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Chris Cillizza has made quite the career for himself over at the WaPo online with his remarkbly acrobatic feats designed to make Republicans look good even in the most unflattering light, but with his most recent column he really reaches some new sort of transcendent contortion.
Really, Chris, take a bow. You've outdone yourself this time.
Last night he servicably got the jump on today's big news for the Lamont campaign that the SEIU was endorsing Ned Lamont today with this remarkable lede:
Democrats, Unions Vital for Lieberman
One of the strongest union backers of Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman during his Democratic primary run (which ended in defeat) is sticking with the incumbent as he competes as an independent in the general election.
"Even though the Democratic establishment is abandoning the three-term senator to line up behind Ned Lamont, the [International Association of Firefighters] will continue to stand with Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman," said union head Harold Schaitbarger. "In our view, party labels don't matter."
Right-o. One of the most critical unions in this race, the SEIU, is the first to abandon Lieberman and back Lamont instead, and what's the story for Cillizza? Today, when it comes to the Firefighters... well tie me up and call me Loretta. Nothing has changed
But it just gets better from there:
The AFL-CIO did not endorse a candidate in the primary and will not do so in the general election.
Is that so? Then how would one explain the curious headlines exclaiming "AFL-CIO Endorses Lieberman" in July of this year? Despite the fact that Lieberman has been playing footsie with his web site and implying that he still retains the endorsement, and CT AFL-CIO head John Olsen is on record as saying the union would stick with Lieberman even if he lost the primary, I wouldn't be placing any bets. Olsen is up for re-election in 2007 and probably doesn't want the now formidable Lamont forces within the state lining up against him.
I think it's reasonable in this situation to ask where, exactly, Cizzilla got his information -- and his spin. Would it be from a reliably unreliable LieberLiar who has been the source of bad information in the past and has no trouble punking journalists who carry his water? Enquiring minds want to know.
Update: Oh it only gets better. As Peterr notes in the comments , this is from Cizzilla's own column on August 8, 2006:
Lieberman is relying on a more traditional get-out-the-vote effort managed by organized labor. (He has been endorsed by the state’s AFL-CIO.
Peterr also does a little digging, and finds some intersting membership statistics:
IAFF membership: 274,000 members
SEIU membership: 1,800,000 members
Hey Chris -- I hope Gerstein at least bought you dinner.
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fitz! Ned! Rootz!
So what exactly do we have to do to make people get the hint that RGJoe is no longer a Dem?
I smell [Dangerstein]!
So how many nutmeggers do you think read the WaPo online besides political junkies (like us) who do it for the entertainment value?
Cillizza rhymes with sleaze-uhh
“Tie me up and call me Loretta?”
OK Andy — you’re Loretta !
“and CT AFL-CIO head John Olsen is on record as saying the union would stick with Lieberman even if he lost the primary”
Has the AFL-CIO made a post-primary endorsement statement yet?
From Chris Cillizza’s very own blog posting, dated August 8, 2006 (emphasis added at the end):
Does CC have memory loss? He mentions the endorsement as a part of the discussion of the first of the big five questions about this race.
Or . . .
Was CC’s blog hacked by the same folks at Ned’s campaign that took down Joe’s website on election day, to make it look like the AFL-CIO endorsed Joe?
Yeah . . . that’s it . . . that’s the ticket . . .
By burying the real lede, that RGJoe is considering Shays’ proposals to “undermine the Commander-in-Chief at our nation’s peril,” Chris’ll be able to say “that’s old news” when challenged about why he isn’t covering RGJoe’s flipflop.
Seriously, how can RGJoe expect any respect for his principles now that he’s considering the GOP “back-away-slowly” approach to supporting our troops and Dear Leader? Damn cut-n-runners, the whole gang!
Again, fantastic news about SEIU for Ned !
am chuckling as I re read the post - it’s like they’re nine year olds - simpleton, dullard nine year olds - ‘gimme the high sign, that smart gurl blogger has gone, the coast is clear, here run with this shit, pass it on’
I understand Dangerstein’s desperation - but at his paygrade, why this level of carelessness ???
The lovely and talented Ms. Hamsher uses the word penultimate incorrectly in this post. It means next to last.
Hi Jane…er…Loretta…
These guys are scared. They know they’re going down.
Philly Boy @ 11
maybe his next contortion will be his last
egregious @ 12
That often makes people more dangerous, not less. Be careful out there guys… ;->
I really hate to be a pest, because I belive that Ned is likely to be one of the best candidates we have, and sadly, he must finance his campaign largely by himself.
but that not withstanding, does he still own Halliburton stock? Has he pledged to use it to defeat the company as they try to manipulate politics and murder in the world?
I am sorry if I missed the answer to this question in earlier posts, but since I haven’t heard anyone talk about it, I thought I would ask. It is fine to support the lesser of evils, but should we not know if our chosen candidate is also making a profit on war?
when we abandon our idealogy, we all lose. perhaps this is one reason conservatives and progressives find common ground that no one else seems to understand. there are basic core values for some of us that prohibit us from acting like democrats and republicans. I personally think these names are synonyms for greed and corruption now, and this taint will ever be associated with a failed political system.
what will the next one be?
From their respective websites . . .
IAFF membership: 274,000 members
SEIU membership: 1,800,000 members
Assuming these numbers are spread out similarly across the US in both unions, I know which one I’d prefer to have backing me if I were Ned: the one that’s 6.59 times larger than the other.
Heckuva job on that research, Chris!
oldtree — you might wish to address your concern to the Lamont campaign which will have a definitive answer. info@nedlamont.com
Spotlight bait!
Spotlight bait!
oldtree — best is enemy of better
Ah, Chris Cillizza. Where have I seen that name before? Oh, right: Moments in Journalistic Integrity, MMMXCI (aka, “In which the Post makes shit up to the advantage of Republicans *YET* *AGAIN*”):
Getting busted by Josh Marshall: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.c.....007193.php for this:
“…Chris Cillizza included a reference to a former Democratic congressman [Frank Ballance, D-NC] who resigned from Congress for crimes committed before he ws even elected, in an apparent effort to make the scorecard look less overwhelmingly weighted towards Republicans: [in a Post online chat, Cillizza answered] ‘After an edit, Ballance was unnecessarily included, for, frankly, balance’”
Really? I thought he was included so Cillizza could make a pun (Frank Ballance/”frankly, balance”) (/sarcasm)
(Cillizza claimed that one was his editor’s fault, not his. I don’t know if he’s to be trusted about *that*, but *this* latest load of crap isn’t the first example I’d use to support that claim that Cillizza has any journalistic integrity. Sounds like more lies and bullshit for their Republican masters, at the Post)
Chris Cillizza also said Allen’s “macaca” comment was “Much Ado About Macaca” i.e a non-story.
Chris is fast becoming a shill.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com.....acaca.html
Sheesh. Hope the SEIU members in CT will get on the stick and write letters to WaPo, wallpaper Cillizza on this.
Interesting, Mr. Schaitberger has been a Dem donor, but does NOT live in CT. Wonder how the IAFF rank-and-file members in CT feel about this endorsement?
oldtree @
15
Why don’t you go over to Lieberman’s web site and ask the same question?
Oh I forgot, he doesn’t have a functional one. I guess it’s still “hacked.”
Jack Cafferty of CNN was chuckling about the egg on the faces of newspeople about the DNA of Karr — Cafferty suggested maybe Katherine Harris killed JonBenet.
Minutes later, Donna Brazile joked the Katherin Harris didnt kill JonBenet but her campaign was definitely in a tailspin nevertheless …
oldtree > concern troll?
This matter has been amply addressed, well before the primary.
SEIU’s endorsement must have spooked somebody and badly. And I think we’re also getting some redirection: today we might well be holding the 3-term Senator accountable for what he failed to do to protect the citizens of the Gulf, much less his constituents in CT and the rest of the Country.
oldtree is not a concern troll — she has posted honorably here for some time…
if she had just popped in here for the first time, I might have thought so too
i haven’t read any analysis of zogby’s new poll showing a 10 point margin for joe. are people just blowing it off?
good thing i get my news from other places than the WaPo or wall street fishwrapper
*ilson — thanks for the vetting. I’m afraid I don’t recall seeing oldtree.
That said, this issue has been addressed.
pete — please post a link to the Zogby thing
Lieberman may not have a web site, but their operation is deploying concerns trolls throughout the blogosphere. They’re very dishonest. They pretend to be on your side, but they’re laundering misdirection and misinformation. I guess he’s really working on his backup plan to be SecDef.
I’m not saying old tree is a concern troll, but I am making an observation about the Lieberman campaign.
1. Does Lieberman really still lack a web presence? I was visiting wingnut sites late this morning, checking on whether any of them were going to live-blog Mearsheimer and Walt on C-SPAN. Sure enough, Powerline has a picture of Joe right at the top of their site:
http://powerlineblog.com/
2. LGF live-blogged Mearsheimer and Walt. Here’s just one of many delightful comments:
“I should point out the Walt and Mearsheimer’s paper was well-received in Arab circles, and likely contributed to the aggressions that led to the Lebanon war. In other words, Walt and Mearsheimer helped incite murder.
“I should also point out that their current activities and deliberate distortions are far more than bad scholarship - they fall to the level of hate crimes.”
http://littlegreenfootballs.co.....N#comments
cocogirl (21), I’m sure what Cillizza meant was, “Well, *I*’m not going to cover it, because nobody *I* know thinks it’s a big deal.”
Which is even worse, actually ;-)
Because most of us don’t run in circles where people get away with using racial slurs. And if they do, they sure as hell don’t think, “Oh, this qualifies me for high public office!” But George Felix Allen is different, and so’s the media. Cillizza’s a tool.
yeah Jane @ 23– but Pericles (a rethug firm) has offered to “fix” it, but joey doesn’t seem to want to part with the “green” – yet again.
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2....._0828.html
Probably you all know this–hey, I’ve been out of town with egregiousMom–81–and the sister (45 w two young kids) that beat a life-threatening cancer. We were celebratin’ big. Put a big dent in the credit card, but worth it! We are happy to be alive and healthy.
WSJ/Zogby poll:
WEBB AHEAD OF ALLEN 47.9 to 46.6
Woo! Woo! Woo! [little Snoopy dance]
I was under the impression Lamont divested his Haliburton stock before the primary. Regardless, I’m so much more concerned about Lieberman’s support of torture and the propping up of lies that have so far killed over 100,000 human beings, maimed far more, and left countless orphans. And still the horrific and unnessary suffering continues.
That’s something that keeps me up at night, I’ll tell ya. Ned’s $50,000 Haliburton stock? Not so much. But that’s just me.
i got the link from MyDD. http://online.wsj.com/public/r.....mp;hasAd=1
www.joe2006.com is still skeletal but so is my www.CT4Joe2006.com …
Re oldtree—-I have seen him/her post over a long period of time. In my opinion, a trusted commenter, not a Liebertroll.
Dear oldtree–
To answer your question, Lamont’s fund manager sold the Halliburton stock the instant the issue came up. They now own no Halliburton stock.
The larger issue is that Lieberman is able to vote to help his defense industry donors, in contrast to Lamont who as a businessman and volunteer teacher had no influence on defense stock prices.
egregious @ 34– a big yay for that– Dana shared it with us yesterday eve. Today is the opening of the Webb office in Richmond with Webb himself and “special guests”– perhaps Kaine and Warner, acc. to some I know. I hope it is thronged!
ET @ 31– I caught the last hour of that and hope it is replayed later. Unexpected and sad response from the wingers. ;(
OT, but while there’s a lull. What are those pretty little icons at the bottom of each post for?
Inquiring minds and all…
:-)
whoopsies, ET I meant expected, not unexpected– sheesh!
Dangerstein is the best, Teddy!
Flipping and flopping through this difficult time, driving his shiny red Campaignmobile sportscar, which he bought used as part of his midlife crisis and which he doesn’t know is about to lose its wheels: Joe Lieberman. It’s too sad-funny to cry, so you can only laugh.
Yeah, I was wondering myslef what “Spotlight” means.
lieberboy captured in caricature
http://harpers.org/art/cartoon.....an_504.jpg
Dan Gerstein is a wannabe mafiosi, but in fact, he is a wimp in (padded-shoulder) wolf’s clothing.
A classic bully. I could bitch slap Gerstein to the ground with one hand tied behind my back. In fact, that sounds kinda good. He would cry and pee his pants.
I’m callin ya out, Dan!
*ilson46201 @ 26
Thanks for saying this for me *ilson, I do remember oldtree’s name also.
oldtree, here is a thread that discusses your question on the stocks:
http://www.firedoglake.com/200.....for-dinner
Perhaps Cillizza’s source was John Mark Karr.
I couldn’t find Chris Cilizza’s name on that list on Spotlight …
Right Fools @ 48
amusing …
If you are “mad as hell, and not gonna take it anymore” Hampshire and Co. bring you…
SPOTLIGHT!
Twisted Martini @
44
Dr. Bong @ 40
Links to social book marking sites. See this FDL post from last week.
http://www.firedoglake.com/200.....-features/
Twisted Martini @ 42
It’s actually his email address from the long-ago HuffPo attack he made on Howie Klein.
Don’t forget to add the [] though, in honor of [Dangerstein]’s NYT appearance over the past weekend….
If’n it were me, *ilson, I’d just go over his head and “Spotlight” his boss…
I’m just saying…
*ilson46201 @
49
OT– Shays looks pretty dumb in front of Noron and I think that is difficult to do.
(she of the braying laugh sitting in for Tweety.)
Jacqrat @ 54
Sending a Spotlight to his boss is a good idea. And yes, Chris Cillizza is not in the database. I’ll add him.
and just who do you consider to be Chris Cilizza’s “boss” ?
egregious @34 - and both Carter and McCaskill closing the divide to a pretty tight race.
Well, talk about “stop the presses.”
For days the conventional media has been unable to tear itself away from John Mark Karr, whose false confession with regard to JonBenet Ramsey pushed all real news off the news channels for days.
Now it all turns out to be a hoax — the work of an attention-seeker and apparently a man with mental and emotional problems.
The CM stampeded around like a crowd in which someone claims to have scene an image of the Virgin Mary in a pat of butter, or a waterfall. But it was all clouds.
What have we lost in terms of public awareness of political issues in that time period?
Stop the presses, indeed. The presses (and boob tube) are giving us non-bread and fake circuses, while the nation and world burn.
I am sure that Karl Rove is quite happy, and thinking about what may be next to divert us, between now and November.
Twisted Martini @ 44
You can send any article here to any of the news media: tv, newspapers, news services. It’s easy to use. Click the spotlight button, which takes you to the site. You choose your category (i.e. TV or Newspaper or whatever), click on that and the list below the button is populated with all the contact information. You choose the ones you want to send to, press send…and there you have it. The article is sent.
He truly is one of the spinniest of spinners. He should be in the Spinner Hall of Fame for his spinniosity!
America’s Least Wanted
Mark Steckel @ 56
Shalaigh Murray and Jim WATB Brady need to be added in the WaPo as well. And the ombuds is now Deborah Howell. And Peter Baker’s at the WH, not in Moscow anymore.
Is there a regular way to keep you Spotlighters apprised of potential database updates, or shall we comment at FDL when we’ve something that needs changing on Spotlight? Which is, btw, my new favorite toy/tool!!!!
Teddy should be the WaPo spotlight expert, he knows ‘em all.
Shalaigh Murray is one of my favorites at the Wapo. She has a great sense of humor.
OT:
Dayum, but Howie is QUICK, quick, I say!
Just received my Winton Marsalis CD for contributing to the Jerry Mcnerney’s campaign to unseat Jerry Pomboo at BLUE AMERICA. (Mind you, this was on Saturday afternoon!) Along with it, a “little surprise in the mail” because I’d also contributed to OUR Blue America PAC to raise money to put “Have You Had Enough?” radio spots on the air.
Thanks, Howie! Depeche Mode was one of my late partner’s favorites, and listening to it now makes it almost like she is here again to celebrate my birthday a day early. (It means a lot, thanks again.)
Jacqrat @ 65
I was going to mention that when the CD showed up in the Monday morning mail…thanks!
1. Is there any breakdown on IAFF & SEIU membership for Connecticut? I’m asking because it seems to me that the Reverend’s numbers might be national.
2. Any results on which groups were blocks of voting strength for Lieberman? I think Mr. Lamont can make inroads into such groups, but one must identify before going on the attack.
Ghostman
Got a chuckle out of this Wiki entry:
“The Fix is an American political weblog written daily by Chris Cillizza for The Washington Post website. The blog began in October 2005, and includes a weekly “Friday Line” section where the ten closest electoral races of an electoral cycle - as judged by Cillizza - are profiled and analyzed.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fix
TeddySanFran @ 62
Send database update emails to tsp at thespotlightproject dot org. I can’t guarantee that I’ll see the update requests in comments, esp as The Spotlight Project is added to more blogs. There’s just too many for me to track. :-/
I will freely admit that the database needs to be updated. Any and all help is *greatly* appreciated.
Jane Hamsher @ 63
all your WaPoO spotlights are belong to us!~
*ilson46201, you even bought the Connecticut for Lieberman domain name?? !!!
Lieberman formed a new “party” with a new name and failed to register it as an Internet name?? !!!
You gotta be kidding me.
You the man!
(But you have a typo, “Wignut,” unless that’s a new moniker for our feathered friends on the Right who offset hair loss with toupees.)
I also own www.Team-Connecticut.com which is his slogan.
www.Sore-Loserman.com
www.WhinyJoe.com
www.LieberLoser.com
Prof @ 71
Hey, Prof, cut the LieberWebs some slack, and remember that they were trying to get their old site un”hacked” *cough*cough* while *ilson was busy registering domain names!
What was that again?
Oh, yea they hate us for our freedom
I have to confess I dont own that valuable www.ConnecticutForLieberman.com domain name — somebody else snarffed it up first. I was so inspired and now own about 15 Connecticutish names — including www.LiebermanForConnecticut.com and www.ConnecticutForLamont.com — I just forward them appropriately …
So apparently bluehornet.com is hosting www.joe2006.com? At least, when you click the “volunteer” page you see them up at the top.
When you click the “contribute” page, you get www.campaigncontribution.com. And who are they?
And that, in turn, is a service of Aristotle - Power Tools for Politics
Has anyone looked into all this?
Political Wire
Local Republican committees are starting to follow the lead of their rank and file in Connecticut by abandoning the quixotic Senate candidacy of Republican Alan Schlesinger. On August 11th, the Killingworth Republican Town Committee voted to withdraw its endorsement of Schlesinger.
A dozen more may follow, including at least one town that raises more money than any other for Republican causes around the state, Greenwich. The question for most towns will be whether to include the “L-word” in their resolutions. Some want to endorse Lieberman, who’s drawn significant Republican support since his narrow 1988 upset of disagreeable Republican Lowell P. Weicker, Jr, now an unaffiliated voter.
There are few gatherings more earnest than meetings of the 169 Republican town committees in Connecticut. The decision to bolt formally from a Republican candidate for the United States Senate to a three-term incumbent Democrat turned independent will cause much debate among party activists, who have stood by the parade of no-hopers the party has nominate for the Senate in the past decade.
Greenwich, hometown of Democratic primary victor Ned Lamont, sets the pace for other local Republican organizations in affluent Fairfield County. As in many other realms, there is an element of Greenwich-envy among party workers in other towns. An outright endorsement of Lieberman would be another blow to Schlesinger, currently garnering around 4% in most polls. Schlesinger has made a couple of pilgrimages to the Greenwich town committee, where he has not been enthusiastically received.
Formal endorsements of Lieberman by local Republicans could bolster the army of volunteers that he is trying to build after losing the August 8th Democratic primary to Lamont. Neddites are particularly roiled by the possibility that the state’s 450,000 registered Republicans could provide the margin of victory for Lieberman. Additional signs of the Republican stampede to Lieberman will cause additional agitation between the two camps as the race grows more bitter and personal.
– Guest contributor Kevin Rennie is a columnist for the Hartford Courant.
I find it interesting that on the www.joe2006.com he has a survey:
What issues are important to you:
Protecting Our Environment
Net Neutrality
Foreign Policy
Immigration
Expanding Affordable Healthcare
Women’s Health & Reproductive Rights
Veterans Issues
Education and College Aid
Protecting Social Security
Cleaning Up Long Island Sound
Protecting Connecticut’s Jobs
Breaking Our Dependence on Foreign Oil
Notice anything missing? Iraq maybe?
Weicker, “disagreeable?”
Yeah, if you’re Dick Nixon maybe…. or Bill Buckley!
Or RGJoe!
What I want to know is who is paying uber lobbyist Hadassah Lieberman, and how the K-Street grease lines up with HoJo’s voting record.
Have the Lieberman’s released Hadassah’s tax returns? If not, why not?
My guess is the Joe4Joe party is about maintaining Hadassah’s influence on Capitol Hill — she’s the money magnet in the family; Joe is just the front man.
-ck- @ 80
RGJoe has never explained how he’s become a multi-millionaire after decades of only public service employment. Never. With all of RGJoe’s mock-outrage about NED’s money, there’s yet to be a single investigation I’ve seen of RGJoe’s assets. Or the Mrs.
Adie @ 14
Danger? Fear? Not any more.
NO SURRENDER.
We are all James Webb*. We are all Mike Stark**. We outnumber them. If we are not afraid, they can’t stop us.
*VA future Senator. Born Fighting; producer and author about not yielding when you are right; Sec Navy who resigned on principle.
**(1) guy who called Rush (2) guy who called O’Reilly & was harrassed by Fox security (3) held sign Hannity sucks a** (4) asked Allen if he said ni88er and had Confed flag and had noose.
These are OUR PEOPLE. FIGHT BACK!!!
Protect the vote. Take back the Congress. TAKE ACTION!!
*ilson, the “breadcrumb” for THE FIX says , washingtonpost.com[greater than] politics.
SO, whoever is the top dog for the politics dept. (online?) would be his boss - or, at the very least in the loop of being his boss.
Teddy? Can you help me out on this? I was trying to be snarky, honest. Didn’t mean to upset our dear *ilson…
FWIW, the email for chris is listed as:
chris DOT cillizza AT washingtonpost DOT com
*ilson46201 @
57
John in Sacramento - based on the summary they give (and I’m always leery of those) that is a horrible case. ???? They had people come forward on pooling their cash to start the business and no evidence of any drug connections other than a positive sniff on a rental car and they confiscate all the $$$??
egregious - are you channeling Norske?
That’s a good thing.
We did some research and follow-up on The Kiss article….now it’s the VFF/GOP - Lieberman.
Lieberman’s got a whole lotta help…but now we know a whole lot more………..
http://scoop.epluribusmedia.or.....174731/329
*ilson46201 @ 77
There are many moderate Republicans in Greenwich who can’t stand Lieberman - for a variety of reasons.
Soon it will become as clear as day to the remaining ostriches in the Dem party (hmmmm, Raul comes to mind) that the Connecticut for Lieberman campaign is a trojan horse for a Republican win in CT.
I notice that the Zogby/Wall St Journal polls were interactive and were done the week after the primary. I have no doubt that in September and October there will be a considerable shift to Lamont as folks see more of both men - now that Independents & Repugs are being included in the polling.
“Disagreeable” Lowell Weicker showed up at Ned Lamont’s Primary Day party - (i’m blogwhoring here)
Jane Hamsher @ 63
In the interests of efficiency, since there is a consensus*, can Teddy’s contact info be added to the Spotlight stuff?
*consensus = Jane 1, other 0/not relevant :)
**consensus in Russia: in Sept 2001 Putin’s advisors voted 2 for and 18 against helping us. Two plus Putin = a majority. I have met one of the two.
As Lamonts bid to unseat L-Man continues to
gain strength it is indeed becoming curious
how DC system mechanics of “rules and customs”
trump simple democracy of win or lose. Lamont
having indeed won the CT DEM primary only to
be side-swiped with L-Man deciding to go off
the DEM ticket and proceed with an independent
label and DC DEMS now seeming to have some
deepset issues about which line to stand on.
Over the past 5 years the GOP has
run wild and wide due to the DEMS inability to
mount an effective or focused opposition over
and over. THe federal fiscal trainwreck that
is taking place. The environmental backslides.
The profound civil liberties erosion. The lack
of effective or relevant congressional power
counterprevail checks on Bush WH. These all are
frontline political problems. However if the
DC DEM establishment is more interested in
“DC system issues” then seeing the likes of
L-Man replaced with real Democrats who have
won the pole position fair and square there is
something very wrong in DC.
If the DEMS are only chasing DC money and
not able to articulate genuine alternatives
or agendas to the GOP’s militarism,more $$$ for
top ten percent rich and meaningful changes on
ME problems and bringing out of bounds groups
such as AIPAC to heel what is the point of
putting DEMS over the top come November?
The point is either LEAD for REAL CHANGES
or get out of the way. Either promote the party
as an agent of meaningful,progressive programs
and policies or just join up with the damn GOP
and show yourselves for what you are. Moral and
ethical grifters. Easily swayed opportunists.
egregious at 82
AMEN sister!
Mary4evah @ 85
Norske and also me3 who gave me a BLISTERING when I first came onto fdl. I had the temerity to bring up Plame pardons and vote tampering as possible obstacles to our joyous certainty of turning the country around.
John Casper bless his heart spoke on my behalf to say that some people were ahead of the curve and that such far-seeing scouts deserved our attention. THANKS J.C.
Easy to be discouraged (1) if you keep up on the real news (2) if you, like me, are mentally ill and all of life is hard.
On the other hand: evidence of COURAGE—–
***giving birth to 3 children
***existing despite mental illness
***going to Russia 28 times alone to save lives
***am a Scottish Highlander by ancestry. FIGHT!!
***believing WE CAN TURN THIS COUNTRY AROUND
***working with total strangers to make a difference.
FIGHT BACK!! TAKE ACTION!! PROTECT THE CHILDREN!!
egregious @ 89
Absolutely! Send the contact information to me at tsp at thespotlightproject dot org.
[For clarification, FDL and The Spotlight Project are not affiliated other than a) FDL includes a links to The Spotlight Project and b) we all want to improve the current political situation.]
If I was going to buy a web site, I would buy it spelling his name Leiberman. I always spell it wrong and I’m not even Republican.
Move along. Nothing to see here …
Egregious, you are a highlight in my life. Thanks for sharing your spunky spirit with so many of us. God Bless YOU.
And in his column, The Fix, Chris S’leeza wrote on Aug. 15, of George Allen, that “whether he was purposely using a racial slur” is something “which The Fix doubts strongly.“
Uh-huh.
In fact, the whole tone of the article is that S’leeza is giving advice to Republicans on how to win:
His more recent writing about labor unions and Lieberman need to be seen from that perspective.
ccmask @
94
Great idea! I just bought www.connecticutforlEIberman.com and CT4LEIberman.com — the forwarding wont take effect for another hour or so…
oldtree @ 15
freepatriot @ 98
nice try, troll
maybe you didn’t see it cuz it’s a dead issue
joezoe is the only candidate who still owns stock in the warmongering company you refer to
no points this round, please play again
we really appreciate your CONCERN, TROLL
oldtree is nothing if not consistent…Ned’s stock holdings seem to be the only trick that pony can write about. It was debunked before the primary, but still we have him/her here doing the trolling about it. Sigh.