Now that’s telling!

As a friend, I wish for him the best. As a Democratic voter, if I lived in Connecticut, I would be voting for Ned Lamont.

Wes! Ned!

Turd!

Ned!

1,206 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN GOES ON AND ON AND…

FITZ, FINGOLD AND THE WILSON’S

Frist!

Riesz Fischer at #3 : we all know about Lieberman’s shitty politics but it’s awfully rude to call him that !

David Wyles comments here occasionally as well. I think his id is playa del rey.

Every time I see Lieberman I feel queasy, somehow I can watch that clip over and over.

Dear lord that is a funny video!

*ilson@7, now that you mention it, it’s a good name to call Loserman.

But I was actually thinking about Turd Blossom being sued by the Wilsons. (No relation, I suppose?)

OT I’m going to suggest to our hostesses (if I may be so presumptuous in light of one of their actual careers) that great fun could be had in a “Plame: The Movie” suggested casting contest. And I’m not just saying this because I think the protagonist would do very well on the silver screen playing herself, or because I think I have a great Cheney-Libby duo.

Double points for writing the trailer voiceover? :)

(And my apologies if this has been suggested already, I’m behind in my reading)

Shouldn’t that second party affiliation have been “Liebertarian Party”?

Completely unsurprised about the Big Dog’s position.

While digging today through the PAC’s that donated to Lieberman this year, I noted HILL PAC and CHRIS PAC. HILL was set up for its namesake, and the other received money from the same.

In other words, the Clintons have an investment in Joe-nertia, dilute though it may be.

Sorry, Big Dog, but we’re parting ways. You obviously don’t feel our pain any longer.

Go Ned! Completely O.T. on pigs – but hey it is Friday night. Watched the Bush pig comments via Crooks & liars. His words seem rich in meaning – direct and otherwise. No doubt the preznit knew about the WWII and earlier era insult of the Germans as schwein (pigs). So bushie is not once but 3 x evoking publicly in front of the chancellor the view that the German leader (and Germany more generally) is pig-like. That Bush goes on to say in this widely publicized event that he is looking forward to carving up the pig, and eating it makes me think that on one level he is attempting both to flirt with her and on a still more perverse level, to subconsiously evoke a wish for the defeat/demise of Germany. (My week was a long one!). Indeed, fromm there my mind went to the movie “Being There.” At least Peter Sellers was benign.

I’m lying on a hammock in the backyard, with a bonfire going, listening to greenday, with my 5yo son, whom I adore more than words allow, and his friend asleep in the tent next to me.

Icy cold fake beer, million stars, wireless internet, and my girl is coming back out in a few minutes to fool around.

Usually, Im a grumpy fucker. It my nature. But, I think life is pretty damn great right at this minute.

John Dean overheard on Air America this morning: “On most issues I remain a Goldwater conservative, which nowadays puts me somewhere left of center.”

Ouch.

depending on just how big a settlement the Wilsons win, I just might be a relative …

great fun could be had in a “Plame: The Movie” suggested casting contest.

I gotta go with Sharon Stone as Valerie.

Note to Joe: we’re already paying for this stupid war. We’ve been paying for three years and some – hundreds of billions of dollars – with no sign that the cash hemmorhage is going to end any time soon.

We’ve spent all the goodwill we had after 9/11, have lost the support and respect of countries we used to be able to count on.

We’ve made Iraq a breeding ground for terrorism – something that didn’t exist under Saddam because he would not tolerate the possibility of not being the most powerful person in the country.

We’ve paid in human lives, both ours and innocent civilian bystanders.

We’ve almost broken the military, to the point where we are woefully underprepared for another crisis, either here or abroad. We’ve paid so much that our domestic bases can’t pay their utility bills.

We’ve paid out billions to line the pockets of contractors and stockholders, and still our men and women do not have the equipment they need to do the jobs they have been sent to do.

We’re seeing a lowering of standards for military recruits, taking those with documented mental health issues and those with criminal records. This, after the shame of Abu Ghraib and the abuses at Gitmo.

We’ve paid out our souls in bending to an administration that talks democracy, but thinks torture is okay for those it, and it alone, has designated as deserving.

We’ve diluted whatever attention span the administration had for the hard work of the crazy plans they bamboozled and lied our way into carrying out. It took us days to send a low-level envoy to the Middle East in the face of an escalating war. Our president waxes rhapsodic about the pig he ate, heh-he-hehing his way through a press conference while Israel and Lebanon threatened to explode.

Jesus Christ on a crutch, how much more does Joe want us to pay for this disaster?

“Soon, but not too soon…” Now, there’s a foreign policy for ya.

awww, Urban Pirate… that’s sweet.

“Plame: The Movie”: Kyra Knightly as Valerie.

Hi Ang. Thought you were on vacation?

FWIW -

Carter’s statement in 1980 for christsake, that was followed by Reagan’s famous (or infamous) retort “there you go again” that SloJo lifted from his closet hero.

It just boggles the imagination that we as a nation are still grappling with these same fucking issues. Yo! Politicians! DO YOUR FUCKING JOBS!

(sorry about all the f-bombs. grouchy today.)

“Governor Reagan, as a matter of fact, began his political career campaigning around this nation against Medicare. Now, we have an opportunity to move toward national health insurance, with an emphasis on the prevention of disease, an emphasis on out-patient care, not in-patient care; an emphasis on hospital cost containment to hold down the cost of hospital care far those who are ill, an emphasis on catastrophic health insurance, so that if a family is threatened with being wiped out economically because of a very high medical bill, then the insurance would help pay for it. These are the kinds of elements of a national health insurance, important to the American people. Governor Reagan, again, typically is against such a proposal.

All I know is, the guy who played Mike, the chief of staff on “24″ looks a lot like Cheney. My sister always tells me that.

But she also tells me he looks a lot like our dad. Not so good.

Considering the vast amount of firepower Lieberman has at his disposal, he sure isn’t wielding it very well. With the kind of money and influence under his control Ned Lamont shouldn’t even be known outside of his home town. But now the corporate media outlets are starting to pick up on the “Lieberman is losing” vibe (as evidenced by the CBN report). If the corporate media turns hard on Lieberman in the next week that should be about the end of his chances in the primary.

Atrios has some gorgeous Friday Cat Blogging going on. How come we never get any Friday Poodle Blogging?

Not yet, Urban… in the next couple of days, if the world is still here :o

Blank kluge

Yes I think we hosted the Heisman dinner in the not too distant past. but I am unaware that we get a vote.

Professor: As long as it doesn’t digress into a discussion of “Snakes on a Plame”

I’m thinking either Anthony LaPaglia or Timothy Bottoms (preferably the “That’s My Bush!” version) for Bush.

Richmond #15 -

Not to mention Bush avoiding the reporters legitimate questions concerning Muslims being killed, war, etc. and talking about eating PORK!

Shorter Bush: I can’t worry about Muslims. Now serve the PORK.

Talk about swine.

Fuck the Clintons.

Let’s change some of Joe’s words here:

…And I think the sooner we get out of there the better for me and my new party of which I am one but if we get out too soon it’ll be a disaster for me and my new party of which I am one and I’ll pay for it for the rest of my years.

Eli–it’s precisely the spookiness of that resemblance to Sharon Stone that gave me the thought of the contest.

My vote is for Jabba the Hut to play Cheney.

Eli–it’s precisely the spookiness of that resemblance to Sharon Stone that gave me the thought of the contest.

Heh. Joe Wilson has me stumped, although my subconscious is insisting that there’s someone who looks just like him…

How about Peter Mullan for Scooter? He’s kind of a banty rooster type.

Agent 99 can play Judith Miller.

shooogarp– that so irritated me and he was calling the situation “sad” and “pathetic” and now bring me the pig, you wench. snort, snort.

He insulted Jews, too.

He had a culture-ectomy at age 2.

shoogarp, I had the exact same reaction. Really tacky shit.

Bush: putting the DICK back in riDICKulous.

I made up Plame Trivia. 20 questions. If I can find it…

Jeff Bridges as Joe Wilson and Bill Campbell as Patrick Fitzgerald

*sigh*

Bush epitomizes the Ugly American.

ccmask says:

Agent 99 can play Judith Miller.

I’ll call her and ask her what she thinks.

I meant the W’s pork comments…..

shoogarp, I had the exact same reaction. Really tacky shit.

They’re the sort of comments you make when you’ve been sucked up to your entire life.

Question:

So when Bush travels to a Muslim country, like, say IRAQ, who is his PORK taster?

lol Max

bravo, shoephone!!!!!!!!!!!!

shoogarp: Pickles?

So when Bush travels to a Muslim country, like, say IRAQ, who is his PORK taster?

Some grunt.

angie @ 39 -

As a Jew I can attest to that. He offends me every day.

I mean how sad is it that OUR President is such an ass that he has to have a food taster? He must know how much the world hates him at this point.

America ready to intervene!

ding, ding, ding Dru @ 42!

I’m still giggling at your 44, shoephone.

Maybe the NY Times can publish his address and maybe some pictures of his house. Man, I wish I knew where he lived. ; >

Anne @ 20: The shrub administration…casting Perles before swine.

As a Jew I can attest to that. He offends me every day.

I’m Jewish too, but I don’t think it really affects my dislike for Dubya. It’s more to do with him being the distillation of every self-important fratboy, spoiled rich brat, and clueless, arrogant, backslapping manager I’ve ever encountered.

angie – Babara Feldon started out on stage, as a dancer. And we all know what a tap-dancer Judith Miller is (just not a very good one. fuh-lap/shuffle)

Wow a double shot of Your Daily Ned to kick off the weekend.

Cheers!

I want to see Cheney go down in plames!

Dru 43 – I like the way you think!

Goodnight all. Am beat. too many work nights past 10 pm the last 3 weeks.

When I was young prosecutor I could do that. Not any more. Need sleep

I mean it. Fuck the fucking Clintons.

This stone evil war seems to give them not the slightest dismay.

I started really not-liking Bill (well aside from NAFTA) the minute he allowed this evil fucking junta to use him in a Bush-Clinton Unity Love Show after the tsunami.

Hey Big Dog, have you read Lyons’s Fools For Scandal? Your buddy the treacherous Nixonian dirty-trickster fuck Poppy is the very one who made sure that that bullshit Whitewater would dog your presidency.

I know you consider that your atonement to your wife for Monica is to help make her president, but it’s not gonna happen and you’re both hurting America. Fucking stop it. Fool.

Rock on, sharkbabe.

Ms. Feldon’s gonna have to wear tight shoes and do other uncomfortable things to herself, so she can achieve the high pitched WATB squinchieness of Judith.

Sharkbabe – I’m a little unclear on how you feel about the Clintons.

;- )

Sharkbabe – I’m a little unclear on how you feel about the Clintons.

Yes, she seems rather ambivalent.

Prof. Foland at #17: I heard Dean toss out the same line on John Stewart the other night. Must be a regular part of his book pitch.

Eli – or maybe “on-bill-I-vent”

@ 65 the sharkbabe has such teeth!

Right on, shark. I’m starting to have this major grab for the mute whenever either of the Clintons are speaking or just standing there. I cannot stand to hear one more justification for this outrageously criminal war. Total BS.

Libby risks death penalty in Plame case

Fitzgerald, along with other federal prosecutors through grand jury indictments, must first prove that Bush administration officials knowlingly released the name of a covert CIA operative for political purposes. Once the government officials, going as high as the President of the United States himself, were found guilty of treason, they could be executed by firing squad, electrocution or lethal injection.

Moreover, since the crimes took place in Washington, D.C., which is technically not a state, constitutional restrictions on “cruel and unusual punishment” do not apply to guilty administration officials. A similar argument was used in actively torturing detainees at Guantanomo Bay naval base in Cuba. Therefore, if the death penalty were granted by a judge and jury, administration officials such as Cheney and Bush could first be legally tortured using dogs, stress positions and self-defecation techniques.
http://rochelletimes.blogspot.com/

‘Fascinating, Captain…I’m at a loss to explain the lack of a mind meld’

;>)

Anne at #20: Our kids and society will be paying most of the bill in the form of the deferred taxes that are the deficits. Meanwhile, we’re paying now at the gas pump. From a piece in the current issue of The American Conservative by Kevin Phillips:

American economists Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, in a draft paper entitled “The Economic Costs of the Iraq War: An Appraisal Three Years After the Beginning of the Conflict,” reached a similar but much more detailed and buttressed conclusion. Publicly, Stiglitz and Bilmes attribute $5-10 of the increased per barrel cost of oil to the mess in Iraq, but their private view seems to be that a very large portion of the now $45-per-barrel oil-price increase is attributable to Iraq.

http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_07_17/cover.html

Joan Allen as Valerie. George Clooney as Joe, although Jeff Bridges would be a good one, too.

The guy who played the closeted lieutenant on the last season of NYPD Blue and later the nearly dying new husband of House’s ex-wife as Patrick Fitzgerald.

The actor who does the “git in mah bellah…” spot for Direct TV as Hastert.

Patricia Heaton as Mary Matalin [Mary’s much smaller than she appears].

you guys make me laff. gotta run to a bar to fetch my bass amp & cabinet. am apprehensive at its fitting into my honda accord. never had to haul it myself in five years. (*life used ta be good! oh and get off my goddamn lawn*!)

Patricia Heaton as Mary Matalin [Mary’s much smaller than she appears].

Kathleen Quinlan was a dead ringer for Laura Bush in the Hills Have Eyes remake. She even had a kind of a fundie out-of-touch-cluelessness thing going on.

Jodie Foster could do Valerie proud.

At http://harpers.org/StabbedInTheBack.html, you can find a cracklin’-good weekend read that begins like this:

Stabbed in the Back!
The past and future of a right-wing myth

Posted on Friday, July 14, 2006. Originally from June 2006. By Kevin Baker.

First drink, hero, from my horn:
I spiced the draught well for you
To waken your memory clearly
So that the past shall not slip your mind!

—Hagen to Siegfried
Die Gotterdammerung

Every state must have its enemies. Great powers must have especially monstrous foes. Above all, these foes must arise from within, for national pride does not admit that a great nation can be defeated by any outside force. That is why, though its origins are elsewhere, the stab in the back has become the sustaining myth of modern American nationalism. Since the end of World War II it has been the device by which the American right wing has both revitalized itself and repeatedly avoided responsibility for its own worst blunders. Indeed, the right has distilled its tale of betrayal into a formula: Advocate some momentarily popular but reckless policy. Deny culpability when that policy is exposed as disastrous. Blame the disaster on internal enemies who hate America. Repeat, always making sure to increase the number of internal enemies.

As the United States staggers past the third anniversary of its misadventure in Iraq, the dagger is already poised, the myth is already being perpetuated. To understand just how this strategy is likely to unfold – and why this time it may well fail – we must return to the birth of a legend.

. . .

Nighty-night, pups new and old. See y’all termorrer.

angie @ 79, I agree

Mike Farrell and Alan Alda on Fitz’ team as investigators.

Alfred E. Neuman has to play W.

shoephone

I forget to complement your various disguises on Oct. 31’s over the years. The best I’ve ever seen (in Salem MA circa 1975) is Clockwork Orange’s Alex. Ya might try that one out.
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Again I’ll just say that lack of (publically available) polling on this race is driving me crazy. When? But, evidence does suggest a rising Lamont tide. I want confirmation. Someone here said that Quinnipiac will be doing one ’soon’. I sure would like to see one. Why isn’t the Courant doing one ad-hoc like?

Bill/Hillary
Shill/Shillary
shilling for thee
“I feel your pain”
gains his fees on TV
Bill/Hillary
Shill/Shillary
wars for a fee
Iraq’s just PAC
for the old DLC

Someone here said that Quinnipiac will be doing one ’soon’.

I think they predicted results next Thursday.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Rove.

Catch you guys later.

Will Ferrell as Bush.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Rove.

Oh, that could work. Ironically, the guy who played “The Big Lebowski” would make a pretty good Cheney…

Hey. Wait! Where are all you guys going? Hello? Hello?

Awwww shucks.

Rats. All I did was drive home and I got EPU’d.

The actor who does the “git in mah bellah…” spot for Direct TV as Hastert.

Mike Myers as Fat Bastard from the Austin Powers movies.

Shark – you can fit that into your Honda. In the old days I had to fit my ES-335 and my Fender Reverb, my Peavey and all my effects into the back of my Datsun B-210 Honeybee.

Along with all my paint equiptment!

Happy gigging.

Oh and Blank K – the night before I was Peter Tosh I went to another party as Ethel Merman.

Halloween is my absolute favorite holiday.

Richmond 15

I had the same thoughts about the pig when seeing that clip for the first time.

Then I remembered that Muslims don’t do pork, either, and our relations with many of them are so very strained – - not even mentioning the hellish stuff that’s going on over there.

Can that jerk be any more insensitive? Or embarrassing?

Just one more and then I have to sign off; Mare Winningham as Mary Matalin. Good night!

#13: “Liebertarian Party”? Eli is a genius.

Lamont should run that commercial. If they take out the bong part, could they use that commercial, after adding a shot of Joe as the Liebertarian candidate? I hope so.

Note how Lieberman thinks about the future so much, not like angry, very angry, perhaps psycho and potentially dangerous, partisans against him who only think of the past. Note how much he has thought about what to do in Iraq in that last quote in the post. Boy, he has thought alot about it, hasn’t he? “If we get out too soon…”? What’s with that? Soon or later, so what? What does just staying there killing two 60 or so service people, chewing through umpty-ump billions dollars and killing who knows how many Iraqis per month. With no fricking clue about what the hell we are doing? How does the cluelessly ’staying the course’ (to what?) add up to a better ‘later’ … some fool fantasy later when all becomes magically better and we can pull out without something or other kinda skeery and bad happening. What a fool.

But, add a smll flip-flop to Alito, bankruptcy, several finance and insurance, reproductive rights flip-flop. And of course the social security fippity-floppity-floppity-hippity-dippity crap he pulled on that.

Murtha’s thought about what to do. Clarke has. OK, I say Clarke/Murtha in 08. Lieberman, out, now. This guy has no clue and he just spouts flip-flop junk to cage a few uninformed voters. What a guy!

As a long time good Dem party worker, my brain is still queasy about this. If we get a chamber, Joe L. becomes a minor irritant. But has he gotten me steamed. Right now, I feel like sending him a letter telling him if he had any shame he would resign.

Unfortunately, the old egoist had a good chance of still being there next year instead of Lamont. If so, I hope Lamont stays in politics. If Dems win a house, Joe’s life can be made so miserable, and it should be, he will be ready to retire.

Cate Blanchett as Valerie. Uma Thurman if Cate is unavailable. Ed Harris as Scooter. Philip Seymour Hoffman as Rove. Rod Steiger is unfortunately too dead to play Cheney, and although Ken Welsh gave it a good try in that disaster movie (Day After Tomorrow?) he didn’t have enough evil in his aura. Have to think about that. Russell Crowe as David Addington, just because he can play anything. And for the delectable Ambassador, who else but George Clooney?

shoephone

ever try going AS a shoephone? THAT would be hoot, and a challenge, and have younger folks scratching their heads. lol.

Although, w/Tosh and Merman back-to-back, it seem like you’re investigating the singing side of things.

ooh, Mare could do Mary’s snarly mouth.

shoegarp 54

I think on one recent trip he brought his own food.

I believe his hosts resented it.

If we get a chamber, Joe L. becomes a minor irritant.

I wonder what happens if Lieberman gets elected as an Independent, and is the key to a slim Democratic majority. I can easily picture him threatening to caucus with the Republicans to get his way, and I can just as easily picture the Democratic leadership kissing his butt to keep him happy.

I think on one recent trip he brought his own food.

I believe his hosts resented it.

As I recall, he usually doesn’t have much interest in sightseeing either.

No desire to experience the world, just the trappings and perks of power.

BarbaraB – have you ever considered a career as a casting director? I think you’ve got it!

Some may disagree, but I’m thinking a thin John C. Reilly for Fitz.

Blank K – I love your idea. I’ve never gone as an inanimate object before. So, there’s no time like the present. Or this coming October 31.

angie — I second that, Jodie Foster for Valerie. Right age within a couple of years, exudes intellect, would easily buy the premise of her in a NOC role.

And I agree with Dru on Jeff Bridges as Joe Wilson. They are very nearly the same age, both born in 1949 within weeks of each other.

Some may disagree, but I’m thinking a thin John C. Reilly for Fitz.

Whoa; I had that same thought, but I just couldn’t quite justify it. Reilly *is* good at playing those standup, lunchpail guys, but I’m not sure if he can do the braininess.

Harvey Keitel or Jack Nicholson could play evil enough to be Cheney. Sean Penn could play Irving.

(though I like em both so much)

#103: Eli is an evil genius who spins nightmares.

I suggested a dream cast for the villains several months ago:
Bush: Slim Pickens
Cheney: Zero Mostel
Rove: Jonathan Winters
RumDum: Don Knotts

They’re all gone now or too old, but what a move that would be. Stone would be fine for Plame, many handsome hunks of a certain age would make a great Joe Wilson. Will Ferrell does a good Bush, but Ferrell is entirely too wholesome to play him for a whole move and truly portray that sociopathic whatever he is. Ned Beatty, if he could manage to out creepy his creepiest shtick, would be good as Bush.

#103: Eli is an evil genius who spins nightmares.

I wonder what the paygrade is – maybe I’m wasting my talents as a business analyst/project manager…

OT:

Here’s a somewhat strange and sad item with many (perhaps unanswerable) questions.

A former Bush administration official, after arguing violently with his wife Thursday night, shot and killed his 12-year-old son inside their McLean home, then turned a shotgun on himself and committed suicide, Fairfax County police said.

William H. Lash III, 45, was an assistant secretary of commerce from 2001 until last year, then returned to teach at George Mason University Law School in Arlington, where he had begun as a professor in 1994. His wife, Sharon K. Zackula, fled the house before the shootings, and police said yesterday they were not sure what ignited the murder-suicide in a first-floor bedroom.

Further:

William H. Lash III served as assistant secretary for market access and compliance in the U.S. Department of Commerce from 2001 to 2005.
He chaired the Department’s Iraq and Afghanistan Reconstruction Task Forces which assisted businesses interested in participating in reconstruction efforts and commerce in these two countries.

Only problem is that I don’t know if Pickens could convincingly protray “really stupid.” Pickens gave his characters a certain sharpness of mind that wouldn’t fit at all. I don’t know if Pickens could convincingly play it stpid enough.

Eli – we know that’s just your day job.

Only problem is that I don’t know if Pickens could convincingly protray “really stupid.” Pickens gave his characters a certain sharpness of mind that wouldn’t fit at all. I don’t know if Pickens could convincingly play it stpid enough.

Pickens conveyed shifty-eyed animal cunning, which is perfect.

Eli – we know that’s just your day job.

It’s the only one I get paid for, alas.

How about Cheney: Danny DeVito in his Penguin outfit?

Oooo, dark. That is really dark.

darkblack @111 –

that is absolutely horrible. I remember his name.

Another victory for the NRA.

Sickening.

Anthony Hopkins as Cheney.

Let’s not forget the YK Plame panel

Christy-Hardin Smith – Julianne Moore

Then Kate Blachett as Jane.

#11: there were some pictures of supposedly renovated Iraqi clinics, hospitals and schols. I was shocked, and I knew I was going to be shocked, but it was even worse than I imagined. I expected the worse and even I was shocked. I think via Atrios yesterday or the day before. What outrageous and truly despicable, wholesale and unspeakably vicious fraud those pictures revealed. If I can find them I will provide links sometime later this weekend. The personal tragedy of the story might be just a conincidence. But anyone with a conscience who particpated in that crime would have ‘issues’ to deal with.

I hope Matt O. can do one of his Iraq rig-off stories with some pictures. It is absolutely shocking what went on. I expected shoddy junk construction. I did not expect such obvious shamelessness: stuff that was so poorly constructed it, it looks like it started to disintigrate even before it was finished.

David Huddleston (the Big Lebowski) is perfect for Cheney.
OT-Here’s Novakula’s latest. Parse this, firepups!
It’s a good’n
http://www.mediabistro.com/fis….._40185.asp

Michelle Pfeiffer as Jane Hamsher

This pic is starting to sound good.

Michelle Pfeiffer as Jane Hamsher

I gotta agree with the Cate Blanchette. Or possibly Gwyneth Paltrow.

Sun’s going down. I’m off to engage in some guerrilla art in the park.

We be sticking it to the mayor tonight.

Benecio del Toro as darkblack.

Jane Hamsher >”…As Sue of MLN says, “There isn’t enough maple syrup in Vermont for this waffle.”"

Hmmm, so maybe we should all send him some small bottles of maple syrup to cover his world class waffleness

Kinda fits in with the Rubber Stamp Republican activity…

“…it’s the ideas that count, not the number of trees you kill to print them.” – Phil Carter@Info-dump.com

darkblack – that is tragic.

Dave Chapelle as the Target Shoplifter!

Hmmm, so maybe we should all send him some small bottles of maple syrup to cover his world class waffleness

Uncle Joemima.

Sharkbabe, I saw a piece today in Raw Story where 2 resigned a Katrina panel set up by Bush I and Clinton. The idea was for the panel to give money to faith based groups (aaargh), but apparently they are being ignored. DC is in control with a preset agenda.

Reading that today and your comment makes me question how deeply tangled he is in the new imperial administration.

Today I’ve learned that Eli and I think very much alike.

But I’m not as quick on the draw!

Bonne nuit, mes amis.

Hi Jane!

How you doing?

Today I’ve learned that Eli and I think very much alike.

But I’m not as quick on the draw!

I’m honored.

And a bit hyper.

I don’t think Gwyneth Paltrow can take a punch.

I don’t think Gwyneth Paltrow can take a punch.

She was pretty tough in Flesh & Bone.

shoephone >”…We be sticking it to the mayor tonight.”

Greg is such a dipstick…

“Every once in a while, you’ve got to do something hard, do something you’re not comfortable with. A person needs a gut check.” – Corporal Chad Ritchie, U.S.M.C.

Horatio Sanz as Matt Cooper.

Horatio Sanz as Matt Cooper.

In that case, Molly Shannon as Judith Miller. Or possibly Cheri Oteri.

I hope Jenna and Barbara get the Slim Pickens role in the remake of Dr. Strangelove, or how I learned to relax and love the bombing of Iran.

Eli >”Uncle Joemima.”

I wonder about the apron & the head bandana…

“All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.” – John Kenneth Galbraith

Ok, Eli, but who will Rachel Dratch play? Methinks Mrs. Fisheye Cheney.

check the pic here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Dratch

da cascadian – you got that right.

I called “Weekday” a few mornings ago to ask him a question on-the-air and all I can say is:

I thought I was really calm, and polite, even deferential (I’ve been practicing). He got really angry, defensive, tried to slap me down, etc.

But he just came off as an asshole. Especially after the host, Steve Scher, helped me challenge him.

It’s not the first time he’s flipped out at my questions.

Ah me. I seem to have a way with the bullies.

Ok, Eli, but who will Rachel Dratch play? Methinks Mrs. Fisheye Cheney.

Nothing comes to mind, sad to say.

I’m thinking maybe either Kurt Russell or Patrick Swayze for Karen Hughes.

Good gravy. Who’s looney enough to play Bolton?

Or insipidly plastic enough to play McClellan? or smarmy enough to play Fleischer?

Ick.

Yikes. Sun’s almost down. Got to get out there.

‘Nighty-night.

Sir Anthony might do Cheney very well. So might Sir Ian Holm, except that he’s probably too old for the part. He was an absolutely chilling Lenny in the original production of The Homecoming. James Gandolfini has the appropriate air of menace, but the look’s all wrong. Even with makeup. Jeff Bridges cannot play the Ambassador. Not sexy enough, at least not any more — and having met JW in Las Vegas, I can assure you that every straight woman there wanted to lick him all over. Strange though this may sound, I think Ben Affleck could play Fitz. Oh, and shoephone, I’ve never been a casting director, but once upon a time I was director director (stage, not screen.)

Good gravy. Who’s looney enough to play Bolton?

Gary Busey. Although Nick Nolte has an edge on resemblance.

Eli — Patrick Swayze. Most def.

Almost too attractive for the part.

Bruce Willis as Fleicher
John Goodman as McClellan

I don’t see PAC for a Change, Barbara Boxer’s Leadership PAC, listed among Joe’s PAC supporters. I am, however, among the web-impaired, so perhaps a clever FDLamb could check out this website. Seems lots of good data here:

http://www.opensecrets.org/pol…..cycle=2006

Bruce Willis as Fleicher
John Goodman as McClellan

David Cross.
Paul Giamatti.

Chris Kattan as Gollum plays w.

http://www.gothamist.com/images/chrisgollum.jpg

Captain Kangaroo as Bolton.

Captain Kangaroo as Bolton.

Wilford Brimley?

Hmm. Actually, I’d buy Ed Harris as Richard Armitage.

Have to disagree with lina and go with Jack Black for McClellan.

Heh.

Although I could see where Willis might work as Fleischer.

Tommy Lee Jones as Bush.

Although I could see where Willis might work as Fleischer.

Or you could save him for Gannon.

Parker Posey as Laura. Snoop Dog as Harriet Miers.

meta– snoop dog should play condi!!

Snoop Dog as Harriet Miers.

*That’s* who Rachel Dratch is. SNL realized it, too.

perfect, Eli!

Eli, you crack me up. Do you really want to inflate that slimey bastard Gannon’s ego that much by even recognizing him in the movie?

Sheesh. He’d be using that “as played by Willis” in his after-hours marketing material.

Ed Harris is playing Libby, Rayne. He’s too good to waste on a bit part like Armitage. And it doesn’t matter who plays Poor Scotty. He only has two lines. The first one is where he assures the press corps that neither Rove or Libby was involved. After that, there’s nothing but “I cannot comment on an ongoing investigation.” Let some pudgy young actor use it to get his SAG card.

fo shizzle!

Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Governor of California

kevin federline can play Gannon.

Ian Richardson for Cheyney

Eli, you crack me up. Do you really want to inflate that slimey bastard Gannon’s ego that much by even recognizing him in the movie?

Maybe he could just be lying naked in bed with Bush or Rove when they get an early-morning phonecall or something. He wouldn’t necessarily have to have any lines.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Governor of California

Not credible.

I’m freaking out with laughter. Ouchy.

new t’read

http://www.firedoglake.com/200…..lieberman/

rotflmao eli @ 170!

BarbaraB, I guess I can’t see Harris as Libby. Need somebody with a flatter affect to play the role, I think, and a pointer head.

;-)

Still think Jack Black for McClellan, though. Scottie was a comic relief, should fit nicely for Black.

{High five} Sharkbabe. Lets not forget who started up the DLC and F***ked up the entire Democrat party because of ‘em. It’ll take a long time to undo this mess.

Gannon can play Rove . . .

I think we may have to dual cast Philip Seymour Hoffman as both Rove and Babs.

Casting the villains is the fun part, eh? I mean arrrrrggggghhhh!!

The shooter – Danny Devito.

Jack Black would be perfect and would do that finger pointing thingy with aplomb.

Gannon as Rove– excellente.

Plame : Virginia Madsen

Wilson : Tim Robbins

Tim Roth as Skooter (remember how evil in Rob Roy?)

Ian Richardson is very good at playing conniving — splendid Bolingbroke — but not at playing evil. At least not Cheny’s brand. Malcom McDowell could do it, though. C’mon, Clockwork Orange? Caligula? Malcolm could absolutely play Cheney (although he was, I hasten to add, a very nice young man, and I have no reason to think he’s changed. He’s just one helluva good actor.)

Robert de Niro could pull off w.

Remember him in Cape Fear? Acted dumb at times with that accent, really bad and vindictive person though.

On a lighter note…(hat tip to Eli)

“We sho’ got waffles, yassuh!”

;>)

Rowan Atkinson has the prowess to also play w.

Scooter has a flat affect when he’s going into a courthouse, but there have to be hidden, loathesome fires burning underneath. Ed Harris absolutely can play that. But then, I’m a major Ed Harris fan. I think he can play almost anything.

Sweet, db!

oh, here comes the screamingly funny giggles that make my belly hurt, darkblack!

Scooter has a flat affect when he’s going into a courthouse, but there have to be hidden, loathesome fires burning underneath.

Oh, I’m thinking Peter Mullan, still. Or the baddie from Alias.

katecontinued — oooh yeah, Tim Roth for Scooter. A little young, but reachable.

And I’ve got another suggestion for Cheney: Albert Finney. He’s got the snarly part down.

Anthony Hopkins as W.

PeeWee Herman as Poppy.

Monty Python as The Bush Women (Bar, Laura, and that sister who died at 4)

Paris and Nicky Hilton as The Bush Twins.

Jenna and Laura Bush as The Hilton Sisters.

Oprah Winfrey as Condoleezzaa Rice.

Jonathan Winters as Ken Lay.

Julia Roberts as Karen Hughes.

Gwen Stefani as Valerie Plame.

Brad Pitt as Joe Wilson.

And I’ve got another suggestion for Cheney: Albert Finney. He’s got the snarly part down.

How about Brian Cox? He’s like Albert Finney’s evil twin.

Wow, Eli, that’s a tough call, Finney or Cox. Maybe it comes down to budget.

Marlon Brando (reanimated, or CGI, or whatever you young people call it, like in Singer’s Gay Superman) as Vice President Richard B. Cheney.

Bea Arthur as Lynn Cheney.

Ellen DeGeneres as Mary Cheney.

Still can’t quite picture the right Joe Wilson, though. Close, but not quite on suggestions so far. Hmm.

Let us not forget a meaty role for the splendid Peter Coyote.

How about Ben Stiller as Dubya? He’s really good at playing both frustrated inept guys doing a slow burn, *and* at obnoxious narcissistic jerks.

Still can’t quite picture the right Joe Wilson, though. Close, but not quite on suggestions so far. Hmm.

Let us not forget a meaty role for the splendid Peter Coyote.

Problem solved.

Oh nuts. Just when I thought Pierce Brosnan for the same role.

I have mulled this one awhile, Rayne– I do like Jeff Bridges, but mebbe Michael Douglas could play Wilson.

I have mulled this one awhile, Rayne– I do like Jeff Bridges, but mebbe Michael Douglas could play Wilson.

Gah! No, no, a thousand times no. He just *radiates* sleaze.

Pierce would be good, too!

I think we have ourselves a casting call. Not quite enough gravitas or too mature or too young or something…

Maybe this is the role where we discover the next hot but mature stud to play Joe Wilson.

Damnitall, why can’t the Wilson brothers be 10-15 years older? Luke Wilson, for sure.

Yum. Yum.

ergo, my mulling it for awhile.

Maybe Harrison Ford? I never thought much of him as a hottie until I met him. He definitely has it going.

Indiana Wilson– that’s good, meta!

Hey, is there gonna be an FDL Late Nite, or did we chase Jane away with all our movie chatter?

meta — highly possible, but somehow seems like that’s stereotypical after his multiple stints as Jack Ryan.

Ditto for Alec Baldwin, already done the Jack Ryan type, and perhaps a bit too young. Maybe.

angie, you are so funny! This was really silly but great fun.

Teddy, it’s already up. Just kept the movie chatter down here since it’s Lamont upstairs.

Donald Sutherland as John Bolton.

Eli – if only the patriotic Ambassador agrees! Peter Coyote was born to play this part…smart, handsome, stylish and a great American patriot in his own right…and generous of spirit not unlike Joe Wilson.

Now the question is, where do we put John Malkovich?

Malkovich could play Dumsfeld or the little devil on Cheney’s shoulder…

Ice T can play Abu G.

or John Leguizamo can.

Lyn Cheney is short, too. One of the clips of the four of them heading to the inauguration shows them lined up left to right, Pickles, Junior, DarthCheney and Lyn

Lyn doesn’t come up to anyone’s shoulders and looks like she’s having to run to keep up.

Just thought of another couple I’d entertain as Wilson, but might be a hair too young.

Colin Firth or Kenneth Brannagh. Both about 10 years too young, though, a bit shy of the gravitas required that comes with maturity.

I could buy that, Leguizamo as Abu G. Slap some glasses on him and ask him to come off as a used car salesman. Done.

Brannagh would be sooo good.

Oh yeah, forgot to add that I could see Sutherland as Bolton. Sutherland can do mean, nasty and evil.

Rayne – Sutherland would do a perfect Bolton – who can forget his role in 1900 – but isn’t Bolton sort of a troll-like shorty & Sutherland rather tall?

Leguizamo looks real purty in a skirt. He could be Matalin.

Chi-Chi Rodriguez

what a movie, Jenny.

angie -

Hah! Love Chi-Chi!

And in that case, Jenny, Swayze is Karen and Snipes is Condi.

angie:

:)

Here’s my late entry in the “Valerie Plame, The Movie” sweepstakes:

Sandra Bullock as NOC Valerie Plame (Hello, Miss Congeniality III)
George Clooney as Ambassador Joseph Wilson (type-casting here)
Gary Oldman as President George W. Bush (can’t think of anyone else psychotic enough to do the role justice…)
Anthony Hopkins as Vice-President Cheney (he’s already done Nixon and worked with Oliver Stone who will probably direct this – sorry, Jane, you’re going to work with Oliver again!)
Johnny Depp as Scooter Libby (he’ll be channeling Ozzie Nelson instead of Keith Richards here)
Mike Myers as Karl Rove (Dr. Evil or Mini-Cheney?)
Broderick Crawford as Robert Novak (Highway Patrol meets Kolchak, the Night Stalker)
Uma Thurman as Judy Miller (definitely sufficiently crazed, but will ‘Kill Val’ work as a title?)

I could go on and on but this will undoubtedly be EPU’d anyway.

Hey, I made the big time!

Laura Linney as Valerie Plame and Diana Scarwid 50lbs as Karen Hughes