I’m gonna start buildin’ a bunker. This guy’s surrounded himself with warmongers who want to bomb the world into peace, or is that pieces.

Morning Christy
here’s live action on your pic ;)

Morning Christy, Huckleberry said that now is not the time for Republicans to play gotcha politics. He was referring to Geithner’s tax issues.

Either that or he’s trying to neutralize them by co-opting their PR ploys. I’m hoping the latter, but I don’t trust any of these people enough to think that will really work.

All I can say is that Obama is certainly demonstrating his willingness to actually meet with and talk to people who have different views. What this portends, I don’t know, but it is a 360 from the years of hell.

Very true. And supposedly he’s good at poker, so here’s hoping he’s holding a high pair and not having to wait for the river card to make his hand.

Well, the right wing punditocreichy seem to have found him charming, incredibly smart with a great sense of humor.

That in itself should help to keep some of the teeth gnashing at bay.

1) Keep your friends close, and enemies closer…

2) Maybe by “bipartisan” he really meant people of the reality-based party and people of the make-up-history party. Or straight and closeted parties?

I don’t think they take Graham seriously, but they are playing to some audience by taking him along for the ride. Who’s the audience?

btw, Marcy is planning on some live coverage of the Holder hearings coming up. It’s going to be a very busy day today.

Ledbetter will also be coming up in the Senate — so please make some calls today. And on SCHIP as well. Thanks, all!

I’m not certain who that particular audience is, other than perhaps both the Village and the middle of the road Republicans in red America. But I have no idea if Huckleberry even pulls those folks in, either way.

Other guesses?

LOL! I can’t imagine why you would not trust these guys. What is it that Bush said “Fool me once……..”

G’Morning Christy and Firepups !

BO is going to use his deft hand to drive a large wedge through the Repug party.

I feel it my duty to apologize for David Frum, yet again … he clearly demonstrates that some Canucks are *ssholes NeoCons

Either that or he’s trying to neutralize them by co-opting their PR ploys.

I keep trying to convince myself of that as well but my gut tells me different and that’s not good. It’s that “Charlie is waiting for us just ahead” feeling.

Hedgehogs might be cute but they don’t lose their quills. Republicans might smile but they knives behind their backs. Both can’t help it, it is part of their nature.

as i said in the previous thread – i don’t care that obama is meeting with right-wingnuts. but i do care about the policies he is talking about (and not talking about), i care about the people he is nominating to his administration and i care about who he is not meeting with.

p.s. christy – re making disaster capitalism a household name – i think that has been a very bipartisan project (although i think outside the usa it is usually referred to as neoliberalism). :(

Frum hopes that Obama’s plans will be larded with special favors and ripe for abuse because Frum wants the Bush years to live on forever.

Well, like I say…….”Shouting post partisan don’t make it so”. Either he’s really naive or he’s really smart. ‘Cause when the American people, who are so tired of these maneuverings, even if they don’t blame the Republicans, soon will when they see how they obstruct Obama at every turn.

The problem as I see it is this:”Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) said Wednesday that prospects for bipartisanship in the stimulus debate rapidly were eroding.

“The air is coming out of that balloon,” Thune said. “To attract Republicans, they lose Democrats. It is a very difficult needle to thread. They are discovering that the goal [of an 80-vote majority] is unrealistic. He got so much push-back from his own people.”

So, Obama better not count on a united Democratic front if he leaves Democratic principle in the dust for, as Christy sez :”Kum-bah-effin-yah”

I mean dig this from the same source:

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said there was “not much” GOP support at this point for an $800-billion package that consisted largely of new spending.

“There’s been a lot of reassuring rhetoric out of the [Obama] administration, but we haven’t even seen a bill yet,” Cornyn said. “A lot of it’s going to depend on whether Obama can say no to Democratic leaders and some of the long line of people who want some of that money for various projects. People want to see Obama succeed — Republicans and Democrats — but we’re not going to violate our principles.“

Principles!LMFAO
Strange times my friends……………

http://www.latimes.com/news/na…..0514.story

Irony, hypocrisy, cowardice and amnesia. Senator Spector says that Obama’s choice for Attorney General needs to be asked tough questions by Senators. This is after eight years of Spector being a loyal Bushie lapdog.

But why start now? The Department of Justice has turned into the Ku Klux Klan under Spector’s oversight.

But General Electric teevee also reports KKKarl Rove wants tough questions from our watchdog Rethuglicans.A few pathetic bloggers would also enjoy KKKarl answering a few questions.

What time does the Holder hearings begin ?

Marcy’s blogging/comments are far better than anything the MSM might offer.

that’s because KKKarl want s to make sure Holder isn’t going to come after him and his crew. I think……

now

The link to the NYT photos of the Obama people is a good one. I am interested in the new faces, the mix of the group and their ages. I do not want to give up hope before we see where this train is going. I am still for keeping their feet to the fire.

I have a feeling that Obama knows the progressive world and is playing, as CHS said, poker.

Lindsey sure has some purty lips…

((( Elliott )))

Thanks !

I thought Christy used the photo of a Hedgehog because the Repub party are full of pricks ! *g*

Barf on, Barf off.

Gawwwwlleeeee that’s the cutest hedgefuhawg i’ve seen today!

emptywheel has a liveblog thread up

Totally OT, CNN is oooh-boo-hooing ’cause it’s 21 below in Minneapolis. What a bunch o’p*ssies. It’s 44 below in Bismarck, just dipped to minus 29 in Fargo.

Send Lindsay up here…we’ll stuporfy him.

Frum accusing anyone else of larding something? That’s rich!

Gosh, Christy- 2005 was such a long time ago. My memory’s real fuzzy… hasn’t the Rethuglican leadership always favored a bipartisan approach?
I suppose if your definition of bipartisan is: both parties “doing what ever the fuck the Republicans say they’ll do.”

I think the counterpart of an “ice cream headache” would be a “bipartisan stroke:” so cloyingly sweet, it causes the loss of all cognitive function.

(((Petro)))

I know … making money while immolating oneself … freak show !

tap tap tap

Thanks, it is minus 22 here right now outside my Igloo, that hug warmed me up !

that temp is incompatible with life.

lard makes a tolerable candle, but it sputters. messy? oye!

Lindsey Graham:

… Having been one of the chief opponents of these two gentlemen, I am very pleased with the attitude and the policies they’re fashioning …

It is often noted that a new president’s greatest freedom of action is to implement planks of his/her opponent’s platform.

Now I wish Obama would reach back across the aisle to his base.

LOL !!!

we’re down to zero in N.E. OH. Good stuff for killin’ garden bugs we’d just as soon not have to cope with directly next spring. so it’s not all bad.

i wonder if sarawhizziedizzy remembered to pack her mukluks for prancing around in the “lower” lattytoods.

For a moment, I thought of putting Bailey’s in my morning cuppa … then I went ahead and did it ! *g*

ooOo
there’s an idea, if only I had some Bailey’s

Hold out your cup … it’s the minty one, so it freshens your breath and fights cavities … *g*

O.K. All u sin-fun-delies, OUTTA the likker cabinet! They memed t’other cabbynet.

Serious-like. Don’t drink & plow the driveway, unless someone videotapes the speck-tackle right ‘n proper. heh.

thanks!
will help the holder go down

rum-dee-dum-dumb…

There are a few high schools kids down the road, who have pledged to turn up everyday wearing only T-Shirts … I didn’t see them yesterday or today … *g*

He needs to repeat that missive to the Plantation Caucus.

i gotta go take me honey to therapy. dang. i’ll join ya later.

phoo! always miss all the fun stuff…

HEY! He walked into the kitchen yestidie looking sheepish, because he’d forgotten his cane in the other room.

Progress! It’s what’s for dinner. heh.

(((Luv this Lake & all u doggies!))). Just DARE u guys to keep me sane. Dubble-dare-ya!

Under heading of totally shameful shilling, check this out, while I’m still alive & kicking like a healthy compassionate heathen:

http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/3021

ya just gotta love it! only takes once.

say, come to think of it, how do those ruskies and finnies do their ice-swimmin’ routines?

mr. c. wuz lookin’ fer somethin’ ta-doo i think. mebbe he’d join ‘em.

Two thoughts that appear to be beyond the mental capability of the author:

1. If you tell the other guy what Obama told Graham, maybe you lull him, you coopt him on some things. To think that Obama suddenly is giving Graham control over foreign policy is ludicrous.

2. No, Republicans don’t listen to our point of view. We’re supposed to be better. We’re not supposed to be the left-wing version of Rush Limbaugh. Which is what you are essentially proposing.

Obviously “Chicago” is the latest code word for the n-word.