well, maybe…

I thought that union busters were actually paid to lie on purpose.

lotta room to stretch out here since I’ve got the place to myself:

Aaaaahhhhh…..

P.S. Teddy Kennedy was just smokin’ on the Feingold amendment. He’s on a roll this week.

This man is despicable. Has anyone contacted the union(s) to ask why they employed this man? IMO this is one of the problems. While I highly respect worker’s rights as the offspring of WOBBLYS, unions have shot themselves in the foot because they employ people like him. Many unions are now businesses with bottom lines whose workers are in unions themselves, and this means if their bottom line interferes with the worker’s rights they are paid to support, guess who wins?

My 2 cents

Cat In Seattle

Thanks Jane! Truly appreciate the link and am off to write to the members of the LA City Council.

The LA City Council is meeting tomorrow about whether to urge the AMPTP and the writers back to the negotiating table.

L.A. is a world of its own. Anyone have a take on the composition and nature of its City Council?

“The LA City Council is meeting tomorrow about whether to urge the AMPTP and the writers back to the negotiating table. Since the writers never left, I guess it will be more of a private missive to the AMPTP. You can send a message to the LA City Council members here.”

Already up on this, JH. Several friends & their families who won’t have much of a holiday this year because of the walkaway.

What is his angle? I know he’s a sleazeball, but I’m confused as to how he gets away with this.

His angle is greed & his vehicle are the dominant rotten apples in MSM whom I like to think are increasingly aware of the power of the netroots and their increasing numbers.

I love it when Teddy pops a vein in his forehead and his hair flips to the side like the room is windy ’cause he’s so damned pissed off!

I love that. ;-)

Assignment completed.

BTW, when you added TDS & Colbert to the earlier email list, their emails got kicked back to me as undeliverable.

OT – Hardball is repeating their earlier broadcast with John Edwards – well worth a view if you missed it. Looks increasing presidential each day and handles Matthews beautifully IMHO.

I”m a mainer too. And aren;t we so ashamed of our forked tongue senators? Whenever i call their offices, the folks who answer could care less if i don’t agree with their choices. Sometimes they don’t even ask for my address. Just another pesky phone call.

And Teddy is my hero.

OT – Senate is now voting (cspan2) for 70 Billion in more war funds in Iraq and Afghanistan. I guess the 696 billion approved last week just wasn’t enough death money.

Of course he would.
Let’s get serious hey!

Lyin’ Lehane.

Yup and Ms Snowe votes against the Feingold amendment. Her politics suck and she looks like my ex-husband. I do a perfect imitation of both Collins’ and Snowe’s whines. They are nearly the same. What is it with the Whiners anyway?

OT – Any idea why 60 voter are needed to pass the now-pending Feingold amendment? I missed something, or this is cloture on an amendment?

Sorry, i’m clueless. But apparently 60 votes are needed to pass the amendment to the spending bill, or so says the cspan screen.

Newtonusr:
Reid has a new trick: to avoid a cloture vote completely, he brings amendments to the floor under a rule that requires 60 votes for passage. He first did it (at Blanche Lincoln’s request) to Grassley and Dorgan’s Farm Bill amendment that would have capped Ag subsidies at a quarter-million dollars per farmer — thus killing it.

This also gives cover to Senators who want to say they voted for something, but “we didn’t have the 60 votes to pass it.”

It reminds me of the advice to the rape victim: just lay back and enjoy it, dear, it’ll be over sooner that way. Inutterably corrupt.

Remember the story that emerged in the Abramoff scandal. Abramoff offered his services to some Indian Tribe for no fee. He said he’d help them without any charge to them. BUT, they needed to hire xxxx (forgot the name) to do some side work. XXXX was expensive but oh, so valuable. Well the Indians hired xxxx for millions. Of course, Abramoff immediately cut a substantial cut of that fee.
The moral of the story: People like Lehane do nothing that doesn’t line their pockets.

Speaking of lying, Condi lies again. It’s so bad that the Kurdish head of state refused to meet with her so she left and went to Kirkuk and Baghdad to answer questions about her lies. Turkey says they were pressured by US to invade Iraq. Condi says they went in at the request of the Turks. It’s a he said/she said moment in our deplomacy.

How many times have the Bush Administrations double-crossed and made a fool out of the Kurds? It must be several by now. Hope they are recording their history because ours is held in that black hole called security secrets.

It reminds me of the advice to the rape victim: just lay back and enjoy it, dear, it’ll be over sooner that way. Inutterably corrupt.

So, Bobby Knight comes to the Senate. Nice.
Thank you, Teddy.

I am NOT surprised that SEIU would spend member dollars on a character like Lehane. I worked for the state employees union when the SEIU corporate takover occurred. Jeez, the folks they brought in to start funneling dues to the “mothership” would make your skin crawl. I my “opinion” Lehane’s emloyment by both change to win and “local” SEIU’s would not surprise anyone who has peeked behind the curtain.
I did not want my professional named associated with SEIU and scrammed as soon as a real union job became available.

Why are the dems putting up with Reid’s shennannigans? Why aren’t they up in arms, ganging up on him? I’m afraid that I don’t like the obvious answer.

Clarification: I’m not following today’s action on the floor and can’t say for sure that’s what is happening, but it sounds like this:

Ms. Lincoln had the right to filibuster the amendment, which could have caused a fight with only two possible outcomes: a defeat for Ms. Lincoln or a delay in the subsidy-rich farm bill. Not willing to risk either difficulty, the Democratic Senate leadership came up with a special voting rule for the Dorgan-Grassley amendment. Under the rule, the measure proceeded to an up-or-down vote, but with 60 votes — the same number it takes to block a filibuster — required for passage, rather than the usual simple majority. The same rule applied to proposals by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) to cut off payments for farm households with annual incomes exceeding $750,000 and by Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) to trim the bloated crop insurance program. Ms. Klobuchar’s measure also went down to defeat with 48 votes in favor and 47 against. Mr. Brown’s lost as well.

A leader reflects the people they lead. Ugly answer but reality can be ugly.

there is a bright side. Miss McConnell (and Liarman, I think) have an amendment waiting for a vote also – it’ll need 60 too. At least it damn well better – this is the one that puts the Iraq War money into the budget.

McConnell – “the president won’t sign this bill without this amendment being passed”. So – maybe – there’ll be a little something more to celebrate tonight.

Or not.

Just thought I would let you know that I have gotten 5 e-mails from DiFi today – am I ahead of you? I feel so loved.

Having an anti-choice Senate Democratic Leader makes as much sense as the Senate GOPs having a tax-raiser as Leader. Choice and taxcuts are core values that distinguish the current American political parties.

Why would Senate Dems choose a forced-birth proponent to lead them?

Are they all identical, about her kabuki on telecom immunity?

Me too.

The last one was about how she is protecting our right to privacy. And I just know that she is.

What in the world is going on with her? Are you getting this?

“I voted for the FISA legislation that passed out of the Intelligence Committee by a bipartisan vote of 13-2. The Senate Judiciary Committee did not take action on the portions of the bill dealing with immunity. The bill is now scheduled to go to the Senate floor. I am keeping an open mind to whether some other legislative approach besides immunity would be best.”

I’ve gotten six emails in the last two days…

Why would Senate Dems choose a forced-birth proponent to lead them?

As most other things in this “Democratically-controlled Senate”, f***ery perhaps applied by RGJoe and maybe Landrieu, or Salazar, or one or more Nelson, or Max, or Tim Johnson, etc.

People here keep forgetting, we are really a minority; we are not a majority! There are more of “them” than there are of “us.” Meaning, many in Congress are so avaricious that they would have gladly given retroactive immunity to the telecoms, as soon as they got an answer to the question: “What’s in it for me?”

Not to be shallow but you all have to turn on Hardball to see Chris Matthews’s sweater.

How many Dem. Senators are up for reelection in ‘08? Will we FINALLY be able to toss Joe “the Connecticut Crapweasel” Lieberman under the bus where he rightfully belongs?

Not to be shallow but you all have to turn on Hardball to see Chris Matthews’s sweater.

What have we done to you that you would do this to us?! EEEEWWW… DAYUM but that’s one ugly sweater… Did he lose a bet and have to wear it?

I think that is pretty much it. The Dem caucus “cut the baby” in half and came up with Reid.

The sweater is wild, but it doesn’t go with the shirt…what was he thinking…oh yeah, he’s trying to be what he thinks Iowa looks like…wrong.

New Hampshire…same difference to him.

Hi Teddy -

We, the People adhere to the core values and that is so for many Republicans as well. The parties don’t. They took a different path and still don’t know we are not behind them. Yes, there are the “My party, right or wrong” folks out there, but I have found conservatives horrified with the rightwing and cannot follow them. They describe their situation as being left in limbo by a party who left them. That’s why one voice, Dodd, is a light in the darkness.

It is cold and stormy in the foothills. I lit candles to remind me there is light. Hope you are warm and dry.

How many Dem. Senators are up for reelection in ‘08? Will we FINALLY be able to toss Joe “the Connecticut Crapweasel” Lieberman under the bus where he rightfully belongs?

Mary Landrieu La-D is the only one in trouble. We should pick up 5-7 seats. Not enough for the “magic” 60 votes, but enough to bust some balls in the Dem caucus and enough to threaten the Thugs with the “nuclear option” if things get too bad.

The strangest thing has happened and I don’t know why, but I sure would like to know. I signed the Petitions that were requested and sent out a message to the fourteen Senators as requested, and I’m pretty sure I know who I sent to, since I sent them with faxes. But I have received some e-mails thanking me for getting in touch and explaining that I have received form letters because I am not in their district, blah, blah, blah…and I don’t think I meant to send anything to these particular people.

JANE HAS A NEW THREAD UPSTAIRS!

Sent emails to all the council members.

Well, enough to toss Joe over the side…

this is what I am talking about above. the union leadership is corrupt. I myself saw them sell their workers down the river so the president could send more money to the “mothership” as well as make more money herself. She did this by taking people out from under civil service law ~ which at the time was about as strong a set of laws for workers there could be. As my grandfather explained to me about civil service worker’s rights: “If the government is not a decent, well paying and fair employee, how can anyone expect it to enforce labor laws for private enterprise?”

Case closed.

Cat In Seattle