pw..I read something this morning about Palin’s Lt. Gov, Sean Parnell, basically saying that since Palin’s yahoo email account got hacked, he doesn’t get to communicate with her any more…but he is trying to go about the state’s business(despite the McCain campaign’s trying to run the state over the phone from VA? Am I right about that?).

Digg

Are these two a monster clusterfuck, or what?

You mean she uses Yahoo as her official email? That is messed up? Is she afraid of using the state’s system? Hell, Yahoo knows everything she is sending(unless she has some serious encryption.

good grief, can we get some grown ups please?

DUCK SEASON!! FIRE!!!

“Even Palin’s lieutenant governor, Sean Parnell, said keeping in touch has been difficult. And since hackers broke into Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account last week, he said, it has dropped off entirely.

“Until she was hacked, we were communicating just about daily. Now I’m talking with her chief of staff,” Parnell said. “I saw her in person when she came home about a week ago, but I haven’t spoken to her since.”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200…..nt_palin_2

Palin’s foreign policy adviser surfaces.

Thanks PW!

“Parnell, meanwhile, said he has taken over giving many of Palin’s speeches and has taken a more active interest in Alaska’s budget and the governor’s legislative agenda.

“I’m speaking several more times a week — like, for instance, I’m about to go meet the president of Iceland,” Parnell said”
Let’s put it this way…(hey, is Ed Teller here..I’d love his take on this), I do not think the people of Alaska are being well served(or perhaps “are you being served…at all” might be the theme)by the Palin Administration. If Parnell is just NOW “taking a more active interest in Alaska’s budget and the legislative agenda” what DOES he do for his job? Sit outside Sarah’s office door in a chair like a third grader, waiting for her to give him some sort of assignment? oh, no..she calls him in by using the Yahoo account..right…

Agreed on all points but ONLY if the viewers can 1) get a warning before they show the interview so the popcorn can finish, 2) actually can see Steve Schmidt blowing up rather than just a stroke on the air but let’s not get picky…

I’ll take nose and ear bleeding..that’s enough for me.

This is just a guess and I’m basing it solely on Sarah’s own “experience”, but I bet Parnell was Sarah Palin’s paperboy in Wasilla before becoming Lt. Governor. Again, just a guess!

Have either of these clowns ever heard of a telephone (we actually have land lines that are much more reliable than everybody’s fave, the cell phone.)

I bet she used to send him an email using that Yahoo account with the subject heading: “Go get my coffee”

I can see Russia from my house and read the Enquirer from my bedroom.
I wonder if mcsame, the old navy pilot, is getting away with these stunts on the networks. MSNBC and Letterman are tearing him a new one.

Or, perhaps, one of Cindy’s poolboys.

That is soooo perfect.

Anyone find any previews of toight’s Letterman? Want to know if he’s still on the McCain rant.

Are you kidding!?!? Dave’ll ride McCain about this til one of ‘em dies – probably longer.

Want to know if he’s still on the McCain rant.

Smart money says – “oh yeah”.

Haven’t seen any previews, but I’ve already got it set to record.

Hell – Dave might not even have any guests – just do the whole hour talking about McGramps…. *g*

Exactly, and then she shot off a round of ammo! *cringe*

Any other Late Nite shows will pick up clips. Hell even CSPAN does that.

And, not any

Winning hearts and minds, again. Prepare to be disgusted. Scroll down and look at the pictures of the wooden prisoner boxes used by the US Military.

http://www.thememoryhole.org/

I can see Putin rear his head from my house and he comes into our air space and that is a problem two. I mean too.

Chris Rock on CNN, talking about Caribou Barbie: It’s like watching Kardashian or Dancing with The Stars. All that ass and she can’t shake it.”

Putin rear his head

Brain bleach.

Hey if you are still here, can you disect this letter I received from my senator today…..

Dear Ms. Thank you for your letter regarding the economy, the financial markets and the proposal from the Treasury Secretary to the Congress.

We are in difficult financial times, and I am committed to protecting the savings and jobs of the people of Georgia by making sound decisions on both immediate actions as well as long-term actions.

First, our economic stress is rooted in the decline of the housing market. The cause of the decline was the funding of marginal credit mortgages (subprime) through the creation of mortgage-backed securities that were sold around the world. As the default and foreclosure rate on these mortgages increased, the value of the securities declined. As the values declined, the balance sheet of the financial institutions that bought them deteriorated. The market for these securities declined and ultimately evaporated, thus causing a liquidity problem for the financial institutions and a credit crisis for American consumers and small businesses.

In the immediate term, we must address the credit and liquidity crisis. In the long term, we must put in place the oversight and safeguards to ensure the transparency and accountability necessary to prevent this from happening again. The Treasury has proposed using up to $700 billion dollars to purchase, at a discount, these mortgage-backed securities. This would provide liquidity to the financial institutions and improve their balance sheets. The important question is this: “Is the taxpayer of Georgia protected?” If the Treasury properly discounts the securities to, say, 50 or 60 cents on the dollar, and holds the securities to maturity there should be little or no cost to the Treasury. More importantly, investors will return to the market and will compete with the Treasury to by these discounted securities and the market will be reestablished. I am working to ensure the safeguards necessary for maximum security for the taxpayer.

In the long term, we must bring transparency and accountability to Wall Street. While I am not a big government regulator, if the investment bankers on Wall Street were held to the same standards of transparency and accountability as our national banking system, this would not have happened. The security rating agencies such as Moody’s and Standard and Poor also share some of the blame for the way they rated the subprime mortgage-backed securities, and they should be held accountable. I will work hard for the right reform of Wall Street.

The term bailout has been used a lot in this debate. Not a dollar of the $700 billion will go to the brokers who created the securities. Instead, they will go to the investors who bought them, and then only after they take a significant discount or loss. Properly executed, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve believe this proposal will restore liquidity to the credit markets and return confidence in the financial system.

I think it means that we are all going to be rich and to answer my question about regulating greed, I think that means no.

What an excellent point! Wouldn’t it be a riot to see Obama vs. Palin???

Yep. Could be a Cindy-moron too. ;-)

I did a post awhile back about how Sarah put a high school friend in the Alaska’s Division of Agriculture, because she answered, “I love cows!”, on the application. I’m serious. These are the people working in the Alaskan government right now. This friend was a real estate agent before working in the ADA. LOL

Paperboy/Poolboy = Lt. Governor of Alaska!

Shouldn’t someone yell “Thar she blows” or something?

The modern “tiger cage.” Who says the military didn’t learn anything from Viet Nam?

Was that from one of our stellar Senators?

I gather McCain passed over Lauren Caitlin Upton because she didn’t meet the VP age requirement? I all other respects, she is at least as qualified as Palin.

I just watched a video of Craig Ferguson on McCain’s suspension – nothing says outrage like a Scottish accent saying “We didn’t suspend it for 9/11. We didn’t suspend it for Pearl Harbor. We didn’t suspend it for the Nazis. We didn’t suspend it for the damn British! We don’t do that in America!! We don’t! There’s no suspending the campaign!

Democracy first, first, first, first, first! Democracy first!”

I pledged $20 to the Obama campaign as part of the invitation to the debate watching party. I would give almost every dollar I have to see an Obama-Palin debate.

The letter is specifically written to make your eyes glaze over before you get to the third paragraph.

The substance seems accurate as far as it goes, but there’s a critical assumption embedded:

If the Treasury properly discounts the securities to, say, 50 or 60 cents on the dollar, and holds the securities to maturity there should be little or no cost to the Treasury.

If you want a snappy response, why don’t you send a letter back with that quote, adding: What is the probability of that happening? How do you know? What is your evidence?

Enquiring minds. If you get a response do pass it along.

I’d be satisfied to see Joy Behar debate Palin.

I think the quote for that picture is “suffering succotash” – isn’t it?

Yup, Isakson. Do you want to see my email that I sent him?

A moose in headlights wearing Tina Fey glasses, is how I would describe Palin’s expression.

I actually like that. Thanks

oh wouldn’t THAT be fun!

My 42 was for you … did not show up

I guessed it had to be him — it was too “literate” and obfuscatory for Saxby to have produced. I think eCAHNomics @39 has a fabulous idea about taking that one gem and responding as she suggests.

Oh, and yes! I’d love to see the e-mail!

I can’t bear to thee thuccotath thuffer..!

St Petersburg College just hired a woman as director of the international studies dept with no experience in the field. She was hired over 60 other applicants, all of whom had better resumes. She’s a friend of the college’s aging president, Karl (another “Karl,” for Christ’s sake) Cutler. He paid for a trip to DC for her, she reimbursed him, the college reimbursed her. Good work if you can get it.

Palin should send a body double to the debate. An actor would be much more coherent.
Can we take bets on whether they dont find some ruse to keep her away from the debate….moose hunting season (or rabbits or salmon or deer) opened.
Track or trig or bristol or stomp got sick and need teh mommy.

As a woman, I so wish people wouldn’t do this. It is soooo distructive of the genuine effort.

I cannot believe that people, american people are actually considering McCain/Palin. I mean come on!!

Isakson was the only one that I heard back from. Tom Price is a waste and a fraud. Many, many years ago when you could go to a doctor without referrals, he is the only doctor that my insurance called and asked me questions about. In fact it was the only time an insurance company called me.

college presidents do whatever they want. they are gods.

I know one fairly well, and he is quite the opposite.

Who is Kent Jones and why is he on Rachel’s show everyday?

I’d be satisfied to see Joy Behar debate Palin.

Whoopi – gimme Whoopi.

(that doesn’t look so good when it’s typed out, does it?)

See? We all could be president/VP of the United States or the Director of International Studies if we want to. ;-)

I’ve noticed on my local right wing radio channel the commercial where the woman says (paraphrasing), “All you have to do to be rich is to say you want to be”, has not aired since September 18, 2008. Huh. That’s weird.

Track or trig or bristol or stomp got sick and need teh mommy.

Oh, you reminded me of my childhood and I think it was 1961 or 1962 when the Dovells recorded The Bristol Stomp…

he was her sidekick on her radio show for a yr or 2.

Via TPM

Obama spokesperson Bill Burton tells us that the McCain campaign is specifically instructing TV stations to start re-airing McCain’s ads on Saturday.

The Obama camp would presumably be getting such info from its own media buyers, who are in touch regularly with the TV stations.

Wth is Barney Frank saying? I can’t understand him

I don’t think gender is an issue in this instance, since I assume many of the qualified applicants who got passed over were also women.

Nah, you know they’re going to wire her up like they did with Bush.

Any way to prevent that?

gotcha. thanks

I am writing today to urge you to vote NO to providing a blank check to the Fed and the Treasury. The financial industry has been struggling for more than a year. The suggested plan does not give the industry any incentive to fix itself. Paulson said on Meet the Press that homeowners who face foreclosure “should try to live up to their obligation.” The suggested plan does nothing to encourage investment companies do the same thing. Instead we are witnessing mergers creating banks and investment companies too big to fail. If they are too big to fail they are too big.

Although the average American has continued to see their savings diminish, CEO’s and executives have been walking away with multi-million dollar golden parachutes. These individuals and the corporate representatives must be held responsible. They must be made to relinquish their huge bonuses and compensation packages. The compensation of all involved in the financial industry must be reigned in and monitored vigilantly in light of the current situation. Our democracy and free markets had always worked best when we have had oversight and regulations to discourage such greed.

President Bush and his Treasury Secretary were in a position to be able to work out the bailout plan for weeks but now they are pushing hard to have Congress sign off within a few days. As a member of Congress it is your responsibility to exert strong leadership and oversight. This cannot be accomplished in a few short days.

I’ll leave you with a copy of an e-mail that is making the rounds and rightly shows how upset the American people are.

SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
DEAR AMERICAN:
I NEED TO ASK YOU TO SUPPORT AN URGENT SECRET BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH A TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF GREAT MAGNITUDE.
I AM MINISTRY OF THE TREASURY OF THE REPUBLIC OF AMERICA. MY COUNTRY HAS HAD CRISIS THAT HAS CAUSED THE NEED FOR LARGE TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF 800 BILLION DOLLARS US. IF YOU WOULD ASSIST ME IN THIS TRANSFER, IT WOULD BE MOST PROFITABLE TO YOU.
I AM WORKING WITH MR. PHIL GRAM, LOBBYIST FOR UBS, WHO WILL BE MY REPLACEMENT AS MINISTRY OF THE TREASURY IN JANUARY. AS A SENATOR, YOU MAY KNOW HIM AS THE LEADER OF THE AMERICAN BANKING DEREGULATION MOVEMENT IN THE 1990S. THIS TRANSACTIN IS 100% SAFE.
THIS IS A MATTER OF GREAT URGENCY. WE NEED A BLANK CHECK. WE NEED THE FUNDS AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. WE CANNOT DIRECTLY TRANSFER THESE FUNDS IN THE NAMES OF OUR CLOSE FRIENDS BECAUSE WE ARE CONSTANTLY UNDER SURVEILLANCE. MY FAMILY LAWYER ADVISED ME THAT I SHOULD LOOK FOR A RELIABLE AND TRUSTWORTHY PERSON WHO WILL ACT AS A NEXT OF KIN SO THE FUNDS CAN BE TRANSFERRED.
PLEASE REPLY WITH ALL OF YOUR BANK ACCOUNT, IRA AND COLLEGE FUND ACCOUNT NUMBERS AND THOSE OF YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN TO WALLSTREETBAILOUT@TREASURY.GOV SO THAT WE MAY TRANSFER YOUR COMMISSION FOR THIS TRANSACTION. AFTER I RECEIVE THAT INFORMATION, I WILL RESPOND WITH DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT SAFEGUARRDS THAT WILL BE USED TO PROTECT THE FUNDS.
YOURS FAITHFULLY MINISTER OF TREASURY PAULSON

Thank you,
J Roswell, GA

Whoopi – gimme Whoopi.

Okay, but you’re going to have to buy me dinner first.

Franks on MSNBC commenting on bailout meeting

I didn’t think anything about it until you typed that last line. *g* I love the idea though. That would be great fun. The Queen of Mean couldn’t get back to Alaska fast enough after Whoopi opened a can of Woopi’s WhoopAss on her.

Oh, gawd! It’s FABULOUS that you appended that quasi-Nigerian thing! I’m howling! At least you got a reply. It’s probably “form reply #7,” but generally my efforts are totally ignored.

Twain — Yeah! That’s a good motto for the holding company I’ve been toying with: DUC, Ltd., creators of products under the brand name Dominant Unintended Consequences. Doubt I could afford Daffy for a spokestoon, but the motto should be out there for use …

Bobzim — She whom the gods would destroy, they first attach to McCain’s campaign.

I’d like to buy some stock in your company. May I also be the treasurer?

You know, I never thought I’d ever utter these words: “Thank You, House Repugs…!” Now, hopefully, the bailout will be completely derailed(I wish) or started anew from scratch…!

You two go for it.
I’ll provide the dessert. :)

Except that it addressed the regulation part. I think that 3/4’s were form and the regulation part not. Regulation is not something that we Georgians’ talk about.

My boss, who worries about everything and if he doesn’t have something right that instant to worry about he creates something, is batshit bananas about the banks failing and the FDIC not covering the deposits. I’ll have to admit I’ve learned quite a bit about FDIC over the last two days. Anyhoo, yesterday afternoon there was a banker in the office and he and the boss were discussing the “crisis.” Being my normal invasive self I interjected, “Ya know, let me tell ya the advantages of being poor.” Boss just rolled his eyes but young banker, laughing, said, “Yeah, you probably don’t have anything to worry about.” Meanwhile, I’m thinkin’ food for thought young greedhead, food for thought.

Looks like jayt took a powder, the cheapskate.:)

Well, it appears they’ll have to start all over from scratch. Which means that the McCain ploy worked. He gets to crow to his base that he rode into Dodge and stopped the evil Democrats from bringing this to a vote, and now it’s all up in the air and we certainly can’t have a debate….

If you want an analysis. Note in the paragraph that begins “First . . ” how your Senator uses the same third person description of events that Bush used in his speech last night. Where was he/she? Where was the Bush Administration, regulators, the Congress, your Senator as this bubble formed, grew, burst?

Next paragraph, it is not a liquidity crisis. It is a credit crisis. Pumping liquidity into markets will only stoke up speculation, commodities, buyouts, currencies, Dutch tulip bulbs, you name it. As I said in another thread, these are not innocent actors wanting to come clean and do good and make reasonable loans. They are addicts addicted to paper schemes, cons, and scams. Burning the $700 billion in a field would do as much good as giving it to these guys. I should also point out that buying and holding mortgage backed securities will do exactly zero for distressed homeowners. You have to go after the mortgages themselves to be of any help there.

Transparency and accountability need to come first. The companies need to declare what they hold. The government needs to sample the tranches and establish a price off which the companies can determine their assets and losses. To do it otherwise is for the government to buy a pig in a poke. Nor are reverse auctions useful since it assumes that both companies and the government have an idea about the value of the securities. If they do, or more precisely if the government does, then it can offer its price. Why go through the charade of an auction except to hire Wall Street brokers to carry it out? Ultimately it will be the government that will determine the value because it is putting up the money. So it should just do it.

In fact, a lot of this will go to brokers because this will prop up their companies and the bailout program will be administered by them.

Your Senator with all due respect is putting lipstick on a pig and expecting you to buy it.

Think their stance has anything to do with November? It’s gotta be the only thing they’ve gotten half-assed right since dirt was discovered.

That top won’t spin, Marion! The House Repugs are already crowing about their hand in derailing it…! Granted, McSame’s crew will try somehow to spin it, but, the cat is outta the bag…!

Don’t think he can pull that off. All the news thingies are reporting that he hardly said a word. Of course, that’s because he had nothing to say so he can’t claim he did anything about the problem. What a loser.

Exactly, and people like us who are in the poor house or in the struggling middle class can survive almost anything because we’re always on survival mode! So true. My grandmother was poor her whole life but always looked like a “rich” person because she was happy and took very good care of herself. She always said to us kids, “there is no excuse to be dirty if you don’t have money” and would tell us where to find all the town spickets/lakes/streams were! LOL

What the hell did Barney Franks say? No bailout? Good. And I don’t blame the Democrats for wanting the republics to be part of this bill, so the Dems don’t have to take it all on their shoulders. That said, the repubs will vote against anything at this point, so I say….let the companies on Wall Street who have acted in a criminal way to collapse. They deserve it.

Nite nite everyone! Have a good one! ;-)

Your Senator with all due respect is putting lipstick on a pig and expecting you to buy it.

No joke. Our “esteemed” Senator is a card-carrying Gunga Din for this administration.

WABBIT SEASON!

Lord, here’s its first project!

Uh, … sure!8} Some sort of incubator might have to be set up, which of course would involve $zero …

Keep the thought!

Latest Gallup:

Most Americans want something done, but they don’t want Bush’s plan.

Hey Betsy! How goes it? Is the sprout behaving herself?

Nite, KayInMaine.

Namaste

Doesn’t matter if they wire her. Did you see her on Katie C, or at Ground Zero? Unless they put a speaker in her hair and just have her open and close her mouth.

Ecahn earlier pointed out the biggest discrepancy is IF we do this and IF we do that, it’s not a bailout. It’s some type of weird investment. Hugh is right about how they phrase their response. I can’t wait to see what Saxby says. Tom will send the same old form letter via post office.

If congress closes tomorrow with or without a deal by seven, WcCain can still make the debate.

Interesting. Adam Nagourney at the NYT (who usually infuriates me) has a piece on McCain’s Washington trip. The first graf:

Senator John McCain had intended to ride back into Washington on Thursday as a leader who had put aside presidential politics to help broker a solution to the financial crisis. Instead he found himself in the midst of a remarkable partisan showdown, lacking a clear public message for how to bring it to an end.

McCain’s decisions may have finally put his campaign on the rocks.

I want to see Obama debating an empty rocker with the word “McCain” on it.

He’s upstairs. Some guys are all talk. :)
You and I could share the jello and whipped cream, though. Oh, hell, why not?

I was thinking more of one of those life-sized photograph cut-outs… Propped up behind a lectern…

she’s way too busy to misbehave. you know she’s living in el paso now, yes?

Yeah, he said dinner was a deal breaker. TexBetsy even offered to throw in $5.

Is that gelatin or pudding? Aw, who cares, load it on up.

A whole hour or so of Obama solo. Nationwide. At no cost to the campaign. Doesn’t get any better than that.

They could get Margie Gunderson to do the voice.

That was supposed to be for PW @ 95.

Marion, I actually think that I also could be VP. I grew up in New England and I saw the movie The Russians are Coming. I’m not as young and I was never a beauty pageant person but I have the rest of the qualifications.

How about John and Sarah blow up dolls. A twofer.

Well, I used to live in Vermont, which is really close to Canada, and now down here in Georgia it’s just a hop, skip and a jump to Mexico. And I’ve eaten at Japanese restaurants… I’m older than dirt but being able to eat with chopsticks should count for something, shouldn’t it?

There’s something about that idea that just makes me say EEEEWWWWWWW…..

you’re not referring to exploding dolls, are ya?

*** metaphorically speaking

Marion, You win. I could never master chopsticks.

So are you going to explain what type of dolls and what exactly they do?

I dunno, I’ve heard the tiniest pinprick can deflate your date candidate.

Okay, now it’s TRIPLE (at least) EEEEEEWWWWWWWW!

nope! i had a real live date with a real live guy. two dates in fact. only decent thing to land here in austin from hurricane ike

Congrats! Hope you made him pay for dinner… :)

Hurrican Ike gave us closed gas stations. Thanks Tex Betty

Well, see, now this is kinda like radio. Ya gotta use your imagination. We could do a gross out.