A bleary 308 morning.

What a quartet! It’s getting clearer by the day what we did to deserve them, but what did the Iraqis do?

Morning, Attaturk…

so I nearly got into an accident driving yesterday listening to this moron actually say the Iraq invasion was some kind of success

HOLY CRAP

is this guy a bigger moron then bush?

if he thinks WE are bigger morons then bush and that we will buy anything he says ever again, then he IS a bigger moron then bush because NOBODY BUT A MORON would ever think he could say something SO RIDICULOUS

I wonder how the HELL Cheney mastered the English language because ANYONE that has the NERVE to say something as BLATANTLY ridiculous as what this guy says is SURELY intellectually challenged

he was TOO stupid to be able to keep from being THROWN OUT of yale, he is a FAILURE at EVERYTHING he does and EVERYTHING he predicts or claims are REDICULOUS

and the democrats need to start LAUGHING OUT LOUD whenver he makes these bizarro claims as if WE MIGHT believe a word he says

Pardon my ignorance, I don’t recognize Senor Pestilence and don’t have time to google around to see who else was in Baghdad today … it is 3 am on the west coast …

I must post a snippet for those of you that didn’t know what kind of failure this moron is;

The Cheney jinx first manifested itself at the presidential level back in 1969, when Richard Nixon appointed him to his first job in the executive branch. It surfaced again in 1975, when Gerald Ford made Cheney his chief of staff and then — with Cheney’s help — lost the 1976 election. George H.W. Bush, having named Cheney secretary of defense, was defeated for re-election in 1992. The ever-canny Ronald Reagan was the only Republican president since Eisenhower who managed to serve two full terms. He is also the only one not to have appointed Dick Cheney to office.
This pattern of misplaced confidence in Cheney, followed by disastrous results, runs throughout his life — from his days as a dropout at Yale to the geopolitical chaos he has helped create in Baghdad. Once you get to know his history, the cycle becomes clear: First, Cheney impresses someone rich or powerful, who causes unearned wealth and power to be conferred on him. Then, when things go wrong, he blames others and moves on to a new situation even more advantageous to himself.

“Cheney’s manner and authority of voice far outstrip his true abilities,” says Chas Freeman, who served under Bush’s father as ambassador to Saudi Arabia. “It was clear from the start that Bush required adult supervision — but it turns out Cheney has even worse instincts. He does not understand that when you act recklessly, your mistakes will come back and bite you on the ass.”

Cheney’s record of mistakes begins in 1959, when Tom Stroock, a Republican politician-businessman in Casper, Wyoming, got Cheney, then a senior at Natrona County High School, a scholarship to Yale. “Dick was the all-American boy, in the top ten percent of his class,” Stroock says. “He seemed a natural.” But instead of triumphing, Cheney failed. “He spent his time partying with guys who loved football but weren’t varsity quality,” recalls Stephen Billings, an Episcopalian minister who roomed with him during Cheney’s freshman (and only full) year at Yale. “His idea was, you didn’t need to master the material,” says his other roommate, Jacob Plotkin. “He passed one psych course without attending class or studying, and he was proud of that. But there are some things you can’t bluff, and Dick reached a point where you couldn’t recover.”

Cheney might have been flunking in the classroom, but he excelled at making connections. ”

in other words, the only way he got into yale in the first place was convincing someone he had some kind of ability, which of course he did NOT, he was a jock wanna be and it is amazing anyone lets this guy anywhere near the china

A preview of Obama’s speech:

>the Constitution has been trashed and must be restored

>the U.S. has supported and committed torture and it must end

>the economy has been wrecked by the power elite in both government and corporate America and that greed will stop, regulations will be enforced

>the Iraq War has been a disaster and we need a way out while acknowledging that we bear responsibility for bombing that country back to Ur

>universal healthcare is a human right and we’ll find a way to provide it

>our infrastructure - bridges, roads, water, sewer systems - will be fixed

>No Child Left Behind will be canceled and we’ll figure out how to improve our schools

>unwarranted searches and surveillance of citizens will stop

>there will be no more fooling around about the environment

>a fair solution will be found for immigration

>government ethics legislation will have real teeth

>separation of church and state will be restored

>every last political hack (thousands of them) appointed by the Bush administration to government agencies will be fired, replaced with non-partisan competents

>earmarks will disappear entirely from legislation – let them be properly legislated

>the wealthy elite have had it their way long enough, reaping collective trillions of dollars on the backs of the middle and lower classes and now it is their turn to pay it back

Not really…but it should be! It’s Simple, Really.

I vote you into his policy making staff

I also vote edwards onto his policy making staff

I’m surprised more isn’t saida bout the fact that the market maccain bragged about last visit is no longer safe for him to visit this trip even if he had his blackhawk helicopters and his batalion of soldiers to protect him

man, the press BETTER ask him how “successfull” that market is when he comes back, they better

well, they won’t but they better

Linsay “squeaky” Graham, South Carolina and UASF fuckin reserve

Good morning Attaturk. Just reading Lieberman’s name this morning made my blood pressure rise. Especially his comment about the Democrats compared to McCain! What an ass he is.

A comment left on my blog last night by a Rush supporter:

I feel like i’ve stumbled upon a mental clinic. Do you pay any attention to the news or do you just suck in propaganda from the press? Rush the Vote? Rush hasn’t been this affective in a long time.
And if any party is melting down, its the democraps (due to Rush). Between Hillary’s people like Geraldine Ferraro, Obama’s anti-american pastor Jeremiah Wright, Operation Chaos, and the debate over the Florida and Michigan delegates, the DNC doesn’t stand a chance. It’s so much fun to watch.
You should consider pulling your head out the hole you’ve dug and starting to paying attention. I keep hoping one day I’ll find a lib blog that makes sense…
oh well

Apparently John McCain is absent of any wrongdoing his whole life! That’s right. McCrazy is squeaky clean and will our nation into battle and will win for the good of the country! Spit.

Slightly OT: It’s worth a walk over to the editorial page of the NYT to watch David Brooks attempt to distinguish “this” need for government intervention vs. all the other times we should just let the market work it out.

In normal times, the free market works well. But in a crisis like this one, few are willing to sit back and let the market find its own equilibrium.

So Katrina & people losing their homes to foreclosure are “normal times”?

He also moans that “regulators were asleep”. Neglects to add “just like we’ve always said they should be.”

Why oh why does this maroon get paid for this crap????

Great post thanks, but did we really do something that bad to deserve those four photos.
Eye bleach please.

Good morning, pups. It’s Bobo and Egan in the NYT today. Bobo typed about “The Bailout Artists.” He opines that in normal times, the free market works well. But in a potentially disastrous financial crisis like this one, few are willing to sit back and let the market find its own equilibrium. Pssst — Bobo — “the free market” got us into this craptastic mess… Timothy Egan is back, writing about “The Lords of Higher Learning.” He says not to pick on the Ivies and their hedge-fund-savvy trustees; after all, March Madness — everybody’s favorite college month — is rarely about them.

http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready and I’ve got some lemon poppyseed muffins. Have a great day.

Shorter !@#$%^& Bobo, privatize profits, socialize losses.

Mornin’, pups -

The BBC (variety shown on US TV) just did a piece (6 a.m. hour EDT) on the soldier from Kentucky whose face was all over the newz after the battle of Faluja (sp?). He spoke with so much eloquence and pain.

Can’t do vid here but if anyone finds it online, it would be a good thing to spread across teh internetz. It’s very unlikely we’ll see anything like it done by the SCLM in the US on this “anniversary”.

Bobo, go buy Krugman a cuppa coffee…
Someone said the Catholic Church should add “capitalism” to its
list of deadly sins…

Mornin’ Attaurk.

“Their dedication is to follow us home”

No their dedication is to see this bloody country tied up for hundred years chasing fucking ghosts

Last night I watched Rageh Omar, who reported from the roof of the Palestine Hotel on the first night of Shock and Awe, do an hour on our ITV Channel (mainstream)called Iraq by Numbers, in which he went back to see his old friends and find out what had happened to them, and topped and tailed each section with a few numbers of what has actually happened. You don’t often see a hardened reporter cry.

Do you guys get to see any of this sort of thing? Cheney should be forced to sit in front of it for hours and hours and hours on end till he understands that what he did was, first, evil, and, second, monumentally incompetent to boot.

Someone said the Catholic Church should add “capitalism” to its
list of deadly sins…

And they should return the godamn money to the godamn poor instead of creating gold chalices and paying for priests peccadillos. Nothing good to say about those damn papists. I grew up in Ireland I have seen those sons of bi**hes first hand. Money grabbing bigots, Abusers, hypocrites, effluent.

and the democrats need to start LAUGHING OUT LOUD whenver he makes these bizarro claims as if WE MIGHT believe a word he says

Be careful what you wish for, perris….look what happened when a photo caught Obama without his hand over his heart for long enough to click the shutter. The thugs would claim they were laughing at the troops (or any other negative lie they could fabricate). Gotta figure the republics are gonna have multiples following *every* dim candidate around 24/7….can you imagine living like that? And according to the news this morning, they’ve already started smearing Paterson with the sex thing. Gotta talk about the “fun” stuff because it’s just “too complicate” to explain the real news. :-(

From the UK Guardian: Death, destruction and fear on the streets of cafes, poets and booksellers. A journalist writes about going back to the city where he was born and lived for 30 years.

Morning everybody!
thanks for the muffins Marion :)

here’s what’s on Washington Journal:
7:00 am - Newspaper Articles & Phones

7:30 am - David Savage, Los Angeles Times, Supreme Court Reporter

8:00 am - Kristele Younes, Refugees International, Senior Advocate -Iraqi Refugees Page

One in five Iraqis have been displaced.
According to the UN Refugee Agency and the International Organization for Migration in 2007, almost 5 million Iraqis had been displaced by violence in their country, the vast majority of which had fled since 2003. Over 2.4 million vacated their homes for safer areas within Iraq, up to 1.5 million were living in Syria, and over 1 million refugees were inhabiting Jordan, Iran, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey and Gulf States. Most Iraqis are determined to be resettled to Europe or North America, and few consider return to Iraq an option.

8:30 am - Robert Kuttner, Economic Policy Institute, Co-Founder, & Dan Mitchell, CATO Institute, Economic Analyst

9:30 am - Newspaper Articles & Phones

Morning all :).
I’ve watching the Winter Solder hearings (?) on Free Speech TV. My heart breaks for our military and the Iraki people.. :(
OT. more Darth…

‘The plunging dollar has taken a beating lately on international markets. But at least one wealthy investor may be set to profit from the dollar’s decline: Dick Cheney.

Back in June 2006, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine reported that Cheney’s financial advisers were apparently betting on a rise in inflation and on a decline in the value of the dollar against foreign currencies.’
http://www.beggarscanbechoosers.com/

Do you guys get to see any of this sort of thing?

One of our local PBS channels ran a Bill Moyers exposé yesterday evening on how the MSM aided and abbeted the hoodwinking of the American public during the runup to the Iraq war. I believe it was a repeat, but it was pretty damning of the MSM. Sadly, this is very much the exception over here.

Cheney’s financial advisers were apparently betting on a rise in inflation and on a decline in the value of the dollar against foreign currencies

Ah — so everything is going according to plan. I’m so glad that my friend who (still) works for Bear Stearns and all the rest of us paying $3.40 a gallon for gas could help… [spit]

Bilbo, is this the show you mean? I haven’t watched it yet, I guess I’d better take the time.

Thank You Perris that little background while not very balanced was insightful… his oil roots are much more influence than his freshmen year of college.
Not saying I admire him or his policies but he is a crafty and formidable opponent. Do not under estimate…he is extremely dangerous.

COLUMBUS, OH (2008-03-17) A new poll by the University of Akron finds that Ohioans see the economy as the top issue in this fall’s presidential election. More than half of all Democrats and Independents surveyed and nearly a third of all Republicans say economic concerns will outweigh foreign policy, domestic and social issues as they head to the ballot box this November. But one Northeast Ohio couple worries that the change in national leadership won’t come soon enough to help them.

To win Ohio, the economy MUST be the first policy plan communicated. While all are at Take Back America, an all-nighter to “begin” a policy might be a top priority…to win Ohio and probably the rest of the country.

Not saying I admire him or his policies but he is a crafty and formidable opponent. Do not under estimate…he is extremely dangerous.

the only thing he has going for him is he can talk like he knows something

in fact, he knows nothing, once you know what kind of inability the man has, there is nothing formidable about him

Calling Blue America Ghost Busters with The Plan To End The Iraq War! That was a favorite post and on topic.

Bilbo, is this the show you mean?

No, Elliott, it was Bill Moyers Journal: Buying the War.

It was a previously aired “pledge week” special.

Chocolate Christ on a Cross! Will no one impeach these bastards?!?
Pleeease!

Elliott, here’s the URL for watching it on the Web:

Buying the War

Morning Attaturk and All
Gosh, that photo of Lieberman is hysterical.
And, his words about McCain are too funny also.
Is he still considered a Democrat? Real question.

I want to know how this country got so bad as to elect these derelects to Congress? They are all unfit to govern.

Anyone besides me think Lieberman looks like Howdy Doody?

oh thanks Bilbo!

The Dalai Lama threatens to resign if violence worsens…
He said that “if things become out of control” his “only option is to completely resign.”
Why, oh why, won’t some of our Moral Leaders say that?

Second That Motion
One of my Kucinich supporting friends retired fireman sticks up for Nancy. Hard to understand Investigations work for Rethugs so Dems should be all over it.

Apologies for the o/t - this one’s for pups in Florida and the Northeast who buy at Hannaford supermarkets who may not have seen it:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23678909/

(”4 mil. credit, debit cards at risk; 1,800 cases of reported fraud so far”)

Why, oh why, won’t some of our Moral Leaders say that?

I think maybe because we don’t have any?

It was inspiring to hear that he said that this morning, that he understands some things are more important than his position, even considering what “good” he might do within it.

In medicine when we had a particularly difficult patient who ultimately succumbed, we took solace that he/she died in electrolyte balance. We won’t even have that satisfaction in Iraq.

It’s pathetic.

we took solace that he/she died in electrolyte balance

Sounds like an episode of House. ;=)