Apparently she uses invisible ink.

It’s called a “shit list” and everyone has one and has been on one!

The media sheep are following the GOP lemmings off of the cliff.

-G

Every day I’m forced to add another name to the list of people who can just — well, you know.

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Yeah, she list’s. Let’s hope she continues to ‘list’ to the left. :-)

Imagine that, she’s human.

AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…

Citizen Raven and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:

“It’s called a ’shit list’…” and you ken bet yer sweet ass that she’s been checkin it twice and where do ya think Rahm Tiny Dancer Emmanuel sits on that list?

Let the shit fly, the sooner all the bastards are undressed in public the better…and don’t let’s hold our breaths for the courts and “the rule of law”…this is our 1932-33 moment, deja vu all over again, and remember what happened to Weimar Germany!

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, THE BASTARDS AREN’T GUNNA FIX THIS THING FOR US!!

Doesn’t take anything from your point, but that snake Tom DeLay never made it to Speaker of the House, he was just Majority Leader for a few years.

I wish that she would have used her “list” a little more forcefully, especially against w and his enablers.

I hope she’s checking it twice.

This must be great news for Republicans! Have you noticed that in just a month, our dear invertebrates have grown some embryonic spine? This is what comes of having a big rather than a marginal electoral victory. Talented as he was — and let’s admit his talent — Bill Clinton was politically always hanging on by his fingernails. He didn’t have a majority in congress, and his majority among the public was always unstable. We are witnessing a Revolution. Long live it!

seems list making was the kewl at Politico late last summer:

I will make them famous, you will know their names!”

Really.

The reason you see stories like this is that Democrats tend to think it’s wrong to think about payback and consequences, and if Republicans put out this line, and get their friends in the press to echo it, often Democrats will back off.

Most elected Democrats just don’t feel comfortable publicly saying “cross me and there will be consequences”.

bill clinton did have a majority in congress – he lost it in ‘94.

personally, i’m not seeing evidence of spine. how much more are the taxpayers being put on the hook for today to bail out aig?

You are evidently not from Chicago.

She’s been on my list since “Impeachment is off the table”

rxb,

DeLay never made it to Speaker because he didn’t want to be Speaker. By the time it was possible for him to be Speaker he’d become much too controversial a figure. So he “settled” for being Majority Leader and ran Hastert like Jeff Dunham runs Ahmed the Dead Terrorist (for those of a certain age, like Edgar Bergen ran Charlie McCarthy.)

DeLay wasn’t called The Hammer for nothing. I just hope that Pelosi has an iron fist in that velvet glove.

Politico has apparently forgotten that not so long ago GWB’s entire political resume consisted of “enforcer.”

Or they remember, and they just think it’s awesome when Republicans do it.

That money was spent last year.
Not that I don’t agree in sentiment, but the dollars were allocated substantially without constraint in TARP V1.

This unelected Democrat likes thinking about payback and goddam consequences to the assholes who have fucked this country up.
Good morning, I’m gonna make me a list.

Well, Delay was Speaker in all but name and the only reason he wasn’t officially is even he realized how badly he was hated. Hastert gave him cover.

I can’t figure Pelosi out. She has become more progressive with Obama’s election, but I can’t forget all the support she gave to W and the Republicans.

She is nowhere near as deeply offensive to my values as Boehner, McConnell, Steele, and any other Republican you might care to name, but she surely is not the kind of person I’d want representing me much less running the House of Representatives.

The reason you see stories like this is that Democrats tend to think it’s wrong to think about payback and consequences, and if Republicans put out this line, and get their friends in the press to echo it, often Democrats will back off.

Most elected Democrats just don’t feel comfortable publicly saying “cross me and there will be consequences”.

Just want to be on record that I believe in party discipline and party unity. As we’ve seen from the Rethugs, it gets things done! This is one thing we should learn from them!!!

when did this happen i wonder? isn’t this exactly how Democrats in the old days could always count on the cities and “ethic” voters. employing ward healers to hand out goodies on a local level and to keep tabs. nothing wrong with this. when did dems begin to get so uncomfortable with the idea that disloyalty should have consequences? i have no problem with it. how can it be otherwise?

On the AIG bail-out. I don’t pretend to understand one-twentieth of that issue, but what I got from Joe Nocera’s article in yesterday’s Times was that if AIG goes down, so do a lot of pension funds and god knows what else. They fucked us all up big time. It’s alot like what the Bush-Cheney cabel did for us in Iraq. We are still paying and will be for a long time a shitload of money in that place just to get our troops out. The AIG fiasco is analogous, though privately generated. I read somewhere that there is a move on to get the Europeans to help out, as they are as deep in this as we are.

Aren’t secret shite lists basically the foundation of the entire structure of the contemporary rethug party, beginning from Reagan’s time, when Reed, Newt et al basically started the decades-long transition of the party into a Leninist administrative structure (actually, I think it was Reed who first said that it was a Leninist governance model, so that’s not me trying to insulting or provocative)? Heck, by now they probably have a national list of “disloyal” Americans. Many of us are probably on that list.

Citizen Knut:

“He didn’t have a majority in Congress and his majority among the public was always unstable.”

First of all he had a majority in Congress until he got ‘em ta pass the tax increase and then walked away from ‘em durin’ the election because the fix was in with Greenspan and the fascists. Secondly his “public” political support was always strong but he didn’t hafta use it because he didn’t WANT to and he used it only when his ass was on the line during impeachment.

“We are witnessing a revolution.” The fuck we are…in a revolution people lead from the street or in front of their chosen leaders, they don’t wait for the courts and the banks and the shills for the bosses to change things. What we are experiencing is a crisis of democracy and, I would say, a crisis of capitalism, we have had a coup against our first successful “Revolution” and now we are lookin at havin to take down the generals and the bankers who overthrew our democracy.

Make no mistake folks, Obama can NOT do this without us and he surely can’t do it by usin’ the corrupt, decayin’ instruments left over from our first great experiment with democracy…we have a moment here before the oligarchy and the generals take our President down like they did JFK,we gotta use it!

Funny – George C. Marshall, the Chief of Staff of the Army during WWII, kept a little black notebook in his desk’s top drawer and did for years prior to his becoming Chief of Staff. In it, he kept notes on all the Army officers who came his way – personal characteristics, foibles, successes, failures, you name it. From that book, he was able to decide who to recommend for promotion, who to assign to which commands and, as importantly, who to not promote to a higher position.

It was said that there was a colonel commanding a regiment in Normandy immediately post-D-Day who was doing an excellent job and had been for quite a while. When Marshall came to France to visit the battlefield and see the progress, this colonel’s superiors expressed their surprise that this particular colonel had not been promoted.

Marshall responded that the particular colonel was a hopeless drunk and had been for years and he was surprised both by his performance and by the judgment of these officers in going to bat for him.

The colonel’s superiors had to inform Marshall that he had mistaken the colonel for another who had a very similar (and similarly uncommon) name. And that the guy doing really well was an absolute teetotaler.

The colonel was promptly promoted.

Moral: Keeping a book is a good thing, and an important thing. EVery successful person does, to one extent or another. You simply cannot remember everything. Keeping an accurate book is even more important.

I would tend to think that Pelosi keeps an accurate book, and that’s why people are complaining about it.

are you saying that by passing tarp last fall, there was no choice about giving even more $ to aig today?

Nixon had a famous Enemies list, Blub. So it goes back to Tricky Dick, and probably farther than that.

No kidding!

PW,

Harris and Pool Boy are gonna give this little shit disturber Thrush an
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A-yep.

Exactly.

“Lists” are code for Stalinist-like purges. Odd, those are what the Monika Gottlings used at the DOJ and elsewhere to weed out those not religious or Republican enough to belong on the nomenklatura.

if AIG goes down, so do a lot of pension funds and god knows what else. They fucked us all up big time. It’s alot like what the Bush-Cheney cabel did for us in Iraq. We are still paying and will be for a long time a shitload of money in that place just to get our troops out. The AIG fiasco is analogous, though privately generated. I read somewhere that there is a move on to get the Europeans to help out, as they are as deep in this as we are.

re aig. well the administration could be telling us the truth and bailing out the pension funds instead off covering naked cdss. but that would take spine. what it looks like to me is that $ is going to bailout aig which could be going to supporting the real economy.

re europe. at the moment, it looks to me that they are in bigger trouble than we are because they are don’t have a central banker like we do and they also have eastern europe about to crash and burn which would bring down several eu members who are in deep with loans. although if that happens it will be bad for us too. so in the end i have to agree with you that we are all in this together.

yep.. that was precisely the type of mechanism that Reed/Newt set out to evolve and which Rove so effectively further developed. They used a Leninist party model (which probably did become more Stalinist over time) including the use of planned periodic purges as a means of assuring loyalty and ideological purity. This was the model.. and, by gosh, they achieved it – a disciplined, neo-fascist, anti-Humanist, wingnut party, from the local cell level all the way up to the national leadership. Rethugs are the ultimate threat to national security…..

re the ‘94 elections. don’t think clinton using his political capital to get nafta passed help. for a lot of people i think that was the nail in the coffin re the D party – that it no longer represented the working class.

Aren’t secret shite lists basically the foundation of the entire structure of the contemporary rethug party, beginning from Reagan’s time, when Reed, Newt et al basically started the decades-long transition of the party into a Leninist administrative structure (actually, I think it was Reed who first said that it was a Leninist governance model, so that’s not me trying to insulting or provocative)? Heck, by now they probably have a national list of “disloyal” Americans. Many of us are probably on that list.

Blub, have you not heard of Nixon’s “enemies list”? How about Joe McCarthy. My point is, this stuff goes way, way back. And it also includes both parties, but Dem’s seemed to still be trying to be kinder and gentler. Just like Dems to be trying to wage a campaign from 20 or 30 years ago!

I have, of course, but that’s not my point. Nixon put his list together because it was the politically expedient/convenient thing to do. The Leninist rethugs that followed institutionalized these principles and turned them into a system of governance… the literature on this is quite abundant. Politicians have been using hate lists and other dirty tricks for a long time, Nixon included. Reed/Gingrich/et al turned it into a machine, the likes of which this country has never seen before, and which culminated into our nightmare of the last 8 years – the so-called “permanent Republican majority.” They had a plan, they carried it out. Nixon may have been an inspiration, but he didn’t built this particular set of anti-democractic institutional systems.