How come we don't hear anything coming out of the LieberLiar campaign any more about what a good Democrat Joe is, how he voted with his party 90% of the time, all his "liberal" (*choke*) interest group endorsements, and the fact that Ned Lamont is practically the Strom Thurmond of Greenwich? Without question, this has been the most schizophrenic campaign in recent history. And the people most likely to be persuaded by either side of the conflicting rhetoric are not necessarily the sharpest tools in the shed.
With each passing day Lieberman depends more and more on the least motivated voters. Least motivated to turn out, I mean. A Republican or conservative-unaffiliated who doesn't like the war, who doesn't like Bush and who is now appalled by the Foley scandal, has less incentive to go to the polls. That voter thinks: Jodi Rell doesn't need me, and I don't like anybody else.
Add to that Lieberman's position on the ballot which is basically a crossword puzzle coordinate. Five down, three across. He is the Waldo of the Connecticut voting booth.I think the Foley scandal will keep evangelicals home on Election Day, but they're not such a big factor in this state. Voters who are motivated to save any of the three incumbent Republican congresspersons may or may not hunt around for Joe while they're in the booth.If Lamont can make it a little closer by November than it is right now, he will have a better chance than most people give him in the long, strange trip of this campaign.
The Republicans had also, at that moment, spoken forcefully about their own vision of Joe Lieberman. On Aug. 9, they held in their hands the unique formula that allows Connecticut to elect a Republican U.S. senator, once ever 36 years or so. It is a near-impossibility, unless the Democrats spilt themselves, as they did in 1970 and again this year. A strong Republican candidate would have had a plausible chance at the brass ring, and the fact that the state and national Republican leadership decided to leave Schlesinger in place tells you what they think of all that messaging by Lieberman about what a good Democrat he is and how he votes 133 percent of the time with his party. The Republicans, anyway, dismiss all that as hogwash. From Karl Rove on down, they decided they already had a pretty good Republican senator in Joe Lieberman.
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Rootz!
Lamont will win.
Score a zero from downunder! It is hard to tell from here, but it seems Ned has lost some of the fire that was in the campaign for the primary. No Kiss Float (though I understand that’s not his to control) and less media attention. Of course, at this distance it is very hard to know. I went to HS in CT but that was so long ago I have lost touch with the state.
HastertGate! ; )
OT
FIRST POST at my blog since my return.
http://teocawki.blogspot.com
This one’s for The National Nurse and the folks who took care of me while I was away. Tomorrow, I’ll talk about Renee’s Candle and a band of angels who brought me home.
Cozumel @ 3
I propose a new rule: each scandal must have a new name that does not end in “Gate”. The Foley/Pages/Hastert mess should be able to inspire a catchy phrase of its own. Come on Fire Pups, I know you can do it.
The Foley Pages. Sounds like a good name.
Flush him!
Jane -
Since things seem quiet, any thoughts on my idea to do a little fund raising to get FDL more server power for election day? I’m happy to kick in but am in no position to organize it.
The near melt down 8/8 should be a wake up call that this where people want to be on days like that.
After the victory in a few weeks, and if we run the right candidate for the grand prize in 2008, and we keep motoring up the progressive turnpike, and doing our job, then the people will keep us. Far into the future.
Mr. Lamont goes to Washington soon.
I think Jane came up with La Cage aux Foley, which is brilliant.
TJ tong @ 9
That’s great! Anyone else?
wherever it came from, it rocks!
petedownunder @ 13
Forget Foley, the bullseye is on Hastert!
Talking about Foley works for the GOP. Hastert doesn’t ; )
What about Boehner? Hastert’s controller.
I don’t understand Lieberman.
Why has he decided to stand so strongly with the Republicans and I realize that this question may have already been answered.
I don’t remember him voting with Democrats since the 2004 election. Well I hope he did…
How about “The Hasterbator gets a Boehner?”
Jane,
I have a few domains which are pretty good. I had hoped to build them out somewhat, but am swamped with things. If anyone you know could do anything good with them, I’d be happy to donate.
http://www.joey2006.com
http://www.2006joe.com
http://www.vetojoe.com
OT, but news keeps pouring in. Republican Rep. Tom Reynolds (D-NY-Coverup) was interviewed by the Buffalo News in an article published yesterday. During the interview:
This struck me:
What is he implying? That he checked out with the “Page Board” whether Foley should run again? Seems doubtful. But he did ask Hastert whether Foley should run again? That is, he did a “review” before imploring Foley not to retire, but to run for his seat again?
Furthermore,
He was decided uncurious:
And then there is this, which indicates that the Republicans still cannot put children ahead of protecting other Republicans:
Or has somebody already blogged this Buffalo News article here?
Anyway, Reynolds now down 15 points.
But we still have 30 days to go, so we should not get complacent. Walk the precincts. GOTV.
“I’ve thought the bloggers were getting too much credit for [Lamont’s success] from the get-go,” said Monaghan. “The bloggers reflect the zeitgeist more than create it.”
For Dan Gerstein, the communications director for the Lieberman campaign, political blogging in Connecticut has been largely a mixed bag.
“I personally am a fan of blogging, I think it’s a really exciting development that has the potential to dramatically democratize the political landscape,” said Gerstein. “But I would say, in our campaign, for the most part blogs have been used as sort of an underground railroad for misinformation about Joe Lieberman’s record.”
Lieberman’s campaign finds the resounding anonymity associated with these blogs — and their reluctance to speak with the press just a few weeks before the election — to be disturbing.
“Their silence speaks volumes,” said Gerstein. “They want anonymity, but they don’t want accountability. When a newspaper reporter writes a story, they put their name on it, and they have to defend it.
“As someone who’s a fan of blogging, that’s a real threshold issue,” said Gerstein. “If people don’t trust it, or don’t think it’s believable, they won’t pay attention to it.”
http://www.connpost.com/news/ci_4461127
Foley was a cumpulsive HastertBoehner.
petedownunder @
9
That 8/8 event was a one-off thing that took us all down — C&L, Atrios, Kos, etc. When people couldn’t get into one they tried to get into the others and everyone just got hit repeatedly; even with Kos-sized servers we couldn’t prevent it. It was a domino effect.
We have beefed up our system since then and Jamie and John have been working on software stuff to keep us from overloading again. But we apprecite your willingness to support us — I think John just did some tinkering with the server that speeded us up.
Urban Pirate @ 19
I like that you have directed your sites to the LieberArchive here. I have aimed my LieberEmpire to the Ebay site selling “The Kiss” buttons. Perhaps I too should do the FDL LieberArchive thing too…
Twisted Martini @
18
Excellent.
Twisted Martini @
12
Nah it came out of the comments, but it was one of those I didn’t make a note of and now I can’t remember who originated it. I think Pach brought it to my attention but I don’t remember who he was trumpeting.
Sorry for the lack of credit to the originator, it wasn’t intentional.
OMG – George W. Bush to appear with Hastert in Illinois next Thursday:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/s…..s1.article
“Embattled House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert … will stand with President Bush on Thursday in Chicago.”
Urban Pirate @
19
I’d bet that some of our CT bloggers could have fun with them, or even use the addresses to re-direct to them. CT Bob, CTBlog, My Left Nutmeg, etc.
TJ tong @
10
Do you have a Shimkus in your pants, or are you just a little horny?
More:
“President Bush is planning to stand alongside Hastert, the Illinois Republican, in Chicago on Thursday [Oct. 12] at a fundraiser for the congressional campaigns of state Sen. Peter Roskam and David McSweeney.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/…..nworld-hed
“If Lamont can make it a little closer by November…”
Not to be overly prosaic but what are the numbers at the mo? The last poll I saw – a while ago, admittedly – had Ned pretty close.
aReader @ 27
So will Bush’s popularity bring Hastert’s numbers down, or vice versa?
The Gruesome Twosome.
aReader @ 31
“Republican’s just another word for nothing left to lose…”
RevDeb, good idea. I’ll drop a few emails.
Guys, if you see this and can do some good with them, let me know – montauk190 on aol.
RevDeb @ 33
Cheney should show up, too, and make the whole question moot.
EvilDrPuma @ 36
Well, it is getting closer to Halloween You have the Blob, The Thing that Wouldn’t Leave, and Frankenstein all on the stage at once. Scary!
Hundreds of Iraq police fall ill at meal
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Some of the policemen began bleeding from the ears and nose after the meal, said Jassim al-Atwan, an inspector for the Environment Ministry, who was serving as a liaison in the investigation between the Health Ministry and the base, located in the town of Numaniyah.
snip
Between 600-700 policemen were affected to varying degrees, and 11 who had the heaviest amount of the food had died, al-Atwan told The Associated Press.
more…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200….._poisoning
I am finding the perfunctory support, and the lack of ‘active’ support, from Senator Clinton and a few other Democrats for Senator Lamont rather unforgivable. I will not forget. ALL the Democrat heavy-hitters should be in CT. on and off, taking care of business!
RevDeb @ 33
The Diuretic Duo
I have just aimed my LieberEmpire to the FDL LieberArchive here – all 18 domains, including http://www.TurncoatJoe.com and http://www.WhinyJoe.com
If the Merry CT BlogPranksters have a better idea for them, I’ll listen to suggestions…
I know that lots of folks are looking for movement in the Ned/Joe race and wondering why no big headlines. I think we have to remember that an incumbent being challenged in a primary was an anomaly. It got lots and lots of media because of it. The race was also in the middle of August and not much else whas happening. Now there are so many races being hotly fought, not to mention all of the scandals, revelations, books, NIE reports, etc. that the reporters are running around themselves just trying to keep up. Lots of competition for those headlines.
If Joe keeps stepping in it like he did for CTBob on film, and if the local press picks up on it, and if Ned starts fighting back harder, this will happen.
Meanwhile there are lots of races for folks to get involved with close to their homes. If not, send $$, make phone calls, do what you can.
Vigilance!
I wonder whether Hastert asked him or Bush told him.
Twisted Martini @ 37
Speaking of Halloween and politics, here’s a blast from the past.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Mk6_bVRTU
NED LAMONT & WES CLARK at McDonald’s
EvilDrPuma @ 34
Did Janis say this too? My… she was relevant. I’ve missed her.
aReader at 27 — MSNBC reported that Bush would be doing a campaign stop with Hastert last Friday — and I couldn’t resist giving it a theme song. *g* Good to know that it will be Thursday — perhaps, if I’m a very good blogger, I’ll commission a graphic from darkblack. hehehehe
Christy Hardin Smith @ 47
Maybe you could do a whole video? I doubt we could get Senator Kerry to play Mr. Howell though.
ccmask @ 45
Loved it, Thank you for linking it!!
Hi all! I was out sailing since yesterday morning, and didn’t get back until a few hours ago. I missed all the nice things you said about my video with Joe yesterday until just now. So…Thank you.
The Joe video is doing really great on Youtube; it’s up over 10,000 hits. People are getting to see Joe being the phony politician we all know he is.
Kirby is doing a fantastic job with getting out and interviewing people on tape; unlike myself, she can actually think on her feet and follow up complex questions with insightful queries. She is a star!
We’ve got 30 days to go. We’re gearing up to go on the offensive. There might be some kind of float back around that people have been asking about, but I don’t think I can say anything about it yet. Joe is getting to the point where he sees my stupid grinning face in his dreams almost every night.
And Lieberman campaign manager Sherry Brown just sent me two tickets to the October 23rd senate debate…courtesy Joe2006.com.
I think that was awfully sweet of her.
I read the following this afternoon and thought it summed up Joe the Panderer pretty good!
Real political independents don’t lose their party primary and suddenly convert to being an independent just to cling to their seats.
Real political independents are for change and new, fresh, better solutions. They are not interested in 18-year incumbents whose poor judgment was instrumental in causing the problems we are now trying to solve. Real independents are looking for some shred of accountability and responsibility in Washington for the blunders that have been made by the people Joe Lieberman consistently supported: George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.
In Connecticut’s U.S. Senate race, Joe Lieberman is trying to be – simultaneously – the de facto Republican candidate, a Democrat and an independent. He may think this is a clever political ploy or some evidence of nonpartisanship. But real independents see through this kind of “politrick” and recognize it for what it really is: pandering.
http://www.courant.com/news/op…..commentary
CTBob,
see comment 28 at 5:42pm. What do you think?
Connecticut Bob,
your video captured the Real Joe!! I loved the graphic “People-Powered Media”. Thanks for all you do for the campaign.
Keep up the great work!
ccmask @ 45
I like Wes Clark. Lamont will win.
I think that Lamont will win at the end, as far as he intensifies his attacks on Lieberman. He really needs to go aggressively after Lieberliar. And lets not forget that Lieberman is scary. Very scary.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 47
Hi Christy
I did a little Googling to find details of the entire fundraiser, from Chicago Tribune of Sept. 26th — no mention of Hastert, though.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/…..;cset=true
I haved liked Wes for a long time. I think he would have had a great chance if Dems had stood behind him.
Hey Bob. Speak of the devil. Great vid yesterday.
I really can’t stand that smarmy Joe. He’ll lie right to your face without missing a beat.
Holy shit, Cokie’s off the team!
*ilson46201 @ 41
I like those. ;)
ccmask @ 51
Go read the whole thing. Bill Hillsman wrote it. Excellent.
Blue Wind @ 55
Mr. Lieberman is quite scary. He has much American soldier, Lebanese, and Iraqi blood on his hands, and seems not to care. Mr. Lieberman will be shown the door. Soon.
aReader @ 27
Maybe Ned could throw a democrat party and invite anyone affiliated with a party over four months old.
My brother just told me that on Chris Matthews “tell me something I don’t know” segment a comment was made that there is a Senator and Congressional Page matter that is going to come out. I think Tucker Carlson was the commentator who said it so one would think it is a Republican outing of a Demo to even the scorecard in the run up to the election. Has anyone else heard anything?
Ah ha, here is the line-up for Thudsay Bush/Hastert
http://www.lcgop.org/calendar.cfm
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Illinois Congressional Victory Committee
Where: The Chicago Hilton Towers, 720 South Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL
When: 3:30pm (Doors Open), 4:30pm (Photo Opportunity), 5:00pm Remarks
Details: Victory Celebration with President George Bush honoring David McSweeney and Peter Roskam. Congressmen Henry Hyde, Tim Johnson, Mark Kirk, Ray LaHOod, Don Manzullo, John Shmkus, Jerry Weller, Judy Biggert and Dennis Hastert will be in attendance.
Twisted Martini @ 59
Ditto! I just watched that.
I dig all the Joe domain names, but I’m not sure how to utilize them. One of my blogger pals went out and got “connecticutforlieberman.com” as soon as Joe announced his new “party of one”, and he has some good stuff posted there.
As far as those other domain names, feel free to redirect them to connecticutbob.com or connecticutforlieberman.com, or any of the other blogs you like.
And thanks again for saying the nice things about the video. I was tempted to interrupt Joe while he was double-talking and free associating, but it all looked so…perfect…that I had to let it go.
Besides, I’m trying to dispell the theory that we’re all “angry lefty bloggers”. Just having a friendly smile on my face while Joe babbles is my most potent weapon.
Well…that, and my camera.
kevin costello @ 65
My understanding is that it’s another Pug. I could be wrong, though. Everyone seems to “know” but noone is naming names, yet.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 39
Yep – exactly. I think that all CT Dems who have worked so hard on Lamont’s campaign should change their registration from Dem to Unaffiliated in protest – if Lamont loses.
I have called and spoken with so many voters in CT and really the main source of confusion is that after 18 years, Lieberman is no longer the Democratic candidate. We continue to stress that Ned Lamont won the primary and is the Democratic candidate, and that because he lost, Lieberman left the party so he could run on his own (I keep the snark to a minimum but would love to riff on the Connecticut for Lieberman party of one situation).
All that aside, the way Lamont’s campaign has been handled by the “Dem Leadership” is disgusting and inexcusable. Lieberman caused the “awkward” situation, not Lamont. The leadership is insulting all those who came out in record numbers to vote for Lamont by their stance. Our opinions are clearly not of consequence in terms of their political calculations. That being the case, I’m sure they won’t mind if thousands of Dems switch their affiliation to “Unaffiliated” if the unspeakable happens and Ned were to lose.
David Sirota
How close we really are
a good read!
RE to #5 Subway Serenade:
Congratulations on your recovery and return home. A whipple is definitely an intensive surgery with a long hard road to have travailed on. I admire you for the tenacity and will it took to overcome this. Good luck to you.
A national nurse makes my heart sing.
Poll: Most call for Hastert’s resignation
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In all, 43 percent say Hastert should resign from Congress, while another 20 percent want him to resign from his leadership position. 27 percent say he should remain as Speaker of the House. The other 10 percent weren’t sure.
more…
http://www.kobtv.com/index.cfm…..TOPSTORIES
hmmm … LieberLiar is not a domain name …. hmmm … maybe on payday on Friday it will be!
Urban Pirate @ 69
I read something on one of the blogs. Someone was agonizing over knowing something and not reporting it. The distinct impression was that it had to do with another another republican congressman. I’m still looking for the link.
Subway Seranade – Happy to see you! May you have the best of health from now on.
Aer you guys talking about Aravosis’ Dilemma, caused by the new Hastert Standard for Reporting Known Sex Predators?
http://americablog.blogspot.co…..nared.html
I like this DKos diary. “Fining” Curt Weldon with a $10 contribution to Joe Sestak’s campaign for every negative mailer they receive. Very pro-active.
I don’t see a benefit of outing someone unless there is a predatory connection.
LindyH @ 75
Could it have been this at AmericaBlog?
Urban Pirate @
69
America Blog was hinting too, but I couldn’t tell if he really has something or it was just snark. Sorry I don’t have the link handy, but it was approximately yesterday (living here I never know what day it is up there).
Thanks RevDeb, that’s the one.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..31230.html
UTUBE – Tucker suggests another page problem
OT
Here’s a blood boiler about the “family values” crowd. via C&L
Eureka Springs, AR @
79
How about if they’re voting to write gay people out of the Constitution?
Eureka Springs, AR @ 79
My thoughts would be that this is the usual dirty political tricks by Rove and endemic of the Republican ‘race’ as it has evolved. I say ‘race’ because it is my firm belief that the Bush’s are thoroughly convinced they are better, qualitatively speaking, than the unwashed masses. Of which I include myself. Naturally. I would actually consider it to be a sort of blue badge of courage to be considered one of ‘the unclean by the Bush royal family.
At DWT, Howie discusses Phil English R (PA-03)
PREDATORGATE: ARE THERE OTHER NERVOUS REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMEN HOPING NO ONE EVER FINDS OUT ABOUT THEIR OWN SORDID PASTS?
http://downwithtyranny.blogspo…..rvous.html
link to PA blog:
http://pennsylvaniaprogressive…..t-23579206
and, earlier more detailed DWT post on English’s activities:
http://downwithtyranny.blogspo…..-wing.html
(written preFoley)
triciawrites @
72
Kathryn in MA @
76
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Frank Probst @ 85
I would surmise the Republicans and their religious nut-base has de facto already done this.
Kolbe Saw Foley’s Messages In 2000
Another Republican congressman knew of disgraced former representative Mark Foley’s inappropriate Internet exchanges as far back as 2000 and personally confronted Foley about his communications.
A spokeswoman for Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.) confirmed yesterday that a former page showed the congressman Internet messages that had made the youth feel uncomfortable with the direction Foley (R-Fla.) was taking their e-mail relationship. Last week, when the Foley matter erupted, a Kolbe staff member suggested to the former page that he take the matter to the clerk of the House, Karen Haas, said Kolbe’s press secretary, Korenna Cline.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..00855.html
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Jane Hamsher @ 78
This is a great idea, and others might adopt it to their advantage. Folks can also phone the campaign office every time they get a mailer, letting their Congressman know there’s another tenspot on the way to his Democratic opposition.
Ned Lamont is the bravest, gentlest, warmest, most wonderful human being ever to become Senator for Connecticut!
Frank Probst @ 85
Or denying us the right to adopt?
Or being unwilling to codify our employment rights?
Or legalizing housing discrimination?
Or not allowing us to marry?
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Had Enough?
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Eureka! 64 and 79
Your concern is much appreciated, I’m sure.
It’s been interesting reading your posts over time. How long has it been? Four months? Tell me, what is “a democrat party”? Sure sounds like something a, hmmmmm, troll? might say?
In any event, “outing” someone as you put it could be explained for all sorts of reasons, like showing patterns of conduct or philosophy. Or as KO might put it, LYING or covering up, or malfeasance, or criminal misconduct, or….looks like there just might be all sorts of reasons.
Subway Serenade @ 88
Hugs to you, Subway;-) Very glad to see you’re better!
Frank Probst @ 85
Bless their heart. sick ****s. That’s sort of self predatory isn’t it.
http://www.time.com/time/magaz…..43,00.html
“Every revolution begins with the power of an idea and ends when clinging to power is the only idea left”.
This article from Time may have already been posted but… I love the first sentence.
Mark Foley’s book title: The Pages in my Portfolio
petedownunder @ 6
Hasturd?
Twisted Martini @
59
Great YouTube, thanks.
BTW- I was too cryptic before- from Howie at DWT:
http://downwithtyranny.blogspo…..rvous.html
~~~Local bloggers are talking about the English deviance connect now that the Foley scandal has broken. This one looks very similar– Republicans and the establishment shielding a suspicious case from investigation.
Now it looks like eyewitnesses to English’s arrest are coming foreword and this story may break big enough to at least cause a serious investigation into the allegations. A state representative from English’s district, with intimate knowledge of one of the arrests, involving English and a teenage male prostitute, has told friends that this is the week the local media will be confronted with the facts. Stay tuned! Meanwhile, Blue America’s latest video highlights Steve Porter’s valiant race against English and his grotesque record of non-accomplishment.~~~
John Casper- re: polling in CT- a repeat of earlier posts-
OT–Lamont polls- I just went and checked out the polls at pollster.com. Statistically, there is no point in including polls that only have a single point, because there is no way to compare these data, over time, and each poll has a unique bias/audience. The only three polls that have multiple data points are- Rassmusen, Zogby Interactive, and Quinnipiac.
Percentages are Lieberman adv. over Lamont.
In the 4 R polls after primary 5% > 2% > 2% > 10%
In the 3 ZI polls after primary 10% > 4% > 2%
In the 2 Q polls after the primary 12% > 10%, but Q poll data 1st was random voters, 2nd likely voters. Hard to interpret these two points, thus.
Most of the alarm seems to have been created by the entry of the Zogby Poll (not the interactive one)- first entry, no data points to compare; and the Rassumsen poll change from 2% adv to 10% adv Lieberman.
Disclaimer- I am not a statistician. Wish Bobby G were here. But, I do look at data a lot in my job. At this point, I just don’t see any evidence, based on these data, that Ned is falling behind. And, he has clearly gained in name recognition. If anything, my own look at the polls says it’s 50/50 L/L at this point- though I wish Lamont had already moved ahead. As Jane has said, 4 weeks is a long time, in the current environment. And, the more people know about Lamont, the more they will like him. The more people know more about Lieberman, the less they will like him. I am feeling much more optimistic having looked more closely at the polling data, rather than just responding to the cries of alarm.
Not sure if this has been talked about much here today, but I was just blown away by this on Meat the Press this morning. We’re talking about the VP of the United States, fer chrissakes!
http://www.crooksandliars.com/…..velations/
Still can’t figure out if Woodward is an opportunist, or if he was just “playing nice” with the Bush Crime Family in order to get “in” with them, and then expose the lunacy.
Prairie Sunshine @ 93
I was suggesting Ned could throw a party (yippee! hooray! woohoo!) for democrats including independents and republicans if they would like to attend but excluding Lieberman party of one. Perhaps he could be invited and a small table with one lone chair could be prepared just for him.
Laughing at the troll shot. Thanks for the concern.
If outing a gay person will help, I don’t get it or like it one bit. if outing another predator, perv whatever, I do.
A postscript to the morning thread. Did anyone else note the segment on ABC’s This Week with Patricia Heaton? She was particularly pointed talking about Rep Joe Barton [yep, the same one Imus was ragging on because of his wife’s work on the autism bill]. His reply–paraphrasing–he’s not going to let legislation be determined by celebrities and such.
I guess he plans to keep leaving it to Big Pharma et al to write his legislation for him. Seems to me there just might be some dots to connect between Joe Barton and Mrs. Joe Lieberliar and Big Pharma…. any good oppo researchers out there?
And yes, I did read the scorched earth snark on Imus earlier this week here. And yes I did withhold comment at the time. We are in a years-long campaign to restore America and no crusty geezer can be left behind….
Connecticut Bob @
68
I suggested this before and I’ll throw it out once more. I’d suggest using each of these domains as a “one pager” on a single issue with links to other topics.
So connecticutforlieberman.com could provide a page of info about Lieberman’s connectons to big pharma. Similarly joey2006.com could point to a “one pager” about Joe’s situational ethics re Clinton versus Foley. Then ww.2006joe.com could, perhaps, be a one pager on Joe’s sniffing commercials about Lamont. You get the idea. Then at the end have a link (or links) to other resources.
This would have search engine advantages (as opposed to a redirect) IMHO – especially if the main topic is described in the tag and the first sentence of the post.
I still wish thew Lamont campaign would say something along the lines of “Lieberman has worked in a bipartisan manner with the Republicans to get us to where we are today”.
TeddySanFran @ 91
If I donated $10 for each negative TeeVee ad against Jim Pederson & Harry Mitchell that I saw today I would be broke…. the RNC must of dumped a huge pile of money here in AZ…. it is back to back ads today on broadcast & cable. What that tells me is that there is hope even here in AZ….. if they are dumping that much money here….. woooohooooo
Point taken, Eureka. I totally agree with you that no one should be outed for being gay. But predators absolutely should be. Immediately.
Fareed Zakaria made a point on This Week this morning to the effect that mainstream gays were working to stop Foley. I do not remember the exact wording, but mainstream gays is what stuck in my mind.
The Rethugs that try to do the gay-bashing meme, as Pat Buchanan was doing, hope we forget that Foley is a Republican…seems to me that’s much more likely to cause predatory conduct and coverup tactics than being gay.
Wapo Kolbe and page report
Front page and the
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petedownunder @ 6
I’m awfully enamored of “Karmageddon.”
In my previous post, I was refering to the “title” tag but my typing was interpreted as HTML code.
EvilDrPuma @ 109
Has anyone suggested “Hasterbation”?
Where can I find a link to connecticutbob’s new Joe video that was mentioned above?
My nomination for the name of this scandal: Denny’s Grand Slam.
ctbob.blogspot.com I think
neurophius @ 111
The word has been coined, but I don’t recall seeing it used as a name for the scandal as a whole.
There’s always “Pervert Dome.”
TeddySanFran @ 113
Now that’s entertainment.
triciawrites @ 108
Chinese Water Torture!
How ironic is that? ; )
neurophius @ 112
You can also see it here.
Okay, I must share my new purchase with you guys. I’ve had it with our disorganized CD collection. Thanks to The Peanut, they are everywhere around the house, and I cannot take it any longer, so…I just ordered this. The anal retentive side of me is already contemplating the alphabetized/genre organization that I could do…but I think I’ll just stick to alpha by artist. :)
Christy Hardin Smith @ 119
Or you could get an ipod. Lots smaller and you can load them up in one place.
I just wanted to say thanks to AFSCME (I think) for a great ad in Ohio. Very much appreciated!
Great ad against the GOP candidate: “She’s just like them. She’s given herself 9 pay raises and voted against raising the minimum wage! She’s just like them…”
I’ve seen many good ads in the days since the Foley scandal erupted. I can almost hear Rahm Emmanuel thinking, “Hmm…maybe it’s worth a little effort this cycle, ya think? OK, give it a shot.”
The republicans are also dumping tons of money here in Minnesota against Patty Wetterling and Mike Hatch (running for Gov. against Pawlenty). Of the 4 competitive races, all dems (Hatch, Klobachar, Rawlings, Wetterling) Patty is the only one even slightly behind her opponent. There are many ads against Amy Klobachar, but she just keeps gaining against Mark Kennedy. Oh happy day!
RevDeb at 120 — have a mini, that I switch songs around on pretty frequently. But there is still the need to organize our collection…and the solid wood card catalog cabinet was just too fun to pass up. (It’s my early b-day present to myself. I am SUCH a nerd…)
Breaking news from MSNBC:
Report: North Korea appears to have conducted a nuclear test.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 123
How early?
oo, Steven – that’s not good…
I wouldn’t put it past Hastert that he have to go into the hospital because of heart/breathing problems. It is a good place for him to hide out while the GOP has a meltdown.
he already looks like he had a stroke–Instant Alzheimer’s has settled in this weekend.
Oh, is it true his Chief of staff/roommate was a student of his back in his coaching days? I seem to have read that somewhere online this weekend. Current Biography 1999 says Hastert was very devoted to his wrestling kids. he loved piling them in his Dodge without any air conditioning and driving them to the wrestling meet. Ah the scent of sweaty young men on weekends!
Christy Hardin Smith @ 119
Cool! Seems pretty reasonable price-wise too. Mp3s are nice but they don’t have the fidelity of CDs and I can’t read the liner notes. ;)
Christy Hardin Smith @ 119
Oooh, I’ve looked at this! Please let us know what you think of the construction/material quality when you get it.
CNN reports N Korea has conducted a nuclear test – S Korea govt going into emergency session.
Thanks for the video link, RevDeb.
Joe sure does appear to be getting confused in his old age…time to send him out to pasture.
RevDeb at 125 — coupla weeks — should be here before then, I hope. :)
Brown at 128 — yeah, I’m with you on the liner notes. *g*
Prairie at 129 — will do. I’ve been scouting CD storage for a couple of months now, and this one looks like it has good, solid wood, as opposed to chipboard and veneer. I couldn’t find anything at local furniture stores that i liked, so I’m hoping this will work out well for us.
The N. Korea test is bad news. Very bad.
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea’s official news agency said Monday the country has performed a successful nuclear test.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200…..as_nuclear
Don’t bother with the link. That’s the whole piece.
Siun @ 130
I sure hate seeing N. Korea give Shrub any excuse for… well, just about anything…
but I’m guessing he won’t know what to do
So, how many more things have to happen before the country wakes up from this nightmare and throws the whole lot of the repug bums out?
Breaking MSNBC…
U.S. intel has NOT yet confirmed…
Cozumel @ 133
Anybody have a guess as to what The Decider will do about this threat?
Maybe he will ignore it, because he has so overextended the military that he doesn’t have the resources to invade North Korea (besides they don’t have any oil), but to not invade North Korea undercuts his rationales for invading Iraq and for the upcoming invasion of Iran.
So how did you ever make a decision between the card catalog unit and the apothecary unit, Christy? Both look terrific.
I’m in a like situation with books. They’re stacked everywhere begging for a home. But so far I haven’t tracked down a source for bookcases like those nifty egg-crate bookcases that Arne Jacobsen designed. Or, as you say, Christy…that aren’t chipboard and veneer.
Actually, Bush should be happy about North Korea’s nuclear test. He has finally found his weapons of mass destruction…they are just a few thousand miles from where he was looking.
Cozumel @
90
File under: You have GOT to be fucking kidding me.
I know he’s retiring, but can they expel him anyway? This is just too much.
CNN mentioned the explosion measured 3.5 on the richter scale. It’s not showing up on the usgs site.
Frank Probst @ 140
How soon can we begin saying, “disgraced former Speaker Dennis Hastert”?
OldCoastie @ 134
Why, just because he’s had six goddamned years to do something substantive but has chosen to make everybody else do the diplomacy while he occasionally peeks out from under the rug to make some dipshit threat?
Whaddaya think of those memetic apples?
I thought Lamont was a far-left Al Qaeda-coddling dope-smoking Marxist who would turn Connecticut into a hippie commune.
Now he’s Dick Cheney II?
It’s difficult to keep all the Liebersmears straight without a program.
LMAO!
Oklahoma kiddo @
46
Janis may have sang it, but it was Kris Kristofferson’s lyric.
It is way past bushboys bedtime… surely no one would bother to wake him up for this. Cheney really makes me nervous.
just as Fisk mentioned in his column today, when we go around invading and threatening folks, you have to assume they’ll react
Here am I in EPU territory…but this is just too good to not post: A New “Night of Long Knives”? from Larry Johnson.
Cozumel @ 145
hope he sticks around for a while and that Lieberboy continues to support him.
Christy Hardin Smith @
123
Christy, I feel your pain. Feng Shui is a difficult concept to master. Looks like you made a good choice; you should be happy with that system for at least 23 days. Fiona, honey, no climbing the antiques!
xoxo
I’m not seeing anything on the USGS maps either… any indication of how long ago this supposed test occurred?
OldCoastie – CNN says nothing on USGS who they called … BBC says the same
OldCoastie @ 152
“We’ll keep you posted.” –Bruce Banner
On torturing innocent Iraqis, Joe Lieberman sided with George Bush 100% of the time-
So what gets all of the air time tomorrow, Nukes in N. Korea or Kolbe in AZ? What do the networks like more sex or war?
Goddess help us all.
Siun @ 148
Exactly! Axis of Evil, stupid mother f….
Siun @ 148
BTW Thanks for that link.
Christy Hardin Smith @
47
Great idea Christy – I’ll contribute to a darkblack commmission anytime, any place.
I’m thinking, if nothing was recorded by USGS, there wasn’t any test… how does it benefit N. Korea to say they did a test?
sorta reminds me of Saddam sayin’ he had WMD after he had used them all up…
Eureka Springs – you’re welcome … Fisk’s books on Lebanon and his latest are essential reading for understanding the Middle East … I just finished Pity the Nation and found it so disturbing on so many levels. Our approach to Iraq is so clearly modeled on the Israeli activities in Lebanon in the late 80s/ early 90s and those didn’t work so well … neither did Israel’s recent repeat in which they bombed precisely the same civilian targets …
If anyone knows a Fisk quality reporter for Korea, I would be grateful for a link.
Cozumel @ 117
Hat tip to ya Cozumel!
hmmm, mod can you delete my 160 Im trying my wings on these cute keys above this comment box, but I appear to have double posted.
Thanks for all the hard work.
aReader @ 66
A couple of those names jumped out at me again. I wrote a post a few days ago about what alot of the Repubs were doing on Sept 27th, the night before all hell broke loose on Foley. Mark Foley was the master of ceremonies at the annual Chafee dinner that night held by the Republican Main Street Partnership. They’ve since yanked his pic and membership off their site. I’m sure they don’t like Google caches.
I posted pics of Hastert and Foley attending a dinner that I found in their gallery. Hastert has been a recipient of their Chafee award, along with Andy Card, Frist, and Specter. This year John McCain was one, and Rep Mark Kirk is the the RMSP Board President. They better celebrate while they can, they’ll be crying in their sneer beer next month.
Interesting, if taken with 2 grains of salt…
In the Sep. 30/Oct. 1 edition of WMR, it was reported: “. . . WMR has learned of possible connections between GOP lawmakers and former school teacher John Mark Karr, who was arrested in Thailand and deported to the United States after he claimed, falsely, that he killed six-year old Jon Benet Ramsey at her Boulder, Colorado home in 1996. After Boulder prosecutors declined to prosecute Karr for JonBenet’s death, he was transferred to Sonoma County, California to face misdemeanor child pornography charges. However, U.S. intelligence source report to WMR that the high degree of interest shown by U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. intelligence officials in Karr — including having one CIA officer in Bangkok intercede, along with DHS Bangkok attache Ann Hurst, with Thai law enforcement authorities after Karr’s arrest — was due to Karr’s knowledge of the involvement of top U.S. government officials in a major pedophilia ring.”
and
WMR has also learned that Republicans will soon mount an effort to discredit a senior House Democratic member with a sex scandal of a rather different nature. The member is aware of the plans and is circling the political wagons if the GOP launches their expected attack.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
Not even the excellent PUMA network picked up a quake in the right spot…and they pop ‘em on in real time.
Mike Chinoy doing a very decent job on the story on CNN … not buying into the usual nonsense
kevin costello @
65
I saw this on Americablog.com last night I think..Pretty sure! If not, it was out there in the blogs, so it should hit soon.
The more the merrier.
LindyH @ 167
I’m not familiar with the PUMA network… but I think this is a fakeout by Kim Jong Il… some misguided attempt to show us up…
OldCoastie @ 161
I wonder if NK wants money or industry from this grasp for attention. What else could it be? China said on a recent television report they would not support NK in any way including voting against UN sanctions if they tested a nuke.
Annyone who missed the Fisk link metioned by siun…
http://news.independent.co.uk/…..814843.ece
N Korea has all along wanted 1- a guarantee that we would not attack them and 2- some form of trade deal
Clinton was working on an agreement which seemed to be making progress – W cancelled it
OldCoastie @ 170
It’s the Swiss realtime e’quake reporting system. Friend of mine told me about it.
They just interrupted a program I was watching with the news that North Korea just announced that they have conducted their first ever successful underground nuclear test. Thanks, Mr. Bush! What’s next? Are we now gonna bomb them back to the stone age? I mean, it’s not as if they’re emboldened by the fact that we’re tied up elsewhere or anything. Had enough?
http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/redp….._list.html is the url for puma
LindyH @ 175
thanks… still don’t see anything… CNN stating that the US Military has confirmed, but it seems to me that a 3.5 explosion would be recorded on one of these services…
background – thanks to a friend – the agreement W ditched:
http://www.carnegieendowment.o…..mework.cfm
OldCoastie @ 176
Yeah. I hear a KKK…sort of like the sound those replicators on stargate make. Oh…it’s just Kkkarl
sad… I certainly don’t believe NK (Kim seems to need an awful lot of attention) and I really don’t believe the report that our military has confirmed…
is this the October surprise?
OldCoastie @ 179
Red Puma detects down to 1.3 on the Richter Scale.
OC, didn’t you have a 3.5 or some such in ME recently? Is that on the PUMA charts?
HotFlash @ 181
I’m in So Cal now (used to live in ME)… could be – the odd one recently I remember was an earthquake off the FL coast…
Republican campaign slogan:
“You’ll find the best part of me in my pages”
new thread
On the weekend Chris Matthews program, Tucker Carlsen predicted that another lawmaker will be outed in the Foley scandal as having been a bad boy. I keep fantasizing it is Lieberman. One can only dream. It would be such a fitting end to such a whiny slug.
Jane — I know this thread is incredibly stale now, but I thought I’d leave this with you.
The League of Pissed Off Voters (renamed League of Young Voters) had scorecards through 2004 on members of Congress, ranking them as progressive/conservative depending on their voting history.
Through 2004, Joe-nertia only scored a 75.47% — that’s 11% more conservative than Chris Dodd during the same period. Joe-nertia got a 41 out of 100 on the ranking scale; that means 40 Senators were more progressive than he was.
What a lying hack.
The scores through 2004 also rank him highly on abortion rights; we now know that’s pure crap, and on an adjusted scale, we know he’s worse than his 75.47% score.
Sic ‘em.
Don’t forget, Tucker Carlson was one of the Republican boys, who were trained in media at one of the Right wing Institutes! He has been fed and used the message out ‘du jour’ from Rove etal, on how to twist and distort the news.
He chose this forum to spill this for a reason, folks, and if I had my guess, it is a Dem they are gathering info on to expose! Their philosophy—well if they are not going to vote for us, we will make sure they will not vote for them!
ccmask @
45
I also got a good video clip of Wes Clark discussing torture. This was at last week’s Jack Murtha rally:
http://pennsylvaniaprogressive…..index.html
The clip is also at YouTube.
This may backfire on Joe and cause Republicans to consider voting for Lamont. Most Democrats already know where they stand, but Joe is now pointing would-be Republican voters toward Lamont.
Brilliant people you have working for you, Joe.
The name for this scandal should be “mastur-gate”. Not my invention,I read it somewhere on tthe internets. Brilliant, I think since it brings up echos of Seinfeld, and the master of my domain, as well.
If you were a Republican voter would you trust Joe? He has a proven record of duplicity. Unless they have something on him – there is no guarantee that he is safely reliable even for the Repubs. Joe likes to be seen with the movers and shakers. He can’t bear to be out of the limelight, (or the majority party). He has run a listless campaign, with lots of lying, and no excitement. Ned on the other hand is bringing new blood to the mix. That combined with the blowing winds of change should serve him well. Just waiting to hear how the candidates respond to the nuclear test in No. Korea. Will Joe pretend this is not a partisan issue? Another chance for him to step up to plate – will he be playing for America or the Republicans?