The Doom Toom. Get the broom and sweep out the room.

Snarlin’ Arlen blew it, baby!

Toomey has Grover Norquist aboard as well. I like the idea of him travelling the state with them and Sarah Palin, calling themselves the Toom Patrol.

Sarah and the Plummer, who is dumber!?

The loons can gather around the toom tomb

Definitely the Not-Plumber, although I think he is better at speaking in sentences that don’t trip all over themselves.

unless he is horny. also.

I titled my post on that “OMG JTP TMI WTF”.

Ain’t that the true! I was reading some of the stuff she has been saying up in Alaska and, gawd, she speaks worse than a kindergartener.

Yeah, any kind of excuse that she was overprepped or overwhelmed is pretty much out the window now.

You can Digg this post right here right now!

She does seem to know how to get the most out of the state for herself and the first dud.

She was underprayed.

As Ana[l] Marie Cox said the other night on Rachel, finding a McCain staffer to pray with before her debate could not possible have been difficult for Governor Palin. Divine intervention was all that campaign had going for themselves by that point. There was LOTS of prayer, every single day.

Underprayed and overplayed.

Dear pups, please suffer me this EPU… to Matt.
You cant leave it there.
It’s So two big pink elephants walk into a bar…
(You’re turn. Anyone?)
Okay, I’ll make it on topic.
So, Arlen Specter and two big pink elephants walk into a bar…

From Progressive Alaska, the Phil Munger Blog, Palin response to the ethics complaint filed against her:

“Are Alaskans outraged, or at least tired of this yet – another frivolous ethics charge by a political blogger? This would be hilarious if it weren’t so expensive for the state to process these accusations and for me to defend against these bogus harassments. Yes, I wore Arctic Cat snow gear at an outdoor event, because it was cold outside, and by the way, today, I am wearing clothes bearing the names of Alaska artists, and a Glennallen Panthers basketball hoodie. I am a walking billboard for the team’s fundraiser! Should I expect to see an ethics charge for wearing these, or the Carhartts I wear to many public events? How much will this blogger’s asinine political grandstanding cost all of us in time and money?”

Ms. Walking Ethics Challenged campaigning against Arlen.

UGH! I saw that clip too. And, at dinner time? It’s just not right. Whatever happened to network censorship?

I will give that some thought

this is good news for arlen spector. somebody (some other blog, sorry i forget who) pointed out that whatever joe touches turns to what plumbers usually have to deal with…witness the mccain candidacy and pajamas media.

hahaha – i had not thought of it that way – tis very true skippy

So, two big pink elephants walk into a bar and the barkeep asks what are you drinking? They answer, Whatever the lobbyists will pay for.

I think maybe the libertarians and the rest of the off-center non-candidates may have a point about their exclusion from debates. I don’t know the poll numbers of this non-plumber, but I suspect they are quite low outside certain wards, and I’ve seen Limbo is at 19% and B movie horror star Lon Cheney’s are even lower, and Simple Sarah had a straw vote total of 13% even among her wingnut colleagues, and yet they have all the press anyone could ever want. It’s just a good solid endorsement of trolls!

Kids! Want attention? Then say something ugly, insulting and stoopid out on the playground!

I think JTP is still some kind of folk hero to Republicans. I like when they embrace idiots who are completely unpalatable to the rest of the country.

In other words, I think Mr. Plumber is an asset in the primary and a liability in the general.

Speaking of the general, who’s it gonna be anyway?

Except for St. Ronnie, all the Republican heroes are unpalatable to the rest of the country… for the time being. Given the trends, I wouldn’t have imagined in 2002 that Karl’s permanent majority would be so short-lived. Popularity is fleeting… something it would pay the Dems to bear in mind.

I don’t think he’ll appear with Toomey, but I bet Rush gives him some kind of endorsement. Certainly over Specter.

Extending my remarks, if I may: Pennsylvania already has one anti-choice Democratic Senator. If Toomey’s gonna defeat Spectre in the primary and run hard right in the general, hadn’t we better take the opportunity to run a fine progressive and win?

Sonny “Moonpie” Perdue

This is a Spectre

Wish I knew. I think the two names I’ve heard are Sestak and Pat Murphy. Out of those two, I think my money’d be on Sestak.

Well, yeah, I agree. But as you might have gathered from my comment at the end of the post, the PA Democratic Party has a tendency to support really shitty Senate candidates.

Pennsylvania needs to seek immediate medical attention for an election lasting more than four ……

I think my money’d be on Sestak.

Really, you think he’d leave Vanna White in the lurch?

Sounds like they’re already experiencing some chafing.

Hard to find Amish Dems who are really progressive…

As is the Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion.
That’s why I spell Arlen’s name the way I do.

I’m lovin it

Sestak is the kind of middle-of-the-road former-military-officer Democrat we would need to beat Spectre. But anyone can beat Toomey; aren’t there any swell progressive Congresspersons from Pennsylvania?

The Spectre is also God’s Spirit Of Vengeance in the DC universe.

Ya gotta remember: Arlen invented the magic bullet for the Warren Commission, so he’s been at the center of conspiracy for longer than many Americans have been alive, or voting.

I’m sure there are; and equally sure that Schumer and Rendell will do their best to smack them down…

Who was that fellow who ran against Casey in the primary? Is he still around? Don’t you have any ladies? I’d like the Senate to have more ladies, and we in California have done our part in that regard.

That’s no lady, that’s. . .

You box her; you brought her.

Chuck Pennacchio. He came to Pittsburgh Drinking Liberally and talked to everyone for a couple of hours. Total mensch, don’t know if he has any plans to run again, but my guess is no.

Damn, there is this one woman whose name seemed to come up every time there was a Senate race, but I’m blanking on her name. My brain came up with Catherine Baker Knoll, but she’s dead.

What’s wrong with dead? We’d take a dead woman here in Illinois over Roland Burris.

Do you have any Celebrities?

Speaking of the ladies, I recall reading recently that Pennsylvania’s Congressional delegation was more male than any other state’s Democratic caucus. Is that possible?

wow,BillMoyers tonite was awesome

Umm, Dennis Miller and Michael Keaton. And Mario Lemieux (feh).

Yes, it probably is.

Good thinking.

Wikipedia says that Michael Keaton will star in Toy Story 3 as the voice of Ken, whom they call “Barbie’s friend.”

As a fellow Illinoisan, I’d like to point out that one of our recent senators spent most of his term running for president and the other is the perpetually limp Dick Durbin. In other words, our state has been without effective Senate representation for a long time.

I would trade with you in a heartbeat.

Hey Teddy, I left a comment to one of your diaries. Haven’t had an opportunity to discuss the notion with anyone, would be interested to know what you think.

Sorry I missed it if you already mentioned, who do you got?

Didn’t Durbin say something on the floor of the Senate once that they made him apologize for? I harbor vague residual good feelings about him for something like that, but then, of course, he asked Pachacutec about what socks he wore at three o’clock yesterday, which was unforgivable.

And answered.

Specter and Casey Jr. Meh.

Yeah, having trouble remembering details of the incident. In scanning his wiki bio looking for it, I was reminded that he voted AGAINST the Iraq war resolution, so that at least was good.

RRRAAAWWW!!!!111

Has there ever been a weaker, more incompetent Majority Leader than Harry Reid?

Daschle, perhaps. But yeah, Harry is spectacularly ineffectual and useless.

My condolences. No thanks, I’ll stick with the inadequate senators I’ve got.

And replied.

Was it Durbin who used the word “Gulag” WRT Gitmo? He got the full treatment.

And later apologized. But I might have that wrong.

Yeah, it still makes me angry. I actually sent him a fax to praise him for making the original statement, whereupon he immediately began to weep and rend his garments in abject surrender.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Dick Durbin went to the Senate floor late Tuesday to offer his apologies to anyone who may have been offended by his comparison of treatment of detainees at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Nazis, Soviet gulags and Cambodia’s Pol Pot.

“More than most people, a senator lives by his words … occasionally words fail us, occasionally we will fail words,” Durbin, D-Ill., said.

“I am sorry if anything I said caused any offense or pain to those who have such bitter memories of the Holocaust, the greatest moral tragedy of our time. Nothing, nothing should ever be said to demean or diminish that moral tragedy.

“I am also sorry if anything I said cast a negative light on our fine men and women in the military. … I never ever intended any disrespect for them. Some may believe that my remarks crossed the line. To them I extend my heartfelt apology,” Durbin said, choking on his words.

“They’re the best,” he said of U.S. service men and women.

“I think it was the right thing to do and the right thing to say to our men and women in uniform,” said White House press secretary Scott McClellan.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist called Durbin’s apology “an honorable step” along the road to understanding how words strengthen the nation’s enemies in the war against terror.

jow, who’s not a plumber has been nothing but an embarassment even to the republicans, yet they trott him out like he’s actually helped them

they learned their lesson (finally) with sarah, keep her out of the media as much as possible, yet the continue showcasing joe, not a plumber

I have to think he’s got some connections up high, cuz that’s the only reason I can think of they keep bringing this guy into their picture