If you want to know the questions to ask, try reading Froomkin:
In another example of President Bush's post-election loss of control over the national agenda, the debate in Washington is now officially no longer about how we achieve victory in Iraq, but how we cut our losses.
It's no longer about whether we withdraw our troops, it's about when….
Here's a possibility that I suspect you'll be hearing a lot more of in the coming days: That Bush's recent talk is insincere bluster in anticipation of an abrupt reversal (at which point, he will try to argue it wasn't a reversal at all).
In other words: That he's lying.
Marc Sandalow writes in the San Francisco Chronicle: "It would be reasonable to conclude after watching President Bush in the Middle East this week that the administration has no plans to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq.
"'This business about graceful exit just simply has no realism to it at all,' Bush said at a news conference Thursday morning in Jordan with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
"Yet some experts say it would be foolhardy to assume, just because Bush said it, that the statement is true."
Ouch. Although, I suppose it shouldn't be a surprise that Bush is feeling cornered and politically lame duckish with a do-nothing rubber stamp Republican Congress which has decided to do even less for the next few days until the holiday break. (Can you do less than nothing? Guess we'll see.)
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Q: Is he lying
Bush can continue to spout his lines and then the US military can say that the job is done and then let the withdrawl begin.
Bush gets his way in theory.
-GSD
Q: Did Ned Lamont lose the race
at some point doesn’t everyone have to do a Jim Webb on this guy. Doesn’t every Senator have to acknowledge that this level of out of touch is what the impeachment clause is about?
The chimperor lost his codpiece at least a year ago according to any sane person (ck the polls).
He simply has no clothes and the world knows it. When does the MSM just make that clear daily in questions?
Are the Snowjobs televised? I’m home sick today and would happily LiveBlog if so.
Exit plan, nah. Plans are a sign of weakness for Mr. Bush, instead he’ll use his well-developed incurious logic and just have a press briefing where he’ll announce we’re now in the process of leaving, much like the Bremer exit.
Redd—I have been AMAZED that so many of the press- and even in the blogosphere have assumed that Clusterfuck is “stayin the course” because he says he is..
History would teach us the exact opposite- if he says he IS- then he ISN’T.
Clusterfuck doesn’t use language to inform- he uses it to lubricate.
It should no longer be news when Bush lies; what should make the headlines is if he is ever caught telling the truth!
Debrah Fisch @ 3
Yes and no. Lamont lost, but there is good hope that his spirit is infectious.
Oh, Debrah, you wound us so. NOT.
The outgoing lame-duck GOP Congress’ efforts to smother the incoming Democratic Congress and its agenda under a mound of unfinished business (such as the FY07 budget, which the Republicans should have finished up months ago, being that FY07 started October 1!) has been neatly countered by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi: They’re simply going to hold Congress open longer this year.
As a Kossack diarist notes, this also kills Bush’s chances of ramming through any more recess appointments this session. Heheheheheh.
Balrog at 5 — C-Span usually covers them, if there is nothing going on with either chamber of Congress on the floor. Check their coverage schedule on the website.
/would love to find out if the ambassador would appove gates
I might not make it back in time, would someone please ask him for me?
thanx in advance
Balrog– it will be on cspan2 at 1pm acc to their schedule.
sorry you’re not feeling well.
He cannot tell the truth. It has become pathological. Pathetic. And he’s the leader of the “moral” party.
The Boton thing is great news. Pops will probally put a Texas CIA Iran-contra type in there (mob rules= only appoint people who have blood on their hands) but even that is better than this Zionist end timeer S.O.B. Bolton. Enjoying this!!
From Wiki:
A psychopath is defined as having no concerns for the feelings of others and a complete disregard for any sense of social obligation. They seem egocentric and lack insight and any sense of responsibility or consequence. Their emotions are thought to be superficial and shallow, if they exist at all. They are considered callous, manipulative, and incapable of forming lasting relationships, let alone of any kind of love.
Anyone we might know?
Actually, there may be some good reasons for lying this time..
If Clusterfuck were to let the “withdraw” cat out of the bag– it might create chaos throughout the middle east- as each nation with a stake in the conflict starts makin plans to send in troops..
EvilDrPuma @
9
You are only a master of evil, Darth. You can’t win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
mmr @ 18
at the very least ned helped the democrats regain the majority by showing progressives how to frame the discussion without being defensive
…when you looked at the picture, you know you were thinking this
twolf1 @ 20
Yes. Yes, I was.
Taylor has some amusing thoughts on Bolton. Mwee hee.
twolf1 @
20
‘zactly right.
twolf1 @ 20
Busted.
oh my goodness gracious. that fella’s not happy. not.at.all.atall.
i had to look twice to make sure what finger…
on a ’cause his face say t’other one.
Why does everything jr do seem like a middleschool playground standoff?
I’d love a link to that snoopydance video downstairs, please.
Ann in AZ @ 8
Recalls the paradox: When someone says “Everything I say is a lie,” is that person telling the truth–or another lie?
(waggling fingers toward Minn.)
Hi Balrog!
great minds…. you guys scooped me, speedy lil’ devils… heh
twolf1 @ 20
Or this:
“Hey Helen, pull my finger, heh-heh.”
His mouth is moving, it’s most likely he’s lying through his teeth. Sad to believe that of a President……
(In my former life as a tv producer) I think this would make the perfect clip to end the montage:
[cue “You’re Cheatin’ Heart” the original]
Video:
clip one(?) I’m a joiner, not a divider.
clip two…
The claim, the [eventual] truth, etc. Rummy getting publicly garrotted was close to perfect, but this would be so…unbelievable. Since there is a void of ‘creative’ radar within conservativism, they’re just such enormous, glowing-neon targets for the Comedy Channel, the internets, et al.
I’ll finish with this:
start asking, “Name one thing this president has done right.”
rwcole @
17
That’s much easier to interdict, with air power or a very precise and temporary military insertion. We’d be fighting people who wear uniforms. Also once we withdraw, our “moral” leverage to prevent such a “unilateral” action is far better. It’s the kind of thing the UN might support us in.
What is so counter to common sense is “inserting” our troops as the Baghdad/Anbar police force. Withdrawing our forces outside of urban areas, where they aren’t taking any casualties, changes the complexion of our involvement dramatically.
(Can you do less than nothing? Guess we’ll see.)
In the empirical world of math, negative numbers are easily demonstrated. I guess we should be thankful that they’ve decided to do nothing because, I would contend, for the last six years they have, in fact, done less than nothing with very negative results.
If anyone needs another Snoopy Dance:
Here’s the original Vince Guaraldi rendition of “Linus and Lucy”.
Nice way to start the day!
we really do need to keep letting froomkin know how much we appreciate him. he’s golden in my book.
OT – “We had a number of reports Friday that Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) was wandering the halls of Senate office buildings in his jammies,” Mary Ann Akers writes. “Two staffers said they saw the Senator wearing ‘tartan’ or ‘buffalo plaid’ pajama bottoms and a ‘loose-fitting shirt.’ By the end of the day, one informant called to say she heard Domenici was walking around in his boxers.”
Is Senator wandering around office buildings clad only in his jammies?
fahrender @ 35
Ditto
mc @ 30
i think it might be bush’s form of yoga. he stares at his finger in order to stay in denial of the reality that is cutting off every avenue of escape and closing in on him.
“finger. make it go away!”
When doing battle, seek a quick victory.
A protracted battle will blunt weapons and dampen ardor.
If the army is exposed to a prolonged campaign, the nation’s resources will not suffice.
When weapons are blunted, and ardor dampened, strength exhausted, and resources depleted, the neighboring rulers will take advantage of these complications.
Then even the wisest of counsels would not be able to avert the consequences that must ensue.
Therefore, I have heard of military campaigns that were clumsy but swift, but I have never seen military campaigns that were skilled but protracted.
No nation has ever benefited from protracted warfare.
Sun Tzu
Frank Rich says the President is “completely untethered from reality.”
via Americablog:
http://americablog.blogspot.co…..q-but.html
I have to work and will miss Joe Wilson today. Ask good questions, folks. I want a solution to the whole Iraq mess by 12:30 pm.
Here’s a question I’ll bet the right isn’t asking right now: What would Jesus do?
windje @ 40
I hear that. No nation ever has, but Halliburton sure did.
windje @ 39
BULLSEYE, thank you.
Sun Tzu’s THE ART OF WAR
mc @ 41
Ha ha. I also made the mistake of NOT reading scarecrow’s front page this morning before I posted the Frank Rich article in the last thread…
fahrender @
39
Danny isn’t here, Mrs. Torrance.
Some funny captions for another Bush photo here.
My own thoughts on “taking time for pondering” here.
kofi annan:
johnSwifty @ 43
“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace-business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hatred for me – and I welcome their hatred. I should like to have it said of my first administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second administration that in it these forces met their master.
- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Speech at Madison Square Garden”
Mommybrain @
28
Top of the morning, Mum.
I shudder to think that I’m going to disagree with Christy (Please don’t hurt me. Much.), but I’m not sure that I’d call it “lying”. He’s so detached from reality that I think he really does believe the things he says. He really doesn’t believe that he’s going to be pulling troops out of Iraq. He’ll still be prattling on about our strategery even after the last American soldier is out of there. The other people at the old-folks-home are going to mock him for still fighting the war in Iraq. He’s THAT far gone.
twolf1 @ 48
I’m holding out for a transcript that documents the giggling.
How do I put a single space between lines with HTML rather than a paragraph break? I know I’ve asked this previously, but I lost my crib notes sheet and I’m trying to shore up my post for Amb. Wilson’s visit and don’t have time to search for it. Anyone able to tell me off the top of their head?
Christy Hardin Smith @ 53
[br] [br] – one [br] skips to next line. 2 [br]s leaves one blank line between lines.
Biodun @ 45
oops…
christy
if I get your meaning
Mommybrain, if you have a comment or question for Ambassador Wilson, leave it on this thread and I’ll try to get it in for you.
twolf1 ROCKS!
LOL darn it did it
but no spaces
Frank Probst @
51
How ’bout splitting the difference with -
He simply never CARES whether what he says is true or not. eh? works for me anyway.
John Casper @ 58
Iraq
Ok I give up
It is… br…. between larger/greater than symbols
Frank Probst @ 51
The Dunce
Google cache w/o images
windje @
49
Excellent quote, thank you! Do you suppose the current president of the World Bank feels such antipathy for our president?
Hmmm…perhaps NOT!
And didn’t President Eisenhower have some interesting things to say about the military industrial complex in a speech, sometime?
My prediction for next UN Ambassador: Zelikow. They can’t afford to have him, 9/11 executive director, exposed to a Democratic congress without some sort of diplomatic immunity.
For some reason, the photo also makes me think of this (apologies to KITH):
“Hey, Wall Street! Don’t panic! I mean, I’m only crushing your heads!! Crush you! (Looking at businessmen) What the hell do you guys find to talk about anyway? (In mocking voice) ‘Well, I like to put my money into Texaco.’ ‘Well, I like to put it into Gulf.’ ‘Well, I put my money in my mattress.’ ‘Well, I put my money in my wallet.’ You’re boring me! I’m crushing your head! I’m crushing your head! Hey! I just renamed your firm Merrill Lynch and the Flathead! I crush you. (salutes) Hail to you, wretched bike courier! On streets of shame, choking on car exhaust, just trying to carve out that slice of the American dream with your two-wheeled knife! I pity you. And I crush you! Sorry, nothing personal, I’m apolitical!! I’m crushing-”
http://www.kithfan.org/characters/mark.html
9/11 commission, that is.
I’m no atrology buff, but this does have some fascinating theses about the fall of Bush. EPU’d from Late Nite:
spiderpaws @
117
spiderpaws @
131
Balrog @
50
Feel better Balrog. It’s freakin’ COLD in the mini-apple today. Chicken soup for the body and Christy-Soup for the soul! (maybe I could have phrased that better, but you get my meaning :)
twolf1 @ 55
cold where you are today?
twolf1 @
37
omg, it’s worse than that. he said they are his “hunting pants”. – uh – PLAID?!?!
well…maybe we can learn from this… what pattern ARE lame ducks, anyway? can’t find ‘em in my bird guide…
johnSwifty @ 65
“I feel that if our constitutional system ever fails, it will be because people got scared
and turned hysterical and someone in power will demagogue them right into a police state of some kind. That’s what I’ve always worried about. And still do.”
Harry S Truman
This is good -
BOLTON RESIGNS
kemo @ 66
Now that’s an interesting ‘conspiracy’ take. Welcome to my world!
The fact that the ‘Report’ can be found in any other aisle at Border’s other than fiction still rankles — I’ve had the most un-Minnesota nice conversations with the poor college kids working there over the matter.
punaise @ 71
a little, I am enjoying the breaks in the weather. ;)
twolf1 @ 48
That Kofi is quite the diplomatic, isn’t he. I like “when we had lots of tough issues” and “he pressed ahead with the instructions he had been given and tried to work as effectively as he could.” Which means not effectively at all…
johnSwifty @ 70
Thanks. Is there any room for Balrog Bourbon in there?
…from my above link, a lint to the official white house statement:
President Bush Accepts Ambassador John Bolton’s Resignation as U.S. Representative to the United Nations
I think Frank Rich was too generous to Bush. Bush has always needed psychiatric intervention. He’s always been a loser nut-job. Oh, that he would sink into catatonia.
well hey there Firedogs and a fine good morning to ya all ! first day I’ve had in weeks just to hang as long as I like at the lake – and I see from up above Ambassador Wilson will be here today – omfg, I have been a verrry good girl . . .
a little housekeeping -
apparently Pammy picked a bad week to give up huffing Quik-Dry
sofistic from last thread – much more like moronic convergence
and jeffreyw, wherever you are – thank you sooo much for keyboard kommandos – the boxed set, haven’t had the time to dig them all out – as TBogg has heartily recommended from the first installment
was gonna offer Michael Ledeen to the Bolton’s successor contest – but who ever suggested Katherine Harris wins hands down – good gawd, they are ham fisted enough to try it
also from SF Chronicle:
OT-Anyone think Condi’s in the dog house for saying she’ll talk about mistakes after Bush leaves office?
twolf1 @ 79
“lint”? I resemble that remark,,,,,
s-o-m-e-o-n-e- found the b-o-u-r-b-o-n-?
argh.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..00943.html
johnSwifty @ 75
Conspiracy, nah. But now that we’ve mentioned it here, and exposed their plot, they will probably move away from Zelikow.
Just you watch;-)
Meanwhile- the great militart genius has now killed 2901 of his own troops in the great Iraq- cake walk.
Balrog @ 78
Far be it from me to eschew the Brown Liquor in any form and I’ll be hypocritical and suspect for even mentioning it, but did you know it will defeat any effectivness of an SSRI process?
Just take care of yourself, man! I like your comments, and don’t want you falling down the depths and layers of the Silmarillion
rwcole @ 87
14 in the last 4 days :(
Adie @ 61
As Harry Frankfurt described it, a bullshit artist is more damaging than a liar, because the liar at least agrees with the honest person that there is a truth, and goes against it, whereas the bullshit artist doesn’t care (and may not know) whether what he is saying is true or not, as long as it serves his purpose.
Sign up now- don’t be late fer the cake walk- sweets and flowers- deburka yer fair Iraqi lass right there in ol Baghdad!!
deandra @ 79
Catatonia, hum, I think I went there once. Real quiet place except fot the windmills and sailboats.
Where’s my bourbon?
kemo @ 86
Conspiracy, nah. But now that we’ve mentioned it here, and exposed their plot, they will probably move away from Zelikow.
Just you watch;-)
Dude! You’ve got that kind of power!!!??? Hurry up and mention the possibility that W dies mysteriously and Cheney seizes control and immediately declares martial law.
johnSwifty @ 88
I know it all too well. Thanks for the reminder though.
bless you Balrog 93. Got it. Thanks! ;->
-uh- snoopydance – no hangover therein, eh?
punaise 69 — in re: that horoscope, especially the bit about the handlers abandoning him.
I think this Bolton resignation is one clear example of the handlers’ absence. They are gone, fled, excised. Nobody has mentioned Josh Bolten, nobody has mentioned Karl Rove — just to name a couple.
You see, if there had been handlers working for him, this Bolton resignation would have been done on FRIDAY for the news dump.
We are now shet of that pasty, flabby git Karl Rove. His resignation will come any time now. If Poppy’s consigliere has done anything right, it is in his removal of the so-called advisors.
Polishing my shoes for the happy dance to come; although ecstatic about Bolton’s exit, I’m saving myself for ex-Rove-ination.
Speaking of depressed people, you OK out there TwistedMartini?
Ohio State/Michigan would have been so much cooler…
this is probably old hat by now:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITI…..index.html
BOLTON FIRED
omg, punaise.
My worst thoughts about that man are true.
“there are lots of things people don’t know about that would surprise them”
Oops- guess the stuff about Bush cross dressin and ridin Karl like a pony is fixin ta come out–guess it had to sometime.
Balrog @
93
Oh, that’s bad, I’m going to need to erase that from my head.
angie @ 101
I didn’t think I could think any less of the shrubby chimp… I was wrong.
rwcole @ 102
See, see how your are! Now THATS the real talent for snark I was chastising you for hiding under a bushel basket earlier. You just needed to lift the bush!
CNN – 11 Europeans and 1 American arrested on terror charges. I think it was in Egypt.
God calls another compassionate conservative to serve his nation:
“I have decided, after much prayerful consideration, to consider a bid for the Republican nomination for the presidency,” Brownback said in a statement. “There is a real need in our country to rebuild the family and renew our culture and there is a need for genuine conservatism and real compassion in the national discussion.”
God’s pretty busy with just american politics since the religious right started votin regular- he has no time left for other things like vacations in tropical universes- or even Darfur.
“Lord- you’ve got BOTH Brownback and Bush on the line- which do you want to speak to first?”
Yes I agree with you, Bush is lying very often in front of people. I think he has lost all connection to reality a long time ago.
He is just not real and I doubt if he ever was.
Thank you for sharing this story with me !
“Lord- want to talk to Bush- he sounds pretty angry- somethin about Bolton”
Mommybrain @
28
hope the brains are safe from the SoCal fires we saw on our local news last nite!
1,350 DAYZ AND TH4E KILLIN GOEZ ON AND ON AND..
Debrah Fisch:
“Did Lamont lose the race?”
No, … Connecticut and the United States lost…Ned Lamont is your worst nightmare babe, he has money and a much longer political life expectancy than Joe Likuderman.
Peace out, you’re lucky, you live in America where it’s not a crime to be stupid…geeze you could even be president>
KEEP THE FAITH, AND GET THAT SHIT OUTTA MY YARD!!!
[Mod note; Norske, we love you and hope you don’t mind the edits]
Sorry if someone already posted, just a drive by.
Reid plan may kill recess appointments
RAW STORY
Published: Monday December 4, 2006
A plan engineered by “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to eliminate all extended recesses except for the traditional August break during the 110th Congress may have an added benefit for Democrats,” Roll Call reports.
snip
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2….._1204.html
What time’s Joe Wilson on FDL today?
We gotta rebuild “the family”..
WHICH family? Who broke it? Was it in New Orleans?
I wouldn’t want my enduring contempt for Joe Lieberman to be overshadowed by the day’s events.
President Bush today meets with Abdul Aziz Hakim, the Shiite leader of the largest bloc in Iraq’s parliament. The White House announced today that Bush also will meet with British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday, the day after the president receives recommendations from a panel exploring options for Iraq.
rwcole @ 117
I think this Friday’s late afternoon news dump is gonna be a doozy.
After receiving a 2 megaton airdrop worth of high energy explosives, let Brownback start rebuilding families in and around Baghdad.
TSF–
Joe will be here on Monday at 11:00 am PT/2:00 pm ET
went over to Clemons place to see his take on the Bolton departure – Steve’s currently in Dubai and will post later in the day
Bolton Watch – Steve & Josh’s joint venture has been speculating about Bolton’s exit for the last 2 weeks – and had this posted up
via The Economist -
http://boltonwatch.tpmcafe.com…..s_it_right
tasty nuggets -
No PonyBlow on CSpan. In hindsight I’m glad I don’t have to watch.
It’s on now, Balrog.
OfT:
Having gotten questions accepted for both Dan Balz’s and Howie Kurtz’s political/media chats today, TSF branches out to Marc Kaufman, during the WaPo space exploration chat:
So Clusterfuck screwed up earth so badly that we gotta leave? ASSHOLE!!
bushco is fast becoming unglued and its not pretty but oh so poetic – now when do we blame bill clinton for this undoing? this bunch is sooo off the hook!!
Christy Hardin Smith @ 54
Hold down the shift key when you hit Enter.
Suzanne @
118
Yeppers, It’s gonna clog the toobz for the rest of the weekend. It can’t be good new; wish it could be, but it can’t.
Just started watching. Snow is such an ass
Occams Hatchet does a great job illustrating the PNAC plan, with pipelines and overlaid bases and all the other duplicity.
Check it out.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/12/4/121156/597
Balrog @
122
CSPAN2
twolf1 @ 130
I’m “working;” wouldn’t mind an occassional play by play…
California State Senator Carol Migden proposes expanding the state’s Domestic Partnership registry to all heterosexual couples regardless of childness and age.
DomesticPartnership: It’s not just for gays and old non-gays anymore!
Snow on CSPAN2 – Hi, I’m Tony Snow. I’m a fuckwad and I have been giving the task of dodging your questions today.
From TSF link above:
twolf1 @ 135
LOL – ya got me!
Pony: [looking uptight with furrowed brow] Blah-de-blah-blah-parsing-blah
[looking down at podium a lot]
[having difficulty looking up from under browline]
Blah-blah-generating-dead-air-blah-de-blah
Snow on CSPAN2 – reporter asked: has chimp ruled out meeting w/ al sadar
snow: i dont know. dunno if al sadar would meet w/ him.
Dirk Dirksen’s service in the Mission District this weekend.
twolf1 @ 139
Longer: “I don’t know if al sadar could stand being in the same room with the moron.”
O/T, and pardon mah French, but this Prager muthahfucker has done pissed off the wrong Irishman. I’ve studied his ass over the weekend, and an analytical web page concerning the adoringly-self-described “Most Controversial Man in America” draws nigh. Stay tuned.
_
Snow on CSPAN2 – wouldn’t u agree that having so many reports available, the president has given himself cover to do whatever he wants?
snow: u don’t understand the chimp. the chimp doesn’t look for cover. matter of great national interest, he is soliciting as many views as he can. i mean, come on, he’s the fucking decider.
Q: does having so many reports provide POTUS cover?
Pony: You don’t understand the POTUS
[edit: got that right, sheesh]
The POTUS doesn’t need cover, is inviting as many different views as possible, be creative, need best abilities
[edit: on providing cover for POTUS, d’oh!]
BobbyG @ 141
hell hath no fury like a BobbyG done wrong….
go get ‘em.
not on your effing life ! and why should he, al-Hakim weakens himself politically by doing so and hands further power to al Sadr in the process
waving to BobbyG – go over to TBogg’s place – he’s been dogging ol Denny for the last month and a half
Snow on CSPAN2 – all signs say gater will b confirmed. will he b able to put his own imprint on on the pentagon regarding iraq policy.
snow – we r hoping he will b confirmed by the end of the week. clearly, if he is, he will have a say in what goes on.
reporter – what is 1st order of business
snow (shorter) – same shit different day
TeddySanFran @ 140
Making this happen, alone, would be worth mentioning in anyone’s eulogy: Neil Young jammed with Devo. Was he not a man!
Gah. I have to find something more constructive to do than watch Pony Blow blather.
Like scrubbing the baseboard with a toothbrush or something.
cbl @ 145
Thanks. Will do. I’m fixin’ to incinerate this prick.
_
Snow on CSPAN2 – reporter – about speeding up iraqi training – why wasn’t it already full speed ahead?
snow – we want to figure out how to accelerate it. police forces have been source of concern.
Bobby- Need a match?
twolf1 @ 147
I guess you could have skipped to that and saved your keyboarding skills. Thanks twolf!
Snow on CSPAN2 – blathering about Bolton and how much good he has done.
Rayne @ 149
Read your Sun Tzu!
Don’t ever mess with BobbyG.
Snow on CSPAN2 – reporter – then why didn’t they confirm him.
snow (shorter) – no comment
This was posted at the bottom of a different thread. I don’t know if it’s ok to bring it up.
I wanted all of you to ‘meet’ Jesselyn Radack. She is the person who blew the whistle on the torture of John Walker Lindh. She really got hounded by the administration after she blew the whistle and quit. Literally she was persecuted and harrassed and blackballed and blacklisted!
I myself am very impressed by her. She worked in the ethics department and made the right choice. It’s the right thing to do and had others shown as much courage as she did, then maybe the Iraq Occupation wouldn’t have started.
Here’s mine:
http://www.progressiveu.org/14…..g-her-book
But her website tells her story much better than I ever can.
http://www.patriotictruthteller.net
Speaks of bolton’s success on North Korea, Darfur, Iraq and Iran.
He’s smoking something highly toxic.
Tomorrow it’s Gates- should be good fer a laugh.
twolf1 — did you hear that loud POP?
That was the fabric of reality giving way as Pony elaborated on Bolton’s love for the UN that he served.
I wonder what kind of holographic technology they are using to project this surreal likeness of a human behind a podium…
Damifino why, but I can’t quote Bobby G’s comment
It will, however, let me edit it.
Weird.Even weirder, Bobby G’s name, email address and website info showed up in my “Leave a reply” space!
Give em hell Bobby G!
twolf1 @ 153
How can he do this with any degree of reality-based specificity? Oh, right, he came from FAUX News!!
Snow on CSPAN2 – re bolton “more forward and ASSertive diplomacy”
Snow on CSPAN2 – snow: bolton was highly successful
reporter: did you change the definition of success?
angie @ 159
You’re kidding! My god, the man (if he can be called such) must leave the podium and immediately begin throwing up. No one could spew such idiocy and not have a belly choked full of sewage.
twolf1 @ 164
priceless! Good for April.
Right-o johnswifty.
Pony: John Bolton was highly successful…
Good God, does Bolton have something on these people?
Photos? NSA intercepts? I can’t believe they are making such a concerted effort on a MONDAY to canonize Saint Bolton without some sort of incentives to do so. It’s way past time to construct a neo-con reality.
Bolton didn’t accomplish anything- but he DID piss a lot of people off who Tony thinks needed to be pissed off.
Steve Soto at the Left Coaster:
twolf1 @ 165
Heeyyyyyy Ohhhhhhhhh! Yessir!
Snow on CSPAN2 – “we’ve never had a status quo approach towards iraq.”
Ask Tony if Condi wants Bolton back– come on- I DARE ya!!!
Asshole for sale!
Re. Snow presser: several unidentified reporters have asked a few *QUITE* pointed questions today w/some unusually negative descriptors as applied to the shrubbery…..anybody else have that impression (as least earlier in the session)?
Tony- heard yer boss went ta take a shit an ended up wipin a hole in the ground- any truth ta that?
snow on CSPAN2 – snow – chimp and blair are meeting now b/c they will have pretty full social schedules for the rest of the month… while Americas sons and daughters die in eye-rack… assholes
punaise @ 170
That’s about the gist of it right there — no pun intended.
Waccamaw @ 173
The Shrubbery. Dang it Waccy, I just got the monitor clean from CHS calling him that…
rwcole @ 175
Baby, when you take the cork out…MAN, don’t it fly! Rock on.
The Madness of King George
snow on CSPAN2 – snow: Tens of thousands of people lined the streets of Vietnam to see chimpy. they love America.
Balrog @ 178
Oh, and for that, you must cut down the tallest tree in the forest with…..a herring!
twolf1 @ 180
How many torches and pitchforks does that equate to?
johnSwifty @ 181
Stop it! Yer killing me here!
have been doing some reading in preparation for Ambassador Wilson’s visit – (although reading Gilliard on Eye-Rack puts one light years ahead of anyone on that box in my living room – 30 minutes, a full half hour of oh what to do and not one mentioned al-Sadr’s name – jeebus)
for rwcole -
anyway, in reading up on al-Hakim, it became apparent Chimpy really invited him b/c they share a common ancestor -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Hakim_bi-Amr_Allah
al-Hakim & GWCF, kissin’ cousins, who knew ?
MSNBC Airs Multiple Segments On C-SPAN Caller Smearing President Carter
-snow presser over-
Balrog -
I own stock in a company that makes screen cleaner fluid….gotta do something to raise the portfolio level for the day ;-)
BTW, will someone please educate me as to who this freaking idiot named Les is who always gets to ask his two idiot questions every bloody presser?
twolf1 @ 187
thanx wolfy, that was fun!
He’s a wingnut from the Baltimore Sun, I believe. Fluffer in residence.
lame duck shrubbery
Phew…amazing how the blood pressure goes right back down once Pony is off the podium.
Yay! an immediate detox on CSPAN2 with Howard Dean, replay of a session from Saturday.
twolf1 @ 185
Was it as good for you as it was for me?
:-)
Waccamaw @ 188
jeff gannon with a mask?
enthusiastically waving to my fave Michigander
http://images.google.com/imgre…..=&sa=N
punaise @ 191
Oh, that’s too good. You should have saved that for something special. We’ll have to see it again!
Oh so late to the Lake – will Ambassador Wilson be here this afternoon?
punaise @ 190
Too expensive.
newspaperbrat @ 197
Apparently in a hearbeat.
newspaperbrat @
197
Amb. Joe Wilson
Christy Hardin Smith @
54
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cbl 195 – bwa-hahahahah!! Animatronica! Of course!!
Near-life-like movement with audio feedback provided by an Eliza-like software agent!!
Good one!
p.s. COLD in MI. Mid-twenties, light snow. Feels like January here in the Great Lakes state — in case you didn’t know already. Brrrr.
Joe Wilson thread up.
One thing that has occurred to me is that we have a real dilemma here. If we create enough pressure to have Bush pull our troops out, then Bush will pull our troops out. Think about that: It’s George W. Bush, the hero of Katrina, in charge of the withdrawal!
I can’t imagine a scarier situation than having such a man in charge of an operation that will need the greatest of care to accomplish successfully.
And if we don’t pull the troops out, we still have George W. Bush in charge of their mission while they’re there!
In other words, heads we lose, tails we lose. And in terms of the overall death toll (not limited to Americans), it may be a wash; go or stay, it won’t matter.
Sigh.
Ed
Lame-duck jerky, anyone?
re: the picture
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Being president: wonderful
Feeling free to flip somebody the bird: fantastic
Being too stupid to use the right finger: priceless!
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Bush: “See, first it’s Bolton, then you use this finger to lift it and then it’s bolt-off. Heh heh”
Thomas: “Mr. President, why are we in Iraq?”
Bush: “(steaming angry)”