ROOTZ!

R O O T Z !!

L A M O N T !!!

FITZ !!!!

Or maybe I should say ROOTZ

‘k, kids, sorry for the blatant blogwhoring, but i feel like this one is important:

if you’re as mad about hnn anchor chuck roberts calling ned lamont “the al qaeda candidate” as i am, take a look at the list of hnn advertisers w/contact info. why not give them all a call and/or email, to let them know you won’t be spending your money on them until they spend their money on a news organization that is objective and not parroting gop talking points?

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hey are you THE T rex

We’re getting under their skin and they are damned nervous! This is a good thing, so let’s keep it up! :)

TRex:

Kristol et al have relinquished any identity as members of the human race. They’re warmongers, hateful bastards, who will say anything to get the desired effect: everlasting war.

Bravo Trex! and Lindsey too!

It should be noted that Lindsey sure stepped up and worked at Lamont HQ … she was answering the phones with “adorable policy wonk Juliet” like there was no tomorrow … another of the great blog crew who made sure phones got answered and things got done.

brilliant — smart and funny and sharp, as always

i can add little, but this: even if the right wing raving lunatics are disillusioned, they still have their leaders in their megachurches telling them every sunday who god wants them to vote for. we must be registered and we must show up at the polls.

Nice post, but I think we are still spending too much tiem reactin’ and not enough attackin’

In a way, I wonder if this stuff from the Bushites is chum. The race baiting needs to be mentioned, but reacting too much, or spending too much time in outraged reaction mode is kinda what they want. It solidifies their wingnut base, and tips a few subliminal bigots who could be salvaged. Everything reliable I read says Iraq, war on terror, and economy are the biggies for most voters.

So, why does the DLC internet page look like a the cover of a pesonal finance magazine? You can’t even figure out how they stand on social security or Iraq? Two issues where the people have got out in front of meida and corporate politicians and reached correct (freaking correct! mind you) conclusions. Go figure.

Maybe best to simply matter of factly note it for what it is. Loudly but matter of factly make the case, but make sure to attack attack on GWOT jobs and Iraq.

Thems my two cents.

Can I just pipe up here from my lurky place to say you fucking rock in socks TRex? Because you surely do.

There’s only one word to describe the wingnut reaction to Lamont: Hysteria.
I’m used to their angry pity-parties, but the level of sheer hysteria has been almost bewildering. You’d think Osama bin Laden just won the war on Christmas, judging by how shrill the repub hysteria has suddenly become.

Yes, if the GOP’s panic attack wasn’t so disgusting it might actually be funny. They are, literally, terrified of Ned, because they know what he represents: a full-court press by the Dems to take back both houses of Congress and save this nation from completely tumbling over the precipice.

Lamont is, indeed, a true moderate (35 years ago he woulda been a republican) and he connects with people of all stripes. He has a conscience. He practices what he preaches. He has a vision, and the balls to call bullshit on any rabid wingers who get in his - and our -way. Best of all, he shows a voluptous amount of class while he’s calling bullshit.

The GOPers can see the writing on the wall. It’s not about Lieberman, They could care less about Lieberman. They are about to lose the golden ring of power for a good, long time, and it’s causing an earthquake over on the dark side of the aisle.

“What the hell is wrong with these people?”

They . have . no. shame.

Ya see. One warrior like TRex has chunks of twenty chickenhawks in his stool. They are overmatched.

Keep flossing TRex.

M’kay?

707! Colbert making Jon Stewart walk a mile in Geraldo’s mustache!

Way OT, when you’d like a breather from all the nasty things that are going on in the world, politically, and everywhere else, go to:

http://www.cuteoverload.com/

This should have probably been included in the earlier cat discussion. Sorry I missed posting it there.

what is it about Ned Lamont’s win in the Connecticut Primary that seems to have brought out the absolute seething fascist asshole in everyone from Lieberman himself to Wolf Blitzer to Bill Kristol?

They’ve lost their cover and their asses are showing. Simple as that. And they’re shit-scared of a revitalised Democratic party.

These are strange characters, none of whom resembles anyone we know. Anyone know what Ned’s driver actually looks like? And who is the woman supposed to be?

siun? RevDeb?

Apropos of nothing, but I’m told TRex blogs in a pair of speedos and rubber shower cap, with a glass of Captian Morgan’s rum.

I’m just saying…

Oh Trex- THIS IS your Best POST ever. (Correct me if I missed one that you prefer.) Okay, so let me retrace your FDL history- you were the occasional commenter who introduced TRexing to FDL. And, bec. I am in your neck of the woods, I emailed you. And, in response via email, it turned out that you are a science junkie. So, I put you up to responding on SARS and health care questions raised on FDL. And, in further conversations on the phone it turned out that you knew a whole lot about a whole lot of policy issues. This guy is really really smart, I said to myself. You first got prime spot billing at FDL for your wonderful satire and snark on Late Nite. And, when we needed some lite relief, the cat stories. But, TRex, you have excelled your previous FDL self on this one. Brilliant, man, brilliant. xxooo

It’s so simple even I can understand it.

After 30 years of demonizing libruls as being outside the mainstream, completely unhinged and outright traitors (while they themselves start wars, loot the treasury and try to destroy democracy), along comes a guy who’s talking sense and has enough smarts, charisma and dough to win a big-time election.

If they don’t destroy Ned, their whole narrative craters. There goes their cover. And other people might start gettin’, you know, ideas.

So they have to respond, fast. What’s the one thing they can do quickly enough and loudly enough?

More of the same. It’s what organizations in trouble always revert to first.

No time for a new set of tactics, just ramp up the old ones. Louder, shriller, more pervasive, more disgusting. Hey, it worked before, right?

They are afraid of what Lamont stands for and the change it could bring to their fortunes. They aren’t happy.

I apologize if this was discussed earlier but this is from a DeWayne Wickham opinion piece in USA Today….

Lieberman is an anti-Democrat Democrat — a fifth columnist who has chosen to flout the will of Connecticut’s primary voters by filing papers to compete as an independent in the general election.

I think I’ll be referring to him as the Connecticut Wankee in King George’s Court.

I reckon somebody already mentioned this week’s This Modern World, yes?

OT - and sad - Tanker in Indian Ocean spills 4,500 tons of crude oil following a collision.

Good Lord i hope ol’ Ned has a squeaky clean past cause you know those swiftboat bastards will be digging all the way to china on him.

I know a lot of folks are worried about the Israel-Lebanon thing, and a potential WW3 etc…

Here are some snippets of Editorial and Op Ed on their war from Ha’aretz (read them in their entirities there):

Out of touch with the public
Haaretz Editorial

If the prime minister’s speech signals the start of an era of demagogy instead of self-examination, then the conclusion must be that he is not endowed with the necessary humility and courage to lead the essential shake-up of the system.

We simply blew it
By Yoel Marcus

The man who failed, who deluded us, who was overconfident and passed on the disease to the government, is Halutz. He should be the one to go.

The anatomy of hating Israel
By Avraham Tal

In British-Israeli historian Avi Shlaim’s distorted worldview, the Israeli government operates as a terror organization, whereas Hezbollah is a legitimate Islamic resistance movement.

The new French connection
By Avirama Golan

Today Israel parts with the French ambassador, Gerard Araud. This is a rare opportunity for Israel to benefit from a France that now sympathises with its views on Syria and Lebanon.

Bibi’s to blame
By Nehemia Shtrasler

While Olmert and Peretz would like to see fingers pointed at Netanyahu as the man responsible for the blunders in the war, let us not be deceived.

With such a left, who needs a right?
By Yossi Sarid

The left should have understood in time that joining the consensus, even sourly and reluctantly, would only speed the march of Olmert, Peretz and Dan Halutz into the depths of Lebanon.

It’s time to open your eyes
By Riad Ali

I ask ‘the blind by choice’ in the Muslim world: Who had an interest in destroying Hariri’s vision of a Lebanon vibrant and free? Israel and the U.S. - or Syria and Iran.

Israel should pack up and go
By Nadim Shehadi

If Israel can exist only by destroying the neighborhood, then it’s time to declare it a failed state.

We told Olmert the army is hollow
By Akiva Eldar

Senior commanders say the ground forces were left unprepared because elected officials repeatedly cut the defense budget.

This is nice:

Bush says Israel defeated Hezbollah
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....pr_wh/bush

That is a nice attack point that should be followed up. Exactly who would agree with Bush’s assessment except his flunkies and corps of Rasputin nutcases hankering for WWIII on four fronts at once?

Man, when the Israel/Lebanon war started I thought the stories about BushCo egging Israel on to do some serious damage on Syria, and make a big demo on Hezbollah was crock. I guess I am a foolish optimist who believes foolishness knows some bounds even in BushCo land.

So I get back and its like all over drive time radio, the corporate press, in Ha’aretz, the military pundit dudes: “oh yeah, BushCo wanted Israel to rumble… ooops, Israel’s leadership not so good this time… problems with campaign.. big booboos… definite war crimes on both sides, but Hezbollah cred and sympathy growing in ME, Hezbollah victory in terms of cred and long term strategy…”

So, who agrees with Bush on this? BushCo, the big friend of Israel urges it on in a some kind of proxy war garbage that backfires. Israel messed up, Lebanon messed up, Hezbollah not defeated in any long term meaningful sense, Arab oil kingpins pissed, sunni and shi’a unified against the BushCo goofball adventure.

So… Bush scorecard:
Afghanistan: debatable start, whatever you think about the invasion approach, it coulda worked but seriously messed up now due to inattention
Iraq: big mistake, something maybe could have been salvaged, but down the toilet from incompetence and corruption
Israel/Palestinian problem: Bushco’s brilliant let ‘em fight it out strategy inflames Muslim opinion, estranges us from Arab allies’ leads to Israeli mess-up. Dug huge deep hole in terms of Palestinian government and Southern Lebanon situation. And how ’bout that Ceder Revolution -they love us now, man! Twenty years of prgress down the tubes.
Economic security: more dependent on foreign oil than ever.

Oh, yeah, and lets go back and review the Bush pronouncements about what the outcome and reaction would be when the Israeli/Lebanon thing started -100% and 180 degrees wrong again on every single point. What a record!

OK, five strikes. Attack, attack, attack! If the corporate Dems and DLC don’t follow, if they pee themselves, that means we are dooing something right.

VALLEY GIRL! :) Long time no email back from you! :( How’s things?

As far as this being TRex’s best, I’d have to say that although this one is superb as always, the “Best” label should be reserved for this TRex Classic!

How are things? I’m starting to get a complex and feel neglected since my last few emails vanished into the cosmic void–unanswered. Some Aloha for you and all firepups.

I just don’t think this stuff is selling anymore. Certainly Dem’s will have to stand ontop of the huge pile of human and economic wreckage that is the Republican policy and shriek for competency. That’s all, continually, nonstop reality.

Fear this M*ther F*ckers!

wesgpc’s votinglinks @
10

Nice post, but I think we are still spending too much tiem reactin’ and not enough attackin’

In a way, I wonder if this stuff from the Bushites is chum. The race baiting needs to be mentioned, but reacting too much, or spending too much time in outraged reaction mode is kinda what they want. It solidifies their wingnut base, and tips a few subliminal bigots who could be salvaged. Everything reliable I read says Iraq, war on terror, and economy are the biggies for most voters.

So, why does the DLC internet page look like a the cover of a pesonal finance magazine? You can’t even figure out how they stand on social security or Iraq? Two issues where the people have got out in front of meida and corporate politicians and reached correct (freaking correct! mind you) conclusions. Go figure.

Maybe best to simply matter of factly note it for what it is. Loudly but matter of factly make the case, but make sure to attack attack on GWOT jobs and Iraq.

Thems my two cents.

Chum is a good way to describe it. It doesn’t take a lot to get a good feeding frenzy going on the right. Afterall, fear isn’t working all that well anymore so loathing is what they have left.

TRex, I am a fan, I like your style. You snark where I dare not tread, timid little me. I just want to you to attack attack attack. Not respond respond respond.

35 years ago he woulda been a republican

Thirty-five years ago I was a Republican, and my views haven’t changed very much. I don’t recognize the current political lunar landscape at all. It’s both funny and sad to see moderate Republicans in Kansas switching parties (Jim Jeffords beat the crowd) so that they can be heard.

The pendulum’s swung so far to the right that it’s about to knock the clock off the wall.

It’s clear the Republicans believe this race is for all the marbles. If Lamont wins it ignites the flame that takes them down. Essentially this is the preview of the 2008 election, and the starting point is where they left off in 2004.

Lieberman will not withdraw, under any circumstance. It doesn’t matter if all the living Dems in the universe petition him to do so. He is in it to the end and he is a Republican.

The question is how do we respond? Is Lamont’s base strong enough, broad enough to hold up under three months of brutal attacks?

Okie-dokie. Heading home. Will check back in from there.

Nate- not to worry- I have not forgotten you. I have just been so pressed and burned out of late that I have only had time to respond to email when fire and burning rubber was in the air unless I did so. Short answer, not details. Sanity will return, I hope, and I will respond. Commenting at FDL is a “relaxation”. Opening my email is NOT- bec. for one email from you there are countless others I wish I didn’t have to deal with. So, I am email avoidant at present. Hope you understand. xxoo

Need to attack BushCo for ignoring known liquid mix-it yourself explosives threat discussed in 9/11 report, and for which they cut research funding. And then pretended to be all surprized and used it to scare unaware and unsuspecting public with scary it was an ‘unknown unknown’ big lie. How do you think the panicked improvisations of last few days would go down with public if they knew the truth?

Look at DailyKos, lots of stuff on that over last couople of days.

I wish Lamont, Dean, or Feingold had jumped on that this weekend on national TV. (or did they, maybe I missed it)

Attack attack attack. Ok, I’m outta control. I need a rest and deep breath. goodnight.

Anyone see this:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/.....-uspo.html

AFL-CIO is investing $40M in the 06 elections.

That’s a great thing.

Mocha Dem @ 35

It’s clear the Republicans believe this race is for all the marbles. If Lamont wins it ignites the flame that takes them down. Essentially this is the preview of the 2008 election, and the starting point is where they left off in 2004.

Lieberman will not withdraw, under any circumstance. It doesn’t matter if all the living Dems in the universe petition him to do so. He is in it to the end and he is a Republican.

The question is how do we respond? Is Lamont’s base strong enough, broad enough to hold up under three months of brutal attacks?

If we don’t win this one, their cold Culture War will go hot. Do we really want the US to look like Baghdad? We had better be strong enough to hold up through the election. The alternative is way less palatable.

Remember, remember, the 7th of November

So where’s our magazine cover: THE WARMONGERS - HOW COULD THIS CREW BE SO DUMB - with Kristol, Friedman, Lieberman, Biden, Clinton, Beinart, Klein, Remnick, Keller, Miller, Brooks, and all the rest?

How kewl. My attack comment was posted right under Nates link to TRex’s classic attack post.

25 years ago I was one of the Reagan democrats. I voted for him twice(I know, there’s one born every minute). That is about as middle of the road that you could get at the time. Now I’m so far out on the left fringe there is a noticable communication delay because we’re limited to the speed of light.

I guess I’m fringe too. Wherever this administration is, I’m way over yonder the other way.

Go TRex Go !

shoephone >”…They are about to lose the golden ring of power for a good, long time, and it’s causing an earthquake over on the dark side of the aisle.”

BULLSEYE !!!

They don`t like the idea of all those years in jail & having to worry about dropping the soap in the shower

pseudonymous in nc >”…They’ve lost their cover and their asses are showing…”

“The higher the monkey climbs, the more you see of his ass” - Gen “Vinegar” Joe Stillwell

Oh. My. God.

That cover of the Weakly should go over great, with the all of those CT voters Ol’ Joe was pitching with the Big Dog.

Yessir, no offense at all in picturin’ Al Sharpton as a chauffeur . . .

Ol’ William (F for Fucker) Buckley’s blue nosed knuckle draggers are pulling out all the stops, now that their Manchurian Democrat Joe Lieberman has been outed as a fifth columnist closet Republican.

In the interest of brevity, I’ll second shoephone @13, and add once again that I’ve not seen a Democratic candidate with the kind of understanding, eloquence, and charisma as Ned Lamont since we lost Robert Kennedy to the same kind of senseless, illegal war and violence currently being promoted by BushCo and the ruling class’ parrots. We should expect that this kind of vituperative slander will not only continue, but increase as BushCo and their attendant puppet choir realize that we, the people, will insure that, “government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth”. True then, true now.

Uh. Mah. Gawd.

Genius.

“Surely, there is something more at stake here for BushCo than the loss of their most sycophantic toady in the Democratic party… What could it be?”
I don’t know, but caveat emptor new products rolled out in September.

can’t resist one more shot: need to get behind Webb and Tester and Lamont. Would like to see Webb and Lamong and Tester a lot as a trio. Where would you attack that? Such an obvious bunch of wild and crazy lefty radicals.

What the hell is wrong with them?

They’re fucking assholes, that’s what. It’s the only explanation.

When we got ahold of somebody particularly tough that whupped the stuffing out of us, we would say, “Damn, somebody plowed up a snake.”

IT’S TIME TO DECLARE A NATIONAL FUCKING EMERGENCY!!
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Nah. Wrong gameplan. Just keep pushing Ned’s platform in Connecticut. JoLie is well on his way to a total implosion.

As for “The Weekly Double Standard”, just file this issue away. It’s going to come in handy next month when Linc Chafee loses his primary to a right-wing challenger. Even Bobo will have a hard time missing the comparison.

Steve Gilliard — Joe Lieberman as Benedict Arnold.

Make Lamont the underdog and tie Bush to Lieberman’s neck.

Make it a clash of titans. Let everyone know that this time, as never before, their vote counts.

Years from now, when children ask, they will want to be able to answer honestly “I voted for the Democratic Party!”

Whisper campaigns about Diebold, the need for overwhelming defeat of the taken over Republican Party, in order to come out on top. Everyone needs to have the common wisdom that America teeters on the brink of something terrible.

People need to feel smart that they have come to realize that they are among the ones who realize just what dangerous times these are.

Bloggers got it in the lead up to the 2004 election.

Now is the time to spread it to the world. Or at least America, the rest of the world got it long ago.

Hello Jane!

scarecrow, the woman on the cover is Hillary. She stepped up first to cut Ned a $5000 check from her PAC, and she’s the Rethugs and Dumsfeld’s worst nightmare. But having Sharpton portrayed like this is past bad taste and racist to the core.

Leisler NYC @ 41

So where’s our magazine cover: THE WARMONGERS - HOW COULD THIS CREW BE SO DUMB - with Kristol, Friedman, Lieberman, Biden, Clinton, Beinart, Klein, Remnick, Keller, Miller, Brooks, and all the rest?

YES! Ohhh calling darkblack!

This is for the last thread since I didn’t make it here in time to post it.

I just sent an email to Senator Allen’s email in Washington and also one to another website he has called Friends of George Allen. It’s webb addy is www.georgeallen.com in which I let them know how I felt about his racial slur.

I was not offensive unless one considers calling Allen a bigotted racist offensive and why I felt like I did. The email I sent to his Washington addy was also not offensive unless one considers calling Allen a Fascist Nazi and a bigotted racist offensive.

For reasons I can not explain I will not copy the emails I sent. Though I did tell the Friends of George Allen I would be attaching my comment to them on his Washington email also.

If anyone else would like to send a comment email to George Allen you can enter the URL from above and go to the site and leave a comment to him.

Time to hit the hay as I get up early for work and also have a dental appointment tommorrow to have a tooth pulled. I might not be able to get back on-line for a couple of days after seeing the dentist.

Continue to give them hell and keep fighting the good fight.

Don’t know if this was said but Mike Wallace is interviewing
the president of Iran on C-Span

just giggled our way here through the opening show of the new Weed season … wonderful! and they support FDL with advertising - double wonderful!

Scarecrow - Ned’s driver is a lovely young man named Marc who does not wear gloves and who is more like an assistant - very very bright, very funny … I was in touch with him a lot on scheduling issues and he always impressed me with his smarts on all sorts of levels.

and now I’m going to catch some sleep … strange idea that

g’nite pups!

- Hmmm… so now you redact any counter comments. Who were the Nazi’s again?

Valley Girl - Commenting at FDL is a “relaxation”. Opening my email is NOT LOLOL

I know exactly what you mean. No worries. It’s just nice to know you are well. For future reference, never fret an email you see from me. If you want, a quick “All’s well, busy as hell, leave me alone” email reply and I’ll get the hint. :) Glad to know you’re keepin’ busy and keepin’ well!

OFG 41 - That TRex post is a classic isn’t it?

SteveAudio @7

Kristol et al have relinquished any identity as members of the human race. They’re warmongers, hateful bastards, who will say anything to get the desired effect: everlasting war.

You hit the nail right on the head. Lamont is dangerous to the neocons because he is against the war and the neocons are all about war. They just LOVED the chance to send our armed forces into Iraq - what a great playing field for our troops and oh so lucrative for the defense and reconstruction industry!
Ned Lamont’s victory is the first real challenge to their warmonguery. It was almost like D-day for the anti-war movement. The first foothold in enemy territory. Now the neocons know that the anti-war movement has to be driven back from its beachhead and they use every legitimate or illegitimate trick towards that objective. The “Weekly Standard” reporting is just one such desperate attempt to nip the anti-war movement in the bud.
Their tactic only works as long as their intentions are obscured. So the message must be brought loud and clear to the people that they are duped into prosecuting the Iraq war. The neocon Republicans are the party of warprofiteering and it’s time that the taxpayers put an end to this sham.

Digby’s got a piece up about MyDD’s piece on Busby…

…snip:
Busby’s campaign turns out to have been far less effective than the media suggested. While she certainly galvanized Democrats in the 50th Congressional District, and while Republican turnout was markedly lower than usual because of disenchantment with the status quo, she failed to capture the one constituency she desperately needed to put her over the top, which was independent voters. Her promise to push for better ethics in Washington fell utterly flat with them, because they were almost as suspicious about the integrity of the Democratic Party as they were of the Republicans. Things might have been differenBt if Busby had been running against Duke Cunningham himself, but the man was in prison, not on the ballot. Independents, according to the survey, either stayed home or voted for a third-party candidate.

What might have induced those independents to vote for Busby? According to Rick Jacobs, the Courage Campaign’s chair, all it would have taken was a simple promise to hold the administration’s feet to the fire. “Voters want a candidate to say, ‘I will hold George Bush accountable,’” Jacobs told me.

Linky
Good on Ned for showing the way…

Yes Nate. FDL plowed up a snake and threw it into Republican HQ. TRex is quite a find.

remember valley of the dolls?
that is what is going on with the pugs that are seeing their congress won’t be there. there will be charges for some, perhaps many. They are on overdrive because they don’t see any reason to live if they can’t live in power. They will take anything for the high, you can see it very clearly in harris, loserman, ney, that nice richie cunningham the war hero and all his friends……
desperation will set in for more as we get closer. Not all of them are going to have their charges delayed until after this election, although many will, too many. their friends have seen to that.

but now is the time we see about voting machines that you know aren’t going to be “functional” just everywhere

qwfwq @ 63

Is Wallace giving him a reach-around?

He tried . The Irani’s answers were pretty evasive but Mike’s questions were pretty direct. Nothing was resolved. of course. The Irani refused to answer any more questions as Mike did want to ask a few more.
I think it was from an earlier 60 Minutes.
The communication on both parts was business as usual. NADA

scarecrow @ 19

These are strange characters, none of whom resembles anyone we know. Anyone know what Ned’s driver actually looks like? And who is the woman supposed to be?

siun? RevDeb?

Eleanor Roosevelt?

hey– we’re here to celebrate our electric Democracy!
Just watching George not gonna happen Allen insult a
happenin American with my own eyes make me remember Mohammed Ali fighting them.

Frank, was your point about Lincoln Chafee that he would lose in the primary and then win the General? I don’t know anything about RI, but I thought Chafee was our best hope?

I’m already cleaning the spare room and making a casserole, re:

He doesn’t even want to outlaw traditional marriage and make every American family sponsor a transexual Palestinian teenager in their homes.

TRex, you SO ROCK!

Every night I pray for one thing - that people like Lamont, Tester, and Webb and many others, are going to fight like everything this time around. And I mean fight all out, with every single weapon available, not like Kerry did.

I will NOT go quietly into that good night and I do not want my candidates doing so either. Any candidate who is not talking about the Bush failures every second is not on the front lines.

Valley Girl, I forgot to say I love your #21, just as I remember TRex coming here too. Back then he called trexing “Rexing”, and we thoroughly enjoyed adopting that immediately and soon renamed it after him. Giggles galore with the old Haloscan watching Jane’s wit go to work on the troll fools. Happy sigh here, such good times and they’re just improving by the hour. Be afraid wingnuts, be very afraid.

Now Bush is on C-SPAN so I turned it off. I can’t even stand to hear his voice in the distance. UGH

Interestingly in The Economist there was a small blurb I read that referred to an “emerging anti-war center”.

It takes a magazine from another country to point out the obvious.

I went on WBZ talk radio the other night to inform the host that the “so-called anti-war fringe” consisted of 60% of Americans.

-GSD

Too bad the Weakly Standard can’t employ talented artists. What a hack job that “art” is.

g’nite firepups

Maybe these spoiled Neoconpublican brats are injecting poison into what’s left of the ”debate” for a reason.

If they can’t bend the body politic to their will, they’ll bust it to smithereens so that its potential as a force for change, for redress of manifest grievances, for social and economic equity, and for peace and justice in the Middle East and elsewhere will never be realized.

They are losing the wars, losing the debates, losing their minds, and they are showing their fangs. They’ll try to exacerbate every fissure in society to prevent the looming possiblity that the people whom they have screwed recognize their common tormenters and turn upon them to demand a little justice.

The corner where Daddy can’t help you is a terrible place to be. They know, because that’s where they have kept the rest of us for years.

Even if they act like particularly nasty children, these are adults. They act with malice and premeditation, and they must be held responsible for the immediate and long-term effects of their actions. There was not a moment of innocence in the development and publication of that magazine cover.

‘nite, OFG

Great piece TRex, as usual. Whats up in the toobz firepups?

Have any of these idiots on TV actually said, “Hey, Ned - congrats on your legitimate victory over an incumbent Senator”?

Wallace: Cheney said you hate ‘Murrica. And Dubya’s “Democrat With Benefits”, Holy Joe, said your victory gives comfort and encouragement to the Al Qaeda-types. Why do you want to surrender to terrorists? Why do you want to take the tools that law enforcement needs away, strip Americans naked, set our National Balls on fire and run us through the slaughter line?

from Driftglass

This Bush/Coulter Republican Party with Rasputin Rove reminds me of the curse of alcoholism.

It is said that when an alkie quits drinking and they pick back up, the severity of the disease has progressed during the time they were sober so it is back to raging behavior almost immediately once a relapse happens.

The Bush/Coulter Republican Party lead by Rasputin Rove picks up each campaign with the progressive venom and ferocity that has only grown stronger and worse since the last election.

This one is going to be for the records for its gutter appeals and fear mongering and base character assassination.

-GSD

Here’s my email to all the sponsors of Chuck Roberts on HLN

Hello,

I’m writing to express my outrage at your continued support of Chuck Roberts, who referred to Democratic Senate nominee Ned Lamont as the “Al Qaeda Candidate.”

This kind of blatant stenography for the Bush administration smears you, as its sponsor, with the same taint.

Until you withdraw your advertising from CNN Headline News, no one in my family will do business with you.

Sincerely,

Hilda @ 17

Way OT, when you’d like a breather from all the nasty things that are going on in the world, politically, and everywhere else, go to:

http://www.cuteoverload.com/

This should have probably been included in the earlier cat discussion. Sorry I missed posting it there.

It was a link in the General’’s comments that led me to this pic:

http://kittenwar.com/kittens/76788/

(Disclaimer: I did not name this kitten, and am not even owned by a cat at the present time *sniff*. But this is one cute kitty with a fantastic name!)

Juan Carlos and my cat Oatmeal could be twins. Though my kitty is not a true Siamese, she was born to two all black cats and her brother Jesse Owens (my other cat) is all black.

Or to allow a corrupt government to invade our sovereign homes. They must be really afraid of Mr. Smith going to Washington with all the other Ms. and Misters-look out.

Good post.

very ridiculous, of course

But planned. The swift boating of Kerry was ridiculous. But planned. And, in that case, effective.

I think the effort is to create a media tizzy.

Best bet is probably to stay studiously calm. No one with earrings in their nose for them to do a CNN close-up on and run every hour.

Speak to the sensible middle. Calmly — no matter what the provocation. They are with us on the issues.

A circus is the rightwing establishment’s last hope for a diversion.

Hey… maybe a stupid question here, but um, is that supposed to be Hillary also on that cover? or is there a more obvious answer as to who that woman is and I’m just too sleepy to get it? It’s not looking like anyone, frankly, to me.

Yes, Hillary.

-GSD

Wow, bad Hillary caricature. Kinda got a Christie Todd Whitman/my aunt Laurie thing going on.

Two stories on George Allen’s racial slur in WaPo. This one’s an editorial: George Allen’s America

I believe a lot has been accomplished in the past week. We have flushed out and exposed the true inner right wing Rovian Republican “I got beat by Al-Qaeda” warmonger that is Joe Lieberman, with his eager mouthing of Dick Cheney’s bellicose talking points, and we have flushed out and exposed the whole freaking chorus of lunatic Far Right Wingnuttia that is now Joe Lieberman’s core constituency. And many in the traditional Democratic Party establishment have come out, however reluctantly, to support Ned Lamont. Things are becoming clearer as they emerge from behind the smoke and mirrors.

I just wonder if Holy Joe will get enough Republicans to vote for him to keep his seat. That would suck.

TRex @ 93

I just wonder if Holy Joe will get enough Republicans to vote for him to keep his seat. That would suck.

If that millionaire GOP guy gets in the race it favors Ned. Let’s hope the GOP makes this move instead of backing RGJoe.

I think that in his frothing frenzy to attract Republican votes, Loserman will marginalize himself by revealing his essential wingnut nature and causing reasonable-minded independents to join the strong majority of Democrats who will support him becaue he represents their views as well as because he is the Democratic Party’s rightful nominee.

Very poor caricature of Lamont. Looks closer to Blair than Lamont, in my opinion. Memo to Weekly Standard graphics artists: Ned’s forelock goes from [his] right to left, not left to right. Check it out on Lamont’s home page.

TRex @ 93

I just wonder if Holy Joe will get enough Republicans to vote for him to keep his seat. That would suck.

Well, with 60% of Americans against the war, it should be possible to get a majority to vote in favor of the anti-war candidate.

…so! If this clumsy effort at discrediting Lamont or trying to make him look like…what? white massah? is any indication of the upcoming style of the rights’ attack, there isn’t much to worry about. Think back to the last two elections. Rove held sway with the media and all was controlled by Delay. All gone.

As for me, I have my sausage maker from Williams Sonoma ready on the counter to make big, fat sausages out of some of our old friends. First will be Conrad Burns, Rev Moon and Bobby Novak for a nice yellow curry flavor. I have some other ideas but I know how cooks try to steal innovative recipes so I’ll keep the rest close to my chest. FDL’rs will be the first to know.

I think that in his frothing frenzy to attract Republican votes, Loserman will marginalize himself by revealing his essential wingnut nature and causing reasonable-minded independents to join the strong majority of Democrats who will support him because he represents their views as well as because he is the Democratic Party’s rightful nominee.

Thread Theorist @ 97

Very poor caricature of Lamont. Looks closer to Blair than Lamont, in my opinion. Memo to Weekly Standard graphics artists: Ned’s forelock goes from [his] right to left, not left to right. Check it out on Lamont’s home page.

I don’t think accuracy and the Weekly Standard are friends.

neurophius @ 95

I think that in his frothing frenzy to attract Republican votes, Loserman will marginalize himself by revealing his essential wingnut nature and causing reasonable-minded independents to join the strong majority of Democrats who will support him becaue he represents their views as well as because he is the Democratic Party’s rightful nominee.

There is Truth here. I think you’re absolutely right that he is going to unmask the real wingnut that he is in this campaign thinking that its ok to run right of Ned to pick up all the GOP votes. In his haste to do this, youre right, he will lose the reasonable moderate independents who hate that shit.

Ned just needs to be the Ned we’ve seen for the last 8 weeks. He has some media polish now (he was soooo shiny on the Sunday heads shows) and he has moxy to go with that polish. People have heard this “weak Dems” crap for so long they are genuinely surprised to hear a guy like Ned be bold consistently. He sounds like JFK circa 1959. YAY for a return of the national secuirty Democrats!

Can anyone tell me how “edit this comment” is supposed to work? When I clicked on it, my comment did not reappear in the box below. I copied and pasted it from above, and made my correction, but that resulted in publishing the original as well as the corrected comment.

TRex,

I don’t think there is a hope in hell that Joe will win. But he can be very damaging as theater as the Rove crowd tries to re-frame the national discussion.

If the Dem leadership will unanimously condemn Joe, no holds barred, and AGGRESSIVELY attack gwb for not pursuing Al Queda and for not addressing port safety and chem plant security, etc., and AGGRESSIVELY attack gwb for taking us on a disasterous sideshow in Iraq based upon lies, then we will be ok.

But we need to look — and be — decisive. That’s what voters want to feel secure.

And Rove wants Lieberman to reinforce the stereotype of indecisive, flip flopping, of two minds all the time Dem leaders. As well as wild-eyed hippie peacenik bloggers, of course.

it is tribalism. us v. them.

Rove is trying to convince middle America that they belong with the Republican tribe, even if gwb has made a few mistakes

bloggers should be relentlessly civil and corrosively accurate

Dem leaders need to bare teeth

we’ll see

neurophius @ 102

Can anyone tell me how “edit this comment” is supposed to work? When I clicked on it, my comment did not reappear in the box below. I copied and pasted it from above, and made my correction, but that resulted in publishing the original as well as the corrected comment.

Its supposed to have your original comment loaded into the box thingy. I know Opera browsers have been having lots of glitches, what browser do you use?

There is a need to do two things. Push Liebermans’ wingnutty and salivating support of the Bush/Coulter Republican Iraq war and to push Liebermans’ legitimate liberal credentials.

Many a conservative won’t vote for a gay lovin’ abortion supportin’, socialist Democrat, period.

-GSD

neurophius @ 103

Can anyone tell me how “edit this comment” is supposed to work? When I clicked on it, my comment did not reappear in the box below. I copied and pasted it from above, and made my correction, but that resulted in publishing the original as well as the corrected comment.

I’ve found that you need to wait for the comment to load in the reply section, and sometimes this takes some time.

Well, I think the myth of Lieberman caucusing with the dems if he wins should be put to bed for good now. I can’t understand why they aren’t coming out full bore to shut him down. He’s hell-bent on dragging the whole party down with him if he loses and he certainly will if he wins.

Wassup, dems??

Exhibit A:

We have always liked Joe’s support for gay rights, the right to choose an abortion and his unstinting support for welfare and social programs, but it is sad to see that he has gone so far afield in his support for George Bush’s war.

-GSD

jwp says

“If the Dem leadership will unanimously condemn Joe, no holds barred, and AGGRESSIVELY attack gwb for not pursuing Al Queda and for not addressing port safety and chem plant security, etc…”

You are correct. Port security represents a gaping hole in homeland security (as much as I find that term distasteful). Every one of those intermodal freight containers that pour into our country uninspected could hold the lethal equivilant of thousands of the water bottles and tubes of toothpaste that people are being forced to throw away at airports. That is just one of many ways in which our real security is being ignored while Bush squanders billions on attempting to save face in Iraq. Democrats should be hammering on that theme every day. Bush and the Republican Rubber Stamp Congress are making our country weaker, not stronger.

I don’t think Joe has a chance either.

I think Jane and the other Masters of the Blogoverse should get together and choose another candidate or two for us all to rally behind like rabid lambs. Look at all of the mayhem and disarray the thugs were thrown into just by Lamont. Imagine if there were a few more candidates like that rocking their world hehe.

They wanted this election to be about the war. They wanted us to bring it on. Sometimes you get what you wish for, you Reichublican bottomfeeders :)

I think it’s so cute that they still hope that associating a candidate with DailyKos and MoveOn will discredit him. Yet another smear that people have wised up to, and now it’s just more preaching to the wingnut converted.

what browser do you use?

I use MSN/Internet Explorer.

How long should it take for the comment to reappear in the lower window?

John Casper @
71

Frank, was your point about Lincoln Chafee that he would lose in the primary and then win the General? I don’t know anything about RI, but I thought Chafee was our best hope?

No, my point is that he’s a Republican incumbent Senator who’s about to lose his party’s primary. To someone who’s more right wing. The Dems will probably win the seat either way, but it’s going to be interesting to see if there’s as much Republican hand-wringing over his defeat as there was over Lieberman’s.

Sorry if this is old news but this looks a bit like a Rovian homosexual plot to stir up the election cycle.

hat tip to
http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/.....chall.aspx

OldCoastie @
65

Digby’s got a piece up about MyDD’s piece on Busby…

…snip:
Busby’s campaign turns out to have been far less effective than the media suggested. While she certainly galvanized Democrats in the 50th Congressional District, and while Republican turnout was markedly lower than usual because of disenchantment with the status quo, she failed to capture the one constituency she desperately needed to put her over the top, which was independent voters. Her promise to push for better ethics in Washington fell utterly flat with them, because they were almost as suspicious about the integrity of the Democratic Party as they were of the Republicans. Things might have been differenBt if Busby had been running against Duke Cunningham himself, but the man was in prison, not on the ballot. Independents, according to the survey, either stayed home or voted for a third-party candidate.

What might have induced those independents to vote for Busby? According to Rick Jacobs, the Courage Campaign’s chair, all it would have taken was a simple promise to hold the administration’s feet to the fire. “Voters want a candidate to say, ‘I will hold George Bush accountable,’” Jacobs told me.

Linky
Good on Ned for showing the way…

I don’t think Busby lost yet. The matter is in serious litigation. Check out Bradblog for all the dish.

Al Sharpton as a chauffeur…My, what an original, sensitive treatment of an innocuous, prejudice-free subject.

…

Felt a breeze from all the eye rolling there

;>)

Magazine cover, eh?

You can tell it’s old…Still has ‘Fitz’ on it.

;>)

I was shocked today when I read Bob Geigers blog that 4 democrats have already endorsed Lieberman and 22 have not spoken up. Sen Murray is one of the 22, since she is my senator I wrote her and plan to call tomorrow. I am really appalled that anyone that holds office as a democrat would go outside the party and endorse Lieberman.

In case you missed it here’s the link.

http://www.democrats.com/node/9735

I am so pissed that any elected democrat would endorse Lieberman I could just spit!

neurophius @ 113

what browser do you use?

I use MSN/Internet Explorer.

How long should it take for the comment to reappear in the lower window?

It should appear in ten seconds or so at the slowest. Is it the new IE7 with tabed browsing and new stuff? It may be a glitch if its the new beta of IE. If its an old IE6.5 or 6.x I dont know what to say.

Kurt,

I say onward and upward to James Webb. Old George Felix Allen has stepped on his tiny rebel weenie and needs some more metaphorical hurt.

Perhaps a new float?

-GSD

Kurt @ 110

I don’t think Joe has a chance either.

I think Jane and the other Masters of the Blogoverse should get together and choose another candidate or two for us all to rally behind like rabid lambs. Look at all of the mayhem and disarray the thugs were thrown into just by Lamont. Imagine if there were a few more candidates like that rocking their world hehe.

I think the next two are Webb and Tester, oui?

In who else’s direction should we be spreading the lurve? Just say the word and give a linky and our lambs will be there with the mint jelly …

Eureka Springs, AR @
115

Sorry if this is old news but this looks a bit like a Rovian homosexual plot to stir up the election cycle.

hat tip to
http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/.....chall.aspx

Looks like a standard civil-rights move to me. I don’t think Rove can afford to push ”Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” right now. They need to keep the spotlight away from all of the Arabic language specialists they’ve booted.

They guys act like they know they’re on the wrong side of history.

neurophius @ 93

I believe a lot has been accomplished in the past week. We have flushed out and exposed the true inner right wing Rovian Republican “I got beat by Al-Qaeda” warmonger that is Joe Lieberman, with his eager mouthing of Dick Cheney’s bellicose talking points, and we have flushed out and exposed the whole freaking chorus of lunatic Far Right Wingnuttia that is now Joe Lieberman’s core constituency. And many in the traditional Democratic Party establishment have come out, however reluctantly, to support Ned Lamont. Things are becoming clearer as they emerge from behind the smoke and mirrors.

I’ve been waiting a long time for top Republicans to deliver the kind of Captain-Queeg-caliber performance that will shock the mushy middle. But the mushy middle doesn’t appear to be very shockable. They bought into the GOP lies that the Dems are as bad as they are, just differently bad.

Actually, I think that with any luck, Joe will discredit the whole “centrist” DLC worldview. Similar to the “balanced news” view that if both sides complain, you must be getting it about right, DLC-style centrism says that no matter how far the conservatives run to the right, the “center” where all moderate Americans are is about halfway between. Or in Joe’s case, a mix of positions that are (however insincerely) in line with liberals and ones that are in line with the wingnuts.

Of course, the real center is nowhere near that, but ever since Clinton was elected, the DLC types have been loudly claiming that it is. They’ll never admit their philosphy is dead, but Joe’s rogue candidacy may help put a wooden stake in it.

Thanks for the memory, there, darkblack ….

Kurt @
40

Mocha Dem @ 35

It’s clear the Republicans believe this race is for all the marbles. If Lamont wins it ignites the flame that takes them down. Essentially this is the preview of the 2008 election, and the starting point is where they left off in 2004.

Lieberman will not withdraw, under any circumstance. It doesn’t matter if all the living Dems in the universe petition him to do so. He is in it to the end and he is a Republican.

The question is how do we respond? Is Lamont’s base strong enough, broad enough to hold up under three months of brutal attacks?

If we don’t win this one, their cold Culture War will go hot. Do we really want the US to look like Baghdad? We had better be strong enough to hold up through the election. The alternative is way less palatable.

Remember, remember, the 7th of November

i’m with both of you. what has happened since Lamont won is ”the new normal”. we have to keep fighting for Lamont and Jon Tester, the guy in Virginia whose name slips my mind, etc.

This is a ”civil war”. It is also a ”class war”. Only the Republican/Neocon whatever you want to call thems aren’t being civil and they have no class. We should be surprised at NOTHING they do.

So, what have we got against us? Big Corporations, the
MSM, AIPAC, the RNC, the DLC, the rest of the Washington Establishment (both Republican and Democratic), probably some other entities as well.

Other than that, it’s a piece of cake!

Darkblack,

Howza yowza.

Your assigment is to find all of the bloggers and mainstream sources that chimed in on the Smoky Joe flap and then help us hold them accountable.

The list starts with Joe Lieberman. Will he denounce The Weakly Standard?

-GSD

O.K. I’ll do some oppo-research too.

Frank Probst @ 114

John Casper @
71

No, my point is that he’s a Republican incumbent Senator who’s about to lose his party’s primary. To someone who’s more right wing. The Dems will probably win the seat either way, but it’s going to be interesting to see if there’s as much Republican hand-wringing over his defeat as there was over Lieberman’s.

Rep Joe Schwartz (R) in MI lost his primary to a more RW conservative too, the day that Lieberman lost. I have no idea if a democrat is going to pick up the seat. But I thought it was interesting that it got almost no press.

Allen sured stepped in the Mc Caca, and the headlines can only get better over the next couple days. Re, this kos diary:

Some Conservative Bloggers now rejecting Allen

Another good guy.

Paul Hodes(D) in NH has a possible shot at Charlie Bass(R). Bass was for the term-limit pledge before he was against it.

http://www.hodesforcongress.com/

-GSD

GSD @ 129

Another good guy.

Paul Hodes(D) in NH has a possible shot at Charlie Bass(R). Bass was for the term-limit pledge before he was against it.

http://www.hodesforcongress.com/

-GSD

That pledge has irritated the shit out of a bunch of my wingnut buddies here. They now see they have been getting lied to clearly and it pisses them off. There is a serious anti-incumbent mood in the air all over.

George Allen video already on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL3Q9gUEvtA

Kewalo @ 131

George Allen video already on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL3Q9gUEvtA

He is so in trouble for this, its awesome!

“I see dead people.”
Chris Matthews, after watching RGJ’s new campaign commercial. 8/14/2006

medaka @
121

I don’t think Joe has a chance either.

I think Jane and the other Masters of the Blogoverse should get together and choose another candidate or two for us all to rally behind like rabid lambs. Look at all of the mayhem and disarray the thugs were thrown into just by Lamont. Imagine if there were a few more candidates like that rocking their world hehe.

I think the next two are Webb and Tester, oui?

Si, Webb and Tester are the next two.

preznit giv me turkee @
82

Wallace: Cheney said you hate ‘Murrica. And Dubya’s “Democrat With Benefits”, Holy Joe, said your victory gives comfort and encouragement to the Al Qaeda-types. Why do you want to surrender to terrorists? Why do you want to take the tools that law enforcement needs away, strip Americans naked, set our National Balls on fire and run us through the slaughter line?

from Driftglass

driftglass is REALLY hot. a perfect match for TRex’s post.

medaka @ 121

Kurt @ 110

I don’t think Joe has a chance either.

I think Jane and the other Masters of the Blogoverse should get together and choose another candidate or two for us all to rally behind like rabid lambs. Look at all of the mayhem and disarray the thugs were thrown into just by Lamont. Imagine if there were a few more candidates like that rocking their world hehe.

I think the next two are Webb and Tester, oui?

In who else’s direction should we be spreading the lurve? Just say the word and give a linky and our lambs will be there with the mint jelly …

Honestly I’m not that familiar with the Tester and Webb campaigns…and this is Jane’s blog and I wouldn’t presume to steal her thunder hehe. As long as we are all focused on the same few candidates though, we’ll have a maximum of impact, rather than diluting our efforts all over the place as individuals.

Tom Tomorrow Today
http://www.salon.com/comics/to.....ndex1.html

Stephen @ 138

Tom Tomorrow Today
http://www.salon.com/comics/to.....ndex1.html

I almost got Sparky the Penguin tattooed on my shoulder. He’s my hero.

Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 133

v=pL3Q9gUEvtA

He is so in trouble for this, its awesome!

Heh heh heh

The story is perhaps ten years old, but a little history on the references to Gunter Grass and his early 1960’s novel, “The Tin Drum.” (in German, late 50’s, English in 61-62).

I haven’t looked up the dates, and my files on this were fried a couple of computers ago, but about the time of Clinton’s impeachment, Dobson’s outfit in Oklahoma, Oklahoma Family Association I think, got the local police chief in OK City to designate the film, Tin Drum as morally unfit due to a fuzzy nude scene that included Oskar in the midst of the film. The police raided the public library and pulled the videos off the shelf, and then went further, and went to all the video rental stores in the area, and confiscated their tapes and records regarding who had rented the film. The one copy that was then rented out, they went to retrieve, and as one would expect, it was in the machine of the local head of the ACLU, who was watching it because of the Library Raids. Anyhow, long story short — the ACLU, the Oklahoma Library Association, and the American Library Association went into Federal Court and brought suit. The internet was just new in those days — no blogs, just message boards — but they put one up with comments allowed, and also published all the court records, briefs as well as transcripts of discovery. Believe me, discovery against one of Dobson’s boys was a total hoot. (Have you ever studied the literary genre of Magical Realism? Do you know what it is? How many novels do you generally read every year? Do you read other Contemporary German Writers?) The poor guy was a wacko fundi, with not much of a grip on the bible. And I actually got to make a small contribution to the case — sending the ACLU lawyer notes I had used while teaching this novel back in the 1980’s. In the middle of the first section of the novel there is a chapter about the round up of Jews in Danzig, including the toyseller who keeps Osker in Tin Drums. The story is told over and over again — but if you read it aloud and know a little scripture, it is 1st Corinthians in tone and meter. Anyhow, when teaching, I used to get my students to read aloud from a slide copy of Martin Luther’s translation in German — and then return to Tin Drum and read with the meter in mind. It really got students into looking at the deep art in the novel — never would I guess it would end up in discovery in a case like this — did you know that Grass adopted Luther’s translation of 1st Corinthians…..?

Anyhow, ACLU and the library associations won their case in a bench trial, and then it was appealed. Believe it or not, one of the “friends of the court” that came into the appeal was Concerned Women of America, and none other than Ann Coulter wrote their brief. (Not a Lawyer — but have a few credentials as a Historian dealing with Con. Law stuff in History). Anyhow, I have never seen such a stupid brief. I mean stupid. Anyhow appeals court agreed with the trial court, and the Supremes denied cert, so the case was “finally” over. It took about 3 years.

Came to find out that Richard Mellon Scaife was the funder of this attack on Tin Drum, and apparently what bothered him was the pressure on in the Lit World to get Grass a Nobel Prize — he got it a few years later. But I also suspect that Oklahoma was one of the few places where local cops would be so stupid to raid the head of the ACLU’s house, and pull the video tape out of his player.

Anyhow, that is the back story. The Oklahoma Library Association has the entire thing in their online Archives — and while I haven’t revisited what was once my passion on the net — I would imagine one can access all of it through their site. This story was huge in Europe where Grass is a literary rock star — but it was marginally covered in the US. The Times generally posted a few inches on the case as it meandered on. I think it was before Google, so perhaps one can search it now.

I suspect they are hauling this into the Lamont Saga as a sort of symbol to the Dobson people and maybe the Scaife people, that they have not given up on the desire to trash Grass and get the film and novel banned somehow. Perhaps it is also about fundraising. It is something of a lost cause. But Grass may also be dangerous to their cause in some ways because of the manner in which he dissects Fascism not only in Tin Drum, but in other works.

Back in the early 60’s, Tin Drum was a best seller, and vast numbers of 60’s students read it in those years. Today, it is hardly known, except for students who end up in classes such as the one I taught, though it remains well in print. Salman Rushdie has said in various ways and many times that he could not have become a writer, and he never could have done “Midnight’s Children” had it not been for his passion for Gunter Grass and his catharsis on first reading Tin Drum.

So if you are young, and reading this — yea, the summer is not yet over, and perhaps it is time to turn off the computer for a time and read. Yes, we all promise to read War and Peace some summer — but add to that Moby Dick, Tin Drum and Midnight’s Children. What all this is about is taking that kind of candy away from us. And for some odd reason they are now pushing it into the Lamont orbit. Resist!!!!

Kurt @ 135

Honestly I’m not that familiar with the Tester and Webb campaigns…and this is Jane’s blog and I wouldn’t presume to steal her thunder hehe. As long as we are all focused on the same few candidates though, we’ll have a maximum of impact, rather than diluting our efforts all over the place as individuals.

Exactly. So Jane and Christy, seeing as we are your Hamsher minions just give us our to-do list and we will go minionize….

Oh wait, it’s probably all there in the Blue America category, eh?

Before I go I want to thank Skippy @#4 for getting those sponsors names and numbers. I’ve already written CNN but I’m so outraged at Chuck Roberts I can’t wait to write some more emails.

Night all.

The time is right to recognize that they have no integrity, and that they don’t dersve the time of day on any such issues, and to keep repeating that to our selves that it’s about getting it, stupid. Which they obviously don’t.

TRex @
94

I just wonder if Holy Joe will get enough Republicans to vote for him to keep his seat. That would suck.

TRex,

Isn’t that the message that Mehlman/Rove et al are sending? They’re backing Lieberman and refusing to endore the Republican candidate. The actions are screaming. They can pretend otherwise, all the while looking the other way and twiddling their thumbs. Their strategy has the added effect of helping their congressional candidates.

I hope we can find an effective counter.

I read Tin Drum and turned around a month later and read it again. You’ll never see sea-gulls the same way again.

That was a long list, GSD…Those who want to ‘catch the spirit’ as it were could google ‘Lieberman/blackface’…Past a certain point, however you begin to see the Wurlitzer echo curve.

I mentioned on last night’s Late Nite that the blowback risk for the Right was that the people who took such pride in hoisting this aloft as a ‘gotcha’ had other somewhat ‘cuter’ opinions (on race relations, for example) that the centrist mass might not be too keen on…Opinions which might make their soapbox waltz on ‘The Image’ somewhat suspect.

And again, we will see equivocation that this is acceptable when that is not…But ultimately, what is not acceptable is those individuals or groups using a copywritten work without permission or proper attribution.

What can I do about it?…Bupkis. But we might as well add ‘intellectual property rights thievery’ to the ever-growing roll of Great Heinous Events In Republican History.

Maybe our little bunny friend Michelle has something to say.

Before she starts screaming

;>)

fahrender @
145

TRex @
94

I just wonder if Holy Joe will get enough Republicans to vote for him to keep his seat. That would suck.

TRex,

Isn’t that the message that Mehlman/Rove et al are sending? They’re backing Lieberman and refusing to endore the Republican candidate. The actions are screaming. They can pretend otherwise, all the while looking the other way and twiddling their thumbs. Their strategy has the added effect of helping their congressional candidates.

I hope we can find an effective counter.

The fact that Bush, Cheney, and Mehlman think they can help Joe shows you how delusional they are about their own unpopularity, particularly in Connecticut. We shouldn’t make any effort to “counter” their moves to help Lieberman. Let him have all the rope he wants.

darkblack @ 145

Maybe our little bunny friend Michelle has something to say.

Before she starts screaming

;>)

HA HA HA 707 !!!

TBogg weighs in on the Weekly Shitturd too.

Ken Mehlman flounced his way on to the talking head shows

is there something about Kenny?

punaise @ 151

Ken Mehlman flounced his way on to the talking head shows

is there something about Kenny?

I just like using the verb “to flounce”. Oh, well, that and the fact that Kenny’s as gay as Liza Minelli’s feather boa.

has anyone else noted that that is a horrible likeness of Ned Lamont? Looks more like sad-sack Arlen Spector.

I thought maybe it was a typo for “floss”…:~)

And with that, I have snarked myself into a sleepy daze. You kids be good. Play nice. Have a lovely night. And keep your pets away from your shoes in case Rita Cosby suddenly appears on TV.

punaise @ 153

has anyone else noted that that is a horrible likeness of Ned Lamont? Looks more like sad-sack Arlen Spector.

None of them really look like who they’re supposed to look like. I’ve seen sad old alcoholics at Six Flags who could turn out a better caricature than that with their eyes closed.

ships in the night, TRex…..buenos nachos (y buena salsa)

…now I try to be amused @ 122

They guys act like they know they’re on the wrong side of history.

I think some of them do. Their style of “governing” is always to act as if the future past the next election day doesn’t exist, so “solving” any problem just means kicking the can down the road beyond that.

Initially, I think this was because of their faith-based government — faith in “conservative” theories, that is. So many of them had spent most of their time in wingnut welfare, where you can believe whatever you want as long as it doesn’t seriously challenge conservative dogma, that they had absolute faith in their radical ideas (”cutting taxes raises revenue!” “we should use our military to show the world who’s boss!” etc.) that they were convinced if they were implemented, they would work and everyone else would see. They didn’t work, but they were convinced that they just needed more time.

I think the smarter ones now realize that a lot of their harebrained schemes won’t work, and if they lose a house of Congress, investigations will start to expose the truly insane and illegal things they did to prop up the schemes, before the end of Bush’s term approaches and they can shred the papers, get pardons, and leave someone else holding the bag and taking the blame.

(That’s just the true believers, of course; the corrupt mob who took conservatism’s “you’re on your own” veneer to mean “loot the Treasury lest someone else beats you to it” are a whole separate chapter.)

WWHD?

What Would Haddassa Do?

Will Joe Lieberman demand that the Weakly Standard denounce this picture and then sever his ties with Bill Kristol?

(Snip)

“Lieberman angrily demanded that Lamont denounce the action and sever all ties with Jane Hamsher, the founder of the Web log Firedoglake, who posted the photo on another blog, HuffingtonPost.com.”

http://www.boston.com/news/nat.....ace_photo/

-GSD

Mehlman wasn’t looking so good when I saw him this weekend (on tv). He’s looking all greyish and sickly.

Like a Cardassian, but with fewer neckbones.

punaise @ 149

Ken Mehlman flounced his way on to the talking head shows

is there something about Kenny?

He’s said to be a bit light in the loofahs. Or was that O’Reilly ….

trounce.
bounce.
flounce?

denounce.
pounce.
it counts.

Kurt @ 160

Mehlman wasn’t looking so good when I saw him this weekend (on tv). He’s looking all greyish and sickly.

Like a Cardassian, but with fewer neckbones.

Sucking the soul out of the nation sound-bite by sound-bite is terrible on the complexion.

-GSD

punaise @ 160

trounce.
bounce.
flounce?

denounce.
pounce.
it counts.

every ounce.

It occurs to me that there’s another person who’s on the wrong side of history — George Allen with his presidential bid. Not that he can’t get nominated (I wouldn’t care to handicap that contest), but that he’s very much another George Bush — carpetbagger who turned himself into a good ol’ boy, dumb and proud of it, mean but fairly good at hiding it, etc.

People don’t want George Bush now. I really doubt they’re going to want another George Bush in two years.

medaka @ 161

He’s said to be a bit light in the loofahs. Or was that O’Reilly ….

*feigning shock*:Mr. Long Face, well I never….

Earlier this evening I sent an email to Rep. Corrine Brown (FL-3) explaining the Allen campaign incident, and provided the link to the YouTube video.

Brown is the vice-chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. I asked that she please look into the incident, and have the CBC demand an explanation and an apology from Allen. I said that he needs to be challenged immediately, and very publicly.

Considering that it’s already getting lots of play in the print media, the next few days should be very interesting for the intellectually-deficient senator from VA.

As Cher once sang: “Do you believe in life after Lieberman”

medaka @ 161

Or was that O’Reilly ….

Bill falafel the back of a truck

punaise says:

trounce.
bounce.
flounce?

denounce.
pounce.
it counts

medaka says:

every ounce

trouble mounts…

Shoephone,

I sent a few of the research links about the word “makakka” to Keith Olbermann. Hopefully he’ll run with that.

Great work. The CBC is one of last spots in the government that I trust.

-GSD

Redshift. Allen is Bush. Talk about toxic comparison. That is one to run with, far and fast.

medaka @ 164

punaise @ 160

trounce.
bounce.
flounce?

denounce.
pounce.
it counts.

every ounce.

good counse(l)

Dildo Bill’O tried to get Ms. Makris to give him “hommous” under the desk too.

-GSD

1,242 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN GOEZ ON AND ON AND…

TRex:

You go guy!! You are a boon to all of us night workers…bless yer heart.

Please help the gun shy and bruised progressive folks around here who are takin’ the Rovian fascist mems seriously to stand up, take a breath and feel what winnin’ is like.

The behavior that we have been seein’ since that wonderful Tuesday night is the final “coming out” of the formerly “friendly fascists”. The overt racism and character assasination of whole groups of voters is only gunna get worse but it can’t win for ‘em unless folks are intimidated by it or try and accomodate it.

Call bullshit on ‘em all, in the supermarket, in the office, on the street, in church…drive the truth down their chickenshit throats!! But don’t back down fer God’s sake!!

The junta has taken the mask off, the rhetoric will get worse and the reserve army of minutement, aryan nation folks and Nazis will become more and more visable…there will undoubtedly be scattered , premeditated violence at public rallies for progressive candidates. This is what we get for buyin’ into the DLC corporate bullshit in 1992 and allowin the takeover of the Democratioc Party.

KEEP THE FAITH, KICK ASS AND TAKE NO PRISONERS, THIS IS THE REAL THING!!!

GSD -

Good for you. Olbermann should take to it like a dawg after a bone.

I tried to contact the NAACP first, but their email is temporarily down for the count.

I like the CBC too.

GSD @ 173

Dildo Bill’O tried to get Ms. Makris to give him “hommous” under the desk too.

-GSD

but did he achieve a mergezm? of cous-cous not.

She did say after the hommous that she did falaful. She was very Syrian about the harrassment. She said Bill wanted her to talk dirty too, he wanted to her chat while in the bathroom, he said he was turned on by chickpeas.

-GSD

punaise @ 170

medaka @ 164

punaise @ 160

every ounce.

good counse(l)

Either mine or Roy Blount’s (’ll do it every time)

Ramesh coming up on Colbert.

Norske,

On that rallying cry.

Adieu all Doggees.

-GSD

Muzzy @ 179

Ramesh coming up on Colbert.

Gonna be a bloodbath!

Is Ramesh one of the Indian conservatives, or am I thinking of Dinesh D’Souza?

Oh well, I’ll find out when I see it on C and L …

trounce.
bounce.
flounce?

denounce.
pounce.
it counts.

every ounce.

trouble mounts…

good counse(l)

Either mine or Roy Blount’s (’ll do it every time)

“sounce” good to me,
will make allowance.

will make allowance.
will make a lou(d) wince.

OK! moving on…..

medaka - check the Ramesh and the party of death FDL archive.

trounce.
bounce.
flounce?

denounce.
pounce.
it counts.

every ounce.

trouble mounts…

good counse(l)

Either mine or Roy Blount’s (’ll do it every time)

“sounce” good to me,
will make allowance.

OK, and I’ll check all the Losts and Founds.

medaka @ 186

trounce.
bounce.
flounce?

denounce.
pounce.
it counts.

every ounce.

trouble mounts…

good counse(l)

Either mine or Roy Blount’s (’ll do it every time)

“sounce” good to me,
will make allowance.

OK, and I’ll check all the Losts and Founds.

None of you are using enough nouns.

One of the abiding questions in the Great NoMoJo imbroglio has been, roughly, why would the Pukes support Lieberwhore over their own Party’s putative nominee for the Senate seat, on Mr. Slessinger.

Has anyone considered the possibility that NoMoJo is now and has for a long time been a Puke mole embedded in the Dem hierarchy? I have tried to foreground the matter on my Blog in a piece called Connecticutting the Dots…the leg work is not mine; I cite and link to the source of the piece. The questions posed by Margie Burns last weekend are trenchant, and relevant.

It is not inconceiveable to me at least the a highly-placed Dem Senator on the GOPuke ‘pad’ would be worth a lot more to the fascisti than some ethically/morally challenged back-bencher, which is just what the current GOPuke nominee for the Lieberman seat is, and is coincidentally exactly what his (putative) 2000 challenger was, as well…

The link raises the VERY GOOD question of whether Lieberman was EVER a good-faith candidate when he ran with Gore in 2000. Or did the Bushes, with their deep family attachment and connection with Connecticut, offer Joe a free ride in return for…what?

Sabotaging the Dem ticket, would be a possible answer…

It’s not merely Lamont’s win over Lieberman, TR. The same reaction occurs when the GOP is confronted with substantive dissent of any type.

Given their mentality, in conjunction with their corporate reach and the pathetic truckling of opposition lickspittles since Reagan’s election in 1980, why the hell shouldn’t they continue to horsewhip the democratic party?

Characterize congressional democrats as you will: deers in the headlights of the mighty wurlitzer; bagmen for the corrupt; inept cowards. I’ve hurled each pejorative one time or another for the past quarter century. (I’ve also acknowledged their true blue, few and far between as they’ve been).

It boils down to all the above, combined with bad, bad habits. They long ago forgot the inherent power of simple, honest rhetoric. They’ve permitted the GOP to define the historical stakes of political debate for so long that they are now incapable of mounting a concerted attack as a unified party. I say willfully, because they damn well know the score and still refuse to fight the good fight. They are stupidly timid, for no good reason.

Mark my words: all of you who now place your faith in that party turning 180 degrees “if only” they prevail in November will be disappointed. The stakes for the nation and the world have grown exponentially higher over the course of the past 25 years. Yet the higher they’ve grown, the more craven the party of Jackson has become. We’ve reached a point where the Bush lunatics are now, today, seriously plotting to unleash nuclear weaponry upon Iran. Or do you doubt that? But congressional democrats continue to soft soap everyone, as though we were not living in the presence of a criminal conspiracy in the White House. As though time were an ally.

Ah, geeez… here endeth the sermon.

must frounce
and announce
that I renounce

I just like using the verb “to flounce”. Oh, well, that and the fact that Kenny’s as gay as Liza Minelli’s feather boa.

Don’t you mean, “Liza Minelli’s HusbandS”?

OT but simply awful.

KGTV headline from earlier this evening:
“President Bush Signs Soledad Cross Bill 21 minutes ago”

OK. Bush just signed Federal legislation to prevent the City of San Diego from being legally required to remove a Christian cross from public land, by federalizing the public land in question. On grounds that citizens who still believe in the separation of church and state would find it more difficult to sue the Federal government than the city. Why do we even need the Establishment Clause of the 1st amendment or, for that matter, the 14th amendment? Is there any bit of local politics that the Federal government doesn’t involve itself in?

Speaking of which, is there any prospect (other than arrest and indictment) that sees Cross-hugging/Latino-hating/KBR-contract-mongering Duncan Hunter losing CA-52 in November? Please, pretty please.

Sonoma @ 189

It boils down to all the above, combined with bad, bad habits. They long ago forgot the inherent power of simple, honest rhetoric. They’ve permitted the GOP to define the historical stakes of political debate for so long that they are now incapable of mounting a concerted attack as a unified party. I say willfully, because they damn well know the score and still refuse to fight the good fight. They are stupidly timid, for no good reason.

well said, alas

I really like this LTE that’s appearing in tomorrow’s Seattle P.I.

Headline insults memory of those who died in Iraq

I took exception to your recent headline portraying Joe Lieberman as a “political victim of (the) Iraq war.” There have been many victims of the invasion and occupation of Iraq — more than 40,000 Iraqi civilians and 2,500 U.S. soldiers. To characterize as a victim someone who is so complicit in the perpetration of this war and occupation as Lieberman is a deeply offensive notion.

Lieberman’s opponent Ned Lamont and his supporters are to be commended for their reclamation of progressive values. Anyone who would refer to liberals as “anti-security” is no Democrat and is unworthy to be a representative of progressives anywhere. It wasn’t the Iraq war that cost Lieberman the Democratic primary election; it was his conversion from progressivism to conservatism.

The characterization of Lieberman as a ” ‘victim of the Iraq war” is both false and offensive. I have come to expect better from the P-I.

signed,

Ramesh sounded like someone who hangs out near the start of the yellow brick road. And either Ramesh’s jacket was too big or he’s part turtle. zero applause for the Ramesh. I feel dumber for watching that. What was Ramesh yerbeling about Lieberman before Colbert could take his seat? that was so goofy.

1,242 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…

WoodyGuthrie’sGuitar:

Welcome to our world Woody…many of us oldtimers remember Joe when he was run out on the campaign stage by William Buckley and the National Review (subsidized to the hilt) to take out Lowell Weicker for his apostasy against Nixon…this was at the beginnin’ of the fascist takeover of the Republican Party and many of us have been callin’ “bullshit” on fascist Joe for a long time. I can’t believe that the corporate takeover of the Democratic Party thru the DLC, AIPAC and Clinton was allowed to happen without any kinda fight…the Reagan Revolution really knocked the socks outta traditional Democrats and unions and we are fightin’ for the life of the country today as a result.

KEEP THE FAITH, WELCOME ABOARD, THIS FIGHT IS THE REAL THING!!

GEORGE ALLEN IS NOT A RACIST

Another great dispatch from the General.

sigh. better pass this along:

Salon’s shameful six

There was Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004. Here are the six states where vote suppression could cost voters their voice — and Democrats the election — in 2006.

…

For the 2006 elections, with the control of the House and the Senate in the balance, Salon has selected six states with the most serious potential for vote suppression and the greatest potential for affecting the outcome of key races. In nearly every case, the voter-suppression techniques have been implemented since 2004 by Republican legislators or officials; only one state has a Democratic secretary of state, and only one has a Democratic-controlled legislature. The shameful six are:

ARIZONA
INDIANA
OHIO
CALIFORNIA
FLORIDA
MISSOURI

Opinion polls show that a majority of the public wants a Democratic Congress, but whether potential voters — black and Latino voters in particular — will be able to make their voices heard on Election Day is not assured. Across the country, they will have to contend with Republican-sponsored schemes to limit voting. In a series of laws passed since the 2004 elections, Republican legislators and officials have come up with measures to suppress the turnout of traditional Democratic voting blocs. This fall the favored GOP techniques are new photo I.D. laws, the criminalizing of voter registration drives, and database purges that have disqualified up to 40 percent of newly registered voters from voting in such jurisdictions as Los Angeles County.

Howdy firepups… came to this thread about an hour ago and loved TRex’s analysis; I’ve been writing a rant ever since (I’ll post it in a sec - it’s a bit long; I’m not so good on the short pithy stuff)) - shoephone, totally agree with you way back at 13; and sonoma at 189, I’ll echo punaise with another “well said.”

So hologramic,
oh my T V C one five
Oh, so demonic,
oh my T V C one five

Transition
Transmission
Transition
Transmission

Oh my T V C one five,
oh oh, T V C one five
Oh my T V C one five,
oh oh, T V C one five

My rant/observations going all the way back to the WS cover:

I see other layers of gross suggestion in this magazine cover that I haven’t heard much commented on yet. The racist overtones are quite evident and sickening, and yet there seem to be even more despicable levels of provocation intended.

You’ve got Lamont – bent over. That was actually the first and oddest thing about his poorly drawn caricature that caught my eye; it is made to look unnatural, awkward. And then you’ve got Sharpton seemingly behind him, wearing that get-up that reads both as Mr. Chauffeur and as Mr. Slave. It’s subtle, but I think it reads as part of an intended icon. You appeal to your GOP racists; you appeal to your GOP homophobes. And especially your interracial racist homophobes. We don’t have any of those in our party, but Redstatelandia is full of them.

Then you’ve got Hillary, who’s maybe sort of in the driver’s position (eyes not on road, as intended) but here more like the third member of the casual threesome; the posing hood-of-the-car girl, also strangely and intentionally masculinized to suggest every stereotype the right has or wants us to have of her, from lesbian to power-monger. The visible letter on the lawn sign is “L” – intended to suggest Lamont, Loser, Liberal, Lefty, Lesbian, etc… And then you see the “De” for “Democrat” – but subtly implied there is “defeat” or “dead.”

These guys may suck at governing, but they are masters of the hit piece. Smear messages both subtle and gross. The push poll. Dirty tricks. Vile yet plausibly deniable slander (that’s the grotesque genius of it). They’ve got those down. In fact, that’s really ALL they’ve got, and this cover reveals everything you need to know about their philosophy towards both people and politicking. They despise most people, but they also understand their weaknesses, and they will be not only ruthless but ethically shameless in exploiting the public’s worst tendencies towards fear and hate in order to hold on to power and money for themselves.

And finally, the last thing I wanted to point out here is that the headline is merely a thinly veiled attempt to smear all democrats, not merely the “Lamont Democrats.” It is a totally ironic and disingenuous headline, and they know it. By profiling Sharpton to Clinton, they know they’ve encompassed a pretty broad spectrum of the left – indeed their hope is that that just about covers everybody. They are quickly trying to label the party. That’s their plan. It’s the only thing they’re good at. Distortion in terms of framing and labeling. (Sort of echoes what you were saying, Sonoma). So we know their strategy. The good news is that it’s not only shameless but transparent as well. It’s all they’ve got. The cover itself exposes them for the wraiths of substance that they are.

OT—Thank you TRex for the cat thread upstream, and especially for those sound tracks. I haven’t laughed that hard or much in a while, a fact which should tell you that I’m another (former) Siamese cat valet, or handmaiden, or whatever it is they permit us to be around them.

My alpha male liked to patrol through the apartment. Calling out the hours in a voice roughly like The Second Escalation. All night. Wonderfully gallant and friendly most of the day, when not napping, but come midnight he had his duty to perform, and we just had to accept this fact. Once in a while he’d awaken the house with a high C so clear and perfect that one just had to laugh—there was nothing to be served by getting angry at him.

He’s long gone now, but as soon as circumstances permit I will again seek Siamese cat employment.

Oh goody. Looks like George Allen’s Lynching Party made tomorrow’s NYT! Beware of the outrageously stupid lies his spokesman tells. Even my 6-year old nephew could come up with better.

Je pense s’avenir (son avenir? punaise?) est mort.

Michelle Malkin, August 02, 2006 11:36 AM:

“I can guarantee you there will be no blackface Photoshopping on our side.”

While this could ( if feeling incharitable) be viewed as foreknowledge allowing the use of specificity as a non-answer (”I didn’t molest that congressional page…On the White House lawn,your honor”) I’m not inclined to give the Jesse & Miki Intolerance Pledge Drive that much penetration into the con. Theirs is a more subordinate ‘Bark at who you’re told to’ role, so moving on:

“Sweetheart of the blogosphere Mary Katharine Ham of Townhall.com is onboard …”

And indeed she is. Ms.Ham?

“We’re not the ones celebrating an age-old, offensive minstrel-show graphic as legitimate political communication.“

No, indeed ladies…just the same trite cliches involving race and subservience always held among certain elites, directed at a leading figure in the American black community and placed on the cover of a magazine hand delivered to every NeoCon pet holding office, owned by The News Corporation with a circulation of ‘More than 65,000 per week’, according to the Weekly Standard itself.

Nothing to celebrate…Business as usual.

Let’s return to Michelle for the closer:

“We have Mary Katharine. They have Jane Hamsher. Need I say more?”

How about “Please, Not In The Face”?

;>)

fiyero - sounds like you’ve worked in the marketing/advertising biz!

shoephone @ 205

fiyero - sounds like you’ve worked in the marketing/advertising biz!

he he… thankfully, no. I had an Engilsh teacher who once trained me to look very closely at symbols in everything I read or saw, scanning them for nuance. Sometimes I do it to a fault, and sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, you know. But I think in the case of the WS, they craft these things carefully and milk them for everything they’re worth. My only fear is seeing what they want me to see. The good news: I see really shitty art in their cover - itself a perfect icon for the party that it is totally against more funding for the arts.

uh, Mod?

Fiyero - rantastic

shoephone - Je pense que son avenir est mort.

ou alors:

je crois qu’il est foutu
(I believe he’s toast)

they made Hillary look like bloody Prince Charles

or Julia Child (”Oh, my. I’ve cut the dickens out of my thumb!”)

punaise:

or Julia Child (”Oh, my. I’ve cut the dickens out of my thumb!”)

lol. I still love the reruns of Julia and Jacques. The way she always called him “Jack”, and how she always - adamantly - opted for white wine when he took red. And especially, the rapport they had. Years of innocence…

Good night, and good morning.

.

moi aussi

*plouf*

punaise, I think those are exactly the states we need to be keeping a very close eye on and raising hell like mad in right now, yesterday, today, making it crystal clear for not only the potential of voter suppression but that it’s already happened there for the last three elections and they will brashly try it again.

How many times do we have to say, nay scream, voter fraud is imperative as one of the biggest dangers to try to prevent, correct, and expose? It’s not just those 6 states either, the Rethugs are getting more desperate by the hour feeling the mood and disgust of the country. They’re shook. We need to rattle them like a dry gourd, if not their evil cheating scrawny chickenshit necks. These people are souless, heartless, biological menaces to society and the world at large.

There’s many interesting aspects for this election coming up for America to start cleaning house that I, and I’m sure spiderpaws, will get into more deeply soon. I’ll be casting some charts and lunar charts to download. It will be passionate to say the least, lots of energy. At the same time Mercury happens to be retrograde then.

Sally says:
Not only is Mercury retrograde but Mercury and Venus is squared by transiting Neptune, foggy voting and potential fraud. Mercury retrograde in 2000 in a square to Neptune certainly created a mess no one has forgotten.

It’s also been noted that HoJo will attack the Dems so viciously for the next two months they will be stunned and taken aback, they really don’t expect it. They think he’s just sore at Lamont for losing to him. (Of course we here know very well what HoJo is up to) No, he really will try to secretly and overtly destroy our Party. But, Saturn will be squaring his natal Saturn and Mars, he’s going to be burnt toast.

d’oven do cook.
d’graphics do pop.
d’man do d’art.
no excuses needed, bought or sold.

Hadn’t posted here earlier because the site is taking 15 minutes to refresh.

Much better subject matter tonight, TRex. Sorry I missed you, shoephone. Where’s oscarsmom?

posted this at majikthise earlier, re TRex’s reference to more anti-Lamont bullshit:

“I haven’t posted here in about a year, but felt I had to say something in defense of what Lindsay may be going through. I agree that Tim Blair slimed her in the way he handled the blog entry and update. He owes her and the people Lindsay referenced above a full, clear and open apology, which he certainly failed to do in his one-liner drive-by above.

It is obvious that Lindsay has been brought into this because of her work for Lamont, where she was very effective and modest in and about her volunteer work. The links by people affiliated with Lieberman’s campaign, the new wave of media spinmeisters and these continuing accusations of anti-Semitism or of Jewish self-hatred are disturbing and worthy of note.

Lindsay’s comments about her interest in Grass’s novel as this dispute or whatever has begun developing to be have been quite honest and consistent, as opposed to issue reactions by people like Pope Benedict, Elie Weisel and Grass over the years. I know, I know, they’ve been around a bit longer……”

Fiyero, outstanding rant/observations. Another thing that caught my Eye was a subliminal message of Hillary covering up the ‘t’ in Lamont with her hand, it forms a cross, and it’s no accident it is almost centered in the page as a natural mini focal point.

The more I look at the figure of “Lamont” though I’m starting to question if that is who it really is. Someone mentioned earlier his hair is parted on the wrong side for starters. This man is not only stooped but purposely tiny, not tall and slender, nor does he have Lamont’s large eyes. Well the artist does suck, but something isn’t quite right here. Or else the artist just sucks even worse than we know he does. If it isn’t supposed to be Lamont, who could it be?

Mike Dukakis?

Hey, fdl reloaded in 90 seconds. Maybe I don’t have to bring out the packet of pipe cleaners Ted Stevens sent me to clean out the tubes in my airport-router interface………

Hi Ed*ard! I haven’t been able to say Hello to you in ages. Hope all is well with you and yours.

I’ve always thought the Freeway Blogger is good at what he does.

And now I know it for sure. Great video H E R E.

Yeeha!

Shez,

Thanks and yeah, we’re OK. We’re finishing up the coldest, wettest summer in 21 years. I hope it scares 10,000 people away from Alaska.

We have crops coming in now that usually ripen in late July - peas, broccoli, raspberries. Some stuff won’t make it - late beans, soy beans, large squash. We were at some friends’ this evening. They live up on a hill 900 feet up. Their broccoli isn’t close to heading and the peas are just now in full flower with no fruit.

How are you holding up?

Here is something for you with your morning coffee Lake dwellers…A JAmes Moore expert smackdown of Miss Piggy Rover…..They really must have some great new info on Rover…..he is in full spin mode….AH just in time for the elections let’s see if NBC will put Slater and Moore on as much as they did mAnn Coultergeist?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....27280.html

Franco:

I wonder which is more important to Rove to try to conceal (as noted in the HuffPo piece)… Rove’s close association with Abramoff or “We will leave it to students of Freud to deconstruct what we discovered through on the record interviews, but it will be clear that Mr. Rove’s motivations for promoting anti gay marriage legislation has as much to do with his own background as it does the political utility of motivating the conservative and fundamentalist base for the GOP.”

Franco @ 224

Here is something for you with your morning coffee Lake dwellers…A JAmes Moore expert smackdown of Miss Piggy Rover…..They really must have some great new info on Rover…..he is in full spin mode….AH just in time for the elections let’s see if NBC will put Slater and Moore on as much as they did mAnn Coultergeist?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....27280.html

OOO! JUICY!! To wit:

Rove is also upset about information in “The Architect” that explores his family history. … Rove’s zealous approach to promoting the anti-gay marriage amendment, however, prompted curiosity during the course of researching for the book. We will leave it to students of Freud to deconstruct what we discovered through on the record interviews, but it will be clear that Mr. Rove’s motivations for promoting anti gay marriage legislation has as much to do with his own background …”

Miss Piggy indeed!! Leather Fist Pig might be more like it.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that — Heh!

Suzanne, Probably both. Rovers “secret” obsessions have been speculated for years in the DC underground. But Moore and Slater obviously uncovered some past info that has Rover spinning like an outta control top. Despite what Rover says these guys are really fair, and terrific investigators. I have seen them interviewed many times. Anyone who has seen the documentary of Bush’s Brain and doesn’t come away weeping for the people that Rover has decimated, have no heart or soul. Moore is obviously angry and he wrote this in advance of some spin that the Rovian camp is probably about to undertake…..GOOD ON HIM…He is very, very smart.

medaka…LMAO!

Morning All, rainy in the 60’s in eastern Maine….Hot mug of coffee….now to read above…

G’morning OS, the rest of the morning crew must be right behind you …

Medaka at 221……..now THAT makes me cry………OFG..”Dayum, somebody plowed up a snake”………T’rex is something……….

I’m busy, but still here.

This site and it’s 30 city plan look like a homosexual fear campaign designed by the likes of Rove. The timing lacks subtlety and many of the locations add up to a well designed rethuglican twist. Wonder who funds it?
Wanted to see what others thought about it. Will check back

http://www.soulforce.org/righttoserve

blog post where I found it
http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/.....chall.aspx

Eureka Springs, AR @ 233

This site and it’s 30 city plan look like a homosexual fear campaign designed by the likes of Rove. The timing lacks subtlety and many of the locations add up to a well designed rethuglican twist. Wonder who funds it?
Wanted to see what others thought about it. Will check back

http://www.soulforce.org/righttoserve

blog post where I found it
http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/.....chall.aspx

Eureka, I think Soulforce are the Good Guys!

Morning all. Little Imm is still sleeping — I need to get him up soon as I promised a morning chapter of one of the Boxcar Children mysteries today. Rainy and windy here in the metro-Boston area. Great link Franco. The racism of the right is both so odious and so friggin’ scary-dangerous. They are a violent bunch who do not mind (directing) violence against others. I fear campaign riots this Fall.

And this makes me think — where is the Southern Poverty Law Ceter on right-wing/main-stream blog connections?

Soulforce….amen……..and that they are anti-war…….amen………and God bless those who serve the US in silence…..amen……and I just wish we could all serve a no-war US loudly and joyfully…..amen

Great post Trex. I was here a long time ago when Trex first blogged what he would do to a troll. It was the first time a troll experienced the art of T-rexing. I remember it was so funny but I can’t recall what that first trexed post was…Anyone save it for the children?

medaka - Thanks. So difficult to tell these days. Pretty ballsy (no pun intended) game plan. Difficult for me to support a join the war movement of any kind at this crucial point in history. Must say I do admire their tactics if they as individuals really want in the military now.

Power is only allowed to flow one way kiddies.The second that’s challenged,even a little,the big guns come out(in this case,shooting themselves in both feet).As the people take back their government,the bigger and badder the guns in the wingnut arsenal.Fortunately,this is the gang who couldn’t shoot straight.Unfortunately,they own the media.Feeties on the ground locally is the only way to truly counter that with those who are truly in the center(which is most of America).It’s going to get way nastier than this,be ready.

TRex rocks,with real rocks.

How smart is it for Lieberman to diss Maxine Waters? How is all this going to play with African-Americans?

IF the GOP loses enough seats in November
with attendant lost of agenda setup and the
risks of several worm cans being opened on
the Bush WH surely they are very worried.
The Bush WH has long tails after six years of
run and hide activities. The GOP must know
where the worse skeletons are lurking and
must play dirty all the way now to hold off
the Democrats. L-Man surely is someone the
GOP is comfortable with and can work with.
That in itself is reason for him to drop out
of the Democrat party now and show his true
flag. Iraq is a stinkhole of trouble and yet
the Bush WH is itching for a stab at Iran.
This surely must be another “fear” the GOP
holds that Iran will not be invaded within
Bush WH desired timeline out thru mid 2008.
They really must want to take Iran on.

Eureka Springs, AR @ 238

medaka - Thanks. So difficult to tell these days. Pretty ballsy (no pun intended) game plan. Difficult for me to support a join the war movement of any kind at this crucial point in history. Must say I do admire their tactics if they as individuals really want in the military now.

Exactly, Eureka. War is not the way, period. But don’t stop boys and girls from serving in the military just ’cause of who they like. And for this reason we’ve lost Arabic translators? Too stupid for words ….

Morning Imm. Many of the morning regulars also seem to have slept in. I spent a nearly unheard of 10 blissful hours prone catching up with my soulsource/soulforce.

Stars, Stripes and the Star of David…..

http://news.independent.co.uk/.....219241.ece

It’s been a bad few weeks for the NeoCons. Their Advocate-in-Chief got the boot from Democratic voters in Connecticut. Their grand plan for re-making the Middle East suffered a setback with the failure of the IDF to crush Hizbullah. It’s no wonder they are freaking out and reverting to their primative racist impulses.
Now is the time to kick the NeoCons while they are down.

Patrick Buchanan via antiwar

http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=9538

Good Morning FireDogLake! Got the coffee brewing and have some good homemade granola for this rainy morning. And a quick laugh Today’s Sylvia cartoon

OT watching Imus this morning…he has no phone connection. Talked yesterday about troubles with his AT&T T-1 line.

These are the folks who want to rule the internet. These are the folks who are funding J-Lie.

How did Mike Wallace ever spawn Chris? When Chris said he thought his own father should be put away (more or less) because he is “losing it”, it really reveals the true meanness core of the wingnuts. They will trash anyone who disagrees with them, even their own family members.

Fiyero @201: you got good eyes! Thanks for the rundown.

Didn’t Ron Reagan make a movie appearing in blackface?

Frank Probst @
148

fahrender @
145

TRex @
94

TRex,

Isn’t that the message that Mehlman/Rove et al are sending? They’re backing Lieberman and refusing to endore the Republican candidate. The actions are screaming. They can pretend otherwise, all the while looking the other way and twiddling their thumbs. Their strategy has the added effect of helping their congressional candidates.

I hope we can find an effective counter.

The fact that Bush, Cheney, and Mehlman think they can help Joe shows you how delusional they are about their own unpopularity, particularly in Connecticut. We shouldn’t make any effort to “counter” their moves to help Lieberman. Let him have all the rope he wants.

Frank,

I hope you’re right. I’m just a bit twitchy still over how Rover was able to turn things around in ‘04. Joe may finally throw in the towel before November, possibly much sooner, but he’s certainly putting a drag on the Democrats and his smarmy theatricals could somehow end up helping the Republican representative candidates.

Hi, y’all!

Too many goodies here to take in all at once.

imm, good luck for the 18th — got plenny writing time today, I hope?

Speaking of fine scholarship and story-telling, I reveled in Sara’s 141 ^ (especially timely in conjunction with Grass’s outing his own membership in the Waffen-SS).

. . .

Previously it was only known he had served as a soldier and was wounded and taken prisoner by US forces.

Speaking before the publication of his war memoirs, he said his silence over the years had “weighed” upon him.

“My silence over all these years is one of the reasons I wrote this book [Peeling Onions],” he told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in an interview.

“It had to come out, finally.”

. . .

“At the time” he had not felt ashamed to be a member, he said but he added: “Later this feeling of shame burdened me.”

“For me… the Waffen SS was nothing frightful but rather an elite unit that they sent where things were hot and which, as people said about it, had the heaviest losses,” he said.

“It happened as it did to many of my age. We were in the labour service and all at once, a year later, the call-up notice lay on the table. And only when I got to Dresden did I learn it was the Waffen SS.”

Grass’s memoir of his wartime youth is due to be released in September.

THAT will be a read to remember.

The CT race is quite revealing of the true motives of the beltway insiders.

For one, they are not into democracy and playing by ”those” rules. The Lamont ”inSURGEncy represents a choice that the people want. Can’t have that. He won an election without the high paid consultants and the blessing of the DLC and the DSSC (did I get those right?).

Lieberman represented the perfect insider. Corrupted by consultants and lobbyists. He know how to play the beltway game! He was even selected by the dems to be a VP candidate. A stealth republican! Cool! And he could carry the block of Jewish voters who were ”progressives” but will vote their religion. And this has led them to the Israel first position and to support the wars to destroy Israel’s enemies. That’s Joe! He’s game with that all the way.

So the Lamont thing simply represents a people’s choice.. and someone who seems to be able to look rationally at what we must do and what the Cheney administration has recently done. Imagine someone who listens to his conscience and to the will of the people and not to the beltway insiders!

Imagine a representative who … represents the people! Can’t haver that!

Government has been taken over by corporate interests and they don’t want to give it back to the people.

Joe Lieberman is the perfect storm for the reich wing.. the militarists.. the corporatist… and AIPAC and PNAC. He is the perfect double speaker. He calls himself a dem but acts like a repub.

The only thing for the dems to do is to cut him loose. Kick him out of the party. Strip of his seniority and privileges. Let the rupbs pick him up.. they WANT him… perhaps not as much as they want him a repub in dem’s clothing, but they want him because he IS a republican. His actions speaks louder than his words. He’s gone over to the dark side.

The only thing to do is kick him out… close him out. DO it NOW!

By the way, folks, I finally watched “V for Vendetta” (twice) last night. Holy Crap! What a movie.

“How smart is it for Lieberman to diss Maxine Waters?”
I think Joe has made the decision to leave the African American vote to Ned.

Mornin’ all. Heehee front page WaPo above the fold about Webb and Allen. The in-house Repub noted it might be a bigger deal than it seems because it is consistent with other stuff he’s heard. Don’t worry, he’s ponied up with the cash for Webb.

Thank you, Old Sow, for that link to the Independent article, as it’s hard for me here in Germany to get a feel for how issues are portrayed in the media in the US.

One thing that jumped out at me is that they describe ”AIPAC” as a ”pro-Israeli” lobby group. I hate it that the media does that.

It’s equivalent I think to calling someone here ”pro-American” if he supports Bush or ”anti-American” if he doesn’t. And we all know that there’s nothing pro-American about Bush’s policies. I don’t know a lot about AIPAC, so I don’t want to get into a discussion about them, but it seems to me that the policies they work for are not necessarily in Israel’s best interest, so I really wish that the media would stop referring to them that way.

I know that people HERE at FDL know that, but I just had to share my frustration with that kind of labeling that the media do!

And now I will very gingerly step away from the minefield of ME politics!

OT re the Cheney Admin’s wish to federalize the NG (Yo, Deadeye — not so fast):

Governors Resist Shifting Authority Over Guard

In an unusual act of bipartisan and regional unanimity, 51 governors have joined to voice their strong opposition to legislation to let the president federalize National Guard troops in a disaster without local authorities’ consent.

In a letter to Congressional leaders last week, the governors detailed their argument that the measure, drawn up after Hurricane Katrina and tucked into a military authorization bill that the House recently passed, would undermine their authority and autonomy.

“This provision was drafted without consultation or input from governors,” read the letter, conceived in large part by Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, a Republican, “and represents an unprecedented shift in authority from governors as Commanders and Chief of the Guard to the federal government.

[etc.]

Pfifferling — ”pro-Israel” is what AIPAC uses to describe itself — I quite agree that the rightwing Likud policies AIPAC supports is not good for Israel. In fact, AIPAC will attack you if you try to describe AIPAC as not being pro-Israel!

I don’t know why all of those funny backslashes showed up in my comment. Sorry!

beardy, I’ll see yer Sylvia an’ raise ya a Rudy Park!

Good morning, gang!

Is that supposed to be Michael Moore as the chauffeur in that pic? They’re losing it.

I’ve said all along, but we can expect the right’s rhetoric to become increasingly shrill (and overt) as they’re retirement looms.

EPU’d
John Casper says:
August 14th, 2006 at 8:09 pm *
Off Topic
For anyone who wants to see what FDL moderators have to deal with, I strongly suggest you read the comments from emptywheel’s latest. Fakeout, Toothout, Truthout columnist Jason Leopold, pretending to be someone else, let’s loose in the tnh comments with F bombs and from there it gets worse.

If you go over there, you might want to offer emptywheel some supportive comments for the fine way she handled it. I have no idea where this came from, since IIRC, it’s not like she has been criticizing his work.

Hi morning buddies, NPR just had a short that says more Americans know the names of the Three Stooges than the names of the three branches of our government……….sigh.

Ohmigod is right. What is going on with the repuglikan party that they are so overtly racist these days? A few days ago it was Miz Coulter on Maxine Waters. We Ct folks selected our nominee. We don’t deserve this crap. Maxine Waters doesn’t deserve this crap.

tommy yum @ 262

Good morning, gang!

Is that supposed to be Michael Moore as the chauffeur in that pic? They’re losing it.

I’ve said all along, but we can expect the right’s rhetoric to become increasingly shrill (and overt) as they’re retirement looms.

I think it’s supposed to be Al Sharpton. Bad artist. Worse politics.

Tommy Yum at 261 — No, it’s supposed to be Al Sharpton. SIGH

Whoa, CHS. More coffee for me!

The Weekly Standard: slingshot to irrelevance.

John Casper….re: emptywheel……ish……..I give thanks daily for the efforts of our moderators to spare us this horrible venomous filth…..may I say “PayPal?” for FLD?

John C, surely a population the size of ours holds more than one Jason Leopold? I’d really hate to think those deranged screeds came from the one we already know. If it IS him, he’s deteriorated at warp speed, hasn’t he? Wow.

Lotus-259 LOL Thank you that one’s good.

You’re welcome, beardy. Any FDler who hasn’t discovered Rudy yet is missing out on a kindred-spirit toon, fer sher.

FDLer (I’m missing out on enuff caffeine yet, oy.)

An idea for an editorial is forming in my mind. It consists of debunking Hannity’s claims that Lieberman is the “last FDR Democrat.” A laughable claim given Lieberturncoats tendancies to toy with the idea of privatizing social security among other things. And his rather pathetic support for the Repug version of national security which consists of selling out ports to UAE. And also those no-bid contracts a la our former gov in handcuffs Rowland. Any kid from CT in the military can forget about a sympathetic ear from Lieberliar when it comes to having adequate equipment.

zzzzzzzzz…..

Somebody do twolfie a favor and set some breakfast-lobbying four-footeds on him. Poor guy needs to come to.

OS, how’s your beautiful spot in the world this morning?

70, 88% humidity and we’re actually getting a little rain here in eastern PA. dare I look at the news sites?

Old Sow @ 269

John Casper….re: emptywheel……ish……..I give thanks daily for the efforts of our moderators to spare us this horrible venomous filth…..may I say “PayPal?” for FLD?

OS, you say “ish” too! I picked it up from an Ohio native,
and usually preface it with an O and a solid grimace, “O, ish!”
like I just swallowed a bug…

Marcy is a national treasure. Where does Scoopy-doop Leopold fookin get off?
That gent is one disturbed beehive, and not playing for any team
I’ll be cheering on anytime soon …

Old Sow @ 263

Hi morning buddies, NPR just had a short that says more Americans know the names of the Three Stooges than the names of the three branches of our government……….sigh.

That’s because we no longer have 3 branches of government.

mui — when FDR was alive, the Hannitys of the day were hollering how that Bolshevik Roooosevelt was going to communize America with his socialistic ways …

egregious @ 279

Old Sow @ 263

Hi morning buddies, NPR just had a short that says more Americans know the names of the Three Stooges than the names of the three branches of our government……….sigh.

That’s because we no longer have 3 branches of government.

Exactly. Now we just have SHEMP.

Naah. Even that is wishful thinking.

A leetle tidbit. Lieberman apparently asked Sharpton to campaign for him. Al Sharpton refused.

mui @ 281

A leetle tidbit. Lieberman apparently asked Sharpton to campaign for him. Al Sharpton refused.

SHWEEET!

What good DID it do the WS to put a drawing of Arlene on its cover and label it Ned? Know I’m way slow this morning, but . . .

lotus @ 283

What good DID it do the WS to put a drawing of Arlene on its cover and label it Ned? Know I’m way slow this morning, but . . .

Uh, lotus, forgive me for being even slower, but
Arlene WHO?

uummmmm… yeahhh…

It is an “open secret” in Washington US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld “wants to extricate himself from Iraq” but President George W. Bush “remains resolute,” thus the US hangs on, a US investigative reporter has written.

http://www.metimes.com/article.....5136-1700r

mui, BEFORE the primary, you mean? Got a linky?

Arlene = Arlen Specter.

Sorry, medaka — gotta stop doing that to you.

Lieberman…the last of the FDR Democrats….
hahahahahahahahahahahaahahhaha! Yah, right. Good gods above. I can’t catalog the amount of wrongness in that thought. *hacks up a beardly hairball*

lotus @ 287

Arlene = Arlen Specter.

Sorry, medaka — gotta stop doing that to you.

Ooo, I like that one. I thought you meant Arlene Francis! HA!

…adapt-n-win… …adapt-n-win…
http://www.crooksandliars.com/.....-of-truth/

lotus, yes before the primary when Lieberman was trying to gather all that support. No link though. Maybe the Lamont campaign would respond if emailed. They should come out with it. Or Al Sharpton should as well.

I DO wish Arianna would correct her headline.

“Sen. Allen Accused Of Racist Remark After Telling Indian Man: “Macaca…Welcome To America And The Real World Of Virginia”…”

Maine is mid-60’s and rainy. Sweet.
Loved the Wall of Shemp. Would never have made it through HIgh school without the Three on at 7am to put me in the right fram of mind…..

Egee at 279……OUCH. So true….

Medaka, I got O, Ish, and that IS the whole and correct phrase, from a Minnesota roommate in the lat 60’s, and I’ve used it since!!

I think he said RURAL Virginia.

twolf1 @ 290

…adapt-n-win… …adapt-n-win…
http://www.crooksandliars.com/.....-of-truth/

twolf1, that was good. Ken Male-men’s GOP talking-point-of-the-day, cliff-noted.

I think Joe has made the decision to leave the African American vote to Ned.

Maybe now but certainly not in the primaries. The number one reason Leiberman wanted Bill Clinton campaigning for him was Clinton’s popularity among African-American voters.

The funny thing about all of this brouhaha is that Ned Lamont is fairly moderate. The major reason he garnered the support of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Maxine Waters was his opposition to the US military presence in Iraq. The military personnel who are being killed or wounded in Iraq are disproportionately minority–particularly African American and Hispanic.

Like Oliver, I don’t have much respect for Al Sharpton–AFAIK, he still has not apologized or admitted his mistakes for the whole Tawana Brawley fiasco–but Sharpton was opposed to US involvement in Iraq from the outset.

Morning, firepups!

D’ya think the caricature making Hillary look kinda like Eleanor Roosevelt is more subliminal red meat for the wingers, or am I reading too much subtlety into bad art?

Sheesh, I think I used up my “e”s in Egee’s name instead of at the end of fram* and lat*. Pr*vi*w is my fri*nd.

medaka @ 295

twolf1 @ 290

…adapt-n-win… …adapt-n-win…
http://www.crooksandliars.com/.....-of-truth/

twolf1, that was good. Ken Male-men’s GOP talking-point-of-the-day, cliff-noted.

if only this would play on M$M prime time

…adapt-n-win… …adapt-n-win…

That just has no style or punch — I suspect it will not be heard much in the future. Also, sounds a little too Borg-related for younger voters to adopt (as opposed to adapt).

Data: “The Borg are adapting, Captain.”
Picard: “Rotate the phaser firing sequence!”
Borg: “Resistance is Futile!”

twolf1 @ 299

One parallel universe, one large reality, and a side of logic, coming up!

Redshift, absolutely. And if I were Hilary (what an image…lordy, Hilary Clinton with a category 5 beard down to her chest. *twitch*) I’d be taking such a comparison as a badge of honor.
(Yes Eleanor is one of my heroes)

give it up Dave — the Brawley imbroglio was nineteen years ago — in the following years Rev. Al Sharpton has emerged as a respected leader of the African-American community and for progressive folk everywhere … even a Joe Lieberman was clamoring for Sharpton to campaign for him …

I finally figured out who the Lamont-character on the Double Standard reminds me of:
Irving “Scooter” Libby !

The hay-fevery eyes, the nose ….

Conservatives cannot help themselves. They try, time and time again, to excuse themselves from their movement’s racist past. They try to deny that the foundation of the current Republican party came about as segregationist racists were turned out of the newly progressive Democratic party in the wake of the Kennedy and Johnson presidencies.

Conservatives wonder why Americans of all stripes idealogically and racially don’t buy their protestations that they aren’t racist. But it is because of the behavior - in this instance exhbited by The Weekly Standard - that constantly denigrates anyone who isn’t a rich white Christian male. The right looks down their nose at anyone who they consider “different” and wonders why the perception of them is so at odds with the world they’ve built up in their own minds.

recently watching the civil rights problems with Johnson ..the difference is Bush is taking us backwards… the kick is they are both from Texas

OT, but *ilson–do you sleep?

Reminds me of back in 1968, when Nixon demonized blacks in the South in order to get white blue collar rural votes.! Play one group against another. Notice how they keep harping on Sharpton,Jackson & Waters standing on that podium with Ned, and even saw one place that said ‘Is this who you want running the country’ ! No WONDER the Republicans are flocking around Lieberman.

And of COURSE, the White house and Cheney is pissed at Ned and backing Lieberman. He had the audacity to run on a platform which said “I will STAND UP to George Bush” ! The little cock rooster will not stand for that!
Why somebody might actually have the balls to come out and tell him he is Wrong !

*ilson46201 @ 304

give it up Dave — the Brawley imbroglio was nineteen years ago — in the following years Rev. Al Sharpton has emerged as a respected leader of the African-American community and for progressive folk everywhere … even a Joe Lieberman was clamoring for Sharpton to campaign for him …

AND, Sharpton was very successful in the Howard Beach murder case BEFORE the Tawanna B. case. His creds pre-date the KKKidnapping case (as we refer to it) and certainly accumulated after that case. But he is certainly a favorite target of white people. Wonder why that is?

“Fair and Balanced” Dave @ 297

Tawana Brawley was ages ago. And I thought Sharpton did admit his mistkaes. He’s the kind that draws media fire for his fire, but no coverage for his more circumspect statements. Go figure.
Honestly the “African-American” vote is complex as any other vote and Waters, Jackson and others are cognizant of that. Other major concerns would include the battering of social security, outsourced jobs, the deteriorating state of our education and neighborhoods in cities like Hartford, Bridgeport and New Haven, distrust over the election 2000, the outrageous state of healthcare. Katrina comes to mind as well.
Lieberman’s record speaks for itself on all of the above.

medaka @ 305

I finally figured out who the Lamont-character on the Double Standard reminds me of:
Irving “Scooter” Libby !

The hay-fevery eyes, the nose ….

That’s IT, medaka — you’re right! So let me rephrase –

What good DID it do the WS to put a drawing of Arlene Scooter on its cover and label it Ned?

And didn’t Sharpton give one of the best speeches at the Dem convention 2004? Of course Lieberman wanted to draw major Dem figures to his campaign. It’s just to bad for him that Gore and Kerry said ummmm…. And Sharpton decided to campaign with Lamont. What does that say?

tommy yum @ 307

OT, but *ilson–do you sleep?

I’m now retired and sleep on the couch next to the PC — life is easy with few scheduled events — my time is my own to fritter away in my own way — it’s delicious !

And by the way — just who is Sharpton supposed to “apologize” to for being misled by a client? That is the real kicker — that somehow black people always owe white folk “apologies” for mistakes. I don’t see the same concern about ponying up apologies from white people who make mistakes — like where is the big outcry for a Ken Star “apology?” Or the Espy prosecutor or the Cicneros prosecutor to name a few. Or Yoo? or Olsen?

When will they ever “apologize????!”

egregious @ 254

Mornin’ all. Heehee front page WaPo above the fold about Webb and Allen. The in-house Repub noted it might be a bigger deal than it seems because it is consistent with other stuff he’s heard. Don’t worry, he’s ponied up with the cash for Webb.

Nice. I think my favorite bit was this:

House Majority Leader H. Morgan Griffith (R-Salem), who represents southwest Virginia, said the Webb campaign is just “grabbing for stuff” to gain traction against Allen. Griffith said he doubts anyone at the rally even picked up on Allen’s use of the word macaca.

“Not many people in southwest Virginia would think it is derogatory,” Griffith said. “I didn’t have a clue what it meant, and I doubt Allen did, either.”

So, Mr. Griffith, are you saying that Allen only uses racist language with audiences that he doesn’t think will mind? Too bad for him we have mass communications!

on Election night, the crowd onstage with Joe Lieberman was as white as a George Felix Allen rally in Virginia.

This is Webb live-blogging at Kos yesterday.

Take a lot at that gorgeous photo. Yes, he really is that good-looking in person, lucky me.

lotus @
311

medaka @ 305

I finally figured out who the Lamont-character on the Double Standard reminds me of:
Irving “Scooter” Libby !

The hay-fevery eyes, the nose ….

That’s IT, medaka — you’re right! So let me rephrase –

What good DID it do the WS to put a drawing of Arlene Scooter on its cover and label it Ned?

it’s Nooter Lamonty

new thread

lest we forget — during his lifetime, Dr. M.L.King was villified and excoriated by the O’Reillys and Hannitys of the day — nowadays, they aim their fire on Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton…

egregious @ 317

Take a lot at that gorgeous photo. Yes, he really is that good-looking in person, lucky me.

Errr, greegy, are you maybe married to him?
Just curious!

Sure to be EPU’d…

The simple truth is that the GOP is afraid of Ned Lamont. Hell, Joe Lieberman is afraid of Ned Lamont. Why? Because Ned’s is a new voice – people tend to listen to a new voice, even if it’s just to decide whether there is anything there. And, with Ned, that voice is saying things that the GOP can’t run away from.

Ned has an ability to connect with voters, and Connecticut voters are just realizing how starved they have been for a Senator who wants that connection, wants to learn from that connection, wants to hear what the people have to say. How many people did we hear say that time after time after time, Joe just ignored his constituents, didn’t respond to questions, never came to the state?

With the ability to make that connection, people are listening to what Ned is saying. And what Ned is saying is that the GOP isn’t getting the job done. And not only aren’t they getting the job done, they are looting the pockets of the taxpayers to line their own. The war in Iraq is a failed policy that needs a change in direction. Energy policy needs to be more than benefits for the energy companies. Millions of people need health insurance. The Medicare prescription drug plan needs to be a benefit for the elderly, not the drug companies.

The GOP doesn’t want people to hear what Ned Lamont is saying, and neither does Joe Lieberman. Joe’s been part of an enormous failure in Iraq – has enabled and defended the president on that front. If he has criticized Bush, as he claims, those criticisms faded away about two years ago – where has he been while things just got worse and worse. Where was he criticizing the “2,500 – it’s just a number” comment?

And now, it’s getting really nasty, with both the Lieberman campaign and a Waterbury newspaper engaging in both race-baiting and red-baiting. When you have the facts and the truth on your side, you don’t need to run that kind of campaign. Since Joe has neither, he’s got Dan Gerstein to sling mud.

Joe just keeps kicking constituents to the curb, slamming segments of the electorate - does he really think this is the formula for a winning campaign? He may be firing up the GOP, but I would be very surprised if his tactics aren’t turning CT voters off in droves.

They’re after Ned because they are afraid he has a winning strategy.

Actually Ned Lamont’s an old voice: a sane,straightforward Democrat who speaks clearly and defends himself when attacked.

In today’s political climate that makes himaradical.

Way late gettin’ to this party - tried to browse thru comments, but it would have taken all day, & I’m probably already EPU’d, so here goes, in case no one else has said it (doubtful!?!)…

Of COURSE the !red-light-array !EGAD! alarm bells! went ballistic on rover’s desk, upon getting a whiff of the Lamont win.

Bigtime message to rover: as FDL rocks’n'rolls with its clean & pure message of REAL democracy in action, rover’s ability to “stovepipe” his select brand of misinformation to the voting public
d.i.s.i.n.t..e..g…r…a…t….e….s…..

!POOF!

To Fiyero’s #201 post (if it hasn’t been pointed out already) I’d add that the cover depicts the Lamont bumper sticker with an upside down stars and bars. Also, Hillary’s hand is obscuring the ‘t’ in Lamont poster to create “Lamon” or “Lemon”. jeez, has it really come to this kind of child’s play?

a_retrogrouch –

Who you calling “we,” Tonto?

I did not read all the comments. But any conservative publication can discredit Al Sharpton by saying that he is only out for Al Sharpton. They have done it with Jesse Jackson and the leaders of the NAACP. Al Sharpton ran for president in order not to be a chauffeur. The image of Al Sharpton was probably too inflammatory to their audience not to use it in some form to discredit Lamont, although I was not worried about it because it was unquestionable evidence that the Lieberman campaign blabbing about Lamont being a racist was unfounded.

And by the way — just who is Sharpton supposed to “apologize” to for being misled by a client?

Sharpton, along with lawyers Alton Maddox Jr and C. Vernon Mason, made groundless accusations against a local prosecuter named Steven Pagones alleging that he participated in the kidnapping and rape of Tawana Brawley. When Brawley’s whole fabricated story broke down, Pagones successfully sued Sharpton. Mason and Maddox were both disbarred.

That is the real kicker — that somehow black people always owe white folk “apologies” for mistakes.

Accusing someone of being a rapist without a shred of evidence is much more than just a “mistake”–it’s slander.

Nowhere in my statement did I state or even imply that “somehow black people always owe white folk ‘apologies’ for mistakes”. One of the things that angers me the most about the Bushites is their refusal to admit their mistakes–even when those mistakes have resulted in more than 2,600 service men and women being needlessly killed in Iraq or thousands left stranded in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Should Al Sharpton be held to a lower moral standard than George W. Bush or Dick Cheney?

I don’t see the same concern about ponying up apologies from white people who make mistakes — like where is the big outcry for a Ken Star “apology?” Or the Espy prosecutor or the Cicneros prosecutor to name a few. Or Yoo? or Olsen

Here I agree with you 100 percent. Ken Starr is nothing but a self-righteous, hypocritical political hatchetman. Like the whole Whitewater/Monicagate investigation, the investigations against Mike Espy and Henry Cisneros were nothing but political witchhunts.

Using Skippy’s list, I called the 800 Lexus phone number (one of HNN anchor Chuck Roberts’s sponsors)and calmly made the case that Lamont was democratically elected, a self-made businessman, not an inflammatory enemy of the people. The person I called seemed impressed with my argument and said she would flag my response for senior management. Bottom line, she discovered I owned a Lexus and didn’t want to offend the base. Thanks for the call to action.

I grew up in Fairfield County, CT, and much of my family still lives there. While I claim no authority, I can maybe provide a tad’s worth of insight to why the full-throated wingnut panic attack at Lamont’s victory. The “brie-eating Volvo-driving latte-sipping liberal elites” of Connecticut’s Gold Coast who backed Lamont are traditionally reliable fiscal conservatives who vote to keep as much of their wealth in their pockets as possible. Most days that means the GOP. What’s got the GOP’s panties in a twist is their defection over Iraq. My father and mother, for example, actually switched their party affiliation registration from Republican to Independent for the express purpose of voting for Lamont. To the Ken Melmans of the world, that’s some deeply scary shit.

I think from the beginning the folks running things wanted to make sure the masses had as little to do with electing people as possible. I suggest reading the book 55 men by Fred Rodell if you want to find out exactly what the framers thought about the average citizen electing their leaders. I think what has happened is that the usual filtering of candidates by both sides (think Howard Dean) has been seriously threatened by people power politics. The swiftness in which we can communicate now is something that can’t be controlled. We all talk now. There are so many watchdogs now that nonsense gets debunked in a matter of minutes. I think this is why the establishment is becoming unhinged.They can’t funnel someone into office anymore. Now if we can only get to the point where you don’t have to be a millionaire to run for office we’ll be cooking. I think we’re right in the middle of something big as far as a shift in how politics work. Dinosaurs like Lieberman do not understand what is taking place. The new generation of politicians will or they will be cast out the same exact way. Just my take.

The bottom line is that everyone in the administration and their enablers in the media is scared shitless that the dems will take over congress and start holding hearings with subpoena power.

I am such a doofus … please dont feed me!