Maybe Huckleberry has decided McCain will lose and wants to ditch his chance to be the running mate. Otherwise, his behavior is unbelievable.

Great post, BT.

Here’s somebody who ought to be a contributor to FDL…
Joe Bageant at the National Conference on Media Reform.

I really don’t think so. It’s just that the Official Economic Policy of the GOP has become the Club for Growth pledge.

What else can Graham do? The Bush family has not yet given their royal consent to throw George Jr. under the bus.

If Americans had brains in their heads the only ones who would vote republican are the 1% who the repukes cater to. The rest of the population is taking up the butt from these creeps.

Hopefully come November they will get 10% of the vote. And maybe we can be free of the tory party forever.

I don’t get it. I’m naturally suspicious. What’s really going on?
Like this quote from Mark DeMoss may be the most prominent public relations executive in the evangelical world.
There’s a reaction among some evangelicals to swing out to the left in an effort to prove that evangelicals are really not that right wing. There’s some concern that maybe Republicans haven’t done that well. And there’s this fascination with Barack Obama. So I will not be surprised if he gets one third of the evangelical vote. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was 40-percent.
from this article
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..05667.html

What’s staggering is that these guys actually think that Bush’s economic & health policies are the right policies. They want to have a debate on these issues.

Exactly.

Here’s why John McCain should never be preznit:Cover Story: Just a Paycheck Away Homelessness is on the rise in Connecticut. Just ask Eric D’Amato, who crawled back from the bottom.
With aggravations like this:One Thumbs-Down for Film Tax Credit. Report skewers program as $116 million giveaway
And things like this:

102 city employees laid off; $6 million in union concessions sought; scaled-back library hours; closing Dwight School and consolidating its students with Troup Magnet school; closing three police substations; and arguably worst of all, cutting $500,000 from city homeless shelters, meaning single men would be turned away.

I’d say we’re in too desperate straits to rely on Rethugs and corporations or Democrats and corporations, or corporate anything.
/angry rant off.

@9 that is in New Haven, Ct. I assume things are just as bad elsewhere?

Marching lockstep to Armaggedon.

Idiots.

Keep pushing that tax cut line, it’s a beauty, hell, even the rich are whining about how they aren’t as rich as they used to be a couple of years ago.
That is rich, also.

Bush’s view: How did all those people waste their share of my tax cuts?

HEY BT! Are you pokin’ fun at one of the finest brains in the pugican party?

McSame’s message will be A chicken in every pot, a car in every garage (and its staying there cuz gas is too expensive) and a $5 Iraqi rug for every American.

Yes, when Bush has done nothing but cut taxes for 7 years, and we’re in a big shitpile, promising more of the same isn’t wise.

McCain: “I’m a maverick, I’m a Bush clone, I’m a maverick, I’m a Bush clone……”

-G

We’re tryin’ ta’ decide if we can afford the gas to go deposit the check.

not dumbya’s stoopidest idea, but a contender… *oh sigh*

…and no letting gays marry. McCain doesn’t want you to be worrying about that while you’re standing in the soup line.

i thot they banned both those career paths.

EPU…Olmert saying that Bush said he will take action against Iran before he leaves office.

See both the Liz Cheney story and the Olmert story…first two on…

http://thinkprogress.org/

Bushco must be stopped…Now!!!

Hey mui!
I think it’s safe to say things pretty much suck everywhere.
I live in a suburb northwest of LA. It used to be, if I saw a lot of cars in front of someone’s house, I thought, oh, nice, they’re having a party. Now, because a majority of homes always have a lot of cars at each house, I figure they’ve got Way More than two adults living there ’cause they need that many incomes to pay the mortgage/rent.

Bush on $4 gas: “I hadn’t heard that.” They think the policies are great, because no one at the yacht club is complaining about it…

This is stunning. Graham is no novice and he’s not stupid, yet he goes on national television and concedes that his candidate will continue the policies of the most unpopular President ever on an issue that ranks first or second in November? Just wow.

This would be because they have nothing.

Zero, zip, zilch, nada.

The smart ones over there know it, that’s why you could get trampled to death standing in the doorway in front of all the Republicans leaving Congress to spend more time with their ‘families’.

The war is a loser for them, so is the economy, gas prices and health care.

So, all that’s left is to wash, rinse & repeat the same tired lines and tactics (terrist fist-jab comes to mind) and hope to hang on during the coming tsunami of change that’s about to hit DC.

The Republicans are behaving as if we are just post 9/11. That is worrisome.

I find it interesting to reflect on the amazing period of economic growth post WWII when tax rates were much higher (and progressively so) than they are now. But, now, we have to listen to this endless tripe about how higher taxes will suffocate the economy.

The Republicans are going to attack Iran. The resulting oil prices will paralyze this country. W will declare another national emergency. They are way too smug…

They need to be stopped right now. Right now.

SofaKing Deluge Anal.

Golly, it almost sounds like the GOP is out of touch with the concerns of Americans.

Damn reality, always showing it’s liberal bias!

They make their own reality. They’ve told us that.

Hey we can pay Harrison Fords salary and give Steven Spielberg something like $100 million tax credit, and yet our Rethug governor won’t reimburse New Haven for all that tax-free property Yale is gobbling up, so that we can pay for stuff, like you know, libraries, schools, homeless shelters . . .
One thing I know, is that I will never see the new Indiana Jones movie. I can’t stand our rethug governor. And the people who voted for her are the same ones who once voted for Liebocrat (who once said CT doesn’t need any fed dollars because it’s *rich*.) /okay, local politics rant is now really off. I am just very, very angry.

Start taking in those students, right?

My comment is not based on any official data, but sometimes you don’t need a weatherman to know which the wind blows.

Christy, I thought rich people of the uberrich variety were of the stingiest sort. Remember those service jobs we all used to work, where the richer sort left like ! no tip!. I would think they’d be complaining the most about $4plus gas (as it is here in Ct.)

Right. And, multiple adult family members living under one roof.
i keep saying here that it’s commune time.

whenever I see a pic of Lindsey Graham, my public service is to remind people that he was active duty stateside. no combat.

fwiw, either Graham has a tic of some sort, or he was reading from a prompter. Watch the eyes. talking points, gwd bless ‘em.

they fergit. what heps them talk mo-bettuh, helps us read the body language likewise.

i.e., Lately, poor ole McSame is so wired to little bitty blips flashing in random sequence on multiple monitors [to make him look more spontaneous, i presume], he looks like a doll with the key wound too tight.

Then there’s the whine factor. They just can’t hep themselves.
These people are hurting.

Welllllll….. pugs!? SO. IS. THE. NATION.

Note to pugnicans: don’t let the door hit ya …..

. . .and hey if you liked Bush’s economy, you’re gonna luvvvvv rising Debt Stress !

Or tent city.

Jeepers…dams and levees are bursting in Iowa and in Wisconsin…huge disaster.

Cheneyvilles

wish u woodn talk like that. makes it hard to breathe.

i know. i know.

one foot in front of t’other, pick up the speed another notch…

SofaKing

Oh, now you’ve got me howling! I once caught my very dignified boss with that one, and had his partner laughing until he wept.

Tent city on the Bush Brush Ranch. Lots of unused space there.

Would those be the tent cities or the McMansion neighborhoods that abound on once rural property.?

just saw that . . .how long before someone reports /repair/reenforcement dollars were diverted to abstinence only programs ?

Or across the street really. I heard the neighbors don’t get on with Bush so much.

We have to deal with these people.

Time is of the essence.

Barbara Bush can now make more donations (deductable of course) for the purpose of buying software from Neil Bush’s Ignite! Inc. Things are always working out very well for our Royal Family.

How long? Never, if Fox News is the only news source.

it is no longer alarmist to contemplate $5/gal

our little cafe has been ‘lucky’ in that they are all still comin’ in, but we now have regular 10% tippers, whereas we used to have occasional 10%ers. and they are ordering burgers instead of chicken-frieds

but my gut knots up at the thought of what is gonna happen when we breech the $5 barrier – katy bar the f’in door

We live in the Age of Stupid. Republicans like Graham never care how many times they hit the hand instead of the nail with their hammers because it is never their hand.

Yes. Goodgawd. I hear you loud and clear.

Molly was telling us that in 2000 & earlier. I was there. I went into motion right then.

Caused some raised eyebrows – gray hair, must be some sorta loonie.

Now they nod in shared understanding, and e-mail requests for verbal-ammo when some winger makes their relatives & friends start playin’ on those sour pug-point strings.

Been hiring any librarians or teachers from CT lately?

From the post:

Republicans used to be good at messaging.

It was easy for them since they were never challenged on the bullsheet. Not sure they were ever that good at it.

What’s changed is the pushback by us early adopters of the New Media, and how we can now call out the nonsense in an organized and powerful fashion. Growing and supporting places like FDL is essential for the future, since we know BigMoney will fight back….forever.

Lindsey Graham is doing this because he has nothing else. He won’t let himself be who he really is and so he has to be a Republican because that’s all he has. I pity the poor fool.

Where are you guys? Where I’m at, everyone I know just doubles the 8.5% tax for the tip.

That’s the vibe I always got from/about him. Confusion can really warp an individual. Or, so I hear.

Are you saying that Huckleberry would have hit the glass ceiling like a torpedo everywhere else *but* in gooperland?

I thought both Bush and McCain only recently reassured us that the fundamentals of the economy were strong?

They couldn’t have been wrong.

-G

Perhaps the obstinate repetition is to reinforce the hardcore idiot base and enable them to continue spewing the same ole – despite what their lying eyes are seeing.

But the originators of this crap are not naive or blind. I’d feel safer if I thought they were.

I thought both Bush and McCain only recently reassured us that the fundamentals of the economy were strong?

Well the ones they outsourced to China, maybe.

Nope. He’s too dumb. He must have lots of money and great connections in his state to get elected to the Senate. One of those “how did he do that” moments.

It’s a beautiful thing.

Damn right! But it sure makes a person wonder what the hell is up.

Ugh. Have you seen Fred Hiatt’s latest drivel over at the WaPo?

Bob in HI

LS, you’re talking to a silly lady who displayed our nation’s flag upside down [intl. signal for extreme danger/distress] next to a yellow ribbon from the time we went into IQ until Dems [sorta] took back Congress.

btw, it’s never been vandalized, and plenty truck drivers and bikers give me a wave of approval on a daily basis, as i tend the blue flowers at its base.

flag’s upright now, but shouldn’t be, until those thugs are out of office and preferably on trial for their wanton mayhem. if they don’t destroy our country, we’ll be very lucky indeed. yellow ribbon still there.
Obama sign has joined the display.

active in other ways…

can’t even describe the deep anger I feel…

will remain in motion. i promise.

P. E. A. C. E.

That reminds me of a joke someone who worked in DC once told me : George I would walk around saying “What homeless people? I dont see any.” And DC (don’t know didn’t live there, but I remember the NYC riots) apparently had too many homeless people, for George I *not* to notice.

graham reminds me of a pugnican liarman. eh?

we are 28 miles northeast of austin -

you would think the rednecks would be low information diners, but up until the $4, it has been a great place to earn and I averaged 22%

I believe it is a mind trick they are playing with themselves – that dollar or two they are holding back will somehow save them something, have seen it before in times of downturn

ps – aint she sweet !

Oops I meant that he would have hit the glass ceiling for good reason, not because he’s too smart and there aren’t opportunities for someone as genius as himself, Huckleberry.

Has it down to a fine art. But he also is very dim. Don’t know how he understands anything and you can bet he doesn’t read all those bills he votes on.

Well of COURSE they’re gonna say their for a continuation of the tax policies. To say otherwise would be to say that they are in favor of eliminating the cuts- they’re gonna run on the plank that Obama will raise taxes..as far as medical policies–WHAT medical policies?

doesn’t have to. he has people who do that.

like a partly trained puppy. only a little dribble on the floor once in awhile.

I’ll take the catfish. I like catfish a lot and I haven’t had any for ages.

LOL

Is that where Snuffy’s used to be?

good gaia they love that catfish !

the cafe isn’t hiring but thought you might want to look here :D

“It’s a beautiful thing.”

Indeed, BT. IT appears to me that the GOP strategy is to try and make Obama out to be the “Boogey Man”. Which as we know is also a terrible strategy. I love watching the party that have caused so much of the problems today squirming and gasping like a fish out of water.

He won’t let himself be who he really is

Graham la Belle envisions himself uttering those famous first lines at the invention of the telephone:

“Mr Watson — Come here — I want to see you”

Think I know where you can find some catfish. My cousin’s son caught a 45lb cat – 5 feet long, this past weekend.

Very Sweet! Especially that big old cow head.
It’s a good thing I just made myself a sandwich for lunch, because that menu’s got me salivating.

Ugh. Have you seen Fred Hiatt’s latest drivel over at the WaPo?

It’s typical Republican fuckery. While the Intelligence Committee’s Phase II report has interesting bits and pieces, it is for a variety of reasons not a very well written report. It pulls a lot of punches and ignores a lot of issues. What Hiatt does is take some of the wimpier conclusions that back his contention that it was the intelligence community’s and not Bush’s fault as gospel because it serves his purposes to do. He ignores everything else.

The problem with this approach is that if this is true then why did the Republican fight it so hard for more than 4 years?

BTW my most recent entry to my scandals list (359) deals with this and some other things if you are interested.

Snuffy’s was out on the highway (79) – it has been taken over and redone – but the burgers are still grrreat!

I used to have a cat named Snuffy.

Man, Twain, that is a BIG catfish!

Fundamentally Repubs cannot believe that they will be voted out. They have a “this is out birthright” mentality.

Thanks I was kidding about the teacher/librarian part. Well sort of. Given the finances of the *rich* state of CT (libocrats words) are so screwed up.

our

Here’s a good one:

The government’s $168-billion stimulus package, passed in February, began getting tax rebate checks to people last month and helped to energize shoppers. “We’re beginning to see signs that the stimulus may be working,” Bush said at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

gotta go doggies. sweety needs help tearing up the house so we can put it back together more purty-like.

wonderful feeling – knowing the pack of pups is on the right trail, always. ;->

Where?

Goopers have to stay close to the “base” during this campaign finance season- if they fill the coffers they can start moving toward the center..

They absolutely CANNOT toss Clusterfuck—of the 28 percent who still like him- almost ALL are goopers…He’s still popular with the MAJORITY of goopers.

Oh, is that why all the airlines are laying people off and charging more? Is that why gas is so pricey? I’m so glad the Codpiece answers all my questions.

Sounds like a countree an’wistern song to me.
Snuffy’s was out on the highway (79)
We’d all go there
Have a mighty fine time.
We’d pile in the truck
And fill it up for a buck
Life was simple and so sublime.

In a lake in Mississippi. I have heard recently that catfish were growing to be huge – I guess this proves it. Pass the hushpuppies, please.

New Neiwert upstairs.

Channel Cats grow to over 100 pounds- not a new thing.

This is stunning. Graham is no novice and he’s not stupid, yet he goes on national television and concedes that his candidate will continue the policies of the most unpopular President ever on an issue that ranks first or second in November? Just wow.

they are trying to say the only thing wrong with bush’s policies would be that he needed more of them

that works on the base and it seems all they are trying to appeal to is that base

Yeah, when I was growing up there was most always a picture at least once per summer of some ol’ granddaddy catfish being caught in the local river.

Thought someone might get a kick out of that statement. Shopping a la Paris Hilton? Do you suppose that’s what Chimpy means? Without money to pay for gas and groceries?

Oops- I correct myself. It’s blue catfish that get to over 100 pounds- channel cats top out at under 60 pounds- still a lot of catfish.

Was Jeff Gannon in the green room and did he give his lil’ buddy a warmup? Is he being blackmailed with proof he is doing something distasteful?
it is plain weird.

Guess George missed the Newsweek article pointing out that Americans will pay an extra $110 Billion dollars in higher gas prices this year. He might as well have just written the check directly to the Oil companies and the Saudi’s. It would have saved a lot of work and hassle. /Snark.

OMG! Rhubarb pie and fried green tomatoes!

Wishin Hutto was in my part of the world.

No, I actually do think they figured out pretty smart frames for selling really bad policy.

But this is just pathetic.

Guess George missed the Newsweek article pointing out that Americans will pay an extra $110 Billion dollars in higher gas prices this year. He might as well have just written the check directly to the Oil companies and the Saudi’s. It would have saved a lot of work and hassle. /Snark.

Let us not forget that hedge funds and investment banks are raking in a lot of the profits off this as well as being the principal agents behind it.

dugg! thanks for this fine Monday morning post.