Don't forget the GOP Message of the Week:
If you vote against Joe Lieberman and for Ned Lamont, you'll be giving support to Al Qaeda and actually be siding with the terrorists. (Joe(I) agrees with this formulation, BTW)
And if you vote for any Democrat after the primary defeat of Joe Lieberman, you'll be giving support to Al Qaeda and be siding with the terrorists.
This message comes from the highest levels of the Republican leadership.
Posted by euzoius at August 12, 2006 06:04 AMThis sure sounds like a possible Rove trick.
Update: Was Lieberman's E-mail Really Down?
Here's something curious, first pointed out by the blog run by the campaign for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Ned Lamont: Despite claims from Sen. Joe Lieberman's (D-CT) re-election campaign that on Monday a hacker brought down their Web site and email service, they managed to send out on Tuesday morning a mass e-mail invitation for a Lieberman "victory" party later that day.Until just recently, Lieberman's Web site carried a statement posted Tuesday quoting since-fired campaign manager Sean Smith saying, "For the past 24 hours the Friends for Joe Lieberman's website and e-mail has been totally disrupted and disabled [and] we believe that this is the result of a coordinated attack by our political opponents." The downed e-mail was confirmed by the campaign's internet consultant.A sheepish note: we received a copy of the email Lamont's blog cites, but didn't bother to check it until we saw that post. But what do you know, plain as day -- the email was sent from the "joe2006.com" domain, which was purportedly down; it's dated Tuesday morning, when the service was supposedly unavailable; and it was sent by Sean "our e-mail is totally disrupted" Smith. Take a look:
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001325.php
Posted by Judith at August 12, 2006 06:12 AMI put this in yesterday's dead open thread so here again:
The Pukes and LieBaby have been in cahoots for a long while now.
Posted by Sharon at August 12, 2006 06:13 AMSharon, I think we were right all along on this Blog. Lieberman is and has been a traitor to the Party. With 79% of the Democrats saying they are glad he lost the election, if I were Joe I would hang it up. He will not win as an Independent with those percentages.
Posted by Judith at August 12, 2006 06:37 AMIs George losing popular support again?
He had it to begin with???
Posted by Christopher at August 12, 2006 06:52 AMJust for record...Joe is not running as a member of the Independent party. No, Sore Loserman created a new political party just for the upcoming election. It's called Connecticut for Lieberman party or CTFL or CFL party. (With a name like that, think the guy's ego is suffering,err not so much).
Anyway, the beauty of it is, he is the only member of that party running for political office, and is the only member of the party too...it's essentially a party of one. But some people on the dailykos were mocking it and came up with what I thought was a great idea. Someone wrote a diary announcing s/he was planning on running for the office of president from that party . Here's a dkos link (it's not a long dairy). Make sure to read some of the comments if you can too.
Posted by emal at August 12, 2006 07:17 AM"Anyway, the beauty of it is, he is the only member of that party running for political office, and is the only member of the party too"
Emal, is that like Harris's debate of one, herself?
Posted by Judith at August 12, 2006 07:27 AMJudith...good one.
Btw, do you know if Harris won that debate with herself?
You have got to be f*cking kidding me.
Lamont…Is The al Qaeda Candidate?’
CNN Headline News, anchor Chuck Roberts discussed the impact of the foiled British terror plot with Hotline senior editor John Mercurio. Roberts asked Mercurio, “How does this factor into the Lieberman/Lamont contest? And might some argue, as some have, that Lamont is the al Qaeda candidate?”
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/11/headline-news-lamont/
"Btw, do you know if Harris won that debate with herself?"
Email, no. CNN is reporting that she didn't know anything about the debate issues, and therefore, was unable to debate herself.
Finally, with the collective air of discontent swirling around (as should have been, and for a long time already), methink that finding a campaign slogan ought to be rather easy. For instance,
Bush started two wars
We are losing them
Or,
No Osama. No WMD’s
Yes casualties. Yes debt
My heart is with America the Beautiful and its many, many wonderful constituents. My heart is also with our entire, Beautiful World and its many, many wonderful constituents. The need to change the reigning polluted air of discontent to a clean breeze of contentment is obvious to the most casual observer. I wish us, all, the beautiful chance to breathe a sigh of respite…
PAZ
Our local Channel 12 did an intersting thing after the LiquidBombers were caught. They spent 12 min air time going back 2 weeks to all of GW's public appearances & speeches and tied his wording into the British plot. It became a great juxtiposition of what GW knew, how he framed his wording, waited for his Lieberman moment and then with the clash of the Bush cymbols crowed I told you so when the Brits caught the bad guys. Of course quietly re-routing the $6 million from the DHS budget and continuing his BBQ adventures in Midland gives away his real priorities for his country.
Posted by mainsailset at August 12, 2006 08:03 AMThe MSM is having difficulty putting the Mad King's, idiot son of George Bush, spin on this whole thing. Essentially, they have say anyone who doesn't support the republi-con and neo-con agenda are terrorists. So Ma and Pa mainstreet America are being called terrorists. This is not going to go down well in Jesus-istan America.
Re: Lebanon/Israel. Hezbollah agrees to the cease-fire, but only if Israel leaves first. It's in the Israeli ball court, and I don't think they have the stomach for this conflict/war to continue. The French end-run around the idiots at Buschco looks like it has a chance to succeed. Thank god the French diplomats are still in play. Compared to the Bushco loons it's a pleasure to French diplomacy work.
Shorting airline stocks before the Terra plot was announced...the War on Terra is much more about corporate and personal enrichment than protecting anyone. That a group would reap the rewards of the possibility of death is not surprising. Just let me know when neo-cons stop running Homeland Security. Things will get better from that point forward.
Posted by phidipides at August 12, 2006 09:18 AMIncreasingly, Bush Escapes the Media Pack
Press Cuts Converge With Closed Events
On one of the scariest days yet in the five-year battle with terrorists, President Bush prepared to make a speech to reassure the American people. But the White House press corps was 1,000 miles away in Texas.
Bush had left his ranch vacation and jetted north for a scheduled closed-door fundraiser. No press plane accompanied him. And so when news broke that Britain had broken up a major terrorist plot, the only ones there to convey the president's reaction were a handful of local reporters and a few pool journalists who ride in the back of Air Force One.
The idea that Bush could travel across the country without a full contingent of reporters, especially in the middle of a war, highlights a major cultural shift in the presidency and the news media. In the four decades since the assassination of John F. Kennedy, presidents traditionally have taken journalists with them wherever they traveled on the theory that when it comes to the most powerful leader on the planet, anything can happen at any time. To read more, go to:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/11/AR2006081101834_pf.html
Well, as Eric Boehlert says in Lapdogs, Bush sees the press as something to be appeased, shunned, or discounted, basically. In Bush's arrogance, he never wanted a relationship with the press, a first I might add of a sitting president.
Posted by Judith at August 12, 2006 10:50 AMI've added a new feature to our comment windows: clicking on the link in a comment will open the link in a new window. I think it was benjoya who asked for this feature a couple of weeks ago.
Here's Judith's WaPo link from above. See how it works.
Posted by Mary at August 12, 2006 01:17 PMwhoaaaa, pretty slick, and a time saver!
these fabulous internets!
Posted by euzoius at August 12, 2006 02:36 PMMary,
thanks.
Sometimes my mouse doesn't give me options in this window so that's one thing I won't have worry about!