(CHS notes: Sometimes, a picture is worth far more than a thousand words…)
In what may be one of the more amusing segments on Olbermann's Countdown show on MSNBC yesterday, Keith took a little time to educate the Bush Administration and Tony Snow just how powerful five minutes and "the Google" can be (via C&L):
The White House Press Secretary is now revising his revisionist history on the phrase and still coming up short. First saying that the President never said "stay the course" then yesterday, saying this to Fox News:
Well sure, to be fair, the President did say "Stay the Course" eight times.
So there they are, the eight — and only eight — times President George W. Bush ever said the phrase "Stay The Course"
[video of Bush saying "Stay the Course" 29 times]
And now you know tomorrow's headline from Mr. Snow.
"I never said he only said it eight times; I said we could only find eight times."
Evidently, somebody at the White House needs a little help with "The Google."
Take a little time and watch the video at C&L. It is so worth it this morning. And honestly, isn't it more fun counting up the lies and idiocy from the Bush Administration when you add in some game show sound effects?
Yesterday's show also included a segment about Rush and his fixation on Michael J. Fox — and it gave Sam Seder (who is hosting his show in Air America right now, btw) an opportunity to utter one of the greatest sentences ever — which included the words "Rush Limbaugh," "hillbilly heroin," and "viagra" all in the same sentence. Priceless. Sam and Keith did a great job of discussing the wingnut wurlitzer's tendency to put all the blame on anyone but folks they need to keep in office — which really pretty much sums up the Republican party these days, doesn't it? Sacrificing everything, including the Constitution and any shred of decency or ethics, on the altar of temporary power.
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It’s a great day to kick some Thug ass!
Dab, sent you another note.
It’s always a great day to kick some Thug ass!
GOP not like reality.
GOP Smash!
I just could not resist using this photo this morning. It’s so emblematic of the entire Bush Administration, all in one fell photo, isn’t it? hehehehehe
Ooooh, look, GWB brought Dick Cheney along for today’s photo op for the border fence bill signing. They must really be trying to rev up the wingnut base. Especially because George is wearing a big ole yellow tie. (Where’s Mary when we need her? *g*)
Morning, Christy and pups!
Already can see the Rethuglican spin revvin’ up…Bush did his inightful self analysis on Iraq, but really the vital issue–shiny thing–is these horrible gay marriages….
My response: The Republicans may want to brush Iraq aside just like they did the Foley abuses of power over teen-aged pages, but they can’t.
Not even with canned photo-ops on border wall signing bills…on now….shiny thing, shiny thing.
Sorry, Bush, sorry Chee-Knee. Your lies are comin’ home to roost.
Prairie at 7 — on the NJ decision, my response to a question on that was: since when did the Republican party decide that the Federal government ought to be able to tell the states how to run themselves? Don’t you guys believe in state’s rights and federalism any more or what? Plus, the chief justice is a Republican, appointed by a Republican, to the court.
Mornin’ Firedogs! Lazy reporting is something I feel kind of angry about this morning. So I unloaded on the local media in my blog just now. I don’t know if it’ll change anything, but BOY, did it feel good doing it!
I gotta go to work now, or else I’d be up at the Landreau-Lieberman appearance today, asking the questions that I’m sure our lazy and dumb Media won’t bother with.
http://ctbob.blogspot.com/2006…..-dumb.html
Have a great morning, folks!
GOP mind set -
They have a fixed world view and fiddle and fudge the facts so they support their unchangable world view.
They have a Goal, set their world view to reach that goal then pick, fake and just lie about the facts to support their world view.
btw Good Morning Christy from AZ, winter is here, its 59 degrees this AM. brrrrr
8 or 29 times on tv, how many more times on the saturday radio ?
Morning, dearies! Hope all are well.
brrrrr katymine at 10 — we woke up to 29 degrees and thick frost on the car here this morning. I am SO not ready for this weather…
OMG, Asia Times connects Bush to Genghis Khan and Tamerlane and not Hitler or Stalin, are graduating upwards or something…
Harry at 11 — Jamie at C&L did a quick search of the White House website of transcripts and other speech information that they had up, and came up with 160 instances. And that’s just for official WH website stuff. If you add in campaign appearances and such — and every Administration official and surrogate over the last few years — just imagine the actual tally. If they think the American public is going to swallow a lie that is this blatant, they can think again.
Landrieu and Lieberman ??
both voted for torture – hope there is plenty of freepage/signage to that effect surrounding their photo ops
Here’s that address one more time :
http://thank-you-keith-olbermann.blogspot.com/
Mornin’ Christy and all the firepups,
Les than 1 week left for an “October” suprise. I think Rove may miss his own deadline. TeeHee.
Gotta go to wrok now, but want to stop by and say hi.
lhp at 18 — great to see you! Here’s hoping for much heartburn for Rove in the next 12 days. ;-)
Keith is my husband’s hero. He liked him on ESPN, but now, he rushes home to catch him on Countdown. I even watch. I stopped watching TV news in 1988 during the Dukakis debacle.
Either he’s missed his deadline, or his pre-meditated “surprise” got lost in all of the real surprises.
Actually, I think Foleygate, Keith Ohlbermann, and now Rush Limbaugh shooting himself and the GOP in the foot have out-surprised Karl’s surprise.
Thank God I don’t have a lisp!
Reality has no place in wingnuttia. Despite 20 years of misrule 39% of ahians still sipport the party that has run my home state into the gutter.
Did everyone hear that Mark Foley is at a swank rehab facility here in Tucson which runs at the modest $30k/month for treatment???
Last night… finally got it…… Foley in Tucson….. Rep. Kolbe is from Tucson…. Just a coincidence right?
Umm, news this morning sez Libby’s in court today, and the hearing is public. I think arguments to be made on graymail.
Zogby dropping some turds in Rove’s happy punch bowl.
“There is no question Republicans are in trouble. There is also no question a lot of races remain competitive,” pollster John Zogby said. “But it’s a big hill for Republicans to climb and it’s getting very late.”
Thank you sire, may I have another.
-GSD
As a healthcare professional, get the feeling that I need to go out and buy a whole case of splatter sheilds. BushCo and Repugs are spinning so hard and fast that need to protect myself when they start exploding and splattering us…
katymine @ 26
If you remember the movie “Scanners” there was a scene where a man loses a psychic battle and his head explodes. Me thinks that is what we are seeing.
Obese, drug addled and impotent sex tourist Limpbaugh attacking the beloved Alex Keaton.
That says it all.
-GSD
oh and Karl, about that whole October thingy . . .
http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/2…..tm?cnn=yes
Thinking about the October surprise, and after posting my rather cocky response at #21…
I just felt like someone walked over my grave…
Could the October surprise be planned for November 7? Another stolen election?
Gawd…it’s times like these when I wish I had a real medicinal need for mood-enhancing / altering drugs.
Sheesh.
Good Morning Christy,
Who won the most “craptastic quote” contest??
Have great day.
Alright, fry was being a little koi last night on Trex’s thread…but I had no idea a quick aside would lead to such an amazing demonstration of punditry as I slept. You guys operate at a whole different wavelength.
Short answer on the partial analysis of Petty Cash expenditures documented in October Quarterly reports of other incumbents in meaningful primary challenges this cycle:
Akaka $1,054.60 (2 line items)
Chafee $650 (5 line items)
Joe’s $387,000 stands out like a whale in school of minnows.
David Brooks pushes Zogby aside for a shot into the punchbowl too:
“It’s clear that this election will mark the end of conservative dominance. This election is a period, not a comma in political history.”
-GSD
96 Americans have been killed this month in Iraq. This brings the total killed in this senseless tragedy to 2809.
http://icasualties.org/oif/
How does one explain, or understand, people like Tony Snow?
Is he proud of what he’s doing? Does he enjoy lying, repeatedly and publicly?
How does he look at himself in the mirror? How does he look his family in the eye? How does he live with the shame?
I’m not joking with that last question. If someone told me “For this job, you will have to stand up in public and lie, repeatedly, blatantly, and obviously,” I wouldn’t have that job. And if for some unfathomable reason I couldn’t walk away from such a job…
…I would get myself a straight razor and slash my throat. I’m not joking; I would not want to live doing what Tony Snow does everyday.
Watching him, and the other habitual liars in this administration, just creeps me out.
How DO they live with themselves?
Christy Hardin Smith @ 6
Yeah, if Mary needed another reason to hold this man in contempt, that would be the clincher, but I think she has plenty.
Christy, sent you some stuff on mine safety.
Kentucky Woman -
happy belated birthday !
no matter how optimistic any of us get – there’s every reason to believe Rove et al will try something to steal this
just that it isn’t even close this time in polling – they’ll have to pull a lot of crap in a lot of places. plus lots more eyes on the ground this time – am thinking I’ll spend my next day off putting together a page of links for all those interested in monitoring – the biggies; NAACP, SEIU, AFL-CIO, etc., but apparently there are tons of regional, smaller groups mobilizing with cell phones, texting, etc.
Si, Se Puede!
Montag at 24 — do you have a link on that — I had heard the graymail hearings were continuing, but they are generally not public due to the sensitive nature of the material involved. I’d like to see the article if you’ve got a link. Thanks.
Bruce A. @ 34
Very comfortably.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 8
This state court decision will be another reminder to the religious right about how the Bush folks and Congress failed to follow through on their promise to move on a Constitutional Amendment wrt to gay marriage.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 37
Sorry, no link. Heard it on NPR earlier this morning.
The Nevada GOP(Groping, Ogling, Perverts) Governor nominee is embroiled in a heckuva imbroglio.
Seems he allegedly propositioned and then assaulted a young drunk woman and then reportedly set out to bribe her into silence.
Total Moral Collapse.
-GSD
Luckily God is on their side or they’d be in big trouble.
Limbaugh and the rest of the provocatariat exist solely to excoriate anybody who dares to speak out against the right. Their job description can be summed up in two words : Be vile. That’s it really, be nauseating, disgustingly vile. It can’t be easy at first but after the consciencectomy and the compassion bypass, I guess it gets easier. What a job: squash anyone who speaks freely then hide behind Freedom of Speech. Anyone performing that sort of moral gymnastics on a regular basis runs the grave risk of disappearing up their own rectum. In Rush’s case, it can’t happen soon enough.
GSD,
I hope it can be made abundantly clear that “conservatism” is a failed ideology that belongs in the trashcan of history with nazism, communism, etc. None of their ideas work. Trickle-down economics? Smaller, less intrusive government? They can’t govern, because they don’t believe in governance.
last line
“on the alter of temporary power”
shouldn’t that be altar?
Sorry.
GSD at 41 — is this the same GOP gubernatorial candidate who had an illegal immigrant working for him that he forced to hide in the basement at one point?
Christy Hardin Smith @ 45
The very same. All-purpose sleaze.
Has anyone heard much about the recess appointment to head the mine safety commission, this is the guy rejected by Sen Byrd, and the UMWA. Not surprisingly, there hasn’t been much in the media, I think it would be a big deal with the recent disasters and might effect public opinion. Seems someone needs to get the word out to AC 360.
Rushton,
I think that may be what David Brooks is alluding to.
I mean look at Iraq. That was supposed to be the test-tube for the neo-cons and the Grover Norquist idealogues.
Now Iraq will be lucky to emulate Lebanon in the 1980’s.
Shiite militias fighting in southern Iraq.
-GSD
Oh yeah, Deadeye Dick Cheney says the decision to torture was a “no-brainer”.
He’s a sick old man that Dickie boy.
Mr TBogg, paging Mr. Somewhat Popular to the white courtesy phone . . .
Thanks for the b-day wishes, cbl!
I pray, pray, pray nothing happens and the elections unfold as the polls say.
It does make me feel great that all of these eyes will be working to ensure our votes will count and any improprieties will be questioned and brought to light.
I guess that is my own paranoia, that regardless of everything that we do, power stays where it is.
I believe this is the most stressed out I have ever been over an election. The stress I’m feeling is even topping November 2004.
I think I will turn off MSNBC and visit some trashy hollywood gossip sights for a little brainless mind candy. Of course, that will make me want to put my head through the monitor. Immersing yourself in shallow stupidity isn’t always an answer.
Grrrrr….
Christy Hardin Smith @
6
Yellow tie? On a Thursday? Well, back when I was in school that was a sure sign, that and a fairy loop on the back of the shirt. And he took Dick? How sweet!
Diane at 47 — I heard something about it on NPR the other day, but hadn’t been able to find much follow-up elsewhere. The fellow that was appointed is originally from the next county over from me, but there hasn’t really been anything in local media here either — which makes me wonder why the WH is tamping down on this instead of ramping up the spin machine. It’s odd…
Let’s take back the ‘bubba’ vote! Clinton owned the NASCAR/WWF crowd. Where did it go? The repugs were amazingly successful at branding progressives as wimpy and conservatives as manly. Let’s fix that.
Let’s get this message out to the bubbas of the world:
When you fuck up, and it’s your fault, do you blame it on everybody around you? I’m guessing not…
Real men take responsibility for their mistakes.
Republicans do not take responsibiltiy for their mistakes.
Therefore, repubs are not real men.
repeat amongst the world
Christy,
Read up here.
This is another race that I am sure the GOP had no intention of being close. I think it is within 5 points now and the Dem candidate is a woman to boot.
-GSD
it’s made Limpballs a multi-millionaire and a drunken cokehead Frat Boy a King
Morning Christy!
I didn’t want to miss one of your morning posts again. ; )
Great post!
That pic has been on my desktop for sometime now.
History 101 :
Oct. 26th 1972, Herny Kissinger said, ” Peace is at hand in Vietnam .”
Sorry that’s Henry or is it Horny ?
Pollster.com warning readers that polls are notoriously whacky during the World Series- particularly in the home towns of the competing teams- like St. Louis and Detroit. The series will be with us for many more days- so there will be a bit of operating in the blind for Missouri particularly.
cbl @ 55
yeah…but how the hell does one channel that crap into millions of bucks?
COLORADO BOB @ 58
Homely.
Kentucky Woman @ 60
Abandon conscience all ye who enter….
New America dork and TNR fave Peter Bergen has an NYT column claiming that Osama wants us to pull out of Iraq.
But the CIA has got hold of top-secret Al-Qaeda letters proving that Osama wants and need us to stay in Iraq to a) unite Sunnis and Shiites against a common enemy (us), and b) inflame Muslims worldwide into going to Iraq and/or joining Al-Qaeda.
Write to the NYT to counter Bergen’s bull: letters@nytimes.com. (And urge your local papers not to reprint that Op-Ed of his.)
Great graphic! Has Georgie ever had to open a door for himself in his life? Now I’ll go back and read your post.
Lapdogs
American Theocracy
FUBAR
Tempting Faith
and anything written by
Bruce Fein
Fukuyama
or
WF Buckley
in the last 18 months
that oughta hold you for a while
Keith Olbermann’s bell ringing scorecard on “stay the course” had the family in stitches last night.
Your graphic this morning brings grins too.
Why did they stay the course as long as they did?
Bush: More Dubya Talk on Iraq
http://zenhuber.blogspot.com/
Jeff Huber shows Bush doesn’t know the difference between tactics and strategy, doesn’t see why campaign skills don’t win wars…
I think Bush handlers were unable to teach him how to discuss his little war. It was a phrase that stopped all further questioning. Bush didn’t have to think further.
rwcole @ 81
Damn! Ate my comment again!!
Don’t you think the above evidence will go over great when presented at the Hague?
Of course, we’ve got to get to him before he decides to fly Paraguayan Air.
Anyone who can watch rush mocking Michael Fox & flatout lying & doesn’t think it’s totally disgusting & unacceptable tells me all I need to know about that person’s character & values. Strange how the rush supporters would (or maybe not) ground their kids for the same behavior but think it’s perfectly fine for purported adults. That’s got to take a tremendous amount of rationalization. No wonder they react with over the top tantrums & irrationalities when bumping into the reality wall.
COLORADO BOB @ 57
History 102
From 1974 through 1975 and Fall of Saigon
Diane (47), is this the one? Richard E. Strickler was appointed Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health by Bush on 19 Oct 06. (http://www.msha.gov)
Redd–Great picture- many may have forgotten that it’s a picture of GW Clusterfuck taking the wrong door out of a press conference—into what? A Broom closet?
Didn’t hear anyone on TeeVee who could figure out what in the hell GW Clusterfuck was tryin to accomplish with his presser yesterday- but whatever it was- pundits agree he didn’t help himself.
Is the vaunted gooper political machine strippin it’s gears?
One of the long time problems of attacking GW Clusterfuck is deciding whether to portray him as an evil genius or a total idiot. The picture above shows why “idiot” is always a tempting option. There is some evidence, though, that he likes being tagged as an idiot.
rwcole @ 72
I don’t think KKkarl even knows about now why he sent the Foole out like that again.
hey litter mates . . .
great diary up at KOS — think you will enjoy it.
Do you understand what the Democrats have become?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/26/95227/424
FDL is a great example of what we have become . . .
History 103: [from History of Vietnam War]
Recall that two days ago, both General Casey and President Bush boasted that the US never lost a battle — just the war.
rwcole @ 73
Being marginally better than idiot isn’t exactly a selling point. And, if one goes by the evidence–how things have turned out for the country, in general–he’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
If he were smarter, he wouldn’t have screwed up Iraq. If he were really smart, he never would have started a war that may turn out to be his political undoing.
Sally @ 70 – that’s the one. I think this needs to get some air time, after the heartache our country went through during Sago & other recent disasters, the public should know that Dubya flipped off the mine workers with this recess appointment.
Christy, I walked out the door this morning into 7 percent humidity and 20 mph breeze. Autumn in the northwest San Fernando Valley: all the palm trees look like this: fff.
I read Gleen Greenwald this morning on the neocons thinking that we need to fight harder in Iraq. (Those people have to be delusional, if they think a bigger assault will improve things. I’m just hoping we can get our troops out alive, now.)
Diane @ 78
And, while West Virginia may think it’s the main interest in mining issues, there are mines all over the country, of all types. It’s not just an issue local or regional to WV. Lot of miners out there.
GW Clusterfuck was asked if he intends to hold anyone accountable for the mess in Iraq that he now claims he is unsatisfied about.
“Well if someone is goin to be held accountable- it’s ME”, he said. “I am responsible”.
OK- then YOU are responsible for this and even YOU admit that it’s unsatisfactory- so resign you fuckin cretin- just fuckin LEAVE.
I’m gettin a little sick of people sayin they’re responsible for things for which they take no responsibility.
Christy Hardin Smith @
45
same… and wife elected to state house after lying under oath re Pastor-Sandoval’s status and employment
rwcole @ 81
Let’s face it–if there’s a single Bush with any responsibility, they had to have stolen it from someone else, and then don’t know what to do with it. Remember the family motto: “Public service for private gain.”
Rove still believes that most people think like beltway boy Chris Matthews and see some sort of “sunny nobility” in Bush. So he always sees Bush pushing his agenda as advantageous.
Rove has not gotten the memo, or he has gotten it but hasn’t internalized yet that most people do not trust Bush and do not like his party or their agenda anymore.
If truth is the first casualty of war, arrogance must be the last casualty.
-GSD
Wonderful spot-on post, Christy. And while I’m on the topic, a *HUGE* thank-you to Christy, Jane, and all the FDL posters for all you do. I’ve been really busy of late, not reading or posting much. Thank god(desses?) for FDL! A quick scan tells me everything I need to know — and with links, if you please. Many, many thanks to the Ladies of the Lake and firedogs everywhere. Best bunch *ever* to have at your back in a fight or during an election.
njr @
82
Remember according to the reichwingnut bable, sex is a sin, but lying during a campaign to elect a repug is not.
As to the Limbaugh flap, what does it say when Howard Stern finds Rush’s behavior reprehensible?
Must be the shark jumping moment for the culture warriors.
-GSD
Latest on key senate races :
(avg of last five polls)
Mo. dem up one
Tenn gooper up two
Va- gooper up 3
All within the margin of error- dems need to win two of the three.
Gonna be a nail biter unless something dramatic happens soon- and we’re runnin out of time.
Harry @ 14
I still think the Hitler analogy is better. Or maybe something in between Hitler and Mussolini.
Christy,
Can we enourage everyone to email journalists and get some coverage of this Strickler recess appointment?
diane (78), I watched some of the hearings after the Sago disaster. I was impressed with one pro-miner official who wasn’t asking for much for the miners’ safety but Chao’s anti-labor hoods were against anything that saved lives if it cost business any money at all. I believe they were discussing an inexpensive radio that would let trapped miners and rescuers communicate with each other. You may know the sensible and knowledgeable man I speak of. It would have made sense for him to head mine safety but that’s not the way Bush and Chao think, if they do.
rw — you asked about analysts trying to explain Bush’s press conference. You can find Tim Russert’s take on NBC last night, here.
Scroll down to Russert: Bush addressing American anxiety
HotFlash @ 51
He’s just trying to draw attention away from the other yellow stripe. You know, the one on his back.
RWCole,
The MOE is enough to keep those races in play. Remember that Tim Kaine was behind in the MOE in Virginia and ended up winning by several points.
There is still the possibility of the rising tide. The ’surprise’ window is close to shut as possible and the cake is almost ready to take out of the oven.
-GSD
Remember the housing bubble that Krugman predicted would burst?
Home price drop is largest in 35 years
scarecrow @ 95
Pop.
-GSD
Christy: Speaking of the Bush/door photo being emblematic…
When my son was little, he tried once to use the phrase “one fell swoop” and it came out “one foul soup.” I’ve always thought the latter much more compelling, and it sure applies to the GOP’s fortunes these days.
rwcole @ 73
He’s an evil idiot…he just possesses a modicum of animal cunning that should not be mistaken for actual intellect.
The September 7.8 percent increase in factory orders followed declines of 0.1 percent in August and 2.8 percent in July. Despite last month’s jump, analysts believe that the factory sector is slowing under the impact of a weakening overall economy.
Just in time to blame the slowdown on the Democrats in Congress.
-GSD
scarecrow @ 92
Well, if Russert is characterizing what’s going on as “anxiety,” he’s already spinning. Guess what, Timmeh? They’re not scared and anxious–they’re pissed.
GSD @ 99
They have a couple of weeks to pin it to the GOP first.
Bombs away!
“The President looks in the mirror and speaks
His shirts are clean but his country reeks
Unpaid bills
In Afghanistan hills
Bombs away
But we’re O.K.
Bombs away
In old Bombay”
-The Police
Here’s what’s on the other side of the door Bush is about to open — the other side of staying the course.
Deja vu all over again — America is going to get sick of it, and then we’ll pull out. Fast. Think helicopters. Embassy roof. Panicked rush.
scarecrow @ 95
No surprise there–the smart money has already gotten out of housing and is parked in equities, metals and hedges until they can figure out which bubble to blow next.
And, the trouble’s just starting–foreclosures are already starting to accelerate in the areas with most overheated markets.
Christy your comment is proof that no one really needs me anymore for the yellow (here’s my fibfilled narrative and I’m sticking to it) tie observations anymore. *g* Althought I did notice that he wore one during his Stephanopolous interview too.
Funny link at Rawstory.
Public Integrity Gone Wild
RS says that Republicans are very miffed about leaks re: public integrity investigations so close to the elections and blame a bunch of rogue DOJ lawyers, flashing their titilating bits and dropping their briefs.
What an intersting place the USA has become. Lawyers invovled in solicting and covering up torture, abuse, kidnap, drugging and criminal violations of the wiretap statutes are in line for or have received appellate bench slots or nice leather chairs in coporate offices or corporatized academia but lawyers who might mention that a public officer is being investigated for crimes while in office would be “rogues.”
I guess that “dishonest” and “unprinicipled” as used to define rogue must mean something different these days too.
The funniest part was this:
So there’s more? But the Republicans don’t want any voters to know about it until after the elections. I’d use the word rogue for them, but it obviously doesn’t mean what I thought it did.
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2….._1026.html
SOmehow my heart doesn’t really throb wildly at the thought that Congressmen may end up in jail over golftrips but not over supporting torture. I guess I’m just a rogue these days.
Diane @
47
Christy Hardin Smith @
52
Hi Christy and Diane -
In true gooper fashion, the appointee’s name is the opposite of what he’ll be for mine safety: Stickler.
What follows is excerpted from The Charleston (Oct 20, 06)
Sally @ 91 – I know who you are talking about but can’t put a name on him, believe he was formerly a union safety guy. Sure wish we could get some follow up. I think the Gov of WV was also against this appointment along with Byrd and the UMWA.
I’m a bit late to the party on the Rush Limbaugh scandal. (The latest one. With Michael J Fox.) Let’s see if I’m up to speed: Michael J Fox is faking the symptoms of a neurologic disease in order to help fund treatments that won’t work for a disease he doesn’t have, and even if he does have it, it’s not really that bad to begin with. Does anyone know why he’s doing this? (And don’t say, “Because he has Parkinson’s!” He’s faking it, remember?)
Take heart everyone, the Republicans will fight like hell, but they will lose.
Mary, that article tells me the R’s are done, done, done.
There has to be an invisible sun, that gives up hope when the whole days done.
-GSD
montag @ 104
What I don’t get are the people who are saying that this is as bad as it’s going to get, and all those people who were sitting on the sidelines are going to start buying houses again. I’m not. I still think prices are going to keep dropping, so I’m staying on the sidelines. Does anyone know of anybody who’s eager to buy a house right now?
Diane @
47
It was featured on TPM the other day, but I haven’t seen anything else about it.
Must ask stupid question.
Is the driving force behind installing these incompetents’ in positions that affect so many individuals health and safety money and power?
Is that really what it is?
GSD @ 94
I figure, if you’re planning to cook the election results, first you cook the polls. Easier to screw the course if you’ve smashed the compass.
also new thread
scarecrow, I shivered while reading your 76. I pray history doesn’t repeat itself but it very well could.
If I get the job I’ve interviewed for recently in another state, Mrs. FGD and I won’t have a choice. In today’s economy, more and more people have to relocate to get that next-step-up position. So much for getting out of that post-graduate-school financial hole!
Kentucky Woman @ 112
Yes. If you can’t get Congress to deregulate the industry and cripple unions, then the only other way is to deregulate by fiat, putting someone in won’t enforce existing law or will use the regulatory process to do the same thing.
Reagan did the same thing. During his tenure, Kentucky was way high on the list of states with unsafe and illegal mines. When Reagan took office, there were 50 mine inspectors in that state–24 in Harlan County alone–and by the time he left office, there were two, one each for the eastern and western halves of the state.
No oversight, no regulation.
montag @ 116
All of it just sickens me. Thank you for your insight.
Sally @ 114
I think there are lots of disturbing parallels, but I don’t think it will be exactly the same, partly because in Vietnam there was a huge invading army from North VN that systematically overran the country once the US stopped funding and had substantially pulled out. But there could be lots of scenes of US forces being shot at literally as they’re leaving — and the right wing will try to make us forget that they were also being shot at and killed everyday while we were “staying the course.”
The American public seems to sense that we are not winning; it’s not clear they recognize that we are losing and look awful in the process, but they’re clearly uneasy about this.
Kentucky Woman @ 112
I think it’s a pretty interesting question myself. How can we know? We don’t have people delving into the facts (except us, of course). And what citizen journalists have come up with is very, very strange, serious and sobering. Most of the good intelligence people have either quit on principle, been fired, demoted or outed. Those are the ones who are trained to make real threat assessments.
LindyH @ 119
It’s not just mine safety. The industry-backed cronies that Bush has appointed throughout ever regulatory agency in government have systematically weaked standards, safeguards, enforcement, investigative staff, etc — in every facet of society over which there was any government oversight. The Bush Administration has quietly gone about trying to dismantle any government institution that was put in place to monitor/oversee corporate activities to ensure they functioned in the public interest. Environment, energy, health and safety, financial regulation, Justice Deparment, Courts, — everything has been weakened and corrupted. That’s why retaking the Senate is so important, because we have to stop the worst appointments that Bush and the rightwing will try to get through in the last two years. They will be desperate to protect themselves.
Oh God, I remember the images of the chaotic fleeing of Vietnam well. I suppose, in the neocon world, that can’t possibly happen again.
The diehard wingnuts totally ignore all the republicans that have been speaking out against this regime, Danforth, Barr & most recently generals that think the best thing would be for the dems to take control. What are they going to say when the dems do & all the rest of the republicans who think the bush adm is a disaster feel free to let loose with not only their viewpoints but all kinds of information they have been keeping silent about? I think it’s going to be a tidal wave that is going to rock the dittoworld.
See a tongue-in-cheek visual that gives Rush Limbaugh a dose of his own medicine…here:
http://www.thoughttheater.com
Kirk @ 116 – thanks for finding that article. I’m going to email Keith O and see if he can give this story some national coverage.
Diane @ 123
Hi Diane – Good for you and your work! I can’t take credit for finding the article, though – one of the careful readers on the Native Forest Council’s ‘Stumps don’t lie’ elaist found the article.
I’m just the hand-off guy :)
Umm, it just gets more and more interesting. Torture flights, and apparently, lots of cooperation from European countries.
If the author of the book mentioned in the article does publish those 3,000-odd flight logs, it’s going to make for interesting reading….
hi mods -
I think I accidentally deleted my comment on gooper ppsychopathology (124). If it is recoverable, can it re-animated?
INcomptently yours….
Krik