Following the news that he ended June with just $2 million in the bank, McCain instituted widespread layoffs in both his national staff and key early states like Iowa and New Hampshire. At the time, his campaign insisted that the senior staff remained largely in tact and that the campaign would continue.
But, any realistic assessment revealed that McCain’s chances at the nomination had dipped badly over the first six months of the year and that he would now have to depend on a stronger than expected showing in the Iowa caucuses — a state he spurned in his 2000 presidential bid — to have any chance at the nomination.
Privately, strategists for rival campaigns note that focus groups and internal polling shows that McCain is well-known by likely Iowa Republican caucus voters but not at all well-liked — a troublesome position for any politician. Public polling has also shown McCain slipping in Iowa.
Can we have another chorus by the beltway bores about what a loyal guy George Bush is as we ponder how McCain sucked it up and helped George Bush into position to steal the 2000 election?
Nah. I think that’s Karl Rove I hear in the distance, whistling “It’s Giuliani Time.”
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Dangit.
Jane!
It’s Bush. He has that Midas touch.
How’s Guiliani gonna win over the NRA? And without the NRA how’s Guiliani gonna win?
OT: My profile on the Politico as an FDL commenter is up. It actually came out okay! (Whew!)
One Gooper down, I hope several more follow soon.
And where is my facebook thingy?
Bustednuckles @ 8
it had a reserve commission in the NG and now is in falluja.
Stop throwing dirt on my box.
-John McCains’ political cadaver
OT: how do I get a facebook symbol next to my name? I’ve joined the FDL group. Thx.
That picture looks like Steve Martin after a really bad hemorrhage.
slainte,
cl
There is a discernible decrease of energy in McCain.
Redshift @ 6
Very nice!
Maybe have to log in?
Well it will leave him more time for shopping.
As the Cameron Crazies say when an opposing player fouls out,
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh …
SEEYA!”
AYEP.
Doesn’t McCain feel like a fool…
He is so out of touch with reality…
wow, I just wrote this downstairs and it is so much more apropos right here;
it might come to pass McCain realizes he can’t run for president, that he is indeed “done”
when that day comes I believe bush had better watch out, the floodgates will open and bush will know the revenge of McCain
I can dream, can’t I?
I’ll tell you what though…if that day comes you can bet McCain would stand a better chance of winning a primary
Think about it. More than 70 months after Bush took office, Beltway reporters are still clinging to anonymous Bush aides for the most basic information and granting them anonymity in exchange for providing so-called inside (i.e., fawning) details. This is the box the press corps finds itself trapped in after allowing the Bush White House to re-write the news media rules when the administration first set up shop in 2001. That’s when Bush essentially walked away from press conferences, his staff short-circuited traditional back-channel communications with the media, and his senior advisers made it known that they viewed the press corps as just another special interest looking for access.
In other words, Bush stiff-armed the press, and the press rolled over. So much so that by 2007, when a big White House story broke, reporters had no choice but to allow Bush aides to narrate the story without interruption, just as the White House had hoped.
Eric Boehlert-Media Matters
Who would have guessed that becoming a Bush toady was not a winning campaign strategy?
Yes, but think how wonderful it would be if he takes the advice he’s being given, to resign from the Senate and devote himself full-time to the campaign!
Janet would get to appoint his successor.
Bustednuckles @ 15
okay, this is a bit complicated. you need to search through late late night posts yesterday and this morning for comments by suzanne and some others. you need to go to a specific link and get a username at FDL associated with your email account. a temp password will be sent then to the email account allowing you to log in and change your profile. one of the fields (and it may be on the login creation page, can’t quite remember) is for your facebook URL. This is NOT the login url, but the actual URL of your logged in page. Best way to get it is to go there, then right-click the address bar at the top of your browser and select “copy” (the entire URL should highlight automatically in both ie and ff). Then go to the login/profile page and right click in the entry field for facebook url and click paste. boom. submit the login name request, get your email with the autogenerated password, and log in (when you submit the request, the page jumps to a login page while you wait to get your email with temp pw). then close and restart your browser, and you will get “THE F”.
We need a faq on this badly….
Johnnie ain’t dead- he just don’t move much- ta conserve energy ya know.
LS @ 14
second
dammit out of time. i will try to work up a faq on the facebook thingie by tonight. but for now, can’t answer comments cause where i’m going is dead to cell based internet. :
Terry Nelson is one of the latest to depart the McCain campaign. I wonder if this is just about the campaign, or is there something more?
Nelson was at the RNC when Tom DeLay and his buddies sent money to be recycled back to Texas candidates that TRMPAC couldn’t give them directly. The money went to and through Nelson.
A girl can dream, right? :)
If McCain is beginning to cough up a death rattle- only one thing can save him- ATTACK EVERY OTHER GOOPER CANDIDATE- let all the damned secrets out of the bag- ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK.
Come on Johnnie- we know ya can do it!
rat bastahd @ 11
Go to the right hand sidebar and find where it says to Log In. Create an FDL “account” they will send you a password. Log into that and on the bottom left there will be a box where you can insert the url for your facebook page.
That should do it.
I thought McCain was done on the day he took a leisurely stroll in the Green Zone accompanied by 100 troops, two helicopter gunships above, several tanks, and chest armor, proclaiming that Baghdad was a safe place to be. Since then it has been all downhill.
Sorry to say this, but methinks McCain has a serious disconnect with reality. This has been made clear by his fawning over Bush, who was only too glad to destroy McCain through his surrogate hate merchants.
On the one hand you have a cowardly bully and on the other hand, you have an uncomprehending victim. There must be a Shakespearean parallel, I just can’t think of it right now.
You try to feel sorry for McCain, but it is very hard to do.
rwcole @ 29
Yeah, cough up those 750,000 Abramoff documents that have not been released.
Rudy’s next.
right on cue
For those whose papers don’t run Opus, Sunday’s strip was apropos to this thread:
Opus, Sunday July 8.
BC
Be something if McCain’s phone number was on the Madam’s list and he told his staff and they all walked out….
When do you think Matthews will start dating again?
terry nelson out of work? hmmmmm … i wonder where he’ll show up next.
LS @ 13
The man is ill, I tell ya. When is his senate term up?
“McCain’s corpse is upstairs…”
And here I was thinking that the rest of the repub candidates had, Donner-party-like, quickly fallen on it, and recycled it for political protein. :o)
If Ghouliani Time goes, if Fred Mole doesn’t cut it, that leaves Mitt (lifetime hunter)…then Gingrich (corrupt) or maybe Jeb will step in. Ron Paul could still have a chance ultimately.
I like Clarence Page, not Thomas…
What a great name for a Trib columnist
http://www.chicagotribune.com/…..mnists-utl
LS; aint NObody with the name “Bush” gonna step into anything in 2008, except maybe, the nearest well-stocked fatcat hideout.
Loo Hoo. @ 39
Hmmmm. I heard a rumor that he might leave the Senate to pursue the campaign…all is not as it seems. Could be $, could be his illness, could be Madam.
Unless Bush changes that law so Arnold can run.
Madam Wreaker
Mortar landed inside Green Zone, killing 1 American and several others.
This is the moment when I knew McCain was done: LINK
althespook @ 24
I never received the email with the psw in my mailbox. It’s been 3 days. But I’ve had this problem with other yahoo or hotmail sites, which is why I’ve closed some of them down and started over, but doesn’t seem to make a difference.
Jane…you crack me up with the title and the snout of McCain.
Hope your recovering well Jane. You certainly are posting like you are.
Your voice is keen. Blogdom needs you truly.
Hope you get this.
In 2000 McCain represented the neocon wing of the neocon Republican party. He’s been superfluous to them since we invaded Iraq.
One crazed Republican presidential candidate down . . .
brendan @ 50
you know, I never realized it but in that shot he looks like steve martin
no?
ccmask @ 44
Ain’t. Gonna. Happen.
They started talking about that sh*t back when Kissinger was SoS and some of the idiots wanted HIM to run for president. Makes no more sense to amend the Constitution for Ahnald than it did for Kissinger.
Hmmm…guess McCain’s not able.
Rick DeVille @ 56
He may be Cain?
back in 2000, a psychologist friend told me, when they were showing bush and mccain on tv, that bush really scared her, and she was afraid he would win the nomination……..i said, no way…….he’s not gonna win dogcatcher, he’s too looney and awkward, no way…. …mccain will win and we can beat him…….
so much for my insights…….
i look at mccain like a snake, they don’t die until sunset……you think you’ve whacked the thing with the shovel, cut off its head and it’s still wrigglin’ and trying to crawl in your front door……..
i would like to remind everyone that he is a man who always has a plan, so if he’s gonna drop out of the run for the presidency, then he’s got another plan to do damage right behind it…….
fortunately, Bush can’t change the constitution
Damn, and I was really, really hoping McCain would be the R candidate. The picture of him hugging Bush would’ve assured a Dem victory.
ccmask @ 45
It will take a lot more than that. It will take an amendment … think Shrub and Orrin can convince three-quarters of th states that we really really need to fix that, just so Ahnold can run for president – and lose?
rwcole @ 59
An Executive Order will do, ask Cheney
Bay State Librul @ 55
if he looses his senate seat he will then be citizen McCain
mc @ 60
And you can’t do that with the Ghouliani in drag photos?
I am truly sorry to see what McCain has done to himself because of his lust to be president.
The man I admired before and during the 2000 campaign has become a ghost of himself.
I told his staff before the 2004 campaign that I could not understand how he could support Bush after what Bush had done to him in S Carolina in 2000. I never got a realistic response.
It is time for John to come back to AZ and enjoy retirement.
perris @ 61
Punaise — this reads like a challenge to me.
rwcole @ 57
well, there is that patriot act and all, he has created a more powerfull executive then all other branches and he does have puppets on the supreme court
he also makes whatever law up in his own head and charges people after they’re arrested
he also makes up law in his own head with his signing statements
it would seem he can and does change the constitution…at will
While I believe McCain destroyed his own possibility to be a contender in the next election. I have a hard time with people ripping too hard on people (McCain, Kerry,etc) who have put their own asses on the line for what they were led to believe was for the welfare of their country.
So many young people join these days to access a higher education, and other reasons that have nothing to do with being sent to an unnecessary war they do have a responsibility to be better informed about the issues!
I respect McCain on some issues. Certainly not on this immoral war!
Jon McCain went from the frontrunner to well it looks like he may quit because of the war. I wonder if we can trick the other Republican candidates to keep supporting the war. The more they appear on TV supporting the war the more it sinks them.
AZ Matt @ 63
But the wingers will say they’re photoshopped.
things come undone @ 68
He needs to make one more trip to Iraq and declare victory
Bay State Librul @ 60
As we have seen, Bush does not need to change the Constitution. Shredding it is good enough.
“It’s just a goddam piece of paper!”
— G.W. Bush
dreamcatcher @ 31
To be perfectly honest I thought McCain was done in 1994 when he said we should take all of the decommissioned nuclear weapons that we were dismantling to comply with nuclear accords with Russia/USSR and redeploy them to S. Korea in response to the N. Korea nuclear issue…he’s always been a loose screw.
all the`goopers support bush’s war–ceptin that libertarian guy.
dreamcatcher @ 70
what’s the link on that?
even though it’s old we need to get that comment front and center right agout now
McCain started ranting after McConnell and Reid faced off, and Durbin had effectively chastised the Republicans for planning to filibuster every single amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill (including Webb’s, which couldn’t be much more “support the troops” other than by bringing them home). McCain had worked with Carl Levin to get the Defense Authorization Bill out of committee, with very broad committee support, and obviously wants the bill passed, but is allergic to any change in policy in Iraq that might be attached to it, so is prepared to write off passage of a Defense Authorization Bill for the year (or pretend to be), in order to stand with his Republican caucus and maintain every filibuster. All while scolding his colleagues for their obstructive process that causes the American people to give them such low approval ratings. Impossible hyprocisy.
Of course McCain tried to pretend that Democrats in the Senate minority had filibustered at least as much and as regularly as the Republicans have this year. HA HA HA HA. IF only. Some Democrat better have those statistics at hand about how the minority Democrats acted as a doormat to the Republican majority at every opportunity, while in the “helpless” minority. What knowingly deceptive BS from McCain. And yes, he sounds absolutely deflated, and on the edge of ill health to me. Far less puffed-up pomposity than when he used to be a Senator rather than just a candidate.
Levin rebutted McCain very effectively – while showing a new resolve to actually meaningfully act on Iraq. As Levin says, this Authorization Bill is THE bill for such policy-related amendments as the pending Iraq discussions. Levin does not like using appropriations bills for those debates (and all other scheduled Iraq bills after this one will be appropriations bills) re ’supporting/funding the troops,’ so he’s defending the procedure. Levin also blew off [as did McCain in so many words] waiting until September as meaningless and simply a “delaying tactic” (INdeed…).
The Democrats really seem to have a new wind at their back, but they’re going to have to be very creative and not hesitate to be aggressive, in order to defeat the White House, as represented by its Republican lackeys in the Senate, and thereby start bringing to an end the humanitarian disaster of our occupation of Iraq.
Also helped steal and smear the 04 election too.
Bush is left to playing his most highly leveraged pawns:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITI…..index.html
The guy is shrinking before our eyes…
I lost any respect I had for this man when he rolled over on torture.
redshift at 6
way to go!!!!!
Best thing that could have happened for Fred Thompson’s “Hot Wife 08″ campaign.
the straight tank express
tommytimp @ 79
You mean Fred “I don’t recall lobbying for that organization” Thompson? That Fred Thompson?
How much have people been reading about the Conrad Black trial? I for one have not seen much in the press about this trial.
http://rawstory.com/showarticl…..5420070710
Questions I would like answers to:
What is the status of Leahy’s request to Luskin for e-mails?
When will that DOJ internal report from the IG and that other special office, be complete… I would like a date? Will it be an internal cover-up
When will Judge Watson smack down Bush?
Can’t he resign along with Fitzy to get this impeachment train rolling.
Live in hope, die in despair
Freddid sorta announces- followed in about 15 seconds by the news that he was a lobbyist for a baby killer group—-TIMING!!!
punaise @ 81
It tanked?
dakine01 @ 81
I’m not sure why the GOP sees Thompson as the great savior…he doesn’t have nearly as much acting talent as Ronnie did and that’s saying something.
Geez, Kit Bond is an awful fool isn’t he?
He’s blaming Dems for losing Vietnam and Cambodia. And blaming Muslims for all the current ills of the world.
Very recent ThinkProgress post: Leahy, Specter to introduce habeas legislation
Okay, all you aging hippies. Sing along with me:
Some men climb a mountain,
Some men swim the sea,
Some men fly above the sky:
They are what they must be.
But, baby McCain must fall,
Baby, McCain is toast.
Wherever the man sets foot
Is the place to avoid the most.
(sing it, Glenn!)
Well now- I take offence at that- Ronnie was a really SHITTY actor- which is what leads goopers to think that only shitty gooper actors can become prez.
dakine01 @ 82
You mean Fred “I was a mole for the Nixon White House while on the investigating committee” Thompson? That Fred Thompson?
dakine01 @ 87
He is a disgrace.
We should all move to fucking Canada
janda @ 85
Fred Thompson, actor, is one of the worst legacies of H2Ogate. All because some idiot producers thought he looked and sounded good on TV and projected well.
perris @ 20
Hmmm, maybe. McCain sucked up to the religious right and rolled over for torture because he was trying to be the “loyal bushie” and be the establishment candidate, but his support for the war is genuine and longstanding, not a result of his lapdog status. I’ve heard it said that he’s a big war supporter because he’s trying to expunge the ghosts of Vietnam, but like all those who believe the “only” reason we lost Vietnam was the press and the protesters, he’s only ended up reinforcing them.
I haven’t thought much of McCain since he held up much-needed improvements at Dulles Airport until contributor America West got more cross-country slots at National (over the objections of the local airports authority, which had limited flights over dense suburbs based on the wishes of local residents.) So if you’ve traveled through Dulles and wondered why it’s taken until 2008 for it to get a rail system and moving sidewalks, thank McCain.
“Maverick,” feh. “Small government,” feh. “Principled,” feh.
OT ~ Senator Webb’s Floor Remarks on his Amendment to the Defense Authorization Act
dakine01 @ 86
Yes, yes he is.
Clinton and Obama skipping out on Iraq debate.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/….._0710.html
At least Clinton seems to have stopped repeating the horseshit line “if only I knew then what I know now”
If she could only find it within herself to admit that she made a very serious mistake to vote yes on the 2002 war resolution.
rwcole @ 89
Touche’ But seriously, Thompson goes beyond Shitty; he’s like extra special shitty…but I guess that is a compliment…sighhhh…
punaise @ 80
Has his quest for the White House been anesthetized with nomocain? :)
beth meacham @ 23
I suspect Dems will win his seat in Arizona and Pete Domenici’s seat in New Mexico. Probably Rep. Heather Wilson (R) won’t survive either.
Remember when a year or two ago there was a lot of talk about Bush (Rove really) going after the Catholic vote? Well, that’s gone nowhere and it wasn’t just Michigan they were after — the Southwest is full of immigrant Catholics who are more likely than ever to vote for Dem candidates!
McCain Mutiny?
barbara @ 99
LOL
Iraq’d: 3 Killed in Attack on Green Zone
perris @ 72
google on [george bush “it’s just a goddam piece of paper”]
Read and then make up your own mind, but the urban legend is that Bush exploded in an Oval Office meeting when one of his aides mentioned that something the Decider was about to decide on seemed decidedly unconstitutional.
And you know what, if this is nothing more than an urban legend, Bush’s actions make it clear what he really thinks of the constitution…i.e., it is just a piece of paper.
McCain wanted out now so he could Blame the War for his demise.
A good political move.
Otherwise, the Bush Loyalty Anchor around his neck was going to get him.
I can’t believe how slow the Goopers are to realize that any more Loyalty to Bush is a ticket out of office for them.
Michael Moore coming up on CNN.
pow wow @ 75
pow wow – when are you going to get a blog so i know where to go to make sure i don’t miss any of your comments?
- from a fan.
dakine01 @ 86
Don’t underestimate him. He’s very wily.
I think what he’s doing is walking away from Bush on the Iraq war and to cover his ‘traitorous Left’ behavior he has to bash Dems to re-establish himself to their Right (a so-called Moderate Republican). It’s not easy to talk out of both sides of your mouth at once, but he is very capable.
Nope, don’t underestimate him.
Raw Story: Executive privilege may not block ex-Rove aide’s testimony, say scholars
one more time:
Bush: Commanders trump politicians on war strategy
Does he seriously think that we believe him the third and fourth and nth time he gives this speech? (Not to mention trotting out the ‘Congress is trying to micromanage the war’ line one more time.)
MarkH @ 97
From your keyboard to God’s printer!
And maybe (I hope this isn’t a pipedream) we can take out Steve “The Toolman” Pearce, too!
BC
Lou Costello @ 104
Major shift! What a tragegy/ catastrophe we have created for the Iraqi people!
and don’t for a minute forget that the repub’s posing about pulling out of iraq is all about blackmailing iraq to pass the oil legislation……..they are worried we’re gonna pull out before it is passed…….funny thing is, it’s not working with iraq cuz they want us out…..except for the leaders that are becoming millionaires…….they want us to stay, of course…….
and mccain’s comments about his visit to iraq, today said, some things not going so well, but we are pressing for “NECESSARY legislation” in iraq……….hmmmmmm, wonder what ‘that’ is…….
i so hope we pull out before the oil legislation is forcefully put upon the iraqis……would be poetic justice…..we went in for the oil (and strategic issues) and we leave with no oil deal, no strategic advantage….then everything gets exposed as the regime falls apart from frustration of failure, fingerpointing, cuz that’s what they do……eat their own…..etc…….fingers crossed……..
RevDeb @ 103
whelp
mehbe ah I can an’ mehbe ah caint
oach…that’s such a stretch it hurts even me
“Can’t stop the hemorrhaging” that we started in Iraq! Is this what the “cakewalk in Iraq” zealots wanted?
The Raw Story
P J Evans @ 108
I’m heartened that many Dems are recognizing that most people have tuned him out, and they can just ignore his BS instead of trying to argue against it.
Yes, Mr. President, I’m sure you think we should all “listen to the commanders, not the politicians” after some politician in Washington fired all the ones who didn’t agree with you. Oh, wait, that was you!
and forgot to add—
condi on charlie rose a while back said–
we are not leaving iraq until it shows itself to be stable, that includes passing legislation……….guess what legislation she means……
oil
bremer said the same thing way back……they all say it…….
i would so love it if they don’t get it………
Can you explain why my last two comments needed moderation?
dmac @ 114
It gets even better — the Iraqis we put in power are the only ones who don’t want us to leave, since they know they don’t have the support to stand without us. So when bushies say “we’re not leaving until they do this,” they have every incentive not to do it.
OT ~ U.S. lawmakers prevented from leaving Green Zone.
dmac @ 114
I thought the Aussie reporter for CNN did an awesome story on this, pulling no punches on the fact that the iraqis don’t give a rip about the AMERICAN agenda, benchmarks, whatever you want to call it. Iraqi agenda: get out America, drag our feet till you go.
Even a psychopathic seven year old should be able to grasp that.
Perhaps McCain can run with Uncle Joe on the CFL 2008 ticket… for 5% of the rethug vote in Arizona. Who knows, it might even be enough to give us that state.
RevDeb @ 5
Guiliani might win against Hillary, otherwise he loses. NRA’s position is “Anybody by Hillary.”
Ron Paul beats A*P*C.
I guess “more of the same” wasn’t such a winning strategy after all.
Giulianni enlist “bomb Iran” Norman Podheretz http://thinkprogress.org/2007/…..podhoretz/
Redshift @ 118
Good lord, what creditor would lend a guy more money and more time, when he hasn’t lived up to his end of the bargain time and again?
Oh yeah, Congress would.
Tom Steele @ 121
Doing the same thing, again and again, and expecting a substantially different outcome each time you do it is one definition of insanity.
Or, in another context: Beauty may be only skin deep, but stupid cuts clear to the bone.
BC
Ghouliani is such a smart guy. Paint him with a guy who wants more killing.
Think Progress
Aw, shucks, selise… That’s very kind of you. Thanks.
Michael Moore & Wolfie – round two live at CNN
AZ Matt @ 117
Just order him arrested he can’t claim ignorance he was called to testify before Congress on the matter so it was his job to review what he was expected to tesify about. Also he answered as if he did have knowledge and his answer wether a knowing lie or lying ignorance is still a lie.
I’m no doc but McCain’s behavior makes me wonder if he is in early dementia.
thanks pow wow at 75, i don’t have cable!!!!!
Thank God McCain’s goose is cooked. He’s quite possibly more insane than bush.
do-si-do @ 124
EUREKA!!!
man, congress needs to make the analogy and compare it to the bush bankruptcy law
nicely done
My god — it’s like a medieval mass delusion watching the Cheney position on Iraq/Iran spread to McCain and Lieberman. IT’s Cheney is producing neo-con replicants.
Blub @ 118
Hmm. He could qualify for Unity08 (suspicion has long been that their dream ticket was McCain/Lieberman.) And though they talk about having a Republican/Democratic ticket, apparently Lieberman still qualifies:
My pleasure, dmac @ 135. Note that you can also get C-SPAN streaming on-line (even works pretty well on dial-up) here:
http://c-span.org/watch/cs_csp…..p;Code=CS2
The lovely Ms. Hamsher is upstairs.
http://www.firedoglake.com/200…..n/#respond
RevDeb @ 5
I can’t wait for the anti-Guiliani ads in South Carolina, showing him morph into Hillary. I know actual GOP primary voters in SC and they do not like or trust Guiliani.
I’m not sure this has been commented on yet, but, here’s a handy guide to the Dem’s bills on Iraq!
http://electioncentral.tpmcafe…..ar_to_halt
whoa — sanjay and Michael Moore on Larry King tonight.
AZ Matt @ 128
hmmm, first I thought Rudy’s friends were all street thugs. Then I found out they include coke addicts. Then the group expanded to pedophiles. Yesterday brought news of a whoremaster. Now a neocon psycho joins the party.
The party of Rudy: no criminal left behind.
Bustednuckles @ 15
As it happens, as I was reading your comment, I looked over onto the right sidebar, and lo and behold, there was a “register” link in the “Meta” block where there had been no such link before. How convenient! Now I’m registered. So when does the little facebook thingy appear?
BTW, on Hardball, Chris Matthews stuck a fork in McCain.
Bob in WI (temporarily)
John McCain. A sad ending for a once honorable and proud man.
McCain is a wannabe and the Bushwackers already decided they’re through using him and he is no longer worth the air they breathe. Done. Done. Done.
How many times does it take getting used and abused before you figure out you are used and abused? He’s still in denial. Almost makes you want to pity the poor guy. Soooo, pathetic.
McCain/Lieberman?
What the hell kind of ticket is that? Who the hell would vote for Suck-n-Suck? A more pathetic bunch of has-beens would be hard to imagine. Why not nominate the Ghost of Wendell Wilkie?
Kathleen @ 120
and then you eliminate the moderation comment next to the name… I don’t get it?
Mod note: Please read this.
“On the one hand you have a cowardly bully and on the other hand, you have an uncomprehending victim. There must be a Shakespearean parallel, I just can’t think of it right now.”
Will Beckett do? Pozzo and Lucky, Waiting for Godot.
test
redshift at 121 says “It gets even better — the Iraqis we put in power are the only ones who don’t want us to leave, since they know they don’t have the support to stand without us. So when bushies say “we’re not leaving until they do this,” they have every incentive not to do it.”
i love it………tooooooo fuuuuuunny……….
dosido at 123 says “I thought the Aussie reporter for CNN did an awesome story on this, pulling no punches on the fact that the iraqis don’t give a rip about the AMERICAN agenda, benchmarks, whatever you want to call it. Iraqi agenda: get out America, drag our feet till you go.
Even a psychopathic seven year old should be able to grasp that.”
dragging their feet, that is what i have thought, i was hoping someone over there would get the strategy–how to fight america’s greed……stall……..someone over there has some balls……..
Now lets stick a fork into Joe Lieberman.
And twist it.
Meanwhile in truly important news ….CHARLES LANE DEAD AT 102!!!!
If Ms. Hamsher would permit, I’d like to sharpen the tines of the fork a bit . . . . *G*
May they ALL go so peaceably . . ;-)
DMac@114; that’s the sharpest post on this thread.
The bushCo morality:
“Give us the sweetheart deals for your oil, or we’ll bail and leave you holding the bag of bloody shit that we’ve made of your country.”
I just want the Iraqis to get the stones to say back:
“Fuck you. And the Fortune 500; get your asses back to Kuwait and your carriers, and we’ll work this shit out, one way or another.”
I don’t know which is worse, the out-and-out flagrant lies they told to pimp us into this, or the cutesy little shitspeak they’re peddling as they tapdance over to the gangplank, and then tapcance back away from it.
“We really need to start to commence to begin to bring our troops home, but we mustn’t do anything preciptous that could cause violence and disorder in Iraq…but it would sure be wonderful if Pelosi and the DEMS would do it, by themselves, so we could rack THEIR asses for what follows.”
It’s going to be a joy; a pureass delight, to watch these shitbirds get backed into the antiwar corner, and have to get on the “drawdown signature bus” with the election 12-guage stuck in their backs. :o)
but not fit to eat