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Hmmm...the latest Harris poll has President Bush at 29% approval.
Now would be a good time to put the "uniter not divider" decider in chief on teevee Monday to talk about that supremely uniting issue: immigration.
Anyone else getting that deck chair arranging feeling, too?
PS -- Still no new Fitz news. Promise I will update if I hear anything. Although I have begun to contemplate my Chris Matthews memorial voodoo doll...
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Fitz too and two!
Fitz me once and Fitz me twice and Fitz me once again . . .
He is supposedly talking immigration….yeah, riiiight.
Hindenburg!
Fitz today!!
Great timing Bushco. Now that less than 1/3 of the Americans trust the Preznit, he is going to take to the bully pulpit in an attempt to convince “the base” (which is english for Al Qaida) that a guest worker program is a good idea.
that request for prime-time night-time full-network half-hour by the Preznit certainly seems odd — I wonder what’s really up?
“Things are not always what they seem,
sour milk masquerades as cream…”
why do I have the feeling we may have Iran news this weekend …
’spose Fitz snuck in the back door?
The ship may be sinking but they got their tax cuts.
No matter weak Bush appears he keeps getting what he wants. So who wins?
People seem to be celebratory about Fitz, NSA revelations, etc but our country is dead. I definitely don’t feel like celebrating. There is no saving America.
We need to destroy America in order to save it. Grab yer pitchforks.
I prefer this picture . . .
http://science.nasa.gov/headli.....enberg.jpg
good one Christy ! I had a mini spew of my first cup when I saw the news this morning - President ‘Snoop’ Druggy Drunk needs his base something fierce - yet those in the know (try Charlie Cook) seem to think the issue of immigration was the tipping point for any of the last remaining sane so called conservatives
I’m sorry Karl, what was that you said about lifeboats ?
That’s the feeling I got with his emergency presser yesterday… I swear I thought he was gonna pull out the old “major combat operations” thing we have heard before wrt Iran, siun. Could be…
I thought this was a good question from the prior thread:
“xyz says:
May 12th, 2006 at 7:34 am
Okay, it is now 10:30 and the GJ usually starts around 9:30 (so I understand from people here at FDL).
Does that indicate or suggest that it is likely that nothing is happening today w/r/t indictments?
Thanks.”
Definitely getting that feeling. The conservatives I know are posting things like “Chung visited Clinton 49 times!” “Pelosi will ban your guns!”
LOL!~
That’s all they got. Fear and…fear.
EPU’d. May I ask indulgence to repost? I hate to leave people with the impression that I am some kind of troll, as FDL means alot to me, and I thought if folks here knew a little bit about me, they may change their minds. Here goes:
Once again, I was offering a supposition that Fitz could never get at the truth because of lies.
cbl @70- I am a paralegal working exclusively on issues arising out of domestic violence, and have participated in any number of cases that put away child molesters. They all lie (with extremely rare exception)but medical reports don’t lie. I take a backseat to no one on that score.
As for a couple of comments that I am “running scared.â€
You damn right I’m scared. I’m scared the gov’t was listening to a conversation I had with my sister the other day in which she divulged to me some very personal information. I’m scared political dissidents will end up in concentration camps. I’m scared this country is not becoming a dictatorship, but already is one.
But as for running? Hell naw, I won’t go. I live in a town just ten miles north of Mobile, Alabama, a town more full of Bushbots you are never likely to find, and have been a vociferously vocal anti-Bush critic since he first came on the national scene. Everybody in this town who knows me or has come into contact with me knows how I feel. Hell, people who have never even seen me know how I feel, due to the “Impeach!†“No Blood for Oil†and strikethrough “W†bumper stickers on my car. I have had my windshield busted and tires slashed.I’ve been called an atheist (not) a communist (not) a socialist (well, maybe)and a terrorist sympathizer (not) and none of it in a nice way.
Now, people sometimes come up to me and tell me they wished they had listened to me during the ‘04 election, when I was registering everyone in sight and speechifying at the drop of a hat.
I take a backseat to no one on standing up, either.
The press advisory for Libby went up about 10 a.m. last time, so we’re already an hour and a half beyond that — don’t think I need to chill the champaign for today.
and just why do gun nuts assume that those gun background checks are discarded as required by law? Wouldn’t it be useful in a post-9/11 world to know if terrorists are buying guns after getting telephone calls? Just askin’ …
OT but relevant: An excerpt from Michelle Goldberg’s new book Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism is posted over at Salon. Worth a slip through the non-subscriber ad filter.
Rick at 18 — I keep champagne in our fridge at the ready. I figure you never know, and it pays to be prepared. *g*
I hope so. I have yet to talk to anyone today who really cares about the datamining. They figure they don’t have anything to hide, so… I find it very depressing. Someone actually said well if it will help get the terrorist..
siun, imo the first 24 hours after the Rove indictment will be the most important wrt Bushwacking Iran. I suspect Rove/Bush/Cheney would want to use such an unlawful strike to control the news cycle. If we can get through the first 24 hours after the Rove indictment without any cruise missle attacks, I might take a breath or two.
OT OldCoastie, thanks for your response prior thread.
While we are waiting on word regarding the Rove Grand Jury….
http://tinyurl.com/a6erq
^^^ Help Impeach Today ;)
Keep the pressure on Congress… Talking about impeachment wakes people up… They question, it’s a strong motivator to get people thinking. It also lets Congress know how intense the dissapproval is for this President… They seem to be a little slow on the uptake. So please:
1) Sign petitions if you have not done so
2) Send a letter to Congress (both Senators & House rep)
3) Send a copy to the media
4) Enlist friends and family to help, ask them to chip in time
5) Spread the link around, email it (with a request to forward) post it on a blog, or in the comments of a news story.
Help out!!!
Thanks :)
wrt to Snow’s first gaggle and in the category of things that makes you go hmmmmmmmmm.
>>>>
One of his first announcements was to further postpone his first on-camera briefing. Expected to be on Monday, Snow said it has been moved back to Tuesday.
And why not?
His boss is giving a speech to the nation Monday night.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200...../tony_snow
hee hee i took part in that poll!
Kerry on Cspan2 giving a speech– good so far.
Sunny #17 - I’m with you on the concentration camp worries. It doesn’t take much of a tin hat when Halliburton already has a contract for nearly $.5B to build them here.
Christy at 21,
Doesn’t everyone? (to clarify, I have a bottle of Sauternes and a bottle of champagne in the fridge …just in case) *g*
C&L has posted a memo from all nine Dem members of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, to other Dems, regarding the NSA programs. Comply with FISA; get a warrant.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/
Peace to Sunny @17
Here is a question I would like to see the pollsters ask about spying on domestic telephone calls.
“President Bush says that it helps prevent terrorist attacks if the government analyzes the records of your telephone calls. Do you believe the President?”
Rove’s pushback on USAT is another act of genius. By having ABC run the poll yesterday, before even the afternoon shows had the chance to weigh in, and carefully wording the poll questions, ABC managed to get a 2:1 ratio that Americans weren’t that concerned about Telecom data mining. So now the weekend warriors will have their talking point in hand that America prefers security (just like Bush advocates) over civil rights. Evil genius.
THIS IS NOT A ‘GLITCH’ OR A FLAW, IT IS A DELIBERATE HOLE LEFT IN THE VOTING SOFTWARE TO ALLOW IT TO BE EASILY HACKED.
Bush stole 2 elections and the Rethugs have been stealing Cong elections since 2000. You watch, they will win big in November and EVERYONE (except me) will wonder why.
STORY:
Experts see new Diebold flaw
They call it worst security glitch to date in state’s voting machines and a ‘big deal’
http://www.baltimoresun.com/ne.....-headlines
Computer security experts say they have found the worst security flaw yet in the oft-criticized touch-screen machines that Maryland voters will use in this year’s elections, leaving one computer scientist to warn that the state should have “stacks of paper ballots” on hand in case of a complete Election Day breakdown.
The machines, made by Diebold Elections Systems, are “much, much easier to attack than anything we’ve previously said,” said Avi Rubin, a Johns Hopkins University computer science professor who first cast doubt on the reliability of the technology in a 2003 report.
“On a scale of one to 10, if the problems we found before were a six, this is a 10. It’s a totally different ballgame,” he said.
The new problem is being described as an intentional hole left in the system to allow elections workers to update voting software easily. Instead of using pass codes or other security protocols, anyone with access to a voting machine could install new software that could easily disable a precinct full of machines, Rubin said.
FOLLOW LINK TO READ REST OF STORY.
Also check out:
www.whatreallyhappened.com
Has anyone given any thought to the ieda that everything this administration has done is focused on one thing, creating a dictator?
Without the “War” the Shrubs claims of presidental power could not have been made, sooo working back from that what if everything that has happened was conceived by The Schrub and Company to bring about his new superpowers?
And the Democrats are just as guilty as the Republicians, cuz they were right there handing war powers to him for what was truly a criminal offence.
We are such a bright people, so I guess we get what we deserve in the end. Bring on the bread and circuses
beard5 at 29, I’ve been keeping a sixpack of caffeine free diet coke ready in my fridge for 2 years.
oh my goodness Sunny, my apologies if it sounded like you were being accused of being ‘okay with’ molestation - was just making my usual response to those who dismiss obsstruction and perjury as ‘technicalities’. We in Texas have the misfortune of being represented in the Senate by one of those idiots AND as a Texan can relate to being surrounded by now recovering Bushbots
Kerry is ripping the admin for Katrina non recovery and neglect and abuse, fyi.
Off Topic, but curious. I wonder if this NSA was ongoing when that guy (forget exactly, a programmer w/McDermott name?) around Boston a few years back. Christmas eve timeframe. Had a shotgun stashed at his desk or something. Thing is, the ‘official’ story is he got a ‘bad’ phone call that was never really fully described; hung up phone and started the bangbang biz. Being a grassy knoll dweller, that gave me Manchurain style goosebumps, if ya know what I mean? Wonder if a FOIA request might reveal the other end of that call. Just ruminating while hoping for some Fitzinating…
Talk Left has the May 5 transcript
Just got in. Is it Fitzmas Day?
Me3 — have you noticed any change in rate of petition signatures in the last 24 hours?
sunny (#17):
you’re ok, babe. we’re cool with you.
Sunny,
I welcome you. I live in a fairly conservative area of Ohio, about 60 miles from that idiot Parsely’s megachurch. So I hear a lot of bushbot talk. I can go up to a person I’ve always thought was nice and reasonable, express a reasoned opinion about Bush and have them say, “You’re nothing but a Bushbasher!”
The picture says it all. Let’s hope that the ’ship’ goes down with all hands.
My goal has shifted from just Fighting Back! To doing whatever is required to see BushCo in jail. Yep, the chokey is the place for all of them.
Let’s send them there.
Angie-at 27, thanks for the alert. Have it on now. Good speech so far.
BobbyG at 40 — no so far as we’ve heard yet. But we are keeping an ear to the ground.
Christy, when I was in grad school in Philly, my wife and I were in a wineclub, where the finest thing we learned was that you shouldn’t deny yourself champagne (or sparkling wine). Drink it at any and all times, not just special occasions.
It was a great club, met at Jack’s Firehouse (which has awesome food), and was really the anti-snobby wineclub. We learned a lot, and drank some awesome wines. I can say that I have had a 1500$ bottle of wine.
big hug your way, sunny. I’ll admit I am scared too. ;(
Anyone hear anything about Katherine Harris–Republicans have until noon to join her on the butterfly ballots….
EPU’d.
Larry King Live tonight:
“America’s most outrageous talk radio stars speak out on everything from the NSA spying story to the immigration debate.â€
The TV ad showed Randi Rhodes and Ed Schultz and I don’t know who else, but should be good.
Last time they were on the show, Randi and Ed were great - blew the socks off of whoever the rightwing hosts were. And the callers were overwhelmingly pro-Randi and Ed’s position. Good way to get the truth out there to the ignorant masses.
BobbyG-That was fast. How was the shoe search?
DJ at 47 — Oooh, LUV Jack’s Firehouse. I served up food to the troops when they came back from the first Gulf War and Philly had that big parade thanking them in 1990. Worked at the Irish Pub on 20th and Walnut and went down on the restaurant’s behalf to help out with food service. The Jack’s Firehouse crew had made huge quantities of paella, and it was really fantastic stuff. Spent the entire day, getting sunburned and hanging out with Jack and the crew, and had a blast. Good memories — thanks, DJ.
No Rove-march until next Friday.
Obfuscatocracy is that a word ?
Did you know….
Bush has not had a PRIME-TIME NewsConference since April 13, 2004….
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news.....13-20.html
Think about it…
Its been more than two years since he faced questioning at a time that most Americans are able to tune in to…TWO freakin YEARS!!!!!
Since that time
- we have had a Presidential election
- almost 2000 troops have died
- Katrina occured
- Wiretapping scandal
- Rove/Libby indictments
- Energy prices out of control
- Medicare program in shambles
- acts of global terrorism have increased tremendously
It is beyond belief the media has not called him on this…..
This man and his administration are bullying COWARDS!!!!!!!….
They can only bring Bush out to speak with the media during the day when no one is home and when no one is really paying attention…
pathetic
We need David Neiwert from Orcinus to post on this, maybe:
http://www.oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm
the 14 points of fascism. I hate that it rings so many bells.
They should absolutely get Bush on teevee, to talk as long as possible about immigration, data mining, the deficit, Iraq, Katrina, Social Security privatization, corruption, port security, pre-emptive nuclear strikes, the Constitution, absolute Executive authority, signing statements and whatever else needs to be addressed.
There is no heavier boat anchor to drag his numbers down than him opening his mouth.
Sunny @ 17…I don’t think you came off as a troll at all…Chalk it up as a mis-understanding…As far as the timing of indictments go, it looks to me (non-lawyer that I am) like this Plame investigation is going to take another 4 years or so until the last perp is nailed…Sounds crazy but I’m betting George W. Bush eventually goes to jail.
http://thismodernworld.com/2887
While Bush’s approval rating is still a bit higher than Nixon’s at a comparable point, his disapproval rating now exceeds or equals that of Nixon’s in every Gallup poll except one. This sole exception is the final poll in July, 1974 just before Nixon left office, when Nixon’s disapproval rating was a single point higher at 66%.
brick status = SHAT
good techie article here.
It’s not a question of ‘phone records’, it’s a question of creating a detailed personal profile of every single citizen in the entire fucking country.
I just don’t buy the ‘people just don’t care’ bullshit polls being pushed. Even the bushbots in my neck of the woods don’t like the idea of cops sticking their noses in their business. If they ever get the correct idea that this is exactly what’s going on here, then look out. There is no bottom for the chimpster.
Blank Kludge,
Mucko McDermott, I believe. I never knew what was the tipping point for him, but. I think that he was wound up already….I thought some of his problems were financial…I thought it was a collection agency or something to that effect.
My high school buddy’s wife used to be a nurse at Cedar Junction—the worst of the worst for Mass.–she used to have to give that big homcidal gorilla his medical check-ups.
She quit that job…..much to my buddies happiness.
-GSD
For some reason its a little too quiet. Everyones holding thier breath. 29% approval and an indicted Rove. Indicted Fletcher. Democrats takeover all but certain in Nov.
You can bet the ranch all hells about to break lose sooner rather than later. Thats just how these folks work. Distraction is the pulse on which fuels the World Famous Karl Rove Magic Show. Unka Karl got secret knowledge and the Colonels super secret 29 herb recipe.
ANd if you have Cingular, and havent already called to tell them to go fuck themselves for whoring our phone records, you should probably do so.
everhopeful @ 50
“blew the socks off of whoever the rightwing hosts “
Hugh “Ground Zero” Hewlett - can be beaten with one synapse tied behind your back
My husband keeps telling me the same thing #11 said, “Bush is getting what he wants”. He and his friends are making a lot of money. They have their voting machines in place. They own the media. Gas will come down before the election because of what he did. Our public education system will be ruined and on and on.
He is not a failure,he is accomlishing his goals.We must understand this in order to fight
and win.
DJ DrZ -
Love your calculus observations on your link site. LOL!!
My wife and I are in a wine club too here in Vegas (Lee’s). I go to these huge tasting events (UNLVino, Splendor in the Glass), drink too much, and always seem to come home with these expensive charity auction item artworks.
Yes, champagne, it’s not just for breakfast any more.
blue eyes at 40 — yep — I’m reading it right now. Good stuff. Should have a post up on it later.
CNN had a poll up earlier asking if people thought the NSA database was creepy or not (I forget the positive term they were using). It was running 2 to 1 for creepy.
One of my friends was wondering if it includes cell and VOIP calls. (It’s my understanding that the more competent terrorists will use disposable cells as being harder to trace.)
I actually hope Fitzmas is postponed at least a week. This NSA story has some serious legs, let’s let it fester for a while, get people riled up. Then add the left hook of a Rove frog march.
Lotta comments over at the WaPo criticizing Richard Morin for polling the latest on NSA spying so quickly, before people had a chance to digest the information. Evidently we aren’t the only one’s who Morin didn’t poll.
ccmask says:
May 12th, 2006 at 8:46 am
…How was the shoe search?
____
Hi. Refresh my memory. I’m havin’ a Senior Moment…
Champagne needn’t be kept in the fridge (I don’t think long term refrigeration benefits it). It can be quickly chilled in an ice bucket at nearly a moment’s notice.
UNREAL! MSNBC under the heading “What’s wrong with Washington?”.. talking with Lawrence O’Donnel about THE WEST WING…good idea…
let’s talk about a fictional presidency while Wasihgton burns.
“Lotta comments over at the WaPo” I should have stipulated, today’s regularly scheduled “online political chat,” not their blog.
Me3 — have you noticed any change in rate of petition signatures in the last 24 hours?
Nearly 4x the previous average rate. It started to pick up actually the day before yesterday (I noticed) - But in the last 36 hours or or… About 4x the previous average rate of petition signers.
Munson at 61:
Good article. It shows that this is more than just collecting numbers called or a regex search of “terrorist” keywords in conversations. When has this administration ever limited the scope of its evil? When has it ever told the truth?
The Titanic has hit the iceberg and is sinking, yet all the repugs keep buying tickets?
Sunny–
Re: not being able to get at the truth because Libby, Rove etc. are lying….
I like to look at it this way: That is exactly WHY Fitz will get at the truth, because they lied. And they will be under very heavy penalty for doing so, and they’ll flip, or others with similar knowledge will flip and the truth will out.
I’m a glass half full person….;-)
lib4 @ 55 –
Bush is going to have a press conference? I thought the Monday Night thingy was a speech. A presser would be suiciderating!!!
ccmak @ 49 –
I’ve thought Jeb was going to get into the Florida Senate Race at the last minute. But with Cruella holding the ace cards on the Stolen Election Criminal Conspiracy, Jebby might just have deciderated to take a job with a Nigerian pump exporter or something.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmp.....nterview_1
Most likely, there will be a “tidal wave” that propels Democrats into the majority, said Murtha. He predicts Democrats will gain 40-50 seats — well more than the 15 needed for the party to gain control.
citizensue @ 73 — and did ya notice Tweety was wearing a brand new suit ? (can’t help it, I’m married to a suit diva)
champagne ….naaa, prosecco here …often!
lib4 - that press conference in ‘04 was perhaps the most bizarre performance W ever gave and I was stunned that the media then said it was great - he was clearly heavily drugged, incoherent much of the time (I mean incoherent for him) and it was truly frightening to watch though moreso when the press folks ignored all that.
CBL: Ohh baby… and me in my second hand Ebay threads.
Is anyone else starting to think that the “Rove may be indicted today” rumor was just to try to distract from the NSA phone scandal? The CNN poll was also a little too convenient for my tastes. And I don’t put much stock in it. An overwhelming majority of Americans are willing to sacrifice other people’s civil liberties at the altar of national security. But I’ll bet that they’re much less willing to sacrifice their own civil liberties. Once people realize that the Administration is spying on ordinary Americans, this program is going to implode.
Oh. My. God. Monday night’s topic? Our worst fears appear ever more likely: Raw Story:
Me3 — thanks; 4X is significant. Would be interesting to know which issues attract the most signing? Do the hosts track reasons?
Monday Speech will be on Immigration — might as well be on puppies and kittens.
GSD
Thanks. Yep, that’s the guy. Right, the call was supposed to be finance related. I’ve still got questions, but the one before us is Fitz.
siun @ 82
In our house we refer to it as The Nyquil Press Conference
don’t know whether it’s my system or not, but refresh is awfully slow for only 90 comments - have been thinking we should have some kind of contingency plan for Rover indictment, regardless of when it happens - have been worried the site traffic could shut the Goddesses down - should I go over to blogger and set something up ?
*54% of Kentuckians want Fletcher to resign.
*Gov. Ed Rendell(D-PA) is now leading Swann by 22% in the latest poll.
*Mike Beebe(D-Arkansas) is leading Asa-hole Hutchinson by 11% points for Gov.
*Gov. Pataki(R-NY) is at 30% approval in latest polls.
*W. Virgina Robert Byrd(D) leading Caputo(R) by 23%.
*Elliot Spitzer is ahead of Republican rivals by the 30 to 40 percent.
*Harold Ford(D-Tenn) is looking weak.
-GSD
talk about dictatorship: bush motorcade pointing rifles at protestors:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo.....8012/38216
Um, wasn’t his last prime time address right after Katrina? I think it was much more recently than 2004. I can’t imagine that he’s going to talk about immigration, though. It’s a little early for the Iran strike–that’ll be June at the earliest.
If Rove is indicted that will be the day that the Hindenberg crashes into the Titanic.
-GSD
Frank: “…An overwhelming majority of Americans are willing to sacrifice other people’s civil liberties at the altar of national security…”
Exact-a-mundo. “Privacy” is that which we value most highly for OURSELVES and that upon which we cast aspersions (“what have you to hide?”) when asserted by OTHERS.
lib4 @ 55 –
Bush is going to have a press conference? I thought the Monday Night thingy was a speech. A presser would be suiciderating!!!
Yes I believe it is just a Speech with NO QUESTIONS allowed…that was my original point….even after this “change the subject speech” (Rove, NSA, etc)
Bush will still have gone over two years without a primetime newsconference……
Re today’s picture: that boat is full of those wealthiest passengers for whom the Senate just voted the largest benefits from tax cut extensions.
I read somewhere earlier that the particular bills were not subject to filibuster, but it did not explain why. Apparently, there was no attempted fili- and the vote was described in NYT this a.m. as “largely along partisan lines.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05.....r=homepage
Can’t find who among Dems voted “for.”
The Post/ABC poll misses the point, which is whether or not the administration has conducted this program legally. You might be able to find 66% of people who think child molesters should be shot on sight, but that doesn’t mean that someone who takes that action hasn’t broken the law, and wouldn’t have to face the consequences. Why is this so hard for the media to frame? I have no doubt we’ll hear the Brit Humes and the Wolf Blitzers blathering on about “what most Americans think,†and none of them will address whether or not the program is legal.
You also won’t hear enough conversation about why we should trust that the program is legal just because Bush and Hayden and Pat Roberts and others say so, or why we should trust that anyone has been completely briefed on what is going on at NSA. Those who were briefed can’t say whether or not they knew about this collection of data, and no one will come before any committee and tell the truth.
I also would like to hear a discussion about what happens after the NSA computers identify a pattern of calls that seem suspicious, and how they know it is suspicious if they don’t know the identity of the person making the call or the person receiving the call. Are they going to court to obtain that next level of information? And if not, why not?
Seems to me there’s a lot of questions that aren’t being asked, no answers for the ones that are being asked, and for the life of me I do not understand why – if these questions are apparent to us – why the media seem to be deaf, dumb and blind to them.
FWIW, I think analyzing and trending the “strong disapproval” numbers might be very revealing. These are voters with enough conviction that the GOP won’t be getting them - or getting them back - for years. If this group becomes sufficiently large and/or is composed just right, you’ll see an ‘08 race with both major candidates essentially running against Bush (unless the Dem nominee is Hillary, in which case the Dem will be pro-Bush and the Rep will be anti-Bush).
BobbyG-Didn’t you just take a trip to the airport. Airport=shoe search. Or am I confused today…They put me on collections today here at work–I hate calling customers and asking them to pay up…
Marco!
tom chicago 91 -
They gotta get pics of that kind of stuff, or no one will believe it.
scarecrow - I believe I read that these kinds of bills, if under a certain dollar amount, can be passed by a simple majority. That’s why they broke the tax cut bill into parts, so that the bills would be guaranteed passage.
“Iceberg straight ahead.”
When Bush has lost Mel Gibson, it is looking pretty grim for him.
Gibson decries Bush’s “fear mongering”.
http://www.pr-inside.com/gibso.....-r4937.htm
-GSD
Sorry - prior link to Raw Story didn’t work. More from Larissa’s article:
scarecrow here you go:
>>>>>
The Senate passed the bill 54 to 44. The only Democrats to vote for it were Senators Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Bill Nelson of Florida, and Mark L. Pryor of Arkansas. The only Republican ”no” votes were cast by Senators Lincoln D. Chafee of Rhode Island, Olympia J. Snowe of Maine, and George V. Voinovich of Ohio.
http://www.boston.com/news/nat.....b_tax_cut/
Bush doesn’t pay attention to polls but then again most dictators don’t. JARs in the 20s is a serious paranoia zone, though, where the bunker mentality is the norm. As with the Hayden nomination, tax cuts, Iraq, they will push forward because they are afraid of what might be coming up from behind. Expect no zigs, no zags, no compromises, these guys are all in and going for broke. The Administration is going into collapse and their last concern is how that may affect you or me.
scarecrow @ 96
anyone have a bill # for the measure passed yesterday ?
ccmask -
Yeah. I’ve not had the full pat-down search in a while, though I always gotta lose the shoes, lose the belt, the watch, etc. It’s funny; it’s usually the smaller, less busy airports where these TSA employees take themelves SO seriously. At McCarran (Vegas) they don’t have time.
Enduring Peace @85 - don’t get too excited about that report yet - right now, the aircraft carriers are all on their normal deployments. Moving all those carriers groups into the Gulf is typically proceeded by a lot of hyperactivity by the Navy and I’m not hearing any of that.
Me3 @ 80 –
What Murtha said is exactly right — the Democrats need to stand up and say they are going to kick some GOP ass in November.
Whether they do or don’t doesn’t matter; we’ll know the day after the election. But they need to STOP being such hand wringing nervous Nellies.
Nothing gets the respect of Joe LunchBox and the NASCAR crowd like Toughness — they don’t have to agree with you on the issues, but weasel words and backing down from a fight will turn them off quicker than anything. (see Kerry, John)
Interesting headline from Raw Story - not sure what it means:
Exclusive: New book suggests Libby’s relationship with
reporters spared him Plame coverage… Developing…
GSD
and Mel is doing a series about the Iraq war, too.
http://today.reuters.com/news/.....ived=False
Frank #92 - Yes, a bit early to launch the Iranian attack, but a perfect time to rattle the sabers more dramatically.
I think the preznit is doing a hell of a job protecting us from the #1 threat facing the US of A: gay illegal aliens coming to the US to take our guns!
Anne — thanks — the total tax cuts are $70 billions! If you’re right, that’s an interesting threshold, or as Everett Dirksen would have said, “a [b]illion here, a [b]illion there, and pretty soon, you’re talking about real money.”
angie — thanks for the Globe article on who voted which way — ironic, I’m sitting here in Cambridge, but always read the NYT first and the Globe later. Are you in MA?
cbl says: “…should I go over to blogger and set something up?”
May 12th, 2006 at 9:04 am
If you do, please let us know where it is.
scarecrow– right next door in NH.
Chris Mathews is the one lone source that said the GJ is meeting today. He made one brief mention of it yesterday with no attribution to sources or anything. I think Jane is right, he was guessing (and wrong).
Quickly, before I get sucked into the fever swamp:
I just have to say that the Post “poll” on NSA domestic spying wins todays’ “biggest crock of shit” award.
Utterly, utterly meaningless—I would love to know who commissioned it (Toni Snow, determined to be proactive?), how the questions were phrased, the methodology (robo-calls? push questions?) And when was it was conducted? Five hours after the story broke? Three? And consequently, does the poll mention the level of awareness of the issue when asked about it? Odd–it doesn’t. How unlike the Post. And didn’t I read somewhere that the author of the article has steadfastly refused to even poll on the question of impeachment?
Like a witch stirring her cauldron, Richard Morin peers into his bubbling crock of dung and tells us what he sees. Thanks, but the 5-lb wart on your nose tells me everything I need to know.
We had a cross to the states from Oztrailya where some MSM suit said that 75% of Merkins were in favour of this spyin’ bizness.
I was thinkin’ in that case then all public servants above 25% base pay shouldn’t mind having live webcams placed around their houses. ‘ Nothin to hide - nothin’ to fear’ right?
One of those cunning linky deals like Hillys payrise trick could do it. Talk