Well, well, well. Planeloads of Republican politicians have been earning zillions of frequent-flyer miles over the past few years doing unofficial shuttle diplomacy with Syria and Condi Rice did nothing, but it just took newly-elected Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's one little old bipartisan mission to pry Secretary Rice loose from her chair and onto a plane for Damascus.
Here's The Carpetbagger Report on the upcoming Rice trip:
As I recall, when the Speaker of the House chatted with Syrian officials last month, the White House, congressional Republicans, and far-right activists were apoplectic. CNN ran a news segment on Pelosi’s trip titled “Talking to Terrorists.”
The ringleader of this spectacularly stupid smear was the Bush White House. Somehow I suspect Rove & Co. will be a little quieter now.
Just to be clear, I’m not criticizing Rice for possibly having discussions with Syria’s Foreign Minister; I’m just stunned by the hypocrisy of it all.
Literally just one month ago, the Bush administration said U.S. officials should not have contact with the Syrian government, accusing the Syrians of meddling in Lebanon, supporting terrorism, and being unhelpful on Iraq. White House spokesperson Dana Perino said it sends the wrong “message” for members of Congress to discuss anything with Syrian officials.
For a lot of conservatives, that’s all they needed to hear. Indeed, far-right blogs pounced — one said this is proof that “Democrats seem to be setting up a separate government with its own suicidally blind idea of who’s a terrorist and who isn’t (basically, nobody is).” Another insisted that Pelosi’s decision to visit with Syrians is “repulsive” and questioned her loyalty to the U.S. Another still asked, “Can we question [Democrats’] patriotism now?” Yet another concluded that Pelosi’s talks “teeter on the edge of treason.”
Dick Cheney called Pelosi’s discussions “bad behavior.” The president personally criticized talks with Syria, saying discussions have been “counterproductive” and concluding that they send “mixed signals” to the Middle East. For two weeks, Fox News talked about almost nothing else.
And now, lo and behold, Bush’s Secretary of State seems to believe talking with high-ranking Syrian officials may not be such a bad idea after all. Will CNN run features about Rice “talking to terrorists”? Somehow, I doubt it.
Not much more to add to this, other than that Rice's sudden decision to visit Damascus, hard on the heels of the Pelosi trip, shows that Nancy Pelosi's bi-partisan delegation to Syria has had, as those who know what's going on have said, a positive effect.
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Someone’s gotta be the adult here… might as well be a grandma!
I love Pelosi!!
I remain strongly supportive of our Speaker.
Jacqrat @ 1
Yupper!
PW – Could impending subpoenas and threats of subpoenas have provided her with additional motivation to travel to Damascus?
By the way:
I really wasn’t looking for the nastiest photo of Madam Secretary, nor the most flattering one of Madam Speaker. I was just looking for pics that weren’t too big for our dial-up users. (Believe me, there was an even nastier one of Rice that I decided against using. And it wasn’t Photoshopped, either.)
ugh. The hypocrisy. It hurts the brain.
The part that hurts more is that there’ll be no apologies, no balance. None of these people who screamed about Pelosi’s trip will now say “huh, I was mistaken.” I mean I’d even take the bozo prize and hope that this would further alienate Bush (”why is he sending Condi to Damascus? He doesn’t represent us”), but that certainly won’t happen either.
Stephen Parrish, CPA @ 5
Heh! Could be. For various reasons.
On the contrary, Rice needs to go over there ASAP to undo the damage done by our treasonous Speaker who obviously hates America and children and kittens.
They sell shoes in Damascus, right?
Why does Rice support the terrorists?
I hear the sandal shopping in Damascus is Faaaabulous this time of year.
OMG!
I opened the page and saw that picture of Condi and started laughing my head off!
Still snickering…
I guess I’ll go read the post now.
HaHAhAhA
Thanks for the laugh.
Phoenix Woman @ 6
But I do love this pic of Condi. What a scowl she’s got on!
That TRAITOR! “Talking To Terrorists”!
Backstabbing the Israelis! And think of how this will affect our troops!
And I heard that she wants to talk to the IRANIANS, as well! But they turned her down, for the time being!
Quicksand @ 9
Fixed.
Phoenix Woman @
6
most pix of Rice are nasty. Maybe she’s just a nasty person. I saw her on the TV coverage of Gerald Ford’s funeral, sitting next to Chelsea Clinton, and she even looked nasty then.
EPU
Bob Joseph left Condi’s shop in January ‘07:
In congressional testimony, intelligence officials connected Joseph to the language, saying that he had repeatedly pressed the CIA to back the inclusion in Bush’s speech of a statement about Iraq’s attempts to buy uranium from Niger. Joseph later argued that he did not recall the CIA raising concerns about the credibility of the information to be included in the speech (see James Risen and David Singer, “After the War: CIA Uproar; New Details Emerge on Uranium Claim and Bush’s Speech,” New York Times, July 18, 2003; and Julian Borger, “Democrats Step up Pressure on Uranium Claims,” Guardian, July 14, 2003).”
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1235
Quicksand @ 9
Fixed.
Rove: “Ahhhhh! The aroma of Damascus Leather stilettos! Condi, please buy a pair when you are over there so I can caress them.”
George: “Me first, Karl!”
Phoenix Woman @
8
fleeing the jurisdiction, I tell ya.
It’s soooo weird. The relationship between the President and his Secretary of State.
Of course, her friends and her stepmother Clara Rice offered a simpler explanation for why she stayed: “she just can’t say no to that man.”
It’s as if Nancy walked into the saloon and said to Condi, “Dance!”
Oklahoma kiddo @ 21
Rice never talks with her mouth full. (Drumroll)
I think basically the White House doesn’t give a crap what Rice does to fill the lonely emptiness of her days. They are deeply afflicted with end-stage Nixonian policy necrosis. Minor show-ponies at the fringes of the administration can do what they like, as long as it doesn’t interfere with the dead-ender core stacking sand-bags around the Decider Bunker.
Eureka Springs @ 12
I’m sorry ES, the thought of KindaSleazy’s gnarly toes….Eeeeeewwwwww. (actual photo) *wink
Oklahoma kiddo @ 21
you mean her
husb?Quicksand @ 9
And is a lesbian ‘cuz she’s from (wait for it) Faaaaag City, too!
cleter @ 24
that’s one scary image you paint, cleter
Had to Spotlight this one. A Classic.
LoudounLib @ 14
“Earth President Pelosi smiled broadly, while the Klingon Ambassador fumed silently and plotted revenge on the humans…”
cleter @ 24
Necrosis?! What are you talking about?! Army Group Steiner will save us, unbeliever!!!
Rice is totally devoid of principle. Much like Tenet and Powell.
There are just too damn many jokes you could make about the ‘road to Damascus’ We’ll simply reference #416 from the Joe Miller Joke Book and leave it at that.
Phoenix Woman @ 31
Only if they bring some of those secret weapons from the Secret Weapons Factory. Buzz bombs. Death Rays. Propellerless Aircraft. That sort of thing.
Balrog @ 29
Thanks!
Oklahoma kiddo @ 21
which reminds me of a song from the musical, “Oklahoma!”
yes, ahem, the “relationship” may be why Laura flexes her claws and purrs over Condi’s lack of an, uh, “family support” system.
OT:
Is the Rep debate going to be on Regeans grave or something? Man they are trying to pump this thing up. Why didn’t they hold the democratic debate by the eternal flame in Arlington?
Yeah, I don’t think they are going to run a “Talk w/ Terror” when Condi goes out on her trips.
separated at birth…
How scandalicious would it be if Condi was involved in the escort service business. Many of the escorts were well educated and professional women.
Sunlight RULES! Government Oversight Continues With Halliburton, Cheney & Terrorists
Why are we shocked by the actions of a man who, when image googling the words miserable faiure, his picture comes up?
oddmommy @ 36
Say what you will about Nixon, at least you never had to worry about him and Kissinger “doin’ it.”
Actually, a year ago I was myself on the road to Damascus, in Yarmuk Jordan, near the border. There was a nice mosque pointed out to me given to the local indigent community by Saddam Hussein and named after him. You have to give the guy a little credit, this bit of charity and the way he died.
Thanks.
I just threw up in my mouth, twice.
cleter @ 35
Fool! You don’t know about the secret chambers we have hidden in the New Atlantis at the Earth’s Core, where we frolic on golden unicorns and eat Nutella straight out of the jar! We
und unsere Lieber Fhrerour Dear Leader will be safe, safe, SAFE from you forever! Mwahahahahaha!I think we take up a collection for the Congressional Seargent-at-Arms to travel to Syria so as to be waiting for Condi outside Bashar Assad’s door.
Two birds – one stone. No treasonous talk with a terrorist-state leader, and she’s busted on the subpoena-skip.
Hahahaha! That’s gotta be the comment of the day.
Phoenix Woman @
46
Mein Fuhrer! I can walk!
Although I applaud having a dialog with the Syrians (as well as with the Libyans, Iranians, North koreans, et al), the reality is, nothing will come of this. Little Boots does not understand the fine art of negotiating and how sometimes there has to be a little give rather than take take take. Just as his idea of compromise is to tell the House and Senate what to do, take it or leave it, I’m sure it’s the same with Kinda-Sleezy going to Damascus. A little flash and zero (zed?) substance.
Anyway…
ohhhkay…..another image for my Nightmare collection….
cleter @ 43
Aaaaaaahhhhhh! Brain hurt!
redX @ 38
Ray-guns library
redX @ 38
Great question for Brian Williams to ask the GOP PrezCandis on Thursday, though: “Do you support Rice’s trip despite Darth’s criticism of Nancy’s as bad behavior?”
Get them to waffle on BigTime! That’ll be the kiss of death with Teh Base.
At least Condi’s got her legacy secured:
Worst….Secretary….of….State….Ever.
TeddySanFran @ 54
Unfortunately, Tweety gets to ask the questions in his reach-around smirk.
Giving credit where credit is do, Condi has the most photogenic scowl of anyone in this Administration. She’s even got the Shooter beat.
Elliott @ 23
No kidding. And, after waiting what she thought was a suitable interval in the hopes that no one would notice, she did.
Condi is ducking for cover, nothing else. Can subpoenas be delivered from the Senate to Syria?
IIRC, Condi had that same scowl on her face during the SOTU as she leaned forward in her seat watching
her husbandthe preznint.As to Dr. Rice PhD. A mind can be a terrible thing to waste.
Condi got a big ole butt
I know I told you Id be true
But Condi got a big ole butt
So Im leavin you
Condi got a big ole butt
I know I told you Id be true
But Condi got a big ole butt
So Im leavin you
Yo Yo, LL Cool J
Does this help end the strike?
How DO they deliver subpoenas?
PW, STRIKE OUT starts @ 46.
dakine01 @ 50
“Little Boots”! I like that one
I can’t say that I’ve ever seen a picture of Rice where she looked even slightly pleasant. The contrast with the picture of Pelosi says … probably more about the GOoPers than they ever expected. I know which one I’d prefer meeting.
Bay State Librul @ 64
sneaky-like
VJB @ 44
This would make a good Jeopardy question: Which reckless, irrational, irresponsible, incompetent, and all around f****d up disaster of an American president succeeded in evoking sympathy for a brutal dictator?
Bay State Librul @
64
They’re typically attached to heat-seeking memos.
Lou Costello @ 41
Excellent!
By the way, it’s been known since frikkin’ FEBRUARY of frikkin 2001 than Cheney/Halliburton was, through a faked-up subsidiary, doing business in and with Iran — in direct violation of President Clinton’s Executive Order forbidding it.
If Gore had tried this shit when he was VP, it would have been all over the evening news. But Cheney did it — and this is probably the first time most of you have heard about it.
Bay State Librul @ 64
Courier Chihuahua’s
Frank Probst @ 70
That doesn’t work with these Repugs…lizards are cold blooded.
P J Evans @ 67
her cowled brow suggests menace or malice
Frank Probst @ 70
Well, the UK’s Ministry of Magic uses owls, while the US Department of Magic prefers bald eagles, particularly for overseas delivery.
mary2002 at kos: “comey and other….”
read & recommend
Actually Bay State Librul,
if it’s like the ones I have seen done, a guy walks up and asks if you are so and so.
You say yes, he sticks out his hand with a piece of paper in it and says ” You have been served”.
As to Condi’s and Georgies private moments, I think somebody is getting the leather treatment.
OT:
C Rangle (D- ny) on Tucker:
“You know you form these questions in the form a statement..”
and then continues to easily brush aside Tuckers petty agenda and core points.
Now Tucker is talking about “bribes” with the “pork:, also schooled rather easily by Rangle.
Phoenix Woman @ 71
I chose to think it was a way for the CIA to be in Iran covertly. I hope it was at least useful in that one way.
P J Evans @ 67
Yup. You can fool people when you’re young, but once you hit forty, your character inescapably shows up in your face and announces itself to the world.
Nancy looks her age, but she makes her age look good. Condi — well, the less said, the better.
Old Sow @ 76
OLD SOW!!! How are you?
She scowls like that because she never quite understands what people are saying. Condi is not altogether dumb, and appears a rocket scientist in the WH, but she knows Only the Cold War, with the rest beyond her. She is, after all one of the generation of whom in 1990 one asked — “What does Saddam know that no American under 45 knows?” The answer was “How to find Kuwait on a map!”
In my experience she will be out of luck in Damas for shoes —- the local leather is none so good. Now Beyrouth shops……. If she went there we should bever see her again.
TeddySanFran @
10
I don’t think she’s going to meet the Syrian FM in Damascus. I think Cairo is the venue. It is a meeting of ME FMs, IIRC. No doubt she’ll also be meeting in Tel Aviv with the Israeli FM, who is going to most likely be their interim PM by Friday.
OT – Bush redefines success in Iraq…
Oh, this little ditty was EPU’d from the last thread, but I had to rescue it:
Rick Renzi: Bush made me do it!
Sing! Sing like a canary, Ricky!
redX @
79
Oh Jeebus! Rangel against Tuckery is as big a mis-match as Michael Jorday playing against the local elementary school. Tuckery is WAY out of his league. Of course, he’s also idiot enough not to recognize the fact.
After the press conference, Israel Radio reported that Olmert’s strategic aide Tal Zilberstein had said that there is no choice but to fire Livni as early as Wednesday evening, following Livni’s call for Olmert to resign.
OT but on DC Madame:
Now that’s keeping a secret!
that’s too funny
twolf1 @ 85
Lovely!
Phoenix Woman @
81
I think there’s a Lincoln quote about a person being responsible for her own face after 40 …
PW @ 71
You or someone else clever pointed out a week or three ago that we should be worried ‘cos Halliburton had publicly announced it had completed its contract in Iran and withdrawn all its personnel. there was a momentary worry it presaged the Iran attack.
Link to Mary at kos.
dakine01 @ 87
Tucker Carlson should have known better than to go up against someone who saw combat in the meat grinder known as Korea. To paraphrase the title of his autobiography, he’s never had a bad day since. He can handle anything Bowtie Boy flings at him.
Oklahoma kiddo @
88
Wednesday’s over over there, and Livni’s still in place. I’ve got a hunch the phones between Condi’s people and various Israelis is far busier than between Condi and the people who she’s allegedly over there to confer with.
dakine
Anyway…
at first, i thought lil’ boots was condi…….i think she should be ‘little boots’ and bush should be ‘kinda-sleazy’
Do cable or sat. television providers like Comcast know what channel a particular viewer is tuned to?
Ed*ard Teller @
84
So this is the meeting where Bush said (in response to the press question, “What would SecRice have to say to the Iranian FM if she ran into him?”) that Condi would not be rude to the Iranian FM because Condi is not a rude person? That was on Jon Stewart last nite.
cleter @
31
heh heh…
dmac @ 96
at first, i thought lil’ boots was condi…….i think she should be ‘little boots’ and bush should be ‘kinda-sleazy’
IIRC, little boots is what the name Caligula translates as. FWIW.
Ed*ard Teller @ 84
LMAO. CR meets ASAP in ME with the FM of ISR who is soon to be PM. Her 10-20 is T-A at 0800 hours. Although, IANAL.
From the gasbag himself:
RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, did you hear about this poor guy, the CEO of British Petroleum? “Lord John Browne, an aggressive but mannerly British magnate who transformed BP into one of the most successful global companies, resigned abruptly Tuesday after losing a court battle with a London tabloid over disclosure of his sexual relationship with a younger man. In one of the most humiliating come-downs in British business life, Browne acknowledged offering an ‘untruthful account’ to a court about the circumstances under which he had met the man, a former companion…. At the height of his powers, Browne had been knighted in 1998 and Prime Minister Tony Blair made him a life peer in 2001, a token of the close relationship between the company and the prime minister.” Now, apparently this guy had a little tryst with another man and lied about it and it got reported and so forth. Folks, I’m going to tell you: I don’t think this can be true. I think enemies of Lord Brown have totally made this up. How in the world can this possibly be true? It couldn’t have happened! I mean, no one ever loses his job because of lying under oath in a civil case — especially about sex.
snip
I wonder if Tony Blair was also a client of the DC Madam.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 97
Of course they do, now quit watching Tucker. *s*
Oklahoma kiddo @ 97
Cable certainly does — so I bet Karl Baby pushed Bush long ago to tell the NSA to get with it……
Phoenix Woman @ 90
Sounds like Kerry 2004
Haven’t seen this linked yet …
Monica dearest might be in legal trouble again… DOJ investigation. WaPo article.
It’s obvious to me that the Secretary of State and Bush are joined at the boot.
dakine01 @
100
When the earlier model was a kid, he played soldier constantly. His guards humored him, partly with that name, which the earlier model probably grew to loath as much as the present model loaths being called shrub.
maunga @ 104
That’s precisely what I was getting at. ;0)
maunga @ 92
It wasn’t me, but yeah.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 107
Hip boots are VERY kinky — especially on GW. The mind boggles.
cathy @ 101
707 – ding!
Eureka Springs @ 103
Exactly the point I was trying to make. ;0)!
Oklahoma kiddo @ 109
folks, do be careful. And assume that we are being watched. Esp’ly here.
another reason all this matters so much …
“But on Tuesday, the senior officials, including Michael McConnell, the new director of national intelligence, said they believed that the president still had the authority under Article II of the Constitution to once again order the N.S.A. to conduct surveillance inside the country without warrants. . . .”
linky
Ed*ard Teller @ 108
bet Condi has a toy soldier collection
lee5 @ 106
(Scoots over to TPM to see if they’ve seen this yet)
ok kiddo
in a word, within certain parameters, yes.
Sunni Muslim sheikhs join US in fighting Al Qaeda
Ramadi, Iraq – Amid fields of wheat and barley, dozens of armed men emerged along a dirt road leading to the fiefdom of the Bu-Fahed tribe in Hamdhiyah, an idyllic corner of restive Anbar Province, just north of Ramadi. “Welcome to our proud sheikhs. Down with terror,” read banners on the road.
Dozens of sheikhs and tribal elders in flowing gold-trimmed camel-hair cloaks, many clutching colorful worry beads, streamed into a conference hall. Each was frisked by tribesmen to guard against suicide bombs.
The meeting looked to be a typical gathering, but its true purpose was for top sheikhs to issue an ultimatum: quit supporting Al Qaeda and turn in relatives belonging to the group.
I thought scarecrow might enjoy this 5 pager….
Rice sucks
I wonder if Tony Blair was also a client of the DC Madam.
umm, were her employees *all* females?
Elliott @ 115
Um, no, not soldiers; that would be plebian. It’s a collection of carrier fighter pilots.
If it weren’t for the oil, we wouldn’t be in Iraq. Not a difficult concept.
bill @ 119
————————————–
Can I hear a double DITTO?
1,504 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN GOEZ ON AND ON AND..
Citizen Pheonix Woman and the Firepup Patriots:
ALERT!! Please Firepups go read the tristero post up at Digby. As we and our democracy slowly backstroke around the drain, it is important to realize that we have come to that point in political conflict when there is no middle and no compromise. We are at the end of history here, there is no longer a dialectic…the antithesis of democratic constitutionalism is fascism and it holds power right now.
We can’t wait for the 2008 elections to put and end to the perpetual “war on terror”. With Steny Hoyer’s comin’ out of the closet today, it’s clear that political compromises to keep the war in Iraq goin’ indefinitely only close the coffin on the Constitution as we know it.
We are in a state of civil war with our own government, therefore, there is no middle ground..there is no halfway point between democracy and fascism. Anyone who supports continuing the war in Iraq beyond a date certain in this year is not a democrat or a Democrat. There are no longer Democrats and Republicans, there are only democrats and fascists.
No compromise on anything, from this moment forward we must…
KEEP THE FAITH AND LET OUR LEADERS KNOW WHERE WE’RE GOIN’ BECAUSE THEY ARE OUR LEADERS AND THEY MUST LEAD US!!
How hard would it be to get into a juried art show where lots of neocons go?
I have a mind to throw together some codpiece arts and crafts projects. I’m betting elite media types (Tweety) and people like Condi would pay top dollar.
Tweety is all a twit at the Reagan Library and how proud he is that Nancy chose him….Nancy chose him?….HUH! for what…to moderate the debates…..
bill @ 119
er…..what?
Never mind, I can guess.
i am beginning to think that iraq is like a gathering where the kids are not included, and they resent it……..bunch of adults in one room trying to talk, being interrupted by a bunch of wild undisciplined kids intent on not letting the adults talk………what do you do? discipline the kids? when their parents won’t? so you can’t talk? no, you leave and go home and don’t go back…..or include the kids in it…..
iraq can’t do the adult things, they are run over with kids tryin’ to run things, we need to leave and go back when the adults are in charge, or the kids are included……. when the company leaves, they go back to functioning like a regular family. it’s the having adult company where they aren’t included they don’t like.
we need to get outta there. they can run their own household if we would just leave. because we don’t include the kids in our talking……because we’re the adults and don’t want their input.
Here’s the picture you wanted. (May have been Photoshopped).
Why are Rice and Cheney not allowed in the same room? The air might freeze.
jayt @ 120
You know, I was just wondering the same thing. If it does, you can bet Gannon’s phone number is in them 46 pounds somewhere….
Oklahoma kiddo @
107
They’ve been together for years. Gonzo worked for him when he was governor, for ex.
I expect the government has ‘had my number’ for a lot of years. From my Mario Savio years ’til now.
I hope Condiliar doesn’t appear with her head covered. I’d hate for Nazi Hunter Glenn Beck to turn on our miss fashion pumps.
TeddySanFran @ 10
Damascus is famous for handmade firearms crafted by local gunsmiths. To go with her shoes.
FDL is on fire today! Thank the goddess for all of you posters and commenters – I’d go nuts every day without you!
Could someone be kind enough to remind me when the Comey hearing is tomorrow, and where it might be broadcast? Darn – I have to teach tomorrow until 3 EDT, and 1/2 hour driving to get home. So, I won’t get to watch until 2:30 CDT (or 3:30 EDT).
Thanks!
Kathie
{{{{Jane}}}}
Oklahoma kiddo @
132
Same here. From my McGovern days through being not good enough to have clearances, to having an attitude about the chimpy, I know I’m on their lists.
It may have an element of false bravado but I’m reminded of one of the old gangster movies. Can’t recall if it’s Cagney or Robertson but whomever said, “Bring it on COPPERS! :})
ccmask @ 130
Y’know, that’s a good point. The 46 pounds of phone records, and the snapshot I saw on the news the other night, seems to be a full listing of all the numbers — nothing redacted. Do you think that calls to her employees are included in those records?
Bob Munck @ 129
Careful, or she’ll scrooch you!
You can see the Compassionate Conservatism of the Bush administration in this.
From Waxman’s site.
http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1283
ok kiddo
i think they’re too caught up in following money, large amounts of who donates where…….i wouldn’t worry about it………
meep! @ 121
it wouldn’t surprise me
That’s right dakine01:
Bring it on George. Bring it on.
Condi will be meeting the Syrian Foreign Minister in Sharm el-Sheikh, not Cairo or Damascus. The Iranian foreign Minister will also be there. Thursday-Friday. Conference starts in a few hours.
Lotsa shoe stores in Sharm el-Sheikh.
cathy @
101
Heh – all of these acronyms are giving me a major headache! (-: I still haven’t had time to figure out what OPR means that Mary refers to in her post! (Great post, Mary!)
KathieinMN @ 135
It’s 9.30am Eastern, with the House Judiciary Committee. It’s likely to be on C-Span 3. If you’re free at work at the time, you should be able to stream video (or just audio) from them; check here
for links to click.
I think they may also stream it from the House webpage, but I’ll have to dig around for the link there. I’ll get back to you if I’m successful.
AZ Matt @ 139
Bushlogic: If poor people wanted their children to have good teeth, they would not be poor.
That and the fact that if Rice is in Syria, she is not in front of Waxman’s congressional committee. Wonder how many more trips are going to be set up for Rice in the next couple of months. Someone should check to see if she’s hired a house sitter.
The repubs are hypocrites. Always. They don’t even know it.
dmac @ 140
i think they’re too caught up in following money, large amounts of who donates where…….i wouldn’t worry about it………
That’s probably right. Oh well… what’s an old SDS type to do?
Elliott @ 141
Oh — and with large codpieces, ’cause you know they’re not anatomically correct …
Where I live there is a giant dentist bus that comes to school 5 days every semester and if you don’t have another dentist and you get free lunch or reduce cost lunch you can go to the dentist bus for free.
KatheienMN @ 144 says:
In this instance it stands for Office of Proffessional Responsibility in Dept of Justice. The office that is SUPPOSED to help keep the lawyers doing their jobs correctly. A form of IG if you will.
But you can google IIRC (if I Remember correctly) acronym list which should get you a fairly comprehensive list of the most commonly used.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 149
That’s probably right. Oh well… what’s an old SDS type to do?
Go on FDL and give’m hell!!
Phoenix Woman @
36
Where can I learn about spotlighting?
What it does, when to do it, how to do it, …?
Bob in HI
Still learning
Elliott @ 141
Actually, she has a Bush Action Figure.
http://store.bullmarkettoys.com/gewbuacfi.html
SnarKassandra @
148
how can you be a hypocrite if you don’t know it?
Do you think maybe Condi went to see the escorts?
SnarKassandra @ 148
Afternoon SnarKassandra. But to disagree, they know it, they just don’t care until they’re caught out. At least at the level we’re talking about here.
meep! @
145
Thanks, Meep! Unfortunately, when I am over at school, I teach piano lessons non-stop, and then jump into my car to beat the rush hour – so I can’t listen to Debussy and stream Comey at the same time! (-: However, since it starts at 8:30 am my time, I may be able to at least listen for 45 minutes before I leave for school. Then, I will count on the amazing FDLers’ live-blogging to read. Thanks again!
Someone slap Tweety!!!
Ed*ard Teller @ 156
The rest of us know it and they do it without even noticing. Like IRONY.
tbsa @ 160
who is tweety?
CNN Afghan anger at u.s. led troops
SnarKassandra @ 148
Most of them know it, but they don’t care. It brings in the cash for them.
I don’t know how much more “progress” in Iraq I can stand.
Mortar rounds have landed inside Baghdad’s well-guarded Green Zone, with one striking within 100m of the Iraqi prime minister’s offices, a government official said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/N…..D94460.htm
meep! @ 145
To stream from the House Judiciary site, go here when it’s time to start the hearing, and click on the ‘view live webcast’ button.
tbsa @ 160
Since I had warning that he was being a bigger a** than usual, I’m stickin’ with sports until KO comes on. I made the mistake of watching him get all excited yesterday and realized he’ll only get worse the closer he gets to the debate.
(PW, apologies for this OT)
Why does Rep. Hoyer hate privacy?
Why is Rep. Hoyer demanding private data from callers – and hence from constituents who disagree with him?
What will Rep. Hoyer’s office do with the home addresses of constituents who object to his vote?
Is the House Majority Leader keeping a list of citizens who disagree with him?
Is the House Majority Leader keeping an enemies’ list – of his constituents?
(EPU’d – and revised)
1,504 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND..
Citizen oklahoma kiddo:
Hey brother, when you waz with the SDS folks at Berkley, didja rub shoulders with the VVAW (VietNam Veterans Against the War)? I’m sure I landed in the FBI septic tank in the 1950’s when my father was bein’ snooped at…
KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION…NO COMPROMISE AND NO PRISONERS!!
SnarKassandra @ 162
Chris Mathews on MSNBC’s Hardball is called Tweety even though he looks more like Howdy Doody. John Gibson of Faux Noise on the other hand, looks like Tweety bird. Oh well, can’t have everything.
I am not watching Tweety he makes me sick. His bootlicking has to stop.
and for those who feel they are being ‘tracked’
if your choices were made with conviction as you grew, then it ‘ain’t’ no big deal, you’d stand by that, yes? so, what are you worried about? it’s the same as a resume………how do you want your life resume to read? i know how mine reads, honest, true…….so, let them track you, write a history of what you believe to be true so you can stand on it………
like my bumper sticker says:
when you tell the truth you don’t have to remember what you said/
that’s what the goopers who are being tracked don’t have, telling the truth………nothing to stand on…….please don’t worry about what the government has on you, if it was honest, you dont’ need to remember or worry about it.
dakine01 @
53
Is that the one in the 6th-grade reading room with the Tom Mix and WWII videos?
Bob in HI
tbsa @
160
Does he ever not were a blue and white striped shirt and red tie?
SnarKassandra @ 162
Chris Matthews host of Hardball on MSGOP(AKA MSNBC)
Oklahoma kiddo @ 165
This happens with increased frequency these days. Do you think our troops are backed into a corner with a commander in codstume gone AWOL? And the forth estate, *crickets*
1,504 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND..
..And Prince Harry’s going to serve..
..And no one from the Bush family ever will..
From Justin’s site — ‘antiwar’
Here is Philip Giraldi on Iran. This what A**AC is exhorting our Congress People, both Parties, both Houses, to do on THEIR country’s behalf. It has to be done more stealthily than Iraq ‘cos so many of us are now alerted, but unless our Congress People wake up to the fact that the US is utterly under their control it is likely to be where we end up. The drip fed lies are slower and subtler this time, but they are relentlessly oozing out.
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/gi…..leid=10900
Badwater @ 177
The princes are already serving but not in Iraq. My brother is serving but he is stationed in Texas.
PeterK…
“Go on FDL and give’m hell!!”
I’m working up to it. Incrementally. Don’t want to get folks too excited. ;0)
dmac @ 172
I’ve always been willing to live up to the decision I’ve made in my life. I think they call it taking adult responsibility or something li’e dat. Lying is too much like hard work and hard work is real hard to do and since I don’t like hard work, I tell the truth so I don’t have to work hard at remembering what lies I told to what people.
cassie at 162
Chris Matthews on MSNBC
lolo @ 171
I swear he’s about to have an orgasm with all the republics on his show today. MUST.TURN.IT.OFF.
dakine01 @
152
In this instance it stands for Office of Proffessional Responsibility in Dept of Justice. The office that is SUPPOSED to help keep the lawyers doing their jobs correctly. A form of IG if you will.
But you can google IIRC (if I Remember correctly) acronym list which should get you a fairly comprehensive list of the most commonly used.
(Now in deep EPU-land!)
Thanks Dakine, for your forbearance in answering my question! I know, I know, I should look these things up myself – but I am only able to do a drive-by right now, and didn’t have time for research. So, thanks again for helping me out! I will now be able to sleep tonight! (-: (That is, with my usual Benadryl and Tylenol )
OT – It is interesting that the DOJ is investigating Monica Goodling in an effort to shut her up.
Goebbels is alive and well in Rove’s thought and actions.
Bob in HI @ 173 asks:
You forgot the extra copies of Bedtime for Bonzo.
1,504 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND..
..the President made the following remarks on US efforts in Iraq:
…”But slowly but surely, the truth will be known. Either we’ll succeed, or we won’t succeed. And the definition of success as I described is sectarian violence down. Success is not, no violence. There are parts of our own country that have got a certain level of violence to it. But success is a level of violence where the people feel comfortable about living their daily lives. And that’s what we’re trying to achieve.
Apparently it is OK with the Preznit if some killing goes on and on.
Badwater @ 187
cause he doesn’t care about people at all
dakine
yeah, i could tell that, you and a few others.
I have no time to read tonight – just doing some drive-by skimming of threads. And I have to say FDL rocks big time! Thanks everyone for a great place to learn, share and get active…will be back in the morning for liveblogging Comey.
Anyone back from a MoveOn antiVeto gathering yet?
How did it go?
SnarKassandra @ 179
From the Herals Sun: Prince Harry’s deployment to Iraq will be delayed for as long as possible so that the rest of the soldiers in his unit can acclimatise themselves to their surroundings.
Actually, she has a Bush Action Figure.
Batteries sold separately.
maunga @
191
I heard 75 people showed up at Lieberman’s house. Nice crowd for a last minute “thanks for the war” shot at HoJo.
NorskeFlamethrower @ 169
My bestest pal Doc, was a helicopter Navy medic. He was and is a Vietnam Vet. Against the War. At the time we were students at Chico State. I knew some more of these guys in the Bay area, including in Bazerkley.
Ed*ard Teller @ 143
a place that has lots of sharks swimming in the waters. sounds fitting for our gal sunshine.
Tucker Carlson is a not very stealthy neocon. Boycott MSNBC when he is on this week in Imus’ former spot. As Stephanie Miller would say: He is a lying sack of cr*p. For instance,
Listen to Steph instead.
http://www.krxa540.com/listen
Maybe someday Condi will return Margaret Scobey, the U.S. Ambassador to Syria, to her post in the heavily fortified U.S. Embassy in Damascus.
Or maybe I’m dreaming.
Badwater @
192
I should be surprised if that were true. Cohesion and HRH’s safety would be better-served if they all do the acclimatisation together. There will be many in the unit who have done this before. added to which the British Army has a long history of Counter-Insurgency and Aid of the Civil Power which is one of the reasons their proportionate casualty rate is so much lower. —-
dmac @ 172
i can see your point. and trusting a seriously awry fascist government to not harm you with that information. it’s an interesting choice that we’re all faced with.
Jane Hamsher @ 194
Eggs-sellant! (I hope they threw a few.) Could not get a ride to the one near me.
Whilst in Beverly Hills today, my friend told me that he and his partner had been invited up to the premier of a new movie in SanFran a couple of weeks ago. All the “in” Hollywood crowd were there, including Arnie and Maria.
Before the movie started, the MC apeared and said that everyone would be delighted to know that our own Nancy Pelosi is in the audience. Speaker Pelosi, would you please stand.
My friend said that she stood and was just about in the middle of the audience. The whole audience rose to their feet and cheered and cheered her. He said that he’d never heard anything like it.
jinny @ 202
That sounds cool
Oklahoma kiddo @
97
They do if they’re sitting next to you.
Hey! More popcorn over here!
I want out of Iraq now. I want the funding cut off. And I want to make sure that the next Democrat in the WH in 2009 will not start any unprovoked wars.
Balrog @
204
They really can’t tell from their office?
Badwater @
177
Would you trust a Bush to cover you? It’s all for the best.
Tweety just made some really weird noises just now while Eugene Robinson is on the show. Losin’ it?
Ummm, I don’t know how to put this but the following is from a link on a KOS diary currently over at KOS:
http://ccweb.co.fort-bend.tx.us/docdetail.asp?id=
greenwarrior @ 196
“i-rahn-y!
that’s for me.
irony! irony!”
[with apologies to gene
wilder in “young frauhnkensteeeen“.]
here was my laugh about
the whole thing, earlier
today — cheney was positively
in a lather about it one month
ago — what will he call the kettle,
now. . . um. . . “blac-que“?
SnarKassandra @ 206
If they could, then they wouldn’t be so worried about losing money to the folks who tap into their neighbor’s cable feeds.
OT
ok kiddo-berkley news
bp wanted to donate 500 million to berkley for biofuels research……..trouble there…….on lehrer report…….only half-listened to it, taping it……….furor over ethics and viability…….professor there believes that more is spent and put into atmosphere producing it than what is gained………protests going on about it……..major
I’m pretty sure Ms. Rice would have the codpiece action figure
Hear they’re gonna dig ol Ronnie up so all the goopers can kiss his dead ass on national TEEVEE.
hdl @ 213
OMG !!!!!!! They really sell that!
Phoenix Woman >
There`s a nice flattering photo of her somewhere ?
Who knew ?
“If you don’t behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.” – Bishop Fulton John Sheen
Oh snap!
LS @ 209
Hi LS…
the linky is hinky…..
:)
LS @ 209
What diary is it from, LS?
fyi, new thread with SEX
shiny new thread upstairs…
Ed*ard Teller @ 156
Ease up a little ET, good point, however, you shouldn’t scare the young Lass off!!! Afternoon, Pups, the Lake seems to be mighty hot and feisty today! The full moon must be lingering!
Margot @
219
It seems that it is already off their site. I have it on bookmark, but I’m scared to post it. If you look at the link and then google the name, Margie Schoedinger, you will get the gist. It is probably just a kooky charge I would think.
kirk murphy @
218
Sorry, I didn’t see your hinky linky till now, I’ll try again:
Linky
I’ll try again Kirk Murphy:
linky
Kirk Murphy, I have tried 3X to post the link and it does not show up in the comments. I don’t know what to do (I probably should not “do” anything at all).
You could go here:
http://ccweb.co.fort-bend.tx.us
and google the name in post 223.
Pelosi’s speaking skills seem to have soared since her first somewhat tentative appearances as Whip. These days she exudes confidence.
Now, somebody should tell her colleagues to knock off putting an arm around her shoulder in front of the camera. It smacks of patronization and diminishes her appearance of personal power.
It was *maybe* understandable during the celebratory events when she first took office, but I saw someone (Hoyer?)do it again last week in front of a mike. She needs political support, not physical support. I read it as passive aggressive – not unlike the Merkel back-rub, just lower on the egregiousness scale.
SnarKassandra >
I`m waaaay behind but I think this needs to be answered.
Yes, there are technical ways to do this but it is not likely to be done on a wide scale unless there is some particular reason to do so like “theft of service” as mentioned above etc. Requires resources etc.
“If you don’t know what your government is doing, you don’t live in a democracy.” – Jane Anne Morris
tbsa @ 217
true-dat.
he he!
SunnyNobility @
227
If it was Hoyer, that wouldn’t surprise me. The prick’s been working to undermine her for years, apparently.
Jacqrat @ 1
Not sure how old you are, but let me inform you that there are MEN and women in their forties who are grandparents…….what’ the bid deal? She’s a vital, intelligent, good-looking woman. Does anyone ever call the men in powerful position grandpa when they refer to them????
Can someone please get word to Nancy Pelosi on this:
May 13, 2007 — Great Silent Grandmother Gathering
Inspired by Sharon Mehdi’s children’s picture book, The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering, a group of women in Ohio has issued a call for women all over the world to stand silently for 5 minutes at 1 p.m. local time on May 13, 2007 — to save the world. The story and a short video are available at http://www.standingwomen.org .
Where will you stand?
Nancy and the ‘dog faced boy’….what a contrast….