Thanks Christy.

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The US Chamber of Commerce was relentless in NH with their anti-Jeanne Shaheen ads.

I wanted to egg their offices.

-G

“risk averse”? Oh, my phrase for the day.
I’m kinda hate averse myself.
And, lying averse.
And, duplicitous averse.
Thanks, Christy.

What stopped ya?

Thanks, Christy. McClatchy also chimes in on your theme:

Corporate America enjoyed favorable treatment under the Bush administration for almost eight years and for most of the era of Republican control of Congress from 1995 to 2007.

Now unions may gain a stronger hand, and business is bracing for greater financial regulation, worker-friendly policies and an emphasis on social spending.

Now off to read your great collection of info.

mmmmm, steaks and single malt…

Sounds to me as though you’re egging him on, SD!

Have you seen the price of eggs lately?
Barbara, you made a funny! Good to see.

Meanwhile, Lieberweasel is going to be meeting with Reid today. Bug meet swatter.

People on k street being risk averse?
Wouldn’t that be like a doctor who faints at the sight of blood?

Being a representative of the Shaheen campaign in a small town with a brother in the law enforcement community…….

Just saying;)

-G

Breaking news! Here is a photo just released from that meeting.

I’da helped. Never ask anybody to do anything I wouldn’t do. Egg throwing is traditional. Plus they’re water soluable.

Demi: At under 3 bucks a dozen it’s worth it.

Morning Christy,

Change is good ,but it doesn’t come easily,expect to see a lot of scratching and clawing as the rats try to hold on to what they can!
Another thing. What if the Dems just really suck ?
I live in a state with one party rule ,it ain’t always the best thing lots of feel good knee jerk legislation,some really bad laws get passed

and if you set them out a couple months in advance, they generate just the right fragrance on impact.

Reid: Joe your chairmanship has been stripped.
Joe: But, but, but. I did congratulate Barack
Joe later during the day at a press conference
Joe: I have decided to caucus with the Republican party.
Republican Party in unison: Oh shit.

Ug. It’s hard to tell who’s who, with the wig and false mustache, but based on physical build, it looks like Lieberman may be winning. Reed was supposed to be a wrestler, but looks like he went for the clothes rather than the jugular. That may explain accomplishments in the Senate.

Pretty good reasons and I know the feeling. Was Samm Simpson’s treasurer last two elections and had to mind my p’s and q’s. Drove me nuts lot of times.

You ever try removing egg from cedar siding it don’t come off too easy!!

News flash: Rethuglian party announces new official position in party structure - party butt sniffer

Morning all — beautiful day here today. Who has the coffee?

o/t

initial Youth Vote numbers for you and Beerfart Lib

Ronald Reagan in 1980—a Reagan Revolution!

Newt Gingrich in 1994—a Republican Revolution.

Democrats in 2006—-Must govern as a center right party!

Obama in 2008–No mandate, must govern as a center right president!

The liberal media must stop setting the political narratives.

-G

It is amusing how the government worm turns, isn’t it? *g* I don’t know that we’ll get the wholesale, sweeping changes needed…but the fact that there is panic that we might just makes me smile.

Hold out your cup.
(Oh, I miss oldcoastie.)
I’m making deviled eggs right now. It’s SD and GregB’s fault. *g*

Christie, Any talk re Pelosi and Reid’s fate?

morning Christy. WV had my hopes up a little last week or 2 weeks ago. Didn’t think we’d win but hoped for it to be closer. oh well. I don’t think Obama relly got half-serious about WV until pretty late. You’ve done a grat job throughout all of this and under difficult circunstances. great contribution to a great win. (Although when I speak of a “great win ” it’s tempered by the passage in several places of hateful resolutions and amendments.)

from bottom of last tread:

didn’t know about UCF but I believe it. alot of te people who showed up at my precinct were kids who commute. alot My district and the neigboring one got rid of R congressmen–Feeney & Keller. Sorry to hear about your Congressional candidate. You worked your ass off for him. 2nd time might be better. it was for Grayson.

Speaking of which . . . gas in Twin Cities down to $1.97 yesterday. Que pasa?

I guess schadenfreude is the word of the day. Fine with me.

Naomi Klein is trying to make the case that we now have the opportunity for our own (reverse? inverse?) shock therapy to make the large changes that are needed. I think the R’s are so nervous because they know that their side didn’t hesitate to make wholesale changes when they had the opportunity.

Mornin’, Christy. Caribou Coffee, medium roast but not wimpy. Hot, mellow, satisfying. Kinda like me. :-)

The statistics are interesting and I think that as the young memebers of our society see results, they will vote. This year was a start but folks like “Cassie” will lead the way for future generations.

Good Morning everyone…..

I found out last night at our DFA post election meeting that all of Pima County (big blue county) has not been counted as there was dispute and ruling that the machine counts would NOT be transmitted via modem and the memory cards would be taken to the central tabulator. They got a court to rule that the board of elections could not guarantee security in the modem transmission. So the counting in AZ is not done…

That may explain accomplishments in the Senate.

there were accomplishments?

later today: “Short List” meets “Short Ride” in a steel-cage death match ‘who’s the bigger wuss’ slap-fight…..

how do we get the lobbiests out of washington, how do we make it illegal to buy our law?

It’s payback time, and the K Street crony criminals are going to have to come up with the vig or whatever they call it in Soprano-talk. Since we are going to loll around in schadenfreude for a few minutes, let me say that nothing would give more freude than to see a significant number of these crooks lose their multi-million dollar homes in Falls Church and other clusters of closed Gooper communities to repossessors.

The frosting would be for their kids to have to leave private schools and join the hoi polloi in the public system.

Just day-dreaming. Now back to work.

72 vote holds record but one caveat. The voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 just prior. In 72 it was the first time that I could vote and I was 22 at the time.

lol. I got way farther into trying for a metaphor than I had intended.

Easily done. Just move the locks on the gated communities to the outside. Voila!

I read today on one of the links that McCain was happy and did not lament his loss even one day, took in some star bucks without his entourage and everything

I would like to think he is at peace with himself because he now knows palin is not a poisen pill from the presidencty

We need comprehensive campaign finance reform. Since so many Congresspeople are in the pockets of the lobbyists, that will require years of deliberately electing Congresspeople from all parties who commit to CFR as part of their candidacy. We’ll lose some to corruption, but only by building up this base will we be able to drive change.

At the same time we need to build the cultural infrastructure, the message, that this needs to happen. We need to educate the public regarding the corrosive effect of money on Democracy. And we need to do this in the face of a corporate media that will deliberately censor these messages.

In order to overcome the propaganda power of integrated corporate media (where multiple print and broadcast venues are owned by single corporations) we need to bust up the media monopolies using existing antitrust laws. And again, this will need to proceed in the face of vicious corporatist propaganda.

Bush picked Cheney as insurance against impeachment; maybe that was McShame’s thinking.

I think you’ve got that reversed.

Could be

IMHO Palin was jammed down McCain’s throat. It must have been very unsettling for him to hear that Palin’s base was praying for his death.

Gotta go find some and gawd knows what it will cost. I am at the Hyatt Regency in Denver for a conference.

I assume that Obama will start investigations of War Profiteering that and people buying military stocks with inside information like I suspect but cannot prove the Carlyle Group.
The only reason you hire ex heads of state is not because they are great business leaders but because people they hired in government have the inside track on who is going to get a military contract.
Which might be insider trading.

But that hesitation, that uncertainty, that questioning and probing without finding solid answers on what’s going to happen next? It’s a delicious moment.

If Obama wants Rahm Emanuel for his Chief of Staff, if he wants a sexist idiot like Lawrence Summers at Treasury, I don’t think K Street has that much to worry about. Maybe they won’t be able to be so blatant (at least with access to the departments) but I’m not even sure about that. If they keep the grease going to their former Republican stooges and spread some more around to the Blue Dogs, they will continue to have working majorities in both Houses. We have already seen the whole Democratic power structure including Obama cave to the telecoms on FISA and on the financial bailout. So small stuff may be a little harder but for big items it looks pretty much like business as usual.

cheney wound up being insurance against impeachment but that’s not why bush picked him

I believe the story goes that bush asked cheney to find a qualified nominee to be vp, someone who wouldn’t mind doing most of the work

and cheney came back with himself as that nominee

In related schadenfreude, I’m wondering if, after the failure of all of the quick riches projects of The Person Formerly Known As Joe |The Plumber, we’ll see a law suit against McCain for breach of contract regarding plumbing maintentance for the seven homes. (I think I may have been listening to Keith Olbermann’s sentences too much.)

Either Reid drops the hammer on Lieberschmuck today, or we organize to drop the hammer on Reid. There must be a cost exacted. Or any other Senator can start the same games. There must be party unity and discipline…in every definition of that word. Too much needs fixin’, and the shakin’ up needs to start here. An example must be made.

And while we’re in housekeeping mode, whazzup with Rahm’s diva dance about COS? Looks bad that that’s draggin’ out/playin’ out.

Raisin’ a cup o’Caribou French roast this morning to ye, Barbara…

These were the same people that prayed for rain at Obama’s acceptance speech. A sane person would not have been to worried.

nice post!

we need to bush up media conglomerations, we need to re-certify the fairness doctrine

we need to REMOVE personhood for corporations, if the supreme court refuses then we need a constitutional amendment

I would LOVE to see republicans try to say they like personhood for corporations

(by the way, they do NOT have personhood in any decision)

Hope he lets go!

Naomi Klein is trying to make the case that we now have the opportunity for our own (reverse? inverse?) shock therapy to make the large changes that are needed.

Reverse Shock is anyone else using that phrase? I think I invented it not sure?

Happiness doesn’t begin to express my feelings today at the thought of all these bloated ticks falling away. What? Suddenly feeling like everybody else has for the past 6 years? You are NOT welcome to the club.

You’re right, new ticks will arrive, but hopefully fewer, and we can look carefully for them and expose them. That will be a good job for the blogosphere the next four years. Also, I’m sure there will be new tricks they’ll think up to hide themselves: good con-men always come up with a new angle on the same old scam.

But we’re pretty smart too.

No matter what Reid does to Lieberman Reid himself needs to be replaced. He’s proven himself weak and really lacks the passion and a killer instinct. Hillary shoud replace him.

you know guys, I just had a thought;

it’s faux news that’s reporting palin didn’t know africa was a continent, it’s faux news that’s telling us she didn’t prepare for the interview

it is therefore the neo-cons that don’t want palin credible

I do not want to become so naive as to think faux is breaking a story without a neo-con agenda

All excellent points for the “to do list.”

Jane up on Move On

we as progressives and the new fourth estate must let it be known to the democrats AND the republican party

“you do the work of the people then you are a progressive no matter what party you affiliate, you may keep your seat in power

you deny the work of the people, you try to obstruct or filibuster, you try to put holds on bills of the people, we will make sure you lose your seat in power, it will not matter what party you belong”

we really don’t need a filibuster proof majority, all we need is the force of our point, that they will not triumph their next election if they filibust our work

Jon Meacham managing editor of Newsweek was on Charlie Rose last night. Without reference to any evidence, he said that we were a center-right nation and that Obama would have to govern that way.

I think Meacham is wrong. Our elites including Obama are right or center right but the population is not. Although polls aren’t done on it that often, if you take a list of Americans’ views on major issues from Iraq, the economy, healthcare, etc. they tend to be considerably to the left of their leaders.

Meanwhile Nancy Pelosi on NPR today was stressing the need to govern from the “center”. I have also seen numerous stories on the need for patience. Indeed there is Obama’s own victory speech. The point is that while Obama ran on change, the whole elite community, again including Obama, are already backtracking suggesting that change will not be much, that the failed policies of the right will not be cast aside but retuned. That is the real message of Obama, Pelosi, and Meacham, that the new elite is really the old elite reshuffled, and that this is true of Obama’s new policies as well.

I’m really looking forward to the Pretty Miss Wasilla expose about to arrive. And I don’t even mind how vindictive I’ve become. I’m really enjoying it. What I long to see is that fat, pussy pimple on the rump of the Republican Party, Karl Rove take his hit. I’m gonna enjoy watching that traitor scuttle out of the light of day.

Hoo-ha!

I think Meacham is wrong. Our elites including Obama are right or center right but the population is not. Although polls aren’t done on it that often, if you take a list of Americans’ views on major issues from Iraq, the economy, healthcare, etc. they tend to be considerably to the left of their leaders.

meacham is not only wrong, he is dead wrong, he is provably wrong

we are a people of progressives, though republican constituents like to claim a differance between what they want and what we want, for the majority of republicans, that differance is slight.

What I long to see is that fat, pussy pimple on the rump of the Republican Party, Karl Rove take his hit. I’m gonna enjoy watching that traitor scuttle out of the light of day.

he has been the cause of their problem yet they will believe will be the answer to their prayers

they are that much the fool

we need to get new voices out there, I’m sick of Charlie Rose’s wan parlor.

whazzup with Rahm’s diva dance about COS?

I see that as a good thing.

It means he knows he’s not gonna really get to shape policy, like Bush’s CoS’s did while he was out riding his bike.

And, it puts to an end his Speaker aspirations.

But he also knows it would look bad to not accept an appointment to this historic administration.

we need to get new voices out there, I’m sick of Charlie Rose’s wan parlor.

It’s the whole NPR/PBS milieu. They were fresh 30-35 years ago, but they haven’t changed since. Now they are just old and stale, and the very thing they were supposed to be different from.

And, it puts to an end his Speaker aspirations.

And it gets his corporatist DLCC vote out of the House & House Leadership.

Not a bad move by our soon-to-be President Obama.
(It feels so goood to see that)

It’s the whole NPR/PBS milieu.

As much as I like NPR, it has exhibited a great deal of influence from the nuthuggers such as Tomlinson and all the thuggish true believers he managed to bring on board at CPB. Yesterday morning I heard back to back guest essays from AEI and Cato Inst. Their meme was that Obama can’t possible govern as a liberal and he should wisely lead as a proto-fascistic pseudo-libertarian. There just isn’t the support for him to initiate any new policies that would overturn their gravy train that was delivered by Little Georgie.

Ughh!

This morning I heard an extended piece by Mara Liasson on “managing expectations” which featured another AEI spokesperson. The whole point was that Obama will have to manage peoples expectations that he can’t implement anything of his liberal agenda - the people just won’t stand for it.

Why, oh why, are AEI and Cato Inst given such a prominent soapbox? This election was a refutation of all the policies those yahoos stand for. I want to hear unvarnished truth, not spin-polished bull-poo. Argh!

we need to REMOVE person-hood for corporations, if the supreme court refuses then we need a constitutional amendment

I would LOVE to see republicans try to say they like personhood for corporations

(by the way, they do NOT have personhood in any decision)

This statement has been irritating me for some time now, and today it has become the burr under the blanket that needs addressing, EPU’d as it is.

If you had any exposure to contract law, and IANAL, you would know that what the courts found was a corporation was a person in its ability to form, enter into, and enforce a contract, or have a valid contract enforced upon. This is simply what the “personification” of a corporation is, that is what “personhood” is limited to.

You have been raging for the longest time over this issue of “personhood” of corporation and every time you do it really shows your complete lack of knowledge or ignorance. This has become one of your hallmarks, the same hallmark would be readily used by a demagogue to dissemble falsehood and misdirection upon an uneducated or ill-informed audience. Just what is your purpose in endlessly repeating this trash? what is your goal? Is it to endlessly repeat in the hopes that what you propose comes true? In that, good luck. It is sad also, in that so much of what you also say has great value, that value is lost wrapped in this garbage.