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(To see this and other lovely cartoons by Steve Sack in their full uncompressed glory, visit his page at www.cagle.com.)
Remember the constant media descriptions of Bill Clinton's "troubled" and "controversial" presidency? You'd never know that the man spent most of his time in office — and all of his second term — with a job approval rating that was at least 50% (and generally much higher).
To watch the evening broadcast or cable news nowadays, or to listen to drive-time radio news, you'd also never know that George W. Bush, Clinton's successor as resident of the White House, hasn't seen 50% ratings since the fall of 2004. Words like "troubled" and "controversial" just never seem to be applied to him by the mainstream press.
Meanwhile, the Democrats — whose policy proposals are more popular with Americans than are Bush's — are described with all manner of negative adjectives and modifiers, and the media gleefully aids and abets the Republicans in crafting bogus stories about Democrats like Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
This is why it's so gratifying to see that, after three solid weeks of nearly-nonstop slimestorming by the GOP/Media Complex, Speaker Pelosi's ratings have actually gone up. (Hat tip to Atrios.) We've also found that all BushCo's constant harping on Iraq has done is reinforce it with Americans (who do not like this war and occupation) that the Democrats are the ones trying to bring the troops home. Meanwhile, the war profiteer Republican congresscritters like Duke Cunningham and Rick Renzi are being caught, one by one — Duke's good buddy John Doolittle's next in line for an orange jumpsuit, methinks (that is, if Renzi doesn't elbow in front of him in line).
Slowly and surely, justice is being served.
To quote Nelson Muntz: Ha-ha!
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PW!!
“Slowly and surely, justice is being served.” Well, it’s about damned time it was.
drip, drip, drip, deluge..
JUSTICE!
With any luck, Gary Miller, republican idiot from So Cal, will also appear on the R-Felon list too.
lucky log-on timing.
fwiw, I agree with your idea that Abu staying at Justice is fine. Just keep a close eye on the little bastard and haul his butt right back in front of that same Judiciary Committee every time another squirrely something-or-other pops up (and they will).
I like the idea of seeing Bush’s AG called on the carpet every month or two.
OK, here’s a brush with greatness. When I was in high school in Minneapolis, my mom & I lived about four blocks from Dinkytown, and had an extra room which we rented out for extra $$. Our boarder was none other than Steve Sack, the then-cartoonist for the U of M paper, the Minnesota Daily.
I imagine his sensibilities were in place by then, but spending two years in a house full o’liberals couldn’t have hurt…
I am comfortable with our Speaker.
EPU’ed
Renzi
Another little tidbit on that Renzi article:
Paul Charlton was rated #1 of all 93 of the USA’s in performance reviews, had a 91% increase in 2005 in immigration prosecutions BUT they dogged him for not seeking the death penalty for a murder case where there was No body and No murder weapon. Only evidence was witnesses who were gang members & drugers.
OldCoastie @ 4
You mean he of the real estate extortion racket? I’d be happy to see him frogmarched away…
Abu and BushCo: AAIIIEEEE!!! The light! It hurtz! It hurtz! AAIIEEEE!
From Speaker Gingrich, to Speaker Pelosi. ;0)!
I’d like to see a list of all of the counter measures they are taking to obstruct investigations, including but not limited to actions such as the RNC/WH conspiracy to cherry pick their communications before submitting anything (if ever) to Congress; and Gonzo’s self-investigation (per Whitehouse); and Gonzo’s attempted $7 billion settlement (which was rejected by the indians so far) with the Indians that could potentially block release of the 750,000 indian documents; things like that – but laid out in a coherent fashion.
The Mainstream Media & Pundits can’t deliver a message to the public anymore. They editorialize and carry GOP talking points but it doesn’t impact a majority of voters. That failure means something.
Oklahoma kiddo @
7
She’s not one of the two “Democrats” you despise? :)
This is how you deliver a message to the public:
http://freewayblogger.blogspot…..d-bay.html
Fuck the Media.
Mutant Poodle @
9
yup, that’s exactly the guy! I think he’d look lovely in orange, don’t you?
aztrias @ 13
It means that the democratization of information (witness this blog, among others) has loosened their grip on journalism.
The flip side is that it is possible to live in freeperville and have no clue at all.
Jane, please let’s push for an infusion of *cash* in anticipation of the collapse of BushCo.
We know it’s coming – and when America wakes-up – they are going to want the ’short course’ from a trusted source – FDL.
This genuinely seems like a case of ‘build it, because they are coming.’ Let’s bulk-up the infrastructure and anticipate people like Marcy being able to support themselves full-time through FDL.
There’s a news-tsunami on the way that is going to take the blogosphere to the top of the list of ‘trusted sources.’
Let’s do like Wayne Gretzsky here, when he was asked “Why do you score so much more than everyone else?” His reply was, “I skate to where the puck is going to be.”
Let’s start skating!
I’m sending in $50, and passing the puck…
cleter @ 14
;0)
katymine @ 8
Busted! The House is going to have some questions for Abu G. soon, are they not?
Has Gonzales resigned yet?
I imagine he’s probably still in bed with the covers over his head.
Well, justice-like, anyway. Full justice would involve putting the criminals away, and deprogramming the aiders and abeters from being dividers.
These guys just don’t quit. They declared war on all non-Republicans, and they see no reason to stop now. This makes their continuing divisiveness so hard to forgive, if they were to ask, which they won’t.
cleter @ 21
Can he even recall what happened Thursday?
The babble babble babble of the MSM is just white noise to the average shlub. No one listens to them or to Bushit Co. anymore. The country was conned, and most people that voted Repub. know it . . . notice they’re not saying much now.
I had an eye opening experience last weekend to what “everyday” people talk about. I know I am different, I hang out here, Chair of my DFA group, voting member of state & county Democratic party.
So I went on a three day trip with two co-workers who are democrats, did neat things like helecopter trip over the Grand Canyon and a float trip down the Colorado river. BUT…..they only talked about “Dancing with the stars” and American Idol and General Hospital. I really thought my eyes would permanently be rolled back in my head with all that nonsense.
Well, quietly sitting in the backseat of the car on the ride back…. I was asked what I like to listen to…. without coming right out and saying Progressive Radio 24/7, I started out with BBC World, Cspan…. then Progressive Radio…… now take in to consideration that this was just days after hearing Scott Ritter telling me that it will be Bomb Iran open window until June and BushCo is bound and determined to make it happen.
I was told that I take life way too seriously!
OMG……
Frankly I was tired of the scandal plagued Clinton Administration. The popular and likeable George W. Bush has done much to restore dignity to the Whitehouse.
-GSD
http://www.doolittlefacts.org/ h/t Nate
GSD @ 26
He really has. For example, he has helped us all refine our definitions of real dignity into much sharper relief.
Nice, and thanks PW! This is one of those posts that helps me believe that all is not lost.
Vermont pushes bid to impeach Bush.
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/V…..02007.html
Just sayin’.
cleter @ 21
And a large bottle of tequila.
“Alberto! Get out of bed! It’s almost noon!”
“No.”
“C’mon. It wasn’t that bad.”
“Yes it was. The New York Times called me incompetent.”
“Oh, the New York Times hates everybody.”
“I stink.”
“No you don’t!”
“Actually, I do. I forgot to go to the bathroom. I cannot recall where the toilet is. To the best of my recollection, I appear to have soiled myself–I mean soiling has been made. There is soiling.”
Mutant Poodle @
23
“Maybe Gonzales Won’t Recall His Painful Day on the Hill” (Washingtonpost.com, by Dana Milbank 4/20/07)
I would really like to know what exactly are Obama’s and Hillary’s solutions to the potential blow-up of the Middle East.
GSD @ 26
Bush is the kind of guy I’d like to hang out and have a beer with, and I think that’s important in an elected official.
EvilDrPuma @ 28
Ya, no more disgusting sexual activities.. oops, forgot about Mr Gannon. Well, at least no more disgusting heterosexual activities!! Goodness me!
I love that cartoon, PW. One of my favorites from this year.
It’s gratifying to realize that the American public are starting to reject the MSMs claims that the Democrats are disorganized and not getting anything done, and that the Bush admin is doing just dandy.
I just got this joke via email from a Republican friend who has been seeing the light for the past year. Enjoy!
GSD @ 26
I agree! And I got really tired of that dastardly Clinton exploiting the Oklahoma City bombing for political ends. What kind of monster exploits a terrorist tragedy for his own selfish political ends? I’m so glad Bush puts the country ahead of his party. He truly is a unificator, not a dividifier!
as I’ve been saying for months and the democrats MUST BE INFORMED of the following;
the more we critisize these morons in the administration THE HIGHER the politician’s approval rating
“A recent poll showed that ending the war is the top priority for New Hampshire voters when considering presidential candidates.”
What….Nothing about winning, victory, mission accomplished?
Obama hears tearful request.
-GSD
Oklahoma kiddo @ 34
Don’t cause it. Engage in sensible diplomacy, like Blair did with the captured British sailors recently. Little things like not invading countries that pose little to no direct threat to the US. Stuff like that.
Very interesting article from Dahlia Lithwick at Slate. She says that on second thought, Alberto Gonzales may have done an excellent job in his testimony… if you view it from the “unitary executive” standpoint. Highly recommended reading. Hmmm, maybe Alberto Gonzales was actually brilliant yesterday.
Bush is in the process of unifying Iraq with a new 3 mile long Bremer Wall and unifying the US and Mexico with the new Halliburton Regional Division Partition.
-GSD
On the news Tsunami @ #18. I think that the You-tube summaries by the FDL live bloggers at Libby’s trial were revolutionary, and that they point the way to a commercially viable alternative broadcast medium. Josh Marshall did one of his own last week — I don’t think he’s done one this week yet, though. The medium combines print, picture and voice, with the feedback capacity of a blog.
What makes it potentially viable is that in the you-tube section, which is about as long as most TV reports, you can insert a short commercial ad — say 5 to 10 seconds worth. That space should be worth plenty to advertisers, and the revenue could support a real news operation with reporters and editors.
I’m sure there’s someting deeply flawed in this business model, but it sure seems like a winner at first glance. The obvious candidates for the experiment are TPM, HuffPo and FDL.
Great post PW, as per usual. Here’s emptywheel on
Rick Renzi’s $4 Million Alfalfa Field
PeteCO @ 41
Pull out of Iraq?
…hockey, anyone?
When America wakes-up and wants to know ‘What really happened during these last 6 years?’ – They’ll be skating to the Lake!
The MSM’s willful blinder’s will prove to be our Treasure Trove – let’s score with the Truth.
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retirin’ in five @ 2
I don’t want to be a wet towel, but there is the slight problem of the judicial firewall that the Republicans have constructed for themselves over the last several decades. Federal judges such as Laurence Silberman or David Sentelle are what one might refer to as results-oriented jurists.
And don’t get me started on certain members of the Supreme Court.
GSD @ 43
To paraphrase Saint Ronald of Reagan, “Mr Bush, tear down this wall!”
landofthefree @ 42
It’s obviously some new use of the word “brilliant’ with which I am not previously familiar.
katymine @ 25
Thank god you do.
aztrias @
13
Morning all. Doesn’t it just mean that the rebugs campaign to convince the masses that the media is biased and untrustworthy in the extreem has worked? The constant drumbeat that the media is liberal hasn’t just convinced the public of that, but has succeeded in convincing all of us that nothing the MSM says is worthwhile.
perris @ 39
to elaborate
hardly anyone even knew feingold until he punished cheney and his moronic policies on the TEEvee
webb…nobody knew what to expect untill he PUNISHED the administration and cheney for NOT having a clue
democrats have to get on board, the more the laugh in the face of these idiots and call them the morons they are the more they will be rewarded
Stuff like that.
PW, this is sort of off topic, except that, like the aspen trees, it’s all related at the root…Do you remember seeing anything about a publishing company run by a friend or family member of the bushista who published books to be used in the “Reading First” program? I remember SOME connection, but I can’t find it.
Lindy @ 55
Well, there’s Neil Bush’s Ignite Learning…
conniptionfit @ 52
You just might have a point. When the corporate owned media was at least semi-competent only a small per centage of the populace mis-trusted them. Now most ALL the populace mistrusts them.
I have a question why does the Democratic leadership continue to tolerate Joe LIEberman? Why hasn’t he been unmasked for the Republican in Democratic clothing that he is?
landofthefree @ 42
That is interesting. Hopefully the “Unitary Executive” will shortly run head on into the Reality Based Community.
landofthefree @
42
“congressional oversight over the executive branch is little more than empty theatre” (quote from article)
That maybe so but if Bush continues to have “full confidence” of Gonzales in light of this hearing it could be part of the evidence that could escalate into impeachment proceedings of Bush regarding high crimes and misdemeanors (which is open to interpretation) very quickly.
jayt @
5
Remember the rug
“Everything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own. That was the reflection that made you creepy all over. It was impossible–not good for one either–trying to imagine. He had taken a high seat amongst the devils of the land–I mean literally. You can’t understand–how could you?”
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness 1899 Part 2, pg. 43
PeteCO @ 59
Be sure and excitedly tell all your conservative friends, relatives, and co-workers how excited you are by this Unitary Executive idea, and how you can’t wait until Hillary gets her hands on all that power!
That’ll stop it.
Seriously, it works like a charm. Their eyes get all big and panicky.
Mutant Poodle @ 56
That’s one :) Thank you.
Mutant Poodle @ 56
Which Babs Beautiful Mind said her Katrina contribution must be directed to….
OT
After thinking about my potential connection with one of the Board members of NARAL, Elizabeth Hager, I decided to write her an email. I’ll let you know if she responds.
PeteCO @ 35
That would be a beer from the fine brewing company of Adolf Coors, correct?
Lets see….. Just lately we have unsafe food, E.coli, Salmonella, poisoned pet food which could have contaminated the human food chain….
Woman have lost the right to a very safe and recommend medical procedure that is rarely performed and usually used to save her life…
It is OK for the Attorney General – THE top cop in the USA to lie to Congress…
Just serving the Pleasure of the President to fire US Attorneys who ARE investigating Repug corruption ….
The wingnut media attacks the victims of violence for being Girlie Men…
Anyone looked at what defines a Third World country with a military junta?
Are we there yet?
cleter @
21
But he is planning to attend the White House Correspondents dinner tonight. Question for all you pups: Are you going to watch tonight’s Rich Little extravaganza? Are you going to boycott it in honor of our beloved Colbert? Just wondering…
I was thinking more of a fine German beer. HitlerBrau, perhaps. Or Old Himmler Genuine Lager.
eCAHNomics @ 66:
Great letter. Let’s hope she listens and understands what you’re telling her. :})
Mae @ 69
In past years I’ve found the in-group-humor and too-close-for-comfort relations between govt & press too smarmy for my stomach. I watched Colbert only & will never watch anything else associated with this event.
Thanks dakine01.
Dear People:
You have an image of the character ‘Uriah Heep’, in David Copperfield, the unctuous, oily, accountant. Now, think of the performance of Alberto Gonzales before the Senate Committee, the similarity is astounding as they both had other agendas. The sad part is, one is fictional.
Mae @ 69
Will NOT be watching the dweebs with their safe comedian from the ’60s. But in my surfing and reading on the net, it is just possible that the WHCA will be pwned before the night is over. Now I do not watch “American Idol” (or any of the other so-called reality shows). But I do know enough to know who Sanjayah(sp?) is. He and his mother are supposed to be guests of People magazine at the dinner tonight. I’m sure there’s an appropriate metaphor on that fact but…
Uriah Heep at least spawned an ok band. But I doubt there will ever be a decent band called “Alberto and the Memory Holes.”
dakine01@-
Now look at what they’ve done to the trustworthiness of the DOJ. How will the general public view the DOJ in the next year, the next decade? Trust is a necessary thing for our system to work, but it’s also very delicate. I think, that of all the corruption that they’ve committed, this destruction of the public trust at the DOJ will be the hardest for me to forgive, and the hardest to restore.
The Problem for bush now IS the MSM. Voters are less apathetic now than they were when Bill was Prez. The voters are polarizing with 70% going our way and 30% for bush who by governing from the extreme right COUNTED on pulling in a bare majority of independents and moderates to get things passed has caused this polarzation. The MSM helped cause this by NOT REPORTING the news but instead by trying to MOLD and SHAPE public opinion. They pissed off the 70%ers who are sick of being lied to about EVERYTHING from the war to social security. The anger of the 70%er can be measured by the way the MSM is hurting the MSM is reporting lower reader/viewer numbers and lower profits for many years now. This DESPITE America fighting two wars now (bad news is suppose to sell papers). People are rejecting the MSM’s pro bush stand. In fact the problem might even be understated, how many people here by a paper for the one liberal columnist?
katymine @ 25
Dear Katymine, and I assume that your friends were quite educated, with college degrees and good jobs? Yes, this is what I run into, it does not boost my optimism.
Must read by Scott Horton. Apparently someone in W administration studied how Carl Schmitt in Weimar Republic subverted prosecutors first on the road to a totalitarian state.
http://www.harpers.org/archive…..070420xovi
cleter @ 76
I just had a thought of some lines from a Thorogood song:
“It wasn’t ME!
No, no ,no, it wasn’t ME!
It must have been some other sucker
No, no, no it wasn’t me!
TCI at 77. Newspapers are for local news only and the sportspage for eating evening meal while reading. Again primarily, local stuff. I come to FDL to find out what the hell’s going on. And I’m rarely disappointed, considering all the smart folks that hang here. Kudos to all who do the heavy lifing here to keep me informed.
conniptionfit @ 77
Agreed. The husband of a cousin is a lawyer in DoJ. He’s not in any of the politicized offices but it still has to have an impact everywhere in the dept.
mulligatawny @ 79
Tell them about TRex and Late Night at FDL: “There’s this humorous political blogger I read in the evenings. If you think Simon from American Idol is something, let me introduce you to TRex . . .”
Snail-reading this morning and it’s interesting what info can be gleaned way down deep in print articles such as this one about the Qwest executive conviction…
Nacchio was convicted for insider trading activities in the spring of 2001. Pre 9/11. Was all the super-secret spy-on-everybody NSA stuff already in the works?
cleter @ 21
Cruel to make such a small weasel a human (?) shield for the whole crime family.
conniptionfit @ 66
But of course! No nancy-boy micro-brew for this manly man!
PS at 85. “Nacchio was convicted for insider trading activities in the spring of 2001. Pre 9/11. Was all the super-secret spy-on-everybody NSA stuff already in the works?” Call me paranoid but I’ve never doubted that Bush was involved in political spying from the get-go of his admin.
eCAHNomics @ 80
ABSOLUTELY A MUST READ. Many thanks for the link. It is a succinct and clear articulation of the evil a politicized justice system can cause.
Even if you were to attribute a benign motive to Rove for politicizing the DOJ–which I don’t–once the capacity for a political administration of justice exists, the temptation to use it would be overwhelming, particularly for this administration.
GSD @ 26
You can relive the Clinton scandals in 5 minutes on C-SPAN2
OT, It’s been an awful week. My wife’s entire family are Virginia Tech Grads and her sister teaches there. This morning we have to let the real Raven, our beloved cocker spaniel go. He fought cancer for over two years and it finally got him.
There are several pics on our Flickr site Raven
cleter @ 75
It’s an awesome name for a band, though.
The chimperor was brought to us by the folks at the MSM media – this AWOL fraudster was represented as a “uniter,” recovered alcoholic that was guided by faith. He was represented as being maticulously honest and full of integrity.
The lies didn’t stop then – the 2000 election was stolen, the administration enabled 9/11 to happen and then exploited it to enact their neocon agenda, and the war crimes and crimes against humanity in Iraq were justified by lies that the MSM dutifully “catapulted.”
We were repeatedly told that the American public would want to have a beer with an obnoxious alcoholic cocaine-addict – A BLATANT LIE.
The administration has gutted the US Constitution, committed treason; is stealing BILLIONS AND BILLIONS from federal treasury; destroyed one of America’s most historic cities (NOLA); and is doing what it can to eliminate free, fair, open, and verifiable elections.
And you want to complain about the MSM’s hypocracy refering to Clinton’s terms as “troubled?”
Look at the bigger picture – connect the dots. The problem is much bigger – the lying liars that own the MSM are taking their cues from the same cabal that fraudulently propelled the chimperor into the white house.
If anything is obvious, it should be that the administration is not capable of directing the HUGE degree of propaganda in the media. We need to be talking about the folks BEHIND the criminality, not the shills that do the dirty work or the morons they parade in front of the cameras.
While the points in this post are all valid and legitimate – the dialog tends to avoid an honest, open dialog about the source of these problems. Just replacing the lying liars with more lying liars will not do anything positive.
there are two kinds of people in the world those who know about and try and change the world for good or evil and those who just live their lives and work. Now most parents want their kids to be happy, I’m willing to bet most parents after wishing for happy kids want THEIR kids to belong to the first group
MSM-lazy, complicit, compliant and compromised. Pumpkin head pundits, paid shills, elitist stenographers, rich celebrity bobble heads. A pox on America’s answer to Pravda, the MSM.
raven @ 91
Oh my dear. I’m so sorry.
(((((((((raven and family)))))))))
Prairie Sunshine @
85
Without any objective evidence to say yes or no, I would vote Yes. It sure didn’t take long after 9/11 for John Poindexter to return to the scene and the “Total Information Awareness” program to be up and running. All it really took was an excuse.
I do believe, iirc, that many of these people in current power (Cheney, Rummie, Wolfie, Perle, Kristol), were convinced that we had to attack Iraq no matter what and all 9/11 did was provide the opening, no matter how small. Then they just had to do exactly what they did, manipulate the facts to fit a pre-conceived notion.
So Wolfowitz strongarmed the Pentagon into hiring his concubine to “…study() ways to form a government in Iraq” in the spring of 2003.
One comb licks another, I guess.
;>)
We are not normal, folks! Raise your hand if you don’t know who is Dancing with the Stars, but you do know the names of not only your own US representative, but can tell the name and state of at least 5 others. Raise your hand if you know the names of any non-prime time cable news anchors and can describe accurately their latest publicly uttered idiocy. Raise your hand if you Tivo Meet The Press, so that you can rebut the the guests.
Face it folks, we’re not normal! But without us the country would slide into banana republic faster than you can say chiquita. Saving the world, one geek at a time!
2004 was a stolen election too – fraud on this scale was not orchestrated by rove, cheney, chimpy, or the criminal cabal in the white house.
raven @ 91
{{{{{raven}}}}} I had to do that for my last feline companion a few years ago. She’d been with me for 13 1/2 years and my sister for the 4 1/2 years before that. I still miss her even though I adopted a new companion after a year (Dan’l and I have been together now for four years). Prayers to you and yours.
conniptionfit @ 99
They had a guest on Washington Journal this morning who was talking about what surveys show about the lack-of-political-knowledge in the U.S. I emailed in a Q, which was not asked on air: How did President Bush score on the test?
Raven, I’m so sorry for your loss this ugly week. {{hugs}}
Raven — peace, bro. This will pass. The pain is the price you pay for the love you shared.
conniptionfit @ 99
Thank you all for validating it for me…
My come back to two very educated professionals was …..
“Who would you rather have taking life too seriously…. Me or Brittney Spears?”
…..then opened book to finish reading Sirota’s “Hostile Takeover”
conniptionfit @ 99
Raisisng hand part-way. Know my rep’s name (unfortunately, Lamar Smith) as well as quite a few others since I’ve lived all over and had people like Rosa DeLauro and Diane DeGette as my reps. But I pretty much refuse to watch news programs other than Countdown and sometimes Hardball because my blood pressure can’t take it. When I see Timmeh spouting his gibbersih on MTP, I get ill. Same with Blitzer and most of the anchors on Faux Noise Lite. And I don’t watch Faux Noise regular just because…
When someone sells stock improperly, they’re not charged the week of the sale. It takes a while for anyone to notice if bad things happened with a company right after an insider dumps stock. So, Nacchio’s pre-9/11 sale doesn’t mean the gov’t was offering those lucrative contracts pre-9/11.
Nacchio was indicted in Dec 2005. It’s possible after Nacchio refused the deal, the feds went sniffing through his records to find something to charge him with. I have no idea what the statute of limitations is on inside stock sales.
To watch the evening broadcast or cable news nowadays, or to listen to drive-time radio news, you’d also never know that George W. Bush, Clinton’s successor as resident of the White House, hasn’t seen 50% ratings since the fall of 2004.
Well, isn’t that what lying liars do? They lie…
We have enough evidence that the lying serves one political party and the economic interests that drive that party. Perhaps its time we discuss the folks behind the agenda.
Woohoo … a post over on Americablog from Lee Iacoca
http://americablog.blogspot.co…..ey-as.html
Go read the rest…. it does my heart good!
Thanks ya’ll. The only other site I “shared” this on was ChevyTalk.
charlietuna @ 93
To add this: who really decides that which the ‘decider’ thinks he decides? Is Rove the secret president, or Cheney, or the MIC?
For background, I again recommend the two hour documentary “The money masters”, available for free on google. I bet this lesson has not been taught even to the economists out there.
I’m so sorry to hear that, raven.
cleter @ 32:
Stop it, that’s going to far.
No, on second thought…carry on, it’s too funny. Spew grade.
p.s.
I won the bet…Gonzo survived Friday. Betting window re-opens 6:00 am Monday, EDT. Trifecta’s may be in play next week, depending on Renzi, Doolittle, McCain, chicken plucking factories, etc.
(wink)
raven @ 91
Condolences, raven. Here’s to our lost companions…May we see them all on the other side.
And while we’re talking about R’s and legal problems, don’t forget about Curt Weldon (R-PA) and his family ties and deals with Russian and Serbian businesses. He’s been raided by the FBI and is still in legal jeopardy.
mulligatawny @ 111
3h35m of pure history: The Money Masters *Start with Part 2 if you can’t take it all.
Raven,
Sorry that the past week has been hard for you and yours. I hope things only heal and improve for you.
dakine01 @ 106
Sorry, dakine, one hand up qualifies you. But you can take comfort in the fact that you only have one hand in the air, rather than 3!
C&L has a good one up:
That explains A LOT!
AZ Matt…
Sent that Renzi article to my boyfriend… the little point that got him was
Hmmmm that is interesting!
landofthefree @
37
fuckwad is more of a hypocrite than cheneycakes. jesus wasn’t cool with that ……
i don’t know about rove. i thnk he’s more of a pure liar.
raven @ 91
Raven, my heart aches for you. I can only imagine what your family must be going through with two such major event at the same time. Please remember to pause periodically to look at something beautiful to give positive sparks to your soul. Barbara
Raven—
I’m so sorry for your loss, and for the week’s sadness for your family.
It’s so hard to say goodbye to a much-loved pet/companion/friend.
katymine @ 120
IT has to do with Ft. Huachuca. It is in the San Pedro River Basin. The facility used alot of groundwater. There had been attempts to limit the withdrawl of groundwater there to preserve the river. Non-military towns there must limit withdrawl. Renzi’s dad company has a business contract there and felt if the Fort had tolimit its use of groundwater it might close and they would lose their contract. Renzi got abill through congress that exempted the Fort from groundwater pumping limitations. That is the national security reason for Renzi’s statement. Had to help daddy make money.
landofthefree @ 42
She points out that Gonzo’s performance
This makes frightening sense, when one considers that “Mr. No Right to Habeas Corpus in the Constitution” has been a major justifier of the Decider’s decisions. Caramba.
Love the cartoon! Reminded me of that vidclip of Barney Frank’s performance yesterday.
raven @ 91
So sorry, Raven. Is that you in the pic?
conniptionfit @ 118 says:
That’s why I bless those who have the patience/willingness to watch folks like Timmeh, Wolfie, Tucker, Faux Noise, et al. I can stand to read about their idiocies and recih wing sayings far easier than I can to actually watch. Besides, if the snoopers are checking my tv toobz through the box for what I watch, then the idiots get credit for it and I don’t wanna do anything to make them think I care at all about their mouthings.
PWoman. The MSM is constantly telling Americans what we think, instead of asking us. The theme that is being repeated by the MSM as of late is that we are all tired of the Bush, Clinton, Clinton, Bush regimes. (Chris Matthews especially likes to undermine the Clintons always bringing up that Hillary is not warm and fuzzy, and can we trust Bill? Matthews fixation with the Clintons is especially annoying since he seldom addresses serious issues that they have both been involved with)
Matthews had a “man on the street” thing going for awhile, and I thought he was actually trying to find our for himself what people are thinking instead of reading polls (that are often biased). Hey Chris if you ever pass by FDL, I’m the “bold bitch”(55 year old soccer mom) at the Libby trial who approached you in the courtroom to ask you questions about Hardballs focus. After talking about the I/Palestinian issue and a few other topics. I reminded you that just after Katrina you had said “Katrina had ripped off the scab of racism and poverty in this nation”. I mentioned that on your program the scab had been ripped off for a few weeks and that MSNBC had a huge part in putting that scab back on these important issues. I suggessted that you folks at MSNBC do a bi-weekly update on the progress in New Orleans and along the gulf coast, but especially New Orleans.
Most of us know that if you folks with so much control put the spotlight on a critical issue things change. How about it Chris? Back out on the street as a weekly segment (you were onto something) and turn that Hardball spotlight on New Orleans again.
I am still putting out the challenge to both Matthew and the “supposed” liberal Olbermann who never touch the Israeli/Palestinian conflict or the upcoming A*P*C trial. Come on guys start being brave by covering these stories. Break through the “off limits” hold on these topics by the Israeli lobby. Go where no MSM’er on T.V. has gone. (Chris I did hear you whisper once about the upcoming trial)
A’57 @
62
the writer as visionary. which, as we know, lead to
“Apocalypse Now” among other things ……
i’m wondering, has our visual wizard, Dark Black, done Cheneycakes as Marlon Brando?
OMG… more Important News! Breaking… Breaking…
AP – Sanjaya To Hobnob With Pres Bush At Correspondent’s Dinner
eCAHNomics@66
Thanks for sharing your impressive letter and can only hope the recipient gives it the careful read and response it deserves. Meanwhile allow me to suggest you consider submitting your message in an op-ed format for publication in a major newspaper, i.e., NYT, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, etc. et al – and/or weekly news magazines.
eCAHNomics @
72
Lewis Black did it, and he did a really hilarious shtick about it. guaranteed to make you laugh …..
eCAHNomics @
80
that someone’s name begins with K ……
katymine @ 131
He is desperate isn’t he.
so sorry for your loss, Raven
AZ Matt @
135
What’s he after, the 12 year old girl vote?
spurious @
86
i don’t know how soon he will resign but that grilling he got left marks. those people took blood and Alberto will be a long time healing those wounds, if ever …….
dakine01 @
128
That’s why I bless those who have the patience/willingness to watch folks like Timmeh, Wolfie, Tucker, Faux Noise, et al. I can stand to read about their idiocies and recih wing sayings far easier than I can to actually watch. Besides, if the snoopers are checking my tv toobz through the box for what I watch, then the idiots get credit for it and I don’t wanna do anything to make them think I care at all about their mouthings.
I know exactly what you mean and avoid all these idiots as well. I really like Bill Maher but had to suffer O’Sullivan (National Review … what a DICK !!!) and Amy Holmes, who is a great actress. Actually she is a former speech writer for Bill Frist (did she write his spiel about Schiavo?), but her ability to act as though the truth is a lie and vice versa was Oscar worthy. She should have been coaching Abu instead of Mr. Ed, who I’m convinced, coached Abu to take the fall for Bush & Co.
Gov. Schweitzer(D-MT) and Bill had some great smackdowns, which is why I survived the hour … well that and 3 glasses of red wine.
BTW, the angrier Amy got, the more beautiful she looked … or maybe it was all that wine. *g*
Seems to me that an effective way to bring sagging poll numbers even lower would be to pound away at the No Child Left Behind-Behind The Scene. . .
It’s gotcher Family Values; it’s gotcher kids (and it’s all about the kids); it’s gotcher money gone crazy with greedy few profiting while millions of kids (and it’s all about the kids) could benefit.
Remember the Simpsons’ school assembly song:
Children — future,
Children — future,
Children — future. . .
Let’s feature a bunch of adorable kids (’cause it’s all about the kids) asking:
“Just how big IS a million?” (Let’s count in dollars, class.)
“Just how corrupt CAN ‘dults be?” (Teacher shows a chart of who got what through NCLB)
“Just how long DO we have to line the pockets of already-well-lined ‘dults?” (Date of next election on dry-erase board)
fahrender @ 138
I see this very differently…. they are in bunker mode…. they have a clock counting down the hours and minutes until Jan 20th, 2009 and they are just sitting there with fingers in their ears saying “lalalalalalala”…. I do not hear you…..
Following John Dean…. we need to Impeach Gonzo’s ass and then they just might listen to us. AND…. then vote to prevent Gonzo from ever holding public office ever again. One down, go on to the next one….
katymine @
131
I saw where’s he going to be w/his mother (Sanjaya that is) as guests of People Mag. I think the White House Organization of Reporters and Editors (thing about it) aka WHCA is being pwn’d.
charlietuna @ 100
There is a book, America Rules by an Irish world class investigative journalist Tom Hanahoe concerning what you are refering to. In the book, the “folks behind the curtain” are revealed and their history of manipulation is exposed. Unfortunately amazon.co.uk is the source and a pound Sterling = $2.00 /-. The link I have is here
After you read the book, you will never view the world in the same way, this I can warrent you.
Two thoughts from the comments that resonated with me:
Comment 44 – Agreed, the blogging multi-media phenomenon is revolutionary and is changing the landscape. FDL at the Libby trial and the multi live blogs of the Gonzales’ hearing are just the beginning. The interactivity, the dynamism, the textual narration are all pieces of a shift in process and the MSM is simply unaware. Traditional reporting will continue to be important but as TPM shows, it’s no longer an exclusive provenance of the big players. When the big outlets do it right – it is still important. When they get it wrong, it is this new media that corrects it. As for punditry from Corporate Media, it is clearly the worst part of it today. Wrong, wrong again, and wrong again only leads to further exposure (Kristol) and elevation. It is this pernicious, highly corrosive and downright dangerous prattle we must continue to challenge and challenge hard (more fainting couches will be needed). I would like to see the scrutiny and energy directed at the Rush/ORielly product dropped in favor of targeting the scarier folks like Hiatt et al. They are the real danger.
Comment 42 – Really boils down to an effective and brutal observation. After all, who is the Attorney General of the United States today? Ask yourself that question every day to see how frightening the Salon analysis just may be. I know I’ll be sending that question every day to Senator Schumer, because NOTHING has actually occurred yet. Just theater. And, if for some reason the Dems are playing political footsie with this topic in an effort to continue to keep the Pugs on their heels, I say they could do it with an awful lot of other topics. Do not let the core judicial principles be used this way – it is an incredibly dangerous thing to do, and if you get it wrong, it could be a disaster.
With all the outrages being perpetrated by this Administration I am very concerned about seeing some clear deliverables from the Dems in nailing the criminals. Let’s see some freaking results here!
spurious @
125
Thanks for posting that, I was amazed at how devoid of understanding of the issues Gonzales’s testimony was. I mean, how can you practice for two weeks and so completely miss the target? This would explain it.
perris @ 39
As I was cleaning up some old magazines this week, I ran across an article in the June 2006 New Yorker about what the Democrats needed to do to win in November, so I had to look. It’s all about “appealing to the ‘center’” and getting away from all that “elitist” talking down to regular people that coastal liberals do. Plus great quotes from Rahm about how we don’t need to attack the war and all the failures of the Bush Administration, because everyone already knows about those, and we should focus on presenting a positive message about the economy and things that people really care about.
I am so glad we worked so hard to counter that, and to put ourselves in a position where we can laugh instead of cry about it!
newspaperbrat @ 132
Thanks for the suggestion. Given your screen name, do you know how to get such published? When I was a Wall St. economist & therefore had my fill of press mentions, I still couldn’t get anything published as an op-ed. Any hints?
dakine01 @ 142
Had to check the mirror to make sure my eyes had not been stuck in eyeroll mode…. Shinny object …. look over there while they rape and pillage our country… yep… being just too serious again!
I just had a scary experience. I googled my screen name, and there were all my comments! I better wash my mouth out with soap & start with a clean slate. You can take that mixed metaphor out & shoot it.
And, how sweet it is!
This is a scary little post over on kos!
Onward Christian Soldiers..
fahrender @ 138
The Slate article referenced by landofthefree @ 42 has made me rethink the ‘Gonzo as complete incompetent’ scenario. Maybe more of a dangerous fruitcake, who accomplished just what he set out to do. Of course Bush won’t fire him, because he did exactly what he was supposed to do. Scary.
New thread, Blue America.
Please feel free to stay here to discuss various topics.
Blue America: This Year We Will Put A Doctor In The House—-Victoria Wulsin
Looking at Abu’s testimony AND the Rep. Senators slamming him, I got the sense that he was set up by Bush & Co. to take the fall. Now, they get to delay his resignation, as well as Wolfowitz’s departure, in their bid to ‘run out the clock’. This is going to get messy, but Schumer, Leahy, Whitehouse, et al have the momentum and the public’s backing … and timing is everything.
I know we’re not supposed to quote things that have already been quoted, so to fahrender:
I agree that Bush is going to dig in his heels on Gonzales and dare Congress to impeach him. It goes along with Bush’s usual tactic of trying to exploit divisions within the opposition by raising the stakes. I think Leahy has enough backbone to keep the investigation going to impeachment if necessary. Sadly, I’m not sure about the rest of the Democrats.
To parris, I don’t agree that Speaker Pelosi’s ratings are going up because she’s being critical, it’s because she’s getting things done. If the Democrats cave to Bush on the Iraq appropriations bill, as looks increasingly likely, you might see Ms. Pelosi’s ratings stay high, since she’s been doing her darndest, but I don’t think it will carry over to improved ratings for Democrats as a whole. They’ll just look like blowhards who can’t govern.
Petrocelli @ 154
Amen.
katymine @
131
Two of the biggest no-talent motherf**kers in creation occupying the same room at once?
Mayhap the world will stop spinning on its axis and the lack of gravity will let us fly away from such mediocrity.
;>)
katymine: (#141)
i’m 100% with you on pursuing the little, passive/aggressive twit. he needs to be mashed like a tick. but i stand by what i said, that he got some serious hurt, psychologically, put on him on thursday. he’ll feel it every time he starts to do something from now on. he’s got the kind of wound no doctor can heal.
spurious @
156
I still can’t get over Whitehouse. I knew Leahy, Schumer, Durbin & Feinstein would be great, but Whitehouse …
Raven, I’m so sorry to hear about your loss. It is amazing to see that Raven lived to be 20!
Petrocelli @ 159
Whitehouse was a US Attorney until 1998, so this may be just a bit more personally relevant for him than for others.
Sheldon Whitehouse is like a newly found WMD!
darkblack @ 157
Sanjaya should have met Bush last Saturday, to find out the “strategy for losing the vote but winning the crown”.
eCAHNomics @
149
Oh F*ck! I just did the same thing. At first it was OK, as there’s another person on some other aeas using the name. Then I saw where the HuffPost HuffIts had it linked to my real name! I’ve got a fairly common real name but still…
LS @ 162
White Methodical Democrat? Glad some were finally found. *g*
Hey darkblack…
Have I got an image for you:
http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute…..ollid.html
raven at 91
((((raven and mrs. raven))))
dakine01 @ 164
I googled my screen name and got 42,800,000 hits!!!
which is why this is my screen name.
;)
eCAHNomics @ 149
Guess I’m safe, since I’m a real word! Good thing I didn’t use my eBay name. :~)
Regarding vocabulary, none of us would like to give up the freedom to use whatever word best conveys our feelings, but for the population in general it would be a bar to some people’s acceptance of our ideas. I’ve been thinking that if we were going to publish a G-rated version, someone could write a Babelfish-like translation program that would automatically change F**k to Fluff, Sh*t to Splat, etc. We might even invent some new words!
Just a thought.
Elliott @ 168
Ditto ; )
raven @ 91
Aww, I’m sorry to hear this, too. A bad week indeed!
((((raven))))
fahrender @ 158
One can only hope.
eCAHNomics @ 147
My late Dad’s primary career was as newspaper reporter and later an editor for a host of major American daily papers, including editoral page editors including oped submissions. He appreciated courtesy calls prior to submission so I suggest you make a short list of opinion editors of the papers you’d prefer and make direct query calls initially and follow up positive responses via email with a cover note and the oped. All good opinion page editors have their tried and true writers whose submissions they favor and you’re bound to find a good fit sooner than later. Only wish Dad was still with us to provide you with his counsel for he would greatly appreciate your succinct writing skills.
Oh I miss that fine man – and as I reply I can just hear him gently scolding “the adjective is the enemy of the noun!” (meaning me not thee)
;~)
hmm…. better find another name to post during working hours…..
Petrocelli @ 163
…subtitled, Style Over Substance For Dummies
;>)
Lou Costello @ 166
Well, isn’t that cute – Ta, Lou. That might find its way to a concept someday.
raven so sorry about the loss, if it might help, when I once lost my dog, a friend remarked – maybe he wanted to come back as a cat. The thought somehow helped me.
If anyone wants to know what a REAL candidate for Congress sounds like, come on up to the Blue America thread.
Doc Wulsin!
RAVEN,
I am so sorry to hear this. I am holding you virtually in my arms in a big ass hug. Love you, man.
btw, PW
this is a great post, thank you!
darkblack @
175
How’s it goin’, darkblack? I love your witty repartee … all of them in fact.
DrenchedOtter @
145
Right! And, now, what is congress going to do about it? Bush’s boys are beyond embarassment, so hearings have no effect on them. Congress can starve the President and Congress can impeach the President. It’s time to choose Plan B.
Petrocelli @ 180
and his images, too!
Mutant Poodle @ 127
Yea, me and Annie. Raven came from a long line of cockers that her family raised. Unfortunately there won’t be anymore of them. Our other doggie, the Bohdisattva, has been great in helping Raven in his battle by keeping his spirits up.
Petrocelli @ 180
Ta, Petrocelli …I try to keep both my wits well honed.
;>)
Arnie @ 176
Cool! He was always very intersted in kitties! I best get back to swinging a hammer, it’s helping some.
Elliott @ 182
Ah, that darkblack’s just a paint-by-pixels schnook…darblack, that’s an artiste.
Just ask TeddySanFran.
;>)
Howie has Victoria Wulsin upstairs who will kick Mean Jean butt in ‘08. Come up ask questions and contribute!!
katymine @ 8
Huh! Meanwhile their “Golden Boy” Kenneth Starr…is successful in getting this guy off death row by arguing that the individual may be stiil aware when they are applying the drug cocktail?
http://cbs5.com/deathrow/local…..11845.html
“Morales killed 17-year-old Terri Winchell in January 1981. He tried to choke her with a belt, but it broke. Then, he hit her in the head with a hammer, leaving 23 indentations in her skull. He dragged her face-down across a street and raped her unconscious body. Then, he stabbed her four times in the chest to make sure she was dead.
Morales left Winchell in a vineyard in Lodi, naked from the waist down with her shirt pulled up over her breasts.
Jumping in on Morales’ behalf is former judge Kenneth Starr, who will ask Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for clemency.”
And Starr submitted false documents in his appeals that claimed the jurors were tainted and have had subsequent regrets about their conviction…which turned out to be utter forgeries!
But they LOVE Kenny Starr because he raised the utterly irrelevant questions about Clinton’s sex-life in the Whitewater investigation…or was that the investigation of replacement (at the beginning of the term) of the White House Travel Office staff?
I sort of forget what Kenn Starr’s authorization was supposed to be after his investigations of everything from the suicide of Clinton’s Chief of Staff, to whom slept in the White House, whether Al Gore made a phone call from his office in the White House. None of these acts seem to be “criminal activity” in the Bush regime though…in fact they use their phones to expose CIA agents, have erasable private email systems to do their dirty work, invite gay “escorts” to repeatedly stay overnight in the White House, and fire US Attorneys in the midst of investigations of high ranking Republican Congressmen.
Justice is not 100% served till we get Bush/Cheney and their whole admin OUT and we get our rights back.
SnarKassandra @
189
Hi Cassie, to answer your question from an earlier post, the City of Toronto composts, and it’s spreading like wildfire to the suburbs, where the response has been a 70 – 75% reduction in garbage going to landfills. They cannot expand the program more quickly because of the tremendous response.
PeteCO @ 92
Another- “The Fog of War”
Petrocelli @ 190
Thanks. I will see if our town has something like that.
PeteCO @ 137
Maybe their political contributions…12 year old girls have a massive amount of cash flow, it seems.
In addition, if you are going to make an army of Ann Coulter true-believers you have to start at them early!
Most teens and preteens don’t have checks though and campaigns don’t always like cash.
Other Pat @ 140
Maybe something about how the deficit will increase THEIR TAXES, and how the war in Iraq and the corruption across all of these programs lining the pockets of lobbyists affects their futures.
Then show the “biggy” – the Republican (or the local Republican Senator/Congressmans) vote of student financial aid.
Petrocelli @ 159
Whitehouse is my new hero! And he would be an ideal presidential candidate. :~)
cinnamonape @ 195
Maybe I will make a chart like that for my blog!
cleter @
50
There is a point to it. The Republican shiny object is that Gonzales is merely “incompetent.” This covers up the truth that the DOJ has been purposefully and intentionally politicized to a criminal degree. Gonzales almost succeeded in muddying this, but Sen. Whitehouse’s brilliant chart near the end blew the cover-up out of the water.
Bob in HI
There has been mention of the fact that the MSM does not appeal to the average individual any more. That statement is probably pretty accurate, which really causes a great bit of concern to me. While the statistics show that a large number of homes have access to the Internet, it fails to show the demographics of who the uses are of that service. I think you will find if research is done that many if not most people of voting age have very little contact with actual (truthful) news coverage. I would go farther and state that the majority of the voters in this nation do not get their information about who they vote for from factual sources. There is more of brand name voting created by political ads than can be created to sources from the Internet or even the MSM. This is where it seems like the elections have begun to be won and lost. Ok, I put in my 1/2 cent worth of comment, will now craw back under my rock!
Wigwam @ 181
Amen.
OK. This is the chart so far. Help me complete it.
What Republicans SAY What Republicans MEAN
“No Child Left Behind” No testing company or textbook company left behind
“Clean Skies Initiative” More ways for big business to pollute
“surge” Permanent escalation
“Support the Troops” Cut VA benefits, extend deployments, insufficient body armor, insufficient equipment
Bob Schacht @ 198
I think this strategy was revealed in one of the non-lost e-mails: the discussion was to be turned from what AGAG did to how he failed to make Congress ‘understand’).
SnarKassandra @ 201
Healthy Forests — No forest, no sick trees.
SnarKassandra @ 201
Personal Responsibility == Rape, pillage and steal…
Healthcare Choices == NO health insurance at all
Budget Reduction Act === Debt up to eyeballs to China et al
CNN’s Kyra Phillips informs us that Reid’s “war is lost” comment is “discouraging” to the troops.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/
SnarKassandra @
201
cassie,
you can add on to it a lot and then update it but i don’t think it will be possible to complete it!
“Operation Iraqi Freedom” – Operation We’re going to invade, occupy, steal your oil, and wall you in.
“No permanent bases in Iraq” – Huge permanent bases in Iraq.
“Global War on Terror” – World Domination by Force to control the world’s oil and economy.
“Heckava Job!” – Your fired.
“When the Iraqis stand up, we’ll stand down” – When we stand down, the Iraqis will stand up.
“Christian Right” – kill, lie, steal, claim false witness, dishonor fathers and mothers, and the rest of the list.
katymine @ 204
What Republicans SAY What Republicans MEAN
“No Child Left Behind” No testing company or textbook company left behind
“Clean Skies Initiative” More ways for big business to pollute
“surge” Permanent escalation
“Support the Troops” Cut VA benefits, extend deployments, insufficient body armor, insufficient equipment
“diplomacy” Bombs instead of conversation
“pro-life” Pro-forcing women to carry pregnancies to term, anti-life for Iraqi adults and children, sick people in the US, death row inmates, and victims of Hurricane Katrina
“healthy forests” Deforestation by the lumber companies
“healthcare choice” No health care at all for 47 million Americans
“When the Iraqis stand up, we’ll stand down” We will never stand down
“no permanent bases in Iraq” 14 permanent bases in Iraq, plus the world’s largest embassy ever
“Operation Iraqi Freedom” Operation We’re going to invade, occupy, steal your oil, and wall you in.
i think it is done
not doing the religion stuff
Here’s my take on the print newspaper situation.
I used to subscribe to the paper. Little by little they quit printing the columns of people I liked to read, Krugman, Herbert, and yes, I’ll admit it, Dowd. The replacements were local writers who are more conservative. Their news also started getting more republican mouthpieced too. So then I would get it only once in a while and I started to read news that is more to my style on the internet. Now I never buy the print paper.
So, it wasn’t that the internet took me away from the print newspaper, it’s that the print newspaper changed and I found what I used to get from the print, on the internet.
I think we should skip “controversial” and go straight to, “the failed Bush Presidency.”
Cassie, Yo go girl! Sorry didn’t make it to a post office this week. Will send those Vonnegut books real soon…)
“We won’t raise your taxes” – The income you used to tax is being produced overseas, so that’s pretty much irrelevant.
“Republicans are fiscally responsible” – We have all the money, and we are going to invest it in ourselves, so go Cheney yourselves.
“We are the Party of Family Values” – Unless, you were in NOLA during and after Katrina. Also,we are happy to intern you anywhere with your children indefinately, so our private prison investment portfolios grow real big. Short version – we don’t value your family.
OK. It is done and it is up. Thanks for your help
Cozumel @
205
Kyra Phillips is discouraging to a healthy cognitive function.
Free Trade == ship those jobs overseas
Straight Talk Express == talk out of both sides of your mouth
Politics of Personal Destruction == Just indicted lying sack of crap ex-Repug congressman waiting for trial
katymine @ 217
Can you post those as a comment on my blog? Please?
FYI, very new thread can be found here
SnarKassandra @ 218
Just saw. Thanks!
Done… SnarKassandra (even with the word crap)
If anyone has access to Robert Greenwalds film The Big Buy, watch it. If you have seen it, watch it again. We had a girls night last night and watched it. For myself it was a repeat but there was a lot that needs to be heard again and again!
Tom Delay’s list of what he wanted to destroy in our government is very frightening because he nearly did ALL of it.
Watch the Trailer
The Big Buy
SnarKassandra @ 189
Right on!!!
Bob in HI
LS @
207
Moving Forward = Ignoring Mistakes and Misdeeds
Pleasure of the President = Being Surrounded by
‘yes’ men
cleter @
76
There already was! They had the number one hit…uh…wow, how embarrassing. It’s right on the tip of my tongue. I guess I don’t recall.