The General writes a letter to the utterly useless warbloggers, Officer Floppy and Our Lady of the Concentration Camps, whose sheer obsessive stupidity and wrongness continues to prove hazardous to the health of many:
It looks like the francosphere is in full bore celebration mode now that Jamil Hussein's arrest has made you look like fools. I hope you don't let their laughter get to you. It doesn't matter that you wrote dozens and dozensof posts claiming that Hussein was a fictional AP source. It's the reason you did it that's important. Hussein's quotes to the AP were losing the war for us. You stopped him. I think that makes you heroes.
Think about it. Nobody gave a damn about Hussein until you started raising hell about him. Obviously, someone in DC heard about it and decided to get the goods on AP's treachery. They asked the Iraqi Interior Ministry (can we end this fiction and call it what it is, the Mahdi Army, now that we've all seen the hanging video?) to look into it, and, now he's sitting in their jail being interrogated with one of those old Sears arc welders.
I hope his capture doesn't affect your plans to go to Iraq. That'd be a shame, especially now that you've made it possible to win this war. Heck, you ought to go there to at least pick up his head if for no other reason. I'm sure the Interior Ministry Mahdi Army will have prepared it for you by the time you arrive. Wouldn't it be great to have it to show off at the next Pajamas Media Christmas party? While you're in Iraq, you could also spend an afternoon taunting Hussein's now-fatherless children by poking them with sticks. I bet you'd enjoy that.
I hope the General is not holding out for something resembling — oh, accountability or shame on the part of Malkin. She'll admit she was wrong about same time she admits she was wrong about the John Kerry photo, which is to say never.
(graphic courtesy TBogg)
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FITZ!
FIREDOGLAKE!
hehe
it’s good to be first
anyway, get this, raw story is breaking the following
no story yet, but man, THAT is good news, THE PARTY HAS JUST BEGUN
“Our Lady of the Concentration Camps”
At first, I started laughing. Then, I stopped.
Who bank rolls this political gutter snipe (Malkin)?
If Ms. Malkin had a sense of shame, I doubt she’d be who she is. She’d also admit to being wrong now and then, because let’s face it, even the best of us are.
Oklahoma kiddo @
4
Wingnut welfare’s finest!
Jane Hamsher @
6
the WWF?
I’ve got a bit of a soft spot for Malkin.
…
on the sole of my shoe.
any word if the gutter snipe is still going to Iraq?
OT, via Raw Story:
Dam, Can the bitch be charged with something?
from the TPM Kerry photo link:
Does smacking these wingnut welfare recipients feel like whack-a-mole?
That other dude, the plagiarist, hasn’t poked his head up in awhile, has he? Must still be lodged in his ass.
I call her JesseMichelle because, you know, hubby really does most of the heavy lifting. And, yes, she is vile, vile, vile.
OT – White House visitor records closed
Like every other tempest in a tea pot achor baby and pals cook up, there will be a few sputterings and mumbles and then they will not speak of it any more…
Cujo359 @ 4
if being wrong was like the best of us cheney is the bestest becuase he has been wrong on everything, even more wrong then bush
Jamil lives — here’s his blog.
http://jamilhussein.com/
EPU’d, but OnT here:
TeddySanFran @ 90
Seriously, the article is incomprehensible if you haven’t been following this deal, which apparently I have not.
A little explanation would go a long ways. What’s the background?
CT VOTER @ 20
Bob Geiger wrote a good summary of this story:
http://bobgeiger.blogspot.com/…..paign.html
Senate Regrets the Vote to Enter Iraq
ABC News decided to survey the views of the senators who served in 2002, most of whom remain in the Senate. The survey indicates that those senators say that if they knew then what they know now, President Bush would never have been given the authority to use force in Iraq.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Poli…..amp;page=1
CT VOTER @ 20
Media Matters on the story.
Kelven @ 16
“I’m a little teapot
- Shirk and pout -
Fly off the handle
Where’s my out?”
Oklahoma kiddo @ 22
we spoke about this on a previous thread
I think there are republicans that are just itching to throw the president under the bus
he’s abused them, taken them from power, I think they believe they can hold office through the next elections if they take control of the uncontrolable boykin
I beleive they’re just waitng for the chance to jump ship, time to start negotiating with them is now
CT VOTER @ 20
Alls I kin say is that I admire anybody who actually has the stomach to read any of Malkin’s stuff. I realize it has to be done. I’m just glad it’s not me.
Arianna writes:
I’ve just arrived back home in Los Angeles. Here are the rest of my D.C. downloads from the Day Democrats Took Back Control of Capitol Hill:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..37929.html
TeddySanFran @
19
these guys have such a giant hardon, don’t they?
WaPo reports on the Pelosi/Reid letter, discusses Old Lord McCain’s AEI speech, and misidentifies the junior Senator from Connecticut as (D-Conn).
twolf1 @
15
This sounds (reads) exactly like the signing statement smoke screen the Bush admin has been blowing. This week’s postal mail-opening revelation has made me dig around again on the whole signing statement deal.
It sucks. Bush writes statements that completely counter not just the law Congress passed, but in some cases counter, through this bill and statement, existing law. It seems to be a case of daring anyone to challenge this new authority, or figuring it will end up in federal court —which means years of delay while the courts grind, or counting that they will get a nice conservative judge/SCOTUS decision.
Now this “deal” memo to stop any conclusive evidence on who visited and when. The WH visitor’s log, for Christ’s sake. It’s like, “we’ve got a deal that you can’t touch the data, so piss up a rope.”
It just sucks. Feels powerless to stop.
OldCoastie @ 28
Not sure I’d choose “giant” as a modifier, OC — perhaps “at-capacity” would be appropriate?
TeddySanFran @
19
that “fine report is really funny, a run down on joe and john;
funny stuff
Anybody check out Redstate’s opening graphic today.. “Democratic Socialists take back Congress” is the headline, with a big Soviet propaganda poster and hammer-and-sickle for good effect. So that’s how they see us….
whatever type of hard on it is, Teddy, it scares the hell outta me…
OT — hi all. I have a diary up at Kos about “minority rights” for the Republicans. Recommends would be appreciated, if anyone is so inclined!
Ooh…Athenawise beat me to it, after Oklahoma kiddo asks who bankrolls the guttersnipe.
Maglalang, is really just a brainless human meat puppet for Jesse Malkin — and I’ll bet he’s a Likudnik/neo-conservative to the core.
Probably has a hefty life insurance policy out on Maglalang, too. Maybe he’s been itching for a divorce, but figures he’d get a three-fer: makes points with his Likudnik neo-con peeps, avoids a messy divorce, and bags some cash, too.
If she were smart, she’d change her trip to go visit home, and I do mean the Philippines, the place where she also has a default citizenship.
/snark
I want the Dems to get out the boot and step on those Repub knuks hard.
Fuck em’
Fuck em’ all.
Oh foofers. I forgot that L*kudn*k is a bad word that will get you put in mod.
Shooogarp — in my heart, I feel your pain!
Bill Moyers says:
But America needs something more right now than a “must-do” list from liberals and progressives. America needs a different story. The very morning I read the message from the progressive activist, the New York Times reported on Carol Ann Reyes. Carol Ann Reyes is 63. She lives in Los Angeles, suffers from dementia and is homeless. Somehow she made her way to a hospital with serious, untreated needs. No details were provided as to what happened to her there, except that the hospital–which is part of Kaiser Permanente, the largest HMO in the country–called a cab and sent her back to skid row. True, they phoned ahead to workers at a rescue shelter to let them know she was coming. But some hours later a surveillance camera picked her up “wandering around the streets in a hospital gown and slippers.” Dumped in America.
It is only rarely remembered that the definition of democracy immortalized by Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address had been inspired by Theodore Parker, the abolitionist prophet. Driven from his pulpit, Parker said, “I will go about and preach and lecture in the city and glen, by the roadside and field-side, and wherever men and women may be found.” He became the Hound of Freedom and helped to change America through the power of the word. We have a story of equal power. It is that the promise of America leaves no one out. Go now, and tell it on the mountains. From the rooftops, tell it. From your laptops, tell it. From the street corners and from Starbucks, from delis and from diners, tell it. From the workplace and the bookstore, tell it. On campus and at the mall, tell it. Tell it at the synagogue, sanctuary and mosque. Tell it where you can, when you can and while you can–to every candidate for office, to every talk-show host and pundit, to corporate executives and schoolchildren. Tell it–for America’s sake.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070122/moyers
Oklahoma kiddo, thanks for that from Bill Moyers. What can I say? The story of our times is what we have done to the least of us. Under Republican rule — but with Democratic compliance, it must be said — human beings have been relegated to sub-citizen status in the USA while the corporate beings have become the “people” in of the people, by the people, for the people.
This guy Ed Rogers, the Republican strategist, now babbling on “Hardball” is such a pompous butt.
Sharpton says on Hardball also, that he thinks Hillary will come out against the war.
It must be true if Brit says so: http://mediamatters.org/items/200701050004
I still think Malkin does us a favor by being.. well.. herself. Although I still think Pammy’s more fun.
The great “surge” strategy (send a few more troops for a while and throw some money at the problem for good measure)- is a continuation of the GENERAL Clusterfuck strategy for bein president—play for spin and political advantage- and damn actual problems or solutions- they- apparently- are someone else’s problem.
“hillary come out against the war”
Well she said in December that if she knew what she knows now she never would have voted for going in. Guess she’s agin it!
Blub @ 44
One of my best friend’s claim to fame is she has never set foot in a Walmart. I have never watched a Pammy video. Just haven’t been able to bring myself to do it. I’m sure it’s edifying; I just can’t.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/…..for-surge/
Ed Rogers & the missus live a very sweet lifestyle outside DC in a 18,000 (?) sq foot mcmansion, I read recently but just can’t remember where. Anyone?
I know at least one 53-year-old officer in the reserves who got a call up notice a while back. This 9,000 must be scraping the bottom of the proverbial barrel… and I have to think that there’ll be political repercussions to mobilizing middle-aged Wall Street i-bankers who have their congressman’s number on speed-dial. Not to mention the symbolism of the fact that the guy commanded troops in Vietnam… the last war we lost.
mandrake @
48
Malkins decision to play chicken wrt adventures in Iraq have caused no end of mirth on my end.
Ship her off and let her play reporter.
The first mortar round that goes off should be enough for her to decide she needs to change her
underwearmind.A.B. Stoddard is saying on Tucker that she thinks “there will be a unified attack” on any “surge”.
um.. he just reminded me that he’s 59
Lou Costello @ 43
Some folks will take it that way, yes.
What’s funny is how credulously the accepted the first Iraqi government response that Hussein did not exist, given the state that government is in at the moment. If our own government had told them something they weren’t willing to believe, they’d have been all over that one. Our government often doesn’t know what it’s doing (in the sense that it doesn’t know what activities and policies it’s implementing), and we’ve had this government for quite some time. Iraq’s government is still in its infancy, and not exactly a unified one at that. Yet in the J. Hussein case they accepted the report uncritically.
My guess is, the Imperial Deciderer will just keep on firing generals until he finds a coterie that’ll agree with him.
Oklahoma kiddo @
52
Amigos,
I fear las Malkinistas, they weel pay no price for their lies, although their loss of credibilty becomes just another block een the building narrative that thees blogsfera derecha,
she ees cracked.
When eet comes to las Malkinistas, however, thees gomberros just want more and more rrred meat.
They do no even care eef she smells a leetle feeshy, eh?
so.
rwcole @ 46
Years after it started, she’s against starting it. That’s interesting, but the critical question as I see it is when is she going to be in favor of ending it? Now, or two years after it’s over? So far, the answer looks like “two years after”.
Swpoa says:
There’s not much doubt anymore. Proving that a leopard can change his hair plugs spots after all, Joe Biden, a charter member of the gaggle of “national security Democrats” who used to be obsessed with looking hawkish at all costs, is aiming to become the spiritual heir to Eugene McCarthy in the 2008 presidential race. The Washington Post reports this morning:
I hate to say it, but whenever I hear any Iraqi government official speaking I afford him about as much credibility as the old Iraqi Information Minister, Mohammed Saheed Sahaf.
They have been so used to a government without a shred of honesty under Saddam that they are at home in the newly Bushified Iraqi government which has as much cred as Saddam did.
-GSD
Oklahoma kiddo @
27
What… No Weenies?
Critics slam possible Iraq troop boost
Blub @ 53
Interesting. I thought I remembered that, except for general officers, military service requirements ended at thirty years’ of service and recall eligibility. If he’s 59 he should have been past that point, one would think.
Whether I’m right on that or wrong, though, you’re right, Blub, this means they’re definitely checking the back of every shelf in the manpower pantry. I think one of the reasons the draft was used so much to fill out the ranks in Vietnam is that when you start drafting the reserves, you start drafting people who really count as far as politicians are concerned.
These Malkinites are so nuts! Sorry for bringing Jeff Gannon back from his coffin at latenite last night, gang.
The Wankosphere is still claiming that photo proves the military hates Kerry. Why? Because all the soldiers they’ve talked to hate Kerry.
Malkin is useless. If not for her physical appearance, she would have no venue to vent.
Is Hillary being ‘the best she can be’ on Iraq?
Chertoff ruins another Bush tallking point.
If we fight them over there, we won’t have to fight them over here.
Unless of course there are homegrown terrorists.
But, I thought that democracies don’t produce terrorists?
I’m sofa king confused.
-GSD
David Ehrenstein @
64
We, the undersigned U.S. soldiers in Baghdad, hate John Kerry!
signed,
Sgt. Cherry
Spec. Pickins
PFC O’Suckup
CPL Brown-Nose
feel free to add names to the list….
twolf1 @ 61
Wow. This bit caught my attention:
“I don’t think there was a sense that case had been made,” said Coleman, from Minnesota.
If Coleman gets it, it’s pretty damn obvious, I think.
[Sorry for repeating this, but it was in EPU-land in a previous thread.] I wrote a couple of days ago on my blog that we were going to have to impeach Bush in order to get out of Iraq before 2009. I was expecting at least a few remarks along the lines of “Do you really think that’s necessary? Can’t we …?” Instead, nothing, nada. It’s like we here on this side of the political spectrum accept this already, and any folks who are in the middle and reasonable are probably wondering if that’s what it might come down to.
[Anyway, back to the present.] It’s starting to look like even the not-so-reasonable people are becoming alarmed. I think the Congress needs to get cracking and explain to Bush, in no uncertain terms, that the Iraq war is over, at least in terms of what the outcome will be.
Cujo359 @
57
Do the answers to your questions depend on whether the year is a number evenly divisible by 4?
Us too.
-General Mills
-Col. Sanders
-Major Appliances
-Private Parts
-Corporal Punishment
So my party (Dems) is going to cause all kinds of ‘commotion’ on the Iraq war, but refuse to take measures to cut off funding for it?
GSD @ 71
-Captain Crunch
-Surgent Slaughter
-Rear Admiral Haggard
Stephen Parrish, CPA @ 70
I think in Senator Clinton’s case, the answer is “yes”. The next such year, BTW, is 2008. She doesn’t have much time to get two years behind. I think the time for an exploratory committee is now.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 72
How about this: They should cut off funding for private contractors. If the troops need to be fed, stop outsourcing it! When the private war profiteers are cut off, the need to be at war will go away.
The Secretary of State, of late, seems awfully ‘down’ in the many pix ops of her I have seen recently. Is it just me seeing this?
OK,
The scene of the goon squad in Crawford last week was a bit eerie.
Looked like they were marching off to the gallows.
-GSD
P.S.
The latest rumour on Iraq is that Moqtada al Sadr was personally in on the Saddam lynch mob.
I make no judgements, but boy oh boy, Iraq is THE place for palace intrigue.
Skippy is encouraging folks to write to NBC anchor, Brian Williams, about his use of “democrat party”.
LindaR @ 75
How about this? At least according to that piece of paper, the Congress has the power to declare war. It should also have the power to undeclare it if it chooses. Pass a declaration that the war is over. They don’t need to defund anything. If Bush doesn’t comply, impeach him.
Actually, a lot of call-up notices are going out to people they’re not supposed to (remember the 70-something year retireee who got one and went to the press about it a few months ago?). They don’t make them go, in the end of course, but I think it’s indicative of the Pentagon’s desperation. This situation is really just getting pathetic.
Cujo359 @
62
Oklahoma kiddo @ 75
I think she’s sad that Gwen Ifill denied their “well-documented friendship” in a November WaPo chat in response to some cheeky SanFranciscan’s question. Since then, the shoeshopper’s not looked happy. At least MrDeathSquad is coming to her rescue, though! Fun times!
LindaR @
75
Easier said than done. For instance – KBR replaced KP when Gerry Ford was president. Some aspects of privatization which came in with the all-volunteer Army have been going on now for over 30 years. How this reliance on such contracts have been handled under the Bushista regime is another matter, and deserves the most thorough investigation in the history of our country. But the logistics for having the Army feed itself simply don’t exist.
rwcole @ 46
Yeah. If she would have know then that it would be more politically advantageous to vote against it, she would have.
As it was, she thought the way to pander was to vote for – to our everlasting shame and despair.
Her physical appearance? She looks like busboy at a two-bit Chinese restaurant.
Dammit.
This was going to be the topic of my Late Nite post.
Back to the drawing board.
David Ehrenstein @ 84
I think she looks more like a busboy with an inordinate shoe fetish.
TRex @ 85
I’m hoping you may be able to conjure up a paste eater or two.
GSD…
Perhaps the Secretary of State with her oil tanker gone, and her PhD. in irrelevant subject matter no longer sees the value of toadyism. And thus she has become a victim of melancholia.
Cujo359 @ 69
If Coleman gets it, it’s pretty damn obvious, I think.
[Sorry for repeating this, but it was in EPU-land in a previous thread.] I wrote a couple of days ago on my blog that we were going to have to impeach Bush in order to get out of Iraq before 2009. I was expecting at least a few remarks along the lines of “Do you really think that’s necessary? Can’t we …?” Instead, nothing, nada. It’s like we here on this side of the political spectrum accept this already, and any folks who are in the middle and reasonable are probably wondering if that’s what it might come down to.
[Anyway, back to the present.] It’s starting to look like even the not-so-reasonable people are becoming alarmed. I think the Congress needs to get cracking and explain to Bush, in no uncertain terms, that the Iraq war is over, at least in terms of what the outcome will be.
Some poll the other day said only 12 of the 49 R senators would support Surgery (final stage of Strategery). If that is true this is starting to look a lot like Nixon’s last stand – surrounded by Henry, a few indicted toadies, the press in Oklahoma, and the dog…
No wonder Condi looks so down, even Harriet Myers is bailing. The boyking alone in Crawford plotting an out… IRAN! SYRIA! They’ll never take me alive!
How old is Malkin anyway? She looks about 16
What a self-loathing piece of trash….
Blub @ 90
She’s 35.
TRex @ 85
?Hmmmm, what else to write about?
Hmmmmm… hmmmmmm…
@ 82..Several days ago Barney Frank was asked about cutting funding and said that it would be very difficult. The defense bill was passed, Bush has the money and can spend it however he wants. If he doesn’t get the 100 million supplemental, the psychopath can still strip other military funds for the surge. Barney wasn’t very hopeful that congress had much short term leverage.
Ed*ard Teller @ 82
Of course you are right about this. I am being simplistic here. But then, I think privatizing public services is bad public policy. Public services should not be provided for profit. It’s bad for the economy! because there is too much incentive to cheapen the products provided and lower the wages of the workers in the name of profit.
I know it’s a radical notion to some, but profits are not per se good for the economy.
They could try targeted earmarking, but I think Frank is probably right.. money is fungible and shrub will shift it from somewhere else. Of course I guess that Congress could theoretically pass legislation specifically forbidding the surge, but there may be constitutional issues there, not to mention the imminent signing statement. My guess is, if really want to stop him we’ll have to be ready to go to the wall with this… and that would be mean a credible threat of impeachment.
Steve @
94
new thread
New thread. Working flashmedia required to see and hear it. Fortunately, I don’t have that today.
Steve @ 94
It’s interesting that the Cable/network anchors keep asking the Dems what they can do to stop Bush. the question has gotten to, “what about cutting off funding,” and the answer is always, “that doesn’t work very well.” Seems to me the media are running out of options for avoiding questions about impeachment. I think we should encourage them to ask that question.
To recap some above comments, moonbat malkin looks like a 16 year old boy who masturb8s online. ‘Paging’ Mark Foley!
Pelosi’s inspirational role as the first woman to rise to the height of power on Capitol Hill headlined all the day’s festivities.
-Newsweek
Sorry off topic..oh wait..this is our topic..
6 years in the wandering in the desert of pub ‘rightousness’ and finally a leader emerges.
I am very proud to have voted demo my whole life..and none no prouder than now.
Our world needs leadership that brings all of us together. We no longer have JFK to declare ‘we are all berliners’ but now finally a healing can take place amoungst us all. A world that finds itself requiring real leadership, friendship and forward looking politics. Instead of pushing Europe, the middle East, Russia away..lets come together with solutions that actually SOLVE issues.
I could not be happier with our new Congress and in 2 years..our new prez..
I’m surprised that Alec Mapa hasn’t done a “Michelle Malkin Tonight” show. She’s perfect material for him.
Steve @
94
I think that’s the speaking appearance I saw on C-Span. I want to take the time here whenever possible to shout out thanks to Democrat leaders for speaking in my name. Barney Frank’s expression of the financial management goals in general gave me more hope for the future.
If you haven’t seen it yet, one of the best takes on MM is at:
http://tinyrevolution.com/mt/
Why does she always dress like a slut in those ‘cute’ little tops with her nipples pokin’ thru?
Jes askin’ ya know.
Maybe Mr. Hussein should be assigned as Mssssss. Malkin’s personal bodyguard during her “fact-finding” mission in Iraq?