FITZ!

Demz!

Did you see the KFed bounced check on ebay? Hillarious.

His rap career lasted a week. Album released->divorced. HA!

They’re calling him FedEx now! Maybe Rush can have him on to tell him how great his new album is.

One of the funniest bits on Howard Stern is Rush reading some of his audio books. Except the enterprising young producers edit his words together to make hilarious raw combinations.

the hill link isn’t working here

Charlie!

Nancy!

and Licoln Chaffee – for spiking Bolton.

Wow, the first Lincoln Chafee shout-out!

Federline…

Living off “his” women. What a parasite. I dislike these…

Back to the chorus, boy

;>)

…Rahm still playing the lone ranger theme? Tsk tsk.

Better get blogs in your soul

Wasn’t Spears the one that said something on the order of – “I think we should support our president no matter what he does.”

twolf1 @ 11

Wasn’t Spears the one that said something on the order of – “I think we should support our president no matter what he does.”

Yup. Quite a brain trust between the two of `em, eh?

montag @ 12

twolf1 @ 11

Wasn’t Spears the one that said something on the order of – “I think we should support our president no matter what he does.”

Yup. Quite a brain trust between the two of `em, eh?

It’s amazing that either one of them remembers to breathe often enough to stay alive.

montag @
12

twolf1 @ 11

Wasn’t Spears the one that said something on the order of – “I think we should support our president no matter what he does.”

Yup. Quite a brain trust between the two of `em, eh?

And the custody battle, a winner for the kids either way, NOT!

darkblack @
10

Back to the chorus, boy

;>)

…Rahm still playing the lone ranger theme? Tsk tsk.

Better get blogs in your soul

LOL

montag @ 12

twolf1 @ 11

Wasn’t Spears the one that said something on the order of – “I think we should support our president no matter what he does.”

Yup. Quite a brain trust between the two of `em, eh?

Indeedy – very nearly a whole brain!

There’s The Hill. And then there’s the Hill.

Oklahoma kiddo @ 17

There’s The Hill. And then there’s the Hill.

…and then there’s a hill.

And with regard to Rahm’s kissing cousin Chuck, here’s a poignant excerpt from a neglected diary at DailyKos by the woman who took on Olympia Snowe in the race to represent Maine in the Senate:

We will save for another day the analysis of why a number of Beltway Democratic and/or progressive organizations that should have been on-board (DSCC, EMILY’s List, National NOW, National PDA, National DFA, Move-On, etc.) shied away or outright refused to help. There’s nothing we can do about that now. But you can see my frustration.

Post-election situation
Now that the election is over, the bottom line financially is that this campaign has about $6,000 in unpaid bills coming due the next few weeks, and just over $13,000 in outstanding loans. It will be a financial hardship for David and me to cover those bills and to write off those loans. (Some of you may know that David was laid off in March, when the company he worked for downsized. We’ve been living off our savings since the June primary.) So if you have some extra cash, or have arm-twisting ability with personal friends who may be able/willing to help out after the fact, please send them our way. Individual contributions are limited to $2,100 per election cycle, but the primary election and the general election are considered separate election cycles. At this point, any checks we receive (made out to Jean Hay Bright U.S. Senate) should indicate in the memo line which election cycle (primary or general) the money should be applied toward. Campaign and home address is 4262 Kennebec Rd., Dixmont, ME 04932.

Jean Hay Bright, outspent on the order of $3 million to $112,000, by Snowe – who became another sudden ‘anti-stay-the-course’ convert in the weeks before voters went to the polls.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..193231/122

twolf1 @ 13

It’s amazing that either one of them remembers to breathe often enough to stay alive.

Most of the `pug voting bloc is still around because of the autonomic nervous system….

I’m so Over the Hill.

EPUed!! Crooks & Liars has K.O. video of last nights Limpballs. His parole officer definetly needs to have him piss in a bottle again, supervised! Something in the water he’s holding.

Someone should take custody of the Brit. Baby’s having babies.

Hill link worked for me, but it was very slow. Worth the wait, though. Go [away], Rahm!

twolf1 @
18

Oklahoma kiddo @ 17

There’s The Hill. And then there’s the Hill.

…and then there’s a hill.

Coyote howls…….

twolf1 @ 18

Oklahoma kiddo @ 17

There’s The Hill. And then there’s the Hill.

…and then there’s a hill.

Tee-hee. :)

Found this clip about Texas A&M:

Mike Leach, history is calling you. Your critics are still bugging you, you’re still pissing people off with your pithy genius attack, and you’ve already got your legendary media profile par excellence. Hell, you even got to do the weather forecast in Lubbock, and they don’t let just anyone man the blue screen there. What are you going to do with the rest of your life besides go 8-4, spin assistants into plum jobs, and continue the weird bit of solo performance art you call a career?

We know. Because we know your deepest desires. Partially because of our god-given clairvoyance, but also because it was in the New York Times Magazine:

As his team raced onto the field, he gazed into the stands filled with screaming fans and wondered about the several thousand “cadets” from Texas A.&M. clustered in one end zone. They wear military uniforms and buzz cuts, holler in unison and stand at attention the entire game. “How come they get to pretend they are soldiers?” he asked. “The thing is, they aren’t actually in the military. I ought to have Mike’s Pirate School. The freshmen, all they get is the bandanna. When you’re a senior, you get the sword and skull and crossbones. For homework, we’ll work pirate maneuvers and stuff like that.”

Bob Gates, president of a fake military university is now set to run the real military. Maybe we should send him to pirate school instead?

Bush touting his newfound desire to be bipartisan in his meeting with Nancy Pelosi.

Wearing a yellow tie.

Mary4 @ 28

Bush touting his newfound desire to be bipartisan in his meeting with Nancy Pelosi.

Wearing a yellow tie.

LOL

Twisted Martini @ 27

Bob Gates, president of a fake military university is now set to run the real military. Maybe we should send him to pirate school instead?

Umm, Gates used to run the CIA. I think he’s a pirate alumnus….

I find Rahm most distasteful.

Oklahoma kiddo @ 31

I find Rahm most distasteful.

And Ken Mehlman thinks he’s not very tasty….

Dale in Alabama @ 24

Hill link worked for me, but it was very slow. Worth the wait, though. Go [away], Rahm!

50,000 people all trying to get on at once can do that.

pow wow @ 19

And with regard to Rahm’s kissing cousin Chuck, here’s a poignant excerpt from a neglected diary at DailyKos by the woman who took on Olympia Snowe in the race to represent Maine in the Senate:

We will save for another day the analysis of why a number of Beltway Democratic and/or progressive organizations that should have been on-board (DSCC, EMILY’s List, National NOW, National PDA, National DFA, Move-On, etc.) shied away or outright refused to help. There’s nothing we can do about that now. But you can see my frustration.

Post-election situation
Now that the election is over, the bottom line financially is that this campaign has about $6,000 in unpaid bills coming due the next few weeks, and just over $13,000 in outstanding loans. It will be a financial hardship for David and me to cover those bills and to write off those loans. (Some of you may know that David was laid off in March, when the company he worked for downsized. We’ve been living off our savings since the June primary.) So if you have some extra cash, or have arm-twisting ability with personal friends who may be able/willing to help out after the fact, please send them our way. Individual contributions are limited to $2,100 per election cycle, but the primary election and the general election are considered separate election cycles. At this point, any checks we receive (made out to Jean Hay Bright U.S. Senate) should indicate in the memo line which election cycle (primary or general) the money should be applied toward. Campaign and home address is 4262 Kennebec Rd., Dixmont, ME 04932.

Jean Hay Bright, outspent on the order of $3 million to $112,000, by Snowe – who became another sudden ‘anti-stay-the-course’ convert in the weeks before voters went to the polls.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..193231/122

This is an outrage. How could this happen? I wandered over and hit recommend at Kos. Hope any other Kossacks will do the same!

Holy shit, he ran the pirate school!

Gates is also linked to a company called Vote Here, linked to vote rigging scandals. Blackboxvoting has more.

Winston Churchill: “…we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender…”

Rahm Emanuel: “We shall fight on the beaches, if we think we have a good chance of winning.”

*ilbo @ 25

twolf1 @
18

Oklahoma kiddo @ 17

There’s The Hill. And then there’s the Hill.

…and then there’s a hill.

Coyote howls…….

Every night I drift to sleep hearing the coyotes. Kinda nice, actually. ;-)

Patrick 4/4 @ 37

Winston Churchill: “…we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender…”

Rahm Emanuel: “We shall fight on the beaches, if we think we have a good chance of winning.”

“Or, if we can get a good tan.”

Twisted Martini @
4

They’re calling him FedEx now! .

didn’t TRex coin that?

montag @ 39

Patrick 4/4 @ 37

Winston Churchill: “…we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender…”

Rahm Emanuel: “We shall fight on the beaches, if we think we have a good chance of winning.”

“Or, if we can get a good tan.”

“But not too tan, because we want to attract southern voters.”

montag @ 32

Oklahoma kiddo @ 31

I find Rahm most distasteful.

And Ken Mehlman thinks he’s not very tasty….

Well… that may be an issue for Ken and Rahm. I want no part of it. ;)

punaise @ 40

Twisted Martini @
4

They’re calling him FedEx now! .

didn’t TRex coin that?

I first saw it on Countdown ; )

T-rex may have coined it, but I’m using it! Almost spewed when I read that!

randiego @ 44

T-rex may have coined it, but I’m using it! Almost spewed when I read that!

Although, technically, Spears is the FedEx.

montag @ 45

randiego @ 44

T-rex may have coined it, but I’m using it! Almost spewed when I read that!

Although, technically, Spears is the FedEx.

“UPS, I did it again”

Rahm only helps people he feels he will later be able to control.

I can’t think about him for too long at a stretch. I start projectile vomiting.

Can we all shed some crocodile tears for the soon-to-be unemployed Gambino staffers?

With hundreds of Republican aides set to lose their jobs as Democrats take over Congress, K Street veterans tell Roll Call that some may have to file for unemployment benefits.

Unemployment? BOOTSTRAPS BE-ATCH!

punaise @ 46

montag @ 45

randiego @ 44

T-rex may have coined it, but I’m using it! Almost spewed when I read that!

Although, technically, Spears is the FedEx.

“UPS, I did it again”

Just logic gone Airborne….

omg Rachel Sklar is on Scarborough! What a hottie!

Here’s a bit of a heads up. I will be playing my favorite piece of classical music ever tonight at the end of the 10 o’clock hour on Night Music, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis.

Fire up a non-Mozilla browser and go to http://wuga.org and hit ‘Listen Online’, pick your bandwidth, and enjoy!

Show starts at 10pm eastern.

Mary4 @
28

Bush touting his newfound desire to be bipartisan in his meeting with Nancy Pelosi.

Wearing a yellow tie.

Which one? Bush or Pelosi?

T-rex may have coined it, but I’m using it! Almost spewed when I read that!

Although, technically, Spears is the FedEx.

“UPS, I did it again”

Just logic gone Airborne….

Did He Lie?

punaise @ 53

T-rex may have coined it, but I’m using it! Almost spewed when I read that!

Although, technically, Spears is the FedEx.

“UPS, I did it again”

Just logic gone Airborne….

Did He Lie?

Umm, no, it was just a case of faulty mEmory….

randiego @ 50

omg Rachel Sklar is on Scarborough! What a hottie!

Why is Scarborough obsessed with The Daily Show and The Colbert Report?

scarecrow @ 52

Mary4 @
28

Bush touting his newfound desire to be bipartisan in his meeting with Nancy Pelosi.

Wearing a yellow tie.

Which one? Bush or Pelosi?

She looked great in her power suit… black suit, black tie

Jane’s link to Howie is worth pursuing, because Howie’s article provides a great rebuttal to all of the Rahm-did-it-all nonsense. And Howie’s blog has a direct icon for Spotlighting. I sent his post to CNN/MSNBC hosts/reporters, but it desserves much wider distribution by/to others.

montag @ 54

punaise @ 53

T-rex may have coined it, but I’m using it! Almost spewed when I read that!

Although, technically, Spears is the FedEx.

“UPS, I did it again”

Just logic gone Airborne….

Did He Lie?

Umm, no, it was just a case of faulty mEmory….

that’s why he was Cast Away

randiego @ 50

omg Rachel Sklar is on Scarborough! What a hottie!

Sklar does have a ‘hot’ brain, and seems to know how best to use it. I do find that attractive.

The way to beat these guys is one netroots Congressman and one netroots Senator at a time. We got two senators this time out, and I don’t know how many Congressmen (can’t bring myself to write Congresspersons, it doesn’t scan). There will always be Rahms. Our role is to keep an eye on them and expose them if they get their hand in the kitty. It’s like taking off a bandage. You have to rip it off right away to avoid excrutiating pain. Same with the Rahm’s if they start covering an infection.

SamTheLurker @
16

montag @ 12

twolf1 @ 11

Wasn’t Spears the one that said something on the order of – “I think we should support our president no matter what he does.”

Except Pickles ironed the wrinkles out of W’s half.

Yup. Quite a brain trust between the two of `em, eh?

Indeedy – very nearly a whole brain!

Yes Kiddo. Goes without saying!

scarecrow @ 57

Jane’s link to Howie is worth pursuing, because Howie’s article provides a great rebuttal to all of the Rahm-did-it-all nonsense. And Howie’s blog has a direct icon for Spotlighting. I sent his post to CNN/MSNBC hosts/reporters, but it desserves much wider distribution by/to others.

The winners for our Blue America candidates are pretty much on par with what the results were in the House percentage wise. Pretty damn close!

I thought their party only hired the sons and daughters of major campaign contributors. Sort of that keep it in the family, logic…

By the way, has anybody heard anything out of the VP since the election? Is he still hunting somewhere?

Twisted Martini @ 48

With hundreds of Republican aides set to lose their jobs as Democrats take over Congress, K Street veterans tell Roll Call that some may have to file for unemployment benefits.

Unemployment? BOOTSTRAPS BE-ATCH!

scarecrow

Bush: I do get to keep these, don’t I Nancy?

I think he’s quit believing his narrative.

Rahm dearth House

Rahm won with 79% of the vote. My candidate, also in Illinois, lost because of the gerrymandering of our district after the 2000 census.

I wonder whether there were some agreements made to sacrifice our seat in northwest Illinois so that Rahm and others seats could be secured?

There is much that needs to be done to make our congress representational again. Michael Bloomsberg and his targeted help to Lieberman’s campaign is anti-democratic to the max.

I think gerrymandering and the question of how we make our congressional seats truly representative must be addressed.

It’s bittersweet experiencing this national victory. So happy for the results around the country (which I supported financially and phonebanking). Locally we worked so hard for Dick Auman, but he didn’t have a chance in our gerrymandered district.

Lots to do to restore our shining light on the hill.

punaise @ 58

that’s why he was Cast Away

Who would expect anything less from such a Crusoe why should I think differently?

Cozumel @ 63

scarecrow @ 57

Jane’s link to Howie is worth pursuing, because Howie’s article provides a great rebuttal to all of the Rahm-did-it-all nonsense. And Howie’s blog has a direct icon for Spotlighting. I sent his post to CNN/MSNBC hosts/reporters, but it desserves much wider distribution by/to others.

The winners for our Blue America candidates are pretty much on par with what the results were in the House percentage wise. Pretty damn close!

That’s interesting. How did you determine that? Is there a list/summary of who was supported and who won/lost (and by how much) that exists on a blog that can be spotlighted? Jane has posted some and Howie does more in that link, but I’m still looking for the whole list. That’s what we need to get to the media analysts before the self-promoting Rahm story is becomes established legend.

Everyone say Buh Bye to Ken Mehlman. He just stepped down.

Hello, fellow pups. Not to blogwhore or anything remotely resembling, but i have posted a couple of pictures of the Bloggers Press Room and Tom Swan thanking us for our efforts. Click on name. Thanks.

Impeachment Happens @ 70

Everyone say Buh Bye to Ken Mehlman. He just stepped down.

down and out?

Impeachment Happens @ 70

Everyone say Buh Bye to Ken Mehlman. He just stepped down.

Bye, Ken. Bye, Barbie.

On c-span, Norm Ornstein was promoting his and Mann’s Broken Govt book and he went on and on about how Rahmbo is to thank and how all the conservative conservative Dems that he helped to find and promote resound to his credit.

Of course, Ornstein’s AEI also thinks Chalabi is one awesome dude.

montag @ 68

punaise @ 58

that’s why he was Cast Away

Who would expect anything less from such a Crusoe why should I think differently?

do I have to bring this full circle with Gilligan?

(”three hour screws”…)

Mary4 @ 74

On c-span, Norm Ornstein was promoting his and Mann’s Broken Govt book and he went on and on about how Rahmbo is to thank and how all the conservative conservative Dems that he helped to find and promote resound to his credit.

Of course, Ornstein’s AEI also thinks Chalabi is one awesome dude.

Fine. Orstein is the token moderate at Thieves `R Us. What does that make him but a petty larcenist…?

Blub @ 64

I thought their party only hired the sons and daughters of major campaign contributors. Sort of that keep it in the family, logic…

By the way, has anybody heard anything out of the VP since the election? Is he still hunting somewhere?

Twisted Martini @ 48

With hundreds of Republican aides set to lose their jobs as Democrats take over Congress, K Street veterans tell Roll Call that some may have to file for unemployment benefits.

Unemployment? BOOTSTRAPS BE-ATCH!

Here’s what I’m nervous about with Cheney. He steps down for ‘health reasons’ and 41 and Co., who’s really running the show now, puts someone in who can then run in ‘08 as an incumbant.

Should I not worry?

Mary4 @
65

scarecrow

Bush: I do get to keep these, don’t I Nancy?

I think he’s quit believing his narrative.

“Do I get to keep these . . .” OMG!!! You’re becoming Jane. God help us!

Did he ever believe his own narrative? That meeting is sending the rightwing ballistic. Assume you saw the Jonah Goldberg advice? — link at Crooks and Liars.

darkblack @
10

Back to the chorus, boy

;>)

…Rahm still playing the lone ranger theme? Tsk tsk.

Better get blogs in your soul

Better get hit in your soul.

Impeachment Happens @ 77

Here’s what I’m nervous about with Cheney. He steps down for ‘health reasons’ and 41 and Co., who’s really running the show now, puts someone in who can then run in ‘08 as an incumbant.

Should I not worry?

Nope. There are a dozen Republicans who think they should be president who would scream bloody murder – and possibly commit it.

Wait, wait…

The National Republican Congressional Committee had sent out releases chiding its counterpart for failing to get its preferred candidates in those races.

To me this looks like either a symptom of the insider mentality where they only want to compete against each other. Either that, or…

“C’mon, guys, we gotta have your predictable, bland, business-friendly candidates to run against. Or we might lose. Get it together!”

twolf1 @
11

Wasn’t Spears the one that said something on the order of – “I think we should support our president no matter what he does.”

No, that was Claire McCaskill.

No, I don’t think you should worry. I think that the Gambinos have made such a mess that St Ronnie could come back from the dead and still not avoid the fallout.

I was searching for this YouTube tonight and it turns out Connecticut Bob reprised it yesterday at http://preview.tinyurl.com/y6vat3 . It illustrates very well, IMHO, how the threat of a serious primary opponent could be used to get wayward Dems to keep their noses clean.

I’m going to argue that Dems who start (or continue) to cozy up to the K Street interests should be primary targets for the next BlueAmerica campaign, provided there are high quality progressives willing to challenge them in the Democratic primary. I’d like to see a shot across the bow, so to speak, the next time the opportunity presents itself.

Jean Hay Bright, outspent on the order of $3 million to $112,000, by Snowe – who became another sudden ‘anti-stay-the-course’ convert in the weeks before voters went to the polls.

Can we raise some funds for her?

Twisted Martini @ 83

No, I don’t think you should worry. I think that the Gambinos have made such a mess that St Ronnie could come back from the dead and still not avoid the fallout.

I knew if I just said my fears aloud you all would make them go away. :)

montag @
30

Twisted Martini @ 27

Umm, Gates used to run the CIA. I think he’s a pirate alumnus….

Bob Gates, president of a fake military university is now set to run the real military. Maybe we should send him to pirate school instead?

Naaarrrrr! Scurvy dog! Pieces of eight! Avast.

TRex @ 51

Here’s a bit of a heads up. I will be playing my favorite piece of classical music ever tonight at the end of the 10 o’clock hour on Night Music, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis.

Fire up a non-Mozilla browser and go to http://wuga.org and hit ‘Listen Online’, pick your bandwidth, and enjoy!

Show starts at 10pm eastern.

Gottcha.

scarecrow @ 69

Cozumel @ 63

scarecrow @ 57

Jane’s link to Howie is worth pursuing, because Howie’s article provides a great rebuttal to all of the Rahm-did-it-all nonsense. And Howie’s blog has a direct icon for Spotlighting. I sent his post to CNN/MSNBC hosts/reporters, but it desserves much wider distribution by/to others.

The winners for our Blue America candidates are pretty much on par with what the results were in the House percentage wise. Pretty damn close!

That’s interesting. How did you determine that? Is there a list/summary of who was supported and who won/lost (and by how much) that exists on a blog that can be spotlighted? Jane has posted some and Howie does more in that link, but I’m still looking for the whole list. That’s what we need to get to the media analysts before the self-promoting Rahm story is becomes established legend.

The final House results are still unknown, but lets say 32 out of 435. That’s about 1 out of 13

We had (if I counted correctly) 35. We won with two, so far? That’s about 1 out of 17 and we might pick up Kissel, I didn’t include that.

Let me know if that’s off! : ) LOL

CNN headline:
“Democrats bristle at Bush’s push to confirm Bolton”
POSTED: 9:30 p.m. EST, November 9, 2006
… and the surveillance bill.

Hah! So the public bipartisan honeymoon lovefest lasted, what, 17 hours? I’m not even sure it lasted long enough for the preznit to share scones with Harry.

punaise @ 75

montag @ 68

punaise @ 58

that’s why he was Cast Away

Who would expect anything less from such a Crusoe why should I think differently?

do I have to bring this full circle with Gilligan?

(”three hour screws”…)

I would tread Ginger-ly in that direction….

“You a Winner, Baby”
___________________________

selected lines from “Loser” by Beck:

In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey
Butane in my veins and Im out to cut the junkie
…
Babys in reno with the vitamin d
Got a couple of couches, sleep on the love-seat
Someone came in sayin Im insane to complain
About a shotgun wedding and a stain on my shirt
…
So shave your face with some mace in the dark
Savin all your food stamps and burnin down the trailer park

Yo. cut it.

Soy un perdedor
Im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me?

Forces of evil on a bozo nightmare
Ban all the music with a phony gas chamber
cuz ones got a weasel and the others got a flag
Ones on the pole, shove the other in a bag
With the rerun shows and the cocaine nose-job
The daytime crap of the folksinger slob
He hung himself with a guitar string
A slab of turkey-neck and its hangin from a pigeon wing
You cant write if you cant relate
…

punaise @ 92

“You a Winner, Baby”
___________________________

selected lines from “Loser” by Beck:

In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey
Butane in my veins and Im out to cut the junkie
…

Great, now KFed is gonna cover it – damn you Punaise!

scarecrow @
57

Jane’s link to Howie is worth pursuing, because Howie’s article provides a great rebuttal to all of the Rahm-did-it-all nonsense. And Howie’s blog has a direct icon for Spotlighting. I sent his post to CNN/MSNBC hosts/reporters, but it desserves much wider distribution by/to others.

I just spotlighted to the reasonable ones on McLaughlin Group

So CD-Rahm tried to knock Jon Tester outta the primary in MT, eh? Tester handled Rahmen Noodle’s hand-picked boy, and now a long-term incumbant. Will any of these “centrists” ever learn from these experiences? Tester gets my vote for some of the best lines from this campaign season, like this one from a debate…

“He wants to weaken the Patriot Act,” Burns said of Tester.

Tester sought to clarify:

“I don’t want to weaken the Patriot Act, I want to repeal it.”

And…

“With things like the Patriot Act,” Tester said, “We’d damn well better keep our guns.”

And lordy, who did Tester’s ads?!? They’re terrific! You can see them here…

http://www.testerforsenate.com/multimedia

This one especially…Is it too early to start the Tester for President train yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alEwRlkS1rk

scarecrow – I didn’t see it but I’ll try to steel myself up to look

I work in TV so when I get home I don’t actually watch a lot of TV… Tuesday night’s election coverage was the first time I actually saw Rahm Emanuel “live”, as it were, after all these months of reading and hearing about him, and all I could think was, “Man, what a whiny-voiced, punk-ass little bitch.” And he’s supposedly the mastermind, the great architect of the Democratic victory? He couldn’t organize a sandlot baseball game in which he wasn’t picked last…

He reminds me of all those suck-ups I used to want to punch out back in high school, the ones who were supposedly “cool” and ended up becoming Young Republicans in college, living off their trust funds after or going to work for some “think” tank because they couldn’t get a real job.

If Howard Dean doesn’t get his share of credit for Tuesday then the Democrats better enjoy the moment while it lasts, because if they follow the likes of Rahm it ain’t gonna last long…

Twisted Martini

With hundreds of Republican aides set to lose their jobs as Democrats take over Congress, K Street veterans tell Roll Call that some may have to file for unemployment benefits.

Wow, and so many right wing GOP folks applying for and getting gov’t handouts (unemployment).

Who’da thunk it??

Remek @ 98

Twisted Martini

With hundreds of Republican aides set to lose their jobs as Democrats take over Congress, K Street veterans tell Roll Call that some may have to file for unemployment benefits.

Wow, and so many right wing GOP folks applying for and getting gov’t handouts (unemployment).

Who’da thunk it??

Ah, well, unemployment insurance is a Democratic institution. I hope they say thanks to the New Dealers. :)

Fuckin’ welfare queens driving Daddy’s BMWs…

Another word of thanks for Lincoln Chafee’s swift dispatching of John Bolton.

This year there was no choice but to kick Chafee out of office. I look forward to a day when we can afford to be more discriminating about which Republicans to give a pass and which to squash like bugs.

Twisted Martini @ 100

Fuckin’ welfare queens driving Daddy’s BMWs…

And Daddy piles up his big bucks from Bush’s tax cuts for the rich and outsourcing his business and offshoring to avoid taxes…maybe a few windfall oil industry profits as well.

Hey S.R. Sidarth! Thank you thank you thank you. Goes to show on any given day, anyone can change the course of history. Just gotta show up, and see what happens.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..01639.html

Carmen -
I’ve been thinking about this a little bit and I’ve run into dead ends about how to do it by geography/community/population and do it fairly. “Fair” is subjective.

I’ve also thought maybe you do it by SS/green card or any other # you are assigned as a citizen of the US, but this concept would indicate that majority would rule and tyranny could rule.

What we need to protect are the rights of the minority, whoever that might be under a particular circumstance.
Anyone else with any thoughts on this?

Perhaps a sobering thought.

‘I Saw Heads’
As a Gaza village mourns its dead, Palestinian rage mounts over an Israeli attack.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15…../newsweek/

Off-Topic but interesting.

R.I. Senator may change party

The above is a link to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette talking about whether or not Lincoln Chafee may or may not switch to the Democratic Party. It seems that the primary reason that he remained a Repub these last few years was to make sure he brought the bacon back to R.I.

104 is re: how we make our congressional seats truly representative must be addressed

So who cares if he switches parties now? I don’t get it.

lisadawn82 @ 106

Off-Topic but interesting.

R.I. Senator may change party

The above is a link to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette talking about whether or not Lincoln Chafee may or may not switch to the Democratic Party. It seems that the primary reason that he remained a Repub these last few years was to make sure he brought the bacon back to R.I.

Lincoln babe, we’re not that into you. We’ve got plenty of “centrists” already. This boat is full so start swimming.

If we can prove that we can govern, and we can. They’ll be a whole of party switching going on and not just voters, but politicians too. It’s happened before. Ah, the Pendulum Theory really does work. I was beginning to wonder ; )

Dammit,man. The hamster can’t keep up on my antique here. Can you pick up a signal in Atlanta?

TRex @ 51

Here’s a bit of a heads up. I will be playing my favorite piece of classical music ever tonight at the end of the 10 o’clock hour on Night Music, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis.

Fire up a non-Mozilla browser and go to http://wuga.org and hit ‘Listen Online’, pick your bandwidth, and enjoy!

Show starts at 10pm eastern.

Maybe NARAL could hire him as a lobbyist?

http://firedoglake.blogspot.co…..-ball.html

lisadawn82

Just another Rethug who’s pissed because he thinks if Bush threw Rumseld under the bus two weeks ago it might have saved his seat.

Republicans — You reap what you sow. I think I might have read that in the bible way back when.

Yeah, but it is Rangel’s fault for kicking the shooter out of his House office.

Blub @ 90

CNN headline:
Hah! So the public bipartisan honeymoon lovefest lasted, what, 17 hours? I’m not even sure it lasted long enough for the preznit to share scones with Harry.

Hey, LisaDawn! Look for your picture! click on name.

If Lincoln Chaffee is looking for a change of scene, maybe he could collaborate with FedEx on his next rap album.

moviebrat @ 112

lisadawn82

Just another Rethug who’s pissed because he thinks if Bush threw Rumseld under the bus two weeks ago it might have saved his seat.

Republicans — You reap what you sow. I think I might have read that in the bible way back when.

Just FYI for everyone. I’m not endorsing what Lincoln Chafee may or may not do. Just noting that it is interesting and for a couple of reasons. The CW is that Lincoln Chafee is a stand up guy who stays above the sleaziness yet he remained in a party that he didn’t seem to really believe in to keep bringing in the pork to his constituents. And if he was willing to stay a Repub to bring in the pork are there any other Repub Senators who are willing to swap to Dem to bring in more to their states as we transition to a Dem controlled Congress/Senate.

Umm, a slight diversion. Shelly Drobny, who’s financing NovaM radio is going to dish on Rahm Emanuel in a moment. The stream info is here.

TRex @ 51

Here’s a bit of a heads up. I will be playing my favorite piece of classical music ever tonight at the end of the 10 o’clock hour on Night Music, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis.

Fire up a non-Mozilla browser and go to http://wuga.org and hit ‘Listen Online’, pick your bandwidth, and enjoy!

Show starts at 10pm eastern.

TRex; I’ve never heard this before; it is beautiful!

Tweety is really pushing hard for leaving Iraq now rather than six months from now. Does he believe it?

neurophius @ 119

Tweety is really pushing hard for leaving Iraq now rather than six months from now. Does he believe it?

He’ll believe it for as long as he thinks it helps the neo-cons.

For those of you still mourning about Lamont, go read the letter Matt Browner-Hamlin’s dad wrote to Ned Lamont. It’s over at MyLeftNutmeg.

Thanks from my dad

I hear FedEx singed a prenup that only gives him about $300,000…

…speaking of around 300k, whatever happened the investigation into SloJoe’s SLUSH FUND?
http://www.nhregister.com/site…..&rfi=6
http://www.campaignmoney.org/b…..petty-cash

Jane & Boys & Girls,
Stop with the Rahm bashing. Enough. He is my congressman. Plus, he done some good for the country. Go have a beer.

Kathryn – Thanks for the pictures! What beautiful people. That fills part of the void of not being there helping you guys.

Kathryn in MA @ 115

Hey, LisaDawn! Look for your picture! click on name.

Yes, NARAL supported Lincoln Chaffee whole-heartedly. Whore-heartedly, also. Chaffee voted for the confirmation of Strip Search Sammy Alito. We don’t need him.

Kathryn in MA @ 114

Hey, LisaDawn! Look for your picture! click on name.

Great pics Kathryn!

A fine tribute to Ned Lamont from the Norwich Bulletin — also over at MyLeftNutmeg:

Norwich Bulletin on Ned’s importance

Powwow500 @123: Rahm is a ditzy ballerina.

Kathryn in MA @ 114

Hey, LisaDawn! Look for your picture! click on name.

Great photos! Thanks, Kathryn!

Just another point on the election’s ‘meaning’…

CNET

update It was the narrowest of Republican margins in the U.S. Senate that doomed a crucial vote on Net neutrality earlier this year.

By an 11-11 tie, a GOP-dominated committee failed in June to approve rules requiring that all Internet traffic be treated the same no matter what its “source” or “destination” might be. A similar measure also failed in the House of Representatives.”…

scarecrow @ 122

For those of you still mourning about Lamont, go read the letter Matt Browner-Hamlin’s dad wrote to Ned Lamont. It’s over at MyLeftNutmeg.

Thanks from my dad

That’s a great letter…THX for the link. And from the blog, it looks like Matt is following the money. $387,561 is a lot of unanswered GOTV scratch. *wink

I didn’t realize that Rahm was part of the Daley machine, but I should have known.

karen allen @ 129

ditzy ballerina.

Genius.

montag @ 118

Umm, a slight diversion. Shelly Drobny, who’s financing NovaM radio is going to dish on Rahm Emanuel in a moment. The stream info is here.

Wow – what Rahm & the DCCC did in Illinois is almost exactly what Chuck, Hill & Bill did in CT with Lamont/Lieberman.

Can we please expose these folks? This has got to end or in two years the country will shift right back to the GOP.

People are tired of lies and BS and we’re stuck with Rahm & Chuck and the master triangulators – Bill & Hill.

With Chaffee thinking about switching parties after the election, not before — and with Bush firing Rumsfeld after the election, not before . . . maybe they really were self-deluded into thinking Republican values enjoyed actual, widespread and abiding popularity. (After all I’ve never known Bush to take any action that was not politically calculated.) Maybe the scales will fall away from the eyes of all sorts of cocktail-weenie-circuiteers as well.

punaise @
46

montag @ 45

randiego @ 44

T-rex may have coined it, but I’m using it! Almost spewed when I read that!

Although, technically, Spears is the FedEx.

“UPS, I did it again”

ROTFLMAOnaise

powwow500 @ 124

Jane & Boys & Girls,
Stop with the Rahm bashing. Enough. He is my congressman. Plus, he done some good for the country. Go have a beer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8h7Ems_7MM

Cozumel @ 137

powwow500 @ 124

Jane & Boys & Girls,
Stop with the Rahm bashing. Enough. He is my congressman. Plus, he done some good for the country. Go have a beer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8h7Ems_7MM

Fine. He’s your congressman. Do you own him, too?

montag @ 139

Cozumel @ 137

powwow500 @ 124

Jane & Boys & Girls,
Stop with the Rahm bashing. Enough. He is my congressman. Plus, he done some good for the country. Go have a beer.

Sorry, I’ve had several beers now and he’s more annoying than ever.

The first sign that bush is worried about being impeached, will be Darth Chenny stepping down for health reasons. bush will need someone clean who isn’t at all involved in any crimes to be vice president. Beacause bush needs someone besides Nancy Pelosi to be handing out the pardons otherwise Scooter Libby is going to sing. Look for the new Republican speaker of the house to be clean as a whistle. If bush goes down the new speaker of the house is likly the chosen one by the powers that be. Why the powers choose President Ford though is beyound me?

scarecrow @ 122

For those of you still mourning about Lamont, go read the letter Matt Browner-Hamlin’s dad wrote to Ned Lamont. It’s over at MyLeftNutmeg.

Thanks from my dad

scarecrow – I haven’t been able to really mourn yet. I had to leave CT early Wed morning to work on a client engagement.

I’ll set aside this weekend to mourn Ned’s defeat and hateful Joe’s bitter victory. My only consolation is that Joe has been revealed for who he really is – and that reality will continue to sink in.

As one CT voter said last Tuesday – “I held my nose and voted for Joe.”

Late nite is up.

tuneforg @ 141

The first sign that bush is worried about being impeached, will be Darth Chenny…

These were the first signs that Darth knew how bad they were gonna trounced!!!
http://www.wonkette.com/politi…..211028.php

http://www.crooksandliars.com/…..ubpoenaed/

dab from CT @ 142

scarecrow @ 122

For those of you still mourning about Lamont, go read the letter Matt Browner-Hamlin’s dad wrote to Ned Lamont. It’s over at MyLeftNutmeg.

Thanks from my dad

scarecrow – I haven’t been able to really mourn yet. I had to leave CT early Wed morning to work on a client engagement.

I’ll set aside this weekend to mourn Ned’s defeat and hateful Joe’s bitter victory. My only consolation is that Joe has been revealed for who he really is – and that reality will continue to sink in.

As one CT voter said last Tuesday – “I held my nose and voted for Joe.”

Hey dab — Know what you mean. Make sure you read the Norwich Bulletin column over at MyLeftNutmeg — I linked to it above.

Lou Costello @ 123

I hear FedEx singed a prenup that only gives him about $300,000…

…speaking of around 300k, whatever happened the investigation into SloJoe’s SLUSH FUND?

Now that was a smooth seque…

T- @ 104

Carmen -
I’ve been thinking about this a little bit and I’ve run into dead ends about how to do it by geography/community/population and do it fairly. “Fair” is subjective.

I’ve also thought maybe you do it by SS/green card or any other # you are assigned as a citizen of the US, but this concept would indicate that majority would rule and tyranny could rule.

What we need to protect are the rights of the minority, whoever that might be under a particular circumstance.
Anyone else with any thoughts on this?

There were a lot of good insights today on the “Popcorn” post. I think it’s important to figure out a “fair” way of determining districts.

I don’t know about the SS or green card. I’m a naturalized citizen myself (Canadian born). It just seems that we can figure out a better way that isn’t just about self-interest. The more objective the better. Maybe some of the other people commenting today will have other thoughts.

powwow500 @ 124

Jane & Boys & Girls,
Stop with the Rahm bashing. Enough. He is my congressman. Plus, he done some good for the country. Go have a beer.

Perhaps if he weren’t running around town taking sole credit for the Democratic win of the House, we wouldn’t be focusing on Rahm and his lies.

lisadawn82@117

Nothing personal. Only, if one defines a “stand up guy” as someone who’s willing to overlook their party’s moral bankruptcy, utter hypocrisy and willingness to expend the lives of our soldiers for the sake of political expediency, merely so they can continue to “bring the bacon home” to their district — which, translated, really means: keep themselves in office by whatever means necessary. I say no thanks; the Republicans can keep him, and anyone else who’s seen the light one day too late.

New Thread…TRex is on fire too-night!

Senate Democrats have begun to reembrace Joseph Lieberman and seem ready to give the former Democrat turned independent a chairmanship in the new Congress that convenes in January, party aides said on Thursday.

I am hopeful enought of a undercurrent of distaste for Rahm,as well as a little “payback”from a caucus of dems who got shafted by this clown will be enough to short-out any further corpratist dreams his handlers have…they know where the power came from I think,regardless who claims it…