Here’s the Sunday talking head line-up. Read it and weep:
ABC’s “This Week” – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
CBS’ “Face the Nation” – Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., presidential candidate.
NBC’s “Meet the Press” – Comedian Bill Cosby, and Dr. Alvin Poussaint, co-authors of the book “Come on, People.”
CNN’s “Late Edition” – Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz; Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater USA; Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski.
“Fox News Sunday” – Reps. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and John Boehner, R-Ohio.
Chris Matthews Show: Elizabeth Bumiller, John Heilemann, Anne Kornblut, David Yepsen.
Photo of three baby swallows via OregonDave, whose late brother took this adorable shot. Love the look on the face of the one on the far right. Don’t know how things are at your house, but the birds are cleaning out our feeders this week as the temperatures have finally begun to dip into Fall weather terroritory.
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Good morning.
CONDI– a true statesperson!!!
What a bloddy joke!
It was nice of Steny to give Nancy permission to go on tv and talk even though he will be on tv himself on a different channel and won’t be able to keep an eye on her…
In my neighborhood, it’s pouring rain outside and the cats are trying to hang out in my lap to get warm. I’m not liking my morning viewing choices. Calvin Trillin calls them the Sabbath gasbags. Seems particularly apt this morning.
Things are getting more intense in Iowa. We are seeing more candidate face time. I went to training for leading a caucus yesterday. The state party is trying to decide between January 3 and 5, from what I’ve heard.
Missed the zed by this much, Agent 99!
Morning, all.
Frank Rich caught my eye, for those of you who just woke up.
Bad day in my neighborhood. Today’s the open house for a project that destroyed about 40 more acres of Walden Woods, and leveled a hill that Thoreau described often in his journals, all for a couple of artifical turf soccer fields.
We’re thinking of attending just to toss a white rose and a black wreath in memory of the tree spirits (ala Princess Mononoke).
Is it just me or does Steny Hoyer give everyone the “oily politician” creeps?
Today seems like a swell time to sleep in or take a long stroll in the park away from all talking heads.
Good morning, all!
Popped in here from downstairs to say here’s today’s stuff from the NYT. MoDo dared Steven Colbert to write her column, and he did. Mr. Friedman muses about Gore. Mr. Rich says we’re being “the good Germans.”
http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/
Coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got old-fashioned oatmeal today with whatever you like to add. I’m torn between brown sugar and plain old butter and salt (my preferred way of eating oatmeal). Have a grand Sunday.
Good morning Christy!
Real Men don’t torture. A nice poke in the eye for fans of bogus “24″ scenarios.
Yeah…that IS an ABYSMAL Sunday morning lineup. Not one person in the political realm that could be called a “progressive”.
The only hope is that – with Pelosi facing someone like Boehner…he will taunt her into getting her Italian ire up and she’ll suddenly decide that compromise is yesterdays fairytale.
If you don’t read “The Atlantic” you might consider getting this issue. It’s their 150th anniversary issue, and they invited a number of people to submit a short essay on “The American Dream.” The one by Azir Nafisi, who wrote “Reading Lolita in Tehran” caught my eye:
Azir Nafisi on the American Dream
She seems to have a better grasp of who we are than most of the crop of inside-the-beltway types.
Good morning everyone!
egregious all the best with your move out west.
Good Morning!
Marion, thanks for the link to the MoDo/Colbert column. a classic!
PeteCO @ 6
Hi PeteCO. Many thanks. It’s a must read. Here is a free copy for those like me who lack a subscription: http://www.libertypost.org/cgi…..Num=203015
The cold has arrived in the rural areas of NYS and I am thinking og the cluch of new baby ducks I saw 2 weeks ago when it was 80’s and I said to the mother-dont you know its October?? Hope their farm has warm home for them (most likely). Never saw baby ducks born 2x in a season but perhaps it is more common than I know
Since it is sunday this Sam Harris speech is pretty good.
Mark C @ 3
and is it hoyer who is making pelosi endorse and fund raise for al wynn – against donna edwards? (kos story here)
wigwam @ 16
Frankie Free Now!, As are Krugman, Herbert, and all those people I don’t waste my time on. No more searching Technorati needed.
wigwam @ 15
absolutely a must read — and pass along…
thanks!
Thought I had a win-win…
Turns into a win (I like Dodd)-lose…
Should Dodd have consulted his lawyers?
Dear Bay State Librul:
We have some bad news.
Major League Baseball has asked the campaign to end our contest you entered to get a chance to go to a Red Sox game with Chris Dodd.
Apparently, Post-Season tickets are different than regular season tickets — they are owned by the League and the MLB has their rules.
If you made a contribution hoping to win the tickets, we want to provide you the opportunity to get a refund for your entry.
If you wish to be refunded, reply to this email asking for a return of your donation and we’ll make it happen.
If you choose to not to have your contribution refunded, please know that your support will go towards our media and ground campaigns in Iowa and New Hampshire, while fighting to restore the Constitution and end the war in Iraq.
Once again, we apologize for our error.
Sincerely,
The team at Chris Dodd for President
In my neighborhood there’s a non-binding ballot question about allowing liquor licences here. It’s causing quite a stir, and jaws are flapping like some senator’s feet are tappin’.
This a town that was founded by the Methodists and claims there are 13 churches in a less then 3 mile square area. This is huge.
The mayor at first balked at having an open meeting to discuss this. The council members at council meeting admitted they knew very little about this referendum. I laughed out load watching them admit to this.
So basically it comes down to the Keystone Cops running Mayberry meets Children of the Corn. Somehow I don’t think I’m voting yes.
PeteCO @ 6
and here’s tristero to put it into context for us.
Millineryman @ 14
Thanks Millineryman.
Morning gang — how’s tricks? We have a jam-packed feeder this morning, and a well-rested Peanut. It’s making for a lively morning here… (Where’s my coffee…)
selise @ 24
Ain’t that the truth. I totally get that Rich probably makes a nice living writing for the Times, but I do wonder how he sleeps sometimes.
Marion in Savannah @ 9
But! But! What happened to Colbert’s “I support the President” schtick?
His Op-Ed was, however, funny! Colbert do the moo-doo the he do so well!!!
I still want to know how I can be a replacement writer for Moo-Doo, too..is there an appliocation form, a drawing, is second prize a Winnebago, or a baby’s arm holding an apple? He never really stated how…false advertising!!!!
And I see that he made an egregious (Sorry! Had to use the word…THERE is no OTHER) plug for his book! We can all see the nefarious motive he had in making this bet with Dowd. And how the heck did this clear the EDITOR – without paying the standard ADVERTISING rate for a Times Classified ad? Must have been the same junior editor that allowed MoveOn to post their squirrilous attack on Gen. Graeme Frost!
selise @ 24
Wow!
Christy Hardin Smith @ 26
44 degrees & rain here in the Mile High. Snow above 7500′. Beautiful day for a ballgame, in fact. Go Rockies!
Glenn Greenwald smacks around Fred Hiatt
The Beltway Establishment’s contempt for the rule of law
News Analysis from McClatchy via the Lexington Herald-Leader – Bush ‘grossly misjudges’ Putin
And from the Dept of Frivolity, How ’bout them Wildcats?
PeteCO @ 27
At least he’s a voice crying in the wilderness. Which may ease his head on the pillow a bit.
Elliott @ 30
Ouch. That’s a must-read. Who’d’a thunk privatizing government surveillance would lead to such problems?
PeteCO @ 27
Ain’t that the truth. I totally get that Rich probably makes a nice living writing for the Times, but I do wonder how he sleeps sometimes.
I do too. It’s not like the Americans formerly known as the Middle Class don’t have immediate concerns and the lack of leisure and funds to read the NYT.
selise @ 24
Go deeper and read the complete Burns article about the “cats” of Iraq. Superficially it sounds as if Burns has gone a little tetched in the head…but he is using the cats for a deeper reason. His strays, even though they’d likely do much better in Iraq than his human contacts, had an easier time of it escaping the chaos than those humans who wanted to leave for their families safety.
It’s also interesting to think that people latch onto cats as pets in a situation of such distrust and fear between humans. As someone pointed out it a thread this week, it’s only the truly pathological adults that openly instigate the torture and torment of animals.
selise @ 19
Per http://blackcommentator.com/13…..lones.html
I don’t know for whom Pelosi is working, but it sure as hell isn’t rank-and-file democrats, or even the American electorate.
i’m sure no one here will want to miss this lecture coming up on c-span2 this morning:
Buzz Patterson, “War Crimes: The Left’s Campaign to Destroy Our Military and Lose the War on Terror“
/sarcasm
PeteCO @ 27
Would that be because he might have someone from Homeland Security coming up his front stairway at 3 AM? Or because he should take responsibility for the sell-outs at the NY Times?
selise @ 37
Sad thing is, I believe some of the Democrats in DC believe this also.
Thanks to egregious for “Late, Late Night: How to Save a Life”.
I had never seen that video before and her message coupled with the video brought tears to my eyes.
Hope my wife doesn’t start worrying when I surf the toobz…. :)
Saw this earlier in the week: World’s oldest wall painting unearthed in Syria
Looks like Paul Klee studied a little in Syria.
cinnamonape @ 36
thank you, i will.
My Sunday morning chuckle. Thing is; it’s NOT funny.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice played down expectations for breakthroughs as she opened a critical round of Mideast shuttle diplomacy Sunday. She urged Israel not to take any steps that might erode confidence in the peace process.
Rice sees no breakthrough in talks
“She urged Israel not to take any steps that might erode confidence in the peace process.
“Erode confidence in the peace process”?
Just what is the Secretary doing over there? Strictly PR?
wigwam @ 37
yeah. i know a lot of people defend her, but i don’t get why…. wish some of her fans would explain it to me.
Lindy @ 34
I think Rich is one of the most incisive columnists writing in the US today. I also understand that it’s not easy to turn out such well-crafted prose at the drop of a hat. I would like to see him turn his considerable talents to the internets, however. He’d gain a much wider audience, I think.
Can’t imagine what meat puppets will have to say today about BushCo’s oh-so-famous “War On Terror.” But if you’re interested in finding out about actual terrorism and how it operates
read my interview with Barbet Schroeder and see his new and very important film.
Jay @ 40
Thanks Jay, much appreciated.
cinnamonape @ 28
Great catch. Thanks for the link to Dowd/Colbert.
selise @ 37
Damn. I’ve already arranged to drop an anvil on my scrotum, so I’ll have to pass.
Iraq? We’ve long since lost the war. And we have lost the occupation. And most importantly we have lost the Iraqi people. If we ever ‘had’ them. Oh… and one minor detail, we’ve lost upwards of 4,000 American soldiers. And for what? Democracy and freedom? Pax Bush.
Get out of Iraq now.
PeteCO @ 49
Coffee all over the monitor.
PeteCO @ 45
agreed… but i haven’t quite gotten over this (scroll down to al gore)
Morning all, …waiting for today’s round of ‘Bush is a good ole boy, buttttt’. ughhhh
Egre, I just finished reading last nights open and still have it on the brain.
For 3 years I’ve been reading liberal blogs and keeping an eye on FDL, and you are sooo right about the occasional blues that come with being aware.
But for today I have faith that more people are becoming alive to the many problems that the Bush admin has foisted upon our nation, reguardless of the massive propaganda media.
What does concern me tho, is that too many that label themselves as progressive are unaware of the foxes in the Democratic hen house who also call themselves progressive. Some definitions in our own minds are needed.
There is only one cure for this ignorance, and that is to sus out WHO, WHAT, WHY.
1. Why are you at odds with the way Bush is doing business? answer this question for yourself
2. Which Democrats are also willing to follow that agenda? get real and name names
3. Who in the Democratic field, local and national will reverse Bush’s agenda and bring back rule of Constitutional law? AND who will not be willing to rid the office of the Presidency of all that power?
Just some thoughts from my day, cheers and happy java time!
John Dean later today, still?
Boo Radley @ 49
Actually it was Marion in Savannah that pointed it out. I’m simply a scavenger. As such one of the funniest lines in Colbert was when he said “Let me regurgitate”. That’s one that I have to try on my students ;-)
Marion -
Too late to the thread for input but, next time, go for the demerara sugar……with a spash of half and half for decadence. ;-)
I feel better. Condi is on top of the situation. “Revealed she had personally urged”? Now if that doesn’t jack my confidence up, nothing will.
A team was diverted from a mission to Russia to make an unscheduled stop in Ankara yesterday. Against the background of the escalating diplomatic row between Turkey and the US over a congressional resolution that branded as ‘genocide’ massacres of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915, US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, revealed she had personally urged Turkey to refrain from any major military operation in northern Iraq.
MoDO can be creepy, Frank Rich nails it. Colbert’s snarkiness needs to do something besides make people laugh. Friedman needs to spend some F units in
solitary thinking about what harm his dumb ideas have wrought.
Naomi Klien’s Shock Doctrine makes your blood boil because she explains the rank evil of capitalism and the other nasty Friedman.. uncle miltie and his chicago hitman and his AEI have done to then entire world.
They are doing what the third Reich failed at because if its impatience.
Conclusion: We’re living in the 4th Reich.
Waccamaw, thanks for the suggestion! Sounds yummy.
PeteCO @ 6
I’m a good German. Many patriotic military Germans from WWI did not aide the Nazis and were “good Germans” opposing assaults on liberties by fascist. They where marginalized and silenced. Maj Gen Smedley Butler, even though he was not German, was a “Good American.” He was as patriotic to the constitution as any could be. Just like the “Good Germans” who opposed fascist in pre war nazi Germany, Maj Gen Smedley Butler was instrumental in thwarting the forgotten “Business Plot of 1933,” a fascist attempt to overthrow FDR and usurp US Constitution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A…..rty_League
A thread from the past, seems present today although some names have changed? Who is the Maj Gen Butler of today? Speaking of good Germans…..
Boston Globe story on Mike Huckabee’s “Willie Horton” moment.
John Howard, the Australian prime minister, has called a federal election for November 24.
Howard, 68, has been in power for 11 years, but is lagging behind Kevin Rudd, his younger Labor opponent, in opinion polls.
Labor has promised to withdraw troops from Iraq and sign the Kyoto climate pact…
Randall Robinson on BookTV last night talked about Dubya, Clinton, Chiquita Bananas, the Carribean Islands, Haiti, and Aristide. I am loathe to admit that I had never heard of this guy. He’s got a new book on Haiti – An Unbroken Agony that promises to be very enlightening.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 44
the trick, i think, is to learn the language.
for example:
p.s. OKK, my comment in previous thread might be of interest to you.
socks @ 53
I’ve been noticing that. Looks like “progressive” blogs are going to become more pervasive. An example
Pete, when you find out who the new Smedley is let me know too.
Sorry to say. the name that won’t appear is Polosi.
selise @ 51
Skimming that, I’m not sure I buy it. Rich’s background is theatre. He was NYT theatre critic before he was writing on politics. “The Greatest Story Ever Sold” was largely concerned with how BushCo used the techniques of cinema & theatre to sell their war. I think he gets it.
Clue:
They never wanted to win anything but transfer enormous wealth to the private sector. They had a great success. We now have a huge sector in the private economy called Homeland security rivalling the MIC.
We live in fear of a new enemy and have allowed them to take away our constitution, and raid the treasury while slipping in huge tax breaks for those who are making all that cash at even more obscene levels.
Winning the war was only incidental to their agenda.. they want endless war and security entitlements for ever.
All they want is military security related spending and they want it move to the private sector. Can’t you see how successful they have been.
The effectiveness of the government HAS been shrunk and it’s power and revenues given to the private sector.
We got screwed. They won.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 26
I’ve already had a pot of coffee.
I Fought the Law and the law won.
I Fought the Law and the law won.
I Fought the Law and the law won.
And did we really expect that Bush would nominate an Attorney General who respected the rule of law and the Constitution?
“As the chief federal trial judge in Manhattan, Michael Mukasey approved secret warrants allowing government roundups of Muslims in the days after the Sept. 11 attacks…
The committee chairman, Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, long has criticized the government’s use of the warrants. They allowed the FBI to detain, without charges, an estimated 70 people, all but one of whom was a Muslim, as witnesses after the terrorist attacks in 2001.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200…..amW0FsaMYA
I just hope that somehow they are able to obtain what precisely the applications for those secret warrants contained. Were the contents later determined to be falsified or exaggerated…where those detained were not found to have any relevant evidence? Or were their detentions encouraged because they “would flee” also based on trumped up evidence.
Couldn’t they have simply asked the “witnesses” to turn in their passports? Or held a rapid Grand Jury or have Federal Prosecutors question them before a Federal judge to obtain the evidence necessary?
It appears that Mukasey knows that these warrants that he issued were clearly beyond what the rule of law would allow…but rather than blame his own actions for issuing them he points the finger at Congress, and says “You could have stopped me!”
I think THAT is exactly what they need to do in this case! Prevent a man who will take office and allow lawlessness because “they can” rather thanone who, as a Federal Judge, failed to critically evaluate whether Adminsitration programs served justice and ignored his role in the Constitution to adjudge the validity of evidence against the accused.
Finally I can breath easier. Unbiased, unfiltered and balanced reprting may be coming to Gaza.
“Israelis deserve to read and watch journalism by Israelis. The Italian and Swedish correspondents sent by Haaretz to Gaza are professional journalists, but the Israeli reader deserves to receive Israeli media coverage.”
PeteCO @ 6
Rich’s article is my answer to people like Mrs Knut who think I am an obsessed madman. Most of my friends can’t understand why a normally sane and successful academic can get so steamed up by something as crass as ‘politics.’ I’ve known what Rich writes about for more than four years. You can’t keep silent when your country is taken over by people who take the Nazi’s as their model of government.
Since Pelosi is on with Closet McConnell, it would be good to bring up the email that came from his office outlined the talking points for attacking the sick twelve year old and his family.
hackworth @ 71
If Pelosi knew how to be a leader of an opposition party then it would happen.
Things are getting much better in Iraq.
AP – A bomb exploded inside a minibus carrying worshippers to a Shiite shrine on Sunday, killing six people in the Iraqi capital, including a 9-year-old child and two women, a police officer said.
hackworth @ 64
that sounds excellent – i will look for a repeat to watch.
amy goodman has had randal robinson on democracy now! numerous times while covering the haiti/aristide story.
i once again recommend democracy now! to all progressives (and others) wishing to be informed. if i only had one hour a day to get the news – i would use it to listen to democracy now!… even above reading the blogs.
This lineup is pathetic. Where is Al Gore, General Sanchez, Jimmy Carter. The elites want to make sure the American public remains deaf, dumb and blind.
PeteCO @ 34
Indeed! But Glennzilla does IMHO get one thing wrong:
Fred Hiatt, David Ignatius, Joe Klein, and the rest of the Beltway opinion-makers think no such thing. They’re whores, just like our congress. Their opinions are a commodity that are bought and paid for just like the votes and influence of Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, and Rahm Emanuel.
Iraq may be a romantic adventure for Bush and Cheney. But I’ll wager it’s not for grunts on the ground.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 76
Well the good thing is that the terrorist killed himself (or herself) innthe act, right??????? So the ratio of civilian to terrorist deaths is about what the US military seems to call “unavoidable civilian casualties”.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 43
What’s there to “erode”? If anyone has lingering confidence is “the peace process,” it is she.
Knut Wicksell @ 73
Rich has provided an excellent, concise, easy- reading summary. This one stands among his best pieces ever.
What day would be complete without a Closeted Gay Republican Sex Scandal?
And this one’s Lulu!
In a surprise move, Turkish firms working in northern Iraq have begun to terminate their activities in anticipation of a major Turkish military incursion.
Turkish troops are amassing on the border in preparation of a possible military operation against Turkish Kurdish rebels in the area.
The rebels are said to be using the Iraqi Kurdish region as a springboard for attacks inside Turkey.
http://www.azzaman.com/english…..fname=news2007-10-10kurd.htm
PeteCO @ 68
i think rich gets it’s now too. but you have to read his quotes from 2000 on gore to see why i have trouble forgetting how we got here.
I am not totally crtitical of Frank Rich, at least he has a good first name. But he still wants to be a Beltway Weenie by saying “everybody is wrong” about the war. But as a journalist, he should admit that Petraeus did Betray Us. He lied to Congress, he failed every mission he has had in Iraq, and oh yes, there are the missing 190,000 weapons. Betray-us is not “disingenuous”, he is a liar. Moveon.Org is trying to stop the torture, genocide and fascism of the neo-conservatives. So to Mr. Rich, if you do not like the anti-war patriots, get out of the way.
Duhuk, Oct 14, (VOI)- Kurdistan borders forces said on Sunday Turkish troops fired over 250 artillery shells into areas inside Iraqi northern territories, inflicting material losses.
http://66.111.34.180/look/english/index.tpl
David Ehrenstein @ 82
I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
P.S. I Fought the Law…
hackworth @ 64
Randall Robinson was probably the most important AMERICAN in revitalizing the protests against Apartheid in South Africa during the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. His organization is the most outspoken about civil rights issues across Africa and in the Caribbean region. He’s a very sharp guy. I’ve heard him speak on these issues many times over the last three decades!
SanderO @ 69
I believe you are right. I retired this year after 36 years as a civil servant, aside from the A-76 program, which privatizes entire functions within federal agencies, thousands of individual staff positions, formerly held by civil servants, have been contracted out. I don’t know how deeply it goes in other agencies, but based on DOJ hearings, etc., it is probably pervasive. Ultimately, I don ‘t think there will be a non-partisan civil service, but rather a batch of contractors loyal to the party which awarded the contracts. Back to the spoils system.
selise @ 84
I agree with selise. The most infuriating thing about the folks who seem to be on the right side now is that they (just like the slugs who are still in the rethuglicans’ hip pockets) will not admit what they did.
A congresswoman explains her decision to oppose the Armenian genocide bill she co-sponsored.
http://www.latimes.com/news/op…..ion-center
Anyone catch Bill Maher’s ‘Real Time’ last night? His first guest up was Vincente Fox, who just happened to mention when Bush came to visit Fox in Mexico, he learned our tuff-guy prez is afraid of horses. Fox said he could Bush trembling when he was near the horses. Fox invited him to ride but Bush protested, saying that “security would never go for that….” bullshit. It was unexpected and totally hilarious.
Movie Recommendation: The Wind that Shakes the Barley. God.
Rich’s columns are always excellent. So succinct and biting. He calls the true criminals among us to account with each and every piece.
What bugs me about him is that he seems to soften his stance when he appears on TV and that may be product of his understanding of how the game is played….but sometimes it comes off as disingenuous. If you’re going to speak the truth, don’t be selective.
Moyers should be the model for truth-telling on TV.
baby swallows
For some reason, I was rooting for a saw whet owl this week.
Jay @ 95
I read Rich on dead trees, so I didn’t know that he actually uses links the way they were meant to be used in his articles. Thanks to Kagro X, I know that now.
I have no idea how the internal process of filing a column works, but I’m pretty sure that this means that Rich or an assistant actually put links into the column, rather than relying on some kind of web editor software to link to keywords.
Frank33 @ 86 –
good explanation of why frank rich seems to really get it and then goes off on something which makes me think he’s an idiot with no moral compass.
Perhaps I missed it, but why wouldn’t the supporters of SCHIP be patiently explaining to the Me First and Only Republicans that they really do want poor children to have health care because if they don’t, even little insured Republican children can be infected with strep, MSRA, whooping cough, impetigo, meningitis, etc. by those stupid kids who didn’t have enough sense to be born to parents with insurance.
Here we go. It starts around 2:00. Bill asks Fox why he calls Bush a “windshield cowboy.”
Paul Krugman, Joy Behar, and Fucking Tucker Carlson
David Ehrenstein @ 83
I read somewhere (wish I could give proper credit) that just as “going postal” entered the vocabulary after the rash of “disgruntled postal employees” shooting up the post office that we should now consider “going Republican” for situations like this…
Here we go. It starts around 2:00. Bill asks Fox why he calls Bush a “windshield cowboy.”
Paul Krugman, Joy Behar, and Fucking Tucker Carlson were the guests.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 92
jane harman really has become sane. what an improvement over the old jane harman. i wonder if the primary challenge did it, or was it something else?
jayackroyd @ 94
heh, good point. Should spotlight that around to a few online dead
treelink rags.hackworth @ 63
repeat this afternoon at 4:30 pm EDT. thanks for the heads up!
Marion in Savannah @ 98
707!
New Christy upstairs
The republican right wing uber strategy was hatched in think tanks like the AEI which worked on behalf of the private sector to gain control and access to the huge tax revenues that the government had.
Their strategy included brainwashing the American public by controlling the media and its message just as in 1984. And as Naomi KLien points out they realized that crisis and shocks are opportunities to sneak in their agendas. They did it to NOLA after Katrina. They did it to Iraq and america with Shock and Awe. They did to ALL of us after 9.11.
We now outsource almost everything including war.
The public’s airwaves are owned by corporations with a profit agenda, not a public service one.
Our telcom industry has been turned over to big brother to spy on us with impunity.
Our justice department has be turned into a political wing of the executive branch, enabling it to grab more and more power from the congress.
The courts have been packed to read the laws as rightwing edicts reinforcing executive power, even installing a right winger as president who did not win the election.
Our congress leans to lobbyists not the will of the people. Money is free speech and corporations have legally bought influence. It’s bribery and corruption but they made it all legal
If you don’t think our government has been stolen. Think again. Bush was their last shot in a long series of moves building over 30 years.
Can the Genie be put back in the bottle? Or have we been already drowned and are swirling perilously close to the drain?
Someone has to put the stopper in the drain soon. Very soon.
Wordsmith @ 94
Also a lovely piece of music, especially on hammered dulcimer.
SanderO@69
So true. Our corrupt politicians controlled by the Annuit Coeptis (God has favored us)Oligarchs; Captains of military industrial complex voraciously feeding at the taxpayer trough.
Cheney’s overt envy of China and North Korea’s control of the populace and emulation of techniques to induce compliance on the undereducated American Public is beyond breathtaking. First, the takeover of our msm by the
rightreich-wing media and brainwashed talking heads to disseminate, deny, and obfuscate the truth. Remove power from the populace, restrict freedom and liberty, live in fear and anxiety via continuous pre-emptive wars. Empire building and control of the masses.How do we reverse course? All I know is that our taxes fund the oligarch and the majority of it supplements these warmongering industries.
The last line of Mr Hiatt’s Sunday’s WaPo lead editorial:
is hard to swallow given Saturday’s front page article that revealed NSA collaboration with US telecommunications companies other than Qwest on domestic wiretaps started as far back as February, 2001–one month after Bush’s inauguration and 7 months before the September 11, 2201 events that changed the Bush administration’s posture on defending our nation.
(I sent WaPo Ombudsperson Deborah “Hair in a Bun” Howell this comment, and I fully expect Mr. Hiatt to issue a retraction within 48 hours ;!)
SanderO @ 108
These power hungering oligarchs do fear the ‘unwashed’ masses. The uber-rich gated communities reminiscent of the castles with moats and private armies now security guards soon to be replaced by the blackwater mercenaries. History is circular since the general populace seems to never learn. But one thing is certain, the uprising of the suppressed masses is part of mankind’s history as well.
Not a word from Herr Chertoff about TOPOFF4, where they may try to instigate the completion of Rove’s Bushpresidencyforever plan?
George in PA @ 113
Is that the ’simulation’ with a dirty bomb in Portland Oregon, Phoenix, and Guam tomorrow?
Going over old ground for the umpteenth time, but I hope we can get someone in the Lake to start a thread on the rule of law, what it means, and why the American people don’t seem to understand it.
Just wondering why, after having read Glenn Greenwald’s column.
Hoyer and Boner are on together? Jeez. And Erik Prince is making the rounds of tv talk shows? Scumbag.
And here’s the thing… You’ve been hearing that the SCHIP override is 15 votes short. Today you’ll hear, probably, 12-15 votes short. Call me a naive dumb shit, but I still think it can be done. OK don’t call me that ’cause I know some people here will take me up on that. But the spin now is that the Democrats are using the kids for political purposes and they don’t care about the kids. Understand? Bush vetoes a children’s health insurance bill. These dead-enders support him and it’s the Democrats who don’t care about the kids. Got it. Hey, we’re not gonna let them pin that bullshit on “the Democrats” even if Russert and all the rest do. This is a compromise bill with overwhelming BIPARTISAN support across the political spectrum. It’s not Democrat vs. Republican. It’s right vs. wrong. Majority vs. obstructionists.
Why is it that when Jane Harmon was on the intelligence committee she was seen as a conservative bitch, but now that she’s out of the committee she seems to have seen the light and is intelligent and reasonable again?
Why is it that when Nancy Pelosi was just coming into office she was all light and substance and uplifting, but now she appears to be a poodle on Hoyer’s leash?
What is it about the upper reaches of power in America that makes people go crazy, lose their minds and act Conservative?
Even George Bush, yep, even George, said a few sensible things in the 2000 presidential campaign, but immediately became a brain-dead Conservative Neocon the second he was ‘elected’.
Is there some kind of brainwashing going on?