The most memorable moment of last night’s Huckabee concert had to be watching Tim Russert, Joe Klein and other members of the elite punditocracy roaming the edges of the crowd looking for an entry point. The thousand or so people who showed up on New Year’s day to see Chuck Norris announce his intent to have a $10 million money bomb for Huckabee also got to watch Huck’n'Scarborough (who played guitar, not banjo) rocking out with the Boogie Woogers to "Sweet Home Alabama. The beltway set could not have stood out more prominently from Huckabee’s working class constituency. It was an awkward meeting of cultures, and Huckabee’s ascendency could only portend one thing for the party: class warfare within the GOP.
Despite the best attempts of Bob Bennett and other beltway bores to take Huckabee out over the shameless "lemme show the ad I’m too decent to run" gambit, it didn’t work. The omnipresence of Huck on all the cable shows over the incident only seems to have made his campaign seem more legimitate, and all the awkwardness that gripped him on Blitzer’s show after the disastrous press conference had dissipated. Huckabee was funny, at ease and in control of the crowd. And even after Chuck Norris made the crowd restless with his announcement of the $10 million online moneybomb he and his wife were going to do for Huckabee (the man is human Xanax), they were with him once again as he strapped on his bass and invited Scarborough on stage to join him.
Huckabee is playing the victim card from within the Republican party against other Republicans, something he started to do with Limbaugh and is now using against Romney ("my dad worked in the dirt…nobody ever asked my dad to be in their cabinet…nobody ever cared what my dad thought about yadda yadda…). It’s also a class card. It’s a sheer delight to see how distinctly uncomfortable it’s making the DC elite feel, who have spent the better part of the past decade manipulating the Huckabee fans and aren’t quite comfortable with the fact that they now see themselves in the driver’s seat.
Looks like all that "just a boy from Buffallo" crap might not be all that durable, huh?
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Crap; EPU’d again!
Happy New Year, Jane!
Jane! Happy 2008!
Sorry, I meant, Happy New Year, followed by “Crap..” etc.
Happy New Year, Jane. Welcome again to Iowa, and our apologies for the temperature.
Jane:
Typo: Huckabee’s ascendency…
hey guys in DC even the losers D.Brazille etc.,are horrendously overpaid….it is a Kabuki dance where winners and losers are equally paid to keeop the status quo,and give the appearance of controversy,so the natives/rubes(all of us non villagers) go about our OWN biddness
Thanks Jane for doing the heavy lifting by attending the Republican events so we don’t have to. You are a Brave Woman!
Correction to the correction…
Jane:
Another typo: (”my dad worked in the dirt…
Great post!
Happy New Year Jane, looking forward to your absolutely fabulous reporting on the ground in Iowa.
Huckaby is Karl Rove’s nightmare vision in the mirror.
Can we be spared another religious zealot in the White House? That Huckabee ad was the only political ad I’ve seen (living in California) and only because it was all over the news yesterday on a slow news cycle. Interesting timing. I almost feel sorry for Romney, if that is humanly possible.
Professional courtesy in the oldest profession.
And Jane: Thanks for the post on Monday about the Huckf*ckery presser where he showed the ad video he wasn’t going to play, as it were. We at FDL got that news waaaay before everyone else did on MSM…
Hi Jane.. Cold up there? Sounds like it’s colder inside with the Timmeh and Chuck-Huck than outside.
yea they all need their 3 martini lunches at Mortons or the Palm,and lobster is truly going through the roof$$$$$$$
She’s freezing her *ss off so we don’t have to.
So isn’t the beginning of the year a good time to remind us to support this site?
A modern-day Valley Forge moment, well in a manner of speaking and spirit anyway. Plus, I’m sure Jane is wearing delightfully appropriate footwear.
AZ Matt I miss your editorial cartoon selections…
As my mother likes to say, it’s colder than a welldigger’s ass out there today. Maybe that’s an appropriate welcome for the MSM, but I might have hoped it would treat Jane better.
OT and Im sorry
Kucinich on Thom Hartmans show reveals that he backs Obama because of the 527’s
I am certainly ready for a peasant revolt, and am pleased to see some conservatives connect the lightness in their wallets with their party’s policies.
The outcome I’m rooting for:
1. Edwards prevails, despite the media attempts to diminish him (for many of the same reasons they dislike Huck).
2. After a bloody battle between Huck and Romney, and internecine Republican warfare, Romney is left standing, while social conservatives go stand in the corner.
3. The country, in a totally selfish move, rejects corporate pablum and votes their self-interests. Reagan ‘democrats’ vote Democrat again.
4. Edwards wins a mandate, and gets a Senate that can blow thru Reupublican filibusters.
Thus setting the stage for the next act:
Corporate Democrats shit or get off the pot!
With some hard work, in 4-6 years (gotta show some corporatist Democrats where to get off), America would be a pretty decent place to live again.
its 16 and snowing here but whos complainen
OT:
Any chance at a thread on Iowa and who folks are supporting. Or another on the 2nd choice politics? I am still confused at DK support of Obama – it seems to me the truth teller is endorsing someone who mocked him openly in the debates and is futher away from his position.
I found a thread at C&L and am trying to read it now.
This is a great thread as well so I will have to circle back after that.
True dat. This is the Frankenstein monster that the corporatist branch of the GOP created through their own craven scheme of lying through their teeth to the rabble about feminists, fags, and fetuses, thereby fooling them into voting against their own economic interests time and time again.
Now that monster is out of their control and the fuck-the-poor wing of the Republican Party is pissing their pants.
OT, it’s been reported that the Clinton campaign has rented every available van in the state of Iowa to prevent other candidates from getting out their supporters. Gotta love those Rovian tactics. Republicans can never be trusted, oh wait, she’s a Democrat?
sounds good to me!…go grab gods ear from chimpie
WFM!
thats just plain evil….Edwards need to rent every car possible and defy her
$100 Oil.
“It’s been reported.” Has it been reported any more reliably than when you were peddling this rumor this morning? Seems like it would be pretty trivial for anyone to verify — all you’d have to do is try to rent a van. Got a link?
If not, then pot, meet kettle.
As for the van deal…rent a bus!
FURTHUR
i said downstairs…mission accomplished!!!!
Here, check out this Mark Fiore cartoon in the SF Chronicle- Republican Caucus
you’re either on the bus or off the bus
hell…GET VOLUNTEERS with private cars…defy her!!!!
Fox News, by banning Ron Paul from the next debate is going to make Ron Paul a martyr and he’s gonna run as an Independent.
Go Fox!
-G
Kucinich loves kucinich. If he believed his own rhetoric he would not be suggesting Obama who is pro war with Iran, pro nuclear power, for continuing the Iraq war, not favouring universal health care and is bought and paid for by the corporate elite. Not to mention his love affair with lieberman. kucinich just wants to have his oar in the water to pretend that he matters. He is a little man with a need to be wanted.
Whatever. I suspect he could have come up with a justification for backing anyone except Hillary. I think it’s more likely that Obama is the one who was willing to court his support to get a positive news story (which is the main benefit, since his support in Iowa is less than it was four years ago, and he has minimal organization in Iowa to get them to the caucuses.)
Let’s not forget ‘it was reported’ that children were being raped and there were snipers all over Louisiana during Katrina.
We need something more than spurious rumors.
-G
that is very shocking and separates him from a REAL antiwar canidate
Betcha Big Russ would vote for Hucklefuck. Little Russ, not so much, eh?
Watch for Tweety to pick up Jane’s theme, and rail against the DeeCee GOP elite suddenly unwilling to hand over the party reins to a real preacher, after courting the preacher’s people for twenty-five years. “Preacher’s people” might require Tweety’s guests to don world-class spittle guards, though….
agreed
That’s what the Dean campaign did in 2004 — they used the vans to drive Edwards and Kerry supporters to the caucus. Hopefully, the Edwards campaign has Joe Trippi on a short leash.
A Caucus Eve classic!
.
thank you so very much :)
I almost feel sorry for Romney, if that is humanly possible.
Well, it *is* possible – just in no way called for.
My guy is polling in double digits and sitting on a ton of money.
Gambling9 pegs his odds at 6 to 1 to take it all. And yet the MSM hardly mention his name.
All is fair in love and politics.
Ron Paul
The GOP is doing the class warfare they always accused us of doing irony is great. But it could get worse Ron Paul might rake in more money than all the GOPers Ron can add crazy to the class warfare and scare the Corporate wing of the GOP.
I don’t feel sorry for someone who has Cofer Black as his advisor.
I’m in TX, and the only signs I’m seeing all over the place are the Ron Paul signs.
What, no one gave Punkin’ Haid the Blue Collar password?
How long is it going to be before I see a good old fashion Revival type fundraiser for the Huckster?
I wanna see the Snake Handlers and the Holy Rollers and Speaking in Tongues and Faith Healing and Huckster, all under one tent.
Oh, and tater salad, gotta have tater salad.
Ron Paul will come in second in NH.
Bank on it.
He will be helpful in mortally wounding Shifty Mitt.
-G
It would seem that the chattering classes inside the Beltway, pundits and journalists alike, have found fit to place a premium on the quality of ‘Seriousness’. Note the capital ‘S’.
Seriousness means being for the war, you see. Seriousness is glibly dismissing the idea that all Americans can and should be entitled to health insurance. Seriousness means being ‘for freedom’. You know, the kind that allows you to make as much money as you can if you’re an insurance company, a drug manufacturer, or the AMA. Of course, that’s not the best kind of freedom. That comes when you’ve got the kind of relationship with the Administration that leads to no-bid, cost-plus contracts.
Seriousness involves finding nothing whatsoever wrong or questionable about deficit-financing tax cuts in the middle of fighting someone else’s civil war. That we started.
See, you’ll be perceived as Serious if you run lots of stories on Hillary’s cackle, if you think the most important thing about Al Gore is how much he weighs, if you devote column inches to John Edwards’ haircut.
But not Mitt Romney’s. Because smearing a Republican powderpuff would be untoward, un-civil and un-Serious.
From what I’ve read, the most Serious thing you can write or talk about where a Democrat is concerned is how they look. Especially if they’re a woman.
You’re all kinds of Serious if you never, ever ask a Serious question of Guiliani. Why, the Washington Post essentially said, “Yeah, we’ll we’re not going to fact-check Guiliani just yet. That’ll come. Probably after the convention. We’ll get around to doing our jobs eventually, and we’ll definitely get back to you on that just as soon as we find out if Edwards is using Aquanet or American Crew products.”
Why, all Serious people know that Guiliani is regarded as America’s mayor (despite the fact that his pals over at Motorola inflated their no-bid contract 1000% so that FDNY could have the privilege of buying radios that completely failed them during 9/11, killing 120 of New York’s Bravest in the North Tower who simply never heard the order to leave the building), a 9/11 hero (to those who formed their opinion of that debacle from what they saw on television), and a true family values guy. Just ask him. He’ll tell you. So will any number of his wives.
Serious means always taking George W. Bush and Dick Cheney at their word. Because they are incapable of lying. Goodness-gracious, when they say ‘We don’t torture people’, it would just be rude to ask follow up questions like, “Well, did you perhaps hire anybody, like…..oh, maybe someone in another country to do the torturing for you?”, or, “Did you ever personally authorize anything you were directly advised was against the law, at any time?”
Asking that kind of question would just be rude, un-becoming and un-Serious.
You know, like when the President of the United States publicly said that he’d ‘take care of’ anybody in his administration found to have been involved in the outing of the true identity of one of our most strategically important spies. Asking him if he actually meant that he would take very good, linen glove, Four-Seasons Marina Del Rey kind of care of those involved by commuting the sentence that a jury of their peers imposed, well, of course that’s not a Serious question, really.
Serious people, evidently, don’t take extra-judicial killings seriously, don’t think that two US carrier battle groups in the Persian Gulf is the kind of news that we’d be interested in, and are wont to discover words like ‘mercenary’ for the first time in their careers as Eric Prince testified… and then discard them as not applicable to someone as clean-cut as Eric Prince. He listens to Garth Brooks, for crying out loud. He’s not what Serious people think of when they feature someone who works as a hired killer.
I think we’ve all had just about enough of their brand of ‘Seriousness’.
I know I have.
Most certainly, the specter of Huckabee has come to haunt the Repug imaginary… The Repug establishment never counted on this, and they’re trying to figure out how to deal with it. I love it!
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2…..faces.html Hope the link works if Ron wins the minority vote will be very easy to get out. If the Democrats get the word out.
great post!
EDWARDS campaigned all nite long
I don’t care who does it, but I want the Neofascists gone.
This is a tried and true Iowa and NH tactic. From both parties. Welcome to the wonderful world of politics. SIGH
i want more!!!,no HRC thank you very much
Elliot,
Try this one from Bagley of the SLT – Weird Faith
im truly surprised at Kucinich…wow
Great post!
Dow is down 240 now.
Bernanke better start spinning those plates faster and faster.
-G
I don’t feel sorry for someone who has Cofer Black as his advisor.
Well, then, I’d guess you wouldn’t feel sorry for Rude-E either, what with Norman (let’s bomb Iran – yesterday!) Podhoretz as his F.Pol advisor.
How cold of you. /s
Right now: Impeach activists sitting in at Nadler’s office and saying they won’t leave until impeachment is started….calling for support:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..987/429214
As January goes so goes the year MSNBC said sure the saying is not 100% but oil is up, gold is up the market is down.
I wonder when the computerized stock selling programs will kick in if they do this will get really ugly. I believe they kick in when certain stocks or averages of stocks reach certain highs and lows.
Given the credit crisis spawned by the subprime problem I’m guessing that when stocks go down not to many people will buy stocks on margin and raise the market this time.
Paksitan’s market is tanking.
Kenya, one of Africa’s most stable democracies is spinning into oblivion with fears of ethnic genocide.
Israel may be headed towards a renewed intafada.
Turkey, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan…..
Grab the handles and hold on tight. The center aint going to hold.
-G
hey guess who woke up after 4 years
Stonewalled by the C.I.A.
By THOMAS H. KEAN and LEE H. HAMILTON
Published: January 2, 2008
What we do know is that government officials decided not to inform the 9/11 commission to investigate one the greatest tragedies to confront America.
NYT op ed
Rate cut is coming watch the value of your dollar decline.
Michael Gordon has an interview with John Edwards up at the NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01…..Mv+BtanScA
Edwards wants everybody except a few to guard the embassy out in 9 to 10 months. Gordon says this is more than what HillObam are calling for. He points out a few times that this is at odds with the assessments of “intelligence agencies, military officers and a Congressionally mandated study” and a NIE. The Congressional report is the General Jones one. Gordon mischaracterizes it. It says that Iraqi forces will not be able to operate independently within the next 12 to 18 months. Two points: First, the US military has had nearly 5 years to train and equip an Iraqi army. It hasn’t done so. It’s efforts to date have been a joke, a joke in which David Petraeus played a leading role. Second, the Bush-Petraeus “surge” specifically de-emphasized training Iraqi forces to free up US troops for other purposes.
Gordon makes it sound like Edwards is flying in the face of some well developed plan when in fact there is no plan. What there is is an ongoing and long term failure, which Edwards apparently has the effrontery to recognize and the willingness to move past.
All in all, Gordon could have been much worse in this article but he still manages to disagree with Edwards in a way I find singularly dishonest.
Yep: Edwards hunts all night for caucus supporters.
Who knew that 2008 would bring about a Kool-Aid shortage.
-G
and perhaps Things Will Come Undone!
him and his wife are TIRELESS( no vehicle implied)
Jane, I have to tell you, you are one strong woman !..I would never be able
to go to one of those horrendous events. Thanks for the info!
despickable white washers who brought us Bush redux 2004 edition
Mike Huckabee weighs in…
HUCKABEE
Well surprise, surprise, surprise — I just knowed it, from YOU people it’d get worse than even that Gomer Pyle shit…
(elbow jammed in ribs by wife)
…Gomer Pyle stuff.
Volcano erupts in Chile. North Korea break nuke promise. Explosion in Istambul blast city center. London hospital evacuated after blaze. US diplomat gunned down in Khartoum. Yep: Yeats, and centrifugal forces.
Sorry but i find the thread, all over the pleace… So here’ my $
I want RON PAUL .
i fear Bush
Hillary will be installed. maybe
Sorry all, ,but after listening to a pakistan’e on C -Span
We will be terrorised before its all over :USA: .
I Wish i did’nt think this way .but its the way MSM has been All elections no bush , no cheny
And can anyone tell about the firer at cheny’s office . I never heard another word.
Gordon has always been a nasty liar when it comes to Iraq. These are the same people who have been wrong, wrong, wrongity, wrong every single fucking day about every single fucking thing concerning Iraq. Yet for some reason, they continue to be given a prominent venue to promulgate their fake “expertise”.
Ron Paul would be (and has been) extremely helpful in focusing the discourse on meaningful issues:
* Peace vs. war
* Rule of law (including defense of freedoms)
* The roll of government in economic affairs.
I agree with him on the first two. I disagree with him on the third, for strange reasons Paul Krugman and Thom Hartman are about the only progressives who have been taking that issue on at a popular level.
Looks like those of us that have previously talked about how Lantos should be taken out in a primary won’t have to worry about taking Lantos out anymore. He’s got cancer and says he won’t run. The only survivor of the Holocaust ever to be voted into Congress is not going to be in Congress anymore. I think that’s sad.
North Korea breaks…Istanbul…
Chris Dodd has a 6 yr old and a 3 yr old? (CNN)
You go, sir!
Sad, yes, but Lantos was one of the crackpots beating the war drums on Iran. I wish his experience with war had made him less eager to start one.
I’m looking forward to seeing how this all unravels in Iowa tomorrow.
And an Iowa house divided against itself:
I like the fact that they appeal directly to the racists in Iowa with ’sweet home ali baba” Can you imagine someone intentionally playing that song to people in a state that was “free” during the civil war and a willing conduit to slaves seeking freedom? A racist song for the nice rubes, a one and a two…..
He solidifies his racist voters and loses a lot more. He is such a close friend of the modern jezus. I bet that pretty soon they will be saying “jezus warn’t a jew niether” “that’s librul propergander”
chuck norris the human tranq, like that! I think he has done his best work with christie brinkley personally. It shows real depth previously unknown in the industry.
One thing to realize is that there are a whole lot of areas of the country that were anti-slavery and pro-Union during the Civil War that turned into hot beds of the Klan and/or display the Stars and Bars today without any hint of irony or understanding
I remember him giving a very eloquent speech this last summer on some issue I can’t remember, but it was something like warrantless wiretapping, or something constitutional, I think.
Apparently he feels the treatments he will need to take to fight the cancer will be too taxing to try to maintain his political position. I didn’t even catch cancer of what. Guess I’ll have to go look it up.
Here’s that wifey again from Iowa:
Now that’s what I call a cute contradiction.
(Same link as my 87.)
I weep for the Republic…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris Chuck is really Carlos, he claims he is native American and Irish, Him and Malkin should get together and give a talk about GOP racism.
lord – that’s even a sadder story than katymine’s(?) comment last night about 100 people in AZ being asked what they thought about Alberto Gonzalez – and 99 of them had never heard of him… *s*
OT New Froomkin up Bush’s Final Year
Oh, things will come undone all right.
Wall Street is broke with $trillions worth of derivatives coming due.
Still, the market will come as death by a thousand cuts.
Families Value Coalition founder Lou Sheldon campaigned with Willard in Iowa last nite:
snip
Great
Can’t wait until Gordon avails himself of the chair they undoubtedly have warming for him over at the Manhattan Institute.
Still, to the degree this article has any impact, I think it will net out in Edwards’s favor. Democrats desiring equivocation on withdrawal have probably already cast their lot with Clinton or Obama. Gordon’s sniping doesn’t mask the fact that Edwards’s intentions track more closely to the “out means OUT” sentiment of the Democratic base.
OT: Froomkin also chatting live now
ChertoffHomeland Security advertising on CNN…protecting yourself in the event of a terrorist attack…little kids saying, what if I’m on my way home from school and something happens…shizzola like that.Despicable.
I had a co-worker (who is fortunately no longer one) who said she liked Kerry better but was going to vote for Bush because she thought he was going to win. Really.
And here’s a partial list of MSM heavy-hitters (/snark) sharing the stage in freezing Des Moines with our own Jane:
A Des Moines resident won’t be able to swing a snow shovel today or Thursday without hitting a big-time, TV news personality here for the Iowa caucuses.
Keep eyes peeled. Iowans might see:
- Chris Wallace or Brit Hume from Fox News.
- Katie Couric and Harry Smith from CBS.
- Candy Crowley and John King from CNN.
- Brian Williams and Tim Russert from NBC.
- Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer from ABC.
- Tucker Carlson from MSNBC.
Yikes!
Americans really like picking the winner, Redshift. I’ve seen studies that show up to five percent of the electorate votes for who they think will win. Like picking for the office football pool. Americans love a winner!
Yeah, the correct question is not whether they’ll be trained by the time Edwards pulls our boys out, but whether the numbers being trained and serving successfully is on a positive curve, and one that completes the task before our army is broken. Any assessment, even a sincere one, that only says when the task won’t be done without estimating when it will is just ducking the question. And we still don’t have any assurance that we’re not continuing to train insurgents.
The “we have to stay until they’re trained” is another variation on the standard neocon “we’re staying until victory or forever, which ever comes first.”
Did I mention that Jane is freezing her *ss off so we don’t have to? That’s right, now I’m going to say digg this post
and digg AZ Matt’s fiore just cause it’s a Caucus Eve classic. :)
help circulate our thoughts and ideas
Further to my 102:
Note that the list left out Tweety…Ouch.
Don’t forget the expected taxpayer paid for bailout of Wallstreet while regular people lose their homes. Don’t forget all those companies like Ford who borrowed money and need a good economy in order to sell product or else they won’t be able to pay their loans either as the economy tanks and interest rates go up.
Or interest rates can stay the same and the value of the dollar will then go down. The scary thing is the financial system is networked so that if you kick out enough supports the entire structure starts to sag in places you would not expect it to.
Its the danger you don’t see not the biggest danger that gets you.
Norris, star of television’s “Walker, Texas Ranger,” said he first learned about Huckabee from some home-schooled teenagers in Oregon. Once he saw Huckabee’s Web site, Norris decided to endorse him.
Heh.
Forget the cold Jane is in the same room as Tucker and Tweety without a mute switch on the remote!
omg what if Tucker’s hair freezes!
Your senario is very doable. Most of the weak politicians will fall in line with whatever program emerges in 2009. People will learn a house is a home not a bet.
Keep eyes peeled. Iowans might see:
- Chris Wallace or Brit Hume from Fox News.
- Katie Couric and Harry Smith from CBS.
- Candy Crowley and John King from CNN.
- Brian Williams and Tim Russert from NBC.
- Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer from ABC.
- Tucker Carlson from MSNBC.
That could provide for an interesting exercise – who should get locked into a closet with whom?
(with the understanding that Candy Crowley’s gonna need an entire closet to herself…)
or maybe a mud-wrestling contest (with the understanding that Candy Crowley is automatically a winner because she would be the only one in her weight class…)
I think Katie Couric could take Tucker, btw…
*I hope they don’t hit Chris Wallace or Brit Hume with a shovel. Shit freezes fast and I hate to see a good shovel ruined.
-G
*Note this is a joke and in no way implies that anyone should strike anyone with a shovel, be they fill of shit or not.
And on what matters to Iowans:
Interesting.
OT (seems like a pretty small point now, but has changed my mind on DK):
From Steve on C&L post 01-JAN seems the most likely reason (to me) on DK for Obama in Iowa, seems to be backfiring on him since most folks for DK want him to stand up against the “moderate” candidates and don’t see him as petty:
“
Kucinich always has a desire to take out the candidate he feels has pulled away most of his supposed, “would be” supporters.
Last election he endorsed Edwards to help take down Dean, this year it’s Barack to take down Edwards.
Kucinich is player hating yet again. In his mind, he thinks he should be positioned where Edwards is, so he’s gonna punish Edwards for it….just as he did with Dean.
His campaign strategies are petty…i remember it was about this time in the primary cycle in 2004 that he was saying he was the only candidate that could stop a full on draft…and that if you didn’t vote for him, there would be a draft under anyone else.
Unfortunatley, DK puts petty personal vendettas above helping advance the most progressive platforms.
I thought Dean’s platform was more progressive than Edwards in 04′ and I think Edwards platform is much more progressive than Obama’s this time.
Too bad DK doesn’t think this pragmatically…
“
Then it’ll match his personality.
Now, that’s cold! *G*
Great line in today’s Froomkin:
Yep. Via Froomkin:
Yeah, cause it’s the market that’s suffering. Those people who are losing their homes, they’re just cogs performing their function to make the market work. No need to help them when there are corporations and investors in pain.
he-he-he…
you funny, GSD…
And yes, we know that Repugs don’t really care about issues, you know, because, after all, issues change, like characters in the wind.
Or being thrown under the bus.
Also, Froomkin tells us that the FISA renewal is the White House’s only major objective in the near future. All the more reason for us to be geared up for the fight. (And hey, something for those of us who don’t live in early primary states to focus on!)
And this one:
Emotions, not my intellect. I like that. A lot.
(Same link as my 114.)
And also this one:
I like that too. A lot. Just a little bit for everyone.
(Same link as my 124.)
Isn’t passion an emotion?
We need to make people losing their homes the issue! How best to help them I’m not sure but F wallstreet nobody held a gun to the head of the financial experts who made the bad loans they should have known better. Besides if we help the homeowners who are defaulting we treat the cause of the subprime mess rather than the symptoms.
Edwards is cranking up to deal with Oklahoma. He has named Labor Commissioner, Lloyd Fields, state Senate President Pro-Tem Mike Morgan, and House Democratic Leader Danny Morgan to work on his campaign here.
Right: “FISA renewal.” Oh God, how I love those White House wordsmiths and their enhanced misdirection.
I don’t. I figure that nationwide there’s a lot more emotion out there among voters than there is intellect (unfortunately)! Therefore, it seems a reasonable strategy to appeal to the emotions (especially the ones who believe themselves to be downtrodden) and the intellectuals among us to understand the strategy. The fact is, I like Edwards prospective on things here in America and how we need to fight to fix it better than most of the others. Dodd has that same sort of attitude particularly with respect to the Constitution. I don’t care for Hillary’s calculated triangulating, and I don’t care for the fact that I think Obama is in the infancy of his career and is yet a little to green to be President. If I had to categorize, Obama would be in my “to easy to dupe” stack. I don’t care for either Hillary’s or Obama’s voting track record on issues either. If I had to choose, it would be Edwards/Dodd.
thanks kiddo – do you have a linky on Edwards Oklahoma strategy you can share?
Just received an e-mail from MoveOn linking to their e-mail member poll results. As of right now, only about five %age points separates Edwards, Obama, Clinton, Kucinich (who are in that order starting at the top). The e-mail states that if any Dem candidate hits 50%, a formal internal voting/endorsement process will be initiated.
http://pol.moveon.org/prezsurv…..j&t=1
There is the other end of this subprime fiasco. It’s not been reported, but it’s like that a lot of retirement systems have invested in entities that hold a lot of that subprime paper — somebody holds it and has not yet written it off.
I loved it! Boy does Mark Fiore hit ity right on the head! I have felt that way about the repbus that way for years.
Being a true JFK sort of guy I can only hope Edwards gets the nod. We really need a lawyer who understands the big box money people!
Most people won’t remember Applebee’s name in 6 months, regardless of all the upChucking.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITI…..pstoryview
Unlike Edwards, who has gained considerable ground in other states as well, Applebee’s is losing out to gains by Saint John, who is certifiably mentally ill.
Thus I still think SeeSaw Romney should be the focus of our efforts. The Conglomerate Media is already covering up several of Mittmo’s gaffs, which would have ruined any of the Dems campaigns. We cannot let these false frames about Mittmo take hold, otherwise he could be dangerous in the General, since he has the Noize Machine providing cover for him.
Does Huckabee have a bus called The Speaking in Tongues Express?
-G
I meant that as snark…I am an Edwards supporter.
hahahahahahaha
Yep: Yeats, and centrifugal forces.
Amen
My point exactly!
Christy has a
upstairs for us.
Not yet. Going to send a couple of emails to OK. City and Tulsa, and try to find out just that. Perhaps a land line or two, too. ;0)
Let’s try that again.
Christy has a nice new post upstairs for us.
This is beginning to get exciting. Thanks for the link.;0)
I posted my 124 to point out the contradiction. Of course passion is an emotion.
It would surprise me that his supporters would follow that direction.
They should rise up in their own interests and stand for Edwards.
It is very sad when anyone gets cancer. My father died of complications stemming from lung cancer. It’s awful.
Still, politically it’s an opportunity for Progressives to step up in a year when we might have Edwards to excite the crowds and a real anti-Bush movement in the country.
Is there such a Progressive Dem to run for that CA seat?