Lanny Davis was on the Washington Journal last week, calling Lieberman’s critics "bigots" and "liars." He was introduced as "former White House Counsel," and according to Colin McEnroe, Davis is also an advisor to the Lieberman campaign. But maybe when he shows up to hurl merde on behalf of "Short Ride" Joe, he should be mentioning that he’s also on the White House payroll?
In June 2005, President Bush appointed Mr. Davis to serve on the five-member Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, created by the U.S. Congress as part of the 2005 Intelligence Reform Act.
Davis is listed in the "2006 White House Salary List" recently published by the National Journal. All we can say is if his Washington Journal appearance is any indication of the caliber of defenders Lieberman’s got going to bat for him, we wholeheartedly approve of the angry, desperate-sounding Davis.
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FITZZZZZZ!!!!!
A null set by any other name!
Yassss.
Another shill for freedom.
I have no patience for these nitwits today…
Hee, the campaign that couldn’t shoot straight.
Nice catch, Jane. I was wondering why Davis was pimping the Lieberman line so strong. There was all that “Davis” wouldn’t speak if Hillary didn’t direct it (kinda like you and Kos *g*). That didn’t seem right somehow. I think Hillary is staying clear of the quicksand that is named Lieberman (like Joe-bright’s misplaced train schedule).
But Davis going out there for Lieberman and his Republican/tiangulated/business pals?
Now that sounds right.
[Moderator: please use the Email address from the Contact page to write to Jane.]
getting back back on topic, the more these Joementum-types spin the more their true colors show through.
Imm sed “tiangulated”
This is why my husband won’t wear one. It happened to him once.
Shoulda waited for this thread! Oh well, pardon my repost.
Got contacted by the Lamont folks today wanting me to write to papers so I did. Here’s what I came up with:
Joe Lieberman wants Connecticut voters to believe that he is a true Democrat and that it is foolish to characterize him as “in bed” with the Republican administration. It’s hard to take this assertion seriously having seen the Senator in his debate with challenger Ned Lamont. From his continual use of the folksy Reaganesque “There you go again” to his incessant and quite churlish charges of flip flopping he showed himself to be quite willing to use the tactics of his Republican colleagues. He all but accused Mr. Lamont of “Cut and Run” mentality.
He insists that Mr. Lamont is running a one issue campaign. This is not true but it must be clear even to the Senator that the occupation of Iraq is the pressing issue of the day. And what is his defense of supporting this catastrophic enterprise? He believed and still believes it was the right thing to do. Further he claims credit for being principled and for crossing partisan lines to show his support for the failed policies of the current administration even though that support is squarely at odds with the will not only of his constituency but with the National polity.
One can only assume from his constant pointing to his ability to bring home the bacon that the Senator believes that being the breadwinner for Connecticut is all the representation he is required to perform. Is pork the only price the people of Connecticut will demand from a representative who will not represent the will of the ordinary citizenry? I hope they will hold their political power at least as dear as their pocket books.
If you’d like to do the same, the Lamont site makes it easy just go here.
If Boxer was coming, they wouldn’t get Lanny or Brooks off the bench. This race is one good story after another. How many democrats who have to face another election will come out for joe.
Hey, Mr. Davis has not one, but 2 degrees from Yale! Are we allowed to criticize his type?
Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
And that’s been a smashing success, hasn’t it?
there was supposed to be a “very big grin” following my snark, but it got eaten….
Oy, missed the link here it is.
He did God’s work during impeachment.
Turns out that, like Mike McCurry, he’s a soulless pimp.
Lookie Here.
Old Hugo Chavez is going to boycott mostly red states.
“The states where Citgo will stop selling gasoline are: Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma and South Dakota. A limited number of stations in Illinois, Texas, Arkansas and Iowa will also be affected.”
http://www.businessweek.com/ap…..mp;chan=db
-GSD
The Citgo refinery was once owned by Seven-Eleven food stores. When it was purchased by Venezuala, there were supply agreements that ran with the purchase. Don’t know if they are still running- or whether they survived Southland’s purchase by Ito-Yokodo- but the states mentioned are states where there is very little store presence by Seven Eleven- or where an area licensee owns the stores.
Well, if there was to be a march in New Haven, it could end up on the green close to Yale after going to the hospital and everbody could hammer home the Yale connection wearing skull and bones and other fun stuff.
I wrote to wtnh news the other day to complain about their lack of objectivity in saying that Maura harassed Lieberman at the Stamford Irish Pub. I just got the following response from Marc Davis:
Thank you for your recent e-mail. A review of the script of the story on 7/10 shows that we referred to the picketers and the woman’s verbal confrontation at Senator Lieberman’s event as “a bit of of political harrassment.” We respectfully disagree and believe it accurately desribes the tone of both the picketers we witnessed and the woman’s verbal exchange with Senator Lieberman. The reason you were able to asses that the woman “asked Lieberman the question in a calm manner,” is because we ran her exchange with the Senator essentially unedited so that you the viewer could clearly make that judgement. I believe we are the only news media outlet
that was willing to run that segement of the Lieberman event. We did this because we feel this kind of dissent and verbal confrontation is a very big part of the Lieberman story. You’ll be interested to know that the Lieberman campaign was very upset and found our story to be unfair. Before we went on the air, they attempted to discredit the woman in hopes that we wouldn’t run it.
I’m sorry if you found our description in anyway offensive or unfair but any kind of confrontation at these usually well staged photo opportunities is somewhat out of the ordinary. We take our objectivity very seriously but realize that objectivity is sometimes subject to interpretation. I certainly take your observations seriously and hope you will continue to watch.
Sincerely,
Mark Davis
Chief Capitol & Political Correspondent
News Channel 8
WTNH TV (ABC)
New Haven/Hartford
‘Slong as we’re talking soo-prises:
AGeneral Sees Need for More U.S. Forces in Baghdad
theres plenty of room for Lieberman in the Democratic Party — the more, the merrier! — the question however is whether he should be elected as a Senator from Connecticut by mostly-Democratic voters.
lotus 20 -
Is Dear Leader gonna “listen to the commanders on the ground” here? Or, has Casey effectively just signed his early retirement papers?
What an intriguing letter, amy . . . sooo, JoHo’s trying to muscle reporters just like he’s trying to hustle voters. And he’s making further headway to nowhere.
Well I for one am so relieved that our Senators have used their time so wisely in changing the name of the Emergency Management Agency. However, I believe the new name was misreported–it is actually Emergency Mis-management Agency. If the shoe fitz…….oops
BREAKING STORY (I think) –
Republican Drops out of CT Senate Race
http://www.mydd.com/story/2006…..commenttop
by Matt Stoller, Wed Jul 12, 2006 at 04:57:06 PM EST
The current nobody on the R line is dropping out because of a gambling scandal, not because Republicans are going to put up a serious candidate and hope to win in a three way race. Nope, it’s because he gambled.
I wonder if Lieberman’s move to run as an independent is still principled.
http://hotlineblog.nationaljou….._ct_1.html
By the way, the A there is my typo, not NYT’s headline.
Bobby, last week I would have guessed (b). This week, it just might be (a). Whatcha reckon?
He’s gonna bust his 25 JAR soon either way.
Crooks and Liars now has the video of Joey Joe Joe saying:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/…..dent-bush/
RE: JiO, immanentize and al Scooter – Prior thread and now Reality @ 16-Previous thread (Earp!, an apparent adherent to the Reality is Subjective school of thought[lessness])
I’ll chip in my 2 cents for what it’s worth.
I think Madsen is more accurate than we give him credit when he is relaying insider source material and essentially acting as a conduit for whistleblowers. Remember he broke the stories on NSA spying and illegal CIA rendition 6 months before it surfaced in the press. I haven’t read the item but it sounds like Madsen in this case is editorializing an opinion without facts and purely speculating. If so, he would do himself a favour to emphasize the distinction.
On the delays, (I should emphasize that I believe that Fitz is not an intentional part of those) but I am of the speculative mind that the delays are the product of a deeply intense and covert battle for the control of the Whitehouse between Rove (and his potential future Rethuglican candidate franchise) and Cheney’s plans for bequeathing control of the private military industrial oiligarch complex he has constructed post 9/11.
The fuse in between this explosive showdown is the possible threat of Rove popping out like a jack-in-the-box from the Plame case’s Sealed vs Sealed…(continued)
Coo-ee, another ‘pay and spray pundit’ shilling shrilly…But this time lending their meager talents to the cause of an across-the-aisle buttboy swirling in the drain of public perception…ahem, bipartisanship…What great strides the noble overseers are making!
;>)
JEEBus — do you think CT’s “Gooper Cindy Sheehan” got an early heads-up this morning?
lotus 26 -
More likely neither. Or, maybe (a) if they can do it without press coverage (hard to see how they could pull that off, keeping a signficant influx of troops out of the news).
What a mess.
The gas wars are coming to the homeland, eh? There are quite a number of Citgo stations in Minnesota, this is going to be noticed.
The interesting thing will be to see if CIA/Plame blowback will have to light the fuse or if this will all evaporate into the non-existent speculative airs from whence it came.
Speculation is fun…kinda like reading the press in reverse.
~
CT Bob, are you here? How fast can you GET here?
Lotus, at first I was pissed when I read the email from Marc Davis — because I don’t feel “harrassed” was appropriate. But on second reading, I felt a little bit better because Lieberman was pissed about the story. Um, hello, what do you think will happen when you ditch your party so you can have a power grab and continue to kiss Bush’s ass?
Also, I liked that Marc Davis called the event a “well staged photo opportunity”. Totally a la Bush.
oh I am just sickened, wolfie has a military guy on who is spinning so fast and furious about Iraq that Rumpelstiltskin would be envious. But then Dumsfeld his boss is there.
“we undermine Presidential credibility at our nation’s peril”
Right. WE don’t have to do ANYTHING to undermine the Cred of the Dufus-in-Chief. GeeW PERSONIFIES the phrase “self-refuting.”
Man, BobbyG, that’s got two too many syllables for GeeW to personify.
Amy #19 – is there a link to that WTNH story?
“Doofus” is about his limit.
Coastie
Full moon, that explains my mood.
The US is going to be in rough shape when our trade partnership is limited to Israel, Tonga and the Maldive Islands.
P.S. Did anyone see the Putin slpadown of Deadeye Dick Cheney? Priceless.
-GSD
I used to think Lanny was one of the good guys. Sad, so sad.
And I’m not so sure about the Maldives, GSD . . .
thanks, Hope… that might explain it!
Jeesh, Citgo is still doling out cheap heating oil in Mass. RI and in Maine too.
Head for the bluestates we won’t be boycotted during the great new civil war and WWIII.
-GSD
SOoooooooooooooooooo
Babs Boxer will be on Olbermann tonight at 8pm ET repeat at Midnight and 9am tomm morn…..Wonder what she is on there for…..??
GSD – re: Putin, yes that was funny. Chimpy’s Daddy’s buddy Gorby had a little smack down too:
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/stor…..amp;page=1
Although he said Dubya has character — I don’t see it
Lotus, nice catch, I meant our little slave labor state the Marianas.
I get the feeling that Argentina might make a move on the Maldives sometime soon.
-GSD
the Malvinas are different from the Maldives — quite different !
GSD #16,Bush fucked with the wrong latino IMHO.
I roared with laughter when some idiot was quoted as saying Bush was a master chess player when it came to foreign policy,said he was “7 moves ahead”. L.M.F.A.O..Chavez just gut punched ‘em. On top of selling heating oil in the NE cheap. Bush league, indeed.
While the Brits are again tied down in Afghanistan and Iraq, eh, GSD?
Dunno, maybe the Argentines have about had it with militarism by now.
CEO #10–
“How many democrats who have to face another election will come out for joe”?
GOOD QUESTION
And that’s where WE come in–we need to let our good representatives know we’re watching them and taking notes!!!
Defend Lieberman–at your own risk!!
Malvinas, Maldives, Marianas — if lhp gets three female pups, she’s all set with names!
I mean if there was a REPUBLICAN senator in trouble, and Al Gore and Howard Dean and Al Franken all came out defending him/her, would we expect Republicans to re-elect him/her?? Sheesh.
The left really is misunderestimated.
Petro #39–
Maura wrote about her experience here: http://www.myleftnutmeg.com/sh…..aryId=2017
Spazeboy has the WTNH clip here: http://www.spazeboy.net/2006/07/mauramentum/
and on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..uramentum/
Democrats who expect to defend Joe Lieberman do it at their own peril.
-GSD
Amy #19–very cool letter! Good work!
Cool that Maura’s segment pissed off Camp HoJo!! ROFL!!
Busted,
I think it was the tolly Tony Snow that made the chess analogy.
I picture Bush flipping over the chessboard with his messy peanut butter and jelly fingers after his queen gets taken in the second move.
He would then yell “I’m always right! The Pentagon said so.”
-GSD
tolly=tooly.
-GSD
I can’t take it– wolf just asked if the world wasn’t falling apart because of what’s going on in North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, India, Palestine and Lebanon.
History and political science buff Lou replied, we have been saying on my program that this is not a war against terror, it is a war against radical Islam.
Nice job.
From that NYT story on Casey’s call for more troops in B’dad, the last sentence goes:
“We all have this last chance to reconcile and work hard to avoid the conflict and the blood,” Mr. Maliki went on. “If it fails – God forbid – I don’t know what will be Iraq’s fate.”
This race is really revealing about party loyalty or whatever they call it.
If you have rules.. then you play by them. If someone mounts a challenge AS a democrat and wins the primary they ARE the democratic party candidate and SHOULD receive the support of the democratic party and no democrats should run against the winner of the primary. It is that simple.
What appears to be happening is that the grass roots are speaking and the bog boys don’t like what they have to say and they cry FOUL PLAY… lie cheat and play dirty.
Why would anyone want THEM to be in YOUR party? Why would YOU want to be in THEIR party?
What a sorry mess… It’s all power and ego and who give a hoot about the people!
“Malvinas, Maldives, Marianas — if lhp gets three female pups, she’s all set with names!”
What about he Mariachis?
-GSD
Maura committed lese majeste, pure and simple. The peasants are revolting! (aren’t they though!)
Mariachi for the boy pup.
Thanks, amy.
Imm, previous thread:
I most certainly would be alarmed if the Dow went below 1,100. It’s currently at 11,000.
How to get the bad news out quickly – and quietly
by Lanny Davis
SNIP
There were two major techniques that we used to implement McCurry’s strategy of getting all the bad news out early and helping reporters write bad stories.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.c…..andal.html
Speaking of tooly.
Tom Delay is “ineligible” to run for his old seat.
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/…../#comments
-GSD
OMG Thanks ck–will Schlesinger drop out? That is SOooo funny on a number of levels:
link:
http://hotlineblog.nationaljou….._ct_1.html
That would leave the field free for Lieberman to follow his heart and run as a repug, no?
Check out this post on my Kos page: I asked for a primer on CT politics and this was part of his response:
“The [Republican] candidate for senator is a given to come in last. The only reason he was even nominated is because the other guy was such a radioactive racist the party wanted nothing to do with him so Alan Schlesinger got it by default. Support for him is soft from what I can tell. 6 years ago the token Republican got 33% more or less and that was before he was sent to jail for child molestation. Incidentally, had the Supreme Court not ruled for their guy Dumbo we would likely have had a child molester as a Senator thanks in no small part to Joenomentum.”
ROFL
and we know that Tom Delay is an honorable man and would never attempt to bamboozle anybody, ever …
DefJef–do you get the feeling sometimes that the Dems are mad that somebody’s PAYING ATTENTION??
Damn straight we are!!!
BLOG POWER
My prediction:
Lamont stomps Lieberman in the primary, Lieberman comes under intense pressure to quite the race and not force a 3-way. He takes a $5 to 10 million dollar lobbying gig for one of the big defense firms, where he will be able to exploit his relationships on both sides of the political fence in Washington.
It would be great if the goopers are prohibited from removing Delay from the ballot- and he is declared ineligible to run as well. Sort of appropriate way to end his career.
More from :
Schlesinger out; Diana Urban in? (BTW: Urban is a big time anti-war Republican who should be taken very seriously…in other words, so much for Joementum’s support among Republicans.)
Urban, 56, will be running as an anti-war candidate and in a brief telephone interview sounded like a Republican version of Cindy Sheehan. The three term state legislator, claiming the Bush administration possesses a “flat learning curve”, says America went into Iraq for the wrong reasons. She says she was heavily influenced by recently published account of the war, Cobra II. On a more philosophical level, she cleaves to the Sun-Tzu’s Art of War, declaring that her campaign strategy comes from him: “The path will reveal itself to you.”
Claiming “a number of women asked me over and over again to do this”, Urban is not giving up her race for re-election to the state legislature, for which she is unopposed from her affluent southeastern Connecticut district, previously represented by Iraq war enthusiast, Congressman Rob Simmons.
A Republican anti-war candidate with nothing to lose and everything to gain…Joe, you’re screwed.
UPDATE: Quick info on Urban. Also some good stuff here.
OT:
Special to American Politics Journal:
John Fund Goes On Trial
by The Editors
July 12, 2006 —NEW YORK (apj.us)—The civil trial of conservative pundit John Fund on charges of abusing former girlfriend Morgan Gell (ne Morgan F. Pillsbury) is under way.
A source close to the case has told American Politics Journal that a final attempt to arbitrate the matter yesterday morning failed; jury selection began yesterday and was completed this morning.
Hmm … screwed that up, din’t I?
Here: http://connecticutblog.blogspot.com
All the Clintonistas are shills. And there’s Clinton, himself, rhapsodizing against us nasty old netroots folks in Aspen – his rallying cry for Hillary ‘08.
Two months ago I paid $100 to take a friend and me to see Clinton speak and host a fundraiser for Jim McDermott’s Legal Defense Fund. But now? Well, Jim can keep my money because he truly needs it. But I wouldn’t trust myself to be in the same room with Bubba. I’d end up making a scene. How could I not shake his hand, look him in the eye and tell him he has his head up his ass?
All the phony dems, falling in line to attack the netroots. They don’t have their thinking caps on.
A judge already ruled that DeLay’s name can’t be taken off the ballot. Now he is officially ineligible to run. Can you say… PRICLESS?.
And just for fun , DeLaycalled the ruling a ‘policy statement instead of a ruling’.
Powerfull stuff, that Kool-Aid.
Urban sounds less like a republican than Lieberman, honestly.
She sure does, Jenny — and WAAAAY smarter.
So,
Will Funds utility as a pundit dry up if he loses the case or will his stock rise ala Coulter.
I can see the rightwing apologists now:
“Well, sure he was abusive, but his women always knew where he stood. You have to appreciate a man with a firm pimp hand, it shows character.”
Perhaps we have a new name: Pimp-hand Fund
-GSD
Banging my head for lack of pre-view,again.
omigod
omigod
omigod
Schlesinger, the GOP CT Senate candidate may be forced out by a gambling scandal
omigod
http://hotlineblog.nationaljou….._ct_1.html
So the goopers are going to run an anti-war candidate? Strange- want to split the Lamont voted? Getting stranger and stranger out there in insurance company land.
send in the clowns, *ilson, jest like Jane said.
lotus, the CT race is suddenly upside-down land. :)
Ha ha. Lieberman can play his cards for the general right now, but no way is he a viable candidate for his ‘party of one’ if he loses the primary.
Buh, bye, Joe!
Delay is creating his own reality. Faithful to the end.
Tommie is the one who proclaimed that he’s not eligible. The judge said, uh, not so fast.
And the ‘policy statement” was issued by a judge appointed by GHW Bush in 1991. Once again underlining the current reorganization of the American political landscape: You are either with us or agin’ us. (where “us” = neocon criminal hacks)
This one’s getting interesting.
Tom Delay heard ta say
“I’m fucked if I don’t and I’m fucked if I do- that’s a hell of a way ta play”!
re Schlesinger: this is getting funny now….
what are the odds?
*ilson -
Card counting. Which sounds like a ‘thought crime’ to me, having never been to a casino so I really don’t understand… But whatever!
How about Refund or Payback?
shoephone–whence your comment? Did Bill C dare to bash the blogs???
I feel a book coming . . .
Can Joe run as a real Republican this time?
OT…Boy, the shit is breaking loose fast and furious in and around Israel now. Was just surfing news items. Bad, bad, bad.
didn’t Delay go into court and insist endlessly that he was no longer a resident of Texas?
so how can he run? if he’s not a resident?
By keeping track of- for example- how many face cards have been played at a blackjack table- a gambler can improve his odds. Cardcounters are banned in casinos if “found out” (supposedly).
Hasn’t the deadline for him to declare as the Gooper he is passed (in May, maybe)?
Bobby G – it is very bad.
I don’t think the GOP candidate either being absent or irrelevant necessarily hurts HoJo (unfortunately).
With no one else to vote for, true red repugs would feel justified in voting for HoJo, who they love with all their hearts anyway.
Question is, would that plus the incumbent-lover crowds give him enough to win?
so I guess Bill Bennett wont be a consultant to the GOP in CT this election cycle?
Good thing we’ve got the road map- take out the roadmap- quick- LOOK AT THE FUCKIN ROADMAP–where the fuck ARE we? (crash)
I was talking to a lady in the office today about the Lamont RGJ race. She actually called Ned a
COMMUNIST!!!! W.T.F.? About two more sentences out of her mouth and I tuned her out. She doesn’t have a clue as to what is going on I can tell but, Commie? This is what we’re up against.
Is this the same Lanny Davis:
QUOTE: A number of Democrats still say the party’s best hopes are on the high road. “We have to define the reckless left of our party and differentiate ourselves,” said former Clinton aide Lanny Davis, who denounced the NARAL ad. He said such “smear and innuendo” has caused his party to lose recent elections. LANNY DAVIS Saturday, August 13, 2005:
rwcole
707!!!
Ignorance- the final solution!
Bustednuckles, that’s just stomach churning.
OT -
Blockquotes are cool. :)
BustedKnuckles: I have several like that at work too. They still say that New Orleans never asked for help.
it’s so bad, BobbyG, that I am ready to scream my fool head off. Such waste. And w is on his way to meet Merkel and Rice in is Paris and Rum is in Iraq.
ptooey.
Jenny, that is exactly what I always thought about the ‘crime’ of card counting.
Using your brain to play blackjack is no fair. – Teh Casinos
many elderly Republican voters in Connecticut still consider President Roosevelt (either of them) to be Communists …
lhp re Deo,
I think we are being pinged to see how much WE know about fitz.
The game is getting more serious, and our involvement is something they might be starting to take into account.
I think Murtha said it best, “What has he said that has given him credibility.
har har
Perhaps those two comments are contextually related…
A sleazy little propagandizing by known deceptionist Matt Drudge.
Notice this list of ratings:
FOXNEWS O’REILLY 2,264,000
FNC HANNITY/COLMES 1,801,000
CNN LARRY KING 1,382,000
FNC GRETA 1,340,000
FNC SHEP SMITH 1,252,000
FNC HUME 1,197,000
CNN COOPER 1,132,000
CNN DOBBS 823,000
CNN PAULA ZAHN 679,000
MSNBC HARDBALL 360,000
CNNHN GRACE 354,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 349,000
Notice he stops at Olbermann in order to make it appear that Olbermann is the bottom of the ratings barrel.
Then ask, where is Joe Scarborough? Or Tucker Carlson? Or Glenn Beck?
Tricky eggman or shilling, mendacious hack?
-GSD
Oscarsmom -
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..24848.html
if Schlesinger drops out of the CT race and Urban takes the R nom, it seems that would leave Joe as the reddest candidate running (well, if he loses the primary and is actually able to collect up enough signatures)
lhp — I’m with egregious. When Joe Wilson says folks here in the blogosphere (hi, emptywheel, Jane, Christy, pollyusa!) know far more about this case than he does, they have to be watching us
Makes me wonder whether Novakula’s non-story was really an attempt to flush something out of US, a method to check to see how many of us knew the ID of the third/primary leaker?
And really, anybody with a handle ‘for God and Country’ in Latin must be suspect…don’t you think?
*ilson,
Just like the rightwing ‘Townhouse terrorist’ in NYC. His letters sounded like rants from Michael Savage and Rush Limp-baugh with a touch of Coulter and a dash of Ingraham.
We have not heard any breastbeating about the rightwing terrorist threat though.
-GSD
Fox gets 2,264,000 and how many Americans are in this country? Squat
EMA
Egregious Mistakes Agency
or Again
OldCoastie at 98: He did, but the judge saw through it and recognized that he’d only moved away so the GOP could nominate someone electable, and he could spend his campaign dough on legal expenses. He’s not ineligible because he could simply move back at any point before the election and be eligible again. (Also because he and his wife still own a house there in which they are frequently seen, even if he’s declared his suburban Virginia condo his “official” residence.)
Basically, the judge’s ruling is that you can’t go through the process of having a primary and then go through shenanigans like fleeing the state for no reason other than to switch to another candidate who you like better. It takes the decision away from the primary voters and puts it in the hands of the fatcat incumbent.
(Hey, lookee there! This ended up being on-topic after all! *g*)
Good card counters have to throw off surveillance by deliberately tanking hands (or betting small) where they could have won. Surveillance watches your betting patterns.
Too much work. Yeah, if they suspect counting, your ass is outa there.
What percentage of americans watch NO news shows, and take NO newspapers? Pretty high I’ll wager.
Now, I don’t know if they even ran Hee-Haw on Nutmeg TV, but thinking about the day JoHo’s having, all I can see is big ol’ Junior Samples bawling:
GLOOOOOOM
Despair
‘N’ Agonee
Ohn MEEE
If it wern’t
Fer bad luck
Ah’d hev no luck a-tall
GLOOOOOOM (etc., etc.)
Leaverman reminds me more of Eeyore than Jr. Samples… but that’s pretty good!
LOL! Someone at Kos came up with a new motto for the blogosphere:
“Weapons of Mass Discussion”
I love it!!
lotus, lol – had a friend who used to sing that song, haven’t thought of it in ages.
rwcole: I think non-viewers have the highest ratings and should be listed first.
Weapons of Mass Discussion we is!
Heather Wilson(R-NM) is running fast and furiously away from Derr Chimpster.
Check out her add. She’s INDEPENDANT! That’s right, she’s INDEPENDANT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaJa5QCqCoo
The internal Republican polling must have them shitting bricks. The entire party doesn’t know what the hell to do anymore. Not that they knew what to do ever before.
-GSD
Are those Weapons of Mass Discussion under here? Under here?
Urban isn’t going to be the GOP nominee if their current guy is forced out. If you look at the Hotline article, they’re talking about their current weak nominee being forced out so the Governor can name a wealthy self-funded candidate to replace him.
This is what Lieberman has wrought. No strong candidate wanted the GOP nomination because they knew they wouldn’t win. Now that Joe is threatening to split the Democratic vote, they see an opening and are creating a trumped-up scandal to get rid of the weak nominee so they can put in a strong candidate, and suddenly we don’t have a situation where we can be sure either Lieberman or Lamont will win.
This is what happens when incumbency and supporting your buddies in the Senate are allowed to be more important than party loyalty and voter support. Grrr…
GSD 132, Wilson’s pulled that before; she conveniently distanced herself from W right before her last re-election.
Oh, really Tom?
Well, in that case… Sleaze on down the road, skell.
Maybe America can apply that standard to all your federal politicians…’You work in D.C.? Oh so solly, suitie…Constitution says… (ding) GTFO!‘
;>)
Leslie,
I notice that Benedict Arnold in CA is doing the same thing. Dodging left so that he can then bob right after he wins re-election.
It drives me mad that people get the wool pulled over their eyes so easily.
-GSD
GSD #117:
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How many other news channels are there and how many other blogs are there? They lose.
Just moments ago, I received the same form letter response from NARAL others have posted. What a traitor NARAL is.
at this point in the game in CT, if Schlesinger is the only candidate on the ballot in the GOP primary and he withdraws, the GOP machinery (state chair or CC) has the legal right to appoint his successor on the GOP line for the fall election. Where did this “Urban” person ever get the idea she could be on the ballot? Surely the filing date for the GOP primary is over…
E&P: Cedar Rapids Newspaper Drops Ann Coulter’s Column
Good one jenny :))
when Delay filed to run for office, he undoutedly swore to an affidavit that he was a legal resident of Texas and intended to be so on Election Day. OK — so he lied (or got his mind changed). The Election will proceed and if he is ineligible, it’ll then be thrown out and a new election will be held — that’ll certainly redound to the GOP benefit, ya think?
Just saw a beautiful interview about mental disability with Tim Shriver on the Newshour.
needed some beautiful today.
Why would it be thrown out, *ilson?
Lotus’ article said “But the complaints that mattered the most were from the conservative readers”.
The “liberal media” only listens to connservatives?
Angie, YGM.
for residency : if he can be proven to be a nonresident of Texas on Election Day, he’d then be ineligible to serve as Congressman from Texas …
..the GOP machinery (state chair or CC) has the legal right to appoint his successor on the GOP line for the fall election.
Careful. Joe might be all too happy to fill that slot.
*ilson Urban stated that she would run as an independant.
Wot’s YGM?
All splat, no battle.
Suzanne 3:54 — yeah, go figure…
Actually, I’ve never understood why any business would diss 50 % of its potential market to cater to a minority interest — unless, your business isn’t making a profit disseminating information but nominally covering operating expenses while providing propaganda for your corporate owners.
Liberal media my buns.
a loud anti-war candidate would drain votes away from Mr. Lamont — somehow I think Holy Joe is encouraging her candidacy …
Urban sounds like Nader-Lite politically
GSD at 137, we have so many lovely GOP Congresscritters here in Cali (Doolittle, Pombo, Hunter, Drier . . .) which one did you have in mind?
Aw hell, *ilson, on his best day, JoHo was never that smart.
And I don’t think Urban sounds like the kind of person who’d play Rove’s game, either.
Jane, execellent catch on Lanny Davis. How long will they keep pulling these stunts before they learn that blogosphere will expose them in a matter of hours.
in CT we are going to see the hardballest of hardball politics. Urban doesnt even necessarily have to know she is being used — a lot of “concerned citizens with cash” can be awfully encouraging …
While Lieberman and Lamont are busy trying to “out-liberal each other,” as Schlesinger put it, his own campaign has quietly made $100,000 worth of radio ads to air in the weeks just before the Aug. 8 primary.
“We want (voters) to know early on, ‘Hey, there’s a nice alternative out here. He’s a mainstream Republican. Not some right-winger, off-the-wall conservative,’ ” Schlesinger said.
And then he hopes Lamont wins the Democratic ticket, Lieberman runs as an independent, and that they continue attacking each other until November. When the dust settles, the Schlesinger campaign should win with 37 percent of the vote, he said.
“The odds go way down in a two-way (race, but) I honestly believe I’m the front-runner in a three-way race,” Schlesinger said.
whole story here: http://www.greenwichtime.com/n…..-headlines
new thread — your DailyNed
Urban sounds like a reincarnation of the Rockefeller-Javits-Lindsay style Republican to me.
Honestly, I’d worry more about her than whatever fatcat the Gooper state chairman has in mind.
New thread
(Didn’t tell you until I had posted.)
True, but if Urban manages to get on the republican ticket, doesn’t the (R) in front of the canidate’s name in CT pretty much spell doom? Especially since Lamont isn’t a crazed commie, as much as the other side would like to paint him that way. The voters in CT seem pretty smart…
ccmask – thx! :)
Lotus, YGM = Youve got mail.
What’s all this Urban, Urban, Urban.
Every comment is about ME ME ME.
(I see how it could go to Joe’s head now)
Juicy, juicy! I swear that if this were a novel or a movie, no one would believe it. It just stretches credulity.
Which is a very sad part of blog addiction 8-p
I am SUCH a sucker for a story full of twists, paradoxes, and conundrums… sigh.
This just gets better ‘n better ;-)))
RE: repukes running from GWB:
Ask them what percentage of the time THEY voted with the Bush agenda . . .
Leader-worshippers that they are, a la John Dean, I would be VERY surprised if the answer were under 99%!
regarding Bush the chess grandmaster, I attribute any success he may have had earlier in life to threats:
“I suggest a new strategy, let the W(ookie) win”
Although W doesn’t exactly have the “political capital” to pull any arms out of any sockets much anymore.
So really, the only reason people would let him win now because of pity, and that doesn’t work too well in international relations.
Tealeaves . . . I feel your blog addiction pain :)
Leslie, Benendict Arnold Schwarzenegger. You know the guy that smoked dope, did steroids went to orgies, posed nude, copped a lot of feels, came to the US and stayed without the right papers and then claimed he was conservative.
-GSD
I’m hoping Doolittle and Pombo are on their last legs.
Media Alert: LIEberman will guest on Don Imus tomorrow.
This morning Imus was trying to strong-arm Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. (D) Tennessee (currently running for Senate) into saying Ford would continue to support Joe if he loses the Dem. Primary on Aug. 8.
(Note: Happy to report – No Sale!)
Here’s the skinny on Joe from the MSNBC web site:
If anyone has the gumption to contact Imus’ producers before the show airs tomorrow; (you know, to give them even more reasons why RG Joe’s in trouble)… you can email them: email Imus’ staff pre-interview here
About Planned Parenthood’s endorsement of Lieberman: it’s NOT a national endorsement but a local, state level endorsement.
I spoke with someone at the national level who explained that any NATIONAL endorsement is voted on by the whole national level PP group. That did NOT happen, this endorsement was made by the CT state group, and my source at the national level PP said endorsing Lieberman “is NOT okay with me.”
We need to raise a major stink at the national level at PP until the national group makes a vote or at least a statement that they do NOT endorse Lieberman.
The question is, was this local level endorsement, presented as tho it were by the national org, done by CT Planned Parenthood Clueless Idiot or by an actual bought-and-paid-for Planned Parenthood CT Slimeball?
lanny davis. joe lieberwhomeverhecanscrew.
there is something about this that concerns me.
it is the yale connection.
once upon a time, the s&b was all whitebread. and undergraduate.
but i have this funny feeling that s&b changed in the 1980’s. it ceased being a fraternity. it became a k street entity.
and the membership expanded. pg admissions.
lanny davis. bill clinton. hilary clinton.
skull & bones is now a lobbyist organization.
and john kerry did his tithing to that beast. did his roll-over. or was it the reach-around?
Y’all do know that Lanny Davis used to be Republican. He converted post-Nixon. I don’t remember what position he served but he did serve in some kind of political position in Califonia as a Republican.
I don’t mean to sound like a whacky conspiracy theorist but I sincerely wonder at times if the Deadmocrats run such crappy candidates and campaigns so that the Repubs can win. I mean,seriously, how could Kerry’s,Gore’s,Dukakis’ campaigns have been run any worse? Their opponents were pretty awful and very beatable.