Arianna is right — other than John Kerry and John Edwards, the support of key Democrats for Ned Lamont has been rather pale lip-service. Bubba is going to fundraise for Webb but he hasn’t offered to come to Connecticut, and the DSCC would rather spend its cash offending Hispanic people than supporting the state’s Democratic nominee.
The message is clear from most of the big ticket Dems: if Ned Lamont wants a Senate seat, he’s got to pay for it himself. If party loyalty and leadership are going to be in evidence, I guess we’ll just have to look elsewhere.
Toward Maxine Waters and California Democratic Party Chair Art Torres, for example. Says Torres:
Senator Lieberman asked us to respect his conscience on voting for the war in Iraq, now he must respect the conscience of Democratic voters in his home state of Connecticut in voting for Ned Lamont as their nominee to the United States Senate.
I will introduce at our Democratic National Committee meeting in Chicago on August 19th, along with Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an urgent resolution on behalf of the California DNC membership to urge Senator Lieberman to withdraw from the race and support Ned Lamont.
We cannot be bullied by the GOP’s attempts to infringe upon our nominating process and elections, nor by their attempts to ridicule the more than 60 percent of Americans who do not support Bush’s war in Iraq.
We are a Party committed to a strong defense of our nation and abroad. We are a Party committed by words and deeds to a secure homeland. We will, however, never give up our inalienable right to question the foreign policies of our nation, notwithstanding the Party in office.
Our precious rights, and more importantly the lives of our young men and women serving in the Armed Forces, are at stake.
How thoroughly refreshing. Wouldn’t it be a fabulous trend?
Meanwhile, the NRSC has made it clear — they heart Joe and won’t be backing their own candidate against him. Lieberman may not have achieved his dream of garnering both the Democratic and Republican nominations in Connecticut, but he’s got the next best thing — both parties’ Senatorial Committees’ defacto support.
Who says bipartisanship is dead?
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NED!
Ned
curse you *atou
Paging Doctor Dean! I think it would great if the DNC backfilled Ned’s campaign where the crony-ish DSCC fails to live up to its stated purpose. It is directly in line with helping do the will of the Democratic voter, and not the incumbent protection racket.
Well, I broke down and joined the state party just so I could needle them about who the candidates to the DNC conv. were and how I thought they should vote on this topic.
Feuerhundesee !
Feu-Chien sur mer?
*atou — as much as I would LOVE Dean to do that, it’s not the DNC’s charter to support a single candidate. The DNC is charged with growing the entire party.
Dean already did a lot by encouraging his supporter, Ned Lamont, to run for office way back in 2004. For that I am truly, TRULY grateful to the good doctor.
So, that’s the deal?? We have to do everything ourselves?? Crap, that sounds like the rest of my life. Do I Have To Do Everything Myself??? I’m putting it on a tshirt.
Jane, is there any way we can get the names of Joe’s big donors (>=$1,000) and then write them and ask them to stop?
Lac de chien du feu !
John Casper @
10
http://www.fecinfo.com/cgi-win…..=S8CT00022*2006 That link has all his contributors’ info.
Joe’s big donors? here ya go !
ReneND @
9
May I order a few??
you’d better have a big donor just to pay for the postage for writing to all of Joe’s big donors !
FIREPUPS:
1) Call your local party and find out when the county/parish convention is held if you do not already know. Some counties are holding them this month; you can still shape their feedback to the state party.
2) If you do, make sure you have a current party membership. My local party, for example, requires dues paid in full 30 days in advance of the convention to vote.
3) Check your state party as well; some are having state conventions in August. If this is the case, your local party can still participate in the state party platform committee. Supporting Connecticut’s Democratic voters could be part of that platform.
4) If you need a resolution to submit, I’ve posted one at the Roots Project for your use. Tweak as necessary to fit your situation locally. Here it is:
http://www.staterootsproject.o…..onnecticut
Go for it; you can make a difference. We used this very same approach to get Dean elected to DNC Chair; believe me, the party was completely bowled over by folks who came out and supported him, and it worked.
Bullied is just what the Republicans are doing.
They are good at it but when you started with
Ned Lamont Jane,he had two chances,slim and none. Now he’s up to 40%.That’a quite wonderful.
Don’t get discouraged.He can and will pull ahead in the polls and win this thing.The voters of New England are sick of this war~
The DSCC has become a nest of Gopers.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to get something more than lip service from that crowd.
But we have known all along, since the glory days of Howard Deaniacs, that we would be on our own in the fight to take our country back.
We will prevail anyway.
Wonderful to hear from you fran.
My wife, child and I went to the New Haven Rally today. Great messages from Farrell, Lamont, Edwards. Lamont stuck around to shake hands and mingle. I’m ready to ask all the non-believers to stay away. Keep the local news focused on Lamont’s improving public skills. Keep the national figures at bay unless they are genuine like Edwards.
So, that’s the deal?? We have to do everything ourselves??
We-eeelllll, ReneND, outrageous though it be, look around and tell me who else can we trust to do it?
Huo gou hu…? (”firedoglake” in mandarin… unfortunately it sounds like a stew that might be served in the northeast…)
Keep your eyes on the Connecticut blogs tomorrow
We were out in force today when John Edwards came to New Haven and supported Ned!
http://www.myleftnutmeg.com/…
Maura, Neal Fink, CTKeith and others were there. Lorenzo Sunflower will also have up to the minute coverage.
http://www.spazeboy.net/ – the man of the hour.
http://connecticutblog.blogspot.com/ – serious video stuff happening.
Funny thing – the bloggers were given direct access for 1 hour of the candidates time, while CNN looked from the outside in. They wanted to interview US!
“The 35-second [Democratic] ad questioned GOP homeland security and anti-terrorism policies. It featured images of Osama bin Laden and North Korea’s Kim Jong Il and two people scaling a border fence and the words “Feel Safer?”
What are they thinking?
Turley hammering Bush and Gonzales on Olbermann.
lotus @ 21
Silly me. I thought thats why we had LEADERSHIP.
Since we can’t call them that maybe we can call them…
From EPU land:
The inimitable Wolcott has asked the right question, and it’s directly relevant to the DNC meeting:
Perhaps that is the cental point to be made to the pro-Lieberman forces in DNC. Bush is going down, and he and everyone who’s been close to him are going to be completely discredited. This is the time for smart Dems to put as much distance between themselves and Bush/Bush supporters as they possibly can — and ride that distance in November.
http://jameswolcott.com/
Kai @ 22
Mmmmmm, smells gooood.
Hi, fran! How’s your bruv coming along now?
火狗湖
In the Chinese calendar, this is the year of the fire dog.
Sue says: “Funny thing – the bloggers were given direct access for 1 hour of the candidates time, while CNN looked from the outside in. They wanted to interview US!”
Oh, this is so very very sweet!
WONDERFUL!!!!!
CAN’T WAIT TO HEAR WHAT HAPPENS!
1,245 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…
Citizen Hamsher:
It is now clear that civil war is bein’ waged between the grass-roots base represented by Howard Dean and the DNC and the elected leadership on behalf of their corporate sposors and AIPAC. I am convinced that Rahm Emmanuel and Ariel Schumer will be willin’ to scuttle a Democratic victory in November if it means losin’ DLC-AIPAC control of the party.
Harry Reid has got ta be squeezed here…so far it’s been Nancy Pellosi who has been gettin the bad press for bein’ ineffective but I haven’t seen shit outta Lighthorse Harry Reid either. It is equally clear that at least in the Senate, John Kerry and Fiengold are the shadow leadership should the DNC and the grass-roots win this thing.
I don’t know how it’s gunna turn but no matter what happens, the Democratic leadership of both House and Senate needs to change in January and Rahm Emmanuel and Schumer must be knocked back across the ”greenline”.
KEEP THE FAITH, THE ENEMY IS CLOSER THAN YOU THINK!!!
Now, ReneND, you know what RevDeb preaches.
WE ARE THE LEADERS WE’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR.
More Turley: “If Specter goes forward with that abusurd bill he wrote with Dick Cheney, it will be the cover-up of the century…” or words to that effect.
Jane, Christy, Pach, someone —
Edwards, Lamont, shirtsleeves, looking people in the eye.
If Paul Bass will let you use it, this pic of Edwards and Lamont is so very nice, it would be a lovely thread topper someday.
BTW – the article says that the only scheduled conf Edwards gave was to bloggers. *g*
I don’t think this is OT. I think it just goes to show how much we need to fight for control of our country again and it all begins with getting Ned elected.
In my Sept. 2006 issue of Harper’s Magazine (highly recommended yearly subscription BTW), in the Notebook section is a 3-page article by Lewis H. Lapham. I typed this by hand and it took quite awhile but I think it was worth the time my friends. Sorry for the length…
The article opens with this quote:
In the lastanalasis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism–Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The article goes on to note that the US Congress has appropriated over 300 billion to the Bushco never-ending war against all of the world’s evildoers. Now flowing eastward out of Washington at the rate of $1.5 Billion a week in the form of no-bid contracts, cost-plus and often immune from audit–at least:
$12.3 Bil to Halliburton
$5.3 to Parsons Corp
$3.7 to Fluor Corp
$3.1 to Washington Group Intl.
$2.8 for Bechtel
The contracts specify the repair and the reconstruction of Iraq’s depleted infrastructure–roads, power plants, etc.
Between July 2003 & July 2006:
Patriotic companies saw stock prices increase:
Lockheed Martin- Up from $52.00 to $75.00
Boeing-Up from $33.00 to $77.00
Exxon-Up from $36.00 to $65.00
Chevron-Up from $36.00 to $66.00
Halliburton-Up from $22.00 to $74.00
Fluor-Up from $34.00 to $87.00
then a snippette:
Were it not for the vapid hypocrisy that muddles the national poloitical debate with idle moralizing–about the withdrawal of American troops or the disappearance of Iraqi children–the Republican politicians auditioning hairstylists for their November election campaigns could afford to tell the truth, to remind the voters that our greatness as a nations stems from what Upton Sinclair
knew to be “those pecuniary standards of culture which estimate the excellence of a man by the amount of other people’s happiness he can possess and destroy”. Unfortunately, we live in a society that no longer remembers Sinclair’s name, forgets that since the days of the ancient Romans it has been on their way to war that men have found the road to wealth.
SNIP
Another snipette and the part of the closing paragragh
How better to describe our reunion with the wisdom of the Renaissance than as the triumph of American conservatism, the happy return to the smile of immortal selfishness that shines forth in the face of President Geaorge W. Bush. The smile is well and truly earned. His administration has so improved the business of making war–broadened the market for the product, relocating the costs and exporting the collateral damage, coming up with innovations both technological and aesthetic==that none of the principal beneficiaries need to go to the trouble of learning how to lift a sword or ride a horse. The dying is done by the hired help, by our new privatized and oursourced army, or by entire regiments of auxiliary civilians deployed as targets for the staging of the Pentagon air shows. None of the combatants d3emand a share of the spoils, which accrue on clean well-lighted computer screens far from the fear and smell of death. More politically sophisticated than the condottieri of the Italian Rennaissance, our own military industrial elites not only extract tribute from foreign legates in distand provinces but also hold to ranson the citizenry of their own country, accepting payment in the form of taxpayer contributions to the Holy Grail otherwise known as the military budget. Lionhearts one and all, as bold as Chaucers knight, as generous as Napoleon, deserving of an equestrian statue and a portrait in the Louvre.
It’s the (GOP/DLC) War Party vs. The Rest of Us.
Hillary Clinton’s PAC contributed $5000 the day after the primary. That is a lot of money.
Virginia is also a priority.
Happy news, Sue — yippee!
sue #23
thank you for saying the bloggers got access for an hour — that’s heartening & shows why ned’s becoming a lightning rod for the anxiety-ridden clingers to the old ways
John Casper @ 19
Thank you John.
I really enjoy this blog!
Torres rhetoric is good, and this is the way we would do it if “we” had a majority voice in our own party.
But we obviously aren’t there yet. The dems at the top represent themselves, and we can all kindly go piss up a rope for all they care. Clearly, they are still afraid to fight Lieberman, fight rethugs, and be democrats.
Until the DINO’s relent, the party is not entirely in love with the practice of democracy. The idea is good, but…they draw a line there.
STANDING O FOR THE VALIANT SCRIBE, CCMASK.
Give it UP, FDL!
lotus @ 33
(in her best whineyjoe voice) but i’m getting tired. Not to mention, impatient. Every dem should be on board with Lamont and I just don’t understand this.
*ilson,
Wow. Thanks for the link to HoJo’s donors.
I randomly clicked on a page and the first thing that jumped out on me was a $5,000 contribution to Joe from ”Moving America Forward”.
If this is a representative example, then Joe’s donor list is a fetid den of Republican vipers.
Check out this link to learn a hell of a lot more than you may want to know about Moving America Forward (which is described as ”a pro-military cum patriot police group run by Republican operatives”):
http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2004Q3/maf.html
Apparently Moving America Forward was one of the pressure groups that tried to get movie theaters not to show Fahrenheit 9/11. Here’s more on that:
http://blog.dave.org.uk/archives/000385.html
Here’s a link to the page in the HoJo donor list:
http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecgifpdf/
the smile of immortal selfishness that shines forth in the face of President Geaorge W. Bush
Fassbinder was absolutely right. His The Third Generation explains how it all works in considerable detail. (It’s one of the films he not only wrote and directed, but photographed and edited as well.)
Mary for now at #36, I love that pic. Oh, to be the filling in that Dem sandwich!
Did I really make all those mistakes? The nuns in high school said typing skills will last a lifetime. They also told us not to wear patent leather shoes as it reflects your underwear…
So what about that report in yesterday’s NYT that Bill C. had “offered to campaign” for Lamont. Was that bad information? Or was that “campaign” in the, uh, armchair sense of the word?
It comes down to this: those who want change vs. those who wish to preserve the status quo.
Wheat from chaff.
What does this tell us about those who will only weakly support Lamont? We’re getting a rare glimpse into ‘who’s really who’ here.
You’re either with those of us who know that change is not desirable, but required; and those who don’t give a rat’s ass that the ship is sinking because they’re getting theirs.
Simple. Let’s take a good hard look.
Ned Lamont is coming to Burlington VT tomorrow night for a Democracy for America fundraiser. He’ll be there with Patrick Leahy, Bernie Sanders (our ultra progressive congresscritter who is running for Jim Jefford’s seat and is very likely to take it), Peter Welch (running for Bernie’s seat. Another great progressive, but facing a tougher race. I’ve signed up to help with his campaign because there is No Way Vermont is going to lose a seat to rethugs.) Also Parker Scudder, one of our DNC reps, who is running for Gov against our present Gov, a Bush wannabe, Jim Douglas.
And I am gnashing my teeth, because I really can’t afford to go. However, my son and I plan to be up in Burlington tomorrow, and so I’m thinking I’ll go by the venue to provide some street side welcome and support for Ned.
Jane, I hope you can make the drive up – four hours of stress free scenic highway from CT.
Burlington is a beautiful progressive city right on Lake Champlain. Ned is sure to get a very warm welcome here.
lotus @ 28
Thanks Lotus,
Well I can tell you this he is back to bitching and complaining about this Administration,so I think it’s a good sign.
He’s in rehab now so he’s healing.
Were grateful~
Good on ‘im, fran! Ornery is definitely healthy behavior these days.
ReneND #45
personally i’m only going to support candidates who, like ned, frighten those in power — the citizenry gains nothing by electing those who put the powerful at ease
that’s why my favorite representative is charlie rangel: he wants to bring back the draft so that those who send other folks’ kids off to die will need to think about their own offspring
From Tom Tomorrow via the Voice
Republicans Defend Affable old Lieberman
John C – thanks for the Turley update – I’ll have to watch latenight KO.
roger the lodger @ 55
Yes, well said. But I still don’t understand why millions don’t feel the same and act on it.
That Harper’s piece is excellent, really nails the issue with Bush and the neocons in the best kind of irony and sarcasm. I subscribe to harper’s and love it.
Mother Jones’ Sept/Oct issue cover story is called “Lie by Lie: How Our Leaders used Fear and Falsehood to Dupe Us into a Mideast Quagmire- A timeline” It contains an utter treasure trove of facts and quotes about each and every one of them, who what where when. The Why is another matter entirely. Very recommended. As well as Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker. (I get way too many magazines but they give nurses a professional rate, so I can’t say no!)
roger the lodger @ 55
I just realized your screen-name could be a self-identifier, or an imperative statement to landlords.
roger the lodger @
56
Afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted !
DEPU’d (that right, egy?)
Kathryn from Sunnyvale @ 211
Kathryn, actually we’ve done quite a lot of cheering for EFF around here — but I bet you’re right as to not-much-donating. Thanks for the reminder!
Good for CA Democratic Party. Sending them something was going to be my trial spin with the spolight feature, but I guess I will have to send that to another organization. How ’bout the brilliant folks at the DSCC?
From what I have heard and read so far, Lamont is aggressively and I think effectively countering in interviews the big lie that Democrats are all softy cowardly limousine liberals. That is good.
Bush is moving into totally surreal doofus territory. He is puzzled the Iraqis are not grateful to the US? Bush thinks the the new UN peacekeeping force (assuming it is ever constituted) will seal off Lebanon from Syria? While it sits on the Lebanon/Israel border? Somebody is going to seal off ‘the ports’ in what???? area? Has he ever looked at a map? Does he know where Lebanon is? Unbelievable.
With this kind of material being deliverd on a silver platter, why would the DSCC do something as stupid and false as dish out the canard that Hispanic undocumented workers are potential terrorists? The DSCC is truly a bunch of idiots. Oh, but I forgot, they are all skeeered of making the 100% Bushite Iraq disaster an issue. They think it is better to pretend it does not exist. They go peepee their pants whenever they think about it. Even though most of the public is smart enough to figure out that it is a huge problem. (’Skeeered’ is a technical term used by Digby to describe abnormal wingnut and corporate Dem thought processes.)
Can’t help but note that I read about another Democratic consultant with an undisclosed conflict of interest: some crook who also consults for Big Pharma found it wise and true and very helpful to advise that Medicare Drug Benefit should not be made an issue this Fall, and not remember to mention a little conflict. Also read that half of DLC support comes from unidentified corporate doners. And DLC finds it rather weird that anyone would want to know who these corps are. Whoever in the centrist Dem camp is not stupid, is corrupt, I think.
Progressive, liberal and truly moderate forces (if any moderates left with any guts) need to forge ahead and ignore the usual crowd of crooks and cowards.
I think the DSCC ad stupidity is because they are obsessed with the DLC nonsense of running after each and every BushCo talking point and issue of the day, and yesterday and last month. But those are mostly chum for their wingnut base, or trial balloons for more poltical demagoging, nothing serious at all. As if the Bushites had some secret inside dope on what the majority of normal US voters care about. That is total junk. Last election, voters cared about Iraq, terrorism and economy, then distant fourth and so forth, moral issues and other things.
Right now, seems public cares about Iaq and economy most. The obvious Bushite opportunism and demoagogery on terrorism has maybe soured them on thinking about it at all. But BushCo incompetence at that issue is still important topic to discuss.
But what bothers me is that anyone who wants to lead the country should have the smarts and initiative to know themselves what are important issues and make their case to the public. Centrist corporate Dems and DLC show now sign of either being able to win an election or lead afterwards. So progressives, liberal, and normal people generally (as oppoed to offensive arrogent loser assholes running either party) need to lead and forge ahead, both before and after the election.
ccmask @ 50
The Methodist Sunday School teachers were more concerned that they might not reflect underwear. ;)
But does roger have an English accent?
True accountability. Hold those in power accountable for their shitty performance. Scares the bajeepers out of those in power and they’re afraid to endorse it. This isn’t so much about endorsing a great candidate and party member, it’s about not endorsing getting your ass handed to you when it’s your turn. And it seems many Dems just don’t get it or they’ll get it too late and start tripping over their words when it’s their head on the block. Hey, delegates, why don’t you start representing the people who elected you?
Zennurse: I also love Harpers. Have you been reading the HappyLand Series?
Just watched a bit of Gonzo on Olberman. I think he said he got both a stay and appeal.
File this under 57 sharkbabe expletives!!
ReneD
you’re kind — i’m stunned at how well fdl is doing at influencing ned’s progress: it’s a huge step — fdl will keep being effective like that if it concentrates its efforts on backing others like ned — i’ve learned the hard way that trying to get self-important types like schumer to listen is worse than banging my head against a brick wall
John Fund (wanker) said on NPR that if the Dems take over the congress, we will have “government by subpoena”. He said it in a voice just dripping with arrogant disgust. I have a theory that he’s the one behind making liberal into a swear word. I just wanted to slap him—- hard.
Gotta love the Sharkbabe.
She can tell you if a frog has a water tight asshole.
If Lamont sinks much further, his \”nomination\” will best be forgotten as a flash in the pan run up to the August primary.
Then we Democrats have a decision to make: do we work for Congressional candidates in Rahm\’s critical districts and states where the Democratic Party nominee has a chance?
The Right to Choose, Civil Rights, Tax Policy, the Separation of Church and State – most of what we hold dear is safe with Lieberman. Bush has his War Powers Authorization; Congress won\’t change the course in Iraq.
It\’s been fun to play \”bloggers changing the world\”. But maybe it\’s time for us all to grow up and devote our efforts to candidacies that will make a real difference.
This may be old news, but I see in the newspaper a half page ad for ACLU, asking for people to join them in their lawsuit against the administration for abuses of presidential power. In huge block letters at the bottom are the words: HAD ENOUGH?
Fletcher, go play in traffic.
Fletcher
So trolltastic, you had to post it twice.
I’ve been long absent but I am having a nervous breakdown about the way Democrats are acting. It isn’t enough to support Lamont, at this point, you have to denounce Lieberman and tell him to get out of the race. I am so angry at Clinton for not just saying that.
Speaking of water tight…….
*tap KICK tap KICK*
We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for….
OH yea.
Watching Lamont mature as a candidate is such a pleasure. He was a diamond in the rough who is becoming more polished with each appearance. People who watch him on television likely react as I do, that he is the genuine article.
And may I add a good word about my main man WEBB. Scorching reaction to the Allen racist commentary.
Court decides we have a tripartite government after all = a GOOD DAY all around. Yay rule of law. Triple yay for a hearty smackdown of those who abuse our system.
The egregious party platform:
Domestic policy–the Constitution
Foreign policy–Geneva Conventions
I have discussed this with every existing and aspiring politician I meet = more people than I talk about here. Who knows maybe some of them think about it.
We can win, but it is not a sure thing. It is still possible to see everything go down the 1933 – 1937 hole. Am half German and I work in the former Soviet Union. These totalitarian events are the day before yesterday. The millions of people who died are remembered by family members that personally knew them. It is a very real danger, based on the evil actions of a small number of people, with support from a larger number of people who are either intimidated or paid to go along. All good Germans/Soviets. Better you than me. Protect my family.
It can happen again, and IT CAN HAPPEN HERE. Let us redouble our efforts to turn our nation around, for the sake of our children, our grandchildren, nieces and nephews, neighbor kids, all those who will be baffled after the neocons wipe out participatory democracy.
Make it stop. TAKE ACTION. Love the children. FIGHT BACK.
Mary for now @ 56
He also said something like… If Gonzales were to say he had something in his safe that justifies the program and if you knew what it was you’d agree, it had better be a federal statute in that safe.
In a way, there may be an advantage not being linked to the DC establishment given the anti-incumbent mood in the country. Also, Bill Clinton stumped for Kerry. Did it help Kerry? BC stumped for Joe. Did it help Joe win the primary? Hmmmm.
my name’s just a joke, although my ex-wife’s british
what i find exciting about fdl is that it’s more powerful than it realizes
Every week I check out the Google Zeitgeist to see what people are searching. Anyone know why Marie S�gol�ne Royal is the #1 google search for the week ending August 14?
http://www.google.com/press/ze…..aug06.html
She is a French politician, top presidential candidate according to most French opinion polls,[1] and a prominent member of the Socialist Party.
cc- I’m so far behind, I’ve been saving them for a single sitting. I never seem to have time to sit and read cover to cover, and how can that be because I work only all weekend and have no computer? But it’s summer and the garden calls to me; started clearing out my neighbor’s overgrown yard last week, she’s elderly and can’t do it herself.
I will do it next week, cc, and let you know.
I’m reminded of the scene from Jurasick Park, where you hear a low rumbling and the water on the ground shakes.
1,245 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…
DON’T FEED THE TROLLS!!
Lamont isn’t in any trouble…he’s gunna win the battle for Connecticut but will WE win the war for the country??!! What is at stake is the future of “democracy” in the United States…that’s a fact, jack!!!
KEEP THE FAITH, THIS SHIT HASN’T EVEN WARMED UP YET!!
I’ve signed up to work for Jim Webb (I live in Richmond) but if FDL wants me to do anything in their Webb efforts, I would be honored.
after I saw this post, I followed up my email to Art Torres with a big thank you and a shout-out to FDL
NorskeFlamethrower –
I read you. Couldn’t help myself but will contain the urge as much as possible going forward.
I just wanted to slap him—- hard.
Turnabout would be fair play.
Kieth Olbermann just called O’Rielly today’s “Worst Person In the World”.
“government by subpoena”.
LOL – oh yeah, scarey scarey. That the Executive Branch of Govt would have to actually HAND OVER INFORMATION to Congress.
I take it back. I guess if you have a bunch of criminals, incompetents, and corrupt corporate opportunists, they might not want subpoenas after all.
After all, I’m sure Socks the Cat was shaking in her — socks– over the Republican investigation into her fan club. With just piddly things like Abramoff and war lies and felony wiretap violations and war crimes authorizations and rendition and GITMO, etc. — why would anyone worry?
YOu know, an Executive with nothing to hide wouldn’t need subpoenas to turn over docs Mr. Fund.
sandlin @ 92
Dog Bites Man !
Bush is an Idiot !
Yes it is fun playing bloggers who change the world, isn’t it pups?
Dissent is patriotic.
Got to sleep, guys, glasses driving me crazy.
Be sweet and I’ll seeya tomorrow, computer owner is away for 4 days!!!! Wheeeee!
zennurse-I hope you get a putey soon. Good for you helping neighbors. I have my elderly couples I look in on too. It’s when they start talking about their meds and missed doctor appts. that my eyes start to glaze over.
See # 87.
ccmask @ 82
I bleeve it’s because she is (a) quite beautiful and (b) was just photographed in her bikini on vacation.
I, of course, am much too dignified to Goo — aw hell, you wouldn’t believe that on a bet, wouldja, cc.
no more LieberChow for that troll !
ps I think KO names O’reilly worst person every other week. The other times it’s either Malkin or a Republican member of congress.
nitey-nite.
Dang, I had SUCH a nice Segolene Royal explanation for cc, and the ‘toopid tooob ate it!
Fletcher at 5:55, reading comprehension can be fun.
If you think that’s what Ned said, please, by all means, link to it and put that “promise,” in block quotes.
OT: I received my Kiss buttons from ebay today! I hope it doesn’t leave big marks on my pajamas. They are so red and cool. Highly recommended. Thanks *ilson.
I think someone should make it clear to Joe that the Party wants nothing further to do with him. We should make it loud and clear, that should he win, he won’t get any committee assignments from the Democratic Party and if he wants to caucus with the Repugs–then that’s his right. But he should know that being a Repug 5th Columnist is no longer acceptable to those of us who work and donate to Democrats.
Even if we loose control by this action, at least we won’t be constantly undermined by the sob, as this criminally awful administration cites as their pet Dem.
Mary for now @ 92
I wonder where we could find the total # of subpeonas filed during the Clinton years? To counter that gov by subpeona thing.
ccmask — thanks for the thanks but I have absolutely nothing to do with those buttons . . .
So the DSCC isn’t exactly on board with Lamont. Good, says I. If Lamont wins, he will truly be beholden to no one besides his constituents. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought that was the whole point to the exercise of taking our country back.
Ned fired a shot across the DSCC’s bow on the 8th. Next shot goes in the stern gallery, or it will if Ned keeps going the way he’s going.
Andy
Missed the five minute limit for revising and extending remarks.
We are one false flag event away from the Reichstag Fire and martial law.
Think it can’t happen here?
Look at what has ALREADY happened here.
Be afraid. For real.
TAKE ACTION. FIGHT BACK, FOR THE CHILDREN.
As long as Joe stays ahead in the polls, the establishment Dems will give Ned the cold shoulder.
They are hedging their bets – doing what they do best – parking their jelly spines right on the fence.
From mc joan at DKos:
Keep running your mouth, Felix!
lotus @ 98
Okay. I bit too. Just went to check the end of the thread and end up googling bikini pics. Sigh.
ValleyGirl
Would you like a really simple, really delicious tomato dish that stars basil?
Lemme know.
Fletcher @ 74
What ”we” Fletcher?
And what is the deal with ”sinking”? His numbers have gone up each time. ?? As best I can tell, it’s the Schumer/Rahm braintrust pick of Casey that is in real trouble. BTW – how safe are all those things you list with him? Now how does that make you feel about Rahm’s picks?
I don’t see Rahm getting a coherent program to back good candidates in line; I live and work in some very red places and LOVE the 50 state approach; and right to choose has been abandoned by ”Make sure your right the number of a cab company on your thigh in case you’ve been raped and are taken unconscious to a faith based rape treatement facility” Lieberman.
Lieberman sold out on Alito and choice.
Lieberman sold out on the Katrina investigation and was an enabler for the worst abandonment of US citizens on US soil ever.
Lieberman is happily combining his misdeeds on the committee handling the Katrina investigation with having a racist ”are you a Bill Clinton or an Al Sharpton” campaign that is antagonistic to civil rights leaders like Maxine Waters.
Lieberman sold out on free speech and freedom of the press and freedom of Americans to engage in political discourse.
Lieberman has yet to require any investigations of the Bush administration on any front.
If your point is that a Lieberman/Rahm Congress won’t change course on Iraq, then why would anyone in their right mind – Dem or the sane Republicans and Indies that see Iraq as a disaster — vote for them?
*****
Glad you had fun playing. ;)
Sue @
23
Guess what? I’ve got a video of Senator Edwards up.
Enjoy!
cc, I’ll try this again.
I think this Google phenomenon occurred because Segolene Royal is (1) quite beautiful and (2) was just photographed on vacation in a turquoise bikini. I, of course, have entirely too much dignity to Goo–
Aw hell, you wouldn’t believe THAT on a bet, wouldja?
La Sego sur Mer
I guess that’s why they call it grass roots.
When the powers that be aren’t there for you, you just have to do it yourself.
It’s kind of thrilling to see the party transform itself from the ground up.
egregious @ 108
So, how do we grow our numbers? Make our voices bigger? or make the “pie higher” as some doofus once said.
spazeboy: great video of edwards. thanks.
w0551 @ 51
Yeah. I’d kinda like to know where Jane got her info on this or is she just assuming since no “official date” has been set like for Webb that the support won’t be there.
I’ve heard from within the party that Clinton will be coming here.
I suspect, if they’re smart, they’ll put some space between his appearance with Lieberman to make it more effective.
Pay no attention to the troll up thread
He/she is just a propagandist
Bai to write a hit piece on us . . .
“Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, sent a fund-raising appeal via e-mail to millions of his supporters, imploring them to send contributions to Mr. Lamont, along with Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Senator Daniel K. Akaka of Hawaii.
“Each of these candidates is making the mess in Iraq a central issue in their campaigns for the Senate,” Mr. Kerry wrote.
“In the Senate,” he added, “Ned Lamont will go head to head with Don Rumsfeld, and our troops will benefit from Lamont’s leadership. He knows that patriotism isn’t reserved for those who defend a president’s position; patriotism is doing what’s right for our troops and our country.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08…..Rt2SuZFJFQ
al-Scooter @ 111
Felix, Jr. can dance the Macacarena!
Sitting here , being the arm chair quarterback an’ all, I’m thinking the phrase ‘Grassroots’
might be a little off the mark these days.
I’m leaning towards ‘Weed Pullers’ myself.
BTW, I also suspect that some Dems are getting the lay of the land about now and seeing how other cards are played such as the one thrown out by the RNC.
You couple Lieberman’s mouthing of Cheney talking points which really riled the Senate Dems with a backing of Lieberman by the RNC and I think they’ll come to the obvious and righteous conclusion.
Lotus: You have mail!
Spazeboy, thanks — I did enjoy — oh yeah!
*ilson46201 @ 121
Bye Bai.
Start calling and emailing your senators and congressmen. Let them know you will not be happy with anyone that doesn’t support democratic candidates. I’ve started to harrangue Bill Nelson of Florida and I won’t stop until he goes public with support for Lamont or he’s out of office.
The NSA decision and Joe Leiberman were made to be in the same room together –
“Senator, would you vote to give powers to the President that a federal court has said are illegal?”
Who will be the first to ask that question?
As Joe’s republican clothes are revealed probably more and more democratic voteres as well as anyone who has had it with this war will vote Ned.
I don’t think the usual noise machine will work this time. Ned was remarkable in getting heard in the primary… to the point he won. I don’t think the republican support will help him.
But I do think he should be tossed from the democratic party. And those who are not on board need to stand aside… and let progress proceed.
Re France bailing on the UN force for Lebanon,
Reasons that were given by officials cited in Le Monde were the trauma of French experiences in Bosnia and in their previous Lebanon deployment in the 1980s. Now while this is true, I’m guessing that the French knew this bit of their history last week and didn’t just stumble over it in the last few days. Call it a WAG. So this leaves various explanations.
One is that the French snookered not only the US but the UN.
A second is that they were diddling with the figures. In addition to the 200-400 they have been promising recently, they may have included a force of 1700 (I believe I saw this in Le Figaro) which is already involved in providing logistical support for the current UNIFL force. Even so this is far from the 2000 to 5000 combat capable troops everyone thought they were talking about.
A third possibility is that they woke up and smelled the roses. The Lebanese Army/figleaf is deploying to the South, the Israelis are withdrawing, civilians are returning, and the likelihood of an early resumption of the conflict is decreasing by the day. As I have said before, disarming Hezbollah isn’t going to happen unless Hezbollah wants it to. Right now they have opted for discretion: keeping their arms out of sight. Then there is the arms embargo. With Syria mouthing off recently, it is unlikely that they are going to turn off the arms spigot and a UN force could find itself in a very dicey position between Hezbollah and their arm suppliers. If French and UN peacekeepers start shooting at Hezbollah gun/missile runners, Hezbollah could do to them what they did to the Israelis. As for the Shaba Farms, Haaretz was reporting a few days ago that the US was not going to insist that Israel turn them over to Lebanon. This could provide a flashpoint for a future conflict and leave the UN force in the middle of it.
So let’s recap. The Israelis want a UN force to restrain Hezbollah but the French (and the Italians) aren’t buying. They see a military intervention for humanitarian reasons as increasingly unnecessary as civilians return and the ceasefire holds. At the same time, that bit about restraining Hezbollah or sitting between Hezbollah and the Syrians or between Hezbollah and the Israelis is really looking unpalatable. No wonder the cold feet. We should have seen this coming.
. . . and your little dog, too @
112
By all means! We need a lot of tomato and basil right now, imo.
As if the hot and heavy relationship between Short Ride and the depraved Republican establishment were not enough, we have the outrageous and immoral conflation of Mexicans with Osama Bin Laden and global terrorism. That this craven manipulation of the electorate was promulgated by Democrats just leaves me absolutely furious. SHAME.
the French have had a thousand-year history of on-again, off-again military incursions into the Lebanon . . .
. . . and your little dog, too @ 112
Maybe we could ask Christy to feature le pomme d’amour this Saturday in her “pull up a chair” thread?
Spazeboy 114 — I thought you were hangin’ with the sig. oth.
Thanks for the vidy
empty wheel has an excellent post up on the “scramble” to rebuild lebanon.
The problem, in part, is structural: even if we only donate to decent progressives, our donations are, I’m guessing, a drop in the bucket compared to the lobbies and big donors (especially, as Norske said, AIPAC). And they’re scared they won’t have enough commercials. Well, that and, you know, the old boys club.
What I’m wondering is how much money a candidate — even in a tight race — really needs. (A few smart commercials as opposed to a bunch of duds?)
But if a Senator hasn’t spoken out (strongly) for Ned yet, I doubt they’re going to.
Ah, c’est un bonne idee. Please email RH avec son idee. (email avoidant and all that).
“The Methodist Sunday School teachers were more concerned that they might not reflect underwear. ;)”
ROTFLMAO
The government of Israel has an agenda. It is the liquidation of the Palestinian state. 18 well known writers have written a letter deploring Israel’s actions and intentions.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060828/petition
Just triangulating on that one, BTW: un bonne idee.
note to self: thank you note to Torres.
Note that when Lamont was asked in recent interview whether Dems should be held accountable on Iraq war vote 3 years ago, Lamont unequivocably said “NO.” That scary scary radical Lamong trying to wreck everything! Previous commenter was right that this is about mainstream Dems covering their asses. No one is looking for heads on account of a debatable vote three years ago.
We should hold people accountable for:
1) saying silly fantastic counterfactual things about Iraq disaster over last year, and getting pissy and refusing to answer when asked where is their eividence.
2) going along is the War Leader and saying things that make it more difficult to hold incompetent War Leadership accountable.
Also remember that Lieberman was one who jumped to block more sensible Iraq resolution from being passed. The dude is dangerous and has done serious damage. Lieberman is the one giving Bush cover on incompetent war on terrorism leadership.
If the political mainstream cannot question one of the biggest US foreign policy mistakes, maybe the biggest, of past 50 years, then political mainstream is dangerous to the country’s health. And if 60% or more of public mainstream is wise enough to question the wisdom of that decision, then some politicians should consider going with the public, rather than exhausted, corrupt, cowardly political mainstream.
I mean, there are only thousands of lives, US and Iraqi, billions and billions and of US tax dollars, and US economic and political leadership of world at stake. So, hey, better to play mickey mouse grab ass inside political baseball, right? If both political party establishments are not up to job of leadership, someone needs to try out for it. It is a critical position and evidence is kinda mounting that it is vacant.
And, with recent memory of Israeil-Lebanon mess, and evidence that bloodthirsy nutcases out of VPs office eager to start WWIII on four fronts at once, the stakes are getting higher.
Do you want Lieberman with stature to play a role in the next war resolution? Or with stature to give the Dear War Leader cover if he decides to commit another high crime and start the next MidEast war. Whether he is elected or not elected, Lieberman needs to be discredited.
Lieberman’s lead is shrinking. I wonder whether Lieberman can spin out the smears, and War Leader Love, and tired old inside political gimmicks for two and half more months. If can get this dude in a corner, say in a debate, and make it clear he has nothing other than fantasy, ego, and ambition to back up his recent nonsense on Iraq, I bet his lead would shrink some more quite rapidly.
al-Scooter @ 128
Hugh – I wondered, too, if it had something to do with all the increased rumblings about the US and Iran.
I wouldn’t want to put my country’s troops into a dicey situation in Lebanon if I thought some American cowboy was going to start a bombing campaign against Iran and rev up the Hezbollah/Israel situation.
fwiw.
Spazboy – loved the clip. It was so nice to be able to get a real answer to a real question and not just a bunch of short talking point clips.
Sorry so late to thread, busy working on taking back my country. Heh.
ReneND — hell, yes. We have to do it ALL ourselves. I blame myself for having the naive understanding pre-2000 that adults were in charge.
They are not, or at least the ones who are, well, George Bush.
egregious — definitely. We are doing it.
ART TORRES!
Now, that’s what I call a Democrat.
new thread: http://www.firedoglake.com/200…..he-poodles
Link provided by Raw Story – Guardian Unlimited headline: Kurds flee homes as Iran shells Iraq’s northern frontier
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq…..43,00.html
Important question for CT folks:
What’s the status of Joe’s signatures — anybody heard? Have a need to know.
new thread — Peanut meets the Poodles !
#139: As Bill Clinton said once: the Republicans always have more money. As for Senatorial backbechers speaking up, opportunists will jump, they can turn on a dime over a weekend if they need to. Just track old Joe’s flip flops on Iraq and wisdom quotient of Dear War Leader over last weeks of CT primary and just after his loss. The people you mention are natural born followers. If Lamont’s numbers rise steadily, even if slowly, then natural born followers will surely follow.
Do you forget the primary so soon.
(Disclaimer: I was slow to jump on Lamont bandwagon, but even cautious old me saw the light.)
*ilson46201
Ah yes, it’s the old je vis, je meurs, je me brule et me noie.
What would be nice is to make the DLC obsolete – or make it officially obsolete. I can’t see where they are anything but an albatross around the necks of the party.
It’s time to stop being afraid to be liberals and progressives. It’s time to stop allowing others to define what that means. It’s time to stop letting others tell us why we do what we do.
It’s time to make it clear that having a different philosphy doesn’t make us wrong. Jack Murtha on Hardball tonight pretty much said that just because the president says it, doesn’t make him right – and since pretty much all the decisions Buah has made have turned out to be wrong, Murtha’s not going to stop pushing for a change in direction.
I heard on CBS news tonight (which gave the NSA ruling about 15 seconds, if that – behind the JonBenet Ramsey news and behind the tobacco lawsuit news) that the White House’s new strategy on Iraq – their PR strategy – is to say that what we see and what we hear isn’t really the way things are…I kid you not. They probably think this is a great strategic move, because when the push-back comes, they’ll just say we want America to lose the war in Iraq. Guess they haven’t accepted the fact that we lost it a long time ago, and now it’s just body counts.
So my rambling point is that (1) we need to set the agenda, and (2) we need to let our Democratic leaders know that we aren’t afraid of who we are and what we believe in, and we would very much appreciate their adopting that mind-set as we move toward November.
spazeboy, great, great work. Thanks for bringing a breath of fresh air into the mix. You must be having quite a time. Give your love a big kiss for us.
Paul Krugman responding on the 14th to letters to his recent column on Bush politicizing terror:
I think Hokum is a great word to use for Lieberman’s BS.
#155: the WH is right. With Israeli Lebanon war, we have heard nothing much about Iraq recently. But actually it is getting muuch worse fast. So, you misunderestimate the WH once again.
immanentize @ 135
But, but, but . . . I never get up early enough on Saturday mornings to pull up my chair. :(
I checked out the E&P on the Bai piece. One would think from all the hysterical handwringing lately that wanting dem office holders to act like real dems was radical, outrageous, rude & downright alien. It’s like these critics played hooky every time their class studied american history. 3/4 of americans seem to have forgotten what a democracy is all about if they ever did or cared. When this country was founded, it sure wasn’t by the cautious, don’t rock the boaters.
No guts, no glory.
The republican spin machine anticipated Lamont’s primary victory and immediately responded with prepared talking points. With a few exceptions the democrats reacted like the proverbial “deer caught in the headlights”. 79 percent of democrats nationwide are happy that Lamont defeated the de facto republican, Lieberman. Only 10 percent were sorry to see the sanctimonious senator lose. Yet support for Lamont from the democratic “leaders” – always fearful of taking a stand – has been somewhere between non- existent and lackluster.
Republicans are chicken hawks, our democratic “leaders” are chicken shit.
JR
. . . and your little dog, too @ 159
Okay, I don’t either. Could you put the recipe up on this thread? I will check back.
Valley Girl @ 132
I hope this isn’t something everybody but me already knew about . . . like asking if anybody wants a really good recipe involving tuna fish and noodles!
Here goes:
Troutdale Sandwich
A slice of sourdough bread.
Sliced Gruyere cheese to cover bread. (DON’T substitute for less worthy cheese.)
Fresh tomato slices.
Fresh basil – - whatever variety yer growing.
Assemble and broil.
Toldja is was simple. :)
Honest to God, though, the sum of these is way more than the parts. There’s something just savory about the combination.
You can put the tomatoes either under or on top of the Grueyer, depending on how much you like them cooked. Same for the basil.
My back made me give up gardening, but I keep a pot of basil growing on the kitchen window sill just for this.
Sue @
23
Sounds like the principals are realizing which medium is a truer conduit of their message.
Weah! the linky didn’t worky!!
Jane,
You are right about the “soft” support of many of the democratic senators. In fact, the behavior of the leadership of the democratic party makes me wonder whether they are afraid of Joe Lieberman. However, I think you forgot one more democrat that beyond John Kerry and John Edwards, has come strong for Ned. That’s Russ Feingold. He has made it clear that he is enthusiastic about Ned’s candidacy, and I am sure that he will campaign for Ned if asked.
Why is it a suprise that the Democratic power structure is giving progressives the finger? These people aren’t our friends, they are the enemy. Fuck `em. If progressives are ever to take back the party, we have to destroy the current power base. We need a new Democratic party, rebuilt from the footings up. That means shitheads like Reid have to go.
Damn. Hate putting brilliant insight at the end of a comments thread this long. Nobody gets to the end of this. Well, anyways…
The reason Lamont’s victory is significant is not what others have been saying about it, and the reason is the same one that is keeping the Democratic establishment from truly embracing him. There’s a sea change coming. These things are slow in coming and take time, but they do happen. I was, early this spring, thoroughly dissatisfied with the Democrats and making, with many of my blogging brethren and sistren (is “sistren” a word?) noises about “third party”. Then I wrote an email to a prominent blogger whom I had met a few times and knew a little (and like a lot). His response was that we don’t need to create a third party. Instead, we should sieze the machinery of the Democratic Party and make it ours and use it. Much of the machinery for a successful party is there and we just have to take control of it. The Party Illuminati recognize Lamont’s victory for the beginning of that change, fomented by the elements that scare the ebjabbers out of the old-tmers: young people with energy, bloggers (many of them middle-aged like myself, so we have a few bucks put by), some wealthy people who have hung onto their integrity, people who are not only potentially able to crash the party, but might just make it their party. They had to fight those people, as they did with Clinton and company supporting Lieberman, and then they had to give the candidate a little lip service when he won, but they are not going to help us take their party away from them. That’s still up to us.
I love what you are saying…we must fight back. After reading John Dean’s new book, Conservatives without Conscience, I understand that it is a small minority of people (20 to 23%) that are the vocal authoritarians that we must STOP. I highly recommend this book.
And Ned Lamont….what can I say. Good Lord, can’t the damn Dem Party see what a gift this man is. If the Dems were smart they would realize that they have a Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith goes to Washington on their hands…and they’d get behind him and ride his coattails all the way to Washington, DC. Imagine the Senate with Ned Lamont and Sherrod Brown!
This is so doable. I got goosebumps.
ckerst @
129
This is something I have been doing each chance I get. Today I went after Reid and Kerry (my senator) and told them to go after the DSCC and for Harry to strip LIEberman of the Democratic Title…thought he became an Independent. If so, he should not be calling himself a Democratic Independent!!
Secondly, does anyone know if the DSCC has a charter?? Or the DNC?? Our state committee has a bylaw or rule that NO ONE on a town or state committee can support or donate to a republican or an independent. If these two outfits have that rule/bylaw…then we should all start screaming to have Joe removed completely from the Democratic party…make an ass of him once and for all….
My thoughts for today….and getting madder!!
Jane, I would like to add Wes Clark as someone who immediately went on the offensive against Holy Joe. He fired off a missive to his email list the day after the primary, getting over 20,000 folks to bombard Joe with a call to drop out.. He wrote a powerful op-ed in the WSJ two days after the primary on the race. I have no doubt he’ll be in CT helping Ned soon enough.
It is really sad how Holy Joe thinks he’s all that.
The fact is though that The People want Ned Lamont and Snakes on A Plane…..and it upsets the elitists in both circles that The People took charge.
Damn Them.
rene @ 9; are you a gardener…
you talk like a gardener or farmer.
peas!
Alice Marshall @
39
Hillary Clinton’s PAC contributed $10,000 to Lieberman.
Incumbent Dems have declared war on the netroots. They want us out so that they can declare themselves mainstream America.
One candidate, Ned Lamont, ain’t enough. It’s got to be a national movement to get them all out.
Democratic leaders only have as much courage as the latest Q-poll allows. But as it becomes clear that Joe has peaked and Ned starts to eat into his lead, they will pile on.
I had already decided, irrespective of what happens to Ned, to end my 40 years association with the Party.
Hugh @
30
zhen de ma?
roger the lodger @
56
He’s also the author of that immortal quote, in reference to his opinion of Da Shrub: “Well, he pretty much disproves the myth of white superiority.” I have a postcard with a pic of Rangel and that quote pinned up in my cubie. I bet it’s got all the closet Repugs’ knickers in a big old knot, but no one’s said anything yet.
At slothropia.com I wrote:
“I have some free (worth every penny) strategic advice for Lamont and the Democrats.
Lieberman must be defeated. If re-elected he will join the GOP caucus. The target voters for Lamont should be Democrats who are oposed to the war but still have a loyalty to Lieberman and independents who are also opposed to the war and all things W but who are familiar and comfortable with Lieberman.
Tie the lead weight of W and his war (and all his disastrous policies) to Lieberman. Make it psychedelically clear that Lieberman is W’s candidate. Make the election a referendum on the President.
This is the ammnition. Use it to atack, attack, attack. Then attack some more. Make Lieberman answer for all the Bush failures.”