Question to McCain: If your immigration bill came to the floor of the Senate, would you vote for it.
Mr. Weasel Word Express refused to answer the question, twice saying his bill won't come to the floor as a way to avoid the question.
[This is a case where Reid could screw with McCain huge by bringing the McCain bill to the floor again and making him decide whether he would vote for his own bill or pander to the nativist right.]
C'mon, Senator. Upperdown. It'd be a CSPAN blockbuster. Let's do it.
Update: The CNN approval dial test showed that viewers hated McCain and sided with Romney really strongly in their exchange.
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‘allo again…
[This is a case where Reid could screw with McCain huge by bringing the McCain bill to the floor again and making him decide whether he would vote for his own bill or pander to the nativist right.]
That would be just - evil.
I like it a lot.
‘allo jayt.
let’s see if we can work “asshole” and “andrea greenspan” into a sentence. I’m not gonna push it. Wait til the opportunity arises.
Oh, I like the way your mind works.
Andrea Greenspan is an asshole.
(That was quick)
The “thrillah from
ManillaHollywood Blvd. tomorow nite at 8P.Jane, you should be a strategist.
Talk about political theatre! That would be fun. ‘Cmon, Harry. Give em hell just this once.
she is one thast i loathe the most…because she knows…how bad the ship of state is now….and yet she keeps LYING and SHILLING ..like itsa big joke on the RUBES(us)
The title of this blog should read - Pygmy Old Goat Debate Redux.
That would be fun. i don’t think he would pander to them. they hate his guts sooo bad. economy tanking. war going on interminably. and the most important thing to those dipshits is that a boarder fence be a double fence not just one fence. i check Malkin out almost every day. she has more anti-McCain stuff than anti-Dem stuff. Maybe more. Hiow many posts does she do a day? Seriously. 2 maybe. Politics and ideology aside, her blog really does suck.
Snub or no snub we still have a shrub.
GObama! I’m good with Hill too. She looked great last night.
Let’s beat the shit out of those bastards.
Pygmy mindless,old goat Spew
except old goats are kinda cute
Works for me!
Jane
I love the idea
Only problem being that it would require Reid to do something obviously in the best interests of the American People and the Democratic Party.
As we wll know by now, Give ‘Em Heck Harry doesn’t do things like that.
an’ another thing…… these Malkkinites are always trashing McCain and Martinez and other people who voted for “shamnesty.” Hey, that was Fucktard’s bill, too. Chimpy was on the “shamnesty” express. But I don’t see him getting any shit for it. they support the schmuck. How can they do that and then trash McCain? They’re just gettying it outta their system. they’ll support him.
They (the paid shillers) may, but many of their base will find something else to do on election day.
every word that comes out of their mouths is utter bull kakkkkky …that is all
I stopped listening to the debate because I couldn’t stand it anymore. But I decided to check in and the heading to this post brought a little thrill to my political pleasure center.
Seems that Honest John St. McCain had a moment of straight talk distress.
I hope there are many more of those moments.
they hate his guts sooo bad.
Well, putting Rush and Malkin to the side (which is not only easy to do, but a truly satisfying enterprise), the voters don’t seem to agree, to this date. I fear the semi-conscious repub vote.
And Rush should be forced, by the FCC, to disclose, several times per hour, that “My Man Mitt” - is also “My Boss Mitt”…
just sayin’
I don’t wanna beat up on McCain on account of his age. I hope I’m in as good shape when I’m that age. (Can’t have a wife that much younger, though. I guess I could get a divorce. But I’m a democrat. My vows mean something to me.) But anyway, I was watching the Giulinai endorsement and the guy’s mind really seeme to be wandering. Maybe that’s unfair to McCain. Rudy can do that to ya. But then Mccain called Rudy a hero. Could somebody - anybody - tell me what Rudy ever did to be called a hero?
I try to imagine each of those characters as neighbors. Huck would be trying to get me to church, a bit of a do gooder in the Ned Flanders vein, Ron Paul would be mingling with unsavory elements that exist under the “libertarian” banner, closet nazis, crypto racists, probably be some gun fire, McCain would be stealing drunk, stealing my yard nomes when he is in a balckout, and Romeny would be looking down his nose at us working folks. No wonder George Bush was the GOP nominee the last two times. They are pathetic. I hope we can beat them…….how could we screw it up this time?
note to self - jayt - please stop arguing against Willard; that’s who you really want to run against…
Absolutely, BFL, there’s no way that shouldn’t be known. I don’t know anyone that listens to him but if I run across someone, I’ll be sure to point that out.
Ya think? Hope so. i’m concerned that they could wind up being anti-Hillary, rather than pro-McCain voters (assuming she’s the nominee)
he made his chauffeur cheif of police for 200 Alex?
I bow to your superior insight. You are absolutely right, sir.
Kinda stinky though.
Didn’t ya think Huck was off his game a little tonight? He sounded kinda Bush-style pissy there for a bit.
yea i spose
Before i ran one by the people in a thread: we’ve been holding our noses and voting for people alot; who didja hold yer nose tightest for? the least?
new question: does Rudy look better as a boy or girl?
watching my pre-recorded KO - brings up a good point - that there may be 500,000 plus votes already sent in before the latest Obama surge became apparent and viable. Cali vote may end up not accurately reflecting the current state of actual Cali preference…
what is Hucks game? children that kill bio of his spawn?
That McCain sure is mean & ornery.
But this immigration bill plan won’t work: McCain doesn’t go to work anymore.
girl def
“C’mon; let’s do it…”
Wicked, wicked, Jane. :o)
I like that. :o)
What a mixed day this has been. Edwards out; Rudi out.
arghhhhhhhhhhh the media will try to steal it again for the pukes
I disagree, Rudy campaigning for McCain in the Northeast will work against McCain …
I didn’t watch. But he’s been doing a good job day-in and day out from what I can tell bein’ folksy an’ all. So I guess he’s entitled. Would have been better not to do it in front of a national TV audience. I guess it’s commin’ down to a two man race and he’s not one of ‘em. Maybe that’s got him pissy. He seemed OK last night, though.
The press will do a good job of portraying McCain aa a safe and comfortable centrist. One thing I fear about a McCain candidacy is that I will spend a lot of time explaining to well-meaning friends with good values that such a McCain is a con and a fiction. Problem is that a lot of reasonable people want to buy that con becuase it makes them feel good.
On other hand, a campaign against McCain that emphasizes policy positions and direction of the country stuff would be effective. “A good man and an OLD war hero who deserves our thanks has wandered off onto a very wrong and dangerous path for the country. More in sorrow than in anger we oppose him.”
Problem is that if he keeps lying his ass off and weasling at this rate, that approach will be difficult. He seems to be heading off into Bush/Rove hack and smear territory too, but then I haven’t listened for the last half hour or so.
But then, there will always be the ‘less jobs more war’ option.
Rudy Giuliani boldly walked into an enemy encampment of concrete dust and never looked back.
-G
He stood up to the ferrets!
Hah !
Agree. 100%. Did ya hear Rudy’s endorsement; “I’ll go anywhere John wants me to go — or not.” Northeast. Not.
and oh so safe…im off to have soup 17 degrees here…nite,nite
He’s fighting Romney for the Bush-lover voters, and sounding “Bush-style pissy” was no doubt a carefully crafted, long-practiced, scripted attempt to reach them with the nonverbal message “If you liked the smirk at the SOTU earlier this week, you’re gonna love me.”
I think they are all Bush style pissy at the core. You put them on the spot long and hard enough and it comes out. So I am never surprised at seeing that. I may have tuned out by the time whatever you are referring to occured.
With the press I think it works if you can combine it with threat of some kind of violence if you don’t lay off (not physical violence, but general threat of heavy manners).
Huck was off his game tonight, imo, in direct proportion to the extent that he was being ignored, and forced to bitch about it.
Yo Huck - see John Edwards’ pronouncement of earlier today. Listen and learn - ’cause yours is coming soon.
As is your acceptance of the V.P. nomination for McCain, imo. So go easy.
Time to put them all back in their pens with some rolled oats for their tummies and hope a pack of ferrel dogs get them tonight.
I was cranky last night after that meaningless election for us and the R’s had an important one. Then today my guy quits. Bad 24 hrs.
Rudy would be trying to talk you into coming over for swingers night.
-G
Re; McCain and his marbles - he is part of a pattern of having brain-dead presidents with Cheney running the govt.
Speakin’ of oats. Did ya see that Wilfred Brimley is Mccain’s celebrity supporter?
That wasn’t a FOX sponsored debate was it? Funny if they had to let Paul in when they kept him outta the NH debate but 2/5 guys from their NH debate are gone. Dr. Paul’s goin’ to the convention!! I have no idea why.
I thought that was a joke. Is Wilfred Brimley really McCain’s celebrity supporter?
How could Wilfred not support Willard? It makes no sense!
Rudy would be trying to talk you into coming over for swingers night.
But at least he wouldn’t be looking to collect sales tax from the whole thing, a la Huck.
So long, Ghouli… *s*
I voted today!
Yes. Oatmeal and prune juice on the Straight Talk Express.
-G
Bill Richardson had Judge Reinhold campaigning in NH.
-G
That will be Big in Utah.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....79945.html
I couldn’t make this shit up.
I know how you feel. In the last thread I had to ask someone if they were joking. I said I can’t tell the jokes alot of the time because I’ll believe almsot anything about any of these guys.
Too bad Edwards quit. I think he was a positive force in the race, regardless of his chances of winning. Not sure who I will vote for. But then the lackluster (in my opinion) presidential race will allow me to indulge in my fixation on good grassroots results for next Congress.
Wondering if Richardson will endorse this week.
Now, now. Don’t be scorning the main food groups of the old (she says checking her cupboards -yup).
Beerfart, tell me something I don’t know.
It’s Wilford, not Wilfred, Tweety.
Can’t the Dems get any elderly actors behind them?
Well, I learned somethin’ new today.
It’s the right thing to do…As Wilford would say.
-G
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
Elderly actors who love cockfighting?
ewww
They have some. Don’t they?
How ’bout Ah-nald to counter Liberfuck.
I dont’ like the phrase ’straight talk express’ It is a con, and one that is too easily accepted by the public. We need a parody of it for the cammpaign.
Straight talk distress?
Straight talk expires?
straight talk exhaust?
Need something to kill that off. Something to go with ‘less jobs more war’?
oh, jeez, you took the words right out of my mouth
In light of Arnold’s pending endoresement, I recommend that you all forward this Youtube to your nearest Republican friend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uerFZ2Z42nc
Arnold does Rio.
-G
Hiya GregB-
Any update on GS Sununu v Shaheen?
Disclosure: I am not happy my guy dropped out today. But, I plan to focus on House races, bec. these will be just as important as the presidential race.
And, BA has some great progressive candidates to support, Donna Edwards being at the top of my list.
http://www.actblue.com/page/blueamerica08
Arnold preps for his endorsement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
Ah luf Jawn Mick Cayne.
-G
My clock was off when I said Letterman was coming up soon, anyway his show has weird crap like Dr. Phil tonight.
I apologize for EPU’ing my own comment from downstairs, but folks have mentioned McCain up here:
News Flash! Senate staffers reveal McCain is unstable, constantly threatens staffers for Senators that he will ruin their career in Washington if they oppose. Senate staffers are frightened to enter any room inhabited by McCain. Hill staffers think he’s unstable. A few Senators are frightened of him.
I wonder why the MSM has not done any investigating of this open & notorious phenomenon on Capitol Hill.
Does anyone know what the Las Vegas Odds are on the fight tomorrow Barack vs. Billiary?
What time will the weigh in be?
It’s my understanding Tom Brady and Eli Manning will not be commentators for “the best political team on TV.”
Will the format be full of goofey gimics, or will they let them debate on a series of topics?
Will Clinton be asked by the best political team on TV tomorrow night?:
1) Could you please release the donors to the Clinton library you’re refusing to release and their ammounts because all large fund raising by any candidate is very relevant? There are a plethora of large foreign contributors including Saudi Arabia. Americans would like to know all the contributors and amounts. We thought Denise Rich’s near $400,000 contribution and the pardon of her husband, a fugitive from federal criminal charges was relevant and a bit analagous to the Libby sentence modification/commuting by Bush.
2) Are you aware Senator Clinton that Waxman introduced legislation to make you reveal the donors that passed in the House but has been “stalled” for months in the Senate?
3) Why is President Clinton covering up the byzantine financial ties between him and billionaire pal Ron Burkle?
4)Why have you and President Clinton refused to release 3,022,030 health care documents from the Clinton library given that you assert health care is a major issue in your campaign plank?
5)How does the refusal to releaser the health care documents, and the contributors to the Clinton Libary comport with your husband’s statement on 1/21/08 that he wants to be “totally transparent?”
6) You told Barack Obama, in the tone of a stern Victorian schoolmarm, that “the Republicans will be asking you about anything.” Do you not think they are raising these questions about you?
7)Why did you wait, after announcing from the Green Zone in February 2005 that “Iraq was functioning quite well” until November 2005 to do your prodigious flip-flop?
The trick is in the timing. You have to make sure that it’s submitted while he’s on the campaign trail so that he can’t “pull it”…or when he’s scheduled to give an important speech or something and has to rush back. Then all you’d have to do is get enough votes to really make the Republicans have to deal with it.
I’d think the best moment would be after he has enough votes to actually win the nomination, or pretty close. That would be best because it would then result in a backlash and Romney would be able to extend the battle out longer. Drain their campaign war chests, keep the Republican base at each others throats, even get many of those that supported McCain having regrets…but allow him to win the election based on the delegates he has (or throw it open to a bloody floor fight)!!!