We’re still perched up in the church tower, waiting for the Jindal tidal wave Broder predicted in 2007. Thanks for the gumball, Dave.

ATTATURK!

All my men men at the Washington Post Company wear West Texas Intermediate,
or they wear nothing at all.

Howard Fineman and Newsweek are offering the dawn-to-dawn six diamond experience you’ll never forget.

So many money making opportunities for the Washington Post Company, so little time.

You won’t believe what moron joe thinks. . . .

Good morning, pups. It’s Collins and Kristof this morning. Ms. Collins explains what the voters had on their minds in “Hark! The Voters Speak!” She says endorsements don’t work if they’re oblique and half-hearted, as if they had been sent via Candygram. In “Unhealthy America” Mr. Kristof says the greatest distortion about the health care debate is that reform will destroy our health care system.

Here they are.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got apple walnut muffins today. The NYT has an editorial about what it all meant, which includes the following:

So what does this all mean for next year’s election? Above all, it means that voters want their leaders to focus on sound policy making, not party orthodoxy. And the No. 1 issue in every poll is the economy.

That means that Mr. Obama and Democrats in Congress should not draw the wrong conclusion and get timid about vital tasks like health care reform or more stimulus spending to ensure that any recovery also creates more jobs. At some point, they are going to have to bite the bullet and raise taxes to pay for all of this.

Now I’m off to try to figure out what to bring for lunch today. Right now I don’t have any ideas at all… Have a great day.

He thinks? Surely you jest…

ding

we have a winner

I swear to they just had Laura Bush on saying she was a rastafarian and has Marley on her iPod! And she had brown sugar, all over her boogwoogum!

Suggests meds are. heavily involved on all parts

What, media acknowledging there’s policy in there somewhere, if you dig into the horse manure deep enough? How refreshing.

That will call for ranchero hash browns with eggs for me.

I’m still aghast at how the media is spinning the election. And sadly Democratic political consultants will take it as a call for more of the same.

On the other hand, I heard on NPR as my clock radio was trying to wake me up that the Senate passed another extension of unemployment benefits.

I wish we could make it clear to all these waffling, swing voters, that under a Republican administration and congressional majority, that would not have happened. Republicans would have probably passed some sort of tax cuts for companies that lay off more workers.

republicans won where a progressive didn’t run, they got out their base, democrats didn’t give a turd since the person running wasn’t campaigning like a liberal

that’s what needs to be taken from these elections

I happen to disagree with the punditocracy that Democrats have moved too far to the left. I say they haven’t moved far enough. In the 2008 election voters gave Democrats the White House and both houses of Congress because we wanted change. We haven’t received anything resembling change. The new, younger generations are more left-leaning than the old Reagan Democrats who are thankfully dying off, and their are a still a few of us old 60’s racicals like me that had high hopes for the society we had always dreamed of. Obama has been a monumental disappointment. He needs to man-up and be a leader. The hell with bipartisanship. GOP still seem to be running the show with watered down bullshit legislation. We need more Sen. Sanders!

And quite honestly that conclusion couldn’t be more obvious. But since it doesn’t fit into the corporate meme that Democrats need to be more Republican, it gets ignored in the MSM.

Some of us old ’60’s radicals have been working in the trenches and know it takes working through a lot of pure obstruction from the shills on the right. Sadly, a lot of folks would rather whine than do the hard stuff and that doesn’t help. at all.

Indeed.
Change happened in the 60’s.
Still fighting two fucking wars.
There’s been no change, we are in reverse…

And here, by Adam Nagourney, is what a whole bunch of Republicans have to say about whether they’re going to continue trying to kill off their “moderates.”

I have some leftover venison roast in the fridge. You can have a couple of slices for a sandwich for lunch. There’s plenty for my lunch & dinner & maybe more.

Good morning everyone.

Wadda surprise, the right wing discovering that the wingnuts are nuts.

Yum! Thanks. Off to be a cog in the medical industrial complex…

I have yet to see any story or analysis of the CA house seat changing to progressive. Most networks don’t even mention it, like it never happened.

What a delicious article. Especially the closing quote from MC Steele on the divisions in the party (surprise, they’re good!):

Mr. Steele said he hoped that the party would be able to skirt further divisive battles.

“You know what the reality is?” he said. “This is healthy, in that it exposes fault lines that we can learn to avoid.”

Do you think Garamendi will make a splash like Grayson when he arrives In D.C., or will he work his mark in a more low key way?

Forgetting that discussions are healthy only when they’re between two sides that can reasonably disagree, not when they’re between crazies and craziers.

not pretty

“I’m talking of people being raped with broken bottles,” he said at a lecture late last month that was re-broadcast by the Real News Network. “I’m talking of people having their children tortured in front of them until they sign a confession. I’m talking of people being boiled alive. And the intelligence from these torture sessions was being received by the CIA, and was being passed on

gonna post this for marcy too.

this article needs to be saved and reposted whenever cheney has the gall to go back on torture tour usa

The win in California doesn’t fit the narrative the corporate media wants to promote.

Grayson and Sanders are a breath of fresh air in an otherwise wax museum.

And though it gets a cursory mention in some of the MSM, I’m also wondering why the HUGE story of the New York district going to a Democrat for the first time since the Civil War isn’t the big news, since it’s… well the biggest story of the 2009 election.

Okay, so I’m not really wondering, I think we all know why that is.

I saw that too. Pretty grim stuff, but not surprising. There’s no slippery slope in torture. Once the door is opened, anything goes.

On a lighter note, Prejean dropped her lawsuit owing to surfacing of “racy” videotape. Maybe she’s an honorary C-Streeter.

Morning all.
Maybe Prejean can play the videotape at the next family values gathering.

Poifect.

Morning Swim is up.

related fake news

SUB-ROSA NEWS

Some of the News
That may be True

CANDIDATES URGED TO BE FAT

In a conference call yesterday, Republican consultant Oliver B. Reese advised party leaders to seek candidates who were overweight. “Not obese, mind you” said Reese, despite the success of President Taft. But just enough poundage to tempt opponents to imply that you were too fat to serve.

Obie, to use Reese’s nickname, explained further that voters believe that heavy people were more trustworthy, perhaps jolly. Also, voters can relate better to corpulent candidates, since many Americans exceed the weight chart standards.

In addition to last Tuesday’s results, history suggests that this is a winning strategy. Skinny Obama’s poll numbers are down and we know how famously fit George W. Bush performed in office. So follow President Clinton’s lead, get those Big Macs.

homer http://www.altara.blogspot.com

here’s an interview, someone on the torture squad;

One of the 23 Americans convicted today by an Italian court says the United States “broke the law” in the CIA kidnapping of a Muslim cleric Abu Omar in Milan in 2003.

“And we are paying for the mistakes right now, whoever authorized and approved this,” said former CIA officer Sabrina deSousa in an interview to be broadcast tonight on ABC’s World News with Charles Gibson.

DeSousa says U.S. “abandoned and betrayed” her and the others who were put on trial for the kidnapping

she’s got only a portion right

the real price was paid by the victims not the criminals, there is no defense she can hide behind “I was given orders”

the real price was paid by the LOSS of information, it was paid by how the program UNDERMINED success

the real price is the FACT that we CREATED terrorists and ENEMIES against our cause and our nation

You know, it’s really irritating to have to liseten to these ignorant GOP cheerleaders spewing their bullshit. I saw a segment on Morning Joe, or as I’m fond of calling him “Jethro”, and he and his idiot cohost, Star Search Spokesmodel Mika were trashing the Dems and Nancy Pelosi. The conventional wisdom was that, the Dems were crushed in Tuesday’s election. They dismissed the NY 23 race and never even mentioned the other seat the Dems picked up in California. Ignoring the fact that both govenors races were about local issues, they also don’t seem to want to acknowledge that Christie and McDonnel don’t get a vote on any legislation the Dems will put forward now or in the future. Even Katy Kay joined in stating that the Dems seem out of touch with the voters and perhaps they should postpone the legislation. Then, Mika reads an op ed from the Wall Street Journal which call for the same. I really can’t stand these idiot pundits and “reporters” who get on the air and do exactly what they accuse the Dems of, which is spin. They really are a disgrace!

Don’t these idiots realize that the 2 seats the Dems picked up will get votes in the House and both won because they embraced Obama and specifically, the public option. As a resident of New Jersey who is very pissed that my state was stupid enough to vote for a Republican, and yes, he’s a fat, sloppy, jowly faced, clown. And since I’m not a home owner, I can’t wait until this clown lowers the property taxes by raising their taxes in some othe way. Or perhaps tolls as Corzine tried to do. New Jersey seems to have forgotten and rather quickly, that it was the Republicans in Washington who were in charge for the last 8 years when their taxes skyrocketed. Now, they’ve elected this low rent, Jersey stero type weasel who, as a candidate was a complete dud! You really do get the government you deserve and the idiots of my state haven’t begun to feel the suffering and they can thank our new govenor Fatty Arbuckle for what he’s going to unleash on them.

Now c’mon. You shouldn’t be insulting Jethro Bodine, Leroy Jethro Gibbs or Homer & Jethro like that

The cable news stations are not covering reality. They are bending it.
24/7 political news ananlysis is probably not healthy for a republican form of government such as ours. It creates an enviroment of epistemic arrogance that is likely to lead to disastrous results.

Wow! Replacing a conservadem in CA-10 with a hardcore liberal and public-option backer is Bad News for the Democrats? Replacing a Republican in NY-23 with a public option vote is Bad News for the Democrats?

So, is Broder one of the RNC’s “Contractors” or does he have a salaried position with them?

Above all, it means that voters want their leaders to focus on sound policy making, not party orthodoxy

Yeah, because those “successful” Republican candidates — the ones who won the governorships in VA and NJ — were so “policy oriented,” just like all the usual crazed Republican voters.

Sheesh. Save us from the “wisdom” of the NYT and WaPoo. Can’t we “term limit” their columnists and editorial writers?

You have said it all.

Thank you.

OK, Broder has been a tool for a long while. Um, what does “MATLOCK!!!” mean?

This link might be informative, if you view it in terms of Abe Simpson representing the stereotype of retired, somewhat out-of-it old folks. Here is the text specifically referring to Matlock from the site I linked to:

Like many of his fellow Retirement Castle residents, Abe is a devoted follower of Matlock. He seems to believe Matlock is a real person, suggesting they call him in to solve real-life crimes. During a Matlock public appearance, Abe and Jasper swipe Matlock’s pills, which were needed to prevent him from having a spastic heart failure. Once, reflecting on his lifetime, he lamented it as terribly boring and full of unruly teenagers, but then decided it was alright because “we did have two shows with Andy Griffith”.