so?

this is truly glorious
and , in no small part duce to the efforts around here and Jane’s commanding TV presence
^_^

Could we get Russ Feingold to deliver the signatures? You know, the other half of McCain-Feingold?

OT sorry

but via Atrios

I would really like to see an organized effort to get rid of this little jerk.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/.....ity-guard/

Could we get Russ Feingold to deliver the signatures?

I second that motion…what a beautiful sight that would be!

That would be a bipartisan delivery.

This is excellent. I really expected McBush to simply blow it off, pay the fine after the election and says “oopsie”.

I wonder how much of this is the petition to the FEC and how much of it is that he’s REALLY hurting on fundraising?

Boxturtle (If he thinks the Dems are raising money now, wait until we’re done with the primaries!)

I’m wondering if “shame” is something McCain is worried about. He’s done a weasel or flip/flop on just about every substantive issue. He hugs the man whose campaign attacked his family and impugned his integrity to the nation.

My take is he has no shame anymore.

have written to Senator Feingold asking for a response

also wrote Common Cause asking them to elicit a response from the senator

By returning money is McCain putting himself in compliance with the election laws?

My reading of this article is that McInsane is opting for general election public financing because the two remaining Democrats are beating the crap out of him in private fundraising.

Returning checks and putting them in a compliance fund is another accounting trick for apperances only.Or maybe he’s gonna need the funds for legal expenses like the rest of the Rethug criminals.

He has no shame…He’s a warmongering flip-flopping manipulator

Is he running this election?

If you steal money and return it after charges against you have been filed does that make it all good?

McCain definitely has no shame.

Feingold would be awesome. Failing that, can we get George Cloony?

Sounds as if McBush knows that he’s going to lose the campaign contribution race badly- so now he wants to put his opponent at an equal disadvantage. That’s a sucker move dems!

What are McCain’s latest fundraising numbers he seems awful desperate to bring Obama into the public financing system? How much money does McCain need to be raising now to run a National campaign?

Does Rep. McHenry’s (R-NC) response to being stopped by a guard (and the lack of response from fellow Repub’s) remind anyone of a little incident a few years back with Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D, GA)? In that case, the Representative was passing by a security guard she’d passed by many a day previously, a fellow who SHOULD have recognized her. When that guard stopped her, SHE was the one who got into PR trouble, not the security guard. Wonder if the media will ever react the same way to Rep. McHenry’s tantrum?

Yay for the Dim Angry Old Man!

He doesn’t have to obey the campaign laws!

Yay for him!

Wish I could afford health care for my children…

yay.

…does the media have to ignore the violations in the room as the means for forcing their turnaround on this? Don’t you think that this sudden case of Maybe We Ought To Comply With The Letter Of The Law-Itis might have the teensiest bit to do with the fact that McCain’s campaign finance hypocrisy was exposed to the light of day for all the public to see?

Just add it to the evidence file for the argument that the mainstream media is a propaganda tool of the corporate right. We have to stop expecting journalistic impulses, much less behavior, from the broadcast personalities who are marketing agents for big corporations.

There IS some journalism going on in the world, but it is not taking place in the MSM, it’s individual journalists working with little financial or professional support. They may be part of once-journalistic enterprises, but as those organizations are controlled by the need for profit the focus turns from journalism to sensationalism.

Democrats and progressives need to realize that the battle for America’s future is basically between progressive idealists, constitutional scholars, and populists versus the corporations and the ultra-wealthy. The latter have the whole power of the coordinated MSM on their side, as well as some ability to terrorize the American populace. The former have blogs, Jones and Air America radios, and Democracy Now — oh, as well as the Constitution and those of the American people who have the time and energy to care and who are not raddled with MSM-induced terror.

We can throw things out for the media to seize upon, but they WILL NOT DO IT unless it is sensationalistic, or serves the agenda of their corporate masters. So acting surprised that the MSM refuses to pick up on an anti-corporate message is foolish. The MSM attacking the corporate candidate is as likely as one punching oneself in the face.

We simply have to accept that the MSM is not on our side and move forward with the understanding that things-that-ought-to-be-news will be suppressed. That’s just the way it is. We have to find OTHER ways of reaching a lot of people with important information.

Sure wish the dem candidates would tear into McBush—Obama’s got plenty of money to spend- why not spend it on torpedoes that say “this machine kills fascists” on m.

Use it as leverage to get McCain to accept the old League of Women voters rules on debates! No questions known ahead of time, no subjects off limits, the candidates can ask each other questions.
Hilary and Obama could both blow him out of the water. With a series of great debate performances we could turn this election into a bigger defeat for the Republicans than FDR’s big win!
We do have to very good speakers who know there stuff to choose from and they might both be on the same ticket.

Hows this for a bumper sticker
This Hybrid Car kills Terrorists and Fascists
VOTE DEM IN NOVEMBER!

expecting GW Clusterfuck’s administration to punish McBush for election violations seems like a fantasy. McBush knows he’s safe- but he ain’t got no money- and THAT’S a REAL problem.

I just saw a clip on MSNBC of McCain standing on the balcony where MLK was murdered….for a forking photo-op….

What a hypocrite!!!!

McCain voted against Martin Luther King day.

Spit.

I hope someone points this out in the big print when the media gushes all over him for being there. Makes me sick.

I LIKE it!

o/t

Christy,

here is a transcript of debate btw Yoo and former Boalt Hall Dean Jesse Choper re: Military Commissions Act 4/5/7

edited transcript - html

and here is mp3 of same if you’d like some background noise (lots of collegial laughter and back and forth)

mp3 provided by our friends at the Federalist Society

because of course, you’re just not busy enough *g*

hey rwcole - any fallout yet from Joyride Issa’s “just an airplane” comment ?

Wow, I hope the Peanut was out of the room when you put that photo on your post!

“Mommy, Mommy, make the bad man go away!!!”

I missed that one– I drive by his office almost daily- but sadly am not in his district.

We have to make do with the assistant Dildo in charge- Bilbray.

The League of Women Voters Education Fund sponsored the 1976, 1980, and 1984 presidential debates. In 1988, the LWV withdrew from debate sponsorship, in protest of the major party candidates attempting to dictate nearly every aspect of how the debates were to be conducted, which ultimately resulted in the Democratic and Republican parties forming the Commission on Presidential Debates which gave the parties greater control over the debate environment.
On October 2, 1988, the LWV’s 14 trustees voted unanimously to pull out of the debates, and on October 3 they issued a dramatic press release:
The League of Women Voters is withdrawing sponsorship of the presidential debates … because the demands of the two campaign organizations would perpetrate a fraud on the American voter. It has become clear to us that the candidates’ organizations aim to add debates to their list of campaign-trail charades devoid of substance, spontaneity and answers to tough questions. The League has no intention of becoming an accessory to the hoodwinking of the American public.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.....men_Voters

Time to go old School on the GOP and show the Main Stream Media what a real debate looks like! The Punditocracy will crap their pants.

Sure would be a great year to dispose of at least one of the fascist gooper congresscritters in San Diego County…..One quit in order to run for prez and is tryin to give his seat away to his son as a Christmas present..

That’s the Dunkin Donut man of course.

Oh Snap!!!!

MSNBC carrying McCain apologizing for not voting for MLK day…and he’s being heckled!!!

A**hole!!!!!

link

correction from clare boothe lucid: not ‘just an airplane’ - “simply an aircraft”

This is gonna make a good video…the top of McCain’s head behind a sea of umbrellas….hahahahaha

Ha! I didn’t realize he was speaking. He’s totally hidden by umbrellas! It’s hilarious.

Thanks

Seems that from time to time being a totally self absorbed human being works against Issa.

There is this to deal with:

The staff of the Federal Election Commission has drafted an opinion that would allow the two major parties’ presidential nominees to adopt what amounts to a fund-raising truce.

The draft opinion would allow the nominees, if both agreed, to return contributions they had solicited for the general election campaign and limit themselves to public financing for it instead.

The opinion is a response to an inquiry by Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination. It is an indication of how the commission, which released the document Thursday, is likely to rule on the idea. The commissioners are expected to issue their decision after a meeting next Thursday.

McCain’s actions here seem right along the lines of what Obama suggested. I doubt that Obama anticipated then that he would have such a huge fundraising advantage of the Republican nominee, but this will be a major test of keeping his word. He has promised many times to take public financing in the general if his opponent will. McCain appears to be choosing his best option here financially, but I think this will bite him in the butt big-time with the base of the Republican party, because they detest the concept of public financing of elections.

Of course, if they both choose public financing, we are stuck with a nonfunctional FEC at a time when 527’s are going to do things that will make our heads spin.

30 years ago McCain would have been calling King a trouble making Communist Negroe.

-G

If Obama doesn’t capitalize on his fund raising advantage, he doesn’t deserve to be president in my opinion.

McBush grew up in an era when rascism was more fashionable.

Does McCain know that the Net will be talking about that even if the media ignores it?
Now everytime he or his *cough* puppet independent attack ad groups brings up race this election we will use that photo at the head of a post.
And the GOP will bring up race this election first through so called independent groups that McCain will refuse to disavow and if he gets desperate enough he will start using GOP racial code words himself.

and the Teabaggers for Tyranny will spend the next hour 6 months lauding his incredible intestinal fortitude in admitting his “error”

Maybe even 3 weeks ago…who knows…he only came out because the news got out that he had opposed MLK day…JMHO

McBush regrets any inconvenience he has caused his friends of the Negro persuasion.

lol

Poor John, he probably thought he was with it when he started using the term Afro-American sometime in the late 90’s.

-G

Did Arizona ever decide to observe MLK day? Wasn’t it the last holdout state?

30 years ago Last week McCain would have been calling in private called King a trouble making Communist Negroe.

NH and AZ were the great holdouts. Don’t know who won the shameful race to be last.

-G

Well, it certainly does look like his campaign is getting concerned about the FEC rules, and that could only come from paying attention to the blogosphere’s pressure thanks to Janeco.

Even Obama’s a little weak on the racial lingo- called his father an “African American” some weeks ago.

– My reading of this article is that McInsane is opting for general election public financing because the two remaining Democrats are beating the crap out of him in private fundraising. –

Exactly right. He wants to make it a political issue and invoke something like “integrity” and “not bought by private donors.” But if he was kicking ass in fundraising, or was independently wealthy, he’d use that to advantage instead of leaning on public funding.

recall there was threat of loss of either Super Bowl or Fiesta Bowl that finally brought Arizona to the light

– Well, it certainly does look like his campaign is getting concerned about the FEC rules –

That’s why he announced he wouldn’t abide by the agreement he voluntarily entered into with respect to the primary season? Heh. He’s in voiolation, and says he’s not. Absent a ruling, the issue sits there for the public dummies to argue over.

With regard to the general election, he hasn’t entered any agreement, so he can’t be in breach. But he does need to mind how the donations are accounted for, lest he remove the option of voluntarily entering public financing for the general election from his table.

Heard Ed Schultz comment on his morning local show today something about McCain saying he’s doing something about his hot temper.

Said he/Schultz was talking with Jonathan Alter about it during some appearance, and he asked Alter what does this mean? Counseling, yoga, what?

Wonder if any of the old-school media will be asking the question of McCain?

McRacist: How I Spent Dr. King’s Birthday

flippity-floppity

Maybe he’s smoking.

I wonder how much of this is the petition to the FEC and how much of it is that he’s REALLY hurting on fundraising?

This was my thought. There is nothing like remembering your “principles” especially when it is financially convenient.

The Washington Post had an editorial last week about the FEC that tiptoed around McCain’s illegality, portraying the scandal as merely the matter of the “stalemate” there but indicating McCain had a particular interest in seeing it resolved. I now interpret it as a warning to McCain: rectify this legal matter, then we can get on board with your campaign against Obama’s supposed broken promise on public financing.

McNasty has seemingly apologized for some of his idiotic angry behaviour and swears he would gladly kick himself in thr ass except his one foot is already lodged there and the other is in his mouth.

Arizona now observes MLK day. Though I must point out that Pima country has observed the holiday since it was first proposed.

McCain saying he’s doing something about his hot temper.

Electroshocks and a lobotomy… For anyone who has the gall to call him on anything.

I doubt that Obama anticipated then that he would have such a huge fundraising advantage of the Republican nominee, but this will be a major test of keeping his word.

Err, making an inquiry is very much different from giving your word about something. The fact is that Obama has made no commitments on this. I am sure McCain would love to tie Obama to spending levels more in keeping with his own reduced ones. But as the Republicans used their funding advantage ruthlessly to crush Democrats in the past, I do not see why Obama should give up this advantage in the current campaign climate.

Hugh, ygm

– but indicating McCain had a particular interest in seeing it resolved. –

IMO, McCain’s interests are better served by the question of his primary race agreement being left unresolved, until after his fate in the general election is sealed.

I expect an adverse ruling. I think the issue is clear enough that I see it as a slam dunk — he’s in breach. He’s tried a novel charade, and will use that as “good faith,” but the campaign will be liable for the fine.

McCain, parses law just like Clinton. The whole lot of weasels could be on fire, and I’d watch.

“The campaign reserves the right to change course, but these developments reflect our current plans.”

This is a clear confession that they consider any solemn, legal agreement they might have made as reversible.

Am I just a partisan hack to read this as “We will obey the law as long as it pleases us.”

Sounds like more of the McSame.

“Electroshocks and a lobotomy”
At first, I thought you meant that was the only way to cure his temper…

Isn’t that how they created “The Manchurian Candidate” in the fist place, at least according to the book?

Maybe we should find a group of children or teens to deliver the message, they are the ones who will most benefit from McCain losing this election.

Speaking of smoking, maybe some 527 should find that clip of Jim Carey in “Mask” when he looks into the camera and says “Smokin’!!”, then play it after every one of Johnny’s commercials.

– Of course, if they both choose public financing, we are stuck with a nonfunctional FEC at a time when 527’s are going to do things that will make our heads spin. –

Heheheh. That’s going to be the case independently of a candidate opting for public financing, and probably independently of a quorum of FEC commissioners.

Separately, I went looking for that FEC opinion letter you indicated, and was amazed (shouldn’t have been) that it is over a year old! Obama’s inquiry was in February 2007.

the old double standard????

This is great. Associated Press is running a story about McCain and his wife’s money. If your local newspaper allows comments, please post about his current troubles at the FEC and ask people to sign the petition at http://firedoglake.com/

link to the SF Chronicle version but look in your local paperr
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/.....RVVATR.DTL