Good morning, Attaturk.

Maybe Huckleberry and Chimp are secret brothers, like J & S.

The question you have to ask yourself is:
Do you feel safer than you did 8 years ago?

They’re both goofy lookin’ with (msybe) psdt substance abuse problems.
(Hucks substance of choice was biscuits ‘n’ gravy)

Good morning Attaturk, pups!

The question you have to ask yourself is:
Do you feel safer than you did 8 years ago?

It depends on how closely you’ve been paying attention. J6P will prolly believe it if he’s told to believe it often enough. Reality is another, unrelated, matter.

Yeah, that’s right, Ari. Criticize the Democrats because those are the fine folks who made our country what it is today: the God-fearing, Jesus-loving eavesdropping, with-us-or-against-us, waterboarding, Iraqi-killing patriots that we are.

http://13martyrs.blogspot.com/

Lieberliar throws his support behind McCain– whatcha gonna do now Harry???

Dan Fogelberg RIP.

Mornin’, pups -

(Hucks substance of choice was biscuits ‘n’ gravy)

I will admit to not knowing who the heck huckabutt was ’til he turned up in the thug stable for president. That being said, seeing the “before” pix of him (AND his sons) should be enough to put anyone off their feed.

And what the spit is it with these thugs and their fondness for abusing animals? Don’t bother to answer that….the possible responses are legion. :-(

That being said, seeing the “before” pix of him (AND his sons) should be enough to put anyone off their feed.

Good morning, Waccamaw. You probably weren’t talking about this picture of Huckabee’s son, David. But, it’s worth a look anyway. I wasn’t aware that David was such an animal lover.

Morning all,
Waccamaw, Dusty Springfield never wrote a song about this preachers sons.

Maybe Huckleberry and Chimp are secret brothers, like J & S.

Well, that makes no sense. That’s what I get for posting first thing after awaking. How about this:

Maybe Huckleberry Willard and Chimp are secret brothers, like J & S.

Morning pups. We are digging out of what looks like a foot and a half of snow this morning. Still too dark to be absolutely sure. As to the Huckster, he couldn’t happen to a nicer party. Reap what you sow and all that.

I finished my letter to Dodd. Hope he reads it on the Senate floor. Someone needs to tell Reid to his face that he should be ashamed of himself.

Good morning, pups. It’s Cohen and Krugman in the NYT today. Roger Cohen is in Brussels. He says that for more than a half-year Belgium has been unable to form a government because its citizens can’t decide what the state is for. Mr. Krugman says there are large differences among the serious contenders for the Democratic nomination in their beliefs about what it will take to turn a progressive agenda into reality.

http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and the biscuits are out of the oven. All of a sudden it’s decided to be winter here. It’s 33 degrees outside, and will probably go up to the mid 50s. That’s a little more like normal weather. We’re out of the 400s — only 399 more days of W. Have a great day.

I love that song.

Mr. Krugman says there are large differences among the serious contenders for the Democratic nomination in their beliefs about what it will take to turn a progressive agenda into reality.

Krugman calls Obama naive in his conciliatory approach to big pharma and insurance companies over universal health care, and claims Edwards has a more realistic approach to actually enacting uhc.

morning!

Were you asking about Repub senators who have holds?

Coburn has a hold on pool drain safety legislation.

I believe the hold is still on, because pretty much everybody in the world supports this bill.

So Reid lets Coburn-R keep a hold, but not Dodd-D. Can we please ask him to explain that?

Bilbo -

Been there; seen that. *g* My reaction was, “Oh please, God, Don’t let me run into *him* in a dark alley!” NanceGregg’s comment was vastly better: “I wonder if he’s single.” 707! Never met one of that woman’s posts that I didn’t love.

man, love the early posts, thanx attaturk

anyway, this is all rove’s doing, I remember a few weeks ago he threatened and presidential candidate who didn’t support the president and his policies

that’s really funny since it’s rove’s fault and only rove’s fault the president is the most hated in American history, it’s rove’s fault and only rove’s fault a seemingly unbeatable republican majority was turned into a minority

it’s really bizarre, here they have the biggest political failure in American history and the sole architect of that failure in rove, and they are actually afraid of him and what he can do to their candidacy

what morons, the only hope they have is to abandon the president and laugh in the face of rove

huckabee gets that, guiliani and Romney do not, nor does McCain

if he continues on his course and strategy of laughing at rove and the president, huckabee will be the republican candidate in 08

however he will loose to any democrat in a real election with real voting machines, and then rove will actually say “see, you should have listened to me”

Good Morning pups!

ON WASHINGTON JOURNAL
Monday, December 17
First, the Boston Herald’s Jesssica Van Sack joins us to discuss Mitt Romney’s appearance on “Meet the Press” yesterday, and the latest developments on the Romney campaign. Then, Des Moines Mayor Frank Cownie (D) & co-chair of the U.S. Conference of Mayors Hunger & Homelessness Task Force discusses its annual report.

7am – Newspaper Articles & Viewer Calls
7:30am – Jessica Van Sack, Boston Herald, Political Reporter | Blog | National Review Endorsement of Romney
8:30am – Mayor Frank Cownie (D-Des Moines), Homelessness Task Force Co-Chair
9:15am – Newspaper Articles & Viewer Calls

Thanks for the that. Anytime’s a good time for Dusty.
Hope there’s a special place for those who mistreat animals anyone.

Hey Elliott, thanks for the C-Span schedule, much appreciated.

Krugman’s column is very good:

As health care goes, so goes the rest of the progressive agenda. Anyone who thinks that the next president can achieve real change without bitter confrontation is living in a fantasy world.

Which brings me to a big worry about Mr. Obama: in an important sense, he has in effect become the anti-change candidate.

There’s a strong populist tide running in America right now. For example, a recent Democracy Corps survey of voter discontent found that the most commonly chosen phrase explaining what’s wrong with the country was “Big businesses get whatever they want in Washington.”

And there’s every reason to believe that the Democrats can win big next year if they run with that populist tide. The latest evidence came from focus groups run by both Fox News and CNN during last week’s Democratic debate: both declared Mr. Edwards the clear winner.

But the news media recoil from populist appeals. The Des Moines Register, which endorsed Mr. Edwards in 2004, rejected him this time on the grounds that his “harsh anti-corporate rhetoric would make it difficult to work with the business community to forge change.”

And while The Register endorsed Hillary Clinton, the prime beneficiary of media distaste for populism has clearly been Mr. Obama, with his message of reconciliation. According to a recent survey by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, Mr. Obama’s coverage has been far more favorable than that of any other candidate.

A candidate who wants to reconcile with the corrupt torturers who’ve been shredding the U.S. Constitution and hollowing out the U.S. economy vs. a dirty fucking populist who wants to fight them. Hmmmm. What a difficult choice we have here!

you’re most welcome egregious.

WashJourno’s first comment section deals with liarman’s endorsement….thus far, liar ain’t farin’ too well. The word “traitor” has been mentioned a few times. ;-)

thanks for the heads up. i wish fisa and filibusters were on the discussion agenda.

but, i’m gonna skip the news this morning, in favor of inspiring protest music. i’ll watch this thread for developments.

i’m behind, but i’ll have the committee hearings list up soon (like any of us are going to be watching hearings this week – ha! it will be c-span2 and the senate floor for me).

The reich wingers (like Ari) want everyone to criticize the Democrats. Yeah, yeah, this will make it easier for all of them to hide behind the atrocities committed by Bushitler & Co. by blaming everyone but them. See? A strong Democratic base is not what the neocons want.

I hope you will put committee hearings up, we can multitask. Thanks for this valuable service.

Glenn Greenwald in Letter submitted for Dodd’s filibuster this morning addresses the likelihood of Hillary and Barack actually honoring their promise to support The Honorable Senator Dodd’s efforts to defend the Constitution.

Speaking of self-serving politicians who are “conflating [their] re-election with the interests of [their] country,” where are Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama during all of this? Having previously issued statements promising to support Dodd’s filibuster (statements issued to placate the brewing anger over their silence on this issue), they are evidently too busy running around Iowa giving speeches boasting about what Great Leaders they are and therefore have been far too busy to do anything to take a stand for the rule of law or to impose accounability on the years-long lawbreaking by our government and their telecommuncations partners.

Waccamaw December 17th, 2007 at 4:17 am – 27
WashJourno’s first comment section deals with liarman’s endorsement….thus far, liar ain’t farin’ too well. The word “traitor” has been mentioned a few times. ;-)

Well, I take the above back….it just took a while for the thugs to get their dialing fingers fired up this morning.

anyway, this is all rove’s doing, I remember a few weeks ago he threatened and presidential candidate who didn’t support the president and his policies

I found the quote and his threat to republican presidential candidates;

“Nobody can risk looking disrespectful to the president without paying a price, and they need to understand that,” said Mr. Rove, Mr. Bush’s former top political adviser.

Glenn Greenwald has a fresh post up:

Speaking of self-serving politicians who are “conflating [their] re-election with the interests of [their] country,” where are Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama during all of this? Having previously issued statements promising to support Dodd’s filibuster (statements ispostsued to placate the brewing anger over their silence on this issue), they are evidently too busy running around Iowa giving speeches boasting about what Great Leaders they are and therefore have been far too busy to do anything to take a stand for the rule of law or to impose accounability on the years-long lawbreaking by our government and their telecommuncations partners. “Leadership” is apparently demonstrated by giving pretty speeches about Leadership, not by taking actual stances in defense of alleged principles. Imagine the prominence this issue would have received and the heightened prospects for derailing amnesty which would have accrued had Obama and/or Clinton devoted the slightest “leadership” to these efforts.

i wish fisa and filibusters were on the discussion agenda.

I don’t know how they CAN’T be discussing it this morning!

oh, i’m not about to miss a week now.

i just forgot about it until about 1am this morning – too much filibuster/fisa excitement.

… yeah, it’s crazy. it’s like being a kid before christmas. but i can’t help it…. for all my cynicism, i’m really just a disappointed romantic who wants to have a reason to believe in the system and our politicians.

And this week we’ll see the beginning of the resurrection of Saint John.

Politico reports:

Sen. Joseph Lieberman (Conn.), who was on the national Democratic ticket in 2000, will cross the aisle to endorse Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) tomorrow, Republican sources said.

The two will appear together on Fox News on Monday, then at an 8 a.m. town hall meeting in Hillsborough, N.H. They will talk with reporters after the meeting. McCain is also scheduled to appear on NBC’s “Today” program.

wigwam December 17th, 2007 at 4:35 am – 37

And this week we’ll see the beginning of the resurrection of Saint John.

DING! Every week a “return” of somebody for the republics…..flip floppers all. ;-)

Sen. Joseph Lieberman (Conn.), who was on the national Democratic ticket in 2000, will cross the aisle to endorse Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) tomorrow, Republican sources said.

The two will appear together on Fox News on Monday, then at an 8 a.m. town hall meeting in Hillsborough, N.H. They will talk with reporters after the meeting. McCain is also scheduled to appear on NBC’s “Today” program

The Dynamic Duo appearing together side by side to demonstrate the juxtapostion of their jowls – McCain’s hog jowls and Droopy’s Basset Hound jowls.

gag me with a spoon

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(twolf’s patented emotipuke)

David Huckabee looks like he played in Deliverance.

So, it appears that Obama and Clinton are duking it out for the near-right (”bipartisanship”) spot on the political spectrum, the spot that the mainstream media loves so much. That leaves the center and everything to the left of it open to a well-spoken, well-organized populist.

If Dodd’s struggle this week can bring home to the rank-and-file the need for partisanship, even militance, it may change the whole game going into the primaries.

here’s the complete list of senators who signed the cloture petition (from page S15646 of the congressional record)

Harry Reid, Patrick Leahy, Ken Salazar, Daniel K. Inouye, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Frank R. Lautenberg, Debbie Stabenow, Richard J. Durbin, Tom Carper, John Kerry, E. Benjamin Nelson, Evan Bayh, Kent Conrad, Carl Levin, Mark Pryor, Charles Schumer, Jay Rockefeller, S. Whitehouse, Bill Nelson.

they are gonna be second on my “to call” list this morning (right after the presidential candidates).

Morning Egregious

If I am not mistaken Huckleberry has placed a hold on the torture bill as well, another example of Harry Reid’s behavior.

There is much to like about Mike Huckabee. But he will serve Republican primary voters, and our nation, better if he focused his criticisms on the Democrats who will run against our eventual nominee and not on the President who has kept us safe” – Ari The Liar

When did Dubya keep us safest? When he ignored the August 11 PDB or when he paid back Joseph Wilson, or while he foments anger hatred and retribution in the ME?

When did Dubya keep us safest? When he ignored the August 11 PDB or when he paid back Joseph Wilson, or while he foments anger hatred and retribution in the ME?

All of the above, equally?

If I am not mistaken Huckleberry has placed a hold on the torture bill as well, another example of Harry Reid’s behavior.

when I first read that I thought you were talking about Huckabee but you mean Lindsay Graham. Isn’t the identity of the Senator who puts the hold on a bill secret? Or has that been changed?

Today is the day where we progressives will find out whether we have a party or a group of Senators who fail to take their oath to the Constitution as sacred.
I personnally plan to filibuster Harry Reid and the rest of them and will not quit until hell freezes over. (altho its only 9 degrees in beautiful NE Iowa)

Good morning. At least Dodd made the front of Huffington.
What will we do to make it clear that there are real American people out there and we are angry.
We have been told that the letters and calls matter…but do they?

Sen. Joseph Lieberman (Conn.), who was on the national Democratic ticket in 2000, will cross the aisle to endorse Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) tomorrow, Republican sources said.

The two will appear together on Fox News on Monday, then at an 8 a.m. town hall meeting in Hillsborough, N.H. They will talk with reporters after the meeting. McCain is also scheduled to appear on NBC’s “Today” program.

Wait! That means they may not be around to vote to end the filibuster! Or to support the FISA Bill!

“Given the many, many, shortcomings of the Democratic Party (and yes, we are all looking at you Harry Reid) this group of Republican candidates remains best the Democrats could ask for.”

Let us, please, not forget Nancy “Impeachment and Justice Are Off the Table” Pelosi, surely, a Speaker who has done America considerable damage.

“Today on NBC’s Meet the Press, Romney went even further, saying that Huckabee “went over the line” and “owes the President an apology.” “That’s an insult to the President and Mike Huckabee should apologize to the President,” he said.”

My gorge rises every time I hear someone claim that someone else *owes* someone else an apology. The authoritarian implications of it are nauseating.

The question you have to ask yourself is:
Do you feel safer than you did 8 years ago?

Do ya feel safer? Well, do ya punk?

Seriously, it’s a great question. After all, reports say Al Qaeda is much larger now than it was 8 years ago. Heckuva job Dubya.

I suppose Bush is holding them at bay until a Dem becomes president. That way he can say, “I told ya so.” Leave it to a Bush to put his personal pride over national security.

Go away George. Just go away.