Have you no sense of decency, at long last?

Yet another rhetorical Q to add to FDL’s collection?

Kagan backs denial of habeas rights for foreign prisoners. Who coulda guessed.

So what was the shiny object arrest of 12 Russian ‘spies’ all about? Distraction from bad econ data?

Hmmm. She opposes habeas but still doesn’t please the Rethug asshats. Just imagine what it would take to make they happy. Lester Maddox reincarnated?

I love the sound of dog whistling in the morning. Lee Atwater would be so proud.

The Commies are coming. It worked pretty well before.

Was thinking this morning that progressives are absolutely dead, dead, dead. Progressives have lost on absolutely everything they’ve tried and all we’re waiting for is wingnuts to move in for the kill.

Do you think it possible? It sounded like they were trying to unseat Justice Marshall…..trying to get rid of Brown, I guess. I hope they do watch themselves. Good Morning all.

Nothing would make them happy but the administration and congressional Democrats are too stupid to figure that out. Rather than sending finance reform back to conference to make a STRONGER bill that Democrats Feingold and Cantwell can support, they sent it back to water it down some more to please Brown and Maine’s weird sisters. Just. F*cking. Corrupt. Morons.

Scott Brown is just a cat’s paw for O.

Yep. The best thing that happened for the Democrats in the Senate was Martha Coakley’s incredibly shitty campaign. They have their excuse back. Why do you think they didn’t press to seat Franken and then tried to refuse to seat. Burris? K-A-B-U-K-I

Oh dear, democracynow guest is Kagan fan who also works for O.

“Kagan did what she could do” for diversity at Harvard Law faculty. “Dean’s have limited power.”

Ding.

We voted for Obama to turn the country left. But we’ve been assured that, even though both Obama Supreme Court appointees replace retiring Republicans, both these “Democratic” appointees will drag the Court further to the Right. Both are further Right than the Republicans they’re appointed to replace. Another betrayal by the Obama Administration, and the mainstream press, who should be a watchdog rather than a lapdog.

Mornin’, BT, pups

Jeff Sessions, fascist fool of the year. I’m certainly glad Specter will be gone. His little display was disgusting.

I’m not understanding your Sessions-Specter connection.

Morning BT, Firepups:

I’m still getting wingnut chain email washing over the transom informing me in highly importunate tones that Obama is a “Marxist, a Socialist, etc.” The stock response I’ve adopted is to point them to opensecrets.org and then ask them to extract the proof from that content. Usually shuts them the F right up.

Wait: Sessions wasn’t doing a comedy bit? I stand corrected.

Uh, they’re both on the Judiciary Committee.

You can take the Republican out of the Party but you can’t take the Party out of the Republican…

Does his replacement automatically get onto the same committees?

No

If Obama were a fascist, he would be getting things done.

Got that right. Specter spent all his time tryin’ for a gotcha moment.

That’s what I thought.

Trying for redemption before his enforced retirement no doubt. I’m surprised he hasn’t officially switched back.

He’s gonna be a real pain in the ass. Sore loser and everybody’s gonna pay for it.

Yep. Just like Lieberman….

Notice how little of Short Ride we’ve seen lately?

Off topic but I’m really happy that Clinton has decided to support Romanoff over Bennett. Apparently there actually are some Democrats who can read polls. Because that’s exactly what that is all about, it has nothing to do with ideology. The Big Dog is still DLC all the way.

Fuck Clinton.

He does want the govt to close down the internet under whatever circumstances the govt deems necessary.

He and Kerry were mentioned yesterday when they said of course they’d be willing to water down the climate/energy bill to meaninglessness to tempt Republicans who won’t vote for it anyway. Maybe we can change Short Ride to Short Breath.

Burkin gives Short Ride too much credit. Douchebag is way too kind.

Sessions on AM Joe now…

Another of those times I’m so glad I don’t have teebee. He and Hatch are insufferable.

Sessions on AM Joe now

Wow! TWO reasons to avoid MSNBC this morning. Throw in Mika the airheaded blow up doll and you have the trifecta.

airheaded blowjob up doll

Fixed it for ya.

She makes my head hurt.

The big irony is that she made a point of emphasizing her disagreement with Marshall on various issues.

Her shallowness appalls her own father. I imagine he feels pretty much the same way that Mike Wallace feels…

I think this graph, which was referenced in a post of Jon Walker’s last week, pretty much explains most of the frustration expressed here every day. The politial reality it reflects needs to be reckoned with.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/141032/2010-Conservatives-Outnumber-Moderates-Liberals.aspx

Let us know if they continue the Marshall-bashing.

Extra points if the bashers were also part of the cadre screaming “KKK!” at Senator Byrd, who had renounced the group decades ago and spent his last years working with the NAACP.

Except Gallup is itself a Republican pollster. Not quite as bad as Rasmussen or Strategic Vision, but not far from it.

I said two reasons to AVOID MSNBC. I’ve never watched Morning Jerk Joe.

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

US KIA Irak: 4,409

US KIA Afghanistan: 1,147 (trooper from St Petersburg killed Sunday)

Iraki and Afghan casualties: estimates vary to over 1.5M

US MBS 2010: 22,320 and counting

Dylan

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

There are other factors, such as Brown’s refusal to admit he was a Republican. Hell, try to even find the word “Republican” anywhere on his (Obama-emulating) campaign website!

Sorry — meant to respond to eCAHN, not you. Need. More. Coffee…..

Certainly there were other factors. Not least among them were the Democratic voters who decided that it was a safe Democratic seat so why interrupt their long weekend to go vote? Still, it worked out great for the Democrats.

and the mainstream press, who should be a watchdog rather than a lapdog.

Coincidentally I read a scathing Taibbi piece in Rolling Stone this morning about the press. Even though he gets long and pedantic at times, Glenn Greenwald is one of my favorites when he gets off on the MSM (and hack columnists), and Taibbi’s piece reminds me of that.

Lara Logan, You Suck

This is really turning into a HOT issue for me!
And Glenn has a good column up this morning on media’s servitude to government.

New Study Documents Media’s Servitude to Government

I’ve noticed that Kagan always refers to each Senator by name. Other nominees simply say “Senator” whereas Kagan consistently sez “Senator [insert fool's name here].”

I learned in some kind of training that my employer provided that using someone’s name is considered flattering by them.

MoJo really shivved Boehner about his after-5-not-work-ethic this am and had the Politico shill squirming at the same time. Was really kinda pretty….

On substance, with all the Sessions-focus on the tubes this ayem, anybody hearing any reporting/interviewing of folks like Franken who cited chapter and verse/cases of how the Roberts court is systematically, activistically killing civil liberties 5-4.

What? Too deep for the dims?

Yep.

I’m really uncomfortable with her continual mentioning of just how Zionist she is.

Who?

Margaret, anything on the job?

Kagan. Maybe that has been selective editing but she sure seems to like to say how very pro Israel she is. I haven’t been watching the hearings though, just the excerpts.

Nope. :(

Geez, I listened to the thing off and on, more on than off, all day and that didn’t stand out. My first problem with her is her disagreement with Marshall’s ideas and rulings. Then there’s that neoliberal thing.

Like I said, it could have just been MSNBC culling those out. I never watched the hearing live.

While emptywheel raises concerns about Kagan’s views on fighting terrorism, Rachel Maddow is all endorsement…all the time.

Predictable.

If Obama were a fascist, he would be getting things done

Not quite a Facist (although Mussolini thought it should have been called “corporist”, which would describe POTUS to a “T”), but he IS getting things done — look at the Health Insurance Industry Profit Enhancement Act of 2010, look at the DOJ’s positions IN COURT on the worst of Bush-administration policies, look at the two SCOTUS nominees/justices, look at the endless war (we have always been at war with Eastasia), look at …