Fitz!!!! Jane! Ned!

and again! been so long!

all them bookreading geeks downstairs…just me

ok, off to read post

Hottest Day Ever.

But I found some pictures on the UPFFA site–a Firefighters union beat bloggers to the punch with photos.

I posted them to my blog, sunburnboy.net

Joe’s lying, of course.

Bush leans in, gives his peck, and backs off all in less than 2 seconds. Not even close to enough to time to say “Thank you for being a patriotic American.”

Roots!!

spazeboy, DID you take the evening off?

that’s A GREAT RADIO AD! I think it will play especially well with older folks.

Somebody needs to do an ad like that which helps union workers to think for themselves rather than with their decrepit leadership that has helped drive down union membership in this country past the point of no return.

Sbabe, you feeling better?

Did you see the little ones?

I was just reading Michael Schiavo’s diary over at Kos and was reminded of Lieberman’s support of all that lunacy. I hope Ned and his campaign are reminding CT voters about that sorry little vignette in Lieberman’s distinguished career.

“You must remember this, a kiss is but a kiss” Hey Fredo, get a room!

The gossip mill has it that “it” actually went further than a kiss. So Joe, are you telling us not to rely on what we see, but believe what we are told instead? Tsk, tsk. Time to “come-out” boys. There’s really no shame in it anyway. Like…who cares? It’s NOT germane.

George Bush’s followers embrace nationalism, concentrating power in the executive branch at the expense of the legislative body, heavy corporate influence in government, fundamentalist religion instead of science.

In other words, they are fascists.

Given the history of the last century, a Jew embracing a fascist leader is shocking, to say the least.

Like…who cares? It’s NOT germane.

You don’t think Joe could be considered a good germane?

egregious @ 8

I took last night off. Lots to sort out, CT is turning into a bit of a pressure cooker if you know what I mean. Days like today, I feel completely out of my league.

Put another way though (cognitive behavioral theory), I’m just ahead of my time. :)

A read of “Your Daily Ned” is like a ray of sunshine. Hugs and kisses, and thanks for being patriotic Americans.

he leaned over and gave me a hug and said “thank you for being a patriotic American,”

Effin bullshit. Chimpy, being the biggest closet case in American political history, cannot resist acting out. Especially with the likes of Joe, who has been his most special Monica.

Jane I’m so glad you’re in CT and putting your whole life and so much of our attention into Ned race. Joe and the whore-everything he embodies is going down, and we/something new are making it happen. I want to not only put Joe out to pasture, I want to THROW SOIL on the political class he embodies…

Effin bullshit. Chimpy, being the biggest closet case in American political history, cannot resist acting out. Especially with the likes of Joe, who has been his most special Monica.

My God, just imagine if Joe were bald…

Spazeboy: I love that phrasing — NAFTA/CAFTA Lieberman ! As a former UAW member in Indiana, such namecalling I can relate to …

he leaned over and gave me a hug and said “thank you for being a patriotic American,”

So a rhetorical kiss from W. is supposed to be less offensive than a physical one?

People wouldn’t care if Bush had a public snogfest with Lieberman, as long as Lieberman was on the right side of the issues.

*ilson46201 @ 20

wish I could take credit for that, but I fell in with a pretty good crowd today who reminded me that in 1993 while I was gearing up for 6th grade (actually, that’s the year I moved from Iowa to Oregon), Joe Lieberman was gearing up for NAFTA.

Do you mean… like in good germane chocolate cake?

Spazeboy, me, DeanFan84, CTKeith and CTBlogger were all there, Jon drove the float. Joke Line was there, and it was rather sad — all the folks holding the union signs were the usual LieberYouth, the union turnout was pathetic and all the speeches were built around “well, nobody agrees with anyone 100% of the time.” Nobody brought up the word NAFTA. I don’t know who was sorrier, Lieberman or the union bosses who had to cook up a reason to stand behind him.

People wouldn’t care if Bush had a public snogfest with Lieberman, as long as Lieberman was on the right side of the issues.

Yes; it was the physical, visual manifestation of what Joe has been doing for the past 5 years.

Mr. LIEBERMAN. Mr. President, I rise today to call my colleagues’ attention to a thought-provoking speech recently given by Judge Robert Bork about the media, and our perceptions of the first amendment and censorship.

Judge Bork, who is now a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, made these remarks at a forum sponsored by AEI entitled, `Sex and Hollywood: What Should Be the Government’s Role?’, at which I had the privilege of speaking. As the title suggests, this forum sought to examine what effect the media’s bombardment of sexual messages is having on our children and our culture, and what steps the Government can and should take to address the public’s growing concern about the threat posed by these increasingly explicit messages.

In his comments, Judge Bork argued that this threat puts not only our children at risk, but our civil society as well. If the entertainment industry’s standards continue to drop, he suggested, the Government would be well within its constitutional bounds to take more active steps to protect children by regulating lewd and indecent content. In making this argument, Judge Bork reminded the audience that the Government has regularly played the role of censor–albeit a limited one–for most of our history, and that in recent years the general notion of what forms of expression are fully protected by the first amendment has, in Judge Bork’s eyes, become distorted. Judge Bork’s comments remind us that our commitment to free expression must be balanced by our commitment to protect our children and the moral health of our Nation.

OT submission for consideration for a future book salon: Conservatives Without Conscience by John Dean. I’m maybe 20 pages in and already I think this may be one of the most important and chilling things I’ve read about the state of contemporary American politics. We can’t unseat the authoritarians without first understanding (and exposing) the mindset of the authoritarian followers.

Four stars. Chris Bob says check it out.

egreg – i drove and drove and found the goats new home, when near started crying and couldn’t stop. sheez, when will I get over this silly shit? anyway saw where they are, and looks very excellent. crying is just some shit between me and me I guess.

Spazeboy, you are SO ahead of your time. Take whatever rest/timeoff you need in order to keep up your creativity, because the entire civilized world is depending on your work. No pressure right? :D

Seriously, when you can work that’s great, and when you need to rest, do it. More important to have you intermittently and brilliantly. Works for me. At least that’s my justification for spurts of brilliance and then periodic flaming out.

I totlly heart spazeboy!

If today was any indication, the state of labor in this country is abjectly miserable. I got into an argument with the AFL/CIO guy who wanted to know why we were going after Joe and didn’t go after Teddy Kennedy. Because we’re in Connecticut, at a barbecue for Joe Lieberman, and you’re with the CT AFL/CIO? Then he started bragging about how much pull he had in Massachusetts politics. Spazeboy got it on tape but it’s all just too fucking sad.

sharkbabe can see right through W’s persona:

“Chimpy, being the biggest closet case in American political history, cannot resist acting out. Especially with the likes of Joe, who has been his most special Monica.”

The more I watch Bush when he’s in a compulsive situation, the more I can see sharkbabe’s premise as being one which can explain a helluva a lot. Connecting the dots? Maybe punaise has a better “connecting the _?” image for us?

scarecrow, KathrynMA and I spent the afternoon in CT canvassing and calling for Ned. A few observations.

1. the people on the campaign team didn’t know about FDL and Jane—another reason to believe that it isn’t the bloggers that are fueling the Nedmentum.

2. Lots of the doors we knocked on were not the addresses of the people on our lists. Inaccurate lists are going to be a problem for us.

3. Phone calls made (when it was clear that it really was too hot to be going door to door) were mostly to people not home but those who were weren’t likely to talk about who they wanted to vote for.

4. Labor—a few no Ned calls were because of a perception that Ned is anti-labor. That has to be corrected.

and 5. The best call of the day. A family with 3 sons. We knocked on the door, one came and answered it. He was talking with his mom on the cell phone. We introduced ourselves and he told his mom, “Hey mom, there are folks at the door working for Ned Lamont You’ll want to talk with them!” He put her on speaker phone to us. Her third son is in Afghanistan. She is a Ned supporter and said that if anyone declares they are not a one issue voter they are lying. She’s a one issue voter and the issue is the war. There was a little red white and blue flag in her window with one blue star on it.

We returned with 2 lawn signs and got their contact information. Though mom and dad are on vacation, they will be volunteering for Ned when they get back.

That was what our day was like.

Sharkbabe,

And why would crying be a bad thing? You have us crying over the bond between you and these lovely creatures. It is a measure of the deep love you have for living beings. It’s part of who you are, and a very good part.

I’m part Cherokee and all over the bond with all living beings/horse whisperer stuff.

Seeing them in a happy new home will gradually make you feel better about THEM, but will not so much ease YOUR grief. I hope you will continue to visit them often. Do consider this idea of living somewhere new, where you can have creatures around you, ‘k? I sense it is necessary for your fundamental happiness.

Rooting for you, btw my earlier post to help you cheer up was my first non-starred use of f***, just to make you smile…

er, totally

RevDeb — I just got home, I’m so sorry we didn’t connect. And no, absolutely nobody knows who I am and I don’t tell them. Suits us all.

Oh one of Lieberman’s people threw me off the lawn for trying to talk to the Attorney General. Then they came up and told CTBlogger it was illegal for him to put videos of the people holding Lieberman signs on the internet without a release, because they weren’t public figures. That’s just out-and-out bullshit. They’ll say anything. If there’s a lie they won’t stoop to, I haven’t seen it yet.

OT:

When is the next Libby hearing? It seems like we have not heard anything about Fitz and the current grand jury or the Libby case in weeks.

Why?

egregious, what wonderful comfort thoughts/lovely words, thank you so very much

now back to destroying Cheney junta :)

RevDeb 33:

I salute you. You’re a great American. Precinct walking is hard work. I hope you rewarded yourself with cold frosty drink.

Jane, while you went down to get some water (thanks!), the man who started in about Ted Kennedy (pictured here, at left) took the podium and talked about his conversation with you. I don’t think I got that on tape, but he basically restated his side of your conversation, emphasizing that he’s been working in the trenches and where the hell have you been.

I thought bloggers were world-class a-holes. ;)

Jane,
Still planning to come down Thurs. night. Will keep in touch about it.

We did show the campaign workers the web site and picked up a new person for the Roots group in MA. She had driven down from Arlington on her own.

http://www.fcnp.com/619/benton.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..earch=bush cheney condi

Jane,
You just need to know that a lot of us out here are deeply appreciative of what you are doing in Connecticut. Take consolution in the knowledge that the main stream media are now paying attention to what people in the Progressive Blogosphere are saying.
Keep up the great work!!!!!

basic law: you may photograph anybody in a public place without their permission —- the images cannot be used however for “commercial speech” without release: this means ‘advertising’.

it’s a sign of true weakness when the Joe-know-nothing Team is afraid of their volunteers being photographed…

I cannot comprehend that Joe Lieberman and I are members of the same political party. It’s really weird. Kinda strange too. Lieberman is like a very bad toothache you want so very much to be rid of.

RevDeb

Keep up the great work! Hopefully I’ll see you (and everyone else) Thursday.

We really didn’t do that much. Dialing numbers that didn’t answer ain’t heavy lifting , but I guess someone had to do it.

I’d really really like to know what the polling is showing. Been a long time since we’ve seen any numbers.

Jane –

Your points of argument w/Union guy are certainly all valid ones.

I would, as a fan and constituent of Mr. Kennedy would also compare voting records…to wit: Alito cloture is one that comes to mind quickly. I’m certain there are others. (I’m thinking/hoping maybe Ted might have better cred Labor-wise, but don’t quote me.) Not that it matters, just my deuce on the table.

And commendations for the Kiss Float…musta been quite a sight!

AND commendations to the MA contingent of Lamont volunteers! Good on you, folk! Thanks!

ads related – called my mom in New Haven last night and she was raving about all the Lamont ads and how great they are … esp the messy desk one – it really hit home!

on voter lists – the town/city voter registrars are supposed to correct them yearly (and people get paid to do just that – walk the districts and check on names, addresses, etc) – CT has had a not great history on voter rolls and that makes it hard for both sides (unless Joe is getting updated lists and Ned is not – something that’s worth checking carefully)

Spazeboy 40 — I guess if you are not a big union leader selling out your own members you are not entitled to an opinon on Holy Joe. Us girls should just shut up and take a Midol once again, I suppose.

Lemme know when you get that tape of him blowing up (people with big egos just forget the camera is rolling after a while), I’ll be sure to get it in the hands of a really, really good editor.

I am convinced that Bob Novak is keeping quiet about Karen Highes, little miss Proper Gander.
–
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Hughes
She left the Bush administration in July 2002 to return to Texas, but remained in daily contact with the Bush reelection campaign by telephone and e-mail, and spoke personally with Bush several times a week. In 2002, Hughes was a member of the White House Iraq Group. She has been described by The Dallas Morning News as “the most powerful woman ever to serve in the White House”, and by ABC News as Bush’s “most essential advisor,” and remains one of the major voices of the Bush campaign.
SUMMER, 2003: WHIG MEMBERS REUNITE TO DEFEND THE IRAQ WAR
–
Whig Members Reunite To Back Up Their Faulty Intelligence. During the summer of 2003, Hughes and Mary Matalin joined Dan Bartlett in formulating a strategy to pushback on general questions about the White House’s credibility over its handling of the Iraq war. “The plan: Release all relevant information. Try to shift attention back to Bush’s leadership in the war on terrorism. Diminish the significance of that single piece of iffy intelligence by making the case that Saddam was a threat for
many other reasons. Put Republican lawmakers and other Bush allies on TV to defend him. Most important: Question the motives of Democrats who supported the war but now are criticizing the president.” [New York Times, 10/21/02; USA Today, 7/24/03,]
http://www.democrats.org/a/200…..line_o.php

Jane:

I’m glad you’re in Connecticut helping. Without you striing the pot, it would’ve been a different kind of NYT article.

I only wish I could come and meet you, but my work schedule doesn’t allow me to drive to you guys on Thursday.

I hope that you’ll have another one before August 8th.

Keep up the good work and this blog!

Jane and spazeboy,

I took a few video clips of the house with the blue star flag and scarecrow putting the lawn signs in. If I can figure out how to download them and e-mail the files to you maybe they will be useful. ? ? (new video camera, don’t know how to use it well yet)

In Indiana, any politician who supports NAFTA/CAFTA is totally toxic to unions and no labor leader could possibly consider endorsing such a creature — it’s significant that the main sponsor of the “labor rally” in CT would be the FireFighters who are not directly affected by NAFTA/CAFTA — a fire in Bridgeport isnt going to be fought by outsourced labor from Cancun or Beijing!

Kludge,

are you in MA?

Jane @ 50
I’m transferring the video right now, and I’ll have a DVD for you as soon as tomorrow or Tuesday.

I’ll get in touch with you tomorrow. For now, I’m going to spend some time with the most wonderful woman in the world (watching a documentary on coroners–eww!).

I’ll be back if Channel 3 airs any video or a story from Lieberman’s event today.

Off to bed – Jane spazeboy everybody godspeed

Great radio ad — that’ll work, make commuters laugh in their cars about Joe. Laughter IS the best Ned-icine!

Hey RevDeb, great report, sorry y’all got overheated. What’s up with the sorry lists, do they come from the party?

Blue Star Moms for Ned!

RevDeb -

Yep. But way west of Big Dig. Pioneer Valley. No car. Neal in Congress; FWIW.

Love you Ed T

night all

And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead [him] away safely.

BK
Can we get you into the Rootz and start up a group for the 02 Cong. dist? We do want to cover the whole state. And I love the Pioneer valley. We may even invent a reason to come out to you.

Personally, I find this:

“I don’t think he kissed me, he leaned over and gave me a hug and said “thank you for being a patriotic American,” he told Time Magazine

more offensive than the Kiss, though the denial of it is also insulting.

Reminds me of when I called Ken Salazar to complain about his support for Abu Gonzalez, a very snotty staffer told me that the Senator considers himself an American first and a Democrat second. This has the same implication, IHMO.

and RevDeb you so rock

ok goodnight really

re:AFL/CIO guy…

Union support for Lieberman sort of reminds of how the “hard-hats” went with Nixon. And that was during the time of another illegal war. Vietnam. Don’t the AFL/CIO people supporting Lieberman understand that every vote for Joe, because of his close association with the DLC, means another vote against labor, and therefore themselves? And I don’t care a snit about Lieberman’s propaganda proclaiming his support for labor. Labor has lost huge under Bush and Joe.

come to think of it: it is really peculiar why GWB stopped at Lieberman and kissed him at the SOTU, knowing full well that all eyes in the Chamber and TV were on him. This was so incredibly obviously public that GWB was trying to send some kind of message…

Things sound like they are really getting exciting on the Lamont side, while Lieberman is faced with daily news articles that read like obituaries…the NYT article was reprinted in my Sunday paper, and it should have come with audio of a funeral dirge. I think the media vultures smell death, and are circling the area, hungry for carrion.

The Tom Schaller “Gadfly” post re: Lanny Davis’ comments, was dead on. Schaller does great political commentary – have been listening to him for years on one of our local radio stations, where he is one of the very few Democratic voices on an otherwise pretty right-wing station.

Way to go to all of you working to get Ned elected!

You’re right, *ilson; it’s not like he was doing Joe any favors there, and I don’t think he had any reason to want to sabotage him, given the lack of a credible Republican challenger in CT.

Wilson: You are right wrt the kiss! It was meant to show Americans tuned in that Democrats were united with him on this.

RevDeb-

I knew that already. (I’m not as dumb as I look.) ;->

Lemme look at the ol’ ‘8-Ball’ and see what the answer is…

“Intriguing” – who could have imagined?

email:
blank AT coolmac DOT every1 DOT net
note: that’s ‘everyONE’ using a digit…
—-
that’s the shoephone-style emergency hatch email.

Always a politician never a president.

Jane,

What was that “deal” wrt the police showing up and the Kiss float?

It sounded from Spazeboy’s blog as if it got shooed away.

Didn’t know that CT has unique traffic laws for Bush hearts Joe floats.

OK 65 — Don’t the AFL/CIO people supporting Lieberman understand that every vote for Joe, because of his close association with the DLC, means another vote against labor, and therefore themselves? And I don’t care a snit about Lieberman’s propaganda proclaiming his support for labor. Labor has lost huge under Bush and Joe.

They were indeed patronizing, cynical assholes. They had no defense for their endorsement other than screaming “he has an 85% voting record” like that meant anything at all. I talked with Bill Henderson, the head of the Communications workers (1298) who were giving Ned a hard time and saying he’s anti-labor (what RevDeb referred to above).

He kept trying to say his union was endorsing Joe through November, and I knew that wasn’t true, they had only endorsed him through August. So when I pushed, he finally admitted HE was supporting Lieberman through November, and this was his quote about his union members, and I shit you not, I asked him to repeat it six or seven times and CTKeith was there as God is my witness:

“Our membership is welcome to come to the endorsement of Joe Liberman that our executive board has decided on.

“As their leader I’m telling them who I support and why I suppport Joe Lieberman. But they will not be asked.”

After I sat there indredulously asking him to repeat himself for a while, saying “you mean you really have no intention of putting this up for a membership vote,” he finally acknowledged that this might be a good iddea.

To say I am not holding my breath would be an understatement. It was absolutely, thoroughly disgusting.

Mad Dogs 72 — yes the cops showed up *coincidentally* just after Holy Joe did. The cop was SCREAMING at Keith. Spazeboy ran over with the camera or I do believe, as Spazeboy noted in his blog post, things would have gotten much much worse. That cop was very conscious of that camera.

about the cop hassling the Kiss-Float: if the FireFighters Union called about a ‘troublemaker’, a local policeman might very well go above and beyond the call of duty to help…

Well, after all, why should we expect unions to be any better than Planned Parenthood or NARAL?

Sigh.

ccmask @ 51

“The plan: Release all relevant information. Try to shift attention back to Bush’s leadership in the war on terrorism. Diminish the significance of that single piece of iffy intelligence by making the case that Saddam was a threat for
many other reasons. Put Republican lawmakers and other Bush allies on TV to defend him. Most important: Question the motives of Democrats who supported the war but now are criticizing the president.”

It’s so shocking to read in black and white that they treat this fuck up of a war as just another blip negatively impacting the bottom line. It’s all about the message, baby!

Ugh these guys make me sick.

And about Joe, I too take a very dim view of marital infidelity. You make your vow, you stick with it in my books or you lack honour. But, what Clinton did was an issue between him and his conscience and him and his wife.

As a famous prime minister of our own said “The government has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.” And if you take that literally and can’t apply it to Clinton I’d say you aren’t a regular reader of this blog.

As a little blog whore, check out my latest article on my blog The Next Agenda. It cites an article by Robert Fisk on just how prepared Hezbollah was for Israel’s pushback.

Jane, it really does sound like Joe has “The System” in CT at his beck and call. Is he, like, the mayor of Connecticut or something?

Senate Dems who (unlike Joe) voted against CAFTA–

Dodd
Clinton
Schumer
Kennedy
Kerry
Reid
Boxer
Leahy
Reed
Obama
Durbin
Salazar
Biden
Bayh
Landrieu
Harkin
Corzine
Lautenberg
Mikuslki
Sarbanes
Levin
Stabenow
Baucus
Conrad
Dorgan
Johnson
Rockefeller
Byrd
Feingold
Kohl
Bingaman
Akaka
Inouye

And CT Labor stands beside Joe?? WTF?

I think Michael Berube’s takedown of Joe on the torture point (way back in May 2004 woo-hoo!) remains an example of blogging at its best:

http://www.michaelberube.com/i….._probrium/

After watching the video again, Joe wants us to believe that during the kiss of death, amid all the hand clapping, Bush slid in a “thank you for being a patriotic American…”

Anybody have a way to find out how is california reality check/c_r_c?

The unions and the national choice groups supporting JoMo is just the most stinking rotten disgusting heartbreaking evidence of the power of incumbency. And from the sound of today’s business, habit.
“we’ve supported him before and if we don’t know it’s like admitting we were wrong.”

Bionic: Did you ever read Karen’s list of rules….Here’s #2

Rule #2: Use what’s out there. You are always on sure ground if you use what the President,
Secretary Rice, Sean McCormack, or any USG spokesman has already said on a particular subject. I always read recent statements by key officials on important subjects before I do press events. My Echo Chamber messages are meant to provide you clear talking points in a conversational format on the ‘hot’ issues of the day. You never need clearance to background a journalist though you should
certainly pay careful attention to how your comments may be used.

For a numbered list of her rules, here’s one link:
http://www.thenation.com/blogs…..?pid=50064

spazeboy at 16 Days like today, I feel completely out of my league.

Au contraire, you ARE the new league. The rest of the world will have to catch up with YOU.

You’ve got something really good cookin’. We await your future genius.

The unions and the national choice groups supporting JoMo is just the most stinking rotten disgusting heartbreaking evidence of the power of incumbency.

And of the lack of integrity in those organizations. Can anyone see the NRA giving someone a pass for stabbing them in the back?

RevDeb – were you in Bridgeport? I sp

I had lunch with an old friend today who happens to now live in Connecticut. His wife and her family are actually from the state. He said they refer to Sanctimonious Joe as “Whinerman” and there was no way in hell anyone would be voting for him. Take this as anecdotal evidence from regular voters that Lieberman has worn out his welcome.

And it would seem the kiss float is getting under his skin. Why else does Lieberman feel a need to issue public statements on the actual kiss? If it were as insignificant as he claims he shouldn’t be trying to explain it away. I hope the kiss float travels every mile of road in Connecticut. Twice. Haha.

Spazeboy:

Re JH at 74 Mad Dogs 72 — yes the cops showed up *coincidentally* just after Holy Joe did. The cop was SCREAMING at Keith. Spazeboy ran over with the camera or I do believe, as Spazeboy noted in his blog post, things would have gotten much much worse. That cop was very conscious of that camera.

AND THAT IS ‘ZACTLY what I’m talkin’ about. You’re the new thing.

Oh and they had to go tell all the LieberYouth holding the Labor for Lieberman signs (none of them would answer whether they were actually in labor unions or not when CTKeith showed them his union card) to cheer on cue when Joe showed up.

We all laughed amongst ourselves, knowing nobody would have to tell Lamont supporters to cheer.

Part of the problem is Joe is not announcing his public appearances while Ned most certainly is. Joe only wants canned audiences, but he winds up with pathetically small crowds. There were only a handful of people there and maybe — maybe half of them were union members.

CTKeith and DeanFan84 say that Blumenthal is one of the most popular politicians in the state. He ran from Holy Joe like he had fucking typhoid.

Let’s just say that efforts were made to insure that all the press who arrived with Holy Joe knew about the Blumenthal flight before they left.

Jim at 83;

You’re 100% correct. That’s why I hope that Connecticut Dems will show them a new way of thinking in this primary.

*xyz

We were in Willimantic. Closer to MA.

My thinking is this: Joe is supposed to be representing the people of the State of Connecticut. Yes, he has a right to his views, and the voters have the right to choose whether they want someone with his views representing them. Clearly, this has not been a problem for Joe for the last 18 years.

To my mind, Joe had a responsibility to check in with the people of CT to make sure that he was accurately representing them on key issues like the war, and abortion and Plan B and a host of other issues. Some might argue that in trying to represent all of the voters, he might have to take a stand on some issues that would be antithetical to the Democratic voters, but would nonetheless represent Republicans and Independents.

Fine. I get that. But what Joe needs to get is an understanding that, having taken positions that did not represent the opinions and wishes of the Democratic voters, he now has to accept that those Democratic voters are not interested in seeing him return to the Senate where they have every reason to believe he would continue to turn his back on them.

When you represent all the voters with positions that are more Republican than Democratic, you should have hewed to your principles and run as a Republican, or bowed out of the primary altogether and run in the general as a third-party candidate.

Principles, my ass.

*ilson @ 6:52 – totally gratuitous sex.

Mercury News: Liberals angry at Boxer for supporting Lieberman

(a new DKos diary, by hartford for lamont):

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/7/16/183938/808

Just a Head’s Up:

Fabulous: The Story of Queer Cinema is on right now on the IFC Channel.

puppethead 88 — The Kiss float is going to be at our FDL get-together on Thursday night. People can see it in all its glory.

I think DeanFan will be driving it all over Connecticut next weekend.

Fabulous, ccmask, simply fabulous!

Judge Bork, who is now a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, made these remarks at a forum sponsored by AEI entitled, `Sex and Hollywood: What Should Be the Government’s Role?’, at which I had the privilege of speaking

Bork and the AEI and censorship and Lieberman. Wowser.

Maybe that AEI guy that Bush has set up in the Admin can do a re-election comic book for Leiberman. Make him the Boy Robin to Bush’s Batman – evil Ned as the Riddler, who keeps asking questions the Boy Wonder doesn’t want to answer.

Zinmeister and Leiberman can swap stories on how talking about sex makes people fall in love with prostitutes and commit murder. Never having done either, I’m wondering if it’s because I don’t pronunciate the words correctly?

CTBlogger has photos of the event up

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30294265@N00/

It’s pretty good. I never knew Batman and Robin were gay. I knew they dressed gay. Paul Lynde I definitely knew and the cross dresser on Mash.

ccmask – belated kudos to you for the War on Error.

To win the War on Error – all you have to do is vote.

I never knew Batman and Robin were gay. I knew they dressed gay. Paul Lynde I definitely knew and the cross dresser on Mash.

I thought everyone knew.

Jane- The number 1398 at Flickr is wonderful! I guess it is getting some attention.

Republicans are torn on Paul Lynde. They like the Secret Square thing so much, it tends to make them ambivalent overall.

I picture the “The Kiss” float stalking Odious Joe like the “Eat Me” cake in Animal House.

Now if we can get Jane to dress up like a pirate and a few FDL’ers to lead the parade down an alley, dump a box of 10,000 marbles and fire some smoke bombs off.

Odious Joe will never be the same.

-GSD

Thanks Mary. I was snarkly wondering what rhymed with terror and *puff* Error!

Jane and everyone:

Please take photos on Thursday… Many of us wished they could come…

The LieberYouth look sullen and alienated.

May I have ten thousand marbles please?

I picture the “The Kiss” float stalking Odious Joe like the “Eat Me” cake in Animal House.

I was thinking more like the clockodile in Peter Pan…

It’s made out of paper mache I guess. That Float needs to go cross country. It could piss off a lot more people and help other states.

I want to let every here know your girl Jane is one tough Broad (being Born in Brooklyn,NY Like I was Means thats about the biggest compliment one can give or get)

We all stood out in about 98 degree heat for 4 hrs to bring you this story and make sure Sen. Lieberman didn’t have a comfortable Sunday.I’m sure they’ll be some great video to come out of our little adventure of the day but seeing little dick Blumenthol run away lest he be caught on camera with Leper Lieberman made my day.

Hats off to you Jane,you sure know how to keep life interesting.

Hartford_for_lamont 94 — Great diary. Needs some recommends.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/7/16/183938/808

Eli at 111:

Or is it like Helen Thomas chasing Steven Colbert???

Hollywood Squares: I’ll take 10,000 marbles to block.

Or is it like Helen Thomas chasing Steven Colbert???

Oh, that works.

RevDeb – thanks! I was in Bridgeport going door to door. -I thought you might have been there too.

There were a bunch of Lamont volunteers who drove in from out of state or took a train (like me). I was paired with a Lamont team member armed with a list of registered Democrats and we knocked on a lot of doors. The vast majority were Lamont-leaners, with the second category being undecideds. The only person who seemed negative toward Lamont was a woman who seemed to be annoyed at all the automated calls she had been getting from the Lamont campaign. Nobody voiced any pro-Lieberman sentiment. Saw a number of Lamont yard signs, no Joe signs. Lamont signs were outnumbered by signs for other local candidates that I hadn’t heard of before.

Overall, it was a phenomenal experience and I highly recommend it to anyone else who can get to CT for a day or a few hours over the next several crucial weeks.

You will be SO glad that you did.

It is not very often that one gets to take part in a significant positive turning point in American history.

ctkeith — I was just tagging along. Thanks to you and DeanFan84 for letting me ride your coattails.

Joke Line was there, too. He has to crane his neck to look Whinerman in the face.

And then we ate chips and salsa.

“LieberYouth” – what a wonderfully evocative turn of phrase. Did you think that one up, Jane?

one more thing,

Heard a Rumor Ken Mehlman (Gay RNC chairman) has a brother living in Greenwich,CT who may be interested in getting into this race as the Repuke once “Double Down Schlesinger” is out.

Pondite – he did nail it in 2004, didn’t he?

People of Connecticut, rise up– you have nothing to lose but your sanctimonious fraud.

A new egregious blog entry where I pronouce spazeboy a total genius deserving of a future online Pulitzer.

“Judge Bork, who is now a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute”

Bork also collects Wingnut welfare from the Hudson Institute , with Scooter Irving.

ccmask, per everyone else, love the “War on Error.”

People of Connecticut, rise up– you have nothing to lose but your sanctimonious fraud.

How about “You have nothing to lose but your shame”?

I put up a picture of CTKeith driving the Kiss float past the barbecue in the post.

Note the poor attendance; we were probably 5% of the crowd.

Jane, are you saying that little huddle in the front yard was a Lieberman rally? Oh my God, tears on my pillow for Joe.

Jane @ 127

Just watching the footage right now and Dick Blumenthal says “What we have here today really is just a few people to speak for literally tens, hundreds of thousands of others–working men and women”

That says something about the turnout…

two questions about the Rally: what was the temperature? 98ºF ? Was there free beer or not?

Was there free beer or not?

Joe Leibeerman?

“We undermine our incompetent, war-mongering, feeble minded, petty, vindictive, cavalier, callous, greedy, and very chimplike president at our own peril.”

-Joe Lieberman

‘Lovebirds…Warms your heart, huh folks? We’ll be back in two and two.’

;>)

egreg–”Sharkbabe, And why would crying be a bad thing?”

This permission to grieve comes partly from my colorist, who was one of eleven children who with their widowed mother WALKED from Kabul for ONE WEEK to Pakistan. She gave me permission to cry about my daugher who is moving (the married one), and I pass this gift along to you, and to all others in need of a good cry/good grief.

op99 — no that’s what everyone calls them, LieberYouth. I don’t know where it came from, but it’s a good one, especially once you see them.

They’re not allowed to speak to you now, especially if there’s a camera on.

Lamont’s making you do the same thing, right, Keith? (now where did I put that loyalty pledge….)

op99 — no that’s what everyone calls them, LieberYouth. I don’t know where it came from, but it’s a good one, especially once you see them.

They’re not allowed to speak to you now, especially if there’s a camera on.

“How I Spent My Summer Vacation…”

“Then they came up and told CTBlogger it was illegal for him to put videos of the people holding Lieberman signs on the internet without a release, because they weren’t public figures.”
Jane, imho, this is absolutely huge. This is a siege and the pressure works over time. You and other Ned supporters are trying to unmask paid Whinermans. Please keep it up. Not only is there a huge bonus if you do, it keeps the pressure up on Whinermann’s paid staff to spend more time to continue to “educate” them to pretend that they are “volunteers.”
Big props to ctkeith, DeanFan84 and everyone else helping Jane.
Jane, I am very concerned about your physical well being and that is my problem. Some Vichy labor guy is yelling at you. Whinerman’s paid thugs are throwing you off the lawn for trying to interview people. I hope Ned gives you some big brawny body guards. Your health is absolutely critical to his run.

jane, ctkeith, spazeboy, ctblogger, etc:

so glad to hear that the union turnout for joe today was so miserable!

great work everybody!

now, GET READY FOR BOXER!

The Kiss: You know, if Joe had said: “It shocked the heck out of me, too – But what could I do? We were on TV in front of the whole world? I had to respond in a socially graceful way….”

But Nooooooooooooooooooo. We get:”I don’t think he kissed me, he leaned over and gave me a hug and said “thank you for being a patriotic American,”

Now, think Joe. This WAS taped and we can all go back and replay. Are you really this stupid or do you just think the public is?

…and I guess that really was a rhetorical question, because you have made it clear that you think you know better than your constituents what’s best.

I wish I could be a voter in Connecticut on August 8th

“Then they came up and told CTBlogger it was illegal for him to put videos of the people holding Lieberman signs on the internet without a release, because they weren’t public figures.”

Who were the THEY who claimed that?

John Casper: Jane doesnt like talking about history but given her previous incarnation on the West Coast, I’m sure she is not unacquainted with violence …

John Casper: Jane doesnt like talking about history but given her previous incarnation on the West Coast, I’m sure she is not unacquainted with violence …

She did say something about being able to take a punch.

Interesting that Parsons is responsible for construction of both the Big Dig/collapse/death and the pathetic $24,000,000 shoddy clinics in Iraq. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.

(And I think John is forgetting that Jane has three bodyguards already…)

John Casper 137 — I have spent my entire adult life being yelled at by bullying labor guys. And yelling back. Like Spazeboy said, I didn’t even notice when that tiny little crater-face guy what’s-his-name from the AFL/CIO grabbed the mike and started hollering about me. I had no idea until Spazeboy mentioned it here on the blog, I wasn’t even paying attention.

But I appreciate the concern ;)

“Then they came up and told CTBlogger it was illegal for him to put videos of the people holding Lieberman signs on the internet without a release, because they weren’t public figures.”

If the LieberWhiners have a problem with such video, let them sue the bloggers and see what kind of publicity that gets!

Sbabe at 38 egregious, what wonderful comfort thoughts/lovely words, thank you so very much now back to destroying Cheney junta :)

In earlier wars, the nurses/medtechs concentrated on physical wounds. I like to think we specialists in psychic wounds will be of service in the current war on the phony war on terror.

Well Jane, Glad to see you’re not bored in sleepy little CT. Hah!

EPU 140 — Lieberman staff members.

I am impressed that Jane, Spazeboy, et al were able to get advance word of this event. It was my understanding that Joe had gone to complete undercover mode, only swooping into events at the last second and with no advance notice. After all, god forbid he would have to answer a tough question from an undecided voter.

Something tells me Joe may even be looking forward to running as an independent, so he can go to Greenwich and hobnob with Republicans in exclusive settings on their vast estates. Too bad for Joe, this is an illusion – once he loses the primary, the repblicans will reward his loyalty to them by kicking him to the curb as a convenient spoiler who could help the named Republican candidate win a three way election. So sad for Joe, couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy…

*ilson 66

The thing that creeps me out about that kiss footage, isn’t as much the peck itself, but more the way Junior’s hand cradles Joe’s neck.

That’s erotic, not just social.

Bleh.

Oil surges on fears of Middle East conflict.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/1…..ney_latest

-GSD

*Several Lebanese troops killed by Israeli bombings.

*Chimpy, true to his lackadaisical nature has finally sent an “evacuation” team to Lebanon. It is probably headed up by Michael Brown who will then go on to be the Bush Middle East envoy once he fucks up the evacuation.

*Israel hasn’t ruled out a ground invasion of Lebanon.

*Syria vows to retaliate if attacked.

The thing that creeps me out about that kiss footage, isn’t as much the peck itself, but more the way Junior’s hand cradles Joe’s neck.

That’s erotic, not just social.

Yet another data point in my Joe-Lieberman’s-incredible-sexual-magnetism theory.

Urban Pirate 148 — bored? HAH!!! We had a ball. I’ve got people coming in and crashing all week, we’re having SO much fun. The absolute best place to be. The energy here is very positive, ebullient and theraputic. No matter what happens, we know we’re doing the right thing, and that is bringing out the best in everyone.

Jane at 90 said
Part of the problem is Joe is not announcing his public appearances while Ned most certainly is.
Does that mean a little birdy told y’all where to show up today?

Lieberman is known as “The Tea-bag Kid” to alot of Republicans.

-GSD

So – are they going to tell the media – no pics of pro-Leiberman rallyers unless you have releases. LOL

OT – The July 10&17 issue of The New Yorker (the issue after the Mayer/Addington piece) has an article I found pretty interesting. There is also a piece by Hersh that has some of his prior info on the Pentagon and Iran, with some new bits. The piece I liked had a hyped heading, “How 9/11 was almost stopped – Did the C.I.A. prevent an F.B.I agent from uncovering the plot?” but it is a piece worth reading by Lawrence Wright. Taken with Suskind’s book – which I have been reading in pieces on and off, there is a very somber feel – a lot of people working desparately, a lot of pettiness, black holes of information, miscommunication of goals and threats, procedural hurdles like the Wall, and how much is still not addressed. It’s painful in a lot of places and its sad that the FBI agent, Ali Soufan, is no longer with the FBI. But it is also a fascinating look at another piece of the story.

i think we need a contest, did he or didnt he.. when do you kiss, when do you hug, do you kiss only those you love..
watch it over and over, and have all the residents of conneticut watch it over and over and decide, did he kiss, did he hug, did he whisper sweetnothing. every responsible citizen of conneticut has to watch and make up there own mind. Lamont and Lieberman should meet and screen the :moment: and decide kiss or not,,, this is a story that must be kept going… ]
great work jane

i think we need a contest, did he or didnt he.. when do you kiss, when do you hug, do you kiss only those you love..

Tongue or no tongue…

Does that mean a little birdy told y’all where to show up today?

Is there a LieberMole?

GSD at 156 – hey, this is a family site!

Jane said,

“EPU 140 — Lieberman staff members.”

Judging from the pictures jane put up for CTblogger @ #100, I’d say “limp Lieberman staff members..’

op99 — CTKeith is a union member. Union membership is not nearly so thrilled with Holy Joe as the leadership is. Kind of like women and NARAL. Their whole “what’s a little CAFTA between friends” probably is not something so easily dismissed by the rank-and-file.

See Spazeboy YouTube here.

surely there are folk around who can do lip-reading and examine the video of “The Kiss” ? This aint rocket science or uranium separation…

op99.

Tell that to “Get a Room Joe” and his chimpish lover.

-GSD

Eli @ 103 is a troll.

I followed that link and completely forgot about Ned and the fight against Joe. How long have I been gone?

Fiendish plot, Eli!

ET 162 — as opposed to the proud Lamont supporters seen here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/3…..191296441/

Incumbency is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

I followed that link and completely forgot about Ned and the fight against Joe. How long have I been gone?

Diabolical, isn’t it? It’s one of my favorite sites ever.

Incumbency is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Please do not mention aphrodisiacs and Senator Lieberman in the same breath.

Joe’s fantasy about W thanking him for being a patriot after giving him a big squeeze is about the lamest pinhead dorkass thing I’ve ever heard.

Click link to see Joe Lieberman’s idea of peace, democracy and progress in action.

Rueter’s Iraq round-up.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenew…..664833.htm

robert greenwald:

The question is not “did he or didn’t he” kiss, but “did he or didn’t he” swallow later?

Jane 90

Thanks so much for your on-the-scene reports.

Do you think there were 20 Union people there? 40? 100?

And tell us more about Joe Klein. Do you think he smelled the desperation?

Please do not mention aphrodisiacs and Senator Lieberman in the same breath.

Deny the existence of Jewish Fly if you wish, but its potency is undeniable.

Union membership is not nearly so thrilled with Holy Joe as the leadership is. Kind of like women and NARAL.

Did the teachers’ unions endorse Joe?

Nite pups, thanks for a fun day.

Does somebody have a picture somewhere of Joe asking Monica for advice on whether to spit or swallow?

Deny the existence of Jewish Fly if you wish, but its potency is undeniable.

I do not. It is the cavernous jowls that I find alarming. Makes a basset look as smooth as a bowling ball.

Does somebody have a picture somewhere of Joe asking Monica for advice on whether to spit or swallow?

*tries really really hard not to picture Joe in a blue dress*

*hopes darkblack isn’t around*

I do not. It is the cavernous jowls that I find alarming. Makes a basset look as smooth as a bowling ball.

Auxiliary love handles.

Just stopping by. A couple quick questions. Any plans to blog a discussion piece on the start of World War 3 in Gaza/Israel/Lebanon? Or will you still be here after the nukes go off, discussing LIEberman and waiting for Merry Fitzmas?

I offer my humble suggestion for peace in the Middle East: let’s trade Robert Novak for Israel’s three captured soldiers.

[ Moderator: if you hadn’t just blithely flitted in from the Internet Toobz, you would know there has been a lively debate going on for days here. Now fly off to some rightwing site and get them to discuss the matter intelligently! ]

Eli – as a frequent shiksappeal offender, I say that Jewish fly does exist – and my sister says she has the same feelings about Jewish ladies, so it is not confined to the heteros. I just have trouble getting riled up for Lieberman, despite the direct translation of his name. It’s that voice. *shudder*

Joe Klein smelled of mothballs, menthols and meatballs.

-GSD

Eli – as a frequent shiksappeal offender, I say that Jewish fly does exist

Alas, I think I got the Jewish half without it.

RevDeb @ 33

Got as far as your comment and wanted to say something about your #3…asking people to declare who they will vote for in the form of question, if that’s how you phrased it.

Here’s what I’ve come up with after trying different things while phonebanking over the years, to find out if I have a person on the phone who supports my candidate…

Since many people, supporters or not, feel that getting asked who they will vote for is an invasive question, I’ve found that the inquiry gets an easier response if it’s not a question but a statement such as “I hope that we can count on your support for Ned Lamont on August 8th!”. Then all they have to do is answer “yes” or “no”. A “yes” response is great but a “no” response allows you to ask “may I ask why?”, or it allows you to ask them if they’d like to get more information about Ned from his campaign. Any method to start a real dialogue with a potential voter for Ned is always good.

Well, answered my own question: CT’s teachers unions back Lamont.

“The state’s two major teachers’ unions threw their endorsement to the Greenwich-based challenger in a press event outside a Hartford middle school.”

Auxiliary love handles.

Eschaton getting nutty lately, or is it just me?

Eschaton getting nutty lately, or is it just me?

Umm, at this point, I kinda wouldn’t know. Feel free to shoot me an e-mail, tho.

Just as a little case study in contrast, Obrador drew about 300,000 to a support rally in Mexico City:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/mex…..lbA–

Eli —

Have you abandoned Eschaton?

How is Atrios going to keep up those 1,600 comment open threads going?

Deborah

that would probably be better than the script we were given and trying to follow. We also didn’t have a good answer on the labor issue, probably because we ourselves weren’t up on all of Ned’s talking points.

Sadly, most of the calls were dead ends—either no one home (or people seeing who we were on the caller ID) or bad numbers. The door to door was worse. Many with no one home. Just as many who no longer lived at that address. WIth the poor results we were getting doorbelling we thought that it wasn’t worth it in the heat and came back in to the phones. But that one family with the son in Afghanistan made the whole day it worth it.

Thers @ 187

Spazeboy was there!

Have you abandoned Eschaton?

How is Atrios going to keep up those 1,600 comment open threads going?

I don’t know yet; I’m sure they’ll be fine without me.

Can we please not do the disparaging-other-liberal-blogs thing, though? I still have friends there.

. . . and your little dog, too — CTKeith said he counted about 40 union members there.

I dont see liberal blogs as being competitive but complementary — there are niches enough for everybody!

I love Atrios. He’s always been nutty, in a good way.

but Jane: nobody has answered a very serious question: was there free beer there or not? That definitely affects turnout as well as the personal magnetism of the candidates…

“Any plans to blog a discussion piece on the start of World War 3 in Gaza/Israel/Lebanon?”
IMVHO, what is needed is a dedicated blogger with enough ME expertise to interpret the news reports. Plame is imo the model and what drives traffic is the ability to “translate” and surpass the coverage in the WaPo and the NYT’s.
Not sure if it’s possible to find bloggers who can actually do that, until after November elections at the earliest if at all, but I like the idea.

Thers 187 — you beat me to it.

Sorry I missed the NY picnic yesterday. BTW, liked your Althouse catch.

atrios is an icon we can all respect, but unless something vital and nice happens there, it has past its peak – as opposed to this place, for instance.

I love Atrios. He’s always been nutty, in a good way.

Ditto. I still read the front page religiously.

Jane 195

Thanks. 40 doesn’t seem like a lot for several unions, does it?

Was Joe Klein impressed?

Eli –

Didn’t mean to disparge — and I think Atrios is great, btw; I visit at least several times a day. But I’m always astounded by the 400 and 700 comment open threads. I think it’s great that so many folks love the site, but reading the comments is too daunting for me.

Spazeboy was there!

Cool. Glad to see my union doing the right thing…

John Casper : for a decent MidEast oriented blog, Dr. Juan Cole at Informed Comment is great — it’s always a morning-must-read! http://www.juancole.com/

Was Joe Klein impressed?

He caught his reflection in somebody’s sunglasses and had tears in his eyes.

I think it’s great that so many folks love the site, but reading the comments is too daunting for me.

I got so used to it that it’s hard for me to adjust to the slower pace here (although it is nice to be able to eat or take a phone call and not fall hopelessly behind), which is why I probably overcomment.

Thanks *ilson.

Here’s another way to look at the turnout.

It’s not just that an embarrassingly small number of Union members showed up, it’s that on one of only, what, 3 Sundays left before the primary, HoJo wasted the afternoon on only 40 people.

Let’s hope Ned was being mobbed at a parade or carnival while Joe’s barbeque was wilting in the heat.

. . . and your little dog, too — Klein was totally impressed. With himself. And, of course, with Lieberman. He was teabagging for him all day.

And I love Atrios.

Sorry I missed the NY picnic yesterday. BTW, liked your Althouse catch.

Hee hee. There is a picture of my daughter being cranky there here.

I live Althouse! She accused me of having “minions”! That is so awesome. Minions!

Guess I better start thinking about late nite, huh?

I live Althouse! She accused me of having “minions”! That is so awesome. Minions!

Only insolent people have minions.

Jane 211

Ick. Klein has to have noticed the lack of a crowd.

Jane – Check your email.

Does anybody have a report on what Ned was doing today?

Are we just kidding around or was Joe Klein really there?

muchas smooches

Joe Klein was really there.

Since Friday and forevermore, I’ll always say his name in my head as “JOE FUCKING KLEIN”

They say you learn something new every day. Tea bagging, huh? I had to wiki it. Damn.

po-TAY-toh
po-TAH-toh

co-LAY-boh
co-LAH-boh*

Joe – let’s call the whole thing off

(short for collaborateur)

Sorry I missed the NY picnic yesterday.

I suspect you’re avoiding me.

Its not just for breakfast anymore?

Spazeboy and I were sitting together in church when Joke walked out on Friday night. Yeah he is hovering.

NTodd 233 — busted ;)

Only insolent people have minions.

*Happy sigh*

Jane, I could have done without that teabagging picture.

Jane: I thought of you today. I went to a party in Stuart and the hostess served COCKTAIL WEENIES! They were great! She used one pack of weenies and one internet, I mean, one tube of crescent dough.
Pic:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9…..191379130/

Jane 226 – Must. Resist. Sobbing.

hmmm…brings new meaning to the Da Vinci Code character

ccmask – may I recommend the wonderful John Waters’ film Pecker for a detailed appreciation of teabagging … along with just a purely joyous film experience … really!

I’m more of a coffee person actually :))

This blog is all about Lieberman hating, so I’m never coming back. I’ll be at Eschaton flirting with trolls. See ya!

Have a nice sTROLL!

Whoever thought of the “Kiss float,” was a genius.

For the record, I’ve been commenting at Eschaton for years and I don’t plan to stop. The comments there go through cycles; this latest cycle is troll-heavy and irksome. It’ll sort itself out.

When Eschaton comments are going well, they have a fantastic, creative, anarchic vibe that exists nowhere else online. When they’re not… well, it’s not so great, necessarily. It’s like back in the day not knowing what you’d get when you went to see the Replacements.

Spaze, you have mail.

I can’t believe Joe Klein was there. Man, I miss all the fun.

Jane, did you get “face-to-face”? Did he know who you were?

God that’s funny.

Talk-Sick Joe

I shudder to think, though, of the Lieberman Agonistes column Joke Line is going to come up with. It will be great comic reading on the first one, but then we’ll be subjected to two weeks of the Tweetys in their various incarnations reading their favorite passages back to Klein while he nods sagely and sadly over the decline of “the Left”.

We’ve really got to win this one.

Jim 240 — I think you’re sitting there with quite the crystal ball.

A-yup.

I have it on good authority, ya gotta have authority in today’s post 9/11 world, that ‘Rape Gurney’ Joe got him some Presidential Tongue when this was taken.

Ol’ Joe is a rabid skunk already so he din’t need any shots.

I vote that we rename this nightly thread “Your Cup of Joe” since it focuses more on Lieberman than Ned. My two cents.

It’s probably a good thing, although extremely depressing, to remember that Ned is an extreme underdog.

This looks like good news:

Oglala Sioux Women’s Clinic Update. (Daily Kos link)

You know, politicians are so used to lying that he made up a whopper right off the bat instead of thinking about it and saying what a nerd I am I was set up to give the appearance that Bush’s favorite Democrat agrees with going to war. And, because of that kiss, he backed him all the way. That kiss was hotter than a mother-in-laws kiss, fer sure!

Urban Pirate: Are you in CT? what’s the deal with the sudden poll black out?

and your absolutely right about calibrating our expectations.

I’m not Jim, across the pond in LI.

Apparently the only people polling this is Quinnipiac, and they’re only doing it MONTHLY.

New poll was undertaken this weekendm results are expected by Thurs.

By Robert Novak
Jul 17, 2006
snip
Lieberman’s exasperation peaked when Lamont called the 6,241 earmarks in last year’s transportation program “wrong” and suggested the senator was “part of the problem.” While praising “good” earmarks for Connecticut, Lieberman added: “Of course, we were all against the bridge to nowhere.” In fact, Lieberman last Oct. 20 voted against Republican Sen. Tom Coburn’s amendment to defund the infamous Alaska bridge.

On that same day, Lieberman also voted to oppose Coburn’s proposals to defund a parking garage in Nebraska, a sculpture park in the state of Washington and an animal shelter in Rhode Island. Citizens Against Government Waste, which named Lieberman as “Porker of the Month” in August 2004, puts him in their “unfriendly” category with a 21 percent lifetime rating. The conservative Club for Growth’s evaluation of 2005 votes rated him 3 percent. The American Conservative Union gave Lieberman a zero for 2004, raising him to 8 percent in 2005.

Read it all here:
http://www.nationalledger.com/…..7090.shtml

Lip service to Lieberman is his liability
The Democratic senator is finding his re-election bid in danger, partly because of that smooch from the president.
By ADAM C. SMITH, Times Political Editor
Published July 16, 2006

STAMFORD, Conn. — Striding onto the U.S. House floor for his 2005 State of the Union speech, George W. Bush halted, reached his left hand behind Sen. Joe Lieberman’s head, and plunged his kisser to the Connecticut Democrat’s cheek before an international TV audience.

Of all the senators in all the blue states, W puckers up for Joe Lieberman.

Now the onetime Democratic hero of South Florida’s condo complexes, the guy who came just a few hanging Florida chad shy of the vice presidency, is fighting for his political life. The Kiss looms large.

Among the growing number of Nutmeg State Democrats eager to oust the three-term incumbent, activists sport buttons picturing the Bush smooch. Ardent and angry liberal bloggers run video clips of The Kiss online to help pump money to Lieberman’s Democratic opponent, Ned Lamont. A July Fourth parade float in Willimantic featured giant papier-mache versions of Lieberman and Bush preparing to mash faces, while the real Lieberman drew boos at the parade.
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/07…..eber.shtml

Monthly polling? That makes this upcoming release the LAST one?

If so, I’m saying it’ll show something like 48/48/4.
——
About LieberYouth…I saw coverage of the state convention (which I predicted would give Ned 22% ) and the embarrassing noise machine (I’d say ‘Mighty Wurlitzer” but it was broke) for Joe. It was pathetic. You could just tell the folks w/the ‘boom-boom sticks’ were embarressed; as were others on site. And me, sitting at home, watching. It was pathetic. Looked like REAL ‘last throes’.

While I believe that any governmental intrusion into an individual’s personal medical decisions is a fundamental violation of that person’s civil rights, I can at least respect senators and members of Congress who disagree. It is possible for me to vote for somebody who disagees on that one issue. In fact, often there is no choice in the matter, as my position is fairly absolute.

What I cannot understand, however, is why an organization like Planned Parenthood or NARAL endorses someone like Lieberman, who said this on the Senate floor in 1999:

I remember I first dealt with these issues when I was a State senator in Connecticut in the 1970s, after the Roe v. Wade decision was first passed down by the Supreme Court, and the swelter of conflicting questions: What is the appropriate place for my convictions about abortion, my personal conviction that potential life begins at conception and, therefore, my personal conviction that all abortions are unacceptable? How do I relate that to my role as a lawmaker, to the limits of the law, to the right of privacy that the Supreme Court found in Roe v. Wade?

Lieberman has voted in line with Roe as a matter of constitutionality, but not as a matter of respect for a woman’s right to control her own body. And the way to satisfy both his own convictions and his respect for the rule of constitutional law is to allow justices like Alito end up on the Supreme Court and overturn Roe.

As I stated, I will not villify Lieberman for believing what he believes about abortion, despite the fact that my conviction is that the government should stay out of our personal decisions. I will, however, denounce his Gang of 14 and the role he has played in tilting the court to the far right for decades.

And I will join the chorus of bloggers and commenters who think Planned Parenthood and NARAL are dropping the ball when it matters the most.

SPEW ALERT:

Hollywood, CA (O! Online) – Lieberman campaign officials this weekend confirmed that talks were underway with LucasFilms inc. to have the Connecticut senator make a transition to the big screen should he fail in his August primary election bid and his subsequent independent quest to retain his US senate seat. Lieberman would have a starring role in George Lucas’ latest addition to the Star Wars family of films, a prequel remake to his two previous successful trilogies which is entitled: “Revenge of the Menacing Phantom Left-Wing Blogs”.
Side Note: Great pic at the bottom of the article, Jane…
http://www.unconfirmedsources.com/?itemid=1813

BK, I hope you’re right. I read an interesting article about how hard it is to subset “likely” voters, so any data is iffy.

Even among all dems (which I think is possible), would be HUGE!

Dover: Last October, officials in a county prison in Banghor Maine, received a court order to force feed a suicidal burglar on a hunger strike, the doctors at Eastern Maine Medical Center refused to perform the procedure. Jill MacDonald, a spokesman for the hospital, told the Banghor Daily News that they could not operate without a patients consent. She said, “We are not parties to court orders. We are under a different set of obligations”

I just read this story in my Harpers in the Notebook, in a story called GOD MODE, by Luke Mitchell. It will probably be online next month.

I didn’t read the whole article because I was in the car and I felt sick. It has to do with the hunger strike at Abu Graib.

Good nite all….work in the early AM

ccmask, I look forward to it. Harpers is an impressive publication.

OT…
” Fury as Karzai plans return of Taliban’s religious police”
http://news.independent.co.uk/…..181612.ece

I wouldn’t make such a big deal about the American Indian angle. I live in a county where a significant minority is American Indian. I know a lot of Indians. Unfortunately, virtually all of them speak and read English much better than they know their own language. Seriously, it would be infinitely harder for any of my Indian friends to read a ballot if it was printed in Yurok, Karuk or Hupa, and my friends are cultural indians.

New thread…

Kaleidoscope – my dad has, or had, old Navajo friends who speak no English at all. I’m not sure if they’re a significant part of the population, but I think they’re still out there.

Kaleidoscope — go onto a Hopi reservation, or any of the more remote pueblo reservations. In my experience most of the old people speak very little English, if any.

All this talk of coffee and HoJoe got me thinking……

http://static.flickr.com/55/19…..f5d8_o.jpg

And yes, Corel is a dangerous program.

And have we ever heard a peep of regret from this oh-so- pious and -moral jerk about our responsibility for 40-100k Iraqi deaths?

Well, let’s see.

LIEberman has had James Dobson, “Rapture Rick” Santorum, Ann Coulter, and Bill O’Reilly go to bat for him n the last month.

With friends like his, it’s no wonder Lamont is looking better every day.

What Dubbya actually said was “Thank you for wearing a condom.”

Sing Along with Joe!

Somebody needs to do an ad like that which helps union workers to think for themselves rather than with their decrepit leadership that has helped drive down union membership in this country past the point of no return.

CT labor rank and file doesn’t stand with Joe.

IAM(International Association of Machinists) and the CT Nurses Union have split with the National office of the AFLCIO to endorse Ned. When Lieberman expressed his disappointment that he would not recieve the IAM endorsement, a union member was overheard to say: “…we’ve been disappointed by you for the last ten years, welcome to the club…”

The National office of the AFLCIO is rumored to have decided that they will support the winner of the Democratic primary.

The CT IAM have hated Joe since they travelled all the way to his offices in DC, to lobby him on an issue, and he refused to even see them. He let them cool their heels in his waiting room for hours before sending a flunky down to say that he’d already made up his mind on the issue. Arrogant ass!

“Some places are writing ballots in three dialects of Chinese,” Johnson said. “We’ve got to look at this. We can’t force these mandates on local governments. They need that money for schools and other things.”
This statement of Johnson makes me very, very angry. Oh yes. . . God Forbid: Chinese! We should make up some difficult tax forms in bad Chinese and then deny people the right to vote. Good one Nancy. Maybe Nancy is thinking of one of those “reading tests” a la Jim Crow Days.

I love the kiss float, but if you’re not a political junkie (show of hands?), you might not know what it’s about. the likenesses are very good, but papier-mache is a crude medium. non-nedheads might not know that it’s holy joe and dear leader, or might not know that “the kiss” was a real event. am i alone on this?