Rachel did a nice job on this last night.

Good morning and thanks for the post, Attaturk.

As it happens I watched “To Kill a Mocking Bird” last night. The dignity and total devotion to the Constitution portrayed in the character of Aticus Finch are deeply moving for me.

Liz Cheney is as shameless a partisan smear merchant as there is. Aside from an obvious loathing of the Constitution she displays open contempt for the people of the United States of America by pimping fear of the “other” for no purpose other than her own enrichment.

The continued access to national air time provided by people like Blitzer and Stephanopolis (sp?) for this type of inflammatory, misguided, shit-on-the-Constitution, fearmongering bullshit makes those players party to un-American behaviour of the lowest and most loathesome sort.

Oddly enough (or maybe you knew) today is the 240th anniversary of the Boston Massacre.

I believe that whirring sound you hear is Mr. Adams.

Yes, she did.

I added a link to it within.

Um, yeah, I’m going to claim that I did know that as it makes me more clever. ;-)

Picking on poor little princess Liz again. King Dick, the Lyin’ heart, will be pissed.

Good morning, pups. It’s Brooks, Cohen and Krugman today. I’m now absolutely convinced that Bobo stole some of The Moustache of Wisdom’s qat. Today, in “The Wal-Mart Hippies,” he tells us that the Tea Party’s raging against the machine echoes an older radicalism from the opposite end of the political spectrum. The buffoon is equating the anti-war movement of the 60s with the fucking tea party. (Let us remember this asshole was born in 1961… Doghouse Riley to the courtesy phone…) Mr. Cohen addresses “Iran in Its Intricacy” and says it is time for Iran to find the balance between faith and pluralism that has eluded it for a century. Prof. Krugman ponders “Senator Bunning’s Universe,” and says Democratic and Republican debates over unemployment benefits and health care show that the parties currently live in different universes, both intellectually and morally.

Here they are.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready and I’ve got toasted English muffins with your favorite jam. Ah, Friday! Fridays are good, but payday Fridays are even better. Have a great day.

CNN is drowning in low ratings. Maybe Wolf is tacking even further right to try and stay relevant. A year ago, when CNN was still cheerleading for Obama believing he was the progressive second coming, this kind of reporting from Wolf would not have been possible. Now he sounds like just another hack on Fox. The problem with both Obama and CNN is that they don’t have core convictions, so they will face the way the wind blows.

The entire concept of justice is yet one more political football for the right to kick around. People of Liz Cheney’s ilk see no overarching truths to the world but concepts that are entirely mutable based upon momentary need. If the entire idea of justice has no Platonic ideal then there is, in fact, no truth.

The purpose of “Keep America Safe,” Cheney’s organization (set up with William Kristol and others), is to defend the positions of the Bush/Cheney administration in conducting foreign affairs (including black sites, torture, compiling information on “the nation’s enemies” and refusing to turn over information on executive branch covert operations to congress).

In keeping with her and her daddy’s philosophy of black ops, know this: if you’re curious enough to visit the website of her organization, the site is set up to keep information on you and your visit to the site, and the information is catalogued and made available to “third parties” which are unidentified and left solely to the discretion of board of the organization. Shades of daddy Dick.

Brook’s hippies essay sounds like a piece in the LA times last week. He should have given credit. Anyway, one thing you can’t accuse Brooks of is compassion and sensitivity. While he disparages populist cries from the left and the right, he doesn’t mention once the economic crisis and the pain everywhere that might be compelling people to protest. In the end, Brooks is the original establishment stooge.

When Daddy is arrested for his disgusting, inhumane, vile and sadistic policy of torture wouldn’t Lizzy want someone to come to his defense ?

…wouldn’t Lizzy want someone to come to his defense ?

someone heavily armed, maybe.

and they know just the right people for the job….

Good morning all.

I’m not sure if he’s the original, but he certainly is an establishment stooge. I was one of those “hippies” in the 60s and to compare trying to stop a war with the “I’ve got mine, fuck you” tea partiers makes me furious.

Like Daddy will ever be arrested, or even castigated publicly, is something I’ll probably not live to see.

WJ is asking first-time callers only what their docs say about HCR. Quite a few so far have mentioned that their docs would prefer single-payer.

Good morning, all.

The WaPo pushes back…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/04/AR2010030404181.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

I’m sorry, but the blame for this cr*p ultimately belongs with the Democrats, starting at the top.
From the start, every attack like this should have been met with a counterattack.
Even if it made David Broder sad.

Where are the Democratic attack dogs?

Where are the Democratic attack dogs?

Rhetorical Q.

Found one.

Conservatives are authoritarians. They simply do not believe in America’s form of government.

Thanks for the morning laugh.

God knows the 2 big guys here would prefer it. Republicans both, although I got one of them to vote for Obama…

And yet, single-payer won’t happen, no matter how many real people favor it.

Brooks sees himself as the modern intellectual aristocrat (laugh), and he’d just as soon see the tea party riff-raff eat cake. Conflating them with progressives on the left is another sign that what is more important to Brooks than the ideological debate between right and left is the class distinction between elites and unwashed masses.

The thing that’s sneaky about Bobo is that he can seem almost reasonable sometimes, before he slips the shiv into the heart of any given Democratic program he’s addressing. Of course, setting up straw men makes that easier for him.

the bottom line, and the meme all democrats responding to this daddy’s girl is that neither liz nor her dad believe in this country

and that’s what everyone should say whenever they are questioned about these maggots

So the second governor of NYS in less than 4 years might resign today.

According to Obama the other day “all” options were put on the table before certain options were taken off the table prior to their discussion, debate and analysis. To paraphrase MLK “now is not the time to take the tranquilizing pill of gradualism.”

I haven’t heard about the nuclear option being applied to HCR, i.e., nuke the sick.

Maggots, rotten apples, weasels, Quislings, traitors the options defining the likes of Cheney, his spawn and their acolytes are legion. To the Democrats they are the “loyal” opposition.

Then, who appointed Liz Cheney’s targets to the DOJ? Are Obama, Pelosi, and Reid supposed to be the vocal Democratic opposition to Liz Cheney? I despise Liz Cheney and Fox News, and I rage against the TV anytime I see any of the desipicable slanted crap like that noted in this post, but I can’t see Obama calling in the press to answer Liz Cheney or complain about a CNN chyron.

Have an elderly friend from France who was visiting his son in Thailand in Jan.-Feb.. While there he had to be hospitalized for almost 2 weeks for chronic health problems including Chronn’s disease and diabetes. He was so sick that a French doctor had to accompany him on his flight back to Nice after his release from the Thai hospital. His bill on release from the hospital was over 100,000 Euros, not including the medical escort back to France. His total cost for the hospitalization and medical escort? Zero! Everything was covered by the French system. I do not think the French have to worry about the U.S. overtaking their rankings by the WHO with Obama’s potential health insurance reforms.

Swim is up…

I don’t always agree with Glenn Greenwald, but he’s gone predictably apoplectic about this, and I believe MSNBC has protested. Not sure senior Dem officials always need to respond when wingnut groups decide to jump the shark like this. It gives these groups more legitimacy.

I want the first one back, warts and all, but I guess I’ll settle for Cuomo.

To the Democrats they are the “loyal” opposition reasonable moderates.

And Lizzy Vader will look lovely with that Mocking bird smashed across her grill from the early morning swarm she tried to part with her face as she rushed headlong into another pool of Loon Wash for her daddy’s cause…. The cause?? Keeping Daddy Darth OUT OF PRISON IN THE HAGUE FOR WAR CRIMES…

Part of the problem is these egotistical, pampered, over-paid, live-in-a-bell-jar talking heads have been studio furniture for so long, they’ve forgotten what real journalism is about. They need to get out, pound the pavement, talk face to face with someone other than their coterie of Rolodex-handy experts, cultivate new reliable sources, and ask the Second Question instead of pitching softballs and letting the lies sit there, naked and unchallenged. If the heart of a story is based on a lie, then the lie must be challenged. This nouveau notion in journalism that it’s their job to always give equal access and weight to all sides of an issue and then let the reader/viewer sort it all out is pure, unadulterated Bullshit.

Let’s go over it again: They’re in favor of an authoritarian executive with no real limits on his power and both a legislature and judiciary which answer to his bidding. They do not believe in rule of law or absolute morality or ethics — only what is expedient. The believe their titular autocrat has absolute power to enforce, modify, reinterpret, ignore or abrogate laws, Constitutional limits, or treaties at will. They believe that there simply are no rights which are inalienable (and for those who say “except for the 2nd Amendment” I would offer the correction, “No, you think ‘suspected terrorists in indefinite detention’ have this right? Nope.” They believe that it’s okay to imprison someone forever, without trial or charges — all you have to do is make the accusation heinous enough. They are eager to start more wars. They insist on torture, even when a prisoner is cooperating fully — and invent new ways to break bodies and minds irreparably.

Then they say they “love America.” And that they do all these things int the name of promoting “life, liberty, and freedom.” Paraphrasing Inigo Montoya, I say to them: You keep using those words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean.

This is a testament to why we need mandatory public education. When I was in the 7th grade, “Social Studies” was what used to be called “civics”. It had its limitations and its built-in political biases of course. But it nonetheless gave everyone (including the kids from the Catholic parochial school, who were bussed over to attend this, use the labs, and have phys ed) a basic grounding in what the laws were. We learned that the right to bear arms was a collective not an individual right. We learned that separation of Church and state protected churches and church doctrine from state control. And lots of other things that younger people seem to think are extremist novelties.

One of the main things I remember from that year was the Boston Massacre case, which was taught as one of the defining moments for Americanism, something that made us a distinctive political and social system.

Given that little bit of American history and civics, I’ve always seen the Cheyneys–Liz and otherwise–the Bushes, and the various banksters for what they are: royalists, aristocrats, antirepublicans, and antidemocrats. We fought a Revolution against them once. We may have to again.