Comments on: Thompson Squared http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/03/thompson-squared/ Firedoglake weblog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:40:16 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: jdm http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/03/thompson-squared/#comment-603384 jdm Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:29:42 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/03/thompson-squared/#comment-603384 <p>My most poignant memory of Thompson was his comments/(lack of) action in the seemingly forgotten “California Energy Crisis”, a $32b Enron & Friends ripoff enabled by a compliant GWB admin. And just why is it Junior has never had to answer for that one?</p> <p>But I digress. California’s “two ladies”, Feinstien & Boxer, both had repeatedly appealed to the WH w/pleas for intervention into what, by then, was obviously a scam of mammoth proportions. Both ladies said the WH never responded… period. In subsequent hearings, Boxer pleaded again for intervention: her state was being taken to the cleaners, simeoultaneously being told by Bush’s Energy officials it was their own fault… Ca. was to blame.</p> <p>Fred Thomspon was asleep on the Senate floor during at this time. Finally, he awoke to comment thusly (from memory) in response to Boxer’s pleas:</p> <p> “I’m tired of all this whining.”</p> <p>My lasting impression: conservative sponsored corporate “free market” ripoffs were A-OK behavior… a natural functioning of the “marketplace”. Thompson’s response to a thriving multi-$b “in your face” ripoff was a Power Nap. </p> <p>AFAIC, the mans’ an ass hole.</p> My most poignant memory of Thompson was his comments/(lack of) action in the seemingly forgotten “California Energy Crisis”, a $32b Enron & Friends ripoff enabled by a compliant GWB admin. And just why is it Junior has never had to answer for that one?

But I digress. California’s “two ladies”, Feinstien & Boxer, both had repeatedly appealed to the WH w/pleas for intervention into what, by then, was obviously a scam of mammoth proportions. Both ladies said the WH never responded… period. In subsequent hearings, Boxer pleaded again for intervention: her state was being taken to the cleaners, simeoultaneously being told by Bush’s Energy officials it was their own fault… Ca. was to blame.

Fred Thomspon was asleep on the Senate floor during at this time. Finally, he awoke to comment thusly (from memory) in response to Boxer’s pleas:

“I’m tired of all this whining.”

My lasting impression: conservative sponsored corporate “free market” ripoffs were A-OK behavior… a natural functioning of the “marketplace”. Thompson’s response to a thriving multi-$b “in your face” ripoff was a Power Nap.

AFAIC, the mans’ an ass hole.

]]> By: farang http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/03/thompson-squared/#comment-603294 farang Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:03:27 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/03/thompson-squared/#comment-603294 <p>Frank Probst:</p> <p>I always enjoy the way Thompson’s DA character disses the US Constitution, and Civil Rights. It is my favorite thing to watch.</p> <p>Is that what attracts you to Thompson’s character too???</p> Frank Probst:

I always enjoy the way Thompson’s DA character disses the US Constitution, and Civil Rights. It is my favorite thing to watch.

Is that what attracts you to Thompson’s character too???

]]> By: farang http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/03/thompson-squared/#comment-603292 farang Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:55:32 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/03/thompson-squared/#comment-603292 <p>Good. Let ‘em roll out another B actor.</p> <p>This time, perhaps the Dems will have the good sense to recruit OUR actor fer prez: Jack Nicholson.</p> <p>Tell me you wouldn’t like to see Jack, spiffed up and spliffed up, debate this bag of wind Thompson on National tv ???</p> <p>Then, after Thompson slithers back to Tenneessee, Jack could declare himself not a candidate, and appoint Kucinich as his proxy…..hahahahaha</p> Good. Let ‘em roll out another B actor.

This time, perhaps the Dems will have the good sense to recruit OUR actor fer prez: Jack Nicholson.

Tell me you wouldn’t like to see Jack, spiffed up and spliffed up, debate this bag of wind Thompson on National tv ???

Then, after Thompson slithers back to Tenneessee, Jack could declare himself not a candidate, and appoint Kucinich as his proxy…..hahahahaha

]]> By: cinnamonape http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/03/thompson-squared/#comment-602721 cinnamonape Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:07:44 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/03/thompson-squared/#comment-602721 <p><a href="#comment-601958"><em>eCAHNomics @ 59 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p><a href="#comment-601956"><em>Dee @ 57</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Slightly OT - I’d forgotten about the Viet Nam war tax until I read this editorial by a political science prof from Univ of MI. </p> <p><a href="http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070403/OPINION02/704030331/1068/OPINION">http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.....68/OPINION</a></p> <p>Imagine - making everyone pay for the war right now. What a concept.</p></blockquote> <p>Imagine FUNDING the war as part of the regular budget. First things first.</p></blockquote> <p>In fact tie it directly to a tax-increase on those top 5% income bracket that received tax breaks by Bush in 2002 and every year subsequently…and a special corporate tax on oil companies and those firms that receive US military and Iraq reconstruction contracts.</p> <p>The war would end damn quick!</p> eCAHNomics @ 59

Dee @ 57

Slightly OT – I’d forgotten about the Viet Nam war tax until I read this editorial by a political science prof from Univ of MI.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs…..68/OPINION

Imagine – making everyone pay for the war right now. What a concept.

Imagine FUNDING the war as part of the regular budget. First things first.

In fact tie it directly to a tax-increase on those top 5% income bracket that received tax breaks by Bush in 2002 and every year subsequently…and a special corporate tax on oil companies and those firms that receive US military and Iraq reconstruction contracts.

The war would end damn quick!

]]> By: 4naxnt http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/03/thompson-squared/#comment-602456 4naxnt Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:38:56 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/03/thompson-squared/#comment-602456 <p>> If Bob Novak were any further up Fred Thompson’s ass, Thompson would be tasting the Brylcreem. </p> <p>Not Brylcreem. It would probably be Rogain …</p> > If Bob Novak were any further up Fred Thompson’s ass, Thompson would be tasting the Brylcreem.

Not Brylcreem. It would probably be Rogain …

]]> By: cal http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/03/thompson-squared/#comment-602341 cal Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:25:54 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/03/thompson-squared/#comment-602341 <p>“An actor in search of a plot” - LOL!</p> <p>This should be the new tagline for Thompson.</p> “An actor in search of a plot” – LOL!

This should be the new tagline for Thompson.

]]> By: penalcolony http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/03/thompson-squared/#comment-602294 penalcolony Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:52:49 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/03/thompson-squared/#comment-602294 <p>Name recognition? Gallup today said not one in five knows he’s a politician, and two-thirds of Americans have never heard of him. Law & Order’s a popular series, but I’d be surprised if most people have seen even one episode. Popular series aren’t what they used to be; the days when Lucille Ball or Alan Alda or Bill Cosby commanded huge audience shares are long gone. As for the movie career, he was a grumpy middle-aged guy without much hair in about a dozen of them.</p> <p>To me, it all bespeaks GOP desperation: <em>please</em> send us someone with first-rate right-wing <em>bona fides</em> and a relatively clean slate. That their messiah looks and sounds like a redneck sheriff cleaned up for company — perhaps not the ideal image for an ‘08 presidential run — seems to bother them not at all.</p> Name recognition? Gallup today said not one in five knows he’s a politician, and two-thirds of Americans have never heard of him. Law & Order’s a popular series, but I’d be surprised if most people have seen even one episode. Popular series aren’t what they used to be; the days when Lucille Ball or Alan Alda or Bill Cosby commanded huge audience shares are long gone. As for the movie career, he was a grumpy middle-aged guy without much hair in about a dozen of them.

To me, it all bespeaks GOP desperation: please send us someone with first-rate right-wing bona fides and a relatively clean slate. That their messiah looks and sounds like a redneck sheriff cleaned up for company — perhaps not the ideal image for an ‘08 presidential run — seems to bother them not at all.

]]> By: vinluvr http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/03/thompson-squared/#comment-602242 vinluvr Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:26:12 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/03/thompson-squared/#comment-602242 <p>So if Fred gets elected Prez, what cabinet meetings will <em>his</em> wife sit in on? Discussions on the safety of silicone, perhaps? There are no doubt a lot of blondes with big racks that have felt under-represented until now in government. Perhaps Thompson’s wife would give them some measure of comfort.</p> So if Fred gets elected Prez, what cabinet meetings will his wife sit in on? Discussions on the safety of silicone, perhaps? There are no doubt a lot of blondes with big racks that have felt under-represented until now in government. Perhaps Thompson’s wife would give them some measure of comfort.

]]> By: Pete Bogs http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/03/thompson-squared/#comment-602226 Pete Bogs Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:12:48 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/03/thompson-squared/#comment-602226 <p>now, remind me again, which one do I vote for? Tommy or Fred? I’m confused…</p> now, remind me again, which one do I vote for? Tommy or Fred? I’m confused…

]]> By: Dan http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/03/thompson-squared/#comment-602212 Dan Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:00:27 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/03/thompson-squared/#comment-602212 <p>Thompson stars on a TV show that features graphic scenes of dead bodies, moral relativism, and adult themes. “Law and Order” once featured a main character who was a lesbian (even worse, she was a lesbian who was so “normal” and “mainstream” that no one knew it until she mentioned it to Thompson’s character). If Thompson gets in, can we remind the morals police on the right of this?</p> Thompson stars on a TV show that features graphic scenes of dead bodies, moral relativism, and adult themes. “Law and Order” once featured a main character who was a lesbian (even worse, she was a lesbian who was so “normal” and “mainstream” that no one knew it until she mentioned it to Thompson’s character). If Thompson gets in, can we remind the morals police on the right of this?

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