Tweety has been working real hard to be tough on Bush lately. What better show of the blogs power than the Talking Heads starting to get in line to follow us. What does the high command think of his conversion?

Very tough fior Franken. Much rather be in Coleman’s shoes. Whatta shame. And i’d be amazed if Martin wins. Still, a decent majority imn the senate.

Paterson sez he’s gonna wait until Hillary’s confirmed before choosing her successor.

Pollack’s up on cspan. I sent an email enquiring why cspan had guests who claim to be experts in their areas but who haven’t be right about anything.

good question eCAHN

why is that man spouting off on my teeVee?

His predecessor was no better. Here’s my comment from EPUland:

Another “expert” on cspan spewing garbage, this time about the polictics of medical care. He avers that the voters determine what congress passes (in the context that those who do not have insurance don’t vote) instead of insurance corps and big pharma. He also calls Tom Daschle a great leader who can get things done in the senate. Bwahahahaha. He couldn’t even get himself reelected when he was majority leader.

Josh Marshall is not thinking positively about what may come to pass in Israel
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.c.....246242.php

Pollack’s better than I expected. He sez the Middle East is all about oil Welcome to the world of the obvious. Why’d it take you 30 years to get there? /s

Yeah, I saw that. Too depressing for this early in the morning.

taken to task by caller

I went to get a cuppa. What was the Q?

Gee, that was an in-depth post. Did JM just wake up to the idea that Netanyahu will win the next election? The Israeli govt has been turning right since Rabin was assassinated. The reichwingers don’t want to co-exist with Palestine, they want the Palestinians to disappear.

oh, he called him on his involvement in the AIPAC spy case and being a neoCON

I worked closely with Daschles senate office and he is a good person. SD is a red state and the rethugs thru everything they had behind Thune. Ultimately Thune won because he promised that he alone could save Ellsworth AFB, a major economic boost in the Rapid City area.

Thanks. I heard most of the answer & figured that was probably the Q. I interpreted the A as: believe me, not your lying eyes.

BTW Elliott, don’t slip & type: neoCAHN. *g*

Did Thune save the AFB?

I don’t doubt that Daschle is a good person. But from the outside he seems to be a soft spoken pushover, just like Harry Reid.

lol!

You should know better than to give this bunch an idea like that. *g*

Ellsworth came out on the base closure list and Thune went ballistic and Bush took it off - something that is not supposed to happen.

So what’s the “long-term reform” agenda a dog whistle for, that Pollack keeps talking about? Is that an excuse for U.S. engagement to go into low gear? If so, I might buy into it.

IOKIYAR

Hopefully everyone is too sleepy this morning to remember.

Report from Zwerdling at NPR on the contracting away of government under Bush.

(Zwerdling was literally years ahead of anyone else national in covering the dangers of wetland erosion and misguided water works policies in southern Louisiana.)

If the Israelis did not have someone to make war against they would have to sort out their own domestic violent tendencies and that could be disastrous for them. It seems they relish stomping on other people to show how “superior” they are. It is amazing how fascist they have become.

- appreciate your heads up downstairs - am deeply saddened by Tanta’s passing.

and only 47 - god damn it ! always assumed someone that wise had been around much longer

for those unfamiliar with her work or the Calculated Risk community, it would not be a stretch to say she was a Digby-like seer and just about the wittiest, deft teacher one could ask for - we have lost a major voice

Did anybody see the segment on 60 Minutes about the woman medic who was awareded a Silver Star? Seems the 2 guys whose lives she saved feel that women shouldn’t be in their outfit (82nd Airborne) and refused to be interviewed on camera. The other members of her unit that day seem to think that she was just doing her job, no big deal. Good thing there weren’t any breakable objects within reach.

emptywheel wrote of Tanta

They did indeed learn much from their oppressors, didn’t they?

May I suggest something. So many people here have such great ideas and great comments/snarks. Why can’t we bury the e-mails of those whose ideas we wish to influence with our own ideas such that they cannot ignore us? Numbers have been known to influence results. We are not alone. Why can’t we band together with others with similar ideas to influence politics? Hey haven’t we done this before? Barack Obama comes to mind. Why can’t it be done in non-election time? I think we can get Healthcare done. It is the most important effort we face! Let us get one big thing done and go from there to get more….

This once again highlights a very bad DOD policy and inequity in the services.

Re Pollack & “moving slowly.” The dog whistle seems to be anti-election in Middle East. As he just said: so the right people get elected, not the wrong people. I guess the agenda couldn’t be clearer. Let’s see how quickly this catches on among our betters. I’ll be attuned to whether Obama sez anything about ME elections in his presser today.

Won’t get any argument from me. You might want to check out yesterday’s Book Salon, which was about this very thing.

FDL Book Salon Welcomes Erica Payne

thank you

It’s not only DOD policy, it’s the mindset of the military in general. Women have never been welcome outside of the hospital/clinic environment, particularly among the so-called “elite” forces, where it’s all about macho and control.

her rescuee’s refusal to commend her on camera layed that out in spades now didn’t it ? regardless the circumstances, who wouldn’t want to pubicly commend the person who saved their life - what a pig !

In the old days, you owed your life to someone who once saved yours.

At the end of the day, the fact is there are more of “us” then there are of “them”. It is just a matter of will. Do “we” have it or not?

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

Namaste.

Isn’t there something metaphorically grand and revealing about putting the U.S. Capitol visitors center underground?

That’s where the individual comes into play. Do I have a vision of a better world? Am I willing to put forth the time and effort required to make that vision a reality?

Nam myoho renge kyo

I heard a suggestion that it’s also a bunker for Congress

I was thinking it was more like burying the voters.

I guess we don’t. I suggest quit asking questions about why we don’t win. We obviously aren’t willing to pay the piper….we aren’t willing to do the work, yet we keep bitching about not getting the outcome we want.

Nam Myho Renge Kyo….

Anxiety Over Obama’s Picks For National Security And Foreign Policy? Not So Much
Christy’s up

lol!!

There are many who are willing to ask the hard questions and do the work required to turn things round. FDL is just one of those places where the visionaries gather. But there are more who would prefer to spend their time being entertained with mindless pablum. That is one of our biggest challenges.

CNN has an article that Mathews might run against Specter in 2010. Well, Mathews is clearly a Republican and was drawling over Palin when she came out. I hope Dems aren’t stupid enough to think he is a Dem.

As speculation continues to swirl about a possible Pennsylvania senate bid by MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews, Republican Sen. Arlen Specter said on Sunday that he’s not worried about it.

The Patriot-News of Harrisburg reported on Saturday that Matthews met with Pennsylvania Democratic Party leaders to discuss a possible senate run in 2010 against the incumbent Specter.

Matthews, in a statement on the political Web site FiveThirtyEight.com, said reports of him staffing up for a run are “absolutely not true.”

http://politicalticker.blogs.c.....-matthews/