Hey we had a bazillion inches of snow how about you?

Nah, we only had a little. :-)

I would love it if Barack said one day, “The only lobbyists I want in my government are the ones lobbying for rebuilding our roads & bridges”

Any and all Democrats can say that repeatedly. It’s a great line.

Anybody have an idea just where the slippery slope begins?

1979

On the economy and George Pinche’s def. a) Kitchen boy. The guys who clean up the Chef’s mess and scrub the frying pans and carry stuff around. In this context it’s still used in Spain

epu’d but note to Maddy, if you check back (purely language note)
Interesting. Didn’t know “pinche” had a literal meaning. Here in South Texas (and, I think, northern Mexico) it is a pejorative, meaning something like “low-class, nasty, offensive thing) as in “that pinche creep acts like he’s better than me.” (Many uses, sometimes used to name-call, indicating the person addressed is very low-class and vulgar.

On the economy and George Pinche’s def. a) Kitchen boy. The guys who clean up the Chef’s mess and scrub the frying pans and carry stuff around. In this context it’s still used in Spain stimulus dick extender package here is a blurb to read, as all things it is on the net grains of salt but basically has the frightening gist http://hypertiger.blogspot.com…..event.html

In his first four decades or so, Obama went from fatherless, lower middle income American to Harvard Law to more than a decade of community service to prominence in state and national legislatures. That stands up pretty well against a law firm partner and politician’s wife any day, even including Hillary’s time in the Senate. As for George…

For his first four decades, George Bush was a trust fund baby/drunken playboy. In the two decades since he purportedly stopped drinking, Bush has been stage managed by a sociopathic political consultant who used the Bush family name and Poppa Bush’s contacts as former president and the wealth of family and friends to become a play acting politician.

Texas may be a politically brutal state, but not in public. Its legislature meets only every other year and the governor (as opposed to those who meet in the oil and cattlemen’s clubs) doesn’t work much harder. In Washington, Cheney does all the heavy lifting, even with a dickie heart.

Bubble Boy has been along for the ride all the way, not just when on his stationary bicycle.

Regarding the Dan Froomkin comment about Bush not recognizing the gap between himself and the reality facing most Americans, that gap is Bush’s defining characteristic. It’s what makes the bubble boy so manipulable by Cheney. And it complies with Rove’s strategy, brilliantly adapted to Bush’s flawed ego, of never admit any failing in any forum. Ever. Regardless of how at odds with reality. Let the opposition make their own case without help from you.

Shorter Russert: Neocon leaning Jews, the ones I met at Dick Cheney’s beach party, say they don’t like you. They don’t see no difference between you and Louis Farrakhan (y’all look alike, anyway). Now that I’ve put that GOP slur on national television, whadya say to a tough guy from Martha’s Vineyard?

Shorter Obama: Brother Timothy. You ask what do I think when an American with extremist political views – with which I strongly disagree – but who has a right to speak his mind and vote – like you, Tim – decides to endorse me?

I say good for him. There’s a lot to do and America needs everybody to pitch in: Republicans, Democrats, professors, students, yard workers, office workers, industrial and service workers, CEO’s, ministers and TV news men.

We don’t have to agree with each other’s politics, Tim. Or agree on who we’d like to have a beer with, what sports teams we favor, or who we want to live next to, date or marry. We need to agree on what we’re going to do to replace George Bush’s failed leadership and fix the mess he’s sure to leave behind. That includes restoring our civil liberties. Now, let me tell you more about what you should have asked me, Tim….

How does that apply here? Just asking.