lolBoehner!

Christy!

Pelosi really did make the minority look like a bunch of partisan hacks.

Heh. Heh.

Love the pic — I could not believe that the Republicans walked out! What a bunch of losers.

Signed, thanks Christy

The “Pelosi is a Bitch” rant to begin soon.

What a boner. It will be fun to see the Republicans gradually come apart at seems.

Not if she keeps leading!

Ann Coulter: John McCain is the party of George Soros…

Bwahahahahaha!!!

Just keep shaking my head at the goings on this week….. One day we lose the 4th Amendment…. the next you have the GOP children going out for an unexcused recess…… and not able to honor the memorial of a fellow congressman because those children pulled tricks….

My only reservation is that Pelosi seems willing to “negotiate” with W tomorrow.

Read link. Good for Hoyer for speaking forcefully! Did not expect it.

The thought of the committee chairmen staying in town brings the word “kabuki” to mind.

I mean by the repugs.

Rush is saying the Dems are all supported by the trial lawyers who represent the plaitiffs; never mind that the plaintiff have rights. Just blame those trial lawyers. Somehow that seems like a really perverse take on the arguement. Surprise?

Heard Pelosi on radio this morning. Her description of the situation was very calm, straightfoward; made a clear, concise and understandable case for her position. Quite a contrast to Reid. I hope she keeps it up.

Oh, but you see, this tactic has worked again and again for these jerks. Same play, different repug.
It blew back in their faces this time though.

Cry me a river Boner.

Dana Pinhead-o sez:

“The ‘people’s House’ should reflect the priorities of the American people, not the fantasies of left-wing bloggers.”

-G

Only problem is that if she keeps it up I will have to quit my stupid wisecracks about the High Civility of Lady Pelosi and Dame Nancy Ditzified Dignity. Well, OK, I hope she makes me look like a damn fool in rerospect.

OH Buddy! Link?
pretty pretty please?

Ah! Well, that is a given :)

I was just reading someone’s take on narcissists who said by age 3 children become more sociable and share. Narcissists seem to get stuck in the terrible twos. Odd how I immediately thought of the current republican party.

Trial lawyers with clients like Tom Delay, Rush Limbaugh, Larry Craig, Jack Abramoff, Bob Ney, Scooter Libby…..

-G

lol!

Signed the petition. Thanks, Christy.

Pelosi has a serious “star-struck” condition for which there seems to be no antidote. Some people suffer from this disease and other out-grow it. When she meets with shrub she will not have all her senses. She will need strong people around her to act as her antidote. Who?

John McCain is the party of the 100 year war. That is NOT the party of George Soros. He’s a Republic, too bad their heads want to explode all over that thought. Truth hurts poor wittle repubwics.

Someone should tell Miz Perino that 70% of the American people would love to see her boss facing impeachment…

Same, i’ll gladly wear the dunce cap.

btw, I updated the post above. I meant to put in a link about the crass interruption of the Lantos memorial service today by the GOP. Really striking out on the crap behavior today, aren’t they?

Donna?

Who needs a bomb sight with these guys anymore?
It’s like squashing ants with a sledgehammer.

Mittie to endorse Johnny.

Now is that what passes for GOP excitement.

I didn’t see Rush bitching about his lawyer keeping his ass out of jail…

“crasshole” … I like it ;)

And out of drug court.

Dana gets harder and harder to listen to. She is soooo sour and hateful. Clearly, she despises her job and human in general. She is so contemptuous of Helen Thomas. Dana, babe, Helen has already forgotten than more than you will ever know.

The republicans in congress are hyping the threat as if an imminent attack is a real danger. As if they know something.
BTW they also missed a vote to honor African American Inventors and to recognize the NAACP’s anniversary.

The republicans in congress are hyping the threat as if an imminent attack is a real danger. As if they know something.

cynical … but easy to know something if you’re helping facilitate it …

Don’t forget Robert Bork. You know, the failed Supreme Court appointee who believed so much in forcing people to take personal responsibility for the bad things that happen. Until he fell climbing the steps at the Yale club and sued for I believe it was a million dollars for his pain and suffering due to their negligence in having a loose railing.

Yeah. And he didn’t resist when the ACLU spoke out to protect his rights to privacy regarding his medical records.

I’ve read that the cases are run by non-proift civil rights organizations, staffed with lawyers giving up mega-$$$ to do the right thing. But, the reactionary authoritarians seem to rely on the same list of standard lies these days.

I cannot believe that they made a demonstration at Lantos’ service. That is disgusting.

Dana constantly pulling at her hair is another reason to turn off the teevee.

As to the Speaker? This Democrat will wait a bit to comment on that subject. Until I talk with my SOD (my significant other Democrat). She’s not home from work yet.

Dana Pinhead-o sez:

“The ‘people’s House’ should reflect the priorities of the American people, not the fantasies of left-wing bloggers.”

Well, at least now she acknowledges our existence. First they ignore you . . .

The comments on that WaPo blog post are excellent.

The Saudis are our friends.

Saudi Arabia to execute woman for ‘witchcraft’

BEIRUT, Lebanon - A leading human rights group appealed to Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah on Thursday to stop the execution of a woman accused of witchcraft and performing supernatural acts.

If the House stands up where the Senate didnt, I will be both surprised and pleased. Pelosi will rise in my estimation.

Interesting they voted to hold Bolten and Harriet Miers in contempt for not testifying about the US Attonery firings after all this time.

What was her supernatural act? Childbirth?

The problem with some progressives is that they’re still hung up on impeachement. I am one of those who is still hung up.

Wolfie the shitheel called the walkout ’dramatic’. Then he swooned, asked for some water and hit the couch where Suzanne Malveaux began to fan his face with a manila folder.

-G

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23162712/

get well soon Peanut!

Was listening to the speeches on the floor after business was over. Rep Poe (R-TX) kept going on about how FISA was expiring, and that the House was wasting time instead of “Protecting America” (has that been copyrighted yet?) I wanted to write to him through his website, but he’s got one of those zip code checks that I didn’t want to bother with. Man, I wish I could tell these SOBs off.

Did you see my comment to you at the tail end of the last thread? (Serious stuff…)

Tom Price is suuuch a drama queen!

they are … nice to see

1,756 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…

Citizen Hardin Smith and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:

Maybe now that the fascists have been photographed naked in the street and the Democratic leadership in the House has figured out that none a that telecom money is gunna be there after November…now maybe they ken take some testosterone pills (yes I meant that Nancy, get some fightin’ hormones) and march like Sherman through the chiffon elephant that is this corporate fascist government.

KEEP THE FAITH AND DON’T LET THE BASTARDS OUT OF THE OUTHOUSE!!

Sadly, every kid in her preschool class has had this creeping crud. I thought for once she was going to somehow avoid it, because it’s been going around for 3 weeks now. But, alas, she started running a fever Monday night and it’s been kleenex central here ever since.

And momma needs a nap as a result. *g*

Seriously now…

What is a program? And what does it mean to be read into a program?

Who actually does get a read and how do they decide?

Who decides?

Who owns the intel?

If the Speaker says that “impeachment is off the table” then this statement seems to imply a free ride for George W. Bush. And he free ride this prez has gotten.

Good nbews.
House is in recess untile feb 25. That measn teh fisa bill expires and FISA from the 70s is teh ruling authority except for on going investigations

No telcome immunity for now..
I just called Pelosi’s office to aske her support and I was told there will be no vote- houose in recess

Victory is where and when you find it!

Happy valentines days to both girls over there!

You can always FAX if he has an office FAX number listed. That’s what I do when they have a zipcode check.

A friend has a bumper sticker

“Forget impeachment, indict!”

I may have to do that…..just not while I’m at work :)

Does that mean that suits go forward immediately?

Or do they have other tricks to toss them out of court?

What’s with the Quaker, girl?

A Friend.

Listening to Repugs in the House is just silly. All day they’ve suffered indignation. All day they’ve been outraged. All day they have been insulted. All day they demanded an apology. All day they screamed fear. Oh hum! Yawn!

Christy:

Been seein’ a lotta that stuff that the kids have been cross pollinatin’ all winter and it’s BAAAAD now…got 18 legs hairy armpits and needs lotsa heavy antibiotics if yer kid gets it now.

KEEP THE FAITH AND REMEMBER THE KIDS ARE WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO!!

The sky is falling… the sky is falling… our FISA is amiss.

That would be great. But somehow I don’t think the ever objective Mr. Mukasey would go for it. ;0)

I wonder…did the GOP in the House not have the votes on FISA and so they are avoiding a vote on it altogether at this point rather than having to go on record against the rule of law and constituent wishes? The walkout is a bit theatrical, even for them, without some underlying political motive.

And I could sit here and rattle off about a dozen possibilities for the whine-a-thon. Hmmmmmm……

Christy - Take care of yourself. Moms have a way of putting themselves last and getting really sick as a result. Little one will be fine. Remember Mama.

I don’t have any kids.

I want a just world for adults, children and animals!

Well, now that the Republicans have been waving their hankies in the air and turning all pink in the face, I guess we will be hearing all about the FISA issue on ALL of the mainstream stations now.

You’re right, but now lets savor the successes of the House and Senate…passed a resolution condemning cruel and unusual tactics, including water boarding (forcing McBush to vote for torture) and the House for passing the Contempt against Bolten and Myers…took a long time in coming but maybe this is the watershed.

Also the ethics committee admonished (I guess that is milder than censure) Larry Craig…even my unSenator Cornyn agreed.

Today makes up for yesterday…for awhile anyway.

Has anyone been following the Sibel Edmonds disclosures in “The Times”? If true, Edmond’s story sounds very factually intricate and difficult to unravel, like most tales of corruption, I suppose. It would be useful to have a chronology and a cast of characters.

did someone mention terrorsurrenderterrorsurrenderterrorsurrender ?

I Remember Mamma… do you?

NY Times???

‘Tis a puzzlement.

kiddo@52:
Disturbing article. Lower court reissues death penalty to ‘protect the creed, soul & property of the country’. I have no doubt religious extremists in this country would happily do the same thing here, if they could.

You can always use the address of a national chain store located in the zip code of his home office…

Was King Abdullah seen mocking her the way our Dear Leader mocked Karla Faye Tucker prior to her execution?

Lukery has been doing a fabu job trying to unravel the whole thing based on the public reports. Just FYI.

o/

Well, it seems that they are in recess now, so I guess it ended up a moot point for now. I agree, let’s relish this good news for now.

London Times.

George W. Bush has gotten a free ride for his entire life. I wonder if he has passed that royal sense of entitlement on to his daughters?

so here’s the question our lawmakers have to answer;

“suppose a telecom distributes an invention of ours, we can prove the invention is ours and we can prove they stole the data.

will this bill prevent me from recovering my property?”

and;

“suppose some depraved chap in a telecom became insane with wont after hearing my daughter talk on the phone, he stalked her, raped her, murdered her

we can prove the only way he knew about my daughter was through this illegal wiretapping

does this bill mean they have raped and killed my daughter and I can’t get the infomration to prove who that murdering rapist is?”

those are the types of questions that need to be asked of EVERYONE, including the republicans

and I want the democrats that AGREE with us to make examples like those on the house floor and I want them to ask republicans DIRECTLY, do they think a telecom is immune from those situations

A cooler head has once again prevailed. A decision has been handed down. Lahoma advises to indict Bush, Rove, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice and a few others. And fire Pelosi.

Got your email Biodun. Thanx

Thanks. I’ll check that out.

Oh well. I need a laugh about now.

YouTube fun

Romney/McCain news conference endorsing McCain. Nobody wants to talk to ask McCain any questions, they only want to talk to Mitt. Nobody except reporters in the room. Is McCain afraid of people protesting his candidacy from the left and the right if he campaigns openly or held this news conference as a mini-rally instead?

that was supposed to be a yay! o/

The first Twins are extremely special and precious.

Boehner was probably the guy behind the purple heart bandages the Rethugs did at their ‘04 convention. These people are absolutely shameless and deserving of total scorn.

And whazzup with Breathless Blitzer saying Obama’s taking a break. Hello? He was in the Senate while Clinton campaigned. And I’ve yet to hear mention in the TweetyBeard media of Lincoln Chaffee’s endorsement of Obama. CNN’s all McCain-Romney loves me he really really loves me-all the time. Trying to gin up their numbers for Larry King tonight?

Prairie Today: Lessons in Framing: Typhoid Tweety

How come the Pugs are blaming the Dems for reconvening the house during Lantos’ memorial? I don’t get it.

It’s the Newt strategy. Blame anything and everything on your opposition. Never give them a moments rest.

“we’re gonna take our bawl and go home. so there!”

RevDeb, this ties in neatly to the book for Sunday’s Book Salon, “See you in Court” by Thomas Geoghegan (hosted by - yay!- Rick Perlstein).

His thesis is that the conservatives’ systematic takedown of unions in the last 30 or so years is the cause of the rise of litigation in our society in the same time frame. Because we have no more protection against employers’ arbitrary behavior, we have to take them to court to get our due - and it’s all their (conservatives) fault.

One estimate he quotes is that 40% of cases clogging courts today are civil rights (labor) cases that used to be settled privately, between the unions and employers.

Uh, I think ya got yer Revs mixed up there. You were replying to RevBev instead of RevDeb…

Ditto… Kiddo

The rethugs have decided that the chance of winning and no subpoenas for Bolten and Miers is in the courts where they have politicised and can play delay.
Good actuon today…this also took the onus of the Administration.

Not quite as good as Otter’s speech.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8uCS9wcyQ4

“Ladies and gentlemen, I’ll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests - we did….”