Americans United for Change has another video up hanging the war around the necks of Republicans who continue to support it, and this time they’re going after Norm Coleman with a six-figure ad buy. VoteVets ran a similar ad with Gen. John Batiste calling Coleman out for his phony “support the troops” messaging. You can’t support the troops and support George Bush’s plan to get them all killed just to satisfy the demands of his own ego. Both of these ads are very effective at telling this story clearly.
Many Republicans running for re-election in 2008 are getting hinky at the prospect of facing their constituents while continuing to back the war. They doubtless still need the support of the Bush crime family and don’t want to face retaliation for breaking ranks so a bunch of do-nothing, warm bowl of jello amendments are making their way through the Senate like the one Phoenix Woman calls “the Salazaar Distraction” (nice of Salazaar and Pryor to play bannana and strawberry respectively within the jiggling GOP fruit medley).
Harry Reid says that this time he’s not going to get punk’d by a bunch of Republican bs like he did during the last vote on the supplemental (obviously my language, not his). After a 10 point drop in Congressional Democratic popularity and no corresponding price paid by Bush and the GOP, I hope we’ve heard the last of the callow “let’s do nothing and let the Republicans take the hit” rationale we did last time. It’s nice to hear Reid expressing the sentiment that getting out of Iraq is a moral duty and not a matter for political calculation.
If members of the GOP and the Connecticut for Lieberman Party want endless war, make ‘em wear it. It’s an awfully difficult piece to accessorize.
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welcome to the sanitarium.
Hello
Norm, we are coming for your job.
Former Senator Norm Coleman
“Look, I make no apologies,” Rove said in response to a question from the audience about whether he felt personally responsible for the war.
delicious
Ahh yes a failed war, and an outright disregard for the constitution or the rule of any law, how would one wear that, something around the neck?
Porkchop necklaces.argosfalcon @ 7
Porkchop necklace.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you, U.S. Senator, Al Franken!!!
7
Porkchop necklace.
Norm Coleman went after Kofi Anan hard
http://www.politicalaffairs.ne…../1128/1/96
I loved when George Galloway “bitch” slapped Norm Coleman, with Coleman’s own lies!
http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/004407.php
Preview is my friend.
And Al Franken outraised Coleman and Dem competitor Ciresi…Coleman is already sweating it because of the money, and now this ad.
Woohoo!!
I think ads like that should be running all over the country just to stop the war, it’s a provocative ad.
Say goodnight, Norm
I’ll believe Reid has grown a spine when I see it pop out of the top of his head (and when words get translated into action).
argosfalcon @ 7
Preferably, tightly…….very tightly.
OT — Michael Moore was on CNN with Blitzer and was greated with a “critique” by Dr. Gupta, which Moore thought was unfair. Moore then launched into CNN, Gupta and Blitzer. Story and video here.
Susan Collins, too. Wear that dead albatross proudly, Susie!
Now, from the ‘Keep-it-Simple-Stupid’ (KISS) File comes this intriguing recommendation from the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium
The bureaucrats of the European Commission have taken a radical step toward reducing their carbon footprint and halting the progress of global warming: Neckties have been declared “optional.”
The logic is that tie-free men will tolerate greater heat, and by setting the air conditioners just one Celsius degree higher, they can cut their 56,000 metric tons of annual carbon dioxide emissions by 10 percent.
Good. I hope top Democrats pay more attention to moral duties from now on. Discussion of impeachment in a serious way is another moral duty. That would start by explaining to the public that the current situation is exactly what the founders designed Congressional impeachment and removal to remedy, as shown on a wonderful bunch of recent posts on this blog. For goodness, sake, all you have to do is quote them, and it is obvious. Whether it seems politically possible or 100% sure to increase poll ratings right this minute is secondary.
Hope that is not too off topic, but I like the idea of moral political duties as a topic of discussion, and why there has been so little effort for a very long ‘recent time’ in that direction by top Democrats.
Scarecrow @ 16
CAW-CAW
A slight tech issue here, when I log in to have my Facebook icon appear, the link to my Web site disappears.
I see Bustedknuckles and Rayne have both. I do have my Web address on my profile.
Am I doing something wrong? I’m on a Mac using Firefox.
Thanks.
Well then my I suggest a sprinkling of pit bulls for the blogsphere, rounded out with a hint of Hunter S. Thomson.
Never mind, it’s there now. I’m crawling back under my rock.
Coleman is a goner no matter what he does, he doesn’t fit with Minnesota. His state-wide political career as a Republican here has been losing to Jesse Venture for governor and barely beating Mondale (49-47) for Senate after Paul Wellstone was killed eleven days before the election.
The GOP is on the run in Minnesota, having lost the State Senate in 2004 and the State House in 2006. Every executive office went to the Democrats in 2006, except the governor (Pawlenty barely held on). And let’s not forget Represenative Tim Walz, who unseated GOP incumbent Gil Gutknecht in MN-1, a rather conservative part of the state.
Coleman has already lost, he just doesn’t know it yet.
The stories of GOP Senators running away from Bush..I will believe it when I see the votes. Arlen has been really good at it..puffing up his chest, then caving for the vote.
The GOP is a criminal enterprise and Rove knows where the dirt is. Rove could “drop a dime” on any GOP Congressman and an indictment would follow. I am waiting to see the votes..the GOOpers have to be sweating.
If you have never seen or heard George Galloway state the brutal truth to Norm Coleman and other Senators this video clip is a must. It will send the chills of truth up your spine.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7883488/
As a Minnesotan I know Norm too well. He has gotten especially mean in his rhetoric in the last year or two. He has made a couple appearances on MPR on the local morning talk show where he was really combative. Before that he was more even handed, more middle of the road. I think the Borg implants are starting to chafe.
katheen @ 11
I saw Galloway in Seattle are all English politicans that good he was interesting and informed. I saw the Norm go after him and I had to wonder if he rode the small bus to school with G.W.
Norm Colemeleon is the master of self-serving position taking. Please remember that this slippery weasel deep-sixed his Dem party affiliation when the Repuglicans were riding high in order to ratchet up his visibility and importance. Please remember that Paul Wellstone was leading Colemeleon in the polls when his plane mysteriously crashed just days before the election. Please remember that Colemeleon was just outraised by Al Franken in the reporting quarter just completed. Please remember that Norman Coleman (yes, remember that name) is the greatest embarrassment Minnesota has had in the U.S. Senate, ever. We would appreciate anything you can do to help us get rid of him, in an ethical and legal way, of course. *spew*
I’ll never know where that “a” will go when I spell may.
These are the signs I’ve put up since noon.
http://freewayblogger.blogspot…..-noon.html
Even Ol’ Toothless Mitch seems to be getting the message that the war is hanging around his neck as well. From TPM.
puppethead @ 24
The only reason Pawlenty is even still governor is because of a strong showing by independent candidate Peter Hutchinson. He really hurt the DFL.
If I just heard this right, the NewsHour is going to have Michael Gordon to tell us what is really going on in Iraq. I just looked it up and yes, it is Michael Gordon. As I have long suspected, the NewsHour continues its transformation into a cartoon. I expect that if they do a series on religious tolerance, their moderator will be the Spanish Inquisition. What is this secret desire they have for achieving complete irrelevance?
scarlet p. @ 31
“They search him here,
They search him there
Those Frenchies search him everywhere,
That D*mn’d elusive Pimpernel”
It’s funny how having a great smelly bird of failed policy around your neck will make even your friends shy away.
Scarecrow @ 16
I like it! It is so nice to hear guests talking back to the talking head. And it seems to happening more frequently now.
noen @ 27
You made me inhale my coffee!
And now I can’t help wondering just where the Borg implants are located.
Hugh @ 34
Well that would be unexpected. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
(sorry, I had to)
Hugh @ 34
But nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition, Hugh.
Galloway gives a much deserved “ass whoopin” to Coleman and other Senators who have sent hundreds of thousands of Iraqi’s and 3600 American soldiers to their deaths based on a “pack of lies”.
Galloway to Coleman “Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 people paid with their lives; 1600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies. If the world had listened to Kofi Annan, whose dismissal you demanded, if the world had listened to President Chirac who you want to paint as some kind of corrupt traitor, if the world had listened to me and the anti-war movement in Britain, we would not be in the disaster that we are in today. Senator, this is the mother of all smokescreens. You are trying to divert attention from the crimes that you supported, from the theft of billions of dollars of Iraq’s wealth. “Have a look at the real Oil-for-Food scandal. Have a look at the 14 months you were in charge of Baghdad, the first 14 months when $8.8 billion of Iraq’s wealth went missing on your watch. Have a look at Haliburton and other American corporations that stole not only Iraq’s money, but the money of the American taxpayer. “Have a look at the oil that you didn’t even meter, that you were shipping out of the country and selling, the proceeds of which went who knows where? Have a look at the $800 million you gave to American military commanders to hand out around the country without even counting it or weighing it. “Have a look at the real scandal breaking in the newspapers today, revealed in the earlier testimony in this committee. That the biggest sanctions busters were not me or Russian politicians or French politicians. The real sanctions busters were your own companies with the connivance of your own Government.”
noen @ 39
just don’t give them the comfy chair.
Agh, I should have expected that more than one of us would use a Monty Python reference…
Rayne @ 40
707!
Rayne @ 40
Mr. Gordon has two chief weapons, surprise, a lazy disregard for the truth, and a fanatical devotion to the war occupation…Three chief weapons!…
Ouch, ouch, Monty Pythoned again. Doctor, my brain hurts.
George Galloway owning Norm Coleman on Hardball
It’s six min long.
Here is a scary thought after the Republicans lose the presidency we know they will try to explain their failure by throwing Bush under the bus or ignoring him. But what if they decide to do a better job of screening out candidates like Norm and find somebody who can speak before an audience like Galloway. Or they could also ditch Malkin and copy our approach to the net. Weak candidates like Norm rode in on GOP strength and 9/11. We are going to need some real accomplishments to run on now besides opposing the war. Harry Reid needs to force Bush to pay for his war during his term in office.
You know, not to be too much of a drama queen, but everyone knows that the book, “1984″, was written and sold way before anyone had a television set in their homes, much less one to a room that you see now days. Orwell is given his due by those in the know, but it has to be said he was a genius.
I hope the Bushies and their minions don’t get a hold of the Internet. Someone younger than Ted Kennedy has to lead the charge in Congress. Is there anyone?
What I don’t get is why Harry Reid doesn’t force the Republicans to filibuster. It’s these cloture votes that we’re losing—okay, fine!
The jujitsu move is to turn your opponents’ strength into a weakness. Let them vote against cloture, and then leave our get-out-now bill lie on the Senate floor like a stinky turd, for days, weeks, months. There’s nothing more important—everything else can wait.
Instead, Reid says, “Woops, can’t get this to a vote, on to the next item!” There is no next item, Harry.
You got to appreciate this!
LINK from Raw Story
Galloway “standards have slipped in Washington over the last few years”
Here is the BBC link of Galloway’s statement to the U.S. Senate
http://www.democrats.us/beta/f…..forum_id=3
Galloway on O’Reilly video.
katheen @ 41
God! we suck we still havn’t looked, we stll havn’t forced any accontabilty on Bush, Cheney or Haliburtron. Who by the way all the guys at Hal’s google finance page for HAL’s stock are complaing about insider selling and low stock price. I wonder whats going on.
Michael Moore coming up on CNN to rip Corporate controlled media a NEW ONE !!
Norm Coleman is as indigenous to Minnesota as the dead armadillo found a few years ago on a Cook, MN street.
Hugh @ 34
I saw this segment. Notice that today Glenn did another number of the NYT and its tolerance for Gordon’s reporting — so who does NewsHour pick to give the iraq report tonight? Gordon got about 5 minute segment on his own or answering softball questions from Ray Suarez. Was this a coincidence? Do MSM producers react to the blogs and strike back?
Jane, I agree 100% with this;
“After a 10 point drop in Congressional Democratic popularity and no corresponding price paid by Bush and the GOP, I hope we’ve heard the last of the callow “let’s do nothing and let the Republicans take the hit” rationale we did last time.”
After this meet-and-greet holiday break, coupled with that poll, I do believe they might have seen the light! I’m still skeptical tho!!! ;-)
AZ Matt @ 51
If I could go, I’d rent a kayak or use one of my buddies fishing boats and float around McCovey Cove during the whole game with a sign
AZ Matt @ 51
Any bets on (1) the FAA will find a reason not to allow this flight or (2) the network that covers the game will be under strict orders not to show the sign.
john in sacramento @ 59
This will effect the fans at the game..
Do you think the network will have the sack to show the banner on National TV ??
ironranger @ 56
I believe Howie posted something a few weeks ago that he and Norm were classmates in Brooklyn in elementary school and that Norm was an a** then as well.
noen @ 33
True, the Hutchinson campaign was a GOP electioneering trick designed specifically to hurt the DFL candidate. That being said, Mike Hatch blew it by melting down right before the election, showing off his temper. I wish the DFL would get better candidates, we haven’t had the governorship in Minnesota since 1991 because of the stupid “it’s my turn to run” syndrome the DFL seems to have.
Veritas78 @ 50
I don’t excuse Harry for playing the spineless rope a dope, but his hands are tied by Pryor and Salazar and their Ilk.. in a nutshell, DLC, DLC, DLC.
Scarecrow@60
I believe I’ll choose curtain No. 2, I don’t think the FAA can react fast enough, yet, Faux spew is airing the game!!! Duh!!! ;-)
Gnome Coleman will be joining young John Sununu from NH in the unemployment line in 2008.
Good riddance asshats.
-GSD
Here is the man to trump Micheal Gordon on Iran
Flynt Leverett
http://www.newamerica.net/pres…..n_and_iraq
More of Flynt Leverett on Iran
http://www.newamerica.net/pres…..of_america
I still want to know more about Norm’s dumpster diving misadventure.
Gawd bless Michael Moore!
ironranger @ 55
What the hell was it doing up here? It would never last the winter… oops! I forgot that we no long have real Minnesota winters any more. We just have these whimpy, piddly global warming winters.
I like a good old fashioned Minn winter where Mother Nature makes a serious effort to take you out. I may have to move north…
Your piece isn’t fair to the Connecticut for Lieberman Party, which is firmly against both the war and Lieberman.
Eureka Springs @ 64
Aren’t they DINOs in essence? Just wondering…
OT..sort of..Tom Allen raised 1.1 million for Q2 of which ~300k was raised on line from net-roots.
Thanks go to Joe Lieberman for his help in fund raising for Tom Allen
http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/7/9/18346/98370
Neither Coleman nor Pawlenty pass the Minnesota Nice test.
katheen @ 67
Flynt’s worth listening to, imo
Scarecrow @ 57
It does make you wonder. I have forgotten the name of the reporter but the Times had an Asian American now departed for Beijing I think who did a good job. Gordon’s coverage practically creaks.
I’m doing the Zed Dance!!! New Thread!!!
http://www.firedoglake.com/200…..e-missing/
The good thing about that banner over the ball game is who needs the MSM? If they don’t show it, it will be worse for them. I’m sure we can get some digital cameras to the outside area of the stadium.
For the most part the DLC flies way under the radar. The DLC strongly supported the attack on Iraq. This little group has a srangle hold on the Democratic party.
The DLC attacked Howard Dean in the 2004 primary as being an out of touch liberal.
HRC is very connected the DLC. They call themselves “New Democrats”.
maybe I’m dense on this and so many things, but how do we open this bag of snakes and lay them out strait, the lies in all this are clear and the distortions of the facts seem to slide all over the place. So heres the thing like a dvd or vcr blinking in the night for years, how or where do you point some one to educate them selfs especially those that are for now on the wall so to speak?
Hugh @ 76
Ed Wong?
Hugh @ 34
Same with NPR, and Miller at NYT, and Broder and others at WaPo. The neo-cons learned from Tricky Dick that they have to control the media–the NY Post and Wash. Times and Faux Noise are just preaching to the choir. So, they go to work on the bastions of the left–NPR, PBS and the aforementioned periodicals. I read both periodicals religiously, and the WaPo for the longest time leaned “Cheney” for a long time, despite great work from Froomkin and Geller. Cheney inserted the Miller mole at the NYT, and the NYT bit and then cast her aside.
The Neo-cons are trying to control the message, and the newscasts and organizations that true patriots and americans looked to for unbiased, straight dope on those in power have been hooked in for reasons I am not fully capable of explaining. Thank goodness for blogs like this and others.
puppethead @ 63
I participated in a lobbying effort for affordable housing a couple of months ago. During that I met John Marty’s wife (she was part of a group of 3-4 of us) and we visited him in his office at the Capitol. They are members of the church that is right across the street from me. Nice.. very nice. I hope he runs.
ccmask @ 78
Fox is broadcasting the game.. I would be shocked to see the banner..
noen: I am still wondering the same thing. No one seemed to know how that armadillo got there. It appeared one March or April. If it traveled with a returning snowbird’s RV or a hilarious joke, I don’t know. It’s a small town so someone knows & eventually will reveal all.
Although Brooks and Friedman are doing their best to carry the torch for Cheney, too.
Scarecrow @ 81
Yes, on balance I thought he reported things straight unlike Gordon or Burns.
Norm Coleman? Ha. Remember big Jim Wolcott calling him ‘an empty suit’?
Hugh @ 87
That’s “Mr. Gordon, sir” to you ;-).
GordonM @ 89
LOL, must work on my manners. It’s a real Gord(on)ian Knot.
Hmmm… I wonder who said this?
~~When I talk about Norm Coleman I come from a unique perspective that no one else in the world can claim. Norm and I were co-secretaries of our elementary school class in Brooklyn (PS-197). He was a dick then too. He doesn’t stand for anything and doesn’t believe in anything– except for his own career advancement.~~~
Get Tough @ 82
There was a demand by present and former employees at NPR to have an outside investigation at NPR of “pervasive cronyism” at NPR. The report has never been released by NPR
http://www.current.org/rad/rad702r.html.
Suit against NPR
http://www.current.org/rad/rad702k.html
Another suit
http://www.current.org/rad/rad601d.html
I have often wondered if you have to be Jewish to get the job as a host on one of NPR’s shows. Terri Gross…Fresh Air. Scott Simon ..saturday. Neil Conan Talk of the Nation. Ira Glass This American Life. Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. Justice Talking I believe Margo Adler is Jewish.
Hey, hey, ho-ho,
Normie Coleman’s got to go…
Hey, hey, ho-ho,
Rove and Bush, buh-bye yo’ beaux.
And take your Dick alonnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggg.
Valley Girl @ 91
VG, if only the Minniesodas had listened to you in the first place.
katheen @ 11
Just listened to the Galloway piece. Boy if only the Dem leaders could present like that!
katheen @ 92
Sorry but I find this offensive. Gwen Ifill , Ray Suarez, etc etc. I mean I am really fed up with NPR but let’s not start with the Jewish conspiracy to take over the press. What’s next, the banks?
Dean is explaining the testimony to KO now..
realworld @ 96
That is your problem is if you are offended by the truth! The percentage of host at NPR who are Jewish is out of balance! “Pervasive Cronyism”
ifthethunderdontgetya @ 94
Oops, I did not mean to mislead. Twas not me. I thought it might prompt a googling. But, I guess I was “over-thinking”.
Actually, it was Howie Klein!
ifthethunderdontgetya @ 94
Actually, VG is just quoting the quotable Howie Klein in a post from Down with Tyranny a few weeks ago. She did a far better job of quoting it than I did a little earlier…
If you want to feel great for the rest of the evening watch George Galloway rip into Coleman with the truth!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7883488/
katheen @ 101
Coleman is Such. A. Tool.
I’m so glad that Franken’s beating him in the fundraising game.
katheen @ 92
I, for one, have no need to speculate on the ethnicity or religious persuasions of any one of the NPR on-air staff. What they say on-air is all that really matters. Enough said?
RBG @ 103
One does not need to speculate and many of the on-air host have shared their ethnicity and their religious persuasions. If there is a lop-sided imbalance it needs to be corrected. I for one think there is an imbalance at NPR in their reporting on the I/P conflict. And people should be able to address it. Does this have to do with many of the host at NPR being Jewish (it is a strong possibility) and how the way stories on the middle east are covered, should be examined closely.
katheen @ 104
It seems about as significant as the old talk that John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a pawn of the Vatican.
“I hope we’ve heard the last of the callow
“let’s do nothing and let the republicans take the hit” rationale we did last time.”
I fervently hope that we have NOT heard the last of it, since if we ARE able to hammer the democrats into singlehandedly forcing troop withdrawals on bush, Karl Rove and the rest of the petro-shitbirds that dragged us into this misery will dance naked on the white house lawn, for their joy at our letting them off the hook, and for our picking up the bloody bartab for what is going to follow the troop wihtdrawals.
What you evidently don’t understand, Jane, is that we have NO choice. Until the people who are responsible for this, the republicans, get there backs enough to the wall to join us in taking the responsiblity for the denouement of THEIR misery-opera, we simply cannot afford to do it for them.
It will be political suicide. It will mean that they have an excellent chance of keeping the white house and taking back congress, along with it.
Are you aware of the fact that it is almost certain that Iraq is going to split into at least three…entities? You can call them states, or regions, or sections, or whatever you please, but they are going to be separate from each other. And NONE of them, not even the Kurds, are going to be user-friendly to us. In the south, “Shiastan” is going to be flatass in BED with Iran. Same agenda; same eagerness to use that newly-joined oil power; same willingness to back the Shia, or most of the Shia, across Iran.
Everything points to Baghdad turning out like some kind of 70’s Beirut-on-crack-cocaine. The fallout from bush’s lunacy may have no limits.
And when those chickens start coming home, I don’t care how “moral” and high-minded you are, or how “moral” and high-minded you think the american voters are, if they have “made by democrats” tattooed on their asses, we are going to get hammered for it. I mean HAMMERED!
The american people are NOT going to say:
“Oh, lookit how courageous the democrats are; they pulled the troops out and triggered all of this. Let’s all run down and vote for them.”
That is part of the wretched truth about this: it was so idiotic; so arrogant; that bush and the rest of the people who did it to us, now have that as their last defense.
“Why sure; you just figure out some way to start the withdrawal, while we do NOTHING except watch, and sharpen our “stab-in-the-back” chain saws.
The MSM is starting to turn our way. Slowly, but they’re turning. They are, after all, frontrunners, and now that the wheels are unspinnably coming off the PanzerKampfWagen there is, AT THIS POINT, no doubt about who is reponsible for it.
4 more prominent republicans are saying the surge isn’t working. They won’t yet say that they will back a bill forcing bush to start pulling the troops out, but that is coming, and sooner, rather than later.
As one think-tanker put it:
“September is looking more like the end of the debate about withdrawing, instead of the beginning of it.” And it is.
This is cleaving our military right down the middle. Do they go for short-term promotion and keep parroting that this is “doable”? Or do they speak the truth, and save our troops lives, and let the Iraqis make the decision on what to do with what’s left of Iraq?
You ended your piece with:
“If members of the GOP and the Connecticut for Lieberman party want endless war, make ‘em wear it. It’s an awfully difficult piece to accessorize.”
Which is the smartest thing you said there.
And with which I totally agree.
They are now wearing it, and it aint pretty. How about we wait until they decide to take it off, themselves (it won’t take long) rather than slipping around behind them, and lifting it off and putting it around our own necks?
RBG @ 105
The Israeli lobby influences what is discussed and covered in the MSM in regard to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. One does not need to speculate the evidence is in your face everyday there is very little coverage on the MSM about the conflict and when there is it is often inaccurate. Folks have been noticing this for years.
The A*P*C espionage investigation was barely touched by the MSM. The continued delay of the A*P*C Rosen espionage trial has barely been mentioned by the MSM let alone the so called “liberal” blogs. One does not need to look far to find proof of the power of the A-Lobby.
http://www.informationclearing…..e17985.htm
katheen @ 92
Kathleen you have been a valued commenter here but this comment crosses the line of what is acceptable at FDL. If it happens again you will be banned.
Jane Hamsher @ 108
I truely question why this crosses the line. If I noticed that a radio station was dominated by Irish catholics I would question the leaning of the that station. Please explain this to me. I truely do not understand.
Kathleen @ 109
I am sorry if I have offended anyone. But I truely would like to know why this “crosses the line”?