Fitz!

come on, zero!

This should be put in some ad by MoveOn and shown all across the bible belt. These guys should know how Rethugs have been using them in name of God.

Yo, punaise.

OT:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush on Wednesday intends to make good on his threat to veto the embryonic stem cell research bill passed by the Senate on Tuesday, an administration official told CNN.

The veto will be his first in his five-plus years in office and is likely to come before a scheduled 2:15 p.m. event in which the president is expected to announce his decision, the official said.

White House spokesman Tony Snow said Bush considers himself “honor-bound” to block the bill.

Amen, ajay. Better the wackos stay home and await the rapture.

No signing statement? He musta had a scuffle with his pen…

Bush considers himself “honor-bound” to block the bill.

Tony Snow also announced that Bus also feels that he must carry through on several honor killings targetting presumtuous suitors of German Chancellor Merkle.

That quote should be on billboards and flyers and posters, in case any of the “wackos” missed it the first time around.

I like the idea of running ads endlessly.
Every election year.
Everyone save the quotes to use next time.
We need Ralphie to be gone from the political scene forever.

Props to punaise on the rap!

As for the Radical Bush Republican crowd…and the defeat of Reed: hoo-rah!

Every day, small stones! Christy’s action call in the last posting spurs us on.

And yesterday I emailed friends in Minnesota and asked them to contact Coleman’s office re his stem cell vote [they came thru!]. These vote traders not up for election this year need to know that our memories will be long.

Christy, is your “Had Enough?” for us or for the Rapture crowd?

I just posed this one to Froomkin, but I’ll ask y’all too: between the fundies or the corporatists, whom do you expect to be the GOP’s last leaf?

If a telephone tree falls down, and there are no wingnut lobbyists around to pay churches for new lists of phone numbers…did it make a sound like FITZMAS?

Atrios will be on the radio on On The Point momentarily. Should be interesting…the topic is about College Republicans and “angry left-wing bloggers.” (Hello?!? Go Duncan!)

http://atrios.blogspot.com/200…..6199312812

CNN’s playing up the FUBAR “evacuation” like crazy — “Club Katrina Med,” I think we can call it.

CHECK OUT THE QUOTE:

Washington, DC (APE) – President Bush early this morning followed through with his threatened veto of the controversial stem cell bill approved by Congress yesterday and immediately followed it with a signing statement. The current signing statement adds to a total of some 500 to 600 issued by the president throughout his tenure, preserving, according to White House sources, his perfect record.

At a hastily prepared press conference, President Bush angrily waved a glossy photo of a digitally enhanced actual stem cell. “This could have been my son, or your son…” ranted Bush, “or my mother, or your father, or a new heart or a kidney for your grandfather Prescott… well heck… I guess it could have been just about anything. But that’s beside the point. This is just wrong. We can’t be playing God like that doctor and those nurses in New Orleans.”

http://www.politicalcortex.com…..84733/8935

We need Ralphie to be gone from the political scene forever.

When Ralph Reed can’t win a primary for Lt. Gov. in Georgia, of all places, then I think it’s time to stick a fork in him. He’s done.

Still waiting for the video performance on YouTube of punaise’s rap hehe.

Great picture of Bush and his stem cell buddy at the link above Christy.

Bush and HONOR…..BWAAAHAHAHAHHAA
Snow job is way beyond his limited talents. Just goes to show ya, without Fox they are nuttin but BOZOS

“Stay in the fight,” Reed told his supporters. “Don’t retreat. And our values will win in November.”

Is Reed old enough to go fight in Iraq?

ccmask — he is insane.

New heart?
W?
T?
F?

Oh, I can tell you why the oceans near the shore….

“This could have been my son, or your son …” ranted Bush, “or my mother, or your father, or a new heart or a kidney for your grandfather Prescott … well heck … I guess it could have been just about anything. But that’s beside the point. This is just wrong. We can’t be playing God like that doctor and those nurses in New Orleans.”

He’s ga-ga, stark raving bonkers, barking mad. Isn’t he. The whitecoats I thought were headed for Katherine Harris are gonna have to detour to 1600 Pennsylvania.

I still think someone should ask Tony Snow:

If there was a three year old child and some stem cells in a building that caught on fire, which should the fireman save?

I didn’t know Prescott was my grandfather?

Itals — off!

uh-oh

Thanks, *ilson.

I just posed this one to Froomkin, but I’ll ask y’all too: between the fundies or the corporatists, whom do you expect to be the GOP’s last leaf?

The corporatists. I believe a good deal of the social conservative ridiculousness pushed by the GOP is a smoke screen to take people’s attention off where the real damage is being done. While a gay marriage ban hurts homosexuals, and cheapens our country as a whole, consumer targeted bankruptcy reform and tax cuts for the wealthy do serious lasting harm to our nation. The GOP continues to cut taxes for its wealthy friends, while borrowing, on our credit, money from China to give tax breaks to…its wealthy friends. That’s why the corporatists will stick with the Republicans.

I wouldn’t be shocked to see someone like Reed attempt to start a third party; or join one, like the Constitution Party, for example. I could very easily see the fundies jump ship to a new Christian theocratic party.

I thought this line was the best though:

We can’t be playing God like that doctor and those nurses in New Orleans.”

Why did those nurses decide to play god again? They would have strapped them to chairs and force fed them like those officials at Guantanimo did but they had no food. And where was Bush during this? Oh, yeah, playing a guitar.

Jesus Christ on a cracker! Is that quote real? (My corporate I/T overlords say “Political Cortex is verboten!”.)

OT – New Yuck Times finally admits Anne Kornblut can’t read or hear. Serious disabilities in a reporter, wouldn’t you think?

Have I been had with the Vortez? If so, I still approve the message :))

Whatever you do, do NOT solely attribute this m.o. to the Reed campaign!!

Thom Hartmann has an audio clip he’s played on his radio thing, whose transcript I have, sadly, been unable to find anywhere. It’s from Richard Viguerie, who has been called the guru of right-wing direct mail.

Some time ago, he gave a speech which I’ll paraphrase. Viguerie says that he’s sick and tired of what he calls “goo-goos”. A “goo-goo” is a naive political animal, who professes to believe in “GOOd GOvernment” (clever, huh?).

A “goo-goo”, it seems, wants the political process to thrive, and for as many citizens as possible to get out and vote. Viguerie mocks this.

He says hey, I don’t want “everyone” to get out and vote! I want them to stay home, and leave the voting to the aforemntioned one-issue “wackos”. Then we win!

I can think of few quotes that have made me sicker. These people’s philosophies have become acceptable in modern society. This assclown swaggers onstage and actually that he wants to suppress the lifeblood of the representative democratic American system, for personal gain and dominance. And no one arrrests this bastard and throws him in front of a firing squad??? It’s a travesty, I tell ya.

Please remember this heartwarming story, the next time you read someone claim that to suggest that these same people would ever actually steal the vote or jimmy a Diebold tally, is somehopw beyond reason.

NOTHING is beyond reason with these traitors. The Constitution has always been a thorn in their side, and they have never been closer to turning it into toilet paper, than they are now.

The fact that it’s so hard to tell whether a Bush quote is legit or not speaks volumes about the state of our Executive Office.

So much for bringing dignity back to the Oval Office…

My fave quote of the week so far from simpleton Tony Snowjob is the one regarding stem cell research:
” The Simple Answer Is He Thinks Murder’s Wrong.”

Wow, yeah, that really was pretty simple.

Let me just take an oppurtunity to give a small cheer to Josh and the Muckrakers over at Talking Points Memo. While we all contributed to this defeat, Josh and his gang really did some heavy lifting on this.

so, thanks Josh, Paul and Justin

I just wore out my online thesurus looking thru antonyms for ‘honor’.

disgrace
shame
outrage
violate
assail
unrighteousness
—-
“And I still haven’t found what I been lookin’ for”…

Whoa, cc — it’s not a real quote?

From the Writers Almanac –

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/

It’s the anniversary of the first women’s rights conference in history, organized in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. It was organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her friend Lucretia Mott. They had been getting together frequently to talk about the abuses they suffered as women, and they finally decided to have a public meeting to discuss the status of women in society. At the meeting, on this day in 1848, they drew up a declaration, which said in part, “The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.” Elizabeth Cady Stanton read the declaration and then made a radical suggestion, that the document should also demand a woman’s right to vote. At that time no women were allowed to vote anywhere on the planet. And many of the other women there objected to the idea. They thought it was impossible.

i don’t think it is real– the source in parentheses is (APE). pretty telling and clever, eh?

Jesus Christ is a Cracker? I thought he was a Nazarene . . .

ital off

Anne 9

I like the billboard idea. When you cross the border into Indiana you are immediately hit with the “abortion stops a beating heart” tirade. Would like to see this one right next to it.

But then, Clear Channel owns most of billboards now. Wonder if they get that they are considered part of the Wackos too?

When you have managed to become too corrupt and hypocritical even for Republicans in Georgia, you can claim to have truly achieved something. Good going, Ralphie.

Gee, angie, it sounds exactly like him.

i know, lotus ;(

merci meta et Prairie

Kurt 18
Still waiting for the video performance on YouTube of punaise’s rap hehe.

you certainly don’t want to hear my singing voice. any takers?

Lotus: I think the quote is real. Everything else seems real enough over there…Samarai Sam is right @36! It is amazing that either way it is probably still true.

Naw, RevDeb, they just get the wackos’ money.

I’m trying to wrap my head around that quote but I must admit, I’m a bit flummoxed. Is W saying that stem cells can result in “good” things-like sons, mothers, fathers, hearts, livers, or grandfather Prescotts? But then, in the same breath, he says, fuck it, all that doesn’t matter, because we can’t play God. And, by the way, does he mean that all murderers are playing God, or just the doctors in New Orleans?

Note to W: not a good idea to bring up New Orleans. I’m jes sayin’.

I feel like Lewis Black on TDS with my head about to explode. I hate it when crazy people act like they’re sane, making me feel like I’m crazy but I’m really not because I really did understand what they said the first time except that it’s so nutty that I can’t quite believe what I’m hearing so I start to question my sanity and AAAAUUUGGGHHH!!!!

Samurai Sam @30

I wouldn’t be shocked to see someone like Reed attempt to start a third party; or join one, like the Constitution Party, for example. I could very easily see the fundies jump ship to a new Christian theocratic party.

This is actually something I’ve been speculating about as well. Think about it. The theocrats started a deliberate infiltration and takeover campaign of the Republican party back when Goldwater lost, and it’s taken them this long to dominate their party. With this current Admin they have their fingers into the Judiciary, own the White House, and have a controlling interest in the Legislature. They STILL can’t get their agenda passed.

As pissed off as we get about the fakeness and insincerity of the neocons, the theocrats just must be outraged. And if they can’t get their agenda passed within the Republican party when it controls all three branches of the government, let’s face it, they’re never gonna get it passed. It may occur to the theocrats that they might have a better chance in a third party.

lotus, yeah, I guess so since they also lease stations to AAR. So they are all about the money.

Dood Abides, photoshop king!

[rant mode]I just heard Tony Snow (gag) state that Pres. Bush was “honor bound” to veto the bill….honor and Bush must never be allowed in the same sentence. It’s like ending a sentence with a preposition or some other grammatical rule. Of all the stupid things going on in the world right now, that one got my blood pressure to blow through the ceiling.
[/rant mode]

Ralph Reed is small potatoes. He is not the only one who hoodwinked a lot of Christians with his self-serving, self-righteous, phony piety and gross hypocrisy. The big potato, Bush, did a real job on them. A real person of faith does not do what George Bush has done for the past six years. Of course it’s not at all certain that the pseudo-Christian right will learn anything from Reed’s defeat.

A modest proposal for using html:

Use it in the middle not the very end;

Preview to make sure you closed.

Thx

Let us all hope that little ralphie continues to hang out in a highly visible way supporting and advising the corrupt repugs…….

With the stench thats already on him.. and more coming down the pike….well, who can ask for anything more?????

Larry

The quote reminds me of the end of “Faces in the Crowd” when they leave Andy Griffths mike on and he sneers at the idiots who listen to and trust him. It ruins his character Lonesome Rhodes. But, that was a movie.

Christy is right on to spur us to action. Without it, nothing (except a new lucrative TV show on Fox or MSNBC) will happen to these anti-American scumbags.

I so want the fundies to start a third party. Lieberman could join it and they could all go down in to political oblivion together. Or is this too much to hope for?

c’mon, punaise, do it! Just think of the dormitory guys. You’ll be all over the tubes. The world needs you.

It’s a spoof, all right (but a primo one). Look at the next grafs:

White House spokesperson Tony Snow stated afterwards that while technically the president had issued a veto on the bill, his signing statement questioned the veto, as is the right of the unitary executive, during particular instances of national security. He went on to praise the president for what he considered an act of compromise and courage, citing this as proof that President Bush continues to be a uniter and not a divider.
An advance copy of the 12 page veto signing statement released to the press in attendance cited the Bush administration’s continued support for the occupation of Iraq. It advised that the president could question the constitutionality of the veto, and indeed intentionally violate it on the grounds of supporting further enlistment and functioning of the Army and National Guard. The document cited the recruitment shortfalls in all branches of service as well as the diminished organ donor pool for casualties in Iraq. While it did not state at what point plans would be implemented, the signing statement went on to outline how human cloning experimentation could be accelerated with the government’s assistance if need be.

Reactions from senators were not immediately available, but Washington observers stated that the president’s action would likely be found offensive to Democrats and Republicans alike.

North Carolina Senator Elizabeth Dole, who voted against the original stem cell bill, will likely find herself at loggerheads with the president’s veto signing statement. Mrs. Dole had earlier announced the launch of her “Adopt a Snowflake Baby” campaign which she launched in North Carolina yesterday. The program recruits volunteers as de facto guardian ad litems for the almost 500,000 frozen embryos currently living in the United States.

Oooooooo, Morris, I really, really like that idea. It could be the Party of the Dispossessed.

i wish chimpy felt “honor bound” to get our troops out of Iraq

That stem cell quote by Bush isn’t real, is it? That’s a parody, right?

Please?

Word out of the HW is that they are nervous about Bush signing the correct line to veto the bill. They said his veto training has not gone well.

anon, follow the link and read the whole thing: gradually, you can’t deny that it’s a spoof.

anon it is satire– this at the bottom of the linky:

Bush Vetoes Stem Cell Bill, Issues Signing Statement Preserving … – Unconfirmed Sources (satire)

The helluvit is, angie, you can’t possibly tell that it’s satire until you get past the Chimpy stuff.

The stem cell quote is a parody. However, the just concluded Presidential-Power-Trip™ did in fact feature the shrub 1) ignoring the imminent crisis in Lebanon in favor of a pig BBQ, 2) yo-blair muffin crumb spewing sh!t, and 3) groping Germany’s Chancellor.

Just got this eamil from the Lamont campaign:

From the day we started this campaign, I vowed Senator Lieberman’s mountains of Washington interest money would not shout down the voices demanding change at home and in Iraq. And while his campaign has raised millions from those who profit from war, high gas prices and expensive prescription drugs, over 15,000 individuals have contributed to our effort, the vast majority in small dollar donations. With less than three weeks to go, I am going to make a pledge: From here on out, I promise to match, dollar for dollar, every contribution made online to our campaign through the primary. You’ve put this campaign on your back from day one, help carry us over the finish line today. …

time to dig a little deeper….

I am also waiting to see if some serious shakeup of the two party political system happens. It would be interesting to observe. I agree that the Big Bizness part of the Republican party was always strange bedfellows with the fundamentalists. And there seems to be a large, disaffected “middle” from both parties.

It would be pretty messy if we were to end up with about five major parties, wouldn’t it? The primary season would really be hell on earth.

Almost impossible to tell whether the quote is satire or not. The fact is, what we see in the Chimp is the very definition of Loose Cannon.

And the Brits agree, angie:

The new language of diplomacy: this bombing thingy is well out of order
Magnus Linklater

I rather warmed to President Bush’s gansta rap summary of the crisis in Lebanon

RORY BREMNER must feel like giving up. For years he’s done his best to parody George Bush’s strangled syntax and Tony Blair’s White House poodle act, yet here he is, on the night, completely outclassed by the guys themselves. The Bush-Blair cross-talk, picked up by a lurking microphone at the G8 summit in St Petersburg, was beyond satire. …

punaise – great Lamont news – thanks! Now where is that little FDL link – Act Blue – caffeine not yet kicked in – I’ll find it.

Sorry everyone. It seemed like something he would say. I didn’t notice the satire warning, my bad.

The pig obsession/poodle crumb/Merkel obscenity hangin’ out chillin’ behavior is a head fake so we don’t notice Bush has been pulling the strings in the Israel/Lebanon aggression. But either way, he is a contempible ass.

Raw-ther, meta! (Sorry, still in London mode.)

what a hoot! thanks lotus– but as with all things critical of bush, it is terribly and woefully true.

The whole world cringes and grinds their teeth with us, except for those that choose to remain deluded or complicit.

About 20 Sunnis Are Kidnapped in Baghdad
By KIRK SEMPLE 8:43 AM ET
Today’s kidnappings and killings followed a grim estimate by the U.N.: the death toll rose above 100 a day in June. …

New thread gang…

angie, it’s really hard to pick, but possibly my favorite passage there is:

“I think I prefer Mr Bush’s shorthand version of world affairs than listening to the Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, burying herself in obfuscation on BBC radio yesterday as she attempted to avoid criticising Israeli tactics. It was like being wrapped in blancmange.”

500,000 displaced from Lebanon acc. to the UN– in search of safety, food, water and medicine now in Syria. The Syrians will try to put them up with private citizens and in public places– gyms. This on CNN international. Desperate.

Those numbers from Iraq are stunning– 100 lives a day with no end in sight.

Hearts and minds anyone?

That was a humdinger, lotus.

Interesting that ABC’s “Good Morning America” played up the open-mike gaffe the other day, with a lot of wink, wink, nod, nod, “the President said a bad word…” sort of lead-in (never mind that they bleeped out the “shit” and played it at such low volume that you had to be a lipreader to tell what was said).

But GMA today completely ignored the groping of PM Merkel. I guess that little incident didn’t pass their standards of (in)decency.