How the hell do you eat a quail? Isn’t it all bones and feathers and sinews?

Google it, there are 369,000 hits for quail recipes.

The Bush-Cheney administration did nothing about terrorism in the nine months prior to 9/11. Going medieval was a political necessity, nothing more. All else is commentary.

Ultimately, do we want to see Cheney, who backed these actions and still does, standing in the dock?

Hell, yes. And the next time I want to leave our country unprotected from a grave threat, I’ll be happy to call a Republican. Until then, they can STFU and slink away to the slime where they belong.

“When President Ford pardoned Nixon in 1974, I wrote one of the few columns endorsing his decision, which was made on the basis that it was more important for America to focus on the task of changing the way it would be governed and addressing the current problems. It took a full generation for the decision to be recognized by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and others as the act of courage that it had been.” Broder
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It escapes Broder that Cheney spent 8 years bragging to anyone that would listen, that he was focused on the task of dismantling all the changes of the FISA court,Church Committee, and any other civil liberty he viewed as quaint to adapt to his warped view.

Clintons actions harmed nobody , juvenile, yes they were ,but harmful ?
The same can’t be said for Cheney , his actions put us all at risk . And the fact that we torture beecame a recruiting tool for those that would do us harm.
Authorizing torture and Cheneys defense of it, reveals major personality faults in this man . This is a man that thinks he can get what he wants by bullying people and throwing his weight around. Tact and diplomacy mean nothing to Dick(head)
What really amazes me is that Cheney can’t seem to understand that out torture regime ,has actually put our soldiers in the field in even greater risk.
This is one thickheaded and insanely stupid man , and even if he were to be prosecuted ,he still wouldn’t get it.

I believe snakes in the grass swallow their prey whole

Joe and Mika are just livid because the liberal press hates Sarah and that’s why Vanity Fair is covering Levi.

Levi figuring out that spilling the in-law family secrets is lucrative had nothing to do with it?

“liberal press”, eh…? I do like the current issue of MoJo debunking the Fiji water personna…!

Worst Blogger award for Broder.

Levi’s an apt learner — he wants to “triple the money”, too.

Sarah is a 14 carat phony who needed to be exposed for the fraud that she is.

It’s fucking hilarious, both of them are fuming and then they put up the clip of Buchanan saying Palin should “take Levi down to the creek and hold his head underwater until the thrashing stops.”

Meanwhile, here in Athens

Broun, R-Athens, apparently has not changed his belief that President Obama may be a fascist since he made similar remarks in Augusta in November and then in an Associated Press interview.

He told a meeting of the Morgan County Republicans on Wednesday night that Obama already has or will have the three things he needs to make himself a dictator: a national police force, gun control and control over the press

Maybe Levi ought to Sarah down to the creek instead , he’d be doing us all a favor

Murder. It’s the republican way.

Good morning, pups. It’s Collins, Cohen and Kristof this morning. Ms. Collins, in “The Revenge of Levi,” says in an article for Vanity Fair, Levi Johnston shares his view on the Palin home life. It’s too bad he is untrustworthy about every subject not covered by Field & Stream. Mr. Cohen, in “Iran’s Flip-Flopper Supreme,” says the Islamic Republic threatens itself more than others. For the United States to threaten Iran – through sanctions or otherwise – would be pointless. Mr. Kristof writes about “Health Care That Works,” and says government, for all its flaws, manages to do some things right, and one area that government intervention has been a step up is in medical care.

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got blueberry pancakes this morning. I’m going to celebrate Labor Day by being idle tomorrow. Somehow that makes perfect sense to me… Have a great day.

Lawsy, there’s some real nut jobs out there… I just wrote a letter to the editor about some birthers over here in Hawaii, imagine that…!

This jerk is an MD as well. He also wants to take skin mags out of the PX!

How’s the project?

Spinning tires right now as my mother opted to purchase a condo for my wife instead of funding the materials…! So, I’m slowed considerably, but, I’m still plodding along with the foundation…!

Hi, I am with the rethug party; we want the federal government out of our lives and while we are at it we want to know who you are sleeping with, if you are pregnant and carrying to term and what you are reading. It is patriotic for us to listen in on your phone calls.

“Hell, yes. And the next time I want to leave our country unprotected from a grave threat, I’ll be happy to call a Republican. Until then, they can STFU and slink away to the slime where they belong.”

OUCH!

Pat Buchanan: Hitler didn’t want war…

Whew… Ain’t it time for him to hang up his spurs…?

Is the Nuremburg courtroom available?
There’s going to be a need to try the top 20 or so principles in the dock at once otherwise the lies would never end and the entertainment of watching them squirm in unison.
If Clinton started rendition for torture ,he’s a war criminal too.

How does Broun still have a medical license?

You know, how a man who was so egregiously wrong about pardoning Nixon can not only not have been sacked but is proud of it is one of the mysteries of American letters.

Dick Cheney wants us talking about torturing terrorists. He doesn’t want us talking about how they screwed it up to begin with. Every day we spend chatting up what barbarians they were after 9/11 is another Republican win.

And speaking of Animal House on the Night Shift™,
we have the following howler, which is actually from the NYT, not The Onion:
Security Assigned to Guard Guards at Kabul Embassy.

In times like these, the understandable desire to enforce individual accountability must be weighed against the consequences. This country is facing so many huge challenges at home and abroad that the president cannot afford to be drawn into what would undoubtedly be a major, bitter partisan battle over prosecution of Bush-era officials. The cost to the country would simply be too great.

From Broder’s piece. God or more aptly the devil is in the details. So to ignore the unignorable, though it seems maddeniingly ignorable to many, is insane policy. Clean it up. It sure ain’t gonna clean itself up, fellas!!! Felony, war crime. What the hell is wrong with people? I wear my black arm band each day for a nation that is blind to having committed war crimes and felonies. Don’t tell me bipartisanship is placating with non-accountability. How dare they minimize this depravity.

I am making daily calls for single payer plan to the House for Conyers 676 vote in the fall. There will be one it is promised though no one in the press will give it mention.

Les Leopold asked why a windfall profits tax wasn’t immediately levied against Goldman for getting $13 bill. from AIG. Good point.

Obama playing golf with his bud, UBS super donator and enabler of monumental tax evasions. Remember when Bush said, “Now watch this drive.” Obama, what is wrong with you????

The top 2-3% have the money and the power. Because our mis-trusted leaders and our sleepy citizenry gave away the store.

Nothing like a morning vent. ty

Blackwater continuing its contracts and getting renewed. WTF does it take to stop any of these vampire monsters???

This country is facing so many huge challenges at home and abroad that the president cannot afford to be drawn into what would undoubtedly be a major, bitter partisan battle over prosecution of Bush-era officials.

uh-huh. ‘Cause they’re getting along so well right now….

The cost to the country would simply be too great.

Spoken like a true chicken-shit. Thanks Dean, you can go back to the 60’s now.

You can have my keyboard when you pry it out of my cold, dead hands . . .

The commenters over at the Post seem to be having quite a time pointing out the difficulties with Broder’s piece.

I used to watch morning joe until my threshold for prepubescent logic.

Is it my imagination, or is this society coming apart? In my 3 score I have never seen so many things seem to be breaking down in “plain view”. All the institutions seems to be broken, the media has turned into the national enquirer. The states are broke, people are receiving $50,000 bills for a day in the hospital. The critters who are known to go whichever way the wind blows now seem to be completely isolated from public opinion. No one seems to want more war in South Asia and yet we are ramping up that one. We are killing innocents left and right with remote drone operations and no one’s hair is on fire. People show up at town hall mtgs armed. The head of a private “security” company is on a religious mission to destroy another religion and is accused of being involved in murder. Wall street has been exposed as a scam and the government pumped billions into it when they screamed the sky is falling. The scam of real estate has been exposed a bait and switch and left millions of families broke and soon homeless and nothing has been done. Office blocks are emptying as companies fold. Stores are now empty and 1000s of business fail, People are without work in record numbers. The DOD said it didn’t want some dumb weapon system but congress fought to keep it alive. Elections are stolen. A city is left to die and hundreds of thousands are tossed aside.

There was always “bad” things out there, but this seems to be out of control. No?

That didn’t make since but the point is that I really dislike morning joe!

They say he never accepted any insurance, deals with people that pay cash.

It’s all the same.

I’m not religious but I am beginning to wonder if armageddon is real and on the horizon. Oddly, it seems that most people that are religious will be on the evil side of the fight.

I write this because I truly see the unwinding of this nation. We can all speculate on the cause and mine would be unfettered out of control soulless capitalism and greed. But that is not the point. We seem to be rapidly approaching either anarchy or fascism. Democracy seems only a distant memory.

Our justice system is useless. We have no accountability and public officials lie like a rug.

Ugh,

Don’t bring up Clinton. That wagging finger, “I did not have…”.

Some lies are more direct than others, no matter what they are about.

“Clintons actions harmed nobody”. Did I get this right? A presidency where domestic government spending was less than Reagan. A bogus surplus as a result. Botched healthcare, no electric battery development. In short, a bogus guy and girl for eight years with the likes of George Tenet, Sandy Berger and Robert Rubin. Yeah, he kept you out of war unless you happened to live in Belgrade.

Tact and diplomacy mean nothing to Dick(head)

Heh.

This does say a lot.

OT – what happened to “show text”? I’ve been busy and not at the lake much in the last couple of days. Are we having technical problems?

“show text” works for me. Did you let the page load completely before you tried it?

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Clinton is an imperfect person in an imperfect world, but well meaning, as apposed to republicans in general!

[Mod note: Please don’t insult other commenters. Thank you.]

Always remember the following:

1) As TPM’s Josh Marshall reminds us every now and then, DC is wired for Republicans and has been since 1969:

We’re coming off of, or at least we’ve had a period of (because who knows about the future) thirty plus years of conservative dominance of Washington. By some measures you could say forty years. But at least thirty, notwithstanding Bill Clinton’s eight years in office. That conditions a generation of people with mindsets based around Republicans being the party of power, the party whose ideas get vindicated at the polls. Most of all Washington is a city that coddles up to and worships power. But a generation of one party holding the reins selects for certain kinds of journalists in key positions of power, the policy experts at the think tanks who get the journalists calls, the lobbyists who move the most money and so forth. You build up a set of assumptions about what kinds of people and ideas are respectable and which aren’t. Which are old-fashioned, which are ‘cutting edge’ and so forth. Who defines conventional wisdom?

In all of these respects, DC remains overwhelmingly wired for the GOP.

Over time, the formal government shapes the para-government. But there’s no immediate transition. In fact, in the short-run there’s usually an intensified conflict between the two. And you see evidence of the disconnect in repeated failures of people in the capital to predict the reactions of the country to key political developments — which is something you’ve seen repeatedly in 2006 and 2008. And even into 2009.

The general media’s been increasingly wired for Republicans since about 1979, to the point where it is almost impossible to get onto national TV, print and radio if you talk any sort of sense. In both DC’s and the general national media’s cases, Broder is part of the wiring.

2) As a result, Broder speaks for all of the DC punditti and hangers-on and lobbyist buddies and whatnot when he spews stuff that reinforces GOP talking points, no matter how venal, amoral, illogical, or just plain stupid. Just as Broder now argues that a Democratic president having adulterous nookie and hiding it is much worse than Bush/Cheney/Rove hiding the real reasons they wanted to kill and torture hundreds of thousands of people, Doris Kearns Plagiarist Goodwin argued vehemently that Bill Clinton’s relationship with Monica Lewinsky was worse than Bush the Elder pardoning Cap Weinberger and all the other Iran-Contra principals who hadn’t already had slaps on the wrist doled out to them.

Thank you, Phoenix Woman!

Dick Cheney pretends to be shooting quail when he’s really gunning for his arch-nemesis, Harry Whittington.

Karl Rove and David Broder dine on quail. What were they REALLY doing?

I just know there’s a good quail-based conspiracy theory to he had here, but I can’t figure out what it is.