One of the most exasperating press impulses following the November election was the insistence upon slavishly reprinting the official Lieberman spin about his return to Washington DC, like he was the most powerful and feted pig in the pen (Greg Sargent pitched an appropriate fit over that one). As if he'd just walked away unscathed from an inglorious primary defeat and the onus of having to raise $20 million to defend his 18-year seat. Did anyone really think that any politician could gaze upon him afterwards without instinctively shuddering at the thought of being Liebermaned?
It certainly seems to have occured to Ellen Tauscher. Having decided that her photo with George Bush (now fondly known as "the Caress") on her government website wasn't doing her any favors, she scrubbed it. This is Tauscher's website now — notice no picture of "The Caress." But that's apparently not all she scrubbed. A reader did some digging and found the two Google screen grabs (below) which show that there are two photos of Tauscher being cozy with Lieberman. She obviously thought the better of it and has recently removed them from her website (this link shows a cache of where the photo above used to be). I'm sure she'd rather contract typhoid than have anyone draw that particular comparison right now:
The DC set may put on a good show for the cameras of the easily fooled, but it's a thin veneer of composure. You don't have to dig very deep to find the place just underneath the surface of every Beltway bore where they gaze at Lieberman and shreik "The horror! The horror!" And Tauscher's consignment of him to the jpeg shitcan to save her own skin is a loud, clear testament to that fact.
But is it too late? Has Tauscher herself become radioactive after her recent meeting with Bush? Says blogswarm over at Calitics:
While it is quite clear that Tauscher's current team only knows how to be counterproductive online, the larger problem is that her campaign should lack the ability to hire a netroots consultant who knows better. Working for Tauscher would be a career killer for a blogosphere coordinator and while the money might be good, it would be likely to cost other clients (a Democratic candidate would be a fool to waste money on an internet firm facing the wrath of the progressive blogosphere for selling out in this marquee race).
The days when you could hire the idiot nephew to run the netroots component of your campaign are long gone. It should be very interesting to see who might be willing to stand in the line of fire currently being aimed at Tauscher (which is getting no small amount of high-profile attention).
And bonus points for clicking through to this — which Tauscher obviously has no ability to scrub. Because, well, who wouldn't.
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The shoe Fitz!
Tauscher was my congresswoman when I lived in Walnut Creek. She fits in very well with the Repbulicans and the Liebermans.
Fing helarious. Love it y’all….
Thanks Jane…
Any time Joe can be maligned I love it! The last photo is just perfect…I wonder if Ellen and Joe know Tom Delay?
I didn’t know old rape gurney joe had that kind of charisma. Or am I just seeing things?
Maybe she pulled that photo at the top because she appears a little cold there, you know, like it might be a bit nippy out?
and so, my fellow americans, the issue of our lamont vs. lieberman campaign has been properly framed.
she’s heard the footsteps.
we can keep a proper distance, but she knows we’re there.
thank you, ned. your sacrifice was not in vain and this is the proof.
this is not the end.
this is only the beginning.
next?
I’m just suprised that she is holding her sunglasses considering the fact she is basking in Joe’s superstar power… must have been blinding!
And I did click thru to the WH photo– total gag a maggot.
(who is on the far right? it couldn’t be Fitz, could it?)
In that bonus-points link, Ellen and Joe are sharing a much more high profile stage. If you click the link next to the photo there for the press release of the main speaker’s remarks, you’ll see that Ellen is singled out by name along with the following members of the house and senate:
Phil Gramm
Fred Thompson
Joe Lieberman
Zell Miller
Don Nickles
Dick Armey
Tom Delay
Rob Portman
Yep, that’s a really progressive bunch. Funny how most of them are no longer in office . . .
“hire the idiot nephew”
LMAO.
Important post Jane, as per usual. The reality-based-community is changing the face of US politics.
oh thank goodness, Peterr; he did appear too short. It’s Portman.
Calamity Joe
Holy Joe’s Crusaders step up to the plate. Taushcer’s gonna cheerlead. Rah rah rah, sis… BOOM! …
From W’s remarks at Jane’s last link:
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Who’s Next?
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AP – Modesto CA
Rep Tauscher in an undisclosed retreat while awaiting the next neo enabling pep rally was overheard warning all aides to “keep the cover of Time magazine out of her sight and order a new shade of lipstick!”
Lieberman is a symbol for all that is wrong in elected politics today. It cost him $20 Mil of someone else’s money but he managed to get back to Washington and immediately revealed that he was lying in his campaign about troop reductions in Iraq. Taushcer is not no better and her connection with Liar Joe can only have a negative effect. Thanks for posting this. The more play the better.
fallenmonk @ 16
hear, hear!
This is somewhat off-topic, but I felt a need to stop by and say hello. Hi FDL community!
I posted a short clip from my screener copy of the Blog Wars doc featuring Connecticut Bob and Markos that I thought would be a fun diversion for everyone.
All in all, the film is awesome, and watching it makes me miss having Jane in state. Speaking of which, if any of y’all are in the CT area, Connecticut Bob is having a big screening party in Milford tomorrow night, for which you must RSVP at blogwars@yahoo.com
“An executive staff member at New Life Church in Colorado Springs has resigned after admitting to sexual misconduct and other mistakes – the result of an examination of the staff’s moral makeup after the ouster of senior pastor Ted Haggard, a church official said Sunday. Christopher Beard, who headed a ministry that trained young adults in leadership skills, stepped down Friday after admitting to “a series of decisions displaying poor judgment, including one incident of sexual misconduct several years ago,” said Rob Brendle, an associate pastor at the 14,000- member church.”
When it rains it pours at this fundie church!
Hooooray Spazeboy!!
Thanks for all your work for Ned!
spazeboy!
Hi spazeboy!
Thank you for all you did for us, your passion and for the clip!
hi spazeboy, thanks for that!
Per rwcole at 1:37
Ted Haggard’s Minion Ousted for Sexual Misconduct
I have to come around here more often! You’ve already refilled my ego tank. ;)
John Casper @ 20
Eureka Springs, AR @ 21
angie @ 22
TeddySanFran @ 23
Argh, pass the brain bleach. That picture of Tauscher, Lieberman and DeLay lining up to endorse whatever half-assed thing Bush was doing. Well, a picture really *is* worth a thousand words.
ROTF over that last pic, Jane. Where is Santorum in that one? She’s just hangin’ with a bad crowd. (”My friends are always putting him dowwwn.” )
Too, too funny.
today snow said the whitehous is not blockong leverette’s writing
as far as I can see this is with a release from any gag order he has been issued by the white house
he needs to jump on this and release his writing before the whitehouse rescinds this statement
some legal authority needs to contact leverette and get that writing while the gettin is good
Thanks Jane. My Rep is finally getting the attention she deserves.
rwcole @
19
I thought the reason they went all fundy and evangelical is because they needed to live by Gawd’s rules to be moral. (At least that’s what my fundy family keeps telling me.) How’s that working out for them?
Well, thank gawd they’re all about to be raptured.
perris @ 28
It remains to be seen if Leverette actually gets his authorization letter.
if an official sLooseheadprop @ 31
if an official spokesperson tells leverette there is nothing resricting his writing, I am pretty sure that qualifies as a release
Looseheadprop @ 31
I guess they can say that because it isn’t the WH blocking the writing. It’s the CIA. Pass the buck and all that.
“Nope, nope, can’t do aaaaaanything about it. It’s all the CIA’s fault. They’re the ultimate authority. Take it up with them.”
perris,
Leverette may want to claim that, since it’s on tape. However, normally you get a rather formal letter.
Looseheadprop @ 34
I believe an official spokesperson making the statement is documentation enough
a letter only documents the agreement, if there is other documentation it’s just as valid
he now has documentation and needs to jump on it before it’s rescinded
Did somebody say “idiot nephew“?
Portia
Yeah–guess the fundies get ta doin bad things with their dicks jest like the people they attack….
“Can’t help it- my dick made me do it!”
Like I would trust Tony Snow’s word on anything.
Suuuuuuuure.
Bustednuckles @ 38
/don’t need to trust him. he’s an official spokesperson and he has given leverette documetnation that’s actionable
he needs to act immediately
If keeping Lieberman in the Democratic fold has anything to do with Harry Reid’s asinine willingness to trust Bush and escalate the war, I wish our elected representatives would just get over with it, let Lieberman cross lines and let Cheney have the tie-breaking vote. It would pay off in the long-run (’08). Lieberman is not worth it.
perris @ 35
Certaily, that argument can be made. I’m just saying that it deviates from a fairly formal procedure. If I were him, I would probably do just as you suggest
rwcole @ 37
My point is that if you can’t control your dick, even with Gawd’s help, why get all over the case of the decent, hardworking Presbyterian or Atheist who can?
My fundy family makes fun of any religion and sect that isn’t strictly fundamentalist.
Oh, hell, the real problem is that they can’t evaluate data.
naschkatze @ 40
I thinkJane’s point is more nuanced and substantial. Leiberman is not returning in triumph. He is radioactive and a liability to be seen with. Lamont may not have won the election, but i don’t think Leiberman won either.
Difference is, Lamont came out of it all shiny and pretty and can always run again. Holy Joe, not so much
BREAKING
For TeddySanFran
On Tucker they had a segment about the woman runner in India who was evaluated and told she was a man.
After some discussion about how difficult a conversation this might be, Tucker ended by saying, I think fairly seriously, that it involved “transgender rights”. It wasn’t a throwaway laugh line, but just another interesting aspect to the story.
They also had a segment on legalizing marijuana, and Tucker said he wasn’t necessary arguing against that. Wonder how long til he gets taken to the principal’s office for a scolding.
LOL
Leahy as chair of Judiciary, however, is showing he alone might be worth whatever petting RGJoe wants between now and 1/4/07.
It’s not easy for me to say this, but any accommodation Lieberman requires in this interim stage for the 110th, between elected and organized, I’m for letting Harry Reid skate. And as Christy will tell you, I’m not one for letting our incoming Majority Leader skate. But we’ve got to get the Senate organized under Democrats on 1/4/07. After that, there’s no shortage of buses I’m happy to see RGJoe thrown under (metaphorically speaking, sorta).
I’ve even laid off making fun of his McCain-matching leather flight jacket ensemble, chickenhawk that he is.
In punaise’s absence, however, I will post his daily affirmation: My contempt for Joe Lieberman will never abate.
naschkatze at 1:57 pm, not sure where you’re getting this about Reid.
Wrt escalation, the only option open is a temporary “surge” by speeding up redeployments and extending current tours. I don’t mean to diminish how bad this would be, but Powell just came out in support of the Iraq
Slow-LearnersStudy Group. I don’t think most of the GOP supports McCain or Bush on “surge.”Losing control of the Senate, makes it much easier for the GOP to block House investigations by Waxman, Conyers, Dingle …..
I would argue that putting up with Lieberman (and I don’t mean to diminish how bad he is) is worth giving the House investigations unfettered authority.
egregious @ 44
I only overheard Tucker and his sidekick chatting with the ever-present Uncle Pat Buchanan about DeeCee parties, and hollered at my teevee, “What about the fundraising parties Mary Matalin is having alongside your DAD, Tucker, to benefit Scooter?”
Tucker never answers me. And thus I leave the room, missing the important tranny news!
Ha! They know the writing is on the wall. The blogosphere has created an instant accountability factor to ANY transgressions by those who work “for the people” and they know that the 2006 elections were just a taste of what is to come. No more free passes and spin is going to become more and more difficult as more and more people turn to the internet to get the real scoop about politicos…
naschkatze @ 40
Ok, I have a problem with this line of thought. The last 6 years has been marked with people who refused to do the right thing when they had a chance and like two paths diverged in a yellow wood, “that made all of the difference.”
Sandra Day O’Connor voted to put Chimpy in charge so she could retire. George Tenant knew something bad was coming down the pike but didn’t go public before 9/11. Colin Powell knew Iraq War II would be a frickin’ disaster and he didn’t resign. And Hillary Rodham Clinton and pals voted for the IWR even though they had to know that the whole thing was a lie just so they could save their seats. (For Hillary, this is a completely stupid move because she didn’t have to face election until the war was a proven catastrophe. She could have looked like a wise and prescient leader. Now she looks like a craven, calculating, cowlardly triangulator.)
So, no, I don’t think letting Lieberman go just so the babies can have their way is a good idea. In fact, we must fight such a thing tooth and nail and show the American public just how important it is that he stick to his committment and caucus with us no matter what a loathsome, unsavory, unprincipled creature he is. It is the right thing.
That last photo is such a perfect illustration of Bush’s idea of compromise. To other people, compromise means you give me some of what I want, and I give you some of what you want. To Bush, it means you give me all of what I want, and I let you stand in the front row at the photo op!
rwcole @
37
When I worked as a corrections administrator, I interviewed a fair number of fundamentalist clergy passing through our system for sexual abuse of minors. From answers I would get to questions on motivation, the common thread was convincing somebody dangerously inappropriate (like a fourteen yo girl, for instance) into acting. Then the perp would counsel the victim afterward of their common need to seek forgiveness, most often through prayer directed by the perp to the almighty.
There may be some physiological dynamic involved here beyond the sex or the adrenyline rush pathological criminals often get.
egregious
Tucker’s a libertarian- and probably a pot blower as well- no surprise there..
Dan Abrams is running things now at the network and seems to prefer ratings to ideology…They’re doin better since they got on the Bush bashing train..
wow is it cold in the bay area today!
Ed*ard Teller @ 52
Yeah, by sullying the innocent, they try to convince themselves they are not so bad after all, because “we are all sinners”.
Therefore, if they convince the child that the child was a willing particpant and therefore “sinned” they re both on the same level and the pedophile gets to feel better about himself.
TeddySanFran @ 54
Freakishly warm in NY.
I cannot beleive it’s only a week until Christmas. We don’t even have the heat turned on at home
19.5 degrees F and snowing lightly with no wind. Perfect!
Just for clarification – I believe Reid’s position is accurately portrayed here:
Yesterday, incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said he could support a brief increase in troop levels but only as part of a plan for phased withdrawal.
His position has been described in headlines as approval for escalation but his actual statement (and all the MSM coverage I’ve been able to trace) notes that this is solely for 2-3 months while gearing up for withdrawal during 2007.
Not saying I agree or approve (I don’t) but just offering a fact check.
Teddy,
I feel like you are giving all of us an education about transgender issues, and I wanted you to know right away of this good news on national television. From a conservative.
I see many possibilities to link to libertarian-minded conservatives on particular issues. Big tent until we get the critical issues solved, then we can resume bickering amongst ourselves :)
TeddySanFran @
46
thanks, TSF!
rwcole @
19
Damn! They already scrubbed Christopher’s photo. Wanted to play round two of “GAY, or FEY?”
67 here in Virginia. I’ve got the door to the screen porch wide open. And record high temps in Moscow.
It’s helping me with winter depression anyway, silver lining dpt. Thanks to all who have asked how things are and thrown love my way. Much needed and appreciated.
rwcole @ 53
It’s still kind of shocking to hear things like this on regular tv. But I’ll get used to it!
Ed*ard Teller @ 52
Oh, I think they are truly sorry and remorseful. They believe they let God down. But the thing is, their faith doesn’t help prevent the crime in the first place. The psychological component may be that these are people of very strong appetites and passions and they are drawn to a very strict church in order to exercise some control over their appetites. But it doesn’t work because the church asks them to deny their sexuality. The Gospel of Thomas says “If you bring forth what is in you, that within you will save you. If you do not bring forth what is in you, that within you will destroy you.” Is it any wonder that the early church fathers wanted to purge this gospel? It doesn’t mesh with the idea of self denial.
Sooner or later, the perp is going to give in to those appetites. In a more mature atmosphere, he might have met a mature woman to have sex with. Or he might have found a boyfriend. When the new love interest is accepted by the community, there’s no reason to sneak around or try to influence impressionable adolescents. IMHO, the church is equally responsible for the crime. The set impossibly high standards for sexual beings to reach and they threaten those beings with ostracism if they fall out of line and become “worldly”. If you grow up in a fundy church and your whole family is involved, that could mean losing your family. It’s serious.
something tells me our pal Ellen is in for a lot of grief from us over the next 1.5ish years (until she loses her primary in June of 2008)
60 in Santa Barbara with warm sunshine and scattered clouds—and a nasty little wind off the ocean, bringing a bit of Teddy’s SF chill down the coast.
OT: Carlyle Group buys Building Materials Corporation.
Look for more troops and a renewed reconstruction effort in the new year.
Can you just HEAR the all listenin’ that the Bush Admin is doing. No more war profiteering here, hunh-unh.
Corporate opportunism at its best.
“Sure we f*cked up Iraq, and whether or not that was the plan, we’ve been called on it, but instead of owning up to failure, lets find opportunity here and make a few bucks.”
Sunny but cool in San Diego–I’d guess about 60.
TeddySanFran @
54
superficial comment: unless that’s some kind of sartorial gesture, it looks like it’s *ahem* really chilly in the photo at the top…
LHP — bingo.
OT – Ruth Bernhard, the great photographer and humanist died peacefully in her sleep earlier today at home in San Francisco.
Ansel Adams characterized Miss Ruth as the greatest photographer of the nude. I knew her just well enough to characterize her as a splendid human being with a rapier wit and immeasurable talent.
Jane,
You mean my 43?
Isn’t surge a code word for escalation?
Or is it a Canadian hockey player…
Jack
punaise @ 68
I thought they were buttons. Isn’t that a double breated jacket? You don’t think those are buttons on the front of the jacket?
Forget Leiberman! How in hell did that pix get on the toobz in the firts place?
roflmao
Matt Damon just said that he believes Dick Cheney has no personal moral courage…..
Said when it was Deadeye Dick’s time to fight he took 6 deferrments and said that he had “other priorities.
Booyah Matty Boy.
-GSD
All that Liebermannishness so close at hand must have excited dear Ellen!
Thanks for the kind words, all — I’d stepped away to WT’s place; she has some doozies up today….
Poppy Bush
A-lo, my name is Serge and Ah ‘em an ockey player.
Now throw me down the stairs my skates.
-GSD
Looseheadprop @ 73
actually, kemo was the first to keep us abreast of the situation:
kemo @
6
punaise @ 77
And John Ashcroft kept throwing curtains over her.
Looseheadprop @ 73
great typo – one step closer to double berated.
Has there been any research into possible primary challengers to Dear Ellen? If anybody has links to contenders, I’d sure like to start checking them out.
Connecticut in California, right over the Oakland Hills in 2008, what fun!
I would have thought that by now…by this late date folks in the blogosphere would have realised that coddling Joey the Liarmann is a losing proposition. The idea that progressives need him in the Dem caucus is short term idiocy and long term disaster.
Let him vote with the ReThugs, let him lie and pander.
As Shakespeare said it best: ‘The Truth will out…’
Our struggle against the forces behind Liarmann and Tauscher will be decades long and we will not win if we pander to the the sick creatures such as Liarmann and The Blonde Frog. When you make these sorts of arguments you are saying that you do not trust the citizenry to vote in their best interests. It’s true they do not always do so, but…
Coming off an election where the people spoke in the most progressive of tones in decades such and attitude is ignorant.
The people will continue to speak. We need to give them candidates who will listen.
If that means fighting and losing when a ‘Democrat’ is revealed to be a Bushista…
So be it.
You do not win if you do not fight.
if we’re going be all up in Tauscher’s business for the next 19 months, might not a naming contest be in order? Ole Sixty Grit is already assigned, but …
Pun
Don’t get up in Tauscher’s “business”- dangerous territory.
Very dangerous to “all” be up in Tauscher’s business…Is there room for a meeting up there?
The far right fundamentalists have wasted a lot of energy trying to stop the evil liberal agendas from destroying their world. They are doing a fantastic job of that all by themselves.
punaise and rwcole
you guys are killing me. I am supposed to bee working and you keep making me laugh. My paralegal thinks I’ve lost my mind.
I clicked on the first link. Even more damning than the top photo w/Lieberman is the one below imo. Look at her face. The expression is one of someone either somewhat deranged or blotto. And look at the faces of those two women in the audience. One has her eyes closed and seems to be trying to keep it together, the other looks like she’s thinking WTF?! And this is what Tauscher posts on her own official website?!
cit
So you’d give up the senate in order to temporarily embarass Joe a little?
Yer a PURIST man!
Maybe Ellen PreMerkel – as in Bush practicing his grope moves on Rep. Tauscher before flying to Europe?
Teddy no names yet and we have some time before a challenger needs to emerge. First we need to do more exposing of Tauscher.
I’m suddenly partial to The Blonde Frog as a nickname for Dear Ellen. How say you that en francais, pun?
Julia- Please don’t expose Tauscher–this is a public health issue!
Tucker Carlson says Colin Powell is more responsible for getting us into the war than anyone other than Bush.
punaise @ 60
and now for mine:
My contempt for Joe Lieberman knows no bounds.
Even more responsible for the Iraq War than Colin Powell is Scooter Libby– for whom Tucker’s Dad is raising defense funds!
“The days when you could hire the idiot nephew to run the netroots component of your campaign are long gone.” That definately limits the job prospects for Pierce Bush.
rwcole @ 89
joe is a republican, there is no amoung of persuasion that is going to get him to vote with us when his vote will count
I like retelling this story;
when I was young, my parents would often get for the hilidays anything I asked for…we were lower middle class, but they did whatevery the could to make their children happy
anyway, when they did get me something I cherished, the would at times try to use it as a punishment if I did something wrong
even as a child, I would never let that fly.
whenever they witheld a gift as punishment, as soon as the gift was returned I destroyed it
needless to say, they didn’t do that too often, but that’s the way I am, a gift is something that is mine, it’s not something that you can withhold
same thing with joe
he cannot withhold being a democrat, he is or he is not.
I say force his hamd, MAKE him stand on the sidelines
I nominate [danGerstein] to run net-interference for Dear Ellen.
neurophius @ 94
tucker’s wrong, the brass ring goes to cheney
then bush, then powel
TeddySanFran @ 91
la grenouille blonde
LHP – LOL, just so long as we don’t get you fired….
Julia Rosen @
91
Julia,
I love your blog site. I almost took up rugby in my 20s, but stayed with tennis and rock climbing. Now at 60, I’m sore enough from other things, maybe staying away from rugby was a very good idea.
Good luck in California.
neurophius @ 94
that’s the spirit
punaise @ 82
And a slogan: We shall beat our swords into Tauschers.
TeddySanFran @ 80
Julia Rosen @ 90
Give her a chance to betray the new Democratic majority a few times…
punaise @ 101
I am not firable. I am a partner. However, one leads by example. If I want a workforce of diligent, reliable, non giggly workers–I should not be foolin’ around on the toobz myself.
punaise @
65
punaise, what you say is the truth! And the trajectory she makes to a primary loss is clear at the beginning –
just look at who she named to be her chief of staff — Katie Merrill.
If y’all haven’t yet poked around in the links, and links to links, provided by Jane above, really, don’t miss this one –
http://www.politicalcortex.com…../0461/2328
Beginning further down the page where the narration of Ellen Tauscher’s worst week in politics yet commences, you’ll read of all the boo-boos Katie Merrill made.
This shows exactly what kind of judgment Tauscher has. That being the case, it’s evident where her political trajectory is headed for ‘08.
She’s got the same sensitivity to, and understanding of, the netroots and grassroots that were exhibited by her hero and mentor, Joe Liebermann.
Should be fun.
there must be a good reason for the chain link fence backdrop in the photo.
“Unchain my Pork”
$100 says Joe’s nipples are hard too, you just can’t see them under the dark jacket.
She probably took it down because she realized her nipples were showing.
OT– Man, Christy Todd Whitman is still spewing and defending bushco and her reign (on Tucker).
Guiliani, McCain and Ridge are the ones she likes…
blergh.
how come we didn’t have a firedoglake campaign to win a catagory in the blog awards?
anyway, think progress, koss and raw story each won their catagories
all must reads every day
angie @ 112
Witman got sooo screwed over by shrub. She’s defending him?
OT – 2006 Weblog Award winners
Wow, that last picture at the DHS bill signing is stunning.
angie @ 112
Amazing that she can go on the teevee and not be challenged about all the post-911 deaths among Ground Zero workers due to her knuckling under and calling it a safe workplace. But then again, it’s Tucker, for whom my hostility shall never abate.
Looseheadprop @ 114
oh ya, being another good soldier for the pahtay. She said that yeah, they were interested in alternative energy but after 9/11 they were all focused on preventing another one… no mention, though, of the proclamations that she personally issued that the toxic air and debris in NY was “no problem”.
Tucker: doesn’t Powell have to say he’s sorry for leading us to war under false pretenses?
And Buchanan basically agrees.
Looseheadprop @ 114
Christy thinks she’s “moderate” and she wrote a book all about how the GOP needs to be “moderate” instead of extremist.
So these are the three guys she thinks are “moderate” — Rudy the Hero, St. McCain, and Tom “the Rock” Ridge. Ha!
She may not be out in front in the Parade of Fascists, but she certainly brings up the rear. Christine Todd Whitmann is a phony. I know — she used to be my governor, years ago. She’s an enabler of corporate crony fascists, and a big, fat phony.
The Onion:
Thousands More Dead In Continuing Iraq Victory
America marks three and a half years of winning in Iraq, and nearly 3,000 victory deaths
December 18, 2006 | Issue 42•51
angie @ 118
Christy “No Problem” Whitman
OT -
The PBS News Hour is just starting a segment on the ICE raids at Swift in Greeley.
egregious @ 119
I want someone to confront powel with his statement concerning those aluminum tubes
he actually said “why would I show the weakest part of the pitch”, or something to that effect
so I want someone to confront him directly on that
Jane, I found a car for Kobe!!
Looseheadprop @ 87
Wear a net for your work :)
We have all lost our minds this year, if not before, watching what has happened to our once great nation.
TeddySanFran @ 124
I thought Kobe liked to drive a stick…..
Waitaminute, maybe it’s
fetch a stick…
I’m so confused.
OT:
the right wing vultures recede into the shadows…
Hey Jane, is it too late to enter the Caress Float in the Rose Parade?
Bustednuckles @ 127
standard transmission for a standard poodle
Bustednuckles @ 127
The confusion is understandable. I’m sure with all the energy Kobe puts into FETCHING that stick, it ends up looking like that doggie just DRIVES that sucker across the yard and into the ground.
Oh, thank lhp for your post today!
Christy is an enormous disappointment; she should have bailed (with Powell) and made her protests known if she really believed in what she purported to.
From wiki:
(emphasis mine)
Perris #113
FDL does not need a campaign because it is the Best anyway. (but Raw Story is great.)
Twisted Martini @ 129
Oooooh, what a GREAT IDEA!
The Caress Float.
I can see it already. Tee Hee. OK, who in California is a papier mache artiste?
Maybe if Kobe gets the FDR car from the auction Teddy linked to, it could be lent out for Caress Float service.
The bullet-proofing could be handy. As we know, those Dangerstein wannabe types are dangerous.
new scarecrow thread
Angie @ 132,
No wonder she is defending Bush today on Tucker, with immunity denied, her next saving avenue is a Presidential Pardon.
angie @ 132
Also from the wiki: the spelling of the shortened form of her name is “Christie,” not “Christy.”
Your opening line brought me up short. “What’s angie doing dissing one of the proprietors of the Lake?” Then I realized you were not talking about Redd, but Whitman.
That’s one typo we need to be careful of around here.
Tucker says leftist bloggers are scary.
I say we invite him over to talk with us. [We would need to be on Book Salon-level courtesy.]
I think he could be persuaded that there are those of us who are civilized folk on the progressive blogs.
Even if we don’t create a new ally, we soften the opposition to us as the crazy people.
Worth a try?
Beware the liebercooties.
That shit will kill your political career…
1,366 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND..
Citizen Siun and the Firepup Patriots:
I am no lover of Harry Reid but I believe that his statement of support for the increase in troop levels with the qualifications stated was a brilliant political move…it forges a bond with the Generals and gives ‘em cover with the majority in Congress against an increasingly bunkered White House and State Dept. Also, and maybe more importantly, McCain’s plan to use the old Nazi “stabbed in the back” line is now dead on arrival.
If you look at the pre-emptive moves of the incoming Democratic leadership, the field of battle is shrinkin’ for Clusterfuck and the crypto-fascists. First Rangle proposes a draft, which Nancy P publicly swats down lettin’ the Democrats have both ends of the debate. The fascists can’t get the increased troop levels for a permanent committment without goin to the Congress for more money and the alternative is a draft which they have already been painted into a corner as opposin’ but the Democratic leadership takes credit for stoppin’ it. Secondly, the fascists bailed out on the old session without continued budget authorizations which could have covered any force increases. This gives the Democrats complete budgetary control over how much the military will get for the troop increase…this makes it impossible for the administration to get funds for a long term increase in forces since the Democrats will authorize only funds for the “evacuation” cover as stipulated by Harry Reid.
I have a great deal of respect for incomin’ committee chairs in both houses of Congress but especially in the House. Nancy Pelosi knows where her power comes from…she keeps her span of control manageable thru her political alliances with the committee chairs and they, in turn, crack the whip on the DINOs and blue dogs on their committees.
I think we’re gunna see masterful political management in the House of Representatives…Nancy P knows what she’s doin’ and the folks she’s got managin’ the committees are the best on either side of the isle.
KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE POPCORN, THIS IS GUNNA BE A HOOT!!!
I hope, when the time comes, you will take equal and accurate aim at Barbara “Joe is my friend” Boxer.
Tauscher may be more out there as a greedy corporate whore, but Boxer is no less a whore. Please, I hope you will save some of your ire for Boxer.
TeddySanFran @
14
Barbara Fucking Boxer.
If your are nearby and would like to thank Ned Lamont and his wife in person:
DATE: 11 January, 2007
TIME: 6:30 – 9:00 PM
PLACE: Bar Nightclub
254 Crown Street
New Haven, CT 06511
RSVP ON LINE: http://www.nedlamont…
We owe him a debt of gratitude.
ask and ye shall receive — bless the wayback machine
https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/elhathaw/web/firedoglake/
whoops, Peterr @ 137; I shall remember that!
Thanks, Earl. That’s fabulous.
Speaking of Ol Joe, do you ever get the feeling he is running for VP with either McCain or Hillary???
Looseheadprop @
74
i wasn’t gonna go there but, maybe it just shows how she feels about joe …….
perris @
100
wolfowitz goes next to cheney. then elliot abrams. maybe then powell ……
DeafByPills @
111
so, “the blonde frog” was seen casting longing glances at ………
or, “the blonde frog”, also known as “nippy” ……..
Looseheadprop @
114
battered minion syndrome ………
once that happens irrational statements like admiration for Ridge are bound to follow. probably has kind words for heck-of-a-job brownie as well ……
boadicea @
139
i can see the grafitti now: “nippy’s got liebercooties”. has a nice, spicy aroma …….
If I could have just one wish for the new year to be granted, I wish for Lieberman to vanish. Poof. Dust!
You sure you want to mess with someone who can nip through a jacket? She isn’t even flexing.