. I also looked at the opinions issued so far this year by the DC District Court and saw no new opinions from Judge Walton.
Peterr my 34 did the italics thing how do I keep that from happening again?
Mary @ 20
“Bush league” just about sums it up, on so many levels . . .
Respect for the Congress – Bush league (we don’t need no stinkin’ oversight)
Respect for the voters – Bush league (Look at that shiny thing!)
Respect for the Courts – Bush league (No, you can’t tells us how to deal with detainees)
Glad to see that Lamont’s got himself a bush hog to clear himself some brush!
*ilson or whoever’s moderating, when you have time, could you please remove my whisper at 39? (Only Kobe and the girls heard it, anyhow.)
I will believe Specter is going to do something when we SEE HIM DOING IT. and not before.
Tired of being jilted by him.
Ugh. That worthless piece of crap is my Senator. After the SWIFT thing, when he asked why it took a newspaper investigation to get Bush to comply with the law, I wigged out, posted a rant, and wrote him a letter, to the effect of, “YOU’RE the reason, you spineless little weasel! If you did your job once in a while, Bush might have reason to think twice about wiping his ass with the Constitution.”
Larry @ 44
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Preview is your friend
Preview is your friend
Preview is your friend
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And lotus @ 39, you’d a friend of few words . . . Good morning to you, too.
Hey Mary if you are still around.
I meant to tell you that my wife and son were away for father’s day and when they came back Saturday night, my son gave me a Father’s Day gift that he helped his Mom pick out at Needless Markup in Houston.
No joke — a yellow tie! I laughed and laughed, it was such a great present. I think they were surprised at my overwhelming approval. I tried to think of some adjectives ….
Thanks and sorry for disruption.
Larry
Yep, Peterr, “mum” is a fave.
BUSH HIMSELF REVEALED FINANCIAL TRACKING SYSTEM OF TERRORISTS, HIMSELF, ON SEPT 24, 2001 ON THE WHITE HOUSE LAWN, INCLUDING MANY DETAILS (Then Secretary of Treasury, Paul O’Neill also discloses a ton of info and details about the program):
THE PRESIDENT: “Good morning. At 12:01 a.m. this morning, a major thrust of our war on terrorism began with the stroke of a pen. Today, we have launched a strike on the financial foundation of the global terror network.”
and:
“I’ve signed an executive order that immediately freezes United States financial assets of and prohibits United States transactions with 27 different entities. They include terrorist organizations, individual terrorist leaders, a corporation that serves as a front for terrorism, and several nonprofit organizations.”
“Just to show you how insidious these terrorists are, they oftentimes use nice-sounding, non-governmental organizations as fronts for their activities. We have targeted three such NGOs. We intend to deal with them, just like we intend to deal with others who aid and abet terrorist organizations. This executive order means that United States banks that have assets of these groups or individuals must freeze their accounts. And United States citizens or businesses are prohibited from doing business with them.”
SECRETARY ONEILL: Thank you, Mr. President. This order provides the authority to block funds of terrorists and anyone associated with a terrorist or terrorism. The order names specific individuals and charitable organizations that are funding terrorist acts. Donors now will know to avoid these charities that front for terrorists.
With the signing of this executive order, we have the President’s explicit directive to block the U.S. assets of any domestic or foreign financial institution that refuses to cooperate with us in blocking assets of terrorist organizations. This order is a notice to financial institutions around the world, if you have any involvement in the financing of the al Qaeda organization, you have two choices: cooperate in this fight, or we will freeze your U.S. assets; we will punish you for providing the resources that make these evil acts possible.
ENTIRE TRANSCRIPT AND *VIDEO*
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news…..924-4.html
OT
It’s apparent that the constitutional amendment on flag desecration was intended to give Republicans another election issue this fall. If it had passed the Senate, it would have become an issue in every STATE-level general election this fall because candidates for state legislatures would be forced to take a position on whether their state should ratify it. This, in turn, would help get out the vote for the Republican base.
Dana Milbank approached a number of Republican Senators yesterday before the vote with an unexpected question: was this the most important issue facing America?
Answers in this morning’s WaPo
Joenertia!
“An object at rest cannot be stopped!” — The Evil Midnight Bomber (What Bombs at Midnight)
Milbank’s hilarious today:
Paige –
The problem is not that terrorists didn’t know that we were looking at financial transactions. The problem for the Bush administration is that they were secretly using a European monitoring system to get this information. The revelations have poiseoned SWIFT’s reputation and it had further alienated all of the European Union.
The desire for secrecy was an understanding that transparency would involve huge diplomatic and regulatory blowback around the world.
Watch the G-8 summit. The issue of our failure in Afghanistan will be the primary tool for arguing for increased financial secrecy laws around the world.
Jes guessin’ or sumthin’….
Mary, Peterr, Steven, Stephen, Franco et al,
Did a transcript of that last court appearance ever turn up? I have been wondering about what went on that day ever since. The timing of that appearance vis a vis the Luskin letter still intrigues me.
Anybody know? More importantly, anybody got a link?
I don’t really waste my time with the specail prosecutor website. Not to ctitisize the long suffering Randy Samborn, but by the time new info goes up on that site it is so old it is crusted with mold.
Mr. Samborn, sir, I know you are busy, but it’s summer. You have interns now. Young computer savvy interns. Let them update all your websites!!! Just a suggestion, from one who cares.
Lotus, no linky? you’re going to make me work?
hrrmmppff
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..01491.html
(very funny!)
Vote on the Flag burning amendment.S.J.Res.12 as Amended. I can’t account for Lieberman’s “
good behavior” on this one. Honestly, not after Coulter invited him to join to Rethuglican party.
http://www.senate.gov/legislat…..vote=00189
Every day, in every way, Lieberman’s war on Lamont becomes less operational and more aspirational.
behold the power of the INTER-NED!
SP CPA at 8 and RevDeb at 38,
Specter says that he might FILE a bill? That means nothing. Hundreds of proposed bills are “dropped into the hopper” every week. They disappear.
He would “grant standing” to the Congress to sue the President?
Can’t do that. The Supreme Court says that only it can decide who has standing to sue if it considers the standing issue to be constitutional (which 99% of the time it does).
And Joe would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for those Neddling kids!
.
So sowwy, imm — I was responding to Prof’s linky two comments above.
Here’s another fresh cutie from indefatigable Paul Kiel:
If only we were making these up!
Yeah, but Lotus, is there a cult like that for adults?
Ooops, I see it says adults and children. maybe we should ask Rush to comment.
Ooops, he might not have anything to “add.”
OT – texas redistricting – CNN “supreme court upheld most of it but overturned some of it”
OT– the military action by Israel is called Operation Summer Rain…
huh?
SCOTUS–overturns part of TX redistricting but upholds most of it.
ggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
angie and two – great minds!
…DeLay calls Rush to ask to borrow Viagra
Out on the floor, the debate was getting sloppy. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), a supporter, displayed a poster of Iwo Jima.
Excuse me while I gag. That’s from the Dana Milbank article.
CNN: SCOTUS upholds most of TX redistricting case, overthrowing only the part that affected minority voting-rights in one district. Basically upheld partisan gerrymandering.
THANK YOU voters on Alito cloture — NOT!!!
%u2026DeLay calls Rush to ask to borrow little blue pill.
orig comment in moderation
What matters is which part and on what grounds they overturned any of it. I am hoping the racial dillution aspect will have won the day — Kennedy seemed very interested in those areas of Texas where the section 2 challenge was made based on dilluting the votes of minorities….
Searching, searching….
looseheadprop
I haven’t seen a transcript yet, and my mouth waters a little more each day, waiting . . .
I’m also getting antsy about the coming SCOTUS ruling on Hamdan v. Rumsfeld on detainee tribunals.
Isn’t the end of June fun?
;)
So we can ALL expect new districts whenever our state leges change hands … if they ever do.
Slightly OT, but you all will be heartened to learn that the House Republicans are planning to introduce a resolution condemning the NYT for its exposure of government monitoring of banking records…the kabuki theater continues with no intermission.
I do not have the ability this morning to articulate all the things that are wrong about the proposal, about the assault on the press and the preference our Congress has for taking up this kind of issue as opposed to something of actual substance.
At least the sun is shining this morning – thought I might go blind after so many days of clouds and rain…
lotus,
That was about the best anyone had hoped for in the Texas case after oral argument. It will be interesting to see whether some of the Dem states now start mid-census redistricting projects.
The Hamdan case and Bush’s EPA …
waiting, waiting, waiting…
will justice prevail?
Meanwhile, for anyone still laboring under the delusion that Barack Obama is the next great progressive hope, there’s this.
Wouldn’t it be fun to live in a Dem state . . .
will justice prevail?
Or perhaps: “Which Justice will prevail?”
2,526.
It’s a number. Just a number. The number of U.S. troops killed to date in Iraq.
0.
It’s a number. Just a number. The number of U.S. troops killed to date in Iraq by Saddam’s WMD.
http://www.bgladd.com/Just_a_Number.jpg.jpg
My Senator Harry Reid reportedly voted for the Flag Idolatry Amendment. He’s fixin’ to hear from me.
Fix his wagon, Bobby!
Imm @ 74 and others
From the AP story on Texas Redistricting ruling:
It was, says the AP, a “fractured ruling.” On minority voting, AP says “Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the majority, said Hispanics do not have a chance to elect a candidate of their choosing under the plan.”
Just to give whatever little credit is due, apparently Lieberman has always voted against the flag-burning amendment. Remember, guys, we’re trying to take him down because he undermines our side on a lot of important things, but as the blue-state flavor of DINO, his voting record on a lot of other things is fine (as opposed to the red-state variety, who tend to have terrible voting records but don’t speak out forcefully against their own party like Joe does.)
Mary—Wapo today on voting machines issues:
“A Single Person Could Swing An Election”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..tml?sub=AR
Here you go, imm:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13592999
Justices overturn part of Texas redistricting
Thanks Peterr and Lotus!
gotta go work for a while, I’ll be baaaaacccck!
SCOTUSBlog is reporting that Roberts has announced that the decisions on the remaining two cases on this term’s docket will be announced tomorrow at 10AM ET.
Might be a good morning for a Supremes thread . . .
Good catch, weedeer 88 — hope that little handful of gooper supporters ain’t just blowing smoke (a la the Diebold guy).
weedER, sorry.
Sure would be a good time for a MARY thread, wouldn’t it . . .
The reality-based world is so much meaner than the fantasy world Lieberman and his buddy George live in. It’s no wonder they rarely come out of it.
Don’t worry Joe. I’m sure a big Pharma company will pay you to do something after you lose the election.
Seems like Joe-nertia is headed for a good ole fashioned ass-whuppin. Unless, of course, Dubya calls in a Diebold strike. Do they have touch-screen voting in CT?
OT:
I just had this link sent to me in an email.Clicked through and this is what I saw:
http://ed.webblogerz.com/2416/…..ho-know-4/
Does anybody know who this Ed’sworld guy is?
I never heard of him. Is the another Jason Leapold hoax?
OfT:
Not surprisingly, the Texas redistricting mostly passes muster with the current Supremes:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..00660.html
No touch screen voting in CT. There’s no way out of the rathole on that one. Thank G.
lotus- Mary linked to a similar story in USAT yesterday (I think). Does it seem that the MSM are finally picking this story up, two weeks after Kennedy’s article in Rolling Stone?
What a great idea—a Mary thread! *g*
lhp -
In looking at the link you gave, it appears that these quotes are old – he puts it in the context of David Gregory asking Bush about comparing his JAR to Nixon’s and also an item about the Hayden confirmation hearings. In short, it sounds like he’s channelling dear Jason . . .
As Christy – and you! – have said repeatedly, until we hear it from the Fitz himself . . .
lotus,
epu’d. good morning and namaste to you!
What seems clear to me is that the Lieberman campaign is caught between a rock and a hard place, and I can’t think of a better place for them to be at the moment. It will be interesting, and probably entertaining, to watch them try to paint Joenertia as a Democrat when his positions have been so Republican. It’s not like the guy doesn’t have a track record, and it’s not like there aren’t oodles and oodles of his statements on the record; the last 6 years of Joe’s term are a gold mine of anti-Democratic positions. And then there are the pictures, “The Kiss” being the one that needs no words, but which suggests so many damning captions.
I can’t help but think that it will be the debate that will sink Lieberman like a stone, and Ned’s popularity will rise dramatically.
And then, there’s the Jane factor…Lieberman may think it’s bad now, but between Jane and the debate, things are going to get a lot worse. Couldn’t happen to a weenier guy.
Pleased you’re here, tommy, and that you didn’t get washed off the hill by those rains as they went by!
We might al-most feel sorry for ol’ Liebersplat, Anne, but ya know, I doubt we’d get a quorum on that vote . . .
Speaking truth to their entrenched power and being in their face “real time.. quick reaction-like” is obviously striking a resonant chord with mealy mouth joe, the establishment dems and their piehole consultants…. not to even mention the MSM…just witness the concerted attacks by conventional media against us which began at the Kos convention. Make no mistake about it. This battle is just beginning and I suspect it’s gonna get real ugly-real quick.
I see the fear in their eyes and hear it in their voice.
We must show no quarter…..
for they are afraid of real democracy and wish to squash it.
Larry
GO NED!!
Anne (103). That’ll teach him for playing with women’s rights like trading cards at crucial moments like the Alito filibuster.
Hope the debate goes as well for Lieberman as it went for Conrad Burns. (courtesy of Howie Klein, downwithtyranny.blogspot.com)
OT….excuse me
Dr William Winkwerder (asst.sec. of Def. for health affairs)is on Diane Rehm (NPR). He’s talking about how the Bush admin has assured him that no one has been tortured at Gitmo or any of the ‘rendition sites’. These criminals make me sick. Doctors like him who blatently break their hippocratic oath should lose their licenses and I’d love to personally, “Not torture him “.
Conrad Burns…not fit to shit…what an embarrassment to Montana.
Is winkwerder related to willywonker?
Yup. It’s a cheap, easy “Schoolhouse Rock”-inspired ploy so Specter can pretend he’s doing something. There’s still plenty of Bush faithful in the Senate and (especially) the House who would make sure any such bill died in committee, if it was allowed to go as far as that. And, as you say, such a law would instantly tread on the judicial branch’s turf.
Besides, it’s unnecessary. If Congress wants to be serious about dealing with BushCo’s signing statement scam, they have the means to do so. It’s the will that’s lacking.
Joe’s about to get a big lesson in the physics of politics . . .
Newton’s First Law of Motion: Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.
Newton’s Third Law of Motion: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Two observations:
1. Lieberman’s taken a whole lot of actions that are inspiring a whole lot of equal and opposite reactions: Iraq, Alito, the rape gurney comments . . .
2. Ned and the blogosphere are quite an external force.
Big enough to topple an incumbent? We’ll see, but it’s looking good to me.
Where’s the AMA? They need to rise up and smite Winkwerder toot-sweet!
lol Larry
That was my pathetic attempt to punaise
Evil Dr. Puma @ 111
I’m just a bill.
Yes, I’m only a bill.
And I’m sitting here on Capitol Hill.
Well, it’s a long, long journey
To the capital city.
It’s a long, long wait
While I’m sitting in committee,
But I know I’ll be a law someday
At least I hope and pray that I will,
But today I am still just a bill.
Yep, it’s just a bill. Reminds me of those investigations we’ve been waiting for . . .
looseheadprop @ 7:38 AM #97
I see on Ed’s site regarding the date/time of posting:
This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 28th, 2006 at 5:14 pm and is filed under Anthony Citrano. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
If it posted today at 5:14 pm would that locate it perhaps in China? And the topics covered do not appear to be timely to me.
lotus @ 85 – And it’s for this that they earn six figures, and also just voted themselves a raise. God, can they BS.
Ah, it’s morning, time for emptywheel to squeeze some fresh juice on the First Amendment bashers.
The Specter File
We’re friends with Arlen’s son Steve. We are disappointed often with Arlen’s bull but in some sort of defense(!?) of Arlen, I think he has been threatened by Bush into capitulation.
I mean really THREATENED. One of those dark, evil, cannot-be-spoken-aloud kind of threats.
Steve Specter is to Arlen Specter as Ron Reagan is to Ronald Reagan, totally different political animals. And Arlen loves his son and family so I blame Bush for Arlen’s lack of gravitas, so to speak.
Peterr,
Investigations?
Not on Sphincter Specters watch
HopeSAT, more lies from Winkwerder:
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The report’s authors – Dr. Gregg Bloche, a physician who is also a law professor at Georgetown University in Washington, and Jonathan Marks, a London lawyer who is currently a fellow in bioethics at Georgetown’s law center- say that while Guantanamo veterans are ordered not to discuss what goes on there, making it difficult to know how, exactly, military intelligence personnel have used medical information for interrogation, they’ve been able to assemble part of the picture.
They suggest that interrogators at the camp, set up in 2001 to detain prisoners captured in Afghanistan and later Iraq, have had access to prisoners’ medical records since early 2003.
That contradicts Pentagon statements that there is a separation between intelligence-gathering and patient care.
William Winkenwerder, U.S. assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, said in a memo made public in May that Guantanamo prisoners’ medical records are considered private – as are American citizens’.
However, “this claim, our inquiry has determined, is sharply at odds with orders given to military medical personnel and with actual practice at Guantanamo,” the authors write.
http://www.commondreams.org/he…..623-06.htm
Using medical records to devise interrogation protocols crosses an ethical line, said Peter Singer, director of the University of Toronto’s Joint Center for Bioethics.
linky ended up in a funny place. sorry. :)
Goddamit. I just voted myself a pay raise and nothing happened!
I will now wish those ten extra pounds away.
Great commercial! Helps me get a smiling start to the week.
angie at 121
You are a Goddess of embeded information, thanks. Peter Singer is also an Animal Rights Activist and a great guy. I worked with him on a conference many years ago. This crap makes me so angry I can barely contain myself, but I shall.
meta 118, I glimpsed somewhere yesterday something about Reid’s vowing to put a hold on their raises until the minimum wage is raised. Did anybody else see that, or am I hallucinating on this Irish Breakfast tea?
125
Your week is just starting?
Did you sleep in Monday and Tuesday?
I love Irish Breakfast..mmm gonna make a cup right now and Lotus, its always nice to see your name on my screen…
Here ya go, lotus.
Before everyone takes a political view of the S Ct decision on gerrymandering, let’s look at the actual decision and its legal arguments.
I realize that the political view is important. Even there we have to figure out whether only one district is improperly drawn, or more. Don’t know yet.
As for the legal aspects, it was difficult to assemble a majority on most issues. But the participation of the progressives in some of the majority rulings is interesting.
Gotta go..
later ya’ll
Larry
“From the syllabus (summary) of the opinion:
KENNEDY, J., announced the judgment of the Court and delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts II%u2013A and III, in which STEVENS, SOUTER, GINSBURG, AND BREYER, JJ., joined, an opinion with respect to Parts I and IV, in which ROBERTS, C. J., and ALITO, J., joined, an opinion with respect to Parts II%u2013B and II%u2013C, and an opinion withrespect to Part II%u2013D, in which SOUTER and GINSBURG, JJ., joined. STEVENS, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part, in which BREYER, J., joined as to Parts I and II. SOUTER, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part, in which GINSBURG, J., joined. BREYER, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part. ROBERTS, C. J., filed an opinion concurring in part, concurring in the judgment in part, and dissenting in part, in which ALITO, J., joined. SCALIA, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment in part and dissenting in part, in which THOMAS, J., joined, and in which ROBERTS, C. J., and ALITO, J., joined as to Part III.”
Let’s try that again:
From the syllabus (summary) of the opinion:
KENNEDY, J., announced the judgment of the Court and delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts II%u2013A and III, in which STEVENS, SOUTER, GINSBURG, AND BREYER, JJ., joined, an opinion with respect to Parts I and IV, in which ROBERTS, C. J., and ALITO, J., joined, an opinion with respect to Parts II%u2013B and II%u2013C, and an opinion withrespect to Part II%u2013D, in which SOUTER and GINSBURG, JJ., joined. STEVENS, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part, in which BREYER, J., joined as to Parts I and II. SOUTER, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part, in which GINSBURG, J., joined. BREYER, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part. ROBERTS, C. J., filed an opinion concurring in part, concurring in the judgment in part, and dissenting in part, in which ALITO, J., joined. SCALIA, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment in part and dissenting in part, in which THOMAS, J., joined, and in which ROBERTS, C. J., and ALITO, J., joined as to Part III.
lotus, my previous reference to your post was @ 55, not @ 85. Geeze, no coffee yet…..Anyway, you understood me! Not sure about Reid, but I trust you read the GQ interview with Feingold where he acknowledges that he does not accept any pay raises except in the year that he gets re-elected. Now that’s class.
I don’t know why, but coffee always tastes better when someone else makes it for you.
Thanks to both Hopie and tommy.
((((hugs)))), in fact!
Rayne@13 (I know, that’s a long way up!)
The transition between The Lieber Man and Bush is called a “morph”. I actually developed the basic morph algorithm that everybody uses, and would be happy to do any morphs that you might be interested in. It’s kind of fun — write me at thad@hammerhead.com if you have anything you’d like to try out.
The morph in the ad was fine, as far as it goes. It’s kind of funny, but I still think that the best morphs ever were the ones we did for the Michael Jackson “Black or White” video back in 1992.
lotus –
You did not hallucinate that. Here’s a link to one story about it:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITI…..index.html
Not only that, I believe it was at dKos where I read that Harry Reid replied, when pushed about how he planned to stop a congressional pay raise, something like “I know quite a lot of procedural rules.”
To me he sounded like he would be willing to “shut it down” again — whatever it takes.
Well, I’m gonna use up bandwidth with one more attempt to get rid of dashes and replace with hyphens. I will also make paragraphs, for further discussion and questions:
From the syllabus (summary) of the opinion:
KENNEDY, J., announced the judgment of the Court and delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts II-A and III, in which STEVENS, SOUTER, GINSBURG, AND BREYER, JJ., joined,
an opinion with respect to Parts I and IV, in which ROBERTS, C. J., and ALITO, J., joined,
an opinion with respect to Parts II-B and II-C,
and an opinion with respect to Part II-D, in which SOUTER and GINSBURG, JJ., joined.
STEVENS, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part, in which BREYER, J., joined as to Parts I and II.
SOUTER, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part, in which GINSBURG, J., joined.
BREYER, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.
ROBERTS, C. J., filed an opinion concurring in part, concurring in the judgment in part, and dissenting in part, in which ALITO, J., joined.
SCALIA, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment in part and dissenting in part, in which THOMAS, J., joined, and in which ROBERTS, C. J., and ALITO, J., joined as to Part III.
Thad, you are officially a badass.
tommy yum, thanks so much for the link. That completely slipped by me. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Hope it’s not just talk. Heh.
Ralphbon at 80
Obama, O disappointment.
“I don’t know why, but coffee always tastes better when someone else makes it for you.”
Maybe because you have more of a chance to relax and smell it?
Whoa, Thad– you are a genius, an artist and a Firedog! crikey!
Prof –
What a good guy you are, thanks for being relentless in providing the info in a readable format.
On the other hand, even when it’s readable, it STILL gives me a headache trying to sort it out.
But that’s my problem. :-)
Lieberman got the labor endorsement yesterday, but it was majorly contentious. They actually showed the yeas or nay vote on TV and I’ll be damned if I could hear a visible difference between the yeas for Lieberman versus Lamont. This tells me Lamont’s chances of winning the primary are running closer to 50-50 now among Dems.
In any case, it has not been settled as to whether or not they’ll support Lieberman if he fails to win the Dem primary.
You’ll want to to read this article to get the full flavor of the way things went.
Yikes! I’m seeing (MSNBC) folks being rescued from rooftops because of flooding in Yardley, PA.
Hmmm. Not good. Had better call family members in PA to see how they are…
Hmmm, we need to put Thad to work on some brain-morphs around the top of our gummint . . .
Specter: “IMA, IMa, Ima. ima, im, i, …..
Durbin: will the senator yield?
Gregg– NO, I won’t yield. I have heard enough from the other side that is inaccurate, etc. Whatever their pollsters tell them to say.
WATB.
Talking bout the budget. Throwing a major fit!
lotus, yeah, that’s it – smell and savor. Thanks for the additonal info on Reid. Shut it, Harry!
Thad B – you did the algorithm & MJ morphs! insert bowing and groveling here – wow! brilliant work!
Mui – my mom in New Haven’s take on the Lamont surge is similar to yours – she said that at an event on the Green, Lieberman’s staff couldn’t get folks to accept flyers while Ned was a big hit – and mentioned the infamous Lieberman fLyer – saying “oh that, I tore it in half and tossed it out – I never read that stuff”
What amazes me in the link I gave (above) on the pay raise story is this little tidbit from the article:
salaries for members of Congress have risen $31,600 during the time the minimum wage has been frozen.
That’s an amazing amount, IMO. Seems there could be no downside whatsoever if Harry DOES “shut it down.”
Thad — AWESOME!! Emailing you momentarily. Been surfing around webdev sites trying to figure out if I needed Dreamweaver or Flash or what have you to do this.
Thank you for piping up, hope we can do something fun — and kick some Repugnican butt!
Given that’s it’s by now beyond obvious that the priority function of Congress is to burn up copious quantities of taxpayer-funded FTE on the most inane, quixotic constitutional amendment proposals, I offer one of my own, to address my own pet peeve:
WHEREAS the National Anthem of these United States is every bit as sacred symbol of the nation as is our American Flag, be it hereby resolved that The Congress shall have power to prohibit the desecration of the National Anthem of the United States by means of gauche musical interpretations, including, but not limited to, tactics such as Mariah Carey (and wannabee) stratospheric vocal trill-ization, Luther Vandross R&B lick-ization, Manhattan Transfer Major 9th/flatted 5th four-part harmonization, blues-ification, or Nashvilification. Hip-Hopization is specifically enjoined. The National Anthem has a distinct melody in no need of embellishment for the ego gratification of narcissistic music stars, and shall be sung in a dignified manner, as written. In ENGLISH.
ADDENDUM: stylings by Lee Greenwood shall be exempt from the provisions of this Amendment.
New thread upstairs!
Very kewl Thad. Now, can you develop an algorithm that makes sense of Prof’s post on the separate concurring in part, dissenting in part, going by NAPA for parts, opinions?
Prof- they just get more and more fractured. It’s like working a puzzle to figure out what holdings are actually supported. Good thing they got that Mediator who was going to craft those consensus opinions as Chief.
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Weeder & lotus – it really does seem like the voting machines question is picking up some steam (bradblog and blackboxvoting have really dug in and worked this hard). It was so aggravating to have it treated as all tin foil hat when even the detailed GAO report came out highlighting problems. WaPo, USA Today, Lou Dobbs, Catherine Crier – and a line item on the ticker on one of the stations (??) all this week.
Maybe that answer’s lhp’s “What do they not want us to pay attention to” musing?
Lhp- I don’t think that a transcript from that status conf is going to go up – I seem to remember that those are available, but no online and you have to go in — where they had hearings that included argument, I think those are the transcripts they have made available online. ?? I agree about the timing — plus the fact that Team Libby hasn’t been all over this one and asking the court to rule on their requests for Rove’s GJ testimony since he is no longer a target. Seems fishy. Also, Rove’s spokesperson, Corallo, was there with Libby at the Matlin fundraiser.
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Imman – I can’t believe I missed your post! I am so hoping your son isn’t named Jerry. *g* The yellow tie gene has been known to skip a generation. ;)
Mrs. K8, I read that info in an article right before the vote and I am outraged by the outcome. In the totality of waste that is this government, they have some nerve doing this. I say, shut the place down and bring this to the attention of everyone. They are the LAST people that need or have earned a raise. Period.
Kudos, Thad– I have seen much of your work now that I know you and Hammerhead Productions are synonymous. I guess you did the work on Rose’s eyes that was incredibly powerful to see– still is in my memory.
On Obama and not-progressive, I like to point to Obama’s PAC. Given his fundraising expertise (goodness knows libruls do love them some cleaned up black senator and write big checks)- it’s interesting to see that he gives his money to the most established DLC circle and not to up and coming progressive voices … “here, HRC – perhaps you are desperate for some campaign funding?”
http://www.hopefundamerica.com/
and note that today’s Candidate Spotlight is Ben Nelson – then click on “the candidates” for the full list.
Interesting info on Hopefund Money distribution here: Hint – tons for admin and flying Obama all over the place:
http://austinmayor.blogspot.co…..chive.html (scroll down a little)
BREAKING NEWS:
U.S. Threatens North Korea With Ann Coulter Launch
Rabid pundit deployment could destroy entire Korean peninsula, UN warns
since we are in the EPU Zone: I’d like to hear The Star-Spangled Banner sung in French — might be pretty cool … for that matter, wouldn’t Russian also be interesting?
Convinced for some time he ain’t the only one. Think of it as chickens come home to roost, perhaps. On NPR they’ve been running a morning news series on the torture stories. Tomorrow they promise Ron Suskind, who among other things reports that KSM was coerced to talk not just by waterboarding, but also by being told his children were being held and would be hurt somehow if he didn’t co-operate. Whether they actually had them or no, it’s what he was made to think. I don’t think this kind of thing is reserved for the (admittedly pretty scuzzy in this case) furriners these days. Sometimes it’s not what they did, but what you do that’s important.
(Of course there’s also the outing of a noc agent, which gets into some thuggish territory…)
Lotus at 143
In the ‘pull up a chair’ thread there was a nurse who told a nice story then left her recipe:
Cup of Coffee
- cup
- coffee
Pour coffee in cup. Sip.
Optional: Milk, cream, sugar, brandy.
I loved that one…
BobbyG says at 8:39 am
Sorry, but you have to add Jimi Hendrix to the ADDENDUM.
Joemama!
Lieberman: a proud member of Bush’s band of benidicts. He even got the famed “judas” kiss!
Speaking of the CT AFL-CIO endorsement for Joe, that is only for the primary and it is clear that the CT labor honchos have been surprised by the surge for Ned and have been backing off accordingly.
The endorsement is pro-forma in this case, since the CT labor movement is split down the middle and each faction will be going their own way on the ground for the next six weeks.
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BobbyG – 152 another exception – Jimmi Hendrix
Mary @ 154
I know I am deep in the EPU zone, but you may be on to something about the voting machine thing. I was recently asked if I would attend and comment on a rough cut screening (along with a bunch of other election monitoring organizers)of a documentary called “Votergate” based upon the work of Blackboxvoting.
If the Documentary generates the hoped for buzz, this issue may move front and center for the non-newsjunkies segment of America. Considering that the MSM seems to be stirring on this issue, maybe burning the flag is meant to divert from destrying the ballot
Mui (34) says “Congrats to Curious Jim on the coinage.”
Thanks! Jim-mentum!
ROFL BobbyG #158!
Bobby G (158): They should consider increasing the megatonnage yield by lobbing Rush Limbaugh over there. The splattering of his ass-boil alone would leave the area uninhabitable for decades.
Fitz, where are you?