Until President Cheney is hung by the neck until dead, what difference does anything make???
Posted by tempus at September 12, 2007 04:21 PMSorry, make that Reichmarshal Cheney. Wrong dictatorship. Oh well.
Posted by tempus at September 12, 2007 04:26 PMReid and Schumer have a good cop/bad cop routine going. And not just on this one issue.
Posted by idiosynchronic at September 12, 2007 04:51 PMTempus, baby, you nailed it on the head! Guess who I saw today at Arlington, Virginia's Pentagon City Costco? Bill Clinton, that is President Bill Clinton. He was holding a book signing for his latest, Giving; whatever...long lines in the heat, it was really exciting to see what we remember as a REAL PRESIDENT, warts and all, but GOD...what a difference.
If he'd kept in his pants, this fucking world wouldn't be on the brink of destruction as it is today.
Posted by Mal Feasance at September 12, 2007 05:26 PMI have read that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome.
When was the last time that Senator Reid produced an outcome similar to his initial, stated position? An initial, stated position that you folks found so attractive.
Posted by Bagley at September 12, 2007 05:49 PMJames Comey would be fine as AG. Olson is more of the same. The simple fact is that Bush/Cheney do not want a principled AG, it will lead to nothing but trouble for them.
I think the dems made a mistake not starting impeachment proceedings against Gonzales. He deserved it and the rest of the Bush/Cheney gang need to consider the possibility of sworn testimony, subpoenas etc.
Posted by angel at September 12, 2007 06:44 PMOh please tell me actually called Olson a "miserable cretin." It would make my day.
:-)
Posted by Ellie at September 12, 2007 07:00 PMReid called him a miserable cretin, that is ... though Steve calling Olson that is pretty smile-making too. :-D
Posted by Ellie at September 12, 2007 07:02 PMOff topic:
Seven, two out of the seven troops that wrote the op-ed in the NYTimes were killed in Iraq. The Pentagon released their names on Monday.
Sorry dude.
Posted by peter at September 12, 2007 07:12 PMOff topic:
Seven, two out of the seven troops that wrote the op-ed in the NYTimes were killed in Iraq. The Pentagon released their names on Monday.
Sorry dude.
Well...thanks... dude. I guess...?
But you're a GOP supporter of this fucking mess, so... can I blame you?
Sgt. Omar Mora and Sgt. Yance Gray died in a rollover vehicle accident after spending 14 months in Iraq. They were set to come home in Nov.
Another co-author of the Times Op-Ed, Staff Sgt. Jeremy Murphy, was shot in the head, he's supposed to live.
BTW, Mora was from the Houston area.
Some how your apology rings hollow with me, peter. Actions are much more believable.
Posted by Seven of Six at September 12, 2007 07:43 PM
I have read that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome.
Why are we still in Iraq again?
Posted by Seven of Six at September 12, 2007 07:48 PMWhat better way to honor Barbara Olson's memory on this 6th anniversary of Mini-rapture 9-11, than to replace a dedicated public servant like Bushie deGonzo with Bushie vonOlson.
Posted by TIKI AL at September 12, 2007 07:59 PMIf the dems had their shit together like Rove (alas), Ted Olson would be a household name and political plutonium.
How come the fascists can smear honorable people with complete ease and effectiveness, and our side can't even slightly call to account the biggest and most demonstrably venal, hypocritical, and criminal rogues' gallery in history?
Posted by Sharkbabe at September 12, 2007 08:49 PMSharkbabe, I have had the same question. For example, how could the rightwingers turn John Kerry's Silver Star and three Purple Hearts into a bad thing when GWB used his father's influence to get into the National Guard and avoid any combat duty at all. Amazing! Simply amazing how utterly stupid and easily duped the American people are!
Posted by PretzelsOne at September 12, 2007 09:01 PMtwo out of the seven troops that wrote the op-ed in the NYTimes were killed in Iraq. The Pentagon released their names on Monday.
Sorry dude.
What in the fuck is this supposed to mean?
Posted by Sharkbabe at September 12, 2007 09:07 PMWhat in the fuck is this supposed to mean?
Sharkbabe, I truly think it's a futile attempt of being sincere, however impotent.
Posted by Seven of Six at September 12, 2007 09:16 PMHow come the fascists can smear honorable people with complete ease and effectiveness, and our side can't even slightly call to account the biggest and most demonstrably venal, hypocritical, and criminal rogues' gallery in history?
Because the corporate media is incompetent at best and complicit at worse.
Posted by herbal tee at September 12, 2007 09:17 PMSorry dude.
The republi-cons have always celebrated the deaths of those they don't agree with.
Posted by phidipides at September 12, 2007 10:11 PMSharkbabe, if Dems showed a fraction of zeal going after the hard right wing Rethuggernaut as they do in cutting down shrill, out in front liberal groups like MoveOn and Code Pink, maybe we'd have something resembling a fair fight.
As it stands, mainstream chickenshit Dems let the Swift Boat Smear n'Run mudslingers ride the wake by pre-beating dissenters that the RW then pick off like shooting rusty cans on a fence.
That's some strategery.
The latest example of this outside congress is the blogosphere's swarm of MoveOn's Petraeus ad -- really, who gives a shit about one ad, and why underscore the massively more powerful Wurlitzer?
CF also pathetic phony liberal media like the Daily Show's/ Jon Salad Tosser Stewart's self-flattering "moderate" stance on his guests. For inexplicable reasons, he sanitizes right wing warmongers and thugs (Bill Kristol, Tom DeLay and batshit insane RW hagiographers) for mainstream re-acceptance, but heaps disproportionate disdain on minor, yet vocal, liberal dissent (MoveOn and CodePink) as if they're "half" the problem.
The liberals he dumps on no more have HALF the say in directing events than Dems do, but Stewart ossifies the CW fiction that "everyone", particularly Liberals rather than cooperative Dems, shares equally in the unprecedented culture of corruption spewed forth by the Bush-Cheney crime gang.
Ironically, Stewart's finger wag to Code Pink was called 'You're Not Helping' or something like that.
This phony "moderate" stance seeks only to avoid criticism or static, and to hang back on the misguided assumption that the worst admin in history will to leave the key taped under the Republican Palace mailbox when they lock up in Dec/2008.
It's not going to happen that way. The Dems are going to be left holding the bag and held responsible for years of criminality and the biggest military blunder in history.
It's a hands down, slam dunk GOP win unless Dems pin down who's responsible for this NOW.
Posted by Ellie at September 12, 2007 10:19 PMHerbal tee, the corporate media is after making money above all things. Where are our PR wizards who can gin up *effective* campaigns instead of the weak-tea "show up on the national mall and make dull but very overwrought speeches" crap we get now?
Why don't we have a "liar, liar, pants on fire" float follow Bush around to all his fundraising appearances? Why don't we risk getting laughed at and do the Jon Stewart thing and make some goddamn *fun* of the GOP?
Where's the walking Porta-Potty following Larry Craig around carrying a sign that says something like "Wide-Stance Toilets, Just for Republicans!"?
Where's the David Vitter lookalike wandering around in a diaper getting spanked by two women?
Where's the guy (or girl) wearing a mask of your favorite GOP Rep or Senator with cash spilling out of every conceivable pocket?
With this crew of cowards, I'll believe it when I see real action. Telling us he'll do everything in his power, when he didn't have the power to stop the wiretapping, isn't saying much at all.
Posted by Fr33d0m at September 12, 2007 10:48 PM"Seven, two out of the seven troops that wrote the op-ed in the NYTimes were killed in Iraq. The Pentagon released their names on Monday."
yet more AMERICAN blood on the hands of pants-pissing peter
totally agree with Chris W, mockery is a powerful tool (which is why the right-wing noise machine mocks Edwards for a $400 haircut)
Posted by at September 13, 2007 06:42 AM