Good morning.

Wingnuts getting nuttier.

Wingnuts getting nuttier.

That’s going to be more true every day for quite a while, I think — even when you doubt that it is possible.

Morning peoples. As always, thanks for the links, BT.

“Joe Lieberman is not some right-wing nutcase,” [Reid] said. “Joe Lieberman is one of the most progressive people ever to come from the state of Connecticut.”

Bullshit. Reid you are pissing me off to no end.

Can Obama bring his handcuffs to the meeting and get it on with what needs to be done?

Wingnuts are falling all over themselves. Check out the comments on EJ Dionne’s opinion piece in the WaPo. Republicons have to be the most paranoid people in the land outside of mental institutions.

Reid needs to go.

From previous post: I’m back in the doldrums. Bush is doing everything he can to destroy this country before Obama takes over. And he has 2 long months to do it.

Heh. Citizen’s arrest. I like it.

If it’s OK with you, I think I’ll hold on to what sanity I have left & not check out the comments. R callers on WJ are bad enough for me.

BTW, Dodd came to Lieberman’s defense, too. Methinks, they’re trying to soothe the bloggers. I don’t care if he stays in the caucus, but no way does he get a position that will allow him to investigate Obama.

Obama’s success is threatened by the continued leadership of Reid in the Senate. Reid has to go if the nation is to move forward. If Reid stays, the U.S. will merely tread water and continue it’s decline.

I’d love to hear how Chris Dodd reacted to that line in private, as well as the entire CT congressional delegation.

A wise decision.

Uh. Chris Dood? More progressive than Chrios Dodd? Shit, lowel Weicker was a Rep[ublican and was probably more progfessive than Lieberman. Um, Ella Grasso? Abe Ribbicoff?

Right you are. Freepers are turning against Fox for turning against their darling Palin.

Threatening to boycott.

I kid you not.

Break out the equivalent of vintage ‘59 French wine popcorn for this one.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyo.....800/658210

Publicly, Dodd is being nice to the other Senator from his state. Happens all the time (I’ve got McCaskill and Bond doing that, for crying out loud.) Privately, though, I think Dodd must be seething at what Short Ride has done for the reputation of their state and its leaders.

agreed 100000%

I can’t wait for Limbaugh and Hannity to be told to STFU when the Fairness Doctrine comes back. They are scared sh*tless. They might even lose more money under that than they will from the high end tax increases.

More popcorn, please.

It’s the rush to Rush. No one could have anticipated . . .

The man behind the EIB microphone is going to rake in the dough for the next four years, as he’s got very good job security these days. Much more secure than anyone at Fox.

We are seeing the resurrection of the Know Nothing Party.

You should have asked earlier. I threw out the leftover popcorn from last night.

I think Kristol’s going to lose his job at NYTimes. Now, that’s satisfying.

But dontcha know that Ds have to bend over backward to be bipartisan?

It must be true if George Will is saying it. /s

Hey!!!! I’ve been lurking a little bit in the past week but haven’t gotten here much. I’m happy as a pig in shit about our newly blue state (yeah, right)although that’s tempered somewhat by unpleasant surpise at Amendment 2 passing. I figured it might get 50% but 60? No way. Jeez. What are these people thinking. A new Congressperson kicking out my vile incumbent and Grayson winning in the next CD. You’re guy should start gearing up for 2 years from now. I don’t think Grayson even made it out of the primary last time. I just can’t get overr Orange County going 59-40% for Obama. (It was 49-49 in ‘04). That’s a good chunk of his margin of viictory. And an added bonus, the election went smoothly, but i hope they aren’t lulled into a sense of security. i still think those optical scanners are bad news.

Will Obama save us from the scary left?

Will the Scary Left save Obama from Joe Lieberman? Will the GOP, the DLC and the Mainstream Media support the FDR type plans necessary to save the economy? Nope!
Obama has a choice about picking who his friends are. We wrote tons os stories and comments supporting him.
The Main Stream Media on the other hand was not taking Obama seriously. We gave him tons of cash. Big business only did after it looked like he could win.
The DLC put out the Memes that Obama can’t win Women or Hispanic voters which the GOP followed up on and the Main Stream Media spread.
Obama can betray us and go run off with the cool kids DOING DRUGS er bribes or he can hang with us its his choice.

These irrelevant “pundits” don’t ever seem to go away. The wronger they are, the more airspace they get.

The way he points is odd. Most people hold their pointing finger straight out. Will kind of crooks his up so it’s almost pointing down.

What makes you think so?

Katrina Vandenhuegel (sp?) of The Nation, on democracynow, thinks Obama will unwind the imperial presidency. I’ll believe that one when I see it, and not a second before.

What’s so fascinating is this same paranoia was coming out of the McCain camp and Americans did not listen to them, because we live in reality. Their paranoid claims are going to do their party in. I’m looking forward to it.

That piece in The Tribune shave a couple of points off of my IQ.

Anyone know what happened to Ed at the book salon yesterday?

Last night our local Obama team had a pot luck victory party. Lots of beer & wine but no arugula.

There are a lot of Obama organizers currently doing nothing maybe we can get them to help build public support to repeal prop 8, get us National Healthcare etc.

You’re guy should start gearing up for 2 years from now.

In telling us that he had not won on election night, our Congressional candidate said the new campaign would start the next day.

I think we also need to jump on board with this initiative. Gerrymandering is very much in the way of spreading the blue in Florida. Last I heard, the ballot language was already in front of the FL Supreme Court. If it gets approval, I think I’ll put a lot of effort into gathering signatures to get it on the ballot.

Q. What misinformation are you talking about?

A. Some of the goofy things like who was Trig’s mom. Well, I’m Trig’s mom (raises her hand) and do you want to see my medical records to prove that?

Why is she asking that? She promised that stuff weeks ago.

She thinks it’s amazing that they did as well as they did? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Lost NC, FL, OH? Lost an Electoral Vote in NE? Great. Actually she did do very well….. In helping Obama-Biden raise money. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

True. Feeney was speaker of the FL house and drew a district for himself. Didn’t do him any good last week. That’s how badly he lost.

No Arugula ? But we are latte sipping Starbucks types never mind McCain wears $500 Bruno Magli shoes and Sarah spends over $120,000? shopping for her family.
Somehow we are the Elites.
I wonder how long the GOP can keep the Elite Meme going when an African American is in the White House?
After all a lot of the Sarah Voters don’t like thinking of African Americans as better than they are.

I’m on board with this one.

Two things, can Reid really be thinking of giving jomentum a pass? If nothing else it’s a slap in the face of Obama. Dump Reid too.
Second, Palin is the live grenade in the GOP group-hug, you go girl.

The elitism charges are dog whistles for intellectualism, imo. The right is intellectually bankrupt (”think” tanks notwithstanding) and can’t risk having voters actually think about what is in their self-interest.

Second, Palin is the live grenade in the GOP group-hug, you go girl.

Love it. Gonna steal it!

They’re not “think tanks” they’re drunk tanks.

Meanwhile, the FED has been running wild with our money and refuses to disclose what it has been doing with that money.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/.....=worldwide
The FED has run amuck

Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) — Asian stocks rallied for the first time in three days and U.S. index futures jumped after China announced a $586 billion package to revive growth in the world’s fourth-largest economy.

Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., which generates a sixth of its sales in China, soared 19 percent in Tokyo after the Chinese government announced infrastructure spending, tax deductions and farming subsidies

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/.....refer=asia

This is what we need a REAL Bank Bailout, Stimulus package etc to do raise stock prices around the world. Give investors hope that Washington is doing something REAL.
The package has to be big enough to get investors attention. Infrastructure spending has to be targeted no bridges to nowhere, no roads for timber companies we need to fix roads and bridges people actually use.
Tax Deductions WTF who cares about that when you have no profits?
Farm subsides again target them we need soil sustainable farming practices Now!
We are losing too much top soil it takes centuries to make an inch of new top soil. We need Organic food we should phase out factory food.

I do wonder about one member of AEI, Laurie Mylroie. In researching Iraq before the war, I tried to read both sides, so I read her book, Study of Revenge. It was incomprehensibly written. Then I’ve seen her on cspan a couple of times. She looks, acts, and writes like an alcoholic.

does she ever! she’s worse than Nooner

morning pups.

I didn’t hear it, but one of my readers, Grant in Houston, just said on my blog that Joe Scarborough said the f-word live on television! Apparently, Joe was saying Rahm Emanuel used the word against someone in Congress, which is so funny, because so didn’t Dick Cheney. Funny how Dick wasn’t mentioned.

It’s starting. Every REAL argument the Democrats, liberals, progressives, and rational republicans had against the Bush Regime and it’s members is going to be used against Barack Obama now.

We’ll just laugh at them like we normally do.

Okay, going to work. Have a great day everyone! ;-)

So they try and make thinking seem bad they tap the hate for the smartest kid in the class and say that the smartest kids are wrong.
The GOP does know that that trick will appeal only to the kids who felt the most threatened by the smart kids.
The dumb kids, but if that is who the GOP wants to appeal to who is to say they are wrong?
I’m sure they are much easier to control.

Mornin’, Elliott

Morning all. Lurking as always.

Moondancer, love that whole gernade thing.

Agree. It works for them.

Funny how Digby’s commenters are doing the “if the Villagers like him he must be bad” bit about Obama, in view of the two big hits Obama has struck against the policies of their hero Bush: Namely, carrying out his promise to review and strike down Bush’s EOs, and his plan to give the Gitmo inmates the access to a fair trial that they’ve never had.

It was incomprehensibly written.

What kind of mistakes does she make, Facts, Spelling, Logic etc?

Anyone else catch the F-bomb Joe Scar dropped live today?

Heh! Republicans project their own sins so much they should have “Bell & Howell” stamped on their foreheads.

The country demands change. It must not be thwarted by small minded drones from the Republicon party or the corporate media. It’s imperative that the know nothings be marginalized and refuted where ever they are found. Here’s a little something to put a smile on your face. It’s the video below the lead.

http://crooksandliars.com/

KayInMaine @ 49, I did!

As far as the right wing faithful are concerned, intellectualism and elitism are interchangeable. Our friends on the right could benefit from just a little smarts so they might understand the elite are the 1% of the population earning 50% of all income and not anyone with an IQ over 100.

This is what you get when networks pay $20M/yr to blowhard bullies not ashamed to speak into the mic and/or look the camera in the eye and lie out their a^^.

..it always comes back to education or the lack thereof…

Do tell . . .

YouTube already up!

I read it in 02, so I don’t remember it well. I remember it was like throwing spaghetti against the wall to see what would stick, so it jumps all over the place, trying to show links among bad guys. I also read it early on in my self-education, so it’s possible that more of the alleged links would have made sense to someone who was more up to speed on the subject, but somehow I doubt it because I observed that others on her side didn’t seem to refer to her work much.

KayInMaine’s assessment @49 pretty much nailed it.

I hadn’t seen that before posting my comment.

As always, the attempt to clean it up is more fun than the crime.

What I found most amusing was his question “Did I say that?”

Proof positive he never knows what’s coming out of his pie hole.

Gotca Smear tactics and jumps in logic to show links between the bad guys, sounds like Darth read the same book and bought it hook line and sinker.

His wife is gonna kill him for sayin’ fuck? Give me a break.

Sanctimonious much, Joe?

Why are Rs such scaredy cats?

Remember a stat that something like 20,000 people worldwide have died from terrorism (excluding terrorism associated with war) since 1968. It’s hardly public enemy number one.

Drunk drivers kill more than that here.

In one year. But the stat I remember is the TOTAL for the last 40 years.

I wonder if Joe was testing the waters? Wasn’t this just argued by SCOTUS last week where one of the justices pointed out there was a difference between prime time and early a.m. news shows?

Geez, every other story is about how the fed govt is moving too far left. Ratchet effect indeed.

Attaturk has a whole post on the subject of Joe’s slip-up for all who are interested: “Joe the Poddy Mouth”

If the right is gonna argue intellectualism is bad what is the converse? Ignorancism is good?

Pretty neat. Weasel in the headlights look.

The newly elected government doesn’t go into office until January. Being very concrete about their statemens, who’d a thunk the Rethugs would take a hard left turn the last 2 months in office. They are so afraid that their shit is going to be exposed live and in living colour in real time. Everything the Obama administration changes will reveal the incompetence, avarice and greed of the Rethugs.

I was thinking is was something like 40,000 a year but didn’t want to throw that number out like it came out of my ass.

I was on the fence for years about Israel and neocon spy LIEberman, big mistake…let’s just get down to it, EXPEL Reid and LIEberman!

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste