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Ken Mehlman and the GOP are counting on you to be too stupid to pay attention. Ooops. (video courtesy C&L)
"Adapt to win" = GOP CYA
Hey, I’ve got an idea. How about we hold them accountable for all their many failures instead? Just like every other person in the US of A would be held to account if they were continually failing. Accountability – it’s the new new.
Had enough? Vote for Democrats.
PS — By finally acknowledging that changes desperately need to be made in their "adapt" portion of the new/improved/CYA for the GOP slogan, one might ask why it is that it took three long years to do so?
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No more Retard-licans!
Ned Lamont up next on Headline News.
You know, I thought we covered this yesterday — but the word “retard” has some very negative connotations in a very personal way for a number of regular readers here. As in they have children with learning disabilities who have to deal with mean-spirited teasing on a regular basis and worse.
So, let’s not use the word. Basic human compassion is always stylish. Capice?
In addition to accountability, how about “competence”
Whatever divisions are in the Democratic party regarding if, how or when to withdraw troops, all Democrats would unite around a theme of just basic competence in managing the existing conflicts.
Chuck Roberts apologizes to Ned Lamont.
CNN was forced to be responsible and fair by people like us.
They can’t get away with such things if we don’t let them.
Another win for Lamont.
-GSD
Mods – You’ve got some Republican trolling in some of the recent threads a few back, FYI.
feel free to delete this :)
ReddHedd !
Kurt — which thread?
Oops sorry Christy, the Latenite one.
Just a reminder…if you are contacting the offices of Schumer or Hillary, remember to remind them about the Bolton interview with Pam. They have hinted that they will vote for cloture. Question the judgement of a UN Ambassador who, during the most pressing and urgent event of his tenure, chose to be “interviewd” by that insane woman for an hour instead of dealing with the Israeli-Lebanon conflict.
I tuned in too late to hear the apology, but glad it happened.
Feels good. Suck it, Karl.
skippy — and the ‘roots — win one in the battle with TradMed! And did NED say, “Thanks, Chuck” or “Thanks, John” at the end of that segment? Funny if he called Roberts by the wrong name!
TeddySanFran @ 12
Thanks Dick!
The only adapting I want to see is me adapting to the joy of watching the entire administration frogmarched into prison.
I love Jon Stewart.
Speaking of lack of accountability, this is my favorite Bush quote from yesterday’s press conference (and not just because of the bitter laugh over “propaganda machine”):
“Going to be.”
The former marketing director at my company (now thankfully departed) once presented her department’s quarterly accomplishments including the item “deploying new website.”
“Deploying,” not “deployed.” ‘Cause she was supposed to get it done that quarter, but it wasn’t done yet, and she didn’t want to take it off her list because, you know, she’d worked on it and stuff.
“Going to be.” Yeah.
I saw the Melman thing on The Daily Show Last night. It was pricless. As was the KO bit about the timimg anomolies between embarrasing news for the WH and an elevated threat level or similar warning.
Back to working on the book now. Friday deadline looming large.
Just stopped in to say howdy
David Sirota asks:
Is the FBI Investigating the Lieberman Campaign?
Redshift – I’ve noticed that “going to be” for a long time in w’s speeches… always bugged me.
GSD @ 6
So that wanker actually apologized? When I wrote to PNN I told them I didn’t expect them to take any action, color me surprised as all get out.
-ck- @ 18
Gee 28 USC 1001, that’s the one that got Scooter in trouble. Fibbing to the Feebies. Tsk Tsk TSk
Not only did he apologize but he actually said the word stoopid in re his remarks.
surreal & swoon producing.
Adapt to win? Not too catchy…and not too reflective of strategy, I don’t think.
For how long now have there been suggestions on different tactics, directions, plans, policies, etc? And NOW they’re adopting a new slogan and we’re supposed to believe that the
Department of Bumper StickersWhite House is going to change anything that makes one damn bit of difference in Iraq???I’d laugh, but there’s nothing even remotely funny about this.
according to The Muck, Joe and Valerie have replaced their lawyers… doesn’t say who got canned.
While we are highlighting the failures of BushCo — let’s also take a moment to thank Democratic leaders for their success in the face of complete GOP dominance of the Federal government. Almost completely forgotten is that the current Democratic leaders of the House and Senate (with excellent ‘roots support and spotlighting) were able to SAVE Social Security from being eliminated under the guise of “privatization.” This is an IMPORTANT 2006 campaign issue, and this success should be highlighted by everyone who is asked, “What are the Democrats for?”
Well, Democrats are for Social Security, and we know the GOP isn’t.
There have been few “wins” by the national Democrats, but the Social Security strategy of the minority party was well-conceived and well-executed. If we can accomplish this in the minority (Dems need to tell voters this year) think what we can get done for you as the majority in both Houses of Congress!
This is, to me, the “counter-argument” to the scary Nancy Pelosi GOP talking point: Yeah, she’s scary! To the people who want to take away your Social Security!
AMERICAblog picked up that the Democrats won’t let the GOP skate on Iraq or the fake war against terrorism. Seeing Mehlman finding it necessary to try and pull a Big Brother rewrite of history shows how vulnerable the GOP is feeling.
It’s an encouraging sign that the Democratic Party is unifying around a common Iraq Occupation message, considering how it will be the primary issue for at least another four years. Mehlman’s desperate re-messaging attempts are a clear sign of a Republican Party in disarray. I think the GOP trots out a new message every week, hoping something will catch hold.
“Adapt to win”
This from creationists.
Boy are they scared.
You know things have gone off the rails when the “worlds only super power” is openly mocked by Syria.
re: adapt and win.
I remember way back when, in driver’s ed class in high school, our teacher taught us the IPDE process. Identify, Predict, Decide and Execute. Maybe this would be a better slogan for the GOP — or maybe it’s too long and Mehlman’s cheeks would flap out so far hitting, and knocking out, his interviewer.
Bush is creating a new Middle East.
It must look good from Bush Bizarro World, because from here it looks catastrophic.
-GSD
Another ‘Mission Accomplished’ Moment?
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, August 15, 2006; 1:20 PM
President Bush’s startling assertion yesterday — that at the end of 33 days of warfare between Israel and the Hezbollah militia, Hezbollah had been defeated — once again raises questions about his ability to acknowledge reality when things don’t turn out the way he intended.
snip
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..00879.html
america needs to face reality in the middle east
who’s dumber? bush or olmert? — i don’t want to even hazard a guess
GSD @ 30
The vision is a region of permanent warfare, so their military-industrial complex can make profits over the long term. Stability in the world is actually considered a defect by the neocon orcs.
Old Coastie – the Muck has a link to the CREW press release.
The Wilsons Score Their Own Defense Fund – Good Guys Can Play Hardball
The “regular” lawyers (I think I heard once – but don’t rely on this – that one was a neighbor and pretty much helping out bc he felt so incensed over how the Wilsons had been treated) are getting replaced with CREW – which can be supported in oh so many ways. *g* The guru stays on, the Wilsons are probably smiling today.
I love CREW and POGO and I love that the Soros et al group support CREW over DLC.
I’m going to go find my inner Condi and have a cuppa coffee.
Mehlmouth’s attempt at sloganeering doesn’t change the facts on the ground.
Quagmire. Occupation. Civil War
“Stay the course” meant “Do nothing and hope that things will turn around.”
“Adapt to win” means “That didn’t work, so now we’re going to wing it.”
I’m not sure which is more frightening.
Coming to a D.O.D church near you…
That’s it. Boxer and DiFi are supporting the militarization of religion along with theocons. We’re drifting…
Bush signed a bill sponsored by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-El Cajon) that designates the 43-foot cross and the city land beneath it as a federal war memorial under control of the Department of Defense… … but California’s two U.S. senators, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer — also Democrats — supported it.
Thats it…join the military, live forever. Uh-huh. Just make sure you give at the office to JustWar.xxx, the religion of the executive branch.
My lunch is almost over but I was reading my new issue of Harpers Magazine (Sept.2006). Great story by Willem Marx called Misinformation Intern.
Last year before college, 22 year old Marx got a summer job working for Lincoln Group (of K Street) writing articles to print in Iraqi newspapers. Boy, this company makes a small fortune. They flew Marx to Baghdad where he basically sat in an office getting stories emailed from him by the military and he would pick what papers to put them in.
During the months of August and September alone, he says they were proposing to place 16 pro-government anti-insurgent spots on Iraqi tv for a fee of 16Million. There would be 20 radio broadcasts as well, with the military paying $20,000 each! They would publish 80 half page color advertisements ans 32 op eds and Lincoln Group would charge nearly $400,000. Blanketing Baghdad with 140,000 posters would earn them another $400,000 and they would design Internet News sites at $2,500 each, and produce 5 DVD’s for just over $580.000 Lincoln Group’s overall haul for the two months: 19 Million.
Marx’s pay was $1000. a month. This blows my mind.
Lots of incumbent dems need an accountability reality check as well!
Mary for now 34 – that looks a little better! I was worried there was some dissention in the ranks…
“Adapt to Win [the midterms]”
The video…openly mocking our new Soviet propaganda, and at the end the giant signs that say
OBEY in really huge letters
WAR IS PEACE
Wow. That’s good stuff.
My point is this: I wonder how much the media over here gets for placing stories?
Ken: If the Republican’ts had based their foreign policy on intelligent design, you wouln’t need to go looking for Darwin to see if he can evolve your Iraq vanity war into something new and improved.
Shorter – Adept beats Adapt when it comes to winning.
ccmask @ 43
lotsa cocktail wienies and free rein from the fcc
For political theater, some gutsy Dem. representative might do this…
“Today, I’m proposing the creation of a new federal agency: The Department of Foreign Civil War Involvement. The department’s duty will be to spend US money in foriegn countries which have devolved into civil war, and oversee US troops which will occupy the country in a police role. A daily tally of dollars spent, troops injured, and troops killed, must be posted on a public Web site.”
I make wonderful cocktail weenies. Light and fluffy!
aReader @ 46
Sounds like something Barney Frank, Lynn Woolsey, or Maxine Waters might do. Excellent idea. Get this misadventure OUT of the DOD!
…more proof Lieberman is secretly a gooper (although not so secret anymore). He has adapted the rules because the thinks he can win. adapt and win.
How very diabolish of him.
OT – Bush Administration Reduces Presence At AIDS Conference For Fear of Being Booed
neokneme 37 – here in So Cal, many of those crosses are scattered about on hilltops – a few have been around for a hundred years, many of them are pretty remote… most are on private property and originally honored a vet in the family… I understand that the argument is that it is on federal property, but I’m guessing the local argument is that the cross is historical
Mary for now, did you find your inner Condi yet? LOL
ccmask @ 50
Maybe even Diaboldish…
Froomkin is just on fire the last couple of days. I’d say he sees what a lot of his pals are ignoring – the concerted battle against journalists has begun in earnest with the AIPAC decision.
Stay the Course Republican’ts have no problem with sending journalists to jail for leaking that Congress became nothing more than a bagman for special interests on their watch.
Bustednuckles @
27
truly brilliant
CCMask at 38: Tons and tons and tons of our borrowed money being mismanaged by the likes of them…….
ccmask @ 43
It doesn’t have to be cash. It can be legislation that provides a favor for the corporation that owns the network. Paying the pimp, not the girl.
“Adapt to win” vs.
Cut and RunEvaluate and LeaveYes – but she’s too busy to talk. Apparently she’s cancelling her appointments so she can do an NRO interview and she needs some time for makeup – the Clingon Princess look takes time, but it’s worth it for her to see the Losst Boys hyperventilate.
Nice they are no longer playing follow the leader or you’re Satan. So, I have two questions: whither the adaptation, and to win what? Can they answer those? If Bush thinks Hezbollah was defeated in the Israel/Lebanon mess, I think we need a little more clarity from him regarding what the heck he thinks he’s doing before he embarks on one his bloodthirsty loser projects.
My guess is that of the serial failures so far, there have been two cases: he doesn’t know, or he can’t say because it would be opposed by most people in the US. Frinstance Iraq: my guess is real answer is big permanent bases, and 19th century style oil grab. Cheney’s version of the new new. Took awhile for hopeful naive me to reach that conclusion, but anything else gone by the wayside by process of elimination.
but hey, they might be giants, they might be brilliant. Hey, maybe Chalabi was a double-double agent. Yeah, that’s the ticket. Spying for the Iranians was a feint! Get a clue. His shock force’s disintigration upon arrival in Iraq was a ploy! The stage is set, set, man, for onward into Iran. I kneel at the feet of such genius. Something deep, very deep, behind the new BushCo produced Iranian-Shia swath of influence in ME, except only great minds like Cheney and RumDum’s can see it. OK, I’m sorry I doubted.
Adapt to Win
=
A DITTO PAWN
or
DO A NAP TWIT
or
A WANT I’D OPT
anagrams for victory!!!
Mary for now @ 59
The Inner Condi as channeled by Mary for now…roflol
Thanks OldCoastie #52. This is the money quote for me:
A federal judge in May declared the cross a violation of the constitutional separation of church and state and ordered it removed by Aug. 2. That order was stayed last month by the U.S. Supreme Court until other legal issues can be resolved.
My sense is that there are alot of points of view that have an iron in this fire.
I’ll defer to your’s since you are a local.
Still…the militarization of federal property spooks me. Are national parks next?
TeddySanFran @ 45
Nuh uh. Way more than free pass from the FCC. Corporate goodies by special legislative perks. This is no secret for those of us who live in the Washington area.
It’s just business.
Anagram: “Ned Lamont” = “don mantel”
neokneme – thanks… I hike a lot in this area and the crosses just seem like a part of the landscape (and markers along the way) – it would be strange to be on some remote path and have one just gone… on the other hand, I think I would be most disturbed if a great big glowy cross suddenly popped up just inside the gate of Yosemite!
It seems to me that the MSM is turning a little to reality with all the nonsense coming out of the WH. The spin for the Israel actions, pressure to disclose the Brit operation and the soooo obvious disaster of Iraq is getting just to hard to BS away.
Maybe hopefull thoughts, but I think that the Ned success has opened a few eyes to what’s going on in the heartland and the recent polls seem to support that. A view from the windy city is all.
Love FDL!
msnbc is saying that Hillary is being compared to Osama bin Laden by her repug opponent… story coming up…
hoo-boy! this is gettin’ interestin’!
TeddySanFran @ 41
That’s the first thing that crossed my mind when I saw this. They are inadvertently telling the truth about their real objectives.
Can you smell the desperation?
Hezbollah thoughts…they provide social services and defense. Sounds to me like: a government. Forget internationally recognized boundaries [much longer rant over another bottle]. A large group of people is receiving services and protection. Isn’t that what a government does?
And I might add, I am somewhat envious. I too would like to have a government that provides services, instead of eviscerating them, and provides protection, instead of destroying our military. Yo admin–we might really NEED the military in the future, ever think of that?
Waiting to be broiled by *I*AC—-fight your own damn wars. Let’s focus on American goals, not those of another country, shall we?
OldCoastie @ 24
And Cheney also lawyers up.
The Nefarious Leslie @ 70
that’s why I call their favorite “Democrat” stinkyman!
OldCoastie @ 69
I dunno, OBL could look pretty hot in a dress and pumps, don’t ya think? I can see the resemblence!
Kurt @ 74
but OBL has a real skinny butt …
re the Hillary/Osama comparison – you’d think after the butt-whipping Cheney’s comments have taken, the pugs would learn this isn’t smart… of course, “smart” may not be a good description for ‘em…
Speaking of adapting, my 15 year old daughter just dyed her hair red(d).
OldCoastie #67…Great imagery! You’ve framed the issue perfectly. Just think how these guys felt…
In 1850, a year before Savage and the Mariposa Battalion entered Yosemite to capture Chief Tenaya, Joseph, Nate and William Screech entered Hetch Hetchy Valley just northwest of Yosemite Valley. There they encountered Paiutes camping in Hetch Hetchy.
They tried to “eliminate” the native threat using military force then. This is how it is done today:
Your museum curators, and archeologists have also taken our history and changed it to suit the needs of your Park Service so that you can cleanly implement the Yosemite Valley Plan and all the destruction that will occur to our sacred sites and ethnographic areas which we still rely on and use to this day
Link.
Mary for now quoted a reference wrt the WIlsons above.
I find this goal of No Child Left Behind completely insane, in light of the fact that this bunch of clowns hasn’t EVER been accountable for anything!
This would be funny, if it weren’t so damned sad.
STRONGER ACCOUNTABILITY (from the official government website)
The last sentence could be changed to “if not making adequate yearly progress after five years, dramatic changes to the way the BUSH ADMINISTRATION is run”.
*ilson46201 @ 75
Well, you just know they’ve been waiting for an excuse to bomb NY.
More George on George:
This farrago of caricature and non sequitur makes the administration seem eager to repel all but the delusional.
From the ridiculous to the sublime…
ccmask — wow, thanks for that. Been waiting for somebody to get into the contracts with Rendon Group, Lincoln Group and SyColeman because they were all for the purposes of propaganda generation for DoD. These outfits were supposed to steer attitudes in Middle East, but in the age of the internet what stops that steering from working on Americans??? Lincoln is the worst case of the lot; the guy(s) that started it have little cred except working on B/C’04 promotion in NY. Google up Billmon’s work on these guys, truly scary crap. I sure hope Marx has a different career path lined up, because the VRWC will go after him for this bit in Harpers’.
egregious — here’s an example of somebody pushing a storyline here, have NO idea whether they paid the pimp or the hooker. Within the hour at News.Google.com, there was an article, ‘Ahmadinejad gives ‘victory speech’ before masses’, from YNet news out of Israel. I clicked on “all 168 related stories” link, sorted by date, and found a HUGE number of American outlets covering exactly the same story at the same time. Coverage included Radio Free Europe and FOX (surprise…).
But as I scrolled down and past pages of outlets linked, I found a different but parallel story picked up by a handful of outlets, several of which were Turkish, and one being mainland PRC. Turkish Weekly has a short blurb, ‘Ahmadinejad accuses U.S. of blindly supporting Israel’; the text of the article sounds very little like the coverage in the widely covered article.
More importantly, off to the right side at Turkish Weekly is a link to an article: ‘US opposes to unilaterial Turkish Action in North Iraq while Iran supports Turks’.
Who’s trying to bury what appears like a major break with an established partner in Eurasia???
ugh – they played the ad for Spencer with Hillary and Osama on a split screen – it was grusome! I crashed my firefox trying to pick up the link (sorry can’t share but I located it by googling spencer senator new york)
“Adapting to win……”
“That’s sure some silencer!!”
(with apologies to A Scanner Darkly)
I’m not sure the new slogan is going to fly. After all, adaptation is essentially a reactive, not proactive, process. It’s an admission that Bushco cannot control the situation in Iraq but can only react to events as they happen. Not very “forward leaning,” Ken.
OT, but there’s a very interesting analysis of the Administration’s proposals to immunize itself from War Crimes Act prosecutions up at Balkinization. Marty Lederman says it isn’t about immunizing past conduct, but authorizing future conduct — particularly by the CIA — that amounts to torture. http://balkin.blogspot.com/200…..-2006.html
He also has a somewhat earlier post that takes on the Administration’s rationale for “secret” law: that it’s important that the enemy not know what we’re doing or might do in order to keep them off balance. His conclusion:
http://balkin.blogspot.com/200…..-city.html
Hillarys GOP opponent would be ecstatic to have Katherine Harris’s poll numbers …
neokneme @ 82
They’re losing George Will…I’m speechless.
Well almost :)
Froomkin today on Bush’s remarks yesterday:
He also references Eric Lichtblau and Glenn Greenwald. Bush and Gonzales want to take advantage of the UK terror plot to further expand US surveillance laws using British ones as a model. Does this strike you as strange as it does me? These are the guys after all who lambaste the Supreme Court for looking abroad to see what the rest of the world is doing when the Justices write their opinions. Now they are doing the same.
Froomkin also mentions that Bush read Camus’s the Stranger on his vacation. Some have expressed surprise at this, that Bush would read an existentialist novel (or that he even knows how to read). People forget that it is a short, simple, even minimalist narrative and nobody I’ve heard has suggested that Bush really understood it anyway. Like Bush, Meursault the novel’s main character is an amoral man with a limited, superficial, immediate, and completely egocentric view of his world. Go to the beach, kill an Arab, it’s all pretty much the same to him. Just as air playing a guitar or watching the destruction left by Katrina from his 747 is for Bush.
I doubt that Bush will ever be held to account for his criminality and ineptitude but I can see him reacting much the way that Meursault does in the novel’s last lines:
I stripped the accents because I do not think Wordpress likes them.
Like Meursault, Bush reflects his own emptiness and in the end, even the very end, it is as it as always been, about him. Camus, of course, says it better.
Can anyone point me to the August 6 PDB story that said Bush told the staffer who delivered it that ass was covered and he could return to DC?
egregious – I find it amazing that I have agreed with Will and Buchannan recently! astonishing!
For those that missed it, ThinkProgress has the Chuck Roberts apology to Ned Lamont up.
Chuck Roberts Apologizes For Calling Lamont The ‘Al Qaeda Candidate’
Unfortunately, what has worked well for the GOP is to just keep repeating the lies and slogans until enough people think it’s truth and actually means something.
And maybe that was a winning strategy when they had the numbers on their side, but they don’t; when the numbers are up over 60%, you aren’t talking about the lunatic fringe anymore – you’re talking the average person.
The GOP’s base is being whittled down to the bare bones, and I don’t think it’s enough for them to be able to sell any more of the crap that passes for policy in this country.
They were so determined to be opposed to the Democrats and, later, John Kerry, that they abandoned the strategy of good old fashioned police work plus intelligence, and now that the Brits appear to have had a success using that formula, what are we doing? Not taking the tools we know we have and can use, but we’re looking to see how or if we can change our laws to mirror Britain’s. Am I the only one who thinks that no amount of changing laws is going to result in successful exposure of terror plots if we can’t even use the tools we have?
And, on another front, we have the Israel-Hezbollah confrontation, which was a colossal failure. Israel wasn’t able to neutralize Hezbollah – which was the reason we gave for not pushing for a cease-fire early – and rather than admit we were wrong not to push for an end to the violence, we’re claiming that Israel was victorious – when anyone with two eyes and access to information can clearly see is crap.
The White House and the Pentagon deny that we were advising Israel, so either Israel grossly miscalculated, or the same folks who have handled Iraq war strategy so well were at the table on this one, too.
Sorry for the rant – I just get carried away sometimes by the increasingly blatant attempts by this administration and the GOP to say and do things that are 180 degrees from reality.
And their mistakes are costing lives.
OldCoastie @ 91
They are agreeing with you. They spit out the Kool-aid. It is toxic to them now.
via TPM cafe, this is good. (sorry if it’s a repeat):
if nothing else, this admin is shaking out who has delusional ideations and who does not…
BarbaraB – you find some of the most interesting links! KargoX at Next Hurrah had a piece ( I think John C linked to it last night?) that also discussed the “secret law” bit.
In addition to the fact that history proves secret police states create terrorism as opposed to defeating it; it also seems to me that the arguments as they apply to things like surveillance just don’t make sense. Legal, by the book, surveillance is kept “secret” from the person being surveilled. Sometimes a double secret makes a negative, or something like that. *g*
Every “bad guy” out there KNOWS that they could be being legally kept under surveillance, right now.
To add in that the government can secretly torture, kidnap, etc. without even evidence as a “game changer” really begs the question of what is law and what is crime, doesn’t it?
Is it secret because having secret laws changes the game, or is it being kept secret because it is a crime? If your “secret laws” are covert crimes, how long will your allies continue to work with you?
The word is that they US was willing to, and getting ready to, render the Pakistani subject and that is what forced UK’s hand – the US claim to be able to commit a crime. The US has indictments in Italy for commission of crimes. Read Suskind’s book and there is instance after instance of family members kidnapped and “detained” as well as suspects; the bombing of the al-Jazeera office in Iraq is very clearly described as deliberate, etc.
At some point, you lose the ability to call your “secrets” LAWS.
T- @ 90
I remember that story, too – looking for it now. Vague recollection of it possibly being referenced in the “Dark Side” documentary on Frontline. If there is one thing these guys do try to perfect it’s all the internal CYA and plausible deniability schemes. We see it all over Plamegate, in which more often than not their motives were not just to distort the truth but to hide the evidence that they were knowingly distorting the truth.
punaise – wow – get that quote to the Lamont team stat!
Wow – even George Will coming around. He sure smells the winds.
“You know who’s an attractive man? George Will.”
-Kramer
Mary for now @
55
Indeed he is. Whatever happened to that woman at Wapo that thought she could trim his sails? Is she still around?
Google search on: August 6 PDB — “All right. You’ve covered your ass now.”
Apparenly, it’s a quote from Ron Suskind’s book.
TheLeftCoaster on same.
Has this already been linked?
Cheney Lawyers Up
Sorry if it has—just can’t keep up some days.
Ned was great on HNN, and it was so lovely to see the anchor sincerely apologize to him. Thanks for the heads up Mary, and well done Skippy!
oldcoastie @12:01
ditto, shocking!
Christy latenight
housekeeping in aisle 326?
*xyz @ 99
I dunno. The comments to that post are all over the place:
etc.
My grandfather was a lifelong union member and has been a staunch Democrat supporter for years.
Last week he called the DNC and suggested the slogan, “Had Enough?”. Simple, but effective.
So, when I saw Christy’s “Had Enough-wote Democrat” slogan, I had to laugh. Seems like a couple of people are keying in on that phrase.
I posted a topic on the Wyoming network forum, entitled “had enough?” last week…
Keep it up, that’s the anthem, keep your damn hands up! (hat tip-Jay Z)
I don’t want laws mirroring Britain’s — our founders fought a revolution to enable us to make our own laws! And we came up with the Bill of Rights; the Brits have the Official Secrets Act and a whole bunch of Blair’s New Labour Laws (see last month’s Vanity Fair) to stifle dissent and spy on people.
The mirror I want to hold up to Britain’s success is not Abu Gonzales stripping us of our rights. The mirror I want to hold up is the British Muslim who informed on this plot, because of love for home and hearth. This plot was thwarted by, first, a Muslim citizen-stakeholder who saw fellow religionists acting against their nation’s interests in furtherance of a terror plot, and second, damn good police work.
We need more of both in the USA, not more laws that exalt the corporations and the state while dishonoring the rights of the individual. Ensuring that the strugglers have a stake in the current system’s success is FDR’s legacy; serfdom, dictatorship, and fascism may be BushCo’s. And these strugglers come in all colors, races, and heritages — we’d best be sure these folks are engaged in the success of the American enterprise. Democrats can and will do that; the GOP won’t.
TeddySanFran coined “Had Enough?” in these parts, no?
Lamont Apologizes For Campaign Manager’s Waterbury Comments
http://www.courant.com/news/lo…..?track=rss
I find it hilarious that the people so sympathetic to creationism and alleged intelligent design have coined a phrase that’s so, well, evolutionary.
Bush supports evolution!
Adapt and win!
Bush supports darwinism!
Say it loud, say it often. Bush has seen the light, he’s evolved, and he supports evolution!
Teddy, if the AIPAC decision holds, we may as well have the Official Secrets Act as well.
[Mary - filter no like *IPAC…]
punaise @
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I brought it here, from a dkos diarist who described its success in overturning the Democratic-controlled Congress in 1946. I love the asymmetry of its having had success as a slogan for the GOP — which then became the Do-Nothing Congress that Truman campaigned against in 1948.
But neither the slogan nor its applicability is my invention (”coinage”) nor, I want to point out, is it Newt’s!
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TeddySanFran @ 111
well, then at least you were the early adapter here….
Tom Tomorrow has a great graphic up for HoJo
CT in a nutshell
hee-hee!
Fiyero – thanks and agreed. Well stated insight.
I’m thinking globally and working locally on informing my blissfully ignorant wingnut friends.
Its amazing to me how much they don’t know and believe in “facts” that are anything but.
Teddy — I dig that we could use Newt’s words to overthrow the very thing he set in motion.
F*ck you, Gingrich, you unethical dirtbag, and all the creeps you helped put in power. We’ve definitely had enough of them, and you.
The YouTube revolution, per Rolling Stone:
http://www.rollingstone.com/nationalaffairs/?p=426
Coinage? Oh how that makes my ego soar…
Twolf inspired me on this one.. “Neuter” Libby.
This one’s good to go:
“It’s your vote — make it count!”
“Stay the course” or “Adapt to win”. It doesn’t matter what they say. It’s in the book; it’s in their playbook; there is no sense of reality here, only Republican “spin”. It will continue until the election and, if they prevail, we can expect it to continue unabated. So, please, don’t act surprised; and above all don’t act as if it won’t happen again and again. One more point: The Republicans have mastered one technique and use it very well: It is called “first strike.” They frame the argument (call Democrats cowards because they “cut and run” or won’t “stay the course”) and the Democrats then have to respond to it. If only some smart Democrat had come forward, immediately, and said, “Expect this to happen, expect this type of campaign from the Republicans,” they might have taken the “first strike” capability away from the Republicans. And, by doing this, they might have begun to show how the Republicans are bending events to remain in power. By the way, I have heard it said, more than once, that “pulling out of Iraq is tantamount to giving Al Queda a license to create more 9/11s.” Well, we haven’t pulled out of Iraq. And we almost had another 9/11. And we’re being promised that the treat isn’t gone for another 9/11. Sorry, guys, you can’t have it both ways. So the argument that we need to remain in Iraq at any cost holds no water.
Rayne @ 116
Thank you for expressing that so well. DITTO
REFLUBLICANS, folks. REFLUBLICANS. A moniker that, unlike “Defeatocrats”, is actually based in fact.
“Stay the course” or “Adapt to win”. It doesn’t matter what they say. It’s in the book; it’s in their playbook; there is no sense of reality here, only Republican “spin”. It will continue until the election and, if they prevail, we can expect it to continue unabated. So, please, don’t act surprised; and above all don’t act as if it won’t happen again and again. One more point: The Republicans have mastered one technique and use it very well: It is called “first strike.” They frame the argument (call Democrats cowards because they “cut and run” or won’t “stay the course”) and the Democrats then have to respond to it. If only some smart Democrat had come forward, immediately, and said, “Expect this to happen, expect this type of campaign from the Republicans,” they might have taken the “first strike” capability away from the Republicans. And, by doing this, they might have begun to show how the Republicans are bending events to remain in power. By the way, I have heard it said, more than once, that “pulling out of Iraq is tantamount to giving Al Queda a license to create more 9/11s.” Well, we haven’t pulled out of Iraq. And we almost had another 9/11. And we’re being promised that the threat isn’t gone for another 9/11. Sorry, guys, you can’t have it both ways. So the argument that we need to remain in Iraq at any cost holds no water.
Rebullshiticans anynoe?
REFLUBLICANS, folks. REFLUBLICANS. A moniker that, unlike “Defeatocrats” is actually based in fact.
What should the rightwingers running for office be scared of? Let us count the ways. Abolishing soc sec is just part of the assault on senior citizens. David Sirota pointed out the large scale custom seizing of senior’s meds ordered from Canada & they have been vewy, vewy qwiet about it. I am wondering how many seniors will have hit the doughnut hole before Nov elections. Dems should be asking why the republicans hate gramma Millie & grampa Joe.
Re-douchebaglicans?
-GSD
Rumsfailed (Couldn’t adapt).
Rethuglicans
Lieberman is now an Egocrat
new thread
twolf – 129, I like it! as in:
“Egocrat, Joe Lieberman, just dropped another 20 points in the polls 3 days before Tuesday’s election”.
Cozumel — the local newspaper and politicos had been baiting the Lamont folks with scurulous attacks — up till now, they stayed above it. No one asked the paper for an apology. There are no rules and nothing’s fair; from here on, it’s just instinct and judgment.
Everywhere I hear the sound of pounding marching feet.
-The Rolling Stones
Let’s keep hammering away. Can we make Norskeflamethrower our national rallying commander?
P.S. I just saw FAUX SNOOZE and Shep Smith was interviewing Commander Bill Kristol. They were both painting the Lebanon adventure as an enormous Hezbollah win.
They showed pictures of Lebanese shooting off fireworks and throwing candy.
That is what the Bush/Coulter Republican foreign policy has resulted in.
The reverse of what was promised.
on the environment: Rape-ublicans
(oooh, is that too mean?)
sedrunsic @ 56
The cons are notorious for espousing one philosophy in public to secure their base – i.e. touting or at least being open to creationism – while quietly holding radically antithetical views in private. I imagine most of them (the power brokers at least) are extreme social Darwinists clinging to that “selfish gene” mentality a la Jeff Skilling: Screw your fellow man, last one/company/nation standing wins. PNAC’s the poster organization for such views. I’ll bet a lot of them wish they HAD been adapting better, or maybe even deluded themselves into thinking they were, but are only trotting out the phrase now because they’re desperate for a new slogan. They, too, realize that “stay the course” now wreaks to a good majority of Americans. It’s desperation; slogans trump internal illogic.
Fiyero – good input, again.
One more thought on the WS cover “art”, following your Late Nite analysis: someone already mentioned that Hillary’s hand partially obscures the “T” in Lamont, making it look like a cross (subliminal message to the Christopths?). a further observation: it looks like “Lamon plus”, which can easily be read as Lemon plus”…FWIW
OfT:
The Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch “reports” on the Allen racial slur here:
http://www.timesdispatch.com/s…..#038;path=!news&s=1045855934842
My response here:
This may blow up as big as Trent’s Strom deal, if we can keep the pressure on the media to report it. WaPo had it this morning, and I am really surprised the Times-Dispatch ran with it. This could really hurt Allen in the DeeCee suburbs, which are now extraordinarily diverse, compared to when I grew up there.
[sniff] I smell fresh thread…
From somewhere above–
Our local Democratic committee has ordered bumperstickers that say, “Had Enough?” in large letters on one side, and “Join the Democratic Party” and contact info on the other.
Mary4N @ 97 — I have Balkinization bookmarked. As to your point, I suppose it depends on what a law is. I’m not sure the Administration has claimed its executive orders, secret or not, are “laws.” It has claimed they are “legal” in the sense of “immune from review or oversight,” also known as “nyaah, nyaah, so whatcha gonna do about it?” The answer from the judicial branch, while uneven, has been at least sometimes to tell them to stop. The answer from Congress has been *crickets*.
Christy, I enjoy your entries and this one is no exception, but why do you continue to link to files on Crooks and Liars? They are not available! Very rarely in relation to total requests does John Amato’s server actually provide the file. It is difficult to believe that a “2006 World Technology Award Nominee” like Amato would set up a server with so much in common with joe2006, but that is the way it is.
(Please, if you are going to delete this comment you also should ask for a glimpse of C&Ls server file request logs)
Adapt to win? We’re going to START adapting? Why haven’t we been adapting up until now?
notanumber: operator error?
“adapt” means “change.”
Basically this is an admission that their policy up to now hasn’t worked.
Fount @ 125
Well, then, wouldn’t “Rape-Publicans” be even more accurate?