Just sent this to Ct & National AFL-CIO
(How does HOJO feel about NNeutrality? As hopelessly repugnican as every other topic?)

“Any chance you could knock some sense into your CT branch? My Dad was a labor leader & union man, & he must be spinning in his grave. Lieberman–again!–is not only lying about Lamont, but he continues to send out his literature from non-union plants. My Dad taught me to look for union labels & union bugs. Have your people forgotten how to do that?”

Roots Project National Alert has been activated.

Please make the calls!

Thanks for the heads up Christy -

already sent same fax to all three -

clearly stating that to vote with Senator Stevens is to nakedly align themselves with Corporate interests and not their constituents - further, this is something said constituents would figure out by the first higher bill from Telcos

also included that this would hit schools and non profits hard

special shout outs to Lincoln and Nelson about alerting the churches in their area as to how they vote on this

frist ! (well, maybe thrid )

off to make calls

Since Ned is in the telecommunications industry, we need to get him on record on this as another way to shame Lieberman. Just keep drip, drip, dripping….

Lieberman Black Outreach Flyer

Let’s make this very clear for FirePups and Roots folks, please.

We are asking these fence sitters to NO on cloture, that more discussion is necessary on this topic after recess.

In Lieberman’s case, we are asking him to:
– vote NO on cloture now;
– vote against any legislation that does not offer at least the minimum protections of Snowe-Dorgan bill S.2917 on Net Neutrality, and
– support a filibuster as necessary to protect Net Neutrality.

I just talked to Lieberman’s office through the Capitol switchboard. The woman I talked to said she did not know his position on Sen. Stevens’ cloture motion “because we haven’t had a meeting on that yet” but that “the senator supports net neutrality.”

Let’s give the office a bunch more calls so they will have something to talk about when they have their meeting…

eeeeewwww!

RGJoe “answers” his own Senate phone!!

Didn’t wanna hear his voice OR leave a message, so I pressed 2 and spoke to a young woman who said that “Senator Lieberman wants a free and fair internet too, and will do everything he can to preserve real net neutrality.” I asked if she knew whether he’d taken a POSITION on the sneaky Stevens cloture vote. She seemed a little vague on that, but cheerily offered to pass my concerns along to RGJoe.

Just wanted y’all to be aware that the next voice you hear after the harried switchboard operator, when you ask for Senator Lieberman’s office, is RGJoe hisself!

is Lieberman fighting for a peeance freeance net?

I just read Lieberman’s hate flier linked above. Ned Lamont needs to get Rev. Al Sharpton and Rep. Maxine Waters on TV, radio and in the newspapers to put a lid on this crap.

thanks for the heads up. done.

kirby @
5

Since Ned is in the telecommunications industry, we need to get him on record on this as another way to shame Lieberman. Just keep drip, drip, dripping….

Back just before the convention I shot an email to Ned’s folks about Ned’s stance on the issue (about 10pm). I didn’t see anything on his site refering to NetNeutrality. Next morning (timestamped before 6am) got reply. Here’s part of it:

Ned supports Net Neutrality. Here is his statement which was up on our site recently:

“The internet is a powerful force for change and the free flow of information. It is also unique as an egalitarian environment powered by the quality of ideas rather than the depth of a corporate pocketbook. Creating a tiered internet would cripple that unique environment and suppress what has become an unparalleled marketplace of ideas.

“We cannot allow the internet as we know it to be fundamentally altered to favor a handful of large companies, at the expense of democratic discourse, entrepreneurs, and small businesses. I applaud Representatives Boucher and Markey, and the other co-sponsors of the Network Neutrality Act, for taking on this critical issue.

“When I am elected in November, I will do the same in the U.S. Senate, introducing and fighting for net neutrality legislation on that side of Capitol Hill.”

Maybe if Ned pushes this theme this week while campaigning? Could force Jozo to carefully consider his options.

neurophius:

I saw your earlier posting regarding .mp3 players for your computer. If I could make a suggestion:
VLC player: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

It’s the best player I have come across. It plays pretty much anything (audio and/or visual), it is free to download and I’ve never had a problem with it.

Where are the Connecticut unions on this “produced inhouse by volunteers” crap?

That wouldn’t even fly in Virginia in the Nineteen-Seventies in the Democratic primary! we had to have a bug on every piece of paper. Those who didn’t were forfeiting union support.

Unions must denounce Joe’s tactics right alongside Congresswoman Waters and Reverend Sharpton.

Called all three. Yep, Joe too!

For about the last half-hour I’ve been trading emails with someone at an NBC affilite in CT (don’t know which one, it’s the one Kirby linked to in previous thread!). Anyway, I’ve given her the links to Maura’s site. She wants to see a copy of the flyer. I told her as soon as I see a pdf. of one posted (Maura was trying to get that) I would email it to her.

Would be great to get this on the evening news.

Shoephone — The Flyer

shoephone, ^ at 6.

And 18!

I called Lieberman’s office back and left a message asking him to vote against Sen. Stevens’ cloture motion on net neutrality, and to make a public announcement of his position on the issue.

I wonder if he will do an Alito switch on this one. Anyone know how much money he’s gotten from the telecom industry?

(not that it would make a difference in how he votes. Heavens, no!)

Thanks for the heads up. I made the calls and two out of the three were okay and professional. Lieberman’s was creepy though, and his receptionist was quick to ask whether I’m from Connecticut, which I’m not. I told her that Senators are elected officials who are supposed to represent constituents (even if I’m not one of his), he should not represent corporations over the people of Connecticut. Ugh!

go shoephone!

Also spoke briefly with NebNelson and Blanche’s offices, they took my comments (checking a box on a form, methinks).

Does anybody get the impression that the 888 Capitol Hill operators would rather our ReddHedd spent more time with the peanut than getting us dialing for dollars? Such grace under pressure, but sometimes a peep of humanity, after one asks for a particular Senate office, just a little sigh of “oh, another one of Christy’s friends….”

Teddy, I’m afraid I’m one of those activists who’ll actually stand by a printer and run photocopies, collate and staple and walk door-to-door with the print-outs. I don’t have a problem with local grassroots organizations running their own printing if they are supporting unions in nearly everything they do; sometimes it simply comes down to money and time. If I’ve got the time, our group with under 2G’s in the bank has a printer and a $2.50 ream of paper and a crying need for printing NOW, you bet I’m going to print it. Especially if I’m getting pro-union Dems elected by doing so.

But Lieberman has MILLIONS of dollars on hand, paid experienced consultants who are supposed to be managing a streamlined campaign, and should have had plenty of time to get all the printing he needed done months ago. Frankly, this sounds to me like Lieberman took this race for granted until mere weeks ago; he couldn’t be bothered with locking down printing until the last minute and now it’s a race to get out as much trash as possible.

And the TRASH. It’s TRASH. The kind I expect to see from Republicans. I don’t know that you could get a union shop to put their bug on this crap.

Calls, calls, calls. Time to make them fingers go numb.

Oh…and on the flier…classy, real friggin’ classy Joe. Might want to take a powder, your Rove is showing there Joe.

shoephone @ 17

For about the last half-hour I’ve been trading emails with someone at an NBC affilite in CT (don’t know which one, it’s the one Kirby linked to in previous thread!). Anyway, I’ve given her the links to Maura’s site. She wants to see a copy of the flyer. I told her as soon as I see a pdf. of one posted (Maura was trying to get that) I would email it to her.

Would be great to get this on the evening news.

slow here but if nobody else…
http://www.nbc30.com/index.html
homepage and it loads shitslow for me.

*ilson - you’re a gem! I just emailed the NBC woman the flyer.

(Brian Williams:) Breaking news tonight on the CT Senate campaign, where race is suddenly injected into a fight that was previously centered around the Iraq War. NBC’s Tom Monahan has more from Stamford. Tom?

Thanks for the props to my candidate, Jim Webb, for his strong statement in support of net neutrality. Webb’s opponent, George Allen, is a right-wing extremist who - big surprise! - opposes net neutrality. If you want to help Webb beat Allen and turn the Senate blue, please click here. Thanks.

Lowell Feld
Netroots Coordinator
Webb for Senate

Great job, gang: keep it up!

Lordy, how I love you people.

Welcome, Lowell — like this place, do ya? We’re glad. Come back often!

Thanks for all the help you guys (and gals). NBC now has the documents. And the local evening news doesn’t start for another 20 minutes!

And then there’s the Nightly with Brian Williams right after that…

Oh well, who ever thought that shoephone would become gumshoe?

(The contractor called me last night at 9:30 pm to say “My trimwork guys aren’t finished yet. Don’t come to paint until Tuesday”)

Coincidence?

I don’t think so. Serendipity, perhaps.

Sorry for all the OT. I’ll go lurk now.

Hey, Lowell, come back often, there’s lots of former Virginians here (like me!) as well as committed activists within your Commonwealth who are really interested in helping Webb succeed.

Defeating Allen is the icing on the cake of a Webb victory!

Personally, the Joe-splat flyer doesn’t look a very big deal. As in, this is the kind of patty-cake smear that Rove wouldn’t even think about doing.

The group that sponsored the flyer — are they part of the Lieberman campaign, or an arms length group of friends?

At any rate, I’m not sure it’s a big enough deal for Ned to respond to — compared to the Swiftboat smears, this is a bathtub league hit piece.

shoephone, following your example, I sent the TPM document link containing the flyer to countdown@msnbc.com.

I’ve seen my impact there before, although this is a tight timeframe. good on ya, and the trimwork slackers who kept you home as well!

Sorry for all the OT.

Well, we’ll consider forgiving you this time, shoey . . .

since you landed the Catch o’ th’ Day!

Sorta off topic, but just a few seconds, scrolldown to online poll and a click:
http://www.nbc30.com/index.html

Should women be allowed to become priests?
Yes, it would be good for the church.
No, this breaks an important tradition.
I don’t know.
It’s none of my business.
Results | Disclaimer
———————
Should women be allowed to become priests?
Choice Votes Percentage of 2171 Votes
Yes, it would be good for the church. 1329 61%
No, this breaks an important tradition. 568 26%
I don’t know. 118 5%
It’s none of my business. 156 7%
Thanks for voting. Check back later for more results.

I’m one of the 1329 so far. :->
—-
TV-30 on here to monitor.

Just out of curiousity, do we have a date Ned cancelled his membership. ‘Twould be best if on or around May 19, no later than say Memorial Dayish.

Not worthy of a Lamont response, -ck-?

Especially with proxies Waters and Sharpton in-state to hammer it home, this can be made a big issue, and should. Sorry to disagree with you, this is big and should be made bigger, although maybe not by Ned directly.

This may be the piece the RGJoe’s camp is using the test the Lamont War Room, with Thursday’s Surprise the real deal.

lamont/lieberman on cnn now - story bout effect of iraq on campaigns

OT — OMFG. Who is Albert R. Hunt and why would he write such tripe for Bloomberg, to be picked up in the NYT-owned IHT?

I think NYT is hedging their bets, with the Lamont endorsement yesterday and then this sneaky stab in the back today. I can’t find anything on Hunt, so I have no idea if this is a predictable piece from this journo or if this journo is a paste-up cut-out to front this bit. It’s like one long BJ for Joe-nertia. Ugh.

NV Congressman Jon Porter sent me back a snailmail response to my ‘net neutrality email to his office.

Basically, he’s in favor of the Suits taking over the ‘net. Shorter Porter: ‘Relax, everything will be just fine. The market will deliver everything we want and need.’
_

Rayne @ 24

But Lieberman has MILLIONS of dollars on hand, paid experienced consultants who are supposed to be managing a streamlined campaign, and should have had plenty of time to get all the printing he needed done months ago. Frankly, this sounds to me like Lieberman took this race for granted until mere weeks ago; he couldn’t be bothered with locking down printing until the last minute and now it’s a race to get out as much trash as possible.

And the TRASH. It’s TRASH. The kind I expect to see from Republicans. I don’t know that you could get a union shop to put their bug on this crap.

I think Lieberman is trying to make himself out to be a “man of the people,” more in the Lamont mold, and not like the corporate tool that he (Joe) is; fortunately, a lot of people are not fooled, and Joe just looks like a man with no class.

shoephone @ 31

(The contractor called me last night at 9:30 pm to say “My trimwork guys aren’t finished yet. Don’t come to paint until Tuesday”)

Coincidence?

I don’t think so. Serendipity, perhaps.

Serendipity? Are they working on the window glazing? If so, They’re in da putty.

Rayne, Al Hunt is one of those old-timey Beltway hacks, married to Judy Woodruff.

Off to Macy’s for a new dress, in which I’ll wow the Big Dog tonight. (It won’t be a blue one). Need his attention for 30 seconds so I can ask him the CT primary question…

Damn. Maybe I should just quit the painting business altogether. Who has time when there’s a country to save?

TSF –

I’m not sure — when I first heard about it, I thought it was a virulent racist screed that needed to be denounced in the strongest terms. After reading it, it’s just one more example of how Joenertia has fallen down and can’t get up again.

My concern is that Ned respond appropriately, and not over-react — and most important, not allow out-of-touch-Joe to use this flyer kerfluffle to change the subject, and put Ned on the defensive.

-ck- @
33

Personally, the Joe-splat flyer doesn’t look a very big deal. As in, this is the kind of patty-cake smear that Rove wouldn’t even think about doing.

The point isn’t that it’s a big deal. The point is that we don’t let anything, no matter how apparently trivial, go unanswered. If we watch Ned’s back on the small stuff, they’ll be hesitant to try anything bigger.

Plus, you know, it’s good practice for November. And 2008.

punaise @ 43

>:-)

‘My God, it’s full of TOOOOBEZ!‘

;>)

lotus — thanks, ’splains a lot. Ugh. A pat on the back from the Beltway Bandits to Joe-nertia.

Time to fire up the power washer and the Scunci steam cleaner and run them right around Dupont Circle. Remind me to bring extra bleach.

The point isn’t that it’s a big deal. The point is that we don’t let anything, no matter how apparently trivial, go unanswered. If we watch Ned’s back on the small stuff, they’ll be hesitant to try anything bigger.

Plus, you know, it’s good practice for November. And 2008.

Let’s see … 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 AMENs, Beth!

I apparently misremember that Hunt used to exec-edit USAToday.

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

Who is Albert R. Hunt?
“Al Hunt is the Washington managing editor for Bloomberg News. From 1988 to 2005, Hunt was a panelist and moderator on CNN’s The Capital Gang with Robert Novak, Mark Shields, Kate O’Beirne and Margaret Carlson.

He is married to Judy Woodruff of PBS.

Previously, Hunt was a member of the long-running Novak, Hunt & Shields, the weekly CNN program featuring in-depth interviews with top newsmakers.

Prior to joining Bloomberg News in January 2005, Hunt worked for the Wall Street Journal. During his 35 years in the newspaper’s Washington bureau, he was a congressional and national political reporter, a bureau chief and, most recently, executive Washington editor. For 11 years, Hunt wrote the weekly column, “Politics & People.” Hunt also directed the paper’s political polls for 20 years and served as president of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund and a board member of Ottaway Newspapers Inc., a Dow Jones subsidiary….

He is co-author of a series of books published by the American Enterprise Institute, including The American Elections of 1980, The American Elections of 1982 and The American Elections of 1984. In 1987, he co-authored Elections American Style for the Brookings Institution. In 2002, he contributed an essay about campaign finance reform for Caroline Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage for Our Time.

In April 1986, while eating at a Dallas restaurant with his wife and their 4-year-old son, Hunt recalls a drunk George W. Bush stormed over to their table and unloaded on him: “You fucking son of a bitch. I saw what you wrote. We’re not going to forget this.” Hunt had predicted in the April edition of the Washingtonian that Jack Kemp would lead the GOP nomination rather than George H.W. Bush. Bush would apologize to Hunt over a decade later.[1]….

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

OT - CNN - Syrian president has told his military to “raise readiness”

ck — just fyi, the flyers were attached to official Lieberman campaign literature on every windshield. And this comes after a couple of weeks of attempts at a whisper campaign failed. This isn’t the first pass.

Morsel from Teddy’s Wiki link:

In April 1986, while eating at a Dallas restaurant with his wife and their 4-year-old son, Hunt recalls a drunk George W. Bush stormed over to their table and unloaded on him: “You fucking son of a bitch. I saw what you wrote. We’re not going to forget this.” Hunt had predicted in the April edition of the Washingtonian that Jack Kemp would lead the GOP nomination rather than George H.W. Bush. Bush would apologize to Hunt over a decade later.[1]

[1]1986: A Life-Changing Year”, Washington Post, July 25, 1999

Agh!!! Teddy, I should have check Wikipedia like you did. Couldn’t pull anything up under SourceWatch; probably shouldn’t have used his full name.

Wow, does that explain a LOT. Bloomberg’s managing editor feels he has to weigh in? Sheesh, JoZo’s in real trouble and he’s pulled in all the chits. Hunt’s AEI-published, not exactly a liberal cred. Have another nagging suspicion but I’m going to bite my tongue and wait and see.

twolf1 @ 54

OT - CNN - Syrian president has told his military to “raise readiness”

____

Just what Bush wants. It’s “an opportunity” to get the PNAC agenda moving again.
_

CNN:

(REUTERS): SYRIAN PRES. TELLS ARMY TO “RAISE READINESS”

tv-30 reports Ned will join Union bus protest tour vs. Wall/Mart…think I heard Maxine Waters’ name too. Bus will be touring 19 states.

There you have it, sports fans: both John C and Bobby G type faster than a flowah.

“Friends of Joe Lieberman” is the name of LieberSlime’s official campaign committee … no ambiguity whatsoever about who issued it.

Kirby @ 5 (apologies if this has been addressed, I am responding before reading all the comments)

Ned is on the record in favor of Net Neutrality.

I’d say “OT” but…

The Colin McEnroe piece at salon.com has quite a bit of history on Joe’s machinations:

….Women trust him because he’s a reliable vote for abortion rights and don’t trust him because he went off the reservation for the only significant vote (cloture) on the Supreme Court nomination of Samuel Alito. During the recent debate over requiring hospitals to provide emergency contraception for rape victims, Lieberman emitted a shockingly callous, and now famous, sound bite. He said it’s never more than “a short car ride” in crowded Connecticut to a more accommodating hospital.

That’s just the beginning of the catalog of gripes. …

Covering Lieberman is a good way to understand how misleading a voting record can be. (Are you listening, Courant editorial board?) Most members of Congress vote with their parties the preponderance of the time. There are other questions to ask. Did he vote differently on a much-more-important earlier amendment or cloture motion? Did he wait until it was clear his vote wouldn’t hurt the other side? Are his public pronouncements strangely different from his votes?

Consider Lieberman’s behavior during the confirmation of Clarence Thomas 15 years ago… Lieberman spoke avidly on behalf of Thomas and disdainfully about Democratic colleagues whose opposition was, he thought, too political. He was pretty much the last senator to commit to a nay vote, and only when his vote didn’t matter.

Lieberman wound up with no points against his license for Voting While Republican, even though he supported Thomas actively till the 11th hour….

tv-30 frames Bush comment as ‘fears Iran may be HIDING a (guess what?) yep…NUCLEAR WEAPON!

Can you say…”Who could have imagined?”

Al Hunt used to appear with Darth Novak on The Capitol Gang. (He was one of the designated “liberals.”)

Anybody know what he’s doing for his cocktail weenies now?

Oh. Sorry. John Casper already told us.

This could be useful . . . LIKE IMMEDIATELY:

CNN.com Creates User Submissions Section

Just spoke to Blanche Lincoln’s D.C. office. The woman was very nice, we spoke for awhile. I asked her to urge Lincoln into not voting cloture. Launched into a short story about how previously low-income neighborhoods in Seattle now have lots of cooffee shops that offer wi-fi. It really makes a difference to people who maybe couldn’t afford hi-speed access at home, they can be part of the everyone-is-equal-on the-internet.

She responded she seriously doesn’t think the issue will even come up for cloture vote before the August recess.

Here’s hoping. But still, let’s work on them.

Okay, really off to Macy’s now…

Hardball…

Chris Matthews to Nicole Wallace (former White House Spokeswoman)…

“Do you believe you shouldn’t criticize the President during a time of war LIKE JOE LIEBERMAN DOES?”

Heh.

punaise, could you do me a favor, please? I don’t have the “sponsor’s logo” anywhere on that Slate page (my ad-blocker?). Could you pretty-please grab the URL of the full story, if you’re still there, and slip it to me?

(batting eye-petals ever so sweetly)

What is up with Tweety’s outdoor broadcasts, complete with fan club? Does he think he is a man of the people, or something?

lotus’ 68: madly punching buttons above the reply box !

gotta say, i’m loving me some buttons today. thanks muchly, jamie.

neuro 2:26
It’s the closest Tweety gets to a vacation, while our Keith gets to hobnob with the teevee writers and Jay Leno.

lotus - -try the print version, see if it works for ya:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/f.....print.html

i know, i didn’t use the sexy new buttons.

darkblack @ 49

‘My God, it’s full of TOOOOBEZ!‘

;>)

I especially like the $ sign for a belt buckle!

-ck- at 1:58 (and others):
I don’t think the flyer should go without response, but if the media pick it up and start pressing for answers from Joe’s campaign, that might end up being more effective than Ned doing the same.

I hope the new CNN comments site starts getting lots of pictures of The Kiss Float submitted…

This line in the article cracked me up:

“…until now the tools at CNN’s Web site have been made available in response to specific stories or events. [bold added]

So now those tools who work at CNN.com are going to be available all the time?

OT
from Raw Story:
Busby-Bilbray lawsuit!
Brad Friedman out in front, again…

lotus @ 71 - looks like twolf1 made it work with velcro (no sexy buttons). Let me know if you still need something.

Wow, Christy’s action-call post got front-paged by The Orange One!

http://www.dailykos.com/storyo.....161732/999

Townhouse that!

Ned’s ‘Why are CT voters changing their mind about Jozo?’ ad just ran on TV-30. Very good. shows LieberSigns being tossed for Lamont logos. And for every exchanged sign there’s a point against Jozos votes, record or stand. Starting w/Iraq, irrc.

Although, the Ghostman had a point. His usual excellent ‘kicker’ - I approve this msg’ he’s nodding ‘no’ ever so slightly. In closeup, which detracts a bit; especially the great “…AND SO DO WE!” from the regular folks.

Made the calls. There is great power in numbers. I appreciate the opportunity to be part of this. We’re making history here.

TSF at 81 — true, but no mention of the simple word: Firedoglake. The Orange One is a bit green?

Thanx for the tip, i’ll make the calls tomorrow, too late right now.

Meanwhile, a very encouraging post at TPM.

http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/co.....liberalism

Amen!

TeddySanFran @
32

Hey, Lowell, come back often, there’s lots of former Virginians here (like me!) as well as committed activists within your Commonwealth who are really interested in helping Webb succeed.

Defeating Allen is the icing on the cake of a Webb victory!

Thanks, I really appreciate everyone’s help in getting rid of George “97% Bush Rubberstamp” Allen and electing Jim “Opposed Iraq War Since 2002″ Webb. :) - Lowell

OfT
“Dolphin’s Coach, Nick Saban, snubs Bush”
….”Saban declined an offer from Bush to dine with him and other luminaries at Joe’s Stone Crab in Miami Beach on Sunday night.

Saban’s reason? He already was scheduled for meetings with assistant coaches until about 10:30 p.m., Dolphins spokesman Harvey Greene said Monday.

The invitation was extended “a few days ago,” Greene said. Bush was in South Florida on Sunday and today…..”

Shoot — thanks for trying, guys, but it just takes me back to the original page. Must be a question of cookies, eh? Don’t want to risk mucking up my ad-blocker, so I’ll just read everything else I want to . . .

lotus @ 68

This could be useful . . . LIKE IMMEDIATELY:

CNN.com Creates User Submissions Section

Wonder if we could get the Republican National Senatorial cmte to cough up the $25K check that they received in 2005 from David. H. Brooks (the defense contractor, not the columnist)?

That might make for a little bit more negative press for the repiglicans.

not to go too OfT, but Lowell:

Can you tell us about yourself and other staffers? Have the rifts in the VA Dem party, from the primary, been healed? Are there lots of Reagan Dems active in the campaign? Is that, um, awkward?

Thanks, like I said, lots of interest, not just from me, there are other commenters here, Alice Marshall and redshift among them, who’ll want to hear how the Webb campaign is going….

lotus - if you go to the salon.com home page, you should be able to enter as a “guest” provided you’re willing to watch an ad. It’s the front page article, once you’re in.

I called Sen. Lincoln’s office. They said she hadn’t announced a position on cloture, and they doubt very much that it will come to a vote this summer. Sen. B. Nelson’s office said he hadn’t announced his position, but “he will soon.”

Oft too: I have to confess that for the first hour of reading FDL this morning, I thought “Quote This Comment” was a new commenter who was posting an awful lot!

I just called Harry Reids office and kindly asked him to assert a little party discipline on this issue — Is there really any reason to rush this before the break. Voicemessage — I will have to call back for human.

LindaR @ 93

Oft too: I have to confess that for the first hour of reading FDL this morning, I thought “Quote This Comment” was a new commenter who was posting an awful lot!

Hah!!

OT
Delay thwarted again( I love the sound of that).

Judges Indicate They’ll Rule against Republicans, DeLay

TPM.
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001241.php

TeddySanFran @
81

Wow, Christy’s action-call post got front-paged by The Orange One!

http://www.dailykos.com/storyo.....161732/999

Townhouse that!

Funniest tagline from the comments section of the Kos Posting is

Joe Lieberman Speaks For Me! (Did I mention I’m a self-absorbed narcissist?)

Ah, I try that, pun . . .

Boy, they’re rilly cold.

No sponsor’s logo on homepage,

so to “Site Help” –

click on “Trouble with Day-Pass?” –

blank page at http://www.salon.com/premium/d......html#faq.

Well, they obviously can’t take a joke, so screw ‘em.

eFax going out every hour to all three.

signed up for eFax during the Alito blast and when I tried to cancel the service beyond the 30 day free-bee, they gave me three more months free to “try” the service.

whats the Salon article you’re trying for? I’ll mail you the damn thing!

J. Peckingpagh (sp?) slips in ‘insignificant’ about manmade contributions to wx guy after a little blip story about this yrs’ NWC/HC hurricane predictions. Wx guy says ‘earth bounces thru time warm/cool periods Cause for this one good candidate for debate society. You could take either side and win.’

(insert silent scream here, plz)

I’d bet more than 50percent of their air time since 5pm has been about heat. (Including wx segments.)

TeddySanFran earlier had a link to Kiss float at CtBlog (?). There’s abeauty there. The first ‘Kiss’ photo. Setting sun caught just ‘twixt the lips. Looks like the ’spark’ of something more than ‘just good friends’

Heehee.

*ilson - see #64

Busted…

Don’t read too much into what happens in a Fifth Circuit Argument — wait for the opinion. The panel is Edith Clement - a Bush apointee Supreme Court near miss from Texas; Fortunato Benevides — a Clinton appointee and a real idiot (trust me on this one) and vaguely corrupt as well in his Stae Judge days in Texas; and James Dennis, a moderate Clinton appointee from Louisiana.

Not the worst panel for the fifth circuit, but the presence of two Texas political insiders worries me….

Why does MyDD have a picture of The Big Dog posted with its logo on the front page?

I hope that is not a backdoor endorsement of Joe Lieberman. Maybe they should take it down until after the Connecticut primary.

I like The Big Dog, but am not very happy with him at the moment (unless it turns out he went to Connecticut to nix Joe’s independent race).

eFax, katymine? Wozzat — faxing from your PC without the fax machine? Hmmm . . .

I’ve had an HP fax machine sitting here collecting dust for 6 years because the user’s manual completely defies my parsing (6 years’ grad school in English, J.D. cum laude … all for naught).

GO WEBB!

ot - if this posts, I’m looking for suggestions. From my laptop at home, I can pull up and read - but not post. It doesn’t go into moderation - just doesn’t show up.

If I try to repost, it gives me an “error, duplicate message” but the message isn’t there.

It did that Sat, but then Sun let me pot again for part of the day. Then it started back up Sun afternoon. This morning, even with a really cold reboot - it started that way immediately.

Any suggestions - let me know. Otherwise; I’ll be reading but not posting from home (maybe work too if this doesn’t post)

The reading part is good - Christy’s smokin’ today.

I think this is new from AP’s Susan Haigh on voter registration in Connecticut:

More than 7,000 unaffiliated voters switching to a party.

LindaR @ 93

Oft too: I have to confess that for the first hour of reading FDL this morning, I thought “Quote This Comment” was a new commenter who was posting an awful lot!

Yeah, I thought Eli’d changed his handle.

Mary 106, that comment showed up okay.

Emailed!

Mary, it posted. Do you have dial up or wifi at home? Also, do you have some super sensitive spam blockers on your laptop? Finally, you might try deleting all your cookies and starting agian “fresh.”

thanks *ilson (the axis of email)

Bless your sweet buns, *ilson, my ever-constant savior — and here it is now!

Oh, we’re devious around here. *g*