Good morning.

Well, the schadenfreude over Sanford certainly is brightening up the day.

Republicans have stood on a foundation of moral principle, and each time one of our own engages in this type of behavior, it crumbles away,” said Ron Bonjean, a Republican strategist and former leadership aide in Congress.

The Party of Torture stands on a foundation of moral principle. Got that?

It is stunning to have Zbigniew Brzezinski give thoughtful, detailed comments on mornin joe!

how many times have they mentioned Joe’s book and/or Starbucks?

You mean to say Mika is pimpin???? Ziggy won’t be likin dat.

Zbigniew Brzezinski between Hatch and Cantor, jesus h christ on a kiddie car.

A little diversion from the scandals.

How presidents age.

Barack and Michele now.

Barack and Michele in da future.

Just finished some starbucks ‘hoing…….scratch that company off my visitation list. :-( And I *am* so totally in love with their mocha fraps. *sniff*

Btw…..Marion’s been shut out of EMS……thinks it’s caused by BT’s use of “goes down”. *G*

I doubt there’s any link, considering the two people involved, but Bill Clinton seems to have had a little fun in Buenos Aires, as well:

WaPo link

From the article:

Take, for example, the former president’s recent trip to Buenos Aires, where he raised a boatload of money for his initiative at a lunch and later a speech for 1,500 government and financial industry folks at a downtown hotel. Later that evening, he dined at a fine restaurant with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her husband, former president Néstor Kirchner.

…

And then — it had to happen eventually — there were the widespread news reports that Clinton and his entourage later had a “noche de soltero” (boys’ night out) at a well-known cabaret called Crocodilo, where a certain Andrea Rincón, a “morocha” (brunette) who was “pulposa” (well-endowed) and a former participant in the popular TV reality show “Big Brother,” did a private “baile hot” for him, according to the Web site of the news weekly Perfil, though it’s not clear exactly what that dance involved.

Her tale, best we can figure, was that she just danced, nothing untoward, and was paid “very well” in dollars by someone, but not by Clinton. She said she didn’t speak to him.

A Clinton spokesman in New York, however, said yesterday that her story “is completely false.

I couldn’t read very many of the emails, otherwise I couldn’t keep my coffee down. Is all love so sophomoric? It’s been such a long time, I can’t remember.

The company she works for needs to lighten up. A little off colour stuff wakes my company up.

Good one.

Morning all, slept in this AM turn on the tubes and Cantor on c-span and Joe et al. Stupid really hurts this early.

You just missed Ziggy, he was awesome.

Mica: “Somebody’s out to get him (sanford)”.

Paranoid much, ms. mica? Anybody who goes into politics without the full realization that there are gonna be plenty of people “out to get you” qualifies for a total brain transplant.

Hook up to democracynow. They’re doing a piece on the Feds Communication Management Units. Something like 70% of the prisoners are Muslims.

That ’somebody’ that’s out to get him is named Dick Wang

“Some” say “someone is out to get him”!

Was his topic Iran?

That doesn’t come on until 9 AM MDT.

democracynow.org. Webcasting now.

It is stunning to have Zbigniew Brzezinski give thoughtful, detailed comments on mornin joe!

Moments like that are the only reason I sift through the crazy that goes on during the rest of the show.

Dylan Radigan has his moments as well, however I wish he would’ve called “bullshit” more often when he was walking the floor of the NYSE, since he now claims it was all so obvious what was going on.

Iran, Russia, Korea, and China . He explained, in detail, the complexity of the situation and said, “I don’t want to poke the little crazy man”!

Good Morning Blue Texan and Firedogs -

thanks for highlighting Peterr’s Jenny piece – was watching something late and someone was holding forth, supposedly ‘in-depth’ but couldn’t touch the Rev’s fabulous spot-on parsing

The Rite Aid union rep on democracynow is a Roseanne double.

To give Sanford some slack, going home to a bible-thumping Jenny would be enough to drive any sane guy to the A-trail.

Yeah. I keep thinking he must look upon Mika and her job sort of like a lemonaide stand she’s put up near the curb. He goes out periodically and buys a glass.

I watched the health care thingee last night. Unfortunately it was on ABC – All Bout Commercials.

“some” would say that!

If you have Caribou in your area . . . just sayin’.

Color me surprised … In Nixon tapes, Billy Graham refers to Synagogue of Satan – usatoday

Excerpt: “Graham tells Nixon how Jews befriend him but adds, “They don’t know how I really feel about what they’re doing to this country.”

What did Obama say about the Public Option? Will he cave to repubs?

You mean like this … “The following weekend have been asked to spend it out in Aspen, Colorado with McCain — which has kicked up the whole VP talk all over again in the press back home.”

Oh yeah, impress your GF by telling her you might be chosen to be Vice Captain of the Varsity Team … only with 100 Secret Service Men around you.

How are ya, eCAHN ?

You mean Pat Buchanan?

See for yourself … Click here for “Complete Prescription for America” Forum

But Nixon’s Torture Party sure knew where to look when they needed someone with thermite expertise to wire tall buildings, and to control the post-event propaganda barrage, courtesy of Saudi funding.

ding!

Good grief ! Apologies for not closing the door behind me …

Raven !

Petro, what up?

Getting ready for another scorcher … politics in America is so much more entertainin’ than our staid Canuck Pols …

civilized I think

Folks stayed up too late raggin’ on Sanford. Gotta hairball cleanup in aisle 2 an’ I’m outta here.

Nice seein’ Raven and Petro this morning. Tigers been keepin’ me hoppin’ already today.

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

Is that another coffee chain?…..haven’t heard of it/them. Unfortunately, anytime I go in some other retailer and ask if they can give me their closest approximation of a mocha frap, it’s been a big disappointment. One of the major downsides of being an anal retentative…..even down to recipe ingredients. :-(

SD, Psssst, I am doing a pre-adoption visit with a hughly charming lady tiger who is about to need a home. Talk about a swim I never expected to jump back into…I’ll let you know.:))

It’s like a tractor beam, no gettin’ away from it. *g* Lotsa new homes for tigers lately. Far out.

good mornin’ BT … and .. “winners” .. LMAO .. all they’ve got is a list of “also rans” ..any one of which will get the stuffin’ knocked out of them in the election booths across the nation …

horse races and all that .. eh ??

and oh ..btw .. you did notice erickson didn’t admit any wrong-ness on his part .. hell he was just misled by the lies coming out of the guv-nah’s office .. as if the whole hike-in-the-woods idea was credible from the beginning ..

he’s an eff’ing idiot .. not quite as big an eff’ing idiot as the guy TBOGG has highlighted .. but sill an eff’ing idiot .. i can’t decide whether to give him three eff’ing stars .. or four ..[today]

but .. TBOGG’s guy is a genuine bona-fide five-star eff’ing idiot .. every day .. day in and day out ..

That’s apparently how the MSM felt about bloggers…for a while.

He said he’s for cost cutting, covering more people and improving quality!

And he said the ‘public option’ is one way to cut costs through better competition.

Now that Republicans have made it clear they’re not going to vote for anything it leaves Dems free from having to consider negotiations and compromises except within their own minds. What works and what will continue to work for decades?

If the private insurers would cover everyone there wouldn’t be a problem.

But, they won’t, so we need a gov’t solution. There are several ways, but the simple public option is the one most mentioned.