for the week ending 5/5/07:
[Dim houselights, cue intro music]
Chris Matthews: Hello, and welcome to "The Candidating Game," where one lucky guy at the end of this evening will get to take Lady Liberty on the chaperoned date of her dreams! But enough of this tomfoolery, let's meet today's contestants!
[cue incidental music]
No stranger to this game, Candidate #1 was dating even while he was still married! Tough on crime, and even tougher on dresses, let's meet Rudy! [audience applause as the candidate enters.]
Candidate #2 was a "maverick" before Ford Motor Co. and Tom Cruise made mavericks cool! Whether he's strolling through a Baghdad market or the mean streets of Tempe, you'll always feel safe with John! Give him a hand! [audience applause]
With his Hollywood good looks and abiding interest in . . . well, we're not entirely sure, but that doesn't matter because Candidate #3 is just so darned handsome! And he looks really good in flipflops! Welcome, Mitt! The boys will get settled in, and we'll be back after this station identification break. [audience applause, commercial]
Chris Matthews: Candidate #1, while you were Mayor of New York City, you had to deal with the biggest national tragedy ever. If I were a grieving 9/11 widow and you had to console me, what would you say?
Rudy: I HATE abortion! Crime went down on my watch! Ferrets are dirty, dirty creatures and you need to seek psychological help for your obsession! Yeah, a woman should be able to choose whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. Or not. Whatever Scalia says.
Chris Matthews: Candidate #2, some people say that if you're elected, you'll be the oldest sitting President this country has ever had. If I were a widow with an infant son who just learned her husband was killed in Baghdad, how would you console me?
John: I'd follow you TO THE GATES OF HELL!!!
Chris Matthews: Um, that's it?
John: THE GATES OF HELL, DAMMIT! Oh, and I had red jello today. [McCain grins awkwardly]
Chris Matthews: Okay! Candidate #3, if I told you you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me? HAH! I kid. If I were a quadriplegic and as President, you just vetoed stem cell research legislation, how would you console me?
Mitt: I was pro-choice until I learned the truth about cloning. Now I'm pro-life. I want to apologize to all the fundamentalist voters for acceding to my constituency in Massachusetts who wanted pro-choice legislation. Osama bin Laden will pay and he will DIE! You can't be President if you're an atheist.
Chris Matthews: Well, we're out of time. We'll see which one of these spectacularly virile candidates will get lucky with Lady Liberty after this commercial break!
—
alicublog's roy edroso invites us all to join in on a book club discussion. And then you can discuss Mitt Romney's favorite book with Jabberwock, at Enter the Jabberwock. If you're not thetan-ed out at that point, swing by David E.'s Fablog and enjoy the theee-ayter!
BTW, Sadly, No!'s Mr. Leonard Pierce examines the not-so-latent homoerotic elements of Republican candidate-gazing. And The Kenosha Kid notes an eerie resemblance.
Cliff Schecter warns us all that we'd better be good, otherwise he'll FOLLOW US TO THE GATES OF HELL!!! Attaturk at Rising Hegemon shares his favorite niblets from the GOP "debate", while Oliver Willis shows off his souvenir poster. And Wolcott is fascinated by ferrets.
Heywood J. at Hammer of the Blogs notes every season is softball season in Washington, D.C.!
Scott at World O' Crap rejoices at the banning of Atlas Shrugs videos at YouTube. Hey, some of us have a certain . . . investment in the availability of Pammy's vlogs, buddy!
d r i f t g l a s s crafts his own version of the funniest joke of all time!
William K. Wolfrum gives us all a tutorial in the proper use of civility in blog posts.
TBogg finds an amazing grace and serendipity in the Biblethon.
Jesus' General needs to dream bigger. I'm thinking Cadillace Escalade, at least. (P.S. He's having a fundraiser, if you've got the francs.)
Not really snark per se, but August J. Pollak points us to crazy people being even crazier. Gavin M. at Sadly, No! expands upon the story. Edicts of Nancy's Sister Nancy Beth Eczema provides the editorial.
Now I understand what my cat was trying to tell me. Thanks, ellroon!
Holden the Pony Boy of First Draft subjects himself to more diabolical tongue-twisting by COMMANDER GUY!
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ZeD☼
Hi Watertiger!
Booo!
Hola, lolo!
Like the little sunburst thingy!
The” red jello” just about had me spewing coffee.
They call watertiger “La Divina” for a reason. Brava.
gwb:drf
As predicted there are literally chants of “Sarko, Sarko” over at Little Green Fascists.
How low have the Republicans sunk when the results of a French election give them a small moral boost.
I can’t stop laughing.
-GSD
from the rising hegemon link:
:-)
I don’t know much about Mitt Romney, but I love his Aqua Velva commercials.
Someone near the end of comments last thread wanted a link to the AUSAs – here is what i found:
http://www.tomflocco.com/fs/UsAttDeathsFirings.htm
Washington—April 25, 2007—Tom Flocco.com—Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats failed to question Attorney General Alberto Gonzales about five Texas assistant U.S. attorneys—two of whom were found dead and three fired within a space of 90 days during 2004— while they were prosecuting the same Medicare fraud and money laundering case with Kansas City U.S. attorney Todd P. Graves who announced his resignation on March 10, 2006 under pressure from the Justice Department.
Reminiscent of the notorious but overlooked Clinton administration “body count” statistics, Thelma Quince Colbert, head of the Fort Worth Justice Department (DOJ) civil litigation unit prosecuting companies defrauding government funded programs like Medicare, reportedly drowned in her swimming pool on July 20, 2004; and less than two months later Shannon Ross, criminal chief of the adjacent Dallas DOJ office was found dead in her home on September 13, 2004 after signing subpoenas seeking evidence in the Texas-based Novation LLC Medicare fraud case involving several other medical supply companies.
35 days later on October 18, 2004 Gonzales fired three white collar crime prosecuting assistant U.S. attorneys in then-deceased Thelma Colbert’s Fort Worth office—Leonard Senerote, Michael Uhl and Michael Snipes, raising serious questions as to why Senate Democrats failed to interrogate Gonzales regarding the curious decimation of the DOJ’s Dallas-Fort Worth corporate fraud unit resulting from two deaths and three firings within three months, all linked to the same money laundering case.
I would make sure Lady Liberty packs some mace.
Jurassic Pork has the ugly details of President Goodbar’ date with Lady Liberty.
link
ooops edit for wrong link
Re Utah repubs reasoned discussion of immigration issues:
how about if they fly flags the way we do, but don’t become republicans? would that be good enough?
I think that St. John has stolen St. Mitt’s Vorpal Sword and is pursuing that DEMON…Saddamite Hussein…to the gates of hell in this image!
http://landru.i-link-2.net/shn…..chael.jpeg
To the gates of HELL! No further! CAN’T-GO- INTO-HELL!- MUST-RE-SISSST!!!!
MarkC @ 11
Republicans always cry during sex.
Mace has that affect.
Oilfieldguy @ 9
Honest, OFG!! Too handsome! When people are too goodlooking, ya gotta wonder if they have had to overcome any hardships.
cinnamonape @ 14
St. John as already been to the Gates of Hell.
GSD @ 7
Don’t they realize that in Greek they are shouting “Flesh! Flesh!”
Buncha sex-mad intern-abusers and self-flagellators (or escort-using falgellators) over there!
Ach, we kid because we love.
Seriously, why is it that the self-appointed “civility” police, who are always talking about how crude and vile the left are (Malkin and Juggs) are the ones getting their videos banned? I’m sure they think it’s just the Librul Media infringing their right to free speech but they’re being all too kind to themselves.
Marcy and I never got ourselves banned. They’re just vicious freaks.
And we’ll miss them.
“Oh, and I had red jello today. [McCain grins awkwardly] “Where’s my nurse?”
707
watertiger – A Day At The Races
ooh and I see someone has posted my other fave from watertiger this week
The Candidating Game rocks! Ultra snark.
Kathryn @ 12:13,
OMG….I did not know this. What happened to the investigation?
watertiger @ 17
OH! The HUMANITY!
Kathryn in MA,
Only women have to overcome that particular handicap. I read with some interest Digby’s post the other day about Ashlee Banfield. Digby, one who’s barometer is so acute placed demerits to Banfield initially. Ms. Banfields integrity and professionalism carried the day, and Digby wrote a swell post about her.
I missed the 411 about videos of Maulkkin and Juggs getting yanked.
Maybe I could have phrased that better.
cbl @ 21
LOVE that.
Jane,
mebbe if they stopped calling for the assassinations and internment of brown people, they’d find a wider audience.
NOT!
According to Josh Marshall at TPM, there’s now a right wing version of YouTube. Fine. They’re rude, crude and socially unacceptable. Let them go play in their quiet little corner of the internets, ignored by rational people everywhere.
I love that photo of Lizzy. She wore that expression almost the entire time she spent with Cheney.
and could ya blame her?
solai @ 23
Here’s an interesting diary on one of the other dead and the attorney purge:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..9132/34045
How does Wolcott’s employer Vanity Fair enable its evil popups, defeating as they do my firewalls, Jobsian moats and crocodiles? Coming and going I must be invited to subscribe.
Back to double-you-tee!
Hammer of the Blogs — linky no worky.
TeddySanFran @ 33
caca. back in a pop-up flash.
Rudy the G. Big cry baby.
But MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines said a Giuliani campaign representative had called NBC News to complain about Olbermann being part of the debate telecast following his commentary.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200…..s_role_3??
NEW YORK – In an angry commentary on April 25, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann accused Rudolph Giuliani of using the language of
Osama bin Laden with “the same chilling nonchalance of the madman” to argue that Republicans would keep Americans safer than Democrats from terror.
Eight days later, Olbermann hosted MSNBC’s coverage of the first debate among Republican candidates for president.
snip
Unlike the Democrats who have made a point of standing up to Fox, there’s been little public protest among Republicans about MSNBC’s use of Olbermann at news events. That doesn’t mean it has gone unnoticed. Graham said there’s a real debate among conservatives over how to deal with him: should he be ignored or loudly criticized, knowing how effectively Olbermann has turned Bill O’Reilly’s attacks into a badge of honor?
The Giuliani campaign would not publicly discuss what it thinks about Olbermann, or whether it had made those feelings known to NBC, a spokeswoman said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200…..s_role_3??
link fixed and thoughts finished.
American dream sours as housing market collapses
Repossessions are nothing new in the rustbelt communities of America’s Mid-West and North East, where industrial decline has taken a heavy toll.
But the topography of the new crisis is striking, as many of the worst-affected areas are in California, Arizona, Nevada and Colorado…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new…..ouse06.xml
Just name one thing the Republicans have gotten right in the last seven years.
Prince Bandar should buy The General a Porsche 911.
Oilfieldguy @ 26
Juggs? At-lax Shugged? Is she the wing-bat who thinks that Cho was part of the International Jihadi Conspiracy? I’m surprised that Bloomfield wasn’t warned about associating with this wack-job.
Fuuny stuff – red jello, McCain’s weird grin, gates of hell and no further.
Woke Friday morning to NPR’s interview with Brownback. Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, that dude is twisted. Mother Teresa, he kept invoking. You know damn well he hates to credit Mother Teresa. A fundy pandering for the Catholic vote.
If it came down to brass tacks (Dog help us if they get that far), the Fundys and the Catholics would have their own holy war against each other.
TheOtherWA @ 29
I call it “quarantined to the wingnut ghetto.” I have no problem with Ole 60 Grit and Malkin screeching to their pasty faced, mulleted, illiterate audience on their own turf. They should not, however, be able to have their eliminationist rhetoric “mainstreamed” and presented to an average audience like it was either sane or rational. No matter how hard Howie Kurtz wants to make it happen.
It’s a dream.
Keith Olbermann. Touching those Republican nerves. Republicans: sensitive little prissys, aren’t they. ;0)!
Oklahoma kiddo @ 44
Dishing, no taking, that’s for sure.
Jane Hamsher @ 43
question for Jane:
how did we go from walter cronkite and ed harris to howie kurtz and glenn beck? i thot i was watching but i didn’t catch it…? seriously, how do you see the collapse of the MSM in political terms, or economic ones, or what?
linky
Discharged gay sailor is called back to active duty
{snip}
On his wedding night in July 2004, then-Petty Officer 3rd Class Jason Knight finally accepted a truth he had fought against for years: he was gay.
Almost immediately, he moved to get his marriage annulled. He apologized to the woman he’d married. And when it came time to explain his changing circumstances to the Navy, he left nothing out. Under the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, he was quickly discharged from the service.
But now — whether through a clerical oversight or what some claim is an unwritten change in policy to keep more gay servicemembers in the ranks at a time of war — Jason Knight is back on active duty.
Nicely done, Watertiger. The red jello smackdown was especially money.
And big thanks for the link. I had my cranky pants on extra tight that day.
Some Mission Accomplished smackdown up at the BlogIntegrity, who were kind enough to share their soapbox today with an unscrubbed poltroon such as myself. Sunday Bloggy Sunday indeed.
Hackworth #42:
Brownback converted to Catholicism a few years ago. His campaign kickoff is being bankrolled by none other than Tom “Ave Domino’s Maria” Monaghan himself.
Kathryn in Ma-
Don’t see how you can bash someone on the genes they have inherited; re Romney’s nice looks. Its hard sometimes to be good looking. Sometimes, others don’t think attractive people have much of an IQ. Also, sometimes others gang up bc of their own insecurities.
Im not out to elect a pug., however, being attractive doesn’t mean there has been no suffering.
cinnamonape @ 41
Well yes and no. The prime driver behind that fabricated link was Debbie Schlusselupagas.
-GSD
We must perform a reading from the Utah GOP meeting at YKos this year. I would like to play the part of Enid Greene.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 35
How can Rudy fight Al Qaeda if he can’t stand-up to Keith O?
-GSD
Re: “Graham said there’s a real debate among conservatives over how to deal with him: should he be ignored or loudly criticized, knowing how effectively Olbermann has turned Bill O’Reilly’s attacks into a badge of honor?”
They’re waffling between ignore and criticize but neglect to consider ridicule in the middle? Come to think of it, in that game of reaux sham beau with Olbermann, ridicule would be a loser for them every_single_time.
Jane Hamsher @ 43
Howie’s facade that he’s objective is laughable. After his Brit Hume BS this morning I changed the channel.
I’ll NEVER watch Reliable (cough) Sources again, I hope
Oklahoma kiddo @ 44
They’re the kids that will only play by their rules, on their homecourt, with their ball. If things don’t go their way, they stomp, scream, cry, grab their ball and go home.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 44
What in the hell is wrong with some truth for a change. KO’s commentaries are always true. It isn’t just a left slant. He must be thrilled that he is feared. I bet he is going to be a fly in Rudy’s ointment through out the election.
KO PLEASE Keep it up!
rwcole
left you a response about France in EPU on last thread.
Christy
Hope you didn’t feel my q. abt Comey at 155 last thread was part of the general tinfoil hattery.
Also – this shd perhaps have gone on the previous thread (but wd now be EPUd) – maybe one thing people need to do is to start ‘disaggregating’ the scandals – stop looking for one underlying narrative and talk about,(as separate scandals) say,
1.the Lam-sacking scandal
2. The Iglesias Domenici Madrid scandal
3. The Mackay scandal (?s)
4. The indian assets scandal.
etc etc
I can see that from the point of view of figuring out what’s going on, people like emptywheel and Josh Marshall need to try to integrate evrything in a big picture – and one thing the blogs are doing well is collaborative investigative reporting, analysis and synthesis.
But to treat it all as one scandal – eg by referring to it generically as Attorneygate – might also make it easier to dismiss/ignore/minimize.
Trying to find ways to ’sell’ each scandal as a more or less self contained entity might also be a good way to cut into the business of the tin-foil haberdashers…
I’m supposedly spring-cleaning my bedroom. At this rate it won’t be done till Bush leaves office.
Clean…check blog….clean….check blog…
solai @ 59
just finished folding laundry. I know exactly what you mean.
Heywood J. @ 49
Thanks for the heads up. He had me fooled by the fundy speak. He sure talks like a fundy. So he found the money.
OK@44, Lolo@57: they know it’s the truth, and they know that anything they say gives KO another shot at em.
Debbie the fembot. Watta piece of werk that one is.
They all seem to be clawing through the slime by being screeching outrageous things, rather than intelligent dialogue.
Lookit me! Lookit me!
And the media puts them on and grin stupidly as these rightards berate librulls and their “uncivil” attacks.
Whatever.
and NBC is making a ton of $ with KO
KO is MSNBC’s highest rated show, the last time I checked.
Alfred Kelgarries @ 46
Hmmm…coming from an entertainment background, it was a combination of two things…turning the “news divisions” over to the “entertainment divisions” and the desire of Rupert Murdoch and other media bigs to be able to own more and more media outlets.
The death of the fairness doctrine and the problem of turning over news divisions to entertainment people and expecting them to generate entertainment revenues reaped obvious results. But when you see Fox News devoted to eternal Republican hegemony it’s not because Murdoch hates gays, it’s because he has one goal and one goal only — to expand his empire. His sole objective is deregulation and content up and down the pipeline gets subtly (and not-so-subtly) massaged to suppport those who make that happen. And yes, it really is that simple.
Time Warner, Disney, and other media outlets are in the same boat. Endless consolidation also leaves us with fewer voices. It’s an intrinsically conservative business model that lives in great harmony with conservative political policy (and whenever I hear about “liberal Hollywood” I have to laugh — to think that Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon have the kind of influence that Murdoch has is a true hoot.)
Media people don’t like being beaten up by wingnut bullies and they don’t like being called “liberals.” But that’s probably a lesser influence than the corporate one.
Speaking of NBC, seen the Fruitcake Lady Remembered?
Fruticake
Orrin Hatch Isn’t Pleased With Abu Gonz:
Hatch Says Secret Memo Should Have Been Given To Congress
Ironyesc8psem @ 64
They’d make even more if they put a liberal in Imus’s spot. When I saw Tucker, I nearly lost it. Stephanie Miller (as good as she might be) wasn’t what I was hoping for. Want someone a tad more serious.
bill in turkey @ 58
Something along this tack… Hughs Scandal list updated frequently.
Honest question about ferrets in NYC – is there any legitimate health care concern or other reason that Rudy could have used for a level headed response instead of that bizarre rant? There are reasons why people can’t keep a lioness in their metropolitan den, but a ferret?
Brian Williams BFF Rush, calls KO Keith Olberdork
Gutter “journalism”, nice
Muzzy @ 71
There is no reason that I’m aware of. I mean, Athenae at First Draft lives in Chicago and has ferrets.
Maybe Rudy was dissed by a ferret. That’s usually what triggered his ire.
Milan River @ 50
You are quite right – the comment was very shallow of me.
Bill 58, That was what I was trying to say in the last thread about a chart that would show “each” scandal and how they are interconnected. That way one “big” scandal cannot be dissed or ignored. If it is based on facts, it is not tinfoil. If something is deemed tinfoil because one is afraid of facing it, the mere mention of anything improper is immediately suspect and dismissed instead of being dealt with properly under the rule of the law.
OMG!!!!
Dick Cheney was in Die Hard With A Vengeance!
OMG OMG BARF
Now I have to get a new keyboard…(I liked that movie as sheer over the top campiness… now i’ll have to quarantine it and make sure it hasn’t posessed any of my other dvd’s…)
An ominous sign.
An Afghan army soldier has killed two US troops.
Word is the Afghani’s are getting tired of the endless occupation of the US mission. Some are saying the US is no better than the Russians.
Leave to to Bush and Cheney to turn what was a potential game winning success into another unadulterated clusterfuck.
-GSD
watertiger @ 60
LOL!! Yup, me too. and gardening. Next, iron somethng to wear tomorrow.
I wrote a piece about media consolidation the other day. In the last twenty years the number of major media companies went from around 80 to six. The result is division heads were responsible for bottom line figures and news departments became profit centers. To appeal to more people the birth of “infotainment” was the result.
I have not yet looked into the fairness doctrine. It’s on my “to do” list.
Alfred Kelgarries @ 68
Oh oh. That qualifies as about as thorough a collapse in support as is possible.
Damn that Josh Marshall for turning this routine political matter into a crime!
-GSD
Oh, and that was a great answer to the media question, Jane. Concise, understandable and stuff.
watertiger @ 30
horrifically bad breath, the fetid smell of gout-foot, and an air about one of the devil’s own vile corruption will make a lady curl her lip.
Oilfieldguy @ 81
agreed. it helps me keep my tiny brain working if at least there are REASONS for things…
Muzzy @ 71
We should hear from the ferrets point of view.
I Can’t Stand My Filthy Hippie Owner
TeddySanFran @ 82
Can’t wait to see how Bush f**ks up tomorrow night.
By the way. We should compile a list of who the 18 Republics who are going to defect on Bush and when.
From this quote, it looks like George Voinovich of Ohio is getting awfully itchy.
“Our public diplomacy is the worst that it’s ever been in the history of this country.”
1) Voinovich
2) Warner
3) Collins
4) Snowe
5) Hagel
6) Smith
7) Coleman
-GSD
Also, who are the names on the Never abandon Bush list?
hackworth @ 42
iirc Brownback is a Catholic convert and an Opus Dei member.
Eureka at 70, LS at 75
Hmm – that’s not quite what I meant, though I can see how you took it that way.
I don’t think a list is what’s needed(although I started to do just that; and no disrrespect to Hugh).
I think that rather than always talking about one big scandal, people should make an effort to talk about them as a lots of little scandals. (except that none of them are really little, except in comparison to the whole mess..)
That’s to say: there ought to be enough in the Lam story alo ne to make a big deal out of. Similarly McKay. Similalry Iglesias.
Does that make more sense?
iirc Brownback is a Catholic convert and an Opus Dei member.
Another one with special underwear?
TeddySanFran @ 52
i’ll take a part!
bill in turkey @ 88
Yes it does. You can eat an elephant one bite at a time. Thank goodness for the oversight that is doing just that. Thank goodness for sites like FDL and TPM for shining the light on these matters in a methodical and logical way.
GSD @ 86
Murkowski will probably go over if the first dozen do. If she EVER needed to distance herself from GOP machinery it is NOW.
OT
With Sarkozy in France
Merkel in Germany and
Blair/Gordon Brown in UK
and “W”art in Washington
an’ Putkin in Moscow
it is starting to look like
a worldwide neoCon convention
solai @ 69
Rachel Maddow!
watertiger @ 89
So he just flagellates himself with spiked whips like the Albino guy in the Da Vinci codes.
Sam Flayedback.
-GSD
Heywood J. @ 48
What can we say? Community Service is a bitch…
Dig NTodd and Thers in those orange vests, though!
Cozumel @ 72
Well then, it’s only fair that we should refer to him by an endearng sobriquet as well…Perhaps ‘Lian Sillyiams’ or ‘Crian Shrilliams’.
…Just to be fair and balanced.
;>)
I you didn’t click the d r i f t g l a s s link…GO NOW! THX wt.
“American friends that they can rely on our friendship … France will always be next to them when they need us.” But he added that “friends can think differently” and called on the United States to lead the fight against global warming.
Don’t expect an influx of French troops into Iraq either.
-GSD
Kathryn in MA @ 78
STOP!
You are making me feel so guilty right now. I am leisurely reading blogs today. There is always tomorrow for my chores *g*.
The sons and daughters of some iconic Republicans (Ike! T.R.!) are contemplating crossing the aisle.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18507722/site/newsw
eek/
TeddySanFran @ 94
That’s the ticket. Rhodes Scholar, Cute, Dresses like a Dyke, Big Swimmer’s shoulders… have I left anything out?
watertiger @ 89
Is this a setup for a McCain/jello joke?
Jane Hamsher @ 103
[evil cackle]
Look who’s Dreier’s beard — Leonore Annenberg!
Somehow, I think that Dreier’s not gonna be pleased abuot the “Just the idea of tails — it’s not comfortable” quote.
heh
BTW, Mike Farrell’s gonna be here in a couple of minutes, please join us upstairs.
LS’s request in text form… Hugh’s list yeilds this tag cloud:
{~”
Arnie @ 93
Don’t forget John Howard in Australia and Harper in Canada. Getting scary, no?
Happy to be here. Please join us.
you want snarkalishus but really really trye even though its’s snarka;oshus?
newt actually gets it right
no, really, he really does, not kidding
watertiger @ 17
And it left a mark.
go upstairs! Mike Farrell and Robert Greenwald in da hizzy!
FYI, Link to Book Salon
Great post as always, watertiger, thanks!
solai @ 108
I have a different take.
Gordon Brown will keep Bush at arms length.
Ratty Howard in Australia is up for the fight of his life this time around.
Harper’s party has plunged to the same level as the oppo liberal party.
If anyone thinks that France is suddenly going to start dancing to Bush’s jig because Sarko mouthed some campaign platitudes, think again.
Putin is rekindling the old days of an adversarial relationship with the US.
Merkel may still stop by and meet with Chimpy but she’ll stay at arms length too…just to avoid another unwanted neckrub.
-GSD
watertiger says
May 6th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Can’t wait to see how Bush f**ks up tomorrow night.
Hog Roast?
hackworth @ 61
Well, you weren’t entirely wrong, Brownback was an evangelical, I believe, before he converted. And he seems to deliberately muddy the waters by dropping the lingo of both camps.
No doubt he figures he’s building bridges or whatever — or hell, he’s got two hands, he might as well pick two pockets at the same time.
Obviously there are more than a few marginal (in terms of money, viability, and rhetoric) wingnuts in this group aside from Brownback. Tancredo and Hunter are sidesplittingly goofy, more so that they bother to stay in. They’re comically bad on an Alan Keyes level.
But Brownback strikes me as one of those guys who might just hang around long enough to make the eventual nominee look moderate, thus legitimizing unsuitable thugs like Giuliani or McCain.
As far as I can tell, only Romney strikes me as not completely dangerous in terms of policy and rhetoric (though he is clearly in over his head). Huckabee seemed like a decent enough egg on The Daily Show a few weeks back, but he doesn’t separate his pro-life beliefs enough from what his policy would be on issues of choice.
And while I understand that Huckabee is an ordained minister, it’s hard to get around the “I don’t believe in evolution” part. I don’t want to be an intellectual thug, but I also don’t want someone who doesn’t believe in gravity to run the country either (too late for that, I guess).
Hi watertiger — Looks like GMTA….
Over at my place, back on April 7th:
The Candidating Game
Yours is funnier, tho. :)
Commander guy stopped terrorist attacks on US cities. What did Clinton do? Storm a compound in Waco and send a little boy back to live in the socialist paradise that is Cuba, after his mother died trying to escape. Sent in federal SWAT to Blow the brains out of Randy Weaver’s wife and baby.Bite his lip and squeeze out a fake tear as embassy’s, Navy ships, and civilian air planes were blown up by Osama and his buddies.
I’ve been trying to tell Chris he sucks for years.
This was a major coordinate for Fritz Mondale in 84? No wonder he lost.
I expect to see Donna Brazile hosting on MSNBC in a few years.