What kind of a empathetic a-hole would say that?

Depends ….

Vitter can go right into the dumpheaps of the worst of American senators.

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Here’s his contact info. Plus links to background info on his State: #2 in high Infant Mortality, 49th in low life expectancy, 44th in education, 6th poorest, but 13th in getting back more dollars in Federal spending than they pay in taxes.

And that was BEFORE the hurricane.
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AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…

Citizen Attaturk and the Firepup freedom Fighters:

We have a fully developed fascist insurgency goin on in this country with a reserve army of hundreds of thousands bein’ incubated in the prisons accross the country. Witness James Adkisson who killed two in a Unitarian church service and after he was sentenced to life imprisonment he released his manifesto that was supposed to be a suicide note callin’ his brothers to arms against the “liberals” and Marxists.

There is no civil solution to this threat because the police forces of most largfe cities (and small towns too) are nuthin but non-convicted militia criminals…we’re gunna be in the streets against these bastards while their masters call the shots from the halls of Congress.

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, WE MADE THIS MESS NOW WE HAFTA CLEAN IT UP OR OUR KIDS WON’T HAVE A FUTURE!!

Good old “Diaper Dave” Vitter.

A perfect standard bearer for his party.

WTF moment today. Big-ass jeep
with an oval bumper sticker:

Classic W with waving flag -
underneath, PALIN.

you betcha, fulla crap.

Remember, Repubs are Taliban insurgents. At least according to them.
http://attackerman.firedoglake…..e-taliban/

Ya know, Vitter has an up-and-coming insurgent challenger of his own:
http://ctbob.blogspot.com/2009…..itter.html

The pornstar is shockingly in a close second place in recent polling against Vitter and some other dude. Although, I hear she usually does well in pole-ing. Perhaps some organized blogosphere support could tip this race in her favor? We at least have to make sure she gets to debase debate Diaper Dave.

They were not cold, calculating, uncaring bastards like say Abe Lincoln and Jesus, what with their, “judge not, that we be not judged”?

you forgot the most important one;

“Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any [prisoner]. . . I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it will not be disproportional to its guilt at such a time and in such a cause… for by such conduct they bring shame, disgrace and ruin to themselves and their country.”

“‘Treat them with humanity, and let them have no reason to complain of our copying the brutal example of the British Army in their treatment of our unfortunate brethren who have fallen into their hands,’

that was the founder of this nation, george washington

Good morning, pups. It’s [sigh] Bobo and Krugman today. Bobo has created an appalling mash-up of “economics,” sociology and fiction that he’s calling “The Worst-Case Scenario.” He gurgles that the policy makers may know how to pull economic levers, but what happens when they don’t know how to use those levers to affect social psychology? He peers into the future… This thing was ghastly enough that I couldn’t drag myself all the way through it. Proceed at your own risk. Mr. Krugman, in “Failure to Rise,” says it’s early days yet, but we’re falling behind the curve. America just isn’t rising to the challenge of the greatest economic crisis in 70 years.

Here they are.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got waffles with warm Vermont maple syrup today. It’s Friday, which is one reason to be happy, but I’m also delighted that we’re having a retirement to-do for someone at the office today. This person combines all that’s worst in stupidity, rigidity and religious mania. She won’t be missed in my office. Have a great day.

Here’s my theory. Rove has so many photos of Vitter that he’s their go-to guy to spew any nonsense they want out there. Other repubs may balk at doing/saying some of this stuff but they own Vitter so, no matter how ridiculous, if they want something introduced into the dialogue, they appoint Vitter.

Anyone want to bet that JoeScar doesn’t mention that his tirade against the ‘Pelosi mouse’ was all b.s.?

Vitter’s words and actions don’t surprise me at all. His older brother was my husband’s department chairman.

HuffPo has a link to the final stimulus bill. I heard it’s around 800 pages. So here’s my question for the techies out there: Is that too much to download for my laptop? Am I saving them on my hard drive or just viewing them? Is there a difference? The son isn’t home for me to consult so I haven’t gone to the link yet.

Hysterical post, Attaturk! I sensed some sarcasm. Was that intentional? LOL

The right wingers are rewriting definitions to make themselves feel better. Rush Limbaugh is one and he said recently that a Banana Republic is when the government allows transparency and access to official documents! His uneducated listeners believe his new definition of course!

Here’s the link.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..66604.html

Btw, I read Pelosi’s summary. No mention of salary caps, which brings to mind this diary by Cenk entitled ‘Who Keeps Screwing Us Over’. He wants the names of those who fought against the caps. Me, too.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..023/696657

The patriotism of the Republican party centers around its loyalty to the old confederacy with its rigid caste system and fanatical hatred and fear of any sort of progress.

I’ll say it again: Remove all federal bases from the south, every one of them. Close Camp Lejeune, Ft. Benning, Pensacola, Ft. Hood, Ft. Sill, every goddamn one of them and more. Take the federal money out of the places that want to destroy our union and let them support themselves on whatever it is they produce. We can get rice and unsubsidized sugar from other places much cheaper. Soybeans can be brought in (like everything else) from South America.

Obama should learn the lessons of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Allowing the traitors to return to the union and even to the congress only showed them that by being obstinate and arrogant they could get what they wanted because northern finance wanted the markets. Screw them.

I can’t believe the R’s are against stem cell research. As everyone knows that will lead to human cloning. Then we could prduce Scalia after Scalia and save our democracy from unelected liberal judges legisalting from the bench and usurping the power of the states and the Cingress, based only upon their personal feelings of what is good policy. No place in a democracy for that.

The Republicans should be rewarded for their stimulus obstructionism by having the Nuclear Option invoked on judicial filibusters.

I figured Cheney was pro cloning…

Snark? Sarcasm? Maybe.

I call it “spot on” plain and simple!

Or better, the truth.

(He had me LOL too) :)

Solai, if you’re on dialup, don’t download. The first of the 4 pieces on HuffPo is 13.4 MB and on my DSL/Wifi connnection it’t taking a few minutes but it’s not overwhelming. And when you download a PDF it winds up stored somewhere on your laptop, so if you don’t want to keep it you’ll have to drag it to your trash/recycle bin.

Norke,

You pegged the cops the same as the criminals but with a badge and some even can’t help themselves from criminal behavior. A few rotten apples? Na… a few good ones I’d say.

FL deserves NO stimulus money. I just can’t understand why the rest of the country should finance the irresponsibility if the Florida legislature (and the Floridans who continually elect these statesmen) which wuill not raise revenues sufficient to provide basic services for a large state. we were going to get beat out of some education $$$ but Mel Martinez went to work (with the Dems) to get it restored. Then he voted against the stimulus.

Second portion is only 5.9MB and downloaded quickly. On my Mac, Adobe Reader opens it automatically when it finishes downloading. There are two more parts.

Thanks. I’m not dial-up so I’ll give it a try, but sounds like I shouldn’t view it at work. I do some surfing during lunch.

OT

Plane crashes into suburban Buffalo home; 49 killed

According to CNN affiliate WGRZ-TV in Buffalo, one of the crash victims, Beverly Eckert, was the widow of 9/11 terror attack victim Sean Rooney, a Buffalo native. Eckert was traveling to Buffalo for a weekend celebration of what would have been her husband’s 58th birthday.

She also had planned to take part in presentation of a scholarship award at Canisius High School that she established in honor of her late husband, the Buffalo News newspaper reported.

Mrs Eckert fought for more land to be included in the Ground Zero memorial and was one of the wives Ann Coulter accused of benefiting from her husbands death. I can’t wait for Coulter’s take on this.

Ooops, forgot the link to CNN.com

I think to do it justice you will want to either read it at home when you have time to dig into it, or print it if you can (double sided, if possible). I personally can’t read anything that huge on the screen and really get into it.

If Abe Lincoln was alive today, he would spit on today’s republicans! Oh yes he would.

Will activists be passing out diapers and Vitter campaign events?

I got this e-mail in May 2007 from a right winger. They have been worried about this garbage for a yr and a half at least. Why is the author’s of this garbage never found?
Subject: HOW LONG DOES THE USA HAVE?

This is the most interesting thing I’ve read in a long time.
The sad thing about it, you can see it coming.

I have always heard about this democracy countdown. It is interesting to see it in print. God help us,not that we deserve it.

How Long Do We Have?

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the
University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the
Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:
“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist
as a permanent form of government.”
“A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters
discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public
treasury.”
“From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates
who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.”
“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the
beginning of history, has been about 200 years.”
“During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through
the following sequence:

1. from bondage to spiritual faith;
2. from spiritual faith to great courage;
3. from courage to liberty;
4. from liberty to abundance;
5. from abundance to complacency;
6. from complacency to apathy;
7. from apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bo ndage”

Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St.
Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning
the 2000 Presidential election:
Number of States won by:
Gore: 19
Bush: 29
Square miles of land won by:
Gore: 580,000
Bush: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by:
Gore: 127 million
Bush: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Gore: 13.2
Bush: 2.1
STRONG>Professor Olson adds: “In aggregate,
the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the
taxpaying citizens of this great country. Gore’s territory mostly
encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare…”
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the
“complacency and apathy” phase of Professor Tyler’s definition of
democracy, with some forty percent of the nation’s population
already having reached the “governmental dependency” phase.
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal’s and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.
Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest anger to our freedom.
Thanks for reading.

And earlier this week I heard some one on tv say (paraphrasing) Conservatives listen to the radio when in the car on their way to work while Dems listen to the radio on a couch in their basements.

That should read libs not Dems