zed hi christy

Christy, here is the Jon Stewart “f” you Romney clip:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/.....ney-fc-yu/

Love Aretha.

I’ve had that “it’s too late to apologize” song on my mind these days.

Do you think that there’s some Grand Master Reverse Psychology Scheme by Wingnuts to get their party in the White House by screaming how much they hate McCain?

Bizarro.

Christy! Zed + 1

Another good link to a “reality” near you. Infragard….:

http://dailykos.com/storyonly/.....979/452597

Hey all. Just got my mammogram results back and…yay…looks good. Total relief here today.

There’s probably some truth to this, since they know McCain can’t win.

Can’t even get the election close enough to steal, because the base won’t turn out.

So, why not fall back on what they do best? Whine and complain about big government while regrouping for 2010 & 2012.

Aretha
Music
Juxtaposed to
ancillary assholes
Sweet!!!!!!!!!

Great news Redd! Hug that p-nut.

{{{{{Christy!!!!!}}}}}

Congrats, Redd!

Phew!! Yay!!

Am enjoying reading whatever I can about right wing wailing.

It’s beginning to dawn on the brightest among them that GW Clusterfuck threatens the death of their “movement” not by his failures, but by his successes. He did what they claim will create nirvana- and it’s created unadultrated shit. How embarassing for them. How delightful!!

Now they must find a way to burn him in effigy- remove his name from the rolls of conservative presidents- say one hundred “Hail Ronnies” and get back to the business of returning to the nineteenth century.

That’s wonderful. A relief every year.

good news, I didn’t know you had a test you were waiting for, good it’s negative

Redd

What great news. Congratulations!!

Schuster said that Hillary is pimping out Chelsea. I hate that fucking asshole.

a reminder - men should get checked, too.

And don’t be all macho and squeamish, that’s what the drugs are for!

Having met Shuster a couple of times, he’s a nice guy. It was a stupid thing for him to say. Shouldn’t have said it. But it isn’t a pattern with him like it is with Tweety and Scarborough…it was simply a stupid thing to say in my opinion.

I like Shuster- although he’s a bit on the geeky side. I suspect that he doesn’t like Hillary and that led to a totally stupid remark- we’ve all made em- but makin em on TeeVee has consequences.

Yeah, I found a lump a few days ago and they had to work me in for a quick mammogram. Had one removed several years ago, and I have a family history of breast cancer, so we don’t take any chances on that in this house.

But, having just gotten an all clear, I can now exhale a little bit…

Ha! Christy they have stepped into our EVIL TRAP, We are not going to just raise interest rates and Taxes like they hoped.
Nope we will tax the rich ONLY. We will cut Military Spending (the GOP so hoped that their spending on the army would force us to cut Social Security, nope not going to happen)
We will put people back to work with work projects cause if it worked for FDR after the great depression it will work for us.
Now unlike GOP projects that never work like the entire Bush Presidency our projects on clean energy, hybrid cars, Healthcare will cut the amount of money Americans spend on electric power, Oil and Healthcare.
Healthcare used to be the biggest cause of Bankruptcy in America but with the SubPrime Crises I’m not so sure.
The money we regular people save will be invested back into the American economy a trickle up process.

How could Hillary and McCain be neck and neck. 99% of the Repubs hate McCain and they hate Hillary. The Dems are 50/50 for Hillary. So, it’s more like:

Hillary/Obama 50%
McCain 1%
Undecided and other 49%

This is the only time I can recall Schuster putting his foot in his mouth. I also don’t know why Chelsea’s work is so objectionable…don’t all kids campaign for their parents? It’d be weird not to.

Schuster is a smuck and always has been and ought to be on FOX where misogyny is a way of life.

Because there is an enormous pool of independents out there and they haven’t really made up their minds?

It never fails, anybody does anything wrong and we got someone that just jumps ugly. Guess it’s that free speech thing.

MSNBC have tried to put both Gregory and Schuster into talking head in charge roles- but it hasn’t worked well with either. I think Gregory might be able to pull it off with practice. Schuster just doesn’t seem to have what it takes.

I worry that McCain CAN win. For ever thing we tag him with, they can tag Clinton worse. His worst scandels are mostly forgotten and for some reason people remember him as talking budgetary sense to Bush and losing, thus insulating him from that particular bit of baggage.

Further, MSM is AGREEING with him that the surge is working, therefore he looks like a brave genius compared to tail-between-the-legs liberal idiots.

We got a problem here, folks. Clinton’s negatives are so high that McCain will get a look from a lot of the undecideds. And McCain is viewed as strong in all the areas where Obama is weak.

Boxturtle (Please, Goddess, don’t force me to choose between Clinton and McCain)

I believe Schuster began at Fox and then escaped to MSNBC.

He refused to apologize until he was ordered to by the network.

He stuck up for Tweety when he was called on his misogynistic remarks about Hillary.

So it wasn’t a slip and there’s no excuse for it. It’s outrageous. In the 50s and 60s no one would ever have talked that way about a candidate’s daughter.

Great comment.

The fact that things went to shit in and of itself isn’t the crime, just that they went to shit so quickly and on Bush’s watch and denying them deniability.

Naked ambition has to remain behind closed doors (see entry: Cheney) but Bush was just too transparent in his Power for Power’s Sake and greedy grab for more. IE his marketing sucks.

Heh. FOX (slogan: “Our lawyers said we get to call this shit news”) ID’s McCain as a Democrat.

http://hotair.com/archives/200.....f-the-day/

Or maybe we get a Center Dem for President who relives the Carter Presidency
who fixes the economy at great cost thus paving the way for a second Reagen.
In which case living standards will drop again and without a second Bill Clinton we will never get out of the hole.
We will be England after the Second World War a fading empire.

That’s not how you spell schumck, schlemiel.

McCain must be a red herring.

I have to say, I’m just about up to here with the all angry, alla time thing. Wearing me out.

Republicans. We are going to beat you all. Soundly. Get used to it. You’re going to gone a mighty long time.

Obama/Hillary or Hillary/Obama. Now that’s the ticket!

I know but do you see any end in sight?

I just finished eating jeesh
Being this way for them must really be fun
I wish I was only 2 degrees
Of the magnificence of 360 degrees of possibility
Then I wouldn’t be so insanely upset

That’s not how you spell it either: “Schmuck”….

;P

How was school?

Yes, I believe that I said it was a stupid thing to say. Or did you miss that part?

What a relief, I’m so glad to hear this!

Ha!

I was checkin to see who was paying attention *g*

I forecast Nasty until November…after that, who knows?

Alas, not any time soon. In fact, as edgy as everyone has been of late, I worry that it will get worse before it gets better. Blergh.

I’m skeptical that Clinton is “polarizing” and that she antagonizes independents, and I’m an Obama supporter (I think her advantage among white women is an underestimated advantage, and Obama’s race an underestimated disadvantage). It is going to be a different country in ten months, and not in a better way. Neither independents nor anyone else will be more disposed to any Republican candidate.

Having met Shuster a couple of times, he’s a nice guy.

and to his everlasting credit, Shuster seems to be absolutely *hated* by JoeScar. The Scar called in this morning to lay some crap on Shuster. And here’s what I noticed:

Scarborough *never* insults Shuster when they’re in the same room. If Shuster is on the road and comes in via satellite, JoeScar says “Here come the America-hating portion of the show”. This morning, Shuster was on the set, and JoeScar was not, but called in by phone, dropping some crap on Shuster.

But *never* while they’re in the same room, at the same time. Guys notice little things like that…

Haha, I saw that. It’s either lazy, incompetent, juvenile, intentional or all of the above.

I think the economy is going to be McCain’s bane. He wants to out-Bush the Bushies, let him have at it. He can attach himself to each and every failure, whole hog.

The DSCC has 29.4 Million left to spend while the Repubs have 12.1 Million. Huge advantage there.

Parent-teacher conferences all day today. The kids got the day off. I love my job, even on days like this. ;0)

I’m going to stick up for Shuster now. He’s the only one I’ve noticed that really confronts BS artists when it really matters and he does it with…Facts. I really really like that in a journalist.

Bush’s failed tenure in office highlights the problem that repugs (esp. neo-cons) have in general; if you hate government, what’s your incentive to run it correctly?

Government only serves as a grab bag for them; no bid contracts, pallets full of US currency lost (is anyone even looking for the 8.8 billion anymore?) lobbying gigs & 50 grand-a-pop boring speeches when you’re done.

Oh yeah, they also appreciate the chance to stack the courts from SCOTUS on down to minimize jail time for the unlucky few who get caught.

I don’t know Shuster, but if that comment was out of character for him, and he’s otherwise a good guy, I’d give him a break.

Here’s a nice break:
The Potato Song by Cheryl Wheeler

They’re red, they’re white, they’re brown
They get that way underground
There can’t be much to do
So now they have blue ones too

We don’t care what thay look like we’ll eat them
Any way they can fit on our plate
Every way we can conjure to heat them
We’re delighted and think they’re just great

Refrain
Poh tay toe Poh tay toe Poh tay toe Poh–
Tay toe poh Tay toe poh Tay toe poh Tay–
Toe poh tay Toe poh tay Toe poh tay Toe–
Poh tay toe Poh tay toe Poh tay toe!

Sometimes we ditch the skin
To eat what it’s holding in
Sometimes we’d rather please
Have just the outside with cheese

They have eyes but they do not have faces
I don’t know if their feelings get hurt
By just hanging around in dark places
Where that only can stare at the dirt

Refrain

I guess the use is scant
For other parts of the plant
But that which grows in view
Is eating potato too

I imagine them under their acres
Out in Idaho and up in Maine
Maybe wondering if they’ll be bakers
Or knishes or latkes or plain

Refrain

I love the digby quote above. Goopers only chance of winning in the long run is to lose this election. I don’t know how many of em realize that- but it’s the truth. Dealing with the aftermath of GW Clusterfuck is going to be SO nasty that it will KILL the next presidency. If that president is a gooper- that’s all she wrote- end of party. Hand in yer elephants guys- this things OVER. Buy mooses.

I guess the MittSpawn are gonna have to pimp a new ride now. Apparently their wheels were made by “Lose-abago.”

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/im.....mobile.jpg

Bush is conservatism writ large. And he needs to be hung around all of their necks like the big, sinking anchor that he is.

OT - Mukasey won’t enforce Meirs and Bolton supeonas

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Our Constitution is under threat and the most basic principle of checks and balances is being undermined. Not since Watergate has a president so openly disregarded the will of Congress.

During hearings in the Judiciary Committee yesterday, I told Attorney General Michael Mukasey that I called for impeachment hearings because of the stonewalling and blatant abuses of the Bush Administration. He responded by stating that he will NOT enforce a contempt of Congress citation against Harriet Miers and White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten for refusing to testify before Congress. The video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7M9sjRLCtQ

Alberto Gonzales may be long gone, but the Bush Administration continues its executive overreach with the new Attorney General.

We can debate the need for Impeachment hearings. We can argue its effects on the election or our agenda. But one thing is abundantly clear:

If Congress’ right to require testimony is undermined, then our country’s leaders - Democrat, Republican, or Independent - will be immune from accountability.

The power of the subpoena - to call officials before us - is one of the most fundamental safeguards in our system of government. To have it effectively discarded - by virtue of the President instructing Administration officials to ignore a congressional subpoenas and not even appear before Congress - is unprecedented. The idea that the Attorney General would willingly defend this position - despite Congress’ constitutional right to call such witnesses, is outrageous.

Impeachment hearings could render this moot: The President, Vice President, and all officials under them would no longer invoke executive privilege. There would be no more smokescreens.

In one week, I will be delivering my letter calling for impeachment hearings to Chairman John Conyers. Already, 16 Members of Congress have joined my call, including 3 Judiciary Committee members. I am hopeful for more in the coming days, but it is important for you to reach out to your representative in Congress to express how you feel. You can view the current list of signers, here: http://www.wexlerforcongress.c.....ItemID=230

I do not know how Congress will react, but I do know this: I will pursue this course aggressively. I will not compromise away the constitutional role of Congress. Your support is invaluable. Please know that I am working everyday to ensure that the Bush Administration is held accountable.

Please continue to support this movement at www.wexlerwantshearings.com.

Yours truly,

Congressman Robert Wexler

I have to agree I think Hilary is too much in the Center myself. I don’t find her annoying personally.

Christy
Great News, and great post, lots to think about.
But most importantly you are healthy..Big Smile

It’s gonna take a lot more than one slip to turn me against Shuster….

This is a bit shallow, but I think people will also find his persona and his physical presence off putting — I hope not too many people here take offense, but he comes across as a bit of an old kook. He’s not aged well, or matured politically in the eight years since the press fell in love with him. And on matters of war — when he’s not a bore he’s a psychotic. People don’t want any more of Iraq, much less Iran, and even that warmonger Clinton can campaign against him on that, much as it will disgust me to see her avoid any responsibility for or discussion of the real substantial problems with out imperialism.

TGIF folks. My lady will be here shortly and we are going nowhere tonight. We are having another teacher couple over later for supper, and we all appreciate the benefits of big shaved ice margaritas. As usual, I’m the tender of the bar and the cook. Probably the KP’ster too.

Afu3kingmen

Thanks. Just sent that to my granddaughter - she’ll love it.

you deserve a raise… *g*

You never know what can happen with a foursome and enough margaritas.

McCain is Bush III (Dr. Dean’s slogan looks pretty good to me).

I’m wondering what will happen first? — the final exhaustion of Delay’s pretrial appeal which seems to be in interminable limbo or will troops be withdrawn from Iraq to stop the unaccounted for hemorrhage of lives and treasure. I’m betting both of them have a life of at least one hundred years.

Idiot’s award to former Judge in S.D.N.Y. Mike Mukasey who took a whiz on his former federal judges in trying to scare House Judiciary on the release of crack offenders mandated by the recent decision by the U.S. Sentencing Commission.

Division in DOJ Over Crack Retroactivity

Confusion Surrounds New Crack Sentencing Rules

Mukasey tried to tell House Judiciary yesterday that hundreds of violent offenders would be released attempting to undermine any aspect of rehabilitation that occurs within his own prison system managed by his own spralling agency, BOP, and trying to pretend a federal judge doesn’t review the releases on a case by case basis. Maxine Waters called bullshit on Mukasey telling him he was in effect lying to them, and that’s what got Gonzo canned. Good for her.

Waters Catches Mukasey Bullshitting and Tells Him to his Face
Mukasey was a spineless bastard on the federal bench as well, pretending to examine a defendant who was beaten from the bench by eyeballing him (Mukasey has zero medical traning and even less medical knowledge), and demonstrating his total ignorance of Supreme Court case law that governs medical care for prisoners.

Mukasey rounded up scores of people who had committed no crime and held them as material witnesses where they were abused in NY by the BOP, and often prevented from contacting lawyers or family.

Seventy Two year old midget with a grapefruit sized growth of some kind on his cheek would be the best person to represent the gooper party in my opinion.

I’m the tender of the bar and the cook

may you be the recipient of tender “mercis“

Oh yea. Now that’s how you do it!

Wexler said “not since Watergate…” This is so far beyond Watergate, and was about 2-3 years ago. Just think if Impeachment was on that lonely table last year. We’d have so much more information now, that the Repubs would be done for good. Mucousy exists to stonewall just long enough now, and that’s all he’s doing.

Thanks Nancy and Harry!

Now is the time we feel (in this house) to encourage an Obama/Clinton or Clinton/Obama ticket. To ensure victory. It is time, we think, to tone down the invective on Dems and to turn up the positive volume on our Democratic candidates. ‘Happy days are here again’ sort of thing.

My favorite quote about McCain this week — from Thad Chochran of Mississippi: “The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me.”

The fact that he’s totally reversed course since Mittens dropped out makes it all the more amusing…

Move America Forward truly confuses me. They want Marines to speak to student and tell recruiting lies to young minds because they need more and more to feed the greedy war machine. What do they use to argue their rights: Freedom of speech. Are these the same military who do not have the right to criticize the military and the prez war policy? This boggles my logic.

Where do you suppose all those skin heads came from who traveled over hill and dale to get to Berkeley, where they didn’t live? I first lived in Berkeley in the sixties (gave myself away) and they objected to the military hanging on their streets then.

Move America Forward does have reason to want to shut Berkeley up because other cities will follow and others after that and soon you got the governor going against the Bushies and the EPA. See where such rebellion leads? Everywhere.

I so did not need that mental image. *g* (Have a good evening, kiddo…but no pictures.)

McCain=Bush, McCain=Bush… Rinse and repeat… Aloha Ya’ll!

Good to hear of your test results, Christy.

God help us all if the old man got traction.

Now is the time we feel (in this house) to encourage an Obama/Clinton or Clinton/Obama ticket. To ensure victory. It is time, we think, to tone down the invective on Dems and to turn up the positive volume on our Democratic candidates. ‘Happy days are here again’ sort of thing.KIddo

That’s the ticket

…which is why a Rovian campaign appeals to me. Frame this survivor of war as “unfit to command”, mentally and physically. On the domestic front, frame the “straight talker” as an S&L crook and a Bush-hugging flip-flopper.

I used to make the real margaritas, with freshly squeezed lemon and lime juice, and Cointreau. Drinking them out of the big margarita glasses was the mistake.

You said: On the domestic front, frame the “straight talker” as an S&L crook and a Bush-hugging flip-flopper.

Well…um…he is an S&L crook and a Bush-hugging, serial flip-flopper. So that isn’t exactly a stretch. *g*

If ya liked Bush 1 and Bush 2- yer gonna LOVE Bush 3 (show picture of McCain kissin Bush’s armpit- eyes closed in glorius sexual ecstasy”.

stupid question, maybe - does Ann Coulter have any influence in the wingnut group or is she just talking to herself? I honestly don’t know.

RieszFischer February 8th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
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In response to Christy Hardin Smith @ 20
He refused to apologize until he was ordered to by the network.

He stuck up for Tweety when he was called on his misogynistic remarks about Hillary.

So it wasn’t a slip and there’s no excuse for it. It’s outrageous. In the 50s and 60s no one would ever have talked that way about a candidate’s daughter.
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the public discourse in this country has become so coarsened in the past fifty years that it is difficult to hold the line at much of anything. television and radio networks should certainly make the effort, certainly with their employees. David Shuster doesn’t have enough character to work to a high standard in this environment. as you pointed out, he let his true self be revealed when he backed up Tweety Matthews. he confirmed it with his stiff and disingenuous “appology” for the pimped episode.

Are you singing the mammogram song?
(to the tune of Thanks for the Memories)

Thanks for the mammogram.
The left one and the right,
You squished them really tight.
But now I know that I’m OK
And I can sleep at night.
So, thanks for the mammogram.

Old Coastie needs to toast herself: http://camajorityreport.com/in.....038;ptid=9

It appears that the proposed Republican power grab initiative to split California’s electoral college votes is dead (as in stake through its heart, dead).

Yesterday was the last day for the right-wing proponent of the measure to file signatures for the initiative. And there was no sign of signatures being filed anywhere in the state. That means there’s no chance it will make the November 2008 ballot since the clock has run out.

…

As it gets nastier and nastier I notice I retreat deeper and deeper into my patio garden which is where I am heading now. I need the sun and earth to heal my poor soul. Lordy be. Have mercy!

Collect pictures of McCain tryin to get down the ramp of an airplane- he hobbles like a ninety year old.Vigorous enough for the toughest job in the world? I don’t think so.

Clarity - Not FDL but news in general

I have to say, I was thinking about your mammo song while I was getting it. And the tech got a giggle out of it, as well, when I told her why I was laughing.

They will show that picture, thank God. I am in the DC media market and I was frankly surprised to see Ben Cardin’s campaign commercials feature pictures of Michael Steele and Bush…framed by a heart. The idea of McCain as a formidable opponent is laughable.

McCain’s just a placeholder. His VP, Jeb, will be hanging in the shadows, really running things and waiting for McCain to auger-in. He may not have to wait long.

Oh boy, my lady is here! She brought the sunshine in with her, just like always. And she’s happy. And so… I’m happy too.

McCain’s been in the senate for eons- taking Goldwater’s place I believe. He’s probably voted at least once for every hateful thing in the universe and at least once against every good thing. His voting record is a trove to be mined- as well as his Keating Five days…

Goopers are pleased that he will be the sacraficial lamb this November to atone for the miracle that was GW Clusterfuck. They HATE him.

I’m very glad it turned out well. The techs do seem to like it, don’t they?

Sounds like a sunny weekend!

CHS - Quick drive by here since you seemed amused by this mess yesterday (I have been for a while now and I am not even a Clemens fan). Why is a Federal Controlled Substances criminal distribution investigation being handled by an IRS investigator (Novitsky), resulting in a plea agreement (Radomsky) that mandates cooperation with an independent and case un-related sports business (Major League Baseball), the credibility of whose report is now being more doggedly protected by the Congress of the United States than are our Constitutional rights as to FISA? Add on to that pile of poo the creepy government informant that is well known by previous law enforcement that has had encounters with him on a rape case for being completely untruthful and whose bizarre lawyers think their client engages in “standard practices in the business” for keeping bloody steroid needles over seven years in a crushed up beer can in his garage (after lying to federal investigators and courts that he had no such evidence)..

Rasmussen has CrazyTrain beating Clinton right now by 3%. Obama beats him by 5%.

Hey AZ.

That should be true, but don’t be suprised when it’s not. The Democrats will do nothing except continue their march to minority status. Remember, they selected and have kept in place Harry and Nancy.

Thank You from Chris Dodd (YouTube)

No way they add Jebidiah to the McCain atonement sacrafice. Givin up one old goat is enough.