As we’ve noted, the intrepid Bob Geiger has been doing yeoman’s work documenting the Democrats who have been naughty and nice with regard to supporting the party they expect to support them and the state of Connecticut’s Democratic nominee in the November Senate race, Ned Lamont.
Says Bob (email):
I think that between Kos and Firedoglake readers we rang their phones off the hook today and spokesmen for Feinstein and others who have committed are begging me to get an update out there so that their boss’s tepid endorsements will get them off the hook.
If you were one of those who took the trouble to make a call yesterday, take a bow — it’s working. Meanwhile, Bob reports that Mary Landrieu has come out in support of Holy Joe. That’s really kind of remarkable considering some of Joe’s best handiwork was chairing the committee that approved Michael Brown in 42 minutes (listen to him in the YouTube above defending King George’s divine right to appoint any useless crony he saw fit even in the wake of Katrina). New Orleans is still a bit of a mess as a result, or hasn’t Landreau noticed?
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Joe goes down?
NED!
KOBE!
JANE!
REDD!
ET. AL!
Toolerman!
not gonna stick, is it…
Here’s a song for WATB Joe.
May I add to Jane’s SPOTLIGHT suggestion?
Be sure to click the “REGIONAL” box under “RANGE” and type in “LA” as the target if you want to reach the local Louisiana press on this.
Gotta LOVE this new feature!
If DiFi gave a tepid endorsement of Ned, that’s more than I expected. I’ll take it, but let’s just say that I’m not impressed.
How do things stand in terms of the DSCC and its support – specifically, its money? The ubiquitous, iniquitous anonymous sources that Hill reporters are so fond of have said that there is at least one group of senators pushing to have no DSCC money go into CT, since the state will stay democratic no matter who wins. Of course, that depends on whether you believe Joe is a democrat.
More than just endorsing Ned, or declining to endorse Joe, we need the DSCC phones to ring as well, to make the message plain as day: if you diss the party and provide cover to BushCo, you will pay the price.
Heh, I thought this was Charles Johnson’s theme song, but it fits HoJo, too.
twolf1 @
4
Why can’t Reid, Kerry, Kennedy & co. come down HARD on traitors to the party such as Joe, Landrieu and Pryor? Treat ‘em the way they should treat Joe. No committees, no strategy sessions, no communication. They’re lepers!
(The Repubs would never screw up their election chances like this. I’m beginning to wonder if the Dems would be any more competent if they had control. They sure aren’t competent when it comes to getting elected!)
This piece at Huffpo would be really funny if it wasn’t so tragic…
Senator George Allen’s racial remark to a 20 year old Indian man last week, has re-highlighted accusations that the Senator is a bully and a bigot. Senator Allen’s sister, Jennifer Allen, documents many cases of her brother’s bullying in her book Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach’s Daughter. Read the excerpts below.
Explaining why she is scared of heights, Ms. Allen writes that “Ever since my brother George held me over the railing at Niagara Falls, I’ve had a fear of heights.” [Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach’s Daughter, page 43]
Referring to George’s relationship with one of her boyfriends: “My brother George welcomed him by slamming a pool cue against his head.” [Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach’s Daughter, page 178]…
(GL)
landrieu supports joe??!!–gotta give her a call!–in the meantime….see…below
rising tide–new orleans blog convention–
http://risingtidenola.com/
August 25-27, 2006, there will be a convention for all people who care about New Orleans.
The Rising Tide Conference will be a gathering for all who wish to learn more and do more to assist New Orleans’ recovery from the aftermath of the natural disasters of both Hurricane Katrina and Rita, the manmade disaster of the levee and floodwall collapses, and the incompetence of government on all levels. We will come together to dispel myths, promote facts, share personal testimonies, highlight progress and regress, discuss recovery ideas, and promote sound policies at all levels. We aim to be a “real life” demonstration of internet activism as the nation prepares to mark the one year anniversary of a massive natural disaster followed by governmental failures on a similar scale.
Terra! Terra! Terra!
Alberto Gonzales: terrorists are in our neighborhoods.. Soon….
Geez, You’d think there was an election coming or something…..Oh….wait.
http://rawstory.com/
Link via the Lamont blog http://nedlamont.com/blog
http://www.courant.com/news/po…..ory?page=1
~Interview with Sen. Joe Lieberman’s ego.
Thank you, Joe’s ego, for agreeing to this interview.
No problem. Joe is a great guy, a terrific guy. Of course Joe would allow his ego to be interviewed. And who could blame you for wanting to talk to Joe’s ego about Joe? Do you want to ask questions, or do you just want Joe’s ego to talk about Joe?~….
Funny how she flipped on this matter. especially when I found this item;
http://www.newsmax.com/archive…..1101.shtml
Subway Serenade @ 9
Hrmph. If true, Allen’s issues may go a bit beyond “mere” bullying.
Oh god. I just had a BFO!
The “president has the right to appoint whoever he wants” crowd is a subsidiary of the Incumbent Protection Racket! It’s another way of quashing public oversight/approval of who gets the goodies — in this case, the cushy jobs.
The less oversight, the less someone has to be actually qualified for a position, the more likely thems that’s got ‘em will be thems that keeps ‘em. And then those plumbs can be kept in a little bag to hand out to people who contribute to campaigns “the right way.”
sonate, the problem is that Senate Democrats are too dumb to realize when they’re being attacked, whether it’s by their “friends” in the media who legitimize Ann Coulter and her fascism-friendly fans, their “friends” in the GOP who are the original concern trolls, or their fellow Democrats who contend that things like party loyalty and discipline are for the mean and intolerant (and successful) Republicans.
Some Democrats get this. But not enough, and not enough yet. People wonder why we don’t win elections? It’s because we have leaders who can’t/won’t lead, and followers who can’t/won’t follow. Lamont is the litmus test for this: Support Lamont, or you’re sabotaging the party almost as much as Joe Lieberman, and you’re too dumb to see that he’s using your “friendship” to trap you into helping keep the party impotent and muddled.
For some reason I’m experiencing some serious Deja Vu with this thread. The party “leadership” has to be brought to realize that loyalty has to run both ways. And they wonder why they keep losing elections.
Senator Mary Landrieu (D-La.) is a grave disappointment. Though her move to support Lieberman in not a surprise, considering this individual is considered one of the most conservative Democrats in the Senate.
>or hasn’t Landreau noticed?Cedric won’t listen to me at all.
Senator Landrieu oughta support her party. And stop getting me in trouble.
Sorry if this has been addressed before- but wouldn’t Joe have to “unbecome” a Democrat to run as a candidate on another party ticket in CT? Once the petition sigs. are approved, how can he legally in CT be both a member of the CTforLie party and the Democratic party? Surely he has to vote for himself as a member of the CTforLie party (registered member) and not a Dem?
Need something to make you smile on “Hump Day”? Check out this butterfly diary.
Jacqrat, thanks for the tips, I just sent my first “spotlight” to three Louisiana papers.
I called the DSCC asking why they didn’t put pressure on Lieberman to drop his Independent bid. The person who answered said, “Only our chairman, Senator Schumer, can make that decision.” HEY, SCHUMER, WAKE UP!
What might be taken as reticence to acknowledge Jilted Joe’s obvious repudiation in the primary by the majority of Senate Demos is more likely the same reaction that we see in DEERS CAUGHT IN HEADLIGHTS. In other words, they have no idea as to what is actually going on.
The phone calls and emails are the equivalent of HONKING THE HORN LOUDLY TO SAVE THEM FROM THEIR OWN DEMISE.
Keep honking the horn! If they don’t hear it, well, two words: Venison Stew….
AbuG money quote:
There are between 5,000 and 6,000 extremist websites on the Internet, each one encouraging extremists to cultivate relationships with like- minded people. These are the home-grown terrorists that you have heard about.
This radicalization is happening online and can therefore develop anywhere, in virtually any neighborhood, and in any country.
Link.
Helina Handbasket: Love that screen name!
karen, I think you unearthed something important. It doesn’t sound like the people doing to work at the DSCC are too pleased with their boss’ decision.
OK apologies in advance. I was EPU’ed but it was an honest EPU. I never saw it coming and there it was or rather wasn’t.
Re impeachment,
I hate to go to the Republicans for pointers, but if this was about Bill Clinton, do you really think they would have any problem with talking about impeachment, whether they thought it was likely or not? Do you really think they would have any difficulty about talking about impeachment as well as other things? If anyone said that impeachment was fringe or a distraction, I can already hear the response. What will it take for you? How many 911s or Iraqs until it’s time for you to say he’s got to go? How many more of our cities have to sink beneath the waves or go up in flames before you think you’ve had enough?
Acting as if impeachment is some kind of taboo, not to be talked about in polite company, is yet another case of keeping our powder dry. We must have by now some of the driest powder in the universe. The onus shouldn’t and doesn’t need to be on us. It should be squarely on anyone who still defends Bush after 911, Katrina, and Iraq. If these don’t deserve impeachment, what does?
John Casper: It must be very daunting for the DSCC young workers to hear call after call about Droopy Joe, and their boss won’t make a move. It must be totally frustrating for them!
I would have thought that Senate Democrats would want to avoid any possibility of being asked the question: “Why should Americans believe Democrats will stand up for them, if you won’t even stand up for the voters of your own party?”
If Senate Dems won’t fight Holy Joe, Karl’s gonna be faxing this question out to all his “journalist” friends about the third week of October…
karen allen- also see my question #20- any one from CT? How can Joe still officially be a “Dem”, at least once the sigs. are approved?
Prof- great question!!!
Valley Girl: In the general election, one does not have to declare oneself as a Republican, Democrat or Whatever to vote for a candidate. That’s only in the Primary election.
Valley Girl @ 20
VG — this question has been driving me crazy! It seems to me the minute he filed those petitions for the CFL party he had to be a member of that party! Can you be a member of two parties at the same time?
[OT — I just put up a diary at DKos on the Charlie Brown race, if anyone would like to give me some recommend love.]
Chris @ 16
I’ve find it funny in a sad sort of way that the Dem leadership will listen to helpful advice from the other party. Even when they have to realize at some level that the advisors really want them to become irrevelant or better yet dead
Woo-f-ing HOOO!
Go Johnny, GO!
[bighug]
John Casper @
22
karen allen- okay- thanks- I wasn’t thinking of it from that perspective. So, I guess Lieberman is not a registered member of the “CTforLie” party. So maybe it’s not a “Party of One”, it’s a Party of None.
Professor Foland @ 30
You’ve nailed it. This is the theme with which we should be hammering Dems who don’t support Ned.
The Rude One features a post on a book and a link to Amazon. The book, Paca La Macaca Va Al Mercado, is one of a series of children’s books. My review (in the style of Patriotboy) of this book is up, though I don’t know for how long. The title translates to “Paca the Macaca Goes to The Market”. My review is titled, “George Allen Would Like This Book”. Do check it out, if you please.
LindaR- thanks. In response to KA’s explanation, I guess it’s a “Party of None” hehe (#37)???
But then again, you’d think that to petition to be on the ballot for a different party, you’d have to join that party… so maybe the question is not closed. Expertise in CT election law needed!
closing italics
The loyalty of members of the U.S. Senate is not to the Republican Party or to the Democratic Party…but to the special interests that fund their campaigns. Some would argue that the most powerful lobby in Washington is the pro-Isreali NeoCon lobby. This is the group that is pressuring the Democrats not to publicly support Ned Lamont. They’ll do everything in their power to “buy” the election for their poster boy — Joe Lieberman.
It may take more than emails and phone calls to get these spineless Democrats out of their bunkers. It’s just a reminder that we’ve got the best politicians that money can buy.
Professor Foland (#30):
We need to start chanting this. You nailed it!
but…but ITALICS is FUN!
OT
More here.
How ornery of us — just as the rest of the country leans left, FDL goes the other way . . .
And here I thought Preview was just pulling my other leg-petal to even my things up!
Ed Deevy @ 43
It seems that more and more people are arguing that and I’m one of them. How many spies and agents have to be kicked out of the US before this issue really gets publicly examined?
Well folks, as some of you know, I live a sheltered life wrt TV–don’t have on and thereby don’t see lots of the pictures until later. (For example, I didn’t see the planes fly into the buldings until I saw Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine about a year after the film came out.) This is the first time that I have seen this kind of footage of NOLA with all the water. And to hear JoeNO crapping along in the background is, well, shocking. What an uncaring bastard.
We’ll never get to see EPU again if we don’t get rid of the italics.
Neokneme – If you put Rove, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Hayden, and Mehlman all on one side of my scales, with Gonzales on the other, they wouldn’t even be enough to cause a quiver. He and Ashcroft and their crews have the weight of every bit of the moral responsiblity for most of what has happened to and with this country and they are unforgiveable. The rest are just the general crew of motley partisans who scatter death and destruction, the ones that every party and every Presidency knows in some way or another.
CTBob has a good post up re: CT House races vis a vis Joe. Nice graphic too.
http://ctbob.blogspot.com/2006…..house.html
On the flip side of the coin, this Friday, Ned Lamont (D-CT) will come to Vermont
http://www.dfalink.com/event.php?id=11515
to stump and raise money for his fellow Democratic candidates (Peter Welch U.S. House, Scudder Parker VT Gov.) and Bernie Sanders, who is running for U.S. Senate with the endorsement of the State Democratic Committee (and every Democrat I know).
Ned Lamont (D-CT) is wasting no time helping Democrats who share his vision, and his friends at DFA (http://www.democracyforamerica.com/) who supported him early in this process.
Sad to see another straggler like Mary Landreiu hurting the cause. On the other hand, it is truly wonderful and rewarding to see Democrats in Vermont ASKING Ned Lamont (D-CT) to come campaign for THEM!
Ned Lamont (D-CT) has plenty on his plate right now and he is still giving for the benefit of the party nationally. We really can’t thank this guy enough.
sláinte,
cl
Valley Girl @ 40
[shaking head in befuddled, “I have no response to that” bamboozledment]
VG–actually, it’s a devastating question, the kind Dems should be going to any lengths to avoid being asked. (Also: Hi! Haven’t seen you here in a bit.)
Re impeachment: I think it’s possible Dems have confused a strategy for “winning elections” with “winning power to change things.”
It is very possible to do the first without doing the second. It’s entirely possible that actions that improve the odds of the second actually decrease the odds of the first, and vice versa. So the question is: which probability are you trying to maximize with your campaign strategy?
I think impeachment is one of the issues that highlights this tension. A consistent theme of impeachment in Democratic campaigns would, if successful and leading to control of Congress, bring tremendous power to change things. It would rightly be seen as a mandate, an agreement forged with the American public to take forceful steps. Such a theme would probably also reduce the chance of actually taking Congress.
Wiser people than I might claim that simply getting hold of Congress is such a boon, and so likely by itself to lead to serious changes, that the difference between the two is small. That may be, but I’m not completely convinced.
Holy Joe is another instance of the tension. Keeping him “on the reservation” is the highest-probability move for winning control of Congress. However, having Joly Joe in the Senate in February of 2009, rather than Ned, will strongly undermine any claim of a sweeping mandate for change.
Or, to put all of this in terms George Felix Allen might understand: are Dems kicking field goals when they need to be throwing Hail Mary’s? In many situations, the Hail Mary is the rational call.
Looking up at muted CNN to see “SUSPECT ARRESTED IN THAILAND IN JONBENET RAMSEY KILLING”
Here are the Dems of the Gang of 14
Joseph I. Lieberman, Connecticut
Robert C. Byrd, West Virginia
E. Benjamin Nelson, Nebraska
Mary Landrieu, Louisiana
Daniel Inouye, Hawaii
Mark Pryor, Arkansas
Ken Salazar, Colorado
Landrieu, Pryor and Salazar are the ones, so far, racing to support Lieberman.
I think that all the Dems in the Gang realize that if people begin to want accountablity – they are on the front line to go. Saving Joe is, to them, saving themselves.
Professor Foland at 30 and Ed Deevy at 43 have identified the problem. The combined effect of the two concepts is our problem.
(waving at Caoimhin Laochdha, whose name I can now pronounce with ease, nyah nyah nyah)
Sorry if me hugging John Casper caused FDL to lean to the right…
Not that it’s gonna stop me HUGGING.
“I’m just saying”
Hugh @28, about impeachment, I take another page from the Repub playbook, and keep it simple: “If he lied us into war, we should impeach. We need to find out.” The premise is clear; let them get defensive with a long-winded dispute of the hypothetical. Then I say, “hmmm I wish I knew.”
lotus @ 46
I think although I do not know that HoJo’s party can set it’s own rules and candidates from any party could be on his party’s line. CFL a party of one.
OT: From CNN…
– A suspect in the JonBenet Ramsey murder has been arrested in Thailand, Denver TV station KUSA reports. CNN working to confirm.
fahrender 44 & Morris 38–we absolutely should not be chanting this publicly; no need to help the GOP.
But in our private calls to Senate offices we should be helpfully reminding Senate Democrats of what’s coming their way if they don’t crack the whip on Joe.
LindaR- I just left a comment for CTBob with links to this discussion. Perhaps he will be able to help sort this out. It does seem sensible that one would have to change party registration to appear on the ballot for another party’s banner, but maybe this subtlety was overlooked in CT. Apparently it was an oversight of the CT legislature that the primary date and the filing date weren’t sorted out before to prevent the “sore loser” scenario.
Thanks Mfn. Most favored, nutritious.
‘nite gang. ‘nite gunter. it’s beddy bye im deutschland.
Professor Foland @ 65
agreed.
Mary Landrieu? Wow, fools really do rush in, don’t they?
Prof- again, great devastating question. Yeah, I went into retirement for the sake of my day job for a while. Back sporadically!!!! Esp. re: Lamont/ Loserman issues.
VG — thanks.
Valley Girl
Apparently it was an oversight of the CT legislature that the primary date and the filing date weren’t sorted out before to prevent the “sore loser” scenario.
Not oversight but good planning to force hand before primary.
LindaR,
Have you seen this today?
http://kriskristofferson.com/news/
(per GDS)
Does anyone know who is the next most Senior Dem to Lieberman on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee?
Anyone who might actually make that “investigate the Executive branch for mis-and mal-feasance” thing into a reality?
OT: the Germans called it “Stalin’s Organ” — the Russians called them “Katyushas”. The rocket launchers look like a bunch of church organ pipes — the Germans were not being priapic!
OMG!!
Have you all seen this
http://kriskristofferson.com/news/
Tears in my eyes, music just says it all and Kris is a long time favorite.
Hi Lotus,
Always great to see you “waving”
Back at you.
sláinte,
cl
Regardless of what ever she may think inside her head, Mary Landriue is totally enslaved to the WH because these rat bastards will yank rebuilding money unless she does exactly as she is told.
Not that she ever had a spine in the first place, but that doesn’t stop them from using the Cruciadus Curse to make her dance like a putppet.
(hi there to all the Harry Potter fans)
Professor Foland @ 65
Yes indeed, or else they too could find themselves with targets painted on their backs.
Mary,
Levin, Akaka, Carper, Dayton, Lautenberg, Pryor.
http://hsgac.senate.gov/index……Membership
Not sure who is next most senior.
Phil- not sure I am reading your comment correctly. What I should have said is that while I was up in CT I heard an interview with CT Secy of State saying that it had been an “oversight” = mistake that the CT legislature didn’t reconcile the dates to prevent petitions by “sore losers”, and that she planned to press for this change soon. (Shut barn door. Sigh)
Why are people surprised Landreau would support loserman? Until she was scolded by Anderson Copper, Landreau thought “Brownie” was doing a heck of a job!!
http://www.Sore-Loserman.com
http://www.WhinyJoe.com
Re: Mary -75
From “The Hill” http://hill1.thehill.com/thehi…..news1.html
“Ironically, a lawmaker with a good shot of replacing Lieberman atop the Governmental Affairs panel, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), is spearheading the effort within the Senate to preserve Democratic support for Lieberman. Carper is the third most senior Democrat on the panel after Lieberman. But the two Democrats who outrank him, Sens. Carl Levin (Mich.) and Daniel Akaka (Hawaii) are likely to keep their perches as the most senior Democrats on the Armed Services Committee and Veterans Affairs Committee, respectively. “
I thought that Akaka and Lautenberg were on with Ned?
Also, looky here.
Rich Lowry at the National Review is calling Iraq Bush’s Vietnam.
The man who only a few months back wrote the front page article about Iraq titled: “We are Winning”.
The narrative is changing. No wonder Bush was looking so haggard at his presser the other day.
http://www.townhall.com/column…..hs_vietnam
-GSD
karen allen @
23
I emailed him twice about this and have not even got the perfunctuary “thank you for emailing,” auto reply.
*ilson- did you also snag this one? (Same text)
http://www.connecticutforlieberman.com/
Phil @ 63
these so called “3rd party” lines are not party lines at all. They are simply ballot lines with any name not already taken and not misleading.
If I get the signatures, I can put in the Looseheadprop line in the machine and folks can vote on it. It’s merely a ballot line, not a political party. Usually the person running on these kinds of ballot lines are also running on a major party line and only need the extra ballot line for crossover voters who cannot bring themselves to vote on the line of the party they usually oppose.
Small OT posted earlier, FYI.
As of 8:30 p.m. local time last night, the U.S. has been in Iraq longer than it was in World War II.
http://www.ironingtheflag.com/worldwar2.html
weeder @ 74
That is fantastic.
Carl Levin?
http://hsgac.senate.gov/index……Membership
Mary for now @ 75
OMG, Gotta go watch the rerun of TDS
L8r
Ugh. Did we leave the bleach and steel wool someplace handy after that wretched twit’s YouTube the other night? ‘Cuz I need it after watching back-to-back both C&L’s copy of Donnie Deutsche interviewing Coulter and then this video of FUX News featuring Joe-moeba.
I feel so sick.
Did you notice how very quickly Joe-moeba wanted to sidestep the “blame game” and move on? He definitely doesn’t want to take his licks for this.
This is exactly where we need to press and HARD.
I’d like to use one of Coulter’s pointy, sharp cloven hooves for the task, but pressuring Senators will have to do for now.
thanks weeder and helina
After looking more closely at the make up of the committee, it is very easy to see why there has been pretty much NOTHING done to hold the Exec branch accountable for — anything.
http://www.ConnecticutForLieberman.com is not mine but it inspired my burgeoning empire of Joe-mockery URLs … I realized the JoeFolk were dummies about the Internets and hadnt snatched up valuable addresses. I own http://www.LiebermanForConnecticut.com , http://www.CT4Joe.com , http://www.CT4Joe2006.com , http://www.Team-Connecticut.com , http://www.Team-CT.com , and some more like http://www.SoreLooserman.com
LHP- I think you answered my original question. Tho I thought you were in MA not CT. From your answer, it sounds like CT voters who would otherwise vote straight D or R ticket will have to make a special effort to vote for JL. I am not familiar with the type of voting machines in CT BTW. Punch cards here.
Some wiser than I, might argue that if we hadn’t had impeachment hearings on Nixon’s presidential behavior and prevarications, he probably would have stayed in office. And still others might suppose that the real value of impeachment is accountability, symbolism and setting an example. And other citizens might premise that since Bush lied, with knowledge and intent about the reasons for attacking Iraq, which not incidentally has resulted in thousands of Americans killed or wounded, and countless innocent Iraqis disposed of, that these actions by the President fit the profile of high crimes and misdemeanors. And there are folks who, no doubt might say we have no choice under the Constitution but to hold impeachment hearings.
*ilson- I trust you won’t sell out!!!! But, the fact that the http://www.connecticutforlieberman.com site was got to before TeamJoe did certainly reinforced my opinion that TeamJoe’s claim to internet savvy (”Lamont hacked my site”) was un/in/ not credible.
Linda,
I thought it went well with your question
“When will the human race get it that war itself is a war crime?”
GSD linked to it earlier. I’ve been so mad for so long, I was surprised it could bring tears to my eyes, but it did.
re- Mary Landrieu
“Nice Senate seat you got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it.”
I tend to think certain Repub/pro-BushCo folks could be holding some *very* damaging Katrina stuff/data over Landrieu’s head.
Think Progress on Lowery’s slow adaptation to reality.
For now, though, he is still a walking conglomeration of dewclaws IMO.
BTW, I try not to watch Snow much, but if you scroll down the Thinkprogress link there is a clip of him explaining Bush isn’t frustrated (he just enjoys striking out blindly and watching the little people scurry). Snow looks like he has aged ten years since he took over. Just a bad makeup day?
Ed Deevy @ 43 -
Matt Stoller’s post last week vis a vis Bolton and Lieberman and by extension the hijacking of the dems by the powerful Israeli lobby really was an eye-opener for me too. I am trying to digest all this information and now I have to look at their votes on certain issues on a macro level.
There is a huge influence under the surface that I never considered before, extending way beyond what I’ve ever imagined. Scary stuff.
I might sell out but then I’d have to donate the maximum allowable to Ned. I could be whore with a heart of gold — LieberLawyers, call me !
Sorry if this has already been linked.
Excellent Ned Lamont Op-Ed from the neocon living room, the WSJ Editorial page. The WSJ knows their editorial page isn’t worth anything, you don’t need a subscription to read it. Ned is terrific and this placement must have struck real fear into Joe.
“…..Good judgment is an essential part of good governance. But we’re bogged down in Iraq, and hamstrung in the war against terror, by leaders who lacked judgment, historical perspective, openness to other cultures and plain old common sense. We offer something different.
But in the final analysis, the results of this election say less about me, and more about the people of Connecticut. They turned out in record numbers; they spoke every day with a simple eloquence and urgency about the country we love. They oppose the war and the fiscal nightmare crafted by President Bush and his allies. But their vote, finally, was one based on pragmatism and reality, on optimism and hope. And it is to these ideals and values that we plan to address my campaign in the months until November.”
*ilson, did you decide yea or nay on
LabradoodlesforLieberman
and
Liebermanslittlegreenfootballs
??
Don’t forget the DSCC and Mark Pryor, as Christy pointed out yesterday. Here was my call to them:
pssst *ilson, now that Chocula is being told to raise his own money by the RNC, you may want to snarf up
CerealkillersforChocula
Slight clarification since FDL aspires to “blog-of-record” accuracy qualification:
Eureka Springs, AR @
90
The link actually mentions the US-in-WWII against Germany which ended on May 8, 1945. The WWII including Japan ended 3 months later, in August 61 years ago. And Lamont himself mentioned on one of the Sunday broadcast that by the end of the year the US will have been at war in Iraq longer than our total involvement in WWII.
OT but v. interesting
http://www.editorandpublisher……1003018377
~~NEW YORK For towns that host military bases, the war in Iraq hits home in a way that other communities simply can’t comprehend — and many local newspapers have adapted their coverage accordingly, offering strong support for U.S. troops and their families. But now those papers face a daunting challenge in the wake of disturbing charges being brought against several soldiers.~~
OT – Via Atrios – New Zogby has Bush’s JAR at 34 pct.
Mary for now — those URLs are kinda exotic, so I have passed on them. A one-year ownership of a domain name (URL) is just $9.20
I also own and have donated http://www.ConnecticutForLamont.com , http://www.CT4Lamont.com and http://www.CTforLamont.com
http://www.WhoIsJoeLieberman.com is also donated
I keep forgetting to ask Geiger what Blanche Lincoln says. I’d bet she’ll come out for Lieberman sooner or later.
What were the results of the “no-holds-barred investigation” of the FEMA failure in New Orleans that Sen. Lieberman promised in the video clip above? Was I just so overwhelmed with post-Katrina fatigue, or with Bush fatigue in general, that I missed that announcement? Surely the investigation found that the Bush administration had been negligent in its staffing and oversight of FEMA? I just don’t recall Sen. Lieberman ever announcing that.
*ilson -
Didn’t you recently purchase something like http://www.whinyjoe.com? Anyway, whatever it was made me laugh.
V-E Day was May 8th, 1945 — V-J Day was August 15th, 1945 – 61 years ago yesterday
Mary for now @ 101
Maybe he isn’t amoral as he thought was. It has got to wearing to provide cover for such evil(evil is a little strong but that’s the way I feel). Anybody know what the record is for the most press secretaries in an administration?
I keep getting this thought running through my head that GWB might actually be the Antichrist. Think about it, if you wanted to bring about the Apocalypse, the oval office would be a good place to work from.
David Sirota has a piece crossposted at Huffpo and kos that gives some insight into another source of support for Lieberman
Why wouldn’t an ex-Enron lobbyist want Joe to be re-elected?
How can you people be discussing these trivial matters of war and peace when Jonbenet’s alleged killer has been arrested.
-GSD
Good News at dKos — some of George Felix Allen’s GOP friends say that GFA Jr was calling the person in question a shithead. How nice. How Republican.
Also, James Webb uses the L word — he says that Felix is a Liar.
Best of all, Bill Clinton is going to help James Webb raise some big bucks — it looks like George Felix Allen, the race baiting Klansman wannabe, is going to get a serious ass kicking!!!
Here’s another key question that Lieberman needs to be asked repeatedly:
Mr. Lieberman, do you promise that, if elected as Senator, you will serve the FULL six-year term of your office and will NOT leave office accept any other position in government.
Lieberman owes the voters of Connecticut an answer to this question, because it is clear Lieberman has some interest in a position in the Bush administration.
And it is also clear that if Lieberman left office to accept another position, a likely Republican governor would appoint the replacement Senator.
Every Democrat and Independent voter in Connecticut would be extremely interested to hear Lieberman’s answer to this question.
drouse @ 116
I think your’e giving him too much credit,after all, he is
an idiot.
ck, that’s the pivotal race for a Democratic Senate majority
Authorities Warning Women Not to Wear Gel Bras As Worries of Possible Female Bombers Increase
Just spoke to an aide of sen. Pryor about his support of joe while being vice chair of DSCC. Her thily veiled contempt was a possible sign that my call was likely not the first today. I urge my Firepup friends to share out “polite” outrage of this injustice.
(202) 224-2353
Howie- am I correct? A new article by you up soon?
Howie Klein @ 112
I sent her a fax the day after the CT primary inquiring the same… Usually takes her 30-60 days to respond, but at least she does. If I hear anything, I’ll let you know.
:-)
The all-over-the-issues Democrats certainly don’t bode well for a united Democratic front in November. That aside, what is perplexing is why anti-Iraqi war Dems have become pariahs within the party. Feingold, according to insiders, is personna non grata in main-stream Dem circles. Murtha’s not far behind him. Odd, since if it’s true that Lamont beat out Lieberman because of Lieberman’s support of the Iraq war, why are the big cheeses in the party continuing to distance themselves from Lamont’s anti-war Dem counterparts. Have Republican moles invaded the Dem party whispering sweet misinformation into clueless ears?
Prober- contempt for you or for Pryor?
MFN,
Tony Snow recently fought off cancer. He is sitting in the epicenter of Bad Karma Central.
Best of luck to him, but I noticed he was looking not so tip-top too.
-GSD
I have honestly never heard of a gel bra!
I just called Senator Pryor’s office and expressed my extreme displeasure about him supporting Joe Lieberman in his Independent bid to be Senator of CT over the duly-elected Democratic candidate Ned Lamont. The person answering responded by reading a set response card saying Lieb was Pryor’s mentor,they have served on various committees together, both belonged to the Gang of 14, and Pryor greatly respects Lieb. I then suggested that Pryor resign from the DSCC since he was supporting a non-Democratic candidate. The worker said neither DSCC Chairman Schumer nor any other DSCC member has asked for Pryor’s resignation and therefore Pryor was remaining.
So there ya have it. Schumer doesn’t care if his Committee members support non-Democrats. The DSCC has only themselves to blame (and Lieberman) for this predicament. Doing nothing is a decision in itself.
Jenny from the Blog- I have, and it does raise the question about all those women wearing silicon inside, not outside.
That’s it, if I can’t fly with my lip gloss or gel bra, then the terrorists have already won.
What in the world is a gel bra?
felicity, do you have a link?
Gel bras from Amazon ! (appropriately enough)
“If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice”
-Rush
on a hot day, can you put your gel bra in the freezer for a bit before putting it on to cool off?
First gel insoles, now bra’s. gimme a break.
Valley Girl @ 132
Valley Girl, ha! someone here commented we’ll be flying naked with paper shoes soon…
Valley Girl
Contempt for having to address Pryors support for joe. She said her office only address’s legislative affairs.
Where di I sign up to be boobie checker?
howie thread
Tranny terrorists. Just bang them together and go boom
Is that a bra that comes fully loaded with breasts?
didopreview is good
Suddenly everything’s in italic and my response to VG is in moderation. The terrorists have won!
Jenny from the Blog @ 146
responses have now been banned too–especially gel ones
twolf1 -
*reaching down to remove gel from my comments* :)
Sherrod Brown is answering questions in the new thread
Jane,
You’re probably already aware of this but all of the state representatives (to the DNC) are meeting in Chicago (I believe next week) and they are taking a Lieberman vote. If it’s either overwhelming or unanimous that could be pretty hard hitting. I’m embarrassed to say that I know of this because our state committeeman spoke of it at a county Dem meeting last evening and was wondering if we (other states) should get involved – he was brought to his knees fairly rapidly and will now be voting against Lieberman at the meeting. We convinced him that it was a party issue not merely a state election issue.
CJ 2:39 p.m.
Do you know what is meant by a Lieberman vote? Are they simply talking about endorsing Lamont, or will they call on all Democratic officeholders to support Lamont and not Lieberman? I would like more information so I can try to contact my state’s DNC members.
super-call-yer-bra-gel-istic
expect all audacious
Valley Girl @ 96
VG-
I am in NY. But the practice I described occurs in most states of the union
Allen & Cat-Killer Frist ought to be great pals!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..27382.html
Let me give this a shot as a Connecticut voter and as a voting official. To answer the questions about Joe Lieberman’s run for the Senate in November:
Joe Lieberman is still registered as a Democrat.
CT law lets you run under any party affiliation, even one different from your voter registration.
Joe cannot run in November as either an Independent or a Democrat because both parties already have their convention’s or primary’s chosen candidates.
Joe is running ‘independently’ as the candidate in his own party. Petitions and required signatures introducing his party and his candidacy were submitted to the CT Sec’y of States the day after his loss to Ned Lamont.
Joe says he chose to introduce his own party to the election because it placed his name higher on the ballot than the other parties running for election,i.e.: the Liberatarians, the Green Party, etc. But, it lists beneath that of the Republican or Democratic candidates.
Very, very important: If Joe wins the election as the Senator from CT, the Democrats LOSE a Senate seat in a year where we are trying to gain a majority representation! Joe is indicating he will retain his party affiliation – CT4Joe, but has promised to caucus with the Dems.
Very important: Caucusing with the Democrats is not an indication nor any assurance of which way Joe will vote.
I’m sure this doesn’t answer every question and I’m sure someone else has all the correct quotes from the CT Election Laws, but the above is my understanding from speaking with a few Registrars of Voters – both Republican and Democrat.
138- yes you can. An employee of mine did it every time she worked outdoors.
CJ @ 151
The DNC meeting starts Friday the 18th
Hey CJ & neurophius — I wrote and posted a Resolution Supporting Connecticut’s Democratic Processes for use by local party organizations as they see fit.
You can find it at the State Roots Project website:
http://www.staterootsproject.o…..onnecticut
Go ahead, use it, tweak it as necessary to fit your local situation; get it passed and then send it to your state party organization. CJ, this could be waved around at the Chicago meeting as an indication that local parties are p*ssed off and are going on the record.
What happened in CT could happen to other states; Lieberman’s rejection of CT’s primary outcome undermines and invalidates the democratic processes elsewhere by precedent.
over the shoulder smolder holder
Rayne at 159
What a great idea. But you all don’t have much time, the meeting begins friday night
ccmask @ 160
do your ears hang low?
do they wobble to and fro?
can you tie then in a knot?
can you tie them like a bow?
can you throw them over your shoulder
like a continental soldier?
do your ears hang low?
Not low enough to put them in my bra…
ears to you, Mrs. Robinson
three cheers for my peers ears
bboop — I personally own http://www.CT4Joe.com and http://www.CT4Joe2006.com — I’d be a NedVoter if I could…
ccmask @ 165
throw chairs for my pears’ heirs
(?)
do your ears hang high?
do they reach up to the sky?
do they get caught in your hat?
do they wave like stalks of rye?
do they pick up CB chatter,
or other broadcast matter?
do your ears hang high? (!)
Raw Story’s excerpt of The Hill’s story:
Full Raw Story here. Their link to the original doesn’t seem to want to load for me, but YMMV.
The Nose knows.
I so much enjoyed writing Schumer yesterday and the DSCC today, after getting their mass mailing on Iraq, to ask them about Mark Pryor’s staggering conflict of interest in being the vice chair of the DSCC and supporting Lieberman.
What a shock that no one has gotten back to me.
The DSCC can expect to see NOT ONE THIN DIME from me if they are going be run by people who actually undermine the organization’s stated purpose of electing Democratic senators.
What person in their right mind would knowingly contribute to the DSCC Country Club’s incumbency racket? Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer et. al. need to know that the public will both know and have zero tolerance for Lieberman supporters in their ranks.
What a crock.
Amen, *atou.
helina handbasket @ 24
Too funny! Too true! BEEP! BEEP! HELLLOOO?!
That’s too bad about Landrieu. Unfortunately, she’s in a very tough political situation, since Louisiana is a swing state, and a lot of Democrats were dislocated or made homeless by Bush’s neglicence in response to Katrina. She’s walking a fine line, but she kowtows too much to the right. She should take the position that the Bush administration has already screwed her state as much as it can, and the only way to stop the screwing is to throw the bastards and their supporters, chief among them Lieberman. Although he calls himself a Democrat, he’s just a toadie for the Bushies. One wonders what happened to his psyche in Florida in 2000. Bush made him his bitch, and he’s been down with it ever since.
I don’t think these collaborator Democrats realize just how much they are damaging the Senate caucus for the long term.
If a person winning a Democratic nomination by Democratic voters in their state can’t be assured of the support of their potential colleagues, then there really is no reason to run as a Democrat, nor to be particularly loyal when they put their bills in play in the Senate.
It would be fun to see how the Turncoat 5 work with a Senator Lamont. All I know is the next time any of these folks come begging me for money in that giant pile of Junk Mail I get every year from Democrat Senators, I won’t be sending them anything (except perhaps a BRM full of lead weights back).
I’ll tell you someone who needs a little pressure: a gentleman named Al Gore.
He needs to get in Lieberman’s shit, big-time, about all he’s done, and is doing, to help bushCo.
Al’s enjoying a resurgence of popularity; partly from his movie, but mostly, just from the fact that he was robbed of the presidency in 2000, which would have saved us, if not from 9-11, at least from goatboy’s using it for his mideast anschluss.
neurophius @
152
Sorry for the slow response, just quickly checking in on a late lunch break but my impression is a vote to come up with a position statement from the group.
Rayne 159, I passed the resolution link onto our committeeman to see if he wants to bring it along to Chicago.
At least Landrieu singlehandedly gave Anderson Cooper his job at CNN. (For those who missed the clip a year ago, she made him cry on television because she wouldn’t give him a straight answer about why the f*** politicians were congratulating each other as corpses lay at his feet.)
How many of the (supposedly) Democratic members of the GANG OF 14 have now come out in total and complete support of Joe Lieberman instead of the Democratic candidate from CT?
SALAZAR
PRYOR
LANDRIEU
NELSON
any others?