I have an answer to the Senator’s conundrum:
McCheese would have more cred and attention paid if he took TehMeganMachine(s)™ on the road with him.

“So sad that Brittany Murphy died. Fame eats up women. Hey, I’m going to be on Leno, so watch me, twitterfam!”

/TehMeghanMachine™, paraphrased.

mckain = puke!

COOL WaterTiger!!!! best!!

McCain, despite high probabilities that it was impossible, has become even more incoherent since the election.

When they were giving out brains, the senior Senator from Arizona thought they said trains, and replied: “No thanks, I’m gonna walk.”

I like Megan. She is something to ponder when there’s no grass to watch grow, she attracts flies (Coulter and Ingraham) in the other direction, and she is either completely unaware of how dim she appears, or she reflects a generation of Goopers-to-come.

And I learned about twitter cause of her.

Win, Win, Win.

Love that photo of two prominent Republicans.

So because Kennedy was obliged to work with the Republican majority for most of his career all Republicans must avoid working with Democrats or Ted Kennedy will come back from the dead and compromise with the Republican minority himself. I probably missed something.

McCain, despite high probabilities that it was impossible, has become even more incoherent since the election.

McCain is showing all the symptoms of late life Dementia!! Although he has never been very coherent after Vietnam… just saying….

Isn’t that RonnieRaygun on the left?

I must admit, she is fascinating in her utter lack of self-awareness.

I would not argue against that probability. Seems a bit odd that his constituents don’t seem to notice. Then again nobody notice Ronny RayGunz was in early stage Alzheimer’s either.

That photo above reminds me of dumb and dumber.

dat true!! we lost a lot under that cowboy!!!

Reagan was a lightweight compared to O. The Gipper only got two mil for a speech and throwing a baseball in Japan, I’m sure that will be chump change (we can believe in) to Obama.

But, but please do not talk ill of St. Ronnie of Ray Gunz. He was only the bestest preznit evar!!!!!!

She hovers very nicely just above the ‘I-Go-Splat!’ threshold. It really is kind of fun to watch.
Then she goes to the boob-shot, and has to seclude for a spell and start all over.

YUP!

I like to think of it as Reagan 7.0 versus Reagan Vista. Of course Vista had just gone through the blue screen of death but then that’s what the reset button is for.

LOL! she is the quintessence of “being born on third base and thinking she hit a triple.”

Mustn’t forget her endearing “Doesn’t he f*cking know who I AM?” moment at the WH Correspondents Dinner.

It is always amazing to hear GOPs rail against problems they alone can solve. It would be so simple for McCrankypants to honor the memory of his dead ‘friend’ — hump EMK’s casket and vote for the fucking thing, McCain. Your insurance and Pharma donations will probably double; maybe you’ll even catch up to John Kerry.

Really, why does anyone listen to this horrible man? He’s simply odious and awful.

*WT — Sorry about the Rudi announcement tomorrow, I know we’ll miss the drag-race 2010 would have been….

Also, her boobs.

Also.

And a living repudiation of Libertarianism.

When? What? Coolio!

McCrankypants humping EMK’s casket. You sure can paint a purty mental picture, Teddy.

I don’t recall if it was her Maddow or Daily Show appearance (or both), but I remember hoping whoever it was would ask her what the Republican Party platform and principles were.
She would give Palin a run for her money in teh vapid department.

But being a yungin, and having been elected by exactly no one, she at least has an excuse.

I still haven’t become twitterpated.

So sad, isn’t it? Poor Judi will never get to pick out drapes for the White House now.

Wasn’t that Sir Saint Ronnie the first American president to be knighted by the Queen of England?

Good thing he waited until he was out of office what with the Constitution and all.

Hey, when her ‘top-shelf’ shot hit, I just had to..
never mind…

She is Exhibit A for why we need a 90% inheritance tax on estates over $5 million. Paris Hilton is Exhibit B and the Waltons are Exhibits C-G.

shows you just how lousy the Leno show is – Meghan McFameball is on fairly frequently.

I have somehow missed that one. Maybe there WAS grass to watch grow after all.

John McCain? Oh, yeah, I remember. He was the LOSER, wasn’t he?

My favorite was her appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher.

He (Paul Begala) then began to explain how President Reagan blamed Jimmy Carter for years, to which McCain responded blithely “you know I wasn’t born yet so I wouldn’t know.” Going in for the kill, Begala fired back “I wasn’t born during the French Revolution but I know about it.”

You know, it’s easy to say what Teddy Kennedy would have said with no ability for a response. Why doesn’t McCain discuss what Teddy would have thought of his Palin pick?

I wasn’t surprised. I heard all those annual-physical-exams reports, where they said he was ‘in excellent physical shape’, but they never ever mentioned his mental shape, and figured they were keeping quiet on that because it was easier than lying about it.

you’d never know it from the Sunday talk show line-ups.

I saw it and gagged.

Still is a loser. Always was and always will be.

Question is, can she help her poor Pa regain his street?

Nothing wrong with boobs…! I’m a mammary man myself…! ;-)

Water Tiger, You’re a sight for sore eyes…! *g*

I thought you meant that YOU were going to be on Leno.

Here ya go.

They like him because he is as dumb as they are and so doesn’t make them look foolish.

-I’m a mammary man myself…!

Nothing more appealing than hairy man mammaries… “g”

ahhh, sorry! I was quoting.

LOL…! 8-P

Especially the pendulous ones. Even better with the big hairy belly.

Thank Dawg, not another cheesecake drama…

Can you believe that I was accused of… “Typical Christocentrism…” Kinda strange when I’m Baha’i… Eh…? ;-)

Hunh?!? Who? What? When?

If the look is good enough for Buddha, who am I to argue?

Love it that CSPAN contacted Rachel’s producers and came up with the tape of McCain objecting to more time for a dem senator!

Here…! ;-)

I do try to hold on to that when I look in the mirror.

Ya just gotta love Buddhism.

So we finish the eighteenth and he’s gonna stiff me. And I say, “Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.” And he says, “Oh, uh, there won’t be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.” So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.”
-Carl Spackler

Hunh. No accounting for taste, I suppose.

Here John, Victoria Kennedy has some thoughts for you:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/18/AR2009121803506.html

Funny how she doesn’t mention you or the cooperation of the GOP, really, that’s a (dys)function of your ridiculous, supersize ego wistfully thinking of a way to be relevant and important after the fact.

The fact is that you and your malicious party did all it could to sabotage and compromise this process and now you have the balls to whimper about not being included. How old are you really, eleven? You are one sad piece of work, pal.

Grow up, you senile geezer. You gave nothing–and that’s what you got at the end. You and your obstructionist colleagues deserve no less and certainly no credit except for clearly identifying yourselves as the problem, not problem solvers.

I know that I’ll be taking a step up in my next incarnation…! ;-)

Congratulations!
I’m coming back as a 1928 Porter.

I have less of a problem with the GOP, which was at least consistent in it’s opposition than with the Dems who completely sold us out and have the gall to pretend they are serving the common good.

If I am really lucky, I will come back as a house cat. 8-)

I just hope if I ever get rich I’m not real mean to poor people, like I am now.

h/t Jack Handey

With my luck I’ll probably be a litter box.

Now that is the last possible incarnation…! ;-)

Was that what “My Mother the Car” was?

True, though Olympia Snow has earned a big old shit sandwich. I am really sick to death of hearing these asshats called “moderates” or “centrists.” There is nothing moderate about them and they are far to the right of the political center of the American people. At best, they are conservatives and at worst they are self-serving opportunists and corporate whores.

Hehe.
Better than a horse.

You mean the ‘59 Caddy, the mother of all cars?

Why?
She took what the President offered her – status, credibility, prestige, electability.
In the current political climate, she would be a fool to decline.
And by the way, she and her cohorts got exactly the bill they wanted.

Just wanted to thank you, Watertiger, for reviving my absolute favorite photo from the campaign, and making me laugh this evening.

Agreed. I think this validates the statement that when adversity comes, you find out who your friends are. We sure found out that with Lieberman, Lincoln, Nelson, Landrieu, et al as “friends” we sure don’t need enemies. We found out that “service” to them was spelled serve-us.

Agreed. It is a completely misleading label which in current usage apparently describes self-appointed deficit hawks.

Because it is quite clear that she never had any intention of voting for health care reform. Every time she got what she wanted she moved the goal posts. I admit that it was brain dead for the Democrats to continue wooing her after the second time, but she none-the-less played a duplicitous game.

Lieberman, Lincoln, Nelson, Landrieu etc. are unabashed opportunists but I don’t blame them any more than I do the rest of the Dem caucus, including the so-called progressives (all three of them) who talked a good game for a little while but (unsurprisingly) capitulated in the end.

Actually, it applies to anyone who agrees with positions of our grossly overpaid, conservative corporate media.

If you are TeamObama, and you are looking for cover, Snowe did just fine. This assumes, of course, that the bill the Senate produced is what they envisioned. And the Finance Committee deliberations were, what, 6 weeks ago?

OOOO. Ralph Nader would disagree!

…self-appointed deficit hawks.

Where were they earlier…? Oh, that’s right where they currently reside… the US Senate…! Fancy that…!

Maybe it’s just that we haven’t reconciled ourselves to the fact that the center has been moved to what was once the hard right and kidded ourselves that when Dems gained control of the House, Senate, and WH they would move it back.

Isn’t that the greatest photo! Someone (sorry, forgot who) mentioned that it was the headline picture in one of the European papers.

Ralph can disagree but I’m pretty confident if the Messiah returns he’ll be driving a ’59 Caddy. :-)

Heading out, splendid evening to all.

Nighters, ratfood.

The polling data have consistently shown that the overwhelming majority of Americans support progressive policies and programs and have done so for 30 years. Most Americans are well to the left of most of our elected officials. It is our political elites who are center right, not the American people. The media deliberately make the mistake of assuming that the “center” is half way between moderate Democratic politicians and Republican extremists, rather than the more accurate median or modal positions of the American people, which are center-left.

Night, rf. Sleep the sleep fo the just.

“There has never been a major reform accomplished in the history of this country that wasn’t bipartisan.”

So true, John. But then your party has never been as consumed and controlled by authoritarian, adolescent-minded ideologues who value power over policy and good government as it is right now. To his credit Obama tried. You and your team refused to play. STFU.

Obama says the public option was symbolic.

Think I will head out as well. Take care all.

As it turns out, so was my vote.

nite ratfood
nite doctor

Remember how jazzed everyone was?

“Nothing can be anywhere close to as bad as the last 8 years…”

Night, DD. May visions of sugarplums dance in your head.

Well, nothing’s next door to that time.

That eight years will be studied for hundreds of years.

Nite Rat and Dr. Dick.

Right beside Nero’s fiddling around…! ;-)

I agree. I admit to being overly optimistic. This is simply ridiculous, though. I deeply want this betrayal repaid in full.
And the cost of that payback will be steep.

How long are to sit still for this behavior?

When they handed out brains, McCain thought they said trains, and he missed his.

Hiya Pups!

I’ve seen that photo so many times — did it really happen that way, or is it photo shopped? Did McCain really look like this? I feel silly asking. BTW, watching Rufus Wainwright’s opera Prima Donna on Sundance.

Hi Chris!
That is an actual shot, screen-grabbed from the video of one of the debates.

How could one possibly photoshop that, CE…? It was an actual photo taken at one of the debates… The second one I think, but, I’m not sure…! ;-0

Hey newt!
I was afraid so, though I hoped it was SNL.

I know, I know…republics scare me into paranoia…

IIRC, McCain walked the wrong way to shake the moderator’s hand, and that was his “Oh shit” expression at the precise moment he realized that he had screwed it up.

ES has served up tonite’s LLN…

And as luck would have it, I have it. It was October 15th.

evening, all

Best dreams!

Just wanted to thank you, Watertiger, for reviving my absolute favorite photo from the campaign, and making me laugh this evening.

Doesn’t McCain look just like a gila monster? Or that “substitute gecko” from the GEICO ad.

McCain’s soul, if he has one, really shows through in that photo: inept, quarrelsome, unpleasant, nasty.

I respectfully refer to the senior Senator from Arizona as “McLoser”.

The same boorish opportunist we’ve come to loathe.