zed?

bada bing impeach

zunoed?

Damnit! Missed again!

ah, missed it by THAT much…

zed!

Nah, it’ll never happern…

Condi is an empty suit pair of shoes.

Great post, Christy.

Yep, the Pakistan disaster is another Cheney fuckup. Now the Taliban is concentrated within a country that has nukes.

Thanks, Dick.

Condi-licious:

A close friend of mine, a woman, used to call me “Bio-delicious” a few years ago…*g*

Does Trump have influence on any of those rags?? He can’t stand Condi, and he is always saying she shows up and waves in a photo-op then leaves, never cutting a deal. Trumps trying to build stuff all over the world right now, and Bush’s policies may be really getting in the way. Follow the big $$$. Just wondering.

First Joe and now the Secretary of State. Pressure on. ;0)

Drat – slow reader here and EPU’d again. I brought it up here:

Doing things:

I created a group blog called Progressive Policy. I’m looking for authors to take a category: education, labor, housing, transportation, healthcare, economy, foreign relations – you name it – and run with their chosen area. I’ll play host and coordinator.

Any takers for a policy venue and suggestions for authors and guest bloggers?

This will bring lots of progressives together who have policy and issues interests but who have to run all over the intertubes to find the content. I asked Matt and Chris at Open left if they were interested, and they politely declined.

I think this is a gap in the blogosphere, and so, my neck’s as stretched as I can make it…. ;^)

Jane Hamsher @ 9

Great post, Christy.

Yep, the Pakistan disaster is another Cheney fuckup. Now the Taliban is concentrated within a country that has nukes.

Thanks, Dick.

Dick’s got them right where he wants them – with an excuse to nail them all.

I’m sure Teddy and other Bay Areans would agree that it’s not too often you see the hometown rag (SF Chronicle) break an interesting story like this

EPU’d from previous thread. Here’sGonzo’s prepared testimony for tomorrow.

Pretty hysterical.
The Mighty Wurlitzer won’t back her, she has a problem.

Damn Christy, that reunion musta really recharged your batteries this weekend cuz you are en fuego today!

Man
When the ComPost rejects an OeEd from and Administration official for being a puff piece, there must have been *no* socially redeeming content.

Oh, I misread, the ever-objective WSJ, not the ComPost.
Maybe they should try again.
There’s always the Washington Times or NY Daily News….

oh dear oh dear.

laughing & crying & the same time.

not good.

what’s happening to us?

what’s going to happen to our kids?

it’s not.just.not Kansas anymore….

weeds. it’s what’s for dinner. no foolin’.

punaise @ 15

I’m sure Teddy and other Bay Areans would agree that it’s not too often you see the hometown rag (SF Chronicle) break an interesting story like this

I still laugh over the crack about the chronicle in “All the President’s Men” Hey we have a pretty good entertainment page!

Good thing we have a strong anti-proliferation team at the CIA
Oh…
Thanks Dick again.
Jane Hamsher @ 9

Great post, Christy.

Yep, the Pakistan disaster is another Cheney fuckup. Now the Taliban is concentrated within a country that has nukes.

Thanks, Dick.

Lebanon was once the Jewel of the Levant. Beirut was the Paris of the Middle East. Throw 500,000 pissed refugees into the place, invade it numerous times, occupy it for almost 20 years, create rival militias to spread hatred amongst the ethnic and religious groups, destroy their industrial, transportation and public health infrastructures, ruin all their shores and beaches and their fishing and tourist industry, sow their farms with millions of cluster bomb sub-munitions and hundreds of thousands of unmarked mines and minefields……

….then you have Condi explain how cute it all is and what a ripe investment opportunity waits there?

Bush approval at 25% on huffpost!

Bush approval drops to 25%. OK so we have seen over the past 8 years that about 1/3 of any large statistical group are generally not grounded in thinking. But 8% can think if pushed enough~(33%-25%).
Which leaves with with 25% of frigging fascists. That’s still way too many

What’s even perhaps, more scary, is that Karen Hughes is the one who really has our president’s…. Ear?

Didn’t Condi want to be President? I thought some reporter at the NY Times was writing her biography.

A sitting Secretary of State cannot get an Op Ed published?

The CEA of a multimega corp cannot get an Op Ed published?

The combined “prestige” of the two of them together cannot get an Op Ed published?

How humilating.

Really, really humiliating.

Wow.

LHP at 29 — Yeah, I know. That pretty much floored me, too, the first time I read the piece.

Helen @ 16

EPU’d from previous thread. Here’sGonzo’s prepared testimony for tomorrow.

Gonzo “But I am not going to wait for the results of these investigations to begin taking
steps to ensure that any previous mistakes are not repeated. I have appointed experienced
personnel, revised certain policies and procedures, and have communicated to the
Department leadership that I will not tolerate any improper politicization of this
Department. I will continue to make efforts to ensure that my staff and others within the
Department have the appropriate experience and judgment so that previous mistakes will
not be repeated. And I will continue to ensure that the Department attracts and hires
highly qualified individuals from the broadest base possible without reference to their
political affiliations.“

Lucy in the sky with diamonds….

I think a pretty good litmus test for how “worthy” a war is, is how many of your citizens are willing to volunteer for it.

Re-enlistment doesn’t count. Vets will not abandon their brothers in arms. How fast do fresh recruits step up? How many have their own skin in this game?

With all due respect, stuff it, DoD, Cheney, and Senator Graham.

The WSJ editorial board wouldn’t publish a piece of Administration claptrap. What is the world coming too?

What’s strange is that one of Rupert Murdoch’s “chain-smell” publications didn’t even see fit to run Condi’s piece, unless Condi didn’t even submit it to one of Murdoch’s “chain-smell” rags.

Either way, this would indicate that the hardcore wingnuts like Murdoch (and Cheney) have marginalized Condi Rice, and the U.S. State Department, because she apparently wants to talk with others in a diplomatic manner while they just want to bomb them.

Oklahoma kiddo @ 27

What’s even perhaps, more scary, is that Karen Hughes is the one who really has our president’s…. Ear?

Yeti still won’t listen

From Christy’s post, re: Condi’s widely rejected opinion piece:

As a last-ditch strategy, the State Department briefly considered translating the article into Arabic and trying a Lebanese paper. But finally they just gave up. “I kept hearing the same thing: ‘There’s no news in this.’ ”

Old wine in new bottle: Condi should know:

Rice characterized the August 6, 2000 President’s Daily Brief, “Bin Laden to Strike in US” historical information. Rice indicated “It was information based on old reporting.”[46]

My bold.

ruffian @ 26

Bush approval drops to 25%. OK so we have seen over the past 8 years that about 1/3 of any large statistical group are generally not grounded in thinking. But 8% can think if pushed enough~(33%-25%).
Which leaves with with 25% of frigging fascists. That’s still way too many

Slow learners can still learn! Plus it takes time to deprogram people although without Bush’s failure in Iraq just how infulencial would the blogs be in changing people’s minds?

ruffian @ 26

Bush approval drops to 25%. OK so we have seen over the past 8 years that about 1/3 of any large statistical group are generally not grounded in thinking. But 8% can think if pushed enough~(33%-25%).
Which leaves with with 25% of frigging fascists. That’s still way too many

Nixon still had approvals in the 22%-24% range when he resigned and it was demonstrable that he was in fact a crook.

Wait a minute. Bill Kristol can publish a piece in the WaPo on why Bush is a winner, but the Secretary of Sate can’t?

Hmm, who’s really in charge of Bush’s foreign policy?

Condi puff piece gets rejected.

I guess the free market works, huh…

I suspect the Regent University Law Review will take it.

condi karen karl gonzo …

where.do.they.find.these.people?!

are they plastic? holograms?

we know they recycle and revolve.

will they rust? corrode? combust? compost?

clone?! evolve?!

they’re more indestructible than disposable diapers fgs!

Emptywheel had it dead on earlier this morning. The Bush administration has either got to get a better PR agency, or a better product. She wasn’t optimistic on either score.

Condi has always been a token something or other. Same with Gonzales. See voters. We (Republicans) have minorities and women in high places.

Bustednuckles @ 17

Pretty hysterical.
The Mighty Wurlitzer won’t back her, she has a problem.

Yep, I was pretty surprised to read this one.

I got Rice’s measure long before 9/11. I came to my evaluation of her with a favorable attitude. Having been a woman on Wall St., I can imagine how difficult her enviroment has been, and being African-American just adds to the toxicity for her.
So I watched with great interest a speech of hers at some friendly org like Russian-American Chamber of Commerce that was broadcast on C-SPAN sometime in the summer of 01. It would be the perfect forum for her to strut her stuff, I thought. Showcase her at her finest, since Soviet Union was her area of expertise.
She spoke for 20 mintutes. She said: Russia is a country of great potential.
Yep. That’s all she said & it took her 20 minutes. Got her # then & haven’t had to change my opinion since.

Similiar story with her speech on “tranformational diplomacy” after she became SecState. Speech was 45 min (?), and contained such creative ideas as having U.S. diplomats speak the language of the country they are going to, and having them get out of the capital city & find out what’s going on elsewhere in the country.

I’m sorry to believe that she’s another representative of the downside of affirmative action, along with Clarence Thomas & Colin Powell.

Cheney’s plan to get US Troops out of Iraq via David Horsey!

OT New Froomkin

Gonzo…It happened, I’m sorry, and I’m staying.

“Politicization of Hiring in the Department
I am very proud of the results that the Department of Justice has achieved. As the
testimony above demonstrates, the Department’s employees continue to work day in and
day out to protect Americans. That said, reinforcing public confidence in the Department
is also critical and will be one of my top priorities as Attorney General for the remainder
of my term. I know that this Committee shares this concern, and I would like now to
address briefly one issue in particular.
I believe very strongly that there is no place for political considerations in the
hiring of our career employees or in the administration of justice. As such, the
allegations of such activity have been troubling to hear. From my perspective, there are
two options available in light of these allegations. I could walk away or I could devote
my time, effort and energy to fix the problems. Since I have never been one to quit, I
decided that the best course of action was to remain here and fix the problems. That is
exactly what I am doing.
As you know, upon learning of these troubling accusations, we promptly referred
these matters to the Office of Professional Responsibility and Office of the Inspector
General. This was the right course of action for the Department and I have complete
faith and confidence that their investigations will be thorough, comprehensive, and,
ultimately, very helpful in rooting out and addressing any mistakes that occurred on my
watch.

But I am not going to wait for the results of these investigations to begin taking
steps to ensure that any previous mistakes are not repeated. I have appointed experienced
personnel, revised certain policies and procedures, and have communicated to the
Department leadership that I will not tolerate any improper politicization of this
Department. I will continue to make efforts to ensure that my staff and others within the
Department have the appropriate experience and judgment so that previous mistakes will
not be repeated. And I will continue to ensure that the Department attracts and hires
highly qualified individuals from the broadest base possible without reference to their
political affiliations.”

eCAHNomics @ 44

Bustednuckles @ 17

Pretty hysterical.
The Mighty Wurlitzer won’t back her, she has a problem.

Yep, I was pretty surprised to read this one.

I got Rice’s measure long before 9/11. I came to my evaluation of her with a favorable attitude. Having been a woman on Wall St., I can imagine how difficult her enviroment has been, and being African-American just adds to the toxicity for her.
So I watched with great interest a speech of hers at some friendly org like Russian-American Chamber of Commerce that was broadcast on C-SPAN sometime in the summer of 01. It would be the perfect forum for her to strut her stuff, I thought. Showcase her at her finest, since Soviet Union was her area of expertise.
She spoke for 20 mintutes. She said: Russia is a country of great potential.
Yep. That’s all she said & it took her 20 minutes. Got her # then & haven’t had to change my opinion since.

Similiar story with her speech on “tranformational diplomacy” after she became SecState. Speech was 45 min (?), and contained such creative ideas as having U.S. diplomats speak the language of the country they are going to, and having them get out of the capital city & find out what’s going on elsewhere in the country.

I’m sorry to believe that she’s another representative of the downside of affirmative action, along with Clarence Thomas & Colin Powell.

She IS the Peter Principle.

Talk about going off topic. In his remarks, Gonzo talks about Intellectual Property Rights, Protection of Children, Drug Enforcement, Identity Theft, Immigration Enforcement, and the Dept’s Response to Hurricane Katrina. Of the 26 pages, exactly 5 paragraphs at the very end address politization of hiring at DOJ.

Knut Wicksell @ 42

Emptywheel had it dead on earlier this morning. The Bush administration has either got to get a better PR agency, or a better product. She wasn’t optimistic on either score.

Actually a large part of the problem is that this admin is incapable of discerning the difference between Policy and PR. The policy is the PR.

nomolos @ 31

Helen @ 16

EPU’d from previous thread. Here’sGonzo’s prepared testimony for tomorrow.

Gonzo “But I am not going to wait for the results of these investigations to begin taking
steps to ensure that any previous mistakes are not repeated. I have appointed experienced
personnel, revised certain policies and procedures, and have communicated to the
Department leadership that I will not tolerate any improper politicization of this
Department. I will continue to make efforts to ensure that my staff and others within the
Department have the appropriate experience and judgment so that previous mistakes will
not be repeated. And I will continue to ensure that the Department attracts and hires
highly qualified individuals from the broadest base possible without reference to their
political affiliations.“

Lucy in the sky with diamonds….

“I will not tolerate any improper politicization of this Department.”

That is really a quite telling remark. He does not say I will not tolerate any politicization of this Department, only any “improper” politicization and, of course, he has already said that he thought that there was nothing improper about how the Attorneys were fired.

Helen @ 16

EPU’d from previous thread. Here’sGonzo’s prepared testimony for tomorrow.

Thanks Helen.

What a surprise. He leads with fight against terrorism…in Britain.

Helen @ 49

Talk about going off topic. In his remarks, Gonzo talks about Intellectual Property Rights, Protection of Children, Drug Enforcement, Identity Theft, Immigration Enforcement, and the Dept’s Response to Hurricane Katrina. Of the 26 pages, exactly 5 paragraphs at the very end address politization of hiring at DOJ.

Condi help him write that one too?

mc @ 39

Wait a minute. Bill Kristol can publish a piece in the WaPo on why Bush is a winner, but the Secretary of Sate can’t?

Hmm, who’s really in charge of Bush’s foreign policy?

The war-profiteers.

do-si-do @ 52

Helen @ 16

EPU’d from previous thread. Here’sGonzo’s prepared testimony for tomorrow.

Thanks Helen.

What a surprise. He leads with fight against terrorism…in Britain.

Shorter Gonzo: “Look, look, over there, shiny thongs!”

Knut Wicksell @ 42

Emptywheel had it dead on earlier this morning. The Bush administration has either got to get a better PR agency, or a better product. She wasn’t optimistic on either score.

Of course my stomach turned when I saw some R tool on Hardball say the President needs to tell us why the war is still worth fighting, not if progress is being made. Giving advice on new talking points.

Duh, “evil”?

So now we are debating how to sell the occupation, after five years.

I tell you, if everyone had their own blood in this, the occupation would be over today. You can’t BS with blood.

mc at 55 — I don’t know if you meant “shiny thongs” or if it was a slight typo — but either way, that was freaking hilarious. *g*

Christy Hardin Smith @ 57

mc at 55 — I don’t know if you meant “shiny thongs” or if it was a slight typo — but either way, that was freaking hilarious. *g*

Didn’t LHP do that once? I think that was a homage to her.

Condi’s sense of history is somewhat flawed:

In 2006, Rice compared U.S. commitment in Iraq to the Civil War, indicating “I’m sure there are people who thought it was a mistake to fight the Civil War to its end and to insist that the emancipation of slaves would hold.” BET.com commented “If you’re against the war in Iraq, you might as well consider yourself pro-slavery, according to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.”[111]

And I wonder what Chuck Hagel is really telling her here:

On January 11, 2007, Rice addressed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee regarding the President’s Iraq Strategy. Rice asserted that insurgents were mainly responsible for American casualties; Senator Chuck Hagel stated, Madame Secretary, your intelligence and mine is a lot different.[112]

My bold.

mc @ 55

do-si-do @ 52

Thanks Helen.

What a surprise. He leads with fight against terrorism…in Britain.

Shorter Gonzo: “Look, look, over there, shiny thongs!”

‘thOngs’? *chuckle*

Helen @ 58

Christy Hardin Smith @ 57

mc at 55 — I don’t know if you meant “shiny thongs” or if it was a slight typo — but either way, that was freaking hilarious. *g*

Didn’t LHP do that once? I think that was a homage to her.

Yes!

“The Bush Survival Bible” by Gene Stone will tickle the fancies of most firepups.

LS @ 47

Yes, Gonzo is sorry. right. Boy, these people really really don’t understand the concept of credibility.

Just saying stuff doesn’t make it so. (renting of garments, and gnashing of teeth here)

The EPU horizon is shrinking towards us: it used to be out around 230 when I started posting, but is now about 120. This wouldn’t matter so much if it were possible to post comments on a thread with some responsiveness even after a new thread had started. Does anyone else consider this a problem? Is somebody working on it?

Gonzo:

The diversion of the resources of the Intelligence
Community, the Department of Justice, and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
(FISC) to FISA applications targeting foreign terror suspects overseas also must be
remedied. As you surely agree, these precious resources would be better spent
safeguarding the liberties of people in the United States.

(bold mine) Silly me, and I thought that protection from wiretaps without warrants was one of the liberties that was supposed to be protected by these very busy folks.

Okay, time for the lighter side:

Advances in NonoTeknologee have brought the dod the ultimate bierlogikal weapon: SEKRET SKWIRRELZ!

http://blog.wired.com/defense/…..irrel.html

They do this in between planning for the coup, dont’cha know…

Here’s a good start for articles of impeachment for Shooter:
http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/010702.php

Ed*ard Teller @ 24

Lebanon was once the Jewel of the Levant. Beirut was the Paris of the Middle East. Throw 500,000 pissed refugees into the place, invade it numerous times, occupy it for almost 20 years, create rival militias to spread hatred amongst the ethnic and religious groups, destroy their industrial, transportation and public health infrastructures, ruin all their shores and beaches and their fishing and tourist industry, sow their farms with millions of cluster bomb sub-munitions and hundreds of thousands of unmarked mines and minefields……

….then you have Condi explain how cute it all is and what a ripe investment opportunity waits there?

Did you forget to mention that they had a disasterous civil war? Or do you regard that as a proxy fight for big powers? Just asking.

Bwa-hahahahah!! man, that hurts it’s so funny!

A “shiny thong” homage to looseheadprop, incorporating Gonzo!!

I’ve seen it all. I don’t know how this can possibly be topped in the world of commenting.

Oh my comment is reading a little ambiguously…I meant to add on to what you were saying LS, not argue with it.

sorry ;)

LS @ 54

mc @ 39

Wait a minute. Bill Kristol can publish a piece in the WaPo on why Bush is a winner, but the Secretary of State can’t?

Hmm, who’s really in charge of Bush’s foreign policy?

The war-profiteers.

…such as the Carlyle Group. Who would have thought that great patriots like the Bush family would enrich themselves during times like these?

Rayne @ 69

It was a shiny silver thong, last time. Sometime during the Libby trial, IIRC.

H’mmm. Is there a bootleg copy of Rice’s Lebanon article around? Bet we could do a number on it if we had the original.

And here, my friends, is a list of Condi’s personal interests:

–Rice’s favorite movie is Casablanca. “I watch whenever it comes on. . . . ‘Here’s looking at you, kid’ — who doesn’t love that line? I love Humphrey Bogart . I love everything about that movie. It’s in many ways my favorite movie.” [7]

–Another favorite is The Way We Were: “I generally don’t watch movies of redeeming value,” she says. “I tend to take them as entertainment.” [8]

–Rice took up golf in August 2005. “I’m enjoying it immensely. I find it’s one of the things that really gets me out, gets my mind clear, and I really enjoy it.”[9]

–Rice has said that her dream job is commissioner of the National Football League. “I think it would be a very interesting job because I actually think football, with all due respect to baseball, is a kind of national pastime that brings people together across social lines, across racial lines. And I think it’s an important American institution.”[10]

–Rice is an accomplished pianist who plays with an ensemble as often as every other week.[11] One of her favorite composers is Brahms. “I love Brahms because Brahms is actually structured. And he’s passionate without being sentimental. With Brahms it’s restrained, and there’s a sense of tension that never resolves.”[12]

–Rice has very ecletic tastes in music. In an interview with Sean Hannity she said, “I listen to just about anything Led Zeppelin’s done. And I love Cream, too.”[13]

She has an interview with Sean Hannity about music…

Enquiring minds want to know . . .
. . . did Condi’s op-ed have the requisite three (3) mentions of President Bush per page as recently testified to by another Cabinet castaway?

P J Evans @ 72

Rayne @ 69

It was a shiny silver thong, last time. Sometime during the Libby trial, IIRC.

I will not, repeat not, post a link to Borat in his lime-green mankini

Biodun @ 74

And here, my friends, is a list of Condi’s personal interests:

–Rice’s favorite movie is Casablanca. “I watch whenever it comes on. . . . ‘Here’s looking at you, kid’ — who doesn’t love that line? I love Humphrey Bogart . I love everything about that movie. It’s in many ways my favorite movie.” [7]

–Another favorite is The Way We Were: “I generally don’t watch movies of redeeming value,” she says. “I tend to take them as entertainment.” [8]

–Rice took up golf in August 2005. “I’m enjoying it immensely. I find it’s one of the things that really gets me out, gets my mind clear, and I really enjoy it.”[9]

–Rice has said that her dream job is commissioner of the National Football League. “I think it would be a very interesting job because I actually think football, with all due respect to baseball, is a kind of national pastime that brings people together across social lines, across racial lines. And I think it’s an important American institution.”[10]

–Rice is an accomplished pianist who plays with an ensemble as often as every other week.[11] One of her favorite composers is Brahms. “I love Brahms because Brahms is actually structured. And he’s passionate without being sentimental. With Brahms it’s restrained, and there’s a sense of tension that never resolves.”[12]

–Rice has very ecletic tastes in music. In an interview with Sean Hannity she said, “I listen to just about anything Led Zeppelin’s done. And I love Cream, too.”[13]

She has an interview with Sean Hannity about music…

Yeah, one more reason to feel good about hating Robert Plant and Jimmy Page

behindthefall @ 64

The EPU horizon is shrinking towards us: it used to be out around 230 when I started posting, but is now about 120. This wouldn’t matter so much if it were possible to post comments on a thread with some responsiveness even after a new thread had started. Does anyone else consider this a problem? Is somebody working on it?

Maybe there could be something like a permathread, that had posts with links to important articles, like AGAG’s testimony? That way we could check that out from time-to-time to see what we needed to read. Don’t know what kind of adminstrative hassle that would create, though.

lost_nacf_gop @ 75

Enquiring minds want to know . . .
. . . did Condi’s op-ed have the requisite three (3) mentions of President Bush per page as recently testified to by another Cabinet castaway?

Can anyone name a single thing that she has actually done? I cannot – so what is her reason for being there? Just a doorstop, I guess.

punaise @ 76

P J Evans @ 72

Rayne @ 69

It was a shiny silver thong, last time. Sometime during the Libby trial, IIRC.

I will not, repeat not, post a link to Borat in his lime-green mankini

And the crowd goes wild….with relief!

–Rice is an accomplished pianist who plays with an ensemble as often as every other week.[11] One of her favorite composers is Brahms. “I love Brahms because Brahms is actually structured. And he’s passionate without being sentimental. With Brahms it’s restrained, and there’s a sense of tension that never resolves.”[12]

Gee, I used to like Brahms.

Finally, interesting tidbit about Condi:

Rice was a Democrat until 1982 when she changed her political affiliation to Republican after growing averse to former President Carter’s foreign policy.[20] She also cited influence from her father, John Wesley, in this decision, who himself switched from Democrat to Republican after being denied voting registration by the Democratic registrar. In her words to the 2000 Republican National Convention, “My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did.”[21]

punaise @ 76

P J Evans @ 72

Rayne @ 69

It was a shiny silver thong, last time. Sometime during the Libby trial, IIRC.

What precisely is a mankini? A bikini for men? If so, Dennis Hastert probably has one of the silver ones.
I will not, repeat not, post a link to Borat in his lime-green mankini

The Boston Herald or Lowell Sun will publish
Condi’s ramblings…

BigMitch @ 68

Ed*ard Teller @ 24

Lebanon was once the Jewel of the Levant. Beirut was the Paris of the Middle East. Throw 500,000 pissed refugees into the place, invade it numerous times, occupy it for almost 20 years, create rival militias to spread hatred amongst the ethnic and religious groups, destroy their industrial, transportation and public health infrastructures, ruin all their shores and beaches and their fishing and tourist industry, sow their farms with millions of cluster bomb sub-munitions and hundreds of thousands of unmarked mines and minefields……

….then you have Condi explain how cute it all is and what a ripe investment opportunity waits there?

Did you forget to mention that they had a disasterous civil war? Or do you regard that as a proxy fight for big powers? Just asking.

The Lebanese Civil Wars are largely a result of the destabilization caused by the influx of refugees from 1947 through the early 1950s. Historians Benny Morris, Michael Oren, Robert Fisk and Ilan Jaffe all agree on this. The “proxy war” aspects of this area after WWII are in two phases – the Soviet-era phase and the post Soviet phase, into which we are now entering the crux.

Twain @ 79

lost_nacf_gop @ 75

Enquiring minds want to know . . .
. . . did Condi’s op-ed have the requisite three (3) mentions of President Bush per page as recently testified to by another Cabinet castaway?

It seems she has successfully stonewalled the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Anyone know what’s going on with that? Just lost in the dust?

Can anyone name a single thing that she has actually done? I cannot – so what is her reason for being there? Just a doorstop, I guess.

Biodun @ 82

Finally, interesting tidbit about Condi:

Rice was a Democrat until 1982 when she changed her political affiliation to Republican after growing averse to former President Carter’s foreign policy.[20] She also cited influence from her father, John Wesley, in this decision, who himself switched from Democrat to Republican after being denied voting registration by the Democratic registrar. In her words to the 2000 Republican National Convention, “My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did.”[21]

That’s the most substantive thing about Rice I’ve ever read. Aren’t we glad that those southern racists are no longer Ds?

Opp’s my comment was embedded in the quote in 86. Sorry. Meant to say:

It seems she has successfully stonewalled the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Anyone know what’s going on with that? Just lost in the dust?

You know, we’re all gonna be fine–as long as we have electricity and can grow our own food.

Alas I could not disentangle punaise’s 76 from my 83. What is this preview button for btw? *g*

do-si-do @ 70

Oh my comment is reading a little ambiguously…I meant to add on to what you were saying LS, not argue with it.

sorry ;)

Don’t be sorry! I caught your meaning. :}

Biodun @ 82

Finally, interesting tidbit about Condi:

Rice was a Democrat until 1982 when she changed her political affiliation to Republican after growing averse to former President Carter’s foreign policy.[20] She also cited influence from her father, John Wesley, in this decision, who himself switched from Democrat to Republican after being denied voting registration by the Democratic registrar. In her words to the 2000 Republican National Convention, “My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did.”[21]

One got it wrong (Condi and her party switch) and one got it right (party switch) Senator Clinton. ;0)

Helen @ 49

Talk about going off topic. In his remarks, Gonzo talks about Intellectual Property Rights, Protection of Children, Drug Enforcement, Identity Theft, Immigration Enforcement, and the Dept’s Response to Hurricane Katrina. Of the 26 pages, exactly 5 paragraphs at the very end address politization of hiring at DOJ.

When my students do that, I call it filler because it is material that is put in bc the actual substance of the piece is missing. He doesn’t have an answer to the charges leveled against him, so he is inserting filler as a red herring. Jezum, he wouldn’t be able to pass an argumentation class.

I think Firedoglake should invite Condi to publish her op-ed here.

Janda @ 93

Helen @ 49

Talk about going off topic. In his remarks, Gonzo talks about Intellectual Property Rights, Protection of Children, Drug Enforcement, Identity Theft, Immigration Enforcement, and the Dept’s Response to Hurricane Katrina. Of the 26 pages, exactly 5 paragraphs at the very end address politization of hiring at DOJ.

When my students do that, I call it filler because it is material that is put in bc the actual substance of the piece is missing. He doesn’t have an answer to the charges leveled against him, so he is inserting filler as a red herring. Jezum, he wouldn’t be able to pass an argumentation class.

That’s prolly why Bush put him in charge of thousands of litigators. /snark

itwasntme @ 94

I think Firedoglake should invite Condi to publish her op-ed here.

Brilliant! What a comments thread that would be. Better than my #73.

Switches from Dem to Repug:

Ronald Reagan

Rudy Giuliani

Michael Bloomberg

Most of the neocons (Irving Kristol was speaking for them all when he famously said: “I was a liberal who was mugged by reality.”)

Shorter Gonzo:

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Why won’t you let me play with you anymore..I’ll be good…….
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

eCAHNomics @ 96

itwasntme @ 94

I think Firedoglake should invite Condi to publish her op-ed here.

Brilliant! What a comments thread that would be. Better than my #73.

If the comments were kept civil, it could be a very good and informative thing.

eCAHNomics @ 96

itwasntme @ 94

I think Firedoglake should invite Condi to publish her op-ed here.

Brilliant! What a comments thread that would be. Better than my #73.

FDL as a transom ditch (so to speak) for a “rejecto” that has made all the rounds?

LS @ 99

eCAHNomics @ 96

Brilliant! What a comments thread that would be. Better than my #73.

If the comments were kept civil, it could be a very good and informative thing.

I’m shocked that you could think firepups might not be civil.

Obama foreign policy advisor called up by Naval Reserve

Deliberate? Was W or Hillary behind it?

The Oracle at #34:

What’s strange is that one of Rupert Murdoch’s “chain-smell” publications didn’t even see fit to run Condi’s piece, unless Condi didn’t even submit it to one of Murdoch’s “chain-smell” rags.

Either way, this would indicate that the hardcore wingnuts like Murdoch (and Cheney) have marginalized Condi Rice, and the U.S. State Department, because she apparently wants to talk with others in a diplomatic manner while they just want to bomb them.

Unfortunately, yes, that’s what it means, that even Rice’s small measure of faith in diplomacy is unacceptable.
I’d like to say that it means that pro-Bush drivel no longer has a place on American op-ed pages, but since the WaPo has no problem running Cheney’s daughter on why her dad’s war is a great idea without even identifying her as his daughter, I can’t.

No one could have imagined that a smoochy love letter from Condi to her husband the preznit wouldn’t be published by the MSM.

LS @ 99

If the comments were kept civil, it could be a very good and informative thing.

hate to say it, even on our best behavior I can’t imagine she’d get a particularly hospitable welcome. she just represents everything that is anathema to so many of us.

OT–

From Salon:

The House Judiciary Committee announced today that it will meet Wednesday to vote on issuing contempt citations for former White House counsel Harriet Miers and White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten over their refusal to testify and provide documents related to the firings of U.S. attorneys.

Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., had given Bolten until 10 a.m. today to produce the subpoenaed documents after he failed to bring them to the committee hearing last Thursday, citing executive privilege. But things got even more complicated the next day, when it was reported that the Bush administration upped the ante in the ongoing executive privilege battle by warning that if Congress issued contempt citations, the White House would forbid the Justice Department from enforcing them.

From KOS, don’t make me pull the car over!! Ouch.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..131549/579

punaise @ 105

LS @ 99

If the comments were kept civil, it could be a very good and informative thing.

hate to say it, even on our best behavior I can’t imagine she’d get a particularly hospitable welcome. she just represents everything that is anathema to so many of us.

You put it so nicely. Me, I say “Fat Chance.”

So, is Leahy going to go absolutely ballistic with Gonzo tomorrow? Srsly.

Biodun @ 106

OT–

From Salon:

The House Judiciary Committee announced today that it will meet Wednesday to vote on issuing contempt citations for former White House counsel Harriet Miers and White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten over their refusal to testify and provide documents related to the firings of U.S. attorneys.

Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., had given Bolten until 10 a.m. today to produce the subpoenaed documents after he failed to bring them to the committee hearing last Thursday, citing executive privilege. But things got even more complicated the next day, when it was reported that the Bush administration upped the ante in the ongoing executive privilege battle by warning that if Congress issued contempt citations, the White House would forbid the Justice Department from enforcing them.

That is why it must be inherent contempt, unless Congress wants to challenge them..that could get really interesting too.

fdl reader @ 109

So, is Leahy going to go absolutely ballistic with Gonzo tomorrow? Srsly.

There is not enough popcorn in the universe.

Condi should publish here then we could decide for ourselves wether her article was good and she didn’t get published because she is OUT with Bush. Or is her writting really that bad? Did she really write a proBush puff piece with no new value like the letters Hariet Miers wrote to Bush?

LS at 107 — I agree with Kos on that one. Trying to moderate between shrill arguments in the comments gets really exhausting sometimes. Especially when they are high on the personal invective scale and low on the supporting facts and documentation end of things, ya know?

She enlisted John Chambers, chief executive officer of Cisco Systems as a co-author, and they wrote about public/private partnerships and how they might be of use in rebuilding Lebanon after last summer’s war.

Like I’ve said before. When Bush says freedom it’s code for capitalism

The Secretary of State was and always will be Condi-liar.

Cozumel @ 114

She enlisted John Chambers, chief executive officer of Cisco Systems as a co-author, and they wrote about public/private partnerships and how they might be of use in rebuilding Lebanon after last summer’s war.

Like I’ve said before. When Bush says freedom it’s code for capitalism

What about rebuilding New Orleans!

There is not enough popcorn in the universe.

Cherries Garcia ice cream with popcorn sprinkles?

Biodun @ 97

Switches from Dem to Repug:

Ronald Reagan

Rudy Giuliani

Michael Bloomberg

Most of the neocons (Irving Kristol was speaking for them all when he famously said: “I was a liberal who was mugged by reality.”)

Ben Nighthorse Turncoat, err, Campbell. Richard Shelby, Billy Tauzin.

Bloomie has switched again to Indie.

-GSD

Twain @ 108

punaise @ 105

hate to say it, even on our best behavior I can’t imagine she’d get a particularly hospitable welcome. she just represents everything that is anathema to so many of us.

You put it so nicely. Me, I say “Fat Chance.”

I know, and I agree with the sentiment. I was just thinking that, since she seems to be getting dissed by the Cheney crew, she may be ripe for some “diplomacy”. Just a thought.

LS @ 119

Twain @ 108

You put it so nicely. Me, I say “Fat Chance.”

I know, and I agree with the sentiment. I was just thinking that, since she seems to be getting dissed by the Cheney crew, she may be ripe for some “diplomacy”. Just a thought.

Just too late to unhitch that wagon. She’s going down with the rest of the crew.

Cozumel @ 114

She enlisted John Chambers, chief executive officer of Cisco Systems as a co-author, and they wrote about public/private partnerships and how they might be of use in rebuilding Lebanon after last summer’s war.

Like I’ve said before. When Bush says freedom it’s code for capitalism

Correction:
capitalismcorporatocracy

Haven’t had time to read the comments so forgive me if this is redundant as well as O/T, but check this out:

“What should be America’s national broadband strategy?
by: Dick Durbin

Today I’m writing to invite you to participate in an experiment — an interactive approach to drafting legislation on one of the most significant public policy questions today: What should be America’s national broadband strategy?
Starting this Tuesday, July 24 at 7pm EST on OpenLeft.com, I will be engaging in a series of four nightly broadband policy discussions with the online community. During those four nights, I am looking for the best and brightest ideas on what Congress should do to promote and foster broadband.

I will begin each night’s discussion with a conversation about some of the core principles I think are important, and then I’ll ask for you to contribute your ideas that will help me craft legislation.”

For more info go to:

http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=318

I call tactics like inviting Condi to publish here op-ed here “torture of the comfy pillow”. If she’s being cut off by “her side” we certainly want to welcome her views here. We don’t have to agree with them, just like with the advertising.

It’s kind of like Judo or something. When they strike out at you, you use their force to pull them towards you, and upset their balance, and they stumble, giving you the advantage.

Christy Hardin Smith @ 113

LS at 107 — I agree with Kos on that one. Trying to moderate between shrill arguments in the comments gets really exhausting sometimes. Especially when they are high on the personal invective scale and low on the supporting facts and documentation end of things, ya know?

I agree with you. Many times when I go read the comments over there, they are embroiled in name calling, etc., and I just have to leave. I just read the comments over there, I do not comment personally. I find it upsetting when commenters get into personal battles on any blog.

I know, and I agree with the sentiment. I was just thinking that, since she seems to be getting dissed by the Cheney crew, she may be ripe for some “diplomacy”. Just a thought.

The problem is no one in this maladministration would know diplomacy from a hole in the ground. It’s a foreign concept to them.

JML @ 122

Dick Durbin and Broadband: veeeeeery interesting, huh!

Bloomie has switched again to Indie.

Yeah I know. But does he know what he’s doing? There actually is an Independent Party in New York, led by Lenore Fulani, that nutcase… Maybe he shoulda taken a cue from Joe-Lie and formed his own party.

things come undone @ 116

Cozumel @ 114

She enlisted John Chambers, chief executive officer of Cisco Systems as a co-author, and they wrote about public/private partnerships and how they might be of use in rebuilding Lebanon after last summer’s war.

Like I’ve said before. When Bush says freedom it’s code for capitalism

What about rebuilding New Orleans!

Speaking of shoes.

Rudy Giuliani wears a mankini under his manpris when campaigning at the seacoast.

Rudy-licious.

-GSD

Biodun @ 127

Bloomie has switched again to Indie.

Yeah I know. But does he know what he’s doing? There actually is an Independent Party in New York, led by Lenore Fulani, that nutcase… Maybe he shoulda taken a cue from Joe-Lie and formed his own party.

Bloomie thinks he’s a party unto himself. It’s the poison of billionaires.

Shorter Gonzales, if that is possible:

After a brief detour into the reef, Captain Hazlewood is the best man to get the ship back to sea.

-GSD

“Freedom Capitalism is the birthright and deep desire of every human soul, and spreading freedom’s capitalism’s blessings is the calling of our time. And when freedom capitalism and democracy take root in the Middle East, America and the world will be safer and more peaceful.”

- Dubya ; )

This from tpm:

Also note: Paul Kiel’s stories on the Civil Rights Division usually get snapped up and recycled without credit by certain reporters who shall remain nameless. So read it now before it’s no longer Paul’s story.

Anyone know who the reporters are? Another home run for MSM-plagarism. Guess they think the blogosphere is so worthless, they can steal anything they want.

nomolos @ 31

Helen @ 16

EPU’d from previous thread. Here’sGonzo’s prepared testimony for tomorrow.

Gonzo “But I am not going to wait for the results of these investigations to begin taking
steps to ensure that any previous mistakes are not repeated. I have appointed experienced
personnel, revised certain policies and procedures, and have communicated to the
Department leadership that I will not tolerate any improper politicization of this
Department. I will continue to make efforts to ensure that my staff and others within the
Department have the appropriate experience and judgment so that previous mistakes will
not be repeated. And I will continue to ensure that the Department attracts and hires
highly qualified individuals from the broadest base possible without reference to their
political affiliations.“

Lucy in the sky with diamonds….

You know, he really should explain sometime what the difference is between “improper politicization” and ordinary, garden-variety politicization.

eCAHNomics @ 133

This from tpm:

Also note: Paul Kiel’s stories on the Civil Rights Division usually get snapped up and recycled without credit by certain reporters who shall remain nameless. So read it now before it’s no longer Paul’s story.

Anyone know who the reporters are? Another home run for MSM-plagarism. Guess they think the blogosphere is so worthless, they can steal anything they want.

Josh has been complaining about this since he started pushing the story. Really, he and the TPM crew should be credited with the whole thing.

OT–

From AP:

Filed at 2:51 p.m. ET

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Republican governors say it’s too soon to worry about the absence of a clear favorite for the GOP presidential nomination.

The muddled picture could even be a blessing, some said in interviews during the weekend meeting of the National Governors Association. The candidates’ scramble to break from the pack and speculation about possible new entries such as former Sen. Fred Thompson are keeping the race in the headlines.

”I don’t subscribe to the notion that we have to have an identified front-runner candidate early on,” said Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, chairman of the Republican Governors Association. ”The longer you stay inclusive in the process, the more idea generation you get, the more testing, sifting that takes place among the candidates, I think that’s healthy for democracy.”

As I’ve said many times here before: The Repugs are f*cked with respect to presidential 2008, and the smart ones know that.

Who is Undersecretary of State, Cherry Picker?

Wait a minute. There are newspapers who actually READ opinion columns before they’re printed and then *gasp* decide not to run stupid columns?

I didn’t think that was possible.

Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue

I wonder why anytime I see this name I think of chicken…

JF @ 135
Is Media Matters on top of this?
If we knew who it was, we could also write letters to the editor.

punaise @ 76

P J Evans @ 72

Rayne @ 69

It was a shiny silver thong, last time. Sometime during the Libby trial, IIRC.

I will not, repeat not, post a link to Borat in his lime-green mankini

This act of mercy is greatly appreciated.

So, does this mean Gonzo is willing to let contempt charges be filed against Miers and Bolton?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Biodun @ 136
Talk about putting lipstick on a pig. That news releaseis a classic.

Popcorn anyone?

Filed at 2:58 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) — Campaigning by Democratic candidates ground to a halt Monday as their focus shifted to preparing for the first presidential debate in which the questions are posed by members of public via Internet videos.

The two-hour debate, which begins at 7 p.m. EDT, is sponsored by YouTube, Google and CNN and is the first presidential debate of the 2008 race sanctioned by the Democratic National Committee. CNN editors will select questions from personal videos delivered to YouTube, where some of the submitted videos were already posted.

Knut Wicksell @ 42

Emptywheel had it dead on earlier this morning. The Bush administration has either got to get a better PR agency, or a better product. She wasn’t optimistic on either score.

I thought that post was pretty funny.

Sam Seder in for Randi Rhodes

I love Sam

Wow, that article had to be pretty bad if it couldn’t find a home…

What time does AGAG testify tomarrow?

So, I’m sitting here trying to decide whether I use the traditional “Texas Toast” picture for the Gonzales testimony tomorrow. Or whether I need something new. What do you guys think?

fdl reader @ 142

So, does this mean Gonzo is willing to let contempt charges be filed against Miers and Bolton?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Well, in his very first paragraph he tells us that he is there to “…discuss the department of Justice’s ongoing efforts…to investigate and prosecute criminal behavior….”

Perhaps Leahy should quote him and ask this very question.

anne @ 147

Wow, that article had to be pretty bad if it couldn’t find a home…

What time does AGAG testify tomarrow?

9:30

Christy Hardin Smith @ 148

So, I’m sitting here trying to decide whether I use the traditional “Texas Toast” picture for the Gonzales testimony tomorrow. Or whether I need something new. What do you guys think?

The texas toast picture was the first time I really started paying attention to your pics. It was fantastic…I’m not sure you could find a better one, but if anybody can, it is you.

Texas Toast could also mean toasting to Texas…

Texas toast works for me.
Unless you can find a picture of a branding iron that says, LIAR.

Thank you Helen

eCAHNomics @ 117

There is not enough popcorn in the universe.

Cherries Garcia ice cream with popcorn sprinkles?

They still make that stuff? Haven’t been able to find it for a while. (not the popcorn sprinkles!)

Christy Hardin Smith @ 148

So, I’m sitting here trying to decide whether I use the traditional “Texas Toast” picture for the Gonzales testimony tomorrow. Or whether I need something new. What do you guys think?

I’m partial to Belgian waffles

TOAST! (as we throw it at the screen/TV in the Rocky Horror Show tradition…

Christy Hardin Smith @ 148

So, I’m sitting here trying to decide whether I use the traditional “Texas Toast” picture for the Gonzales testimony tomorrow. Or whether I need something new. What do you guys think?

Something new is you have the time to find it. There must be some other priceless ones around. Then you could link to the TT for those who prefer that.

Sorry for the OT, but I just called my Rep. and asked him to support H.R. 333, the Conyers/Kucinich articles of impeachment against Darth.

The woman on the other end said they’d been getting a “Lot of calls” about this, and the people seem to feel “very strongly” about it.

Took my name, and address. Has everyone done this already today? Conyers says he’ll start impeachment proceedings if 17 reps sign on. (currenly there are 14, we only need 3 more)

Helen @ 150

anne @ 147

Wow, that article had to be pretty bad if it couldn’t find a home…

What time does AGAG testify tomarrow?

9:30

Is that EDT? Hope it’s 9:30 PDT because I don’t think I can take Gonzo that early.
Gag :)

Biodun @ 139

Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue

I wonder why anytime I see this name I think of chicken…

that ain’t no free-range governor

Christy Hardin Smith @ 148

So, I’m sitting here trying to decide whether I use the traditional “Texas Toast” picture for the Gonzales testimony tomorrow. Or whether I need something new. What do you guys think?

Texas Toast ; )

http://www.flickr.com/photos/a…..262726807/

behindthefall @ 64

The EPU horizon is shrinking towards us: it used to be out around 230 when I started posting, but is now about 120. This wouldn’t matter so much if it were possible to post comments on a thread with some responsiveness even after a new thread had started. Does anyone else consider this a problem? Is somebody working on it?

I’m not sure I understand the question.
Are you saying that commenting is down and threads are ending sooner? Or that threads are more frequent and therfore EPU land happens sooner?

I don’t know about other folks, but Istay on the threads realted to my front page posts untileveryone else has gone and I often check back hours later to see if there is anything new to respond to and, if particulatrly pertinent, move both the comment and my reponse up to the newest thread.

Beyond that, maybe we should remind folks that most threads remain open for (I think) 24 hours and you can conitnue a disussion that interests you in the EPU zone.

BTW, if anybody sees EPU tell him LHP says Hi!

Gonzo is the toastest with the most diss

Sorry Twain at 160 – that East Coast time.

punaise @ 161

Biodun @ 139

I wonder why anytime I see this name I think of chicken…

that ain’t no free-range governor

Hi ya’ll. He’s a real jerk. Plays the GOB but he’s out to screw people. They speculated he might run for prez in the Atlanta paper recently.

Fern @ 155
I don’t know; I haven’t had any in quite awhile; was just daydreaming about what kind of snack might go well with the program.

Rayne @ 69

Bwa-hahahahah!! man, that hurts it’s so funny!

A “shiny thong” homage to looseheadprop, incorporating Gonzo!!

I’ve seen it all. I don’t know how this can possibly be topped in the world of commenting.

I don’t know whether tobe flattered

Or

mortified
*g*

eCAHNomics @ 134

This from tpm:

Also note: Paul Kiel’s stories on the Civil Rights Division usually get snapped up and recycled without credit by certain reporters who shall remain nameless. So read it now before it’s no longer Paul’s story.

Anyone know who the reporters are? Another home run for MSM-plagarism. Guess they think the blogosphere is so worthless, they can steal anything they want.

I heard Amy Goodman say once that on Democracy Now, their motto is: Steal our story. Please!

jacqrat @ 159

Sorry for the OT, but I just called my Rep. and asked him to support H.R. 333, the Conyers/Kucinich articles of impeachment against Darth.

The woman on the other end said they’d been getting a “Lot of calls” about this, and the people seem to feel “very strongly” about it.

Took my name, and address. Has everyone done this already today? Conyers says he’ll start impeachment proceedings if 17 reps sign on. (currenly there are 14, we only need 3 more)

Unfortunately, my critter will be one of the lead obstructionists in the move to impeach although i have let him know that I’m curious as to why he so hates the Constitution to do nothing but rubber stamp BushCo and regurgitate ReDubyacan talking points.

OTOH, I like this one better ; )

http://www.texastoastproductio…..oast-1.jpg

looseheadprop @ 29

A sitting Secretary of State cannot get an Op Ed published?

The CEA of a multimega corp cannot get an Op Ed published?

The combined “prestige” of the two of them together cannot get an Op Ed published?

How humilating.

Really, really humiliating.

Wow.

Actually, it was positively refreshing to hear that the Journal could even conceive of turning down work from those sources, based on the fact that it was absolute pablum for the masses who would no longer stomach it.

I wonder if that will hold true when the WSJ is controlled by Rupert Murdoch? Any predictions?

Those darn Pakistani’s aren’t willing to carpet bomb their own civilian population.

And they call themselves partners in the ‘war on terrrra’.

-GSD

P.S. Christy, I’ll settle for a picture of heel with dog poop on it for our dear Gonzales.

Cozumel at 171 — That’s PERFECT! Thanks!

punaise @ 161:

Perdue chicken with peanut sauce…

Christy Hardin Smith @ 148

So, I’m sitting here trying to decide whether I use the traditional “Texas Toast” picture for the Gonzales testimony tomorrow. Or whether I need something new. What do you guys think?

By this time tomorrow we can only hope that he is burnt toast

Will someone please ask Gonzo, this simple question:

WHEN, WHEN, WHEN, will their internal cover-up
report be complete and done?

Signed,

The fucking impatient one

Christy Hardin Smith @ 174

Cozumel at 171 — That’s PERFECT! Thanks!

Hehe, you’re welcome

punaise @ 156

Christy Hardin Smith @ 148

So, I’m sitting here trying to decide whether I use the traditional “Texas Toast” picture for the Gonzales testimony tomorrow. Or whether I need something new. What do you guys think?

I’m partial to Belgian waffles

Bong and a blintz?

Cozumel @ 162

Christy Hardin Smith @ 148

So, I’m sitting here trying to decide whether I use the traditional “Texas Toast” picture for the Gonzales testimony tomorrow. Or whether I need something new. What do you guys think?

Texas Toast ; )

http://www.flickr.com/photos/a…..262726807/

I don’t know. What’s on the breakfast menu at the Hague?

Biodun @ 97

Switches from Dem to Repug:

Ronald Reagan

Rudy Giuliani

Michael Bloomberg

Most of the neocons (Irving Kristol was speaking for them all when he famously said: “I was a liberal who was mugged by reality.”)

Norm Coleman – blech!

How about this one? Toast that knows it’s toast.

GSD @ 173

Those darn Pakistani’s aren’t willing to carpet bomb their own civilian population.

The bombing can’t start until Bush is certain that all of his cronies have moved to safer ground.

KathieinMN @ 181

Biodun @ 97

Switches from Dem to Repug:

Ronald Reagan

Rudy Giuliani

Michael Bloomberg

Most of the neocons (Irving Kristol was speaking for them all when he famously said: “I was a liberal who was mugged by reality.”)

Norm Coleman – blech!

I musta repressed Norm…so close to home ya know?

Ooooh Just turned over to Sundance channel and there was Jane speaking at YearlyKos in the Blog Wars documentary.

…Irving Kristol was speaking for them all [neo-cons] when he famously said: “I was a liberal who was mugged by reality.”

The reality being that you can’t make nearly as much money if you care about people.

Christy Hardin Smith @ 148

So, I’m sitting here trying to decide whether I use the traditional “Texas Toast” picture for the Gonzales testimony tomorrow. Or whether I need something new. What do you guys think?

Hmmm, maybe Darkblack could do something in a Spongebob vein by combining Gonzales’ face and toast? If not, then Texas Toast still makes me chuckle, no matter how many times I see it.

Down here, Texas toast is often served with the main entree of chicken fried steak. Somehow, the entree seems to befit Abu as well.

Ghostman

Ghostman @ 188

Down here, Texas toast is often served with the main entree of chicken fried steak. Somehow, the entree seems to befit Abu as well.

Ghostman

Gonzo would make a perfect entree, with some freedom fries on the side.

dakine01 @ 185

Ooooh Just turned over to Sundance channel and there was Jane speaking at YearlyKos in the Blog Wars documentary.

I saw that Sundance was showing it, is it good?

New thread up top.

imho Texas Toast is THE classic & timeless. ;~)

They say that good policy is good politics — that focusing on doing good work in government will pay off at the ballot box.

The converse is that, if you ignore policy, you will have nothing but politics to work with — spin and talking points — and then you’ll end up with no politics at all — in other words, being trounced in the next election.

Rice can’t get published because there’s no real policy behind her posturing. And the White House is losing everything because the only thing they ever cared about was winning.

Biodun @ 136

As I’ve said many times here before: The Repugs are f*cked with respect to presidential 2008, and the smart ones know that.

It does make me wonder if that’s the reason why Gingrich keeps dallying with getting in (to keep his name in front of the base) but isn’t doing it. He may be a complete bastard, but I can’t deny he’s one of “the smart ones.”

The part of it that’s the most fun is that most of the ones who are in already got in before it was obvious how bad it was going to be to have that “R” after your name in ‘08, and how much Bush’s petulant stubbornness would be the poisonous gift that keeps on giving.

raven @ 190

dakine01 @ 185

Ooooh Just turned over to Sundance channel and there was Jane speaking at YearlyKos in the Blog Wars documentary.

I saw that Sundance was showing it, is it good?

It looks like they are showing it again tonight at 11:20 PM eastern

Biodun @ 184

KathieinMN @ 181

Norm Coleman – blech!

I musta repressed Norm…so close to home ya know?

Yeah – I know; I am trying to repress this news about Pawlenty:
Minnesota’s governor takes charge of the National Governors Association today and embarks on a year in the national spotlight.
O. My. Gawd!

raven @ 190

dakine01 @ 185

Ooooh Just turned over to Sundance channel and there was Jane speaking at YearlyKos in the Blog Wars documentary.

I saw that Sundance was showing it, is it good?

I joined mid-show (started at 2:15cdt). Covers the CT HoJo/Lamont race.

twolf1 @ 195

raven @ 190

I saw that Sundance was showing it, is it good?

It looks like they are showing it again tonight at 11:20 PM eastern

Hmm, if this plane is on time, the shuttle bus from Atlanta doesn’t get slammed in traffic. . .

When I get that feeling,
I need mercantile healing.
Mer-can-tile
Heal-ing … “

Oh, I just got the perfect image in my e-mail. You guys just wait until tomorrow…hehehehehehe

Poor Condi. Doesn’t she at least have Susan Schmidt’s FAX number?

Jane’s upstairs.

Biodun @ 127

Bloomie has switched again to Indie.

Yeah I know. But does he know what he’s doing? There actually is an Independent Party in New York, led by Lenore Fulani, that nutcase… Maybe he shoulda taken a cue from Joe-Lie and formed his own party.

Bloomie is now registered as a “blank” It’s a NY thing

Yeah, that’s what I want! A $300 pair of shoes (discounted to $200) that will ensure that I have back trouble when I grow up.

Bush and Condi View the Conflagration
(President Bush softly sings.)

I miss Arafat in the Springtime,
I miss Saddam in the fall,
Lebanon‘s a mess, it‘s in splinters,
I had no idea at all.

Our one time pal, Saudi’s being squeezed cause of Palestine,
And Iran shows no respect, what gall,
Oh boy, thank God, they fight less in the winter,
I had no idea at all.

Condi says this mess is a great opportunity,
Some laugh, but what constitutes reality, is my call,
Every planetary wide entity hates us, look Mom, I am a ‘Uniter’,
Bombs Away, bombs away, you’all.

–cognitorex–

My dog likes to dig. He’s good at digging holes.