Fitz

Fitz Rootz!

damn 0pie99

Zero!

Murtha!

Jane, it’s going to tax your creativity to figure out how to say the same thing in a different way to all the like-minded DLCers, DSCCers, etc, who fit the same bill. I know you can do it, though!

Jane, you have posed the question that should be asked this election year of all Democrats: Are you a donkey, or are you something quite objectionable?

The question should be posed to all who claim to live in the big tent, but especially to those who rear ends may have gotten larded from too many Capitol Hill cocktail parties. (Mr. Schumer, another cocktail weenie?)

establishment vis-a-vis bloggers: like trying to stop tomorrow.
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Here’s an oldy but puerile take down of Crusader Wittman.

Wittmann calls himself the “Bull Moose,” and his blog, bullmooseblog.com, is one of two blogs funded and maintained by the Democratic Leadership Council. The other, as previously noted in this space, is the no-less-loathsome newdonkey.com, maintained by the noted corporate whore and windbag, Will Marshall.

A moose, and a donkey. The Democratic Leadership Council, it seems, is a place where soulless 50-year-old men can dress up in Garanimals and e-gloat about shooting our votes into space. It is really too bad the guillotine has gone out of style.

The rest of the article is definitely not for grown-ups.

Yeah I’d hold my breath for Marshall and the rest of these asses to work for the Democratic Party and to save our country….but I need to breath and it just ain’t gonna happen.
I was riding my motorcycle in to work this morning wondering, just what would it take for all of us blogging/progressive/Democratic mainstreamers to rise up and take over the committees in each and every county? Coordinated by our online presence. Working from a concise, coordinated, simple and progressive set of messages?

What if we just took over?

op99 - I have no doubts about Jane’s creativity. But maybe just to help her “marshall” her energy for future battles, she could do this one in a tele-conference to the recipients you noted, and then watch as all their mouths drop to the floor at the same time.

I’m sure the DLCers will rationalize that Lieberman isn’t leaving the party, but that the party is leaving him. After all, it’s just the lunatics and liberal terrorists who are causing trouble for him. I just hadn’t realized that so many people who lived in Connecticut were internet rabble not representative of “average” Americans.

It must be tough going through live clinging to your views to the point of self-deception. Then again, maybe not. So many seem to do it.

A few things-

First Whitman is a tool. No question.

However, his schtick has never been party unity. He’s a former Republican and worked with Ralph Reed, who became disillusioned by the GOPs corruption. He works at the DLC but I don’t think he even defines himself as a Democrat.

Also, I’m pretty sure he was never head of the DLC.

Here’s his bio from the DLC website-

Marshall Wittmann is a senior fellow at the Democratic Leadership Council. Previously, he was Director of Communications for Senator John McCain (R-AZ). Mr. Wittmann has served in various positions with the Hudson Institute, Heritage Foundation, Christian Coalition and in the administration of President George H. W. Bush.

Just posting this because accuracy on our side (even in snark) is critical.

op99 6 — we’ll just have to get creative. It’s a rather easy one, though. The “I don’t want to play any more so I’m taking my ball and go home” meme is awfully hard one to manage for someone who wants to sell themselves as a “leader” and “tough on terror.” I’ll be happy for us to play the role of the school yard bully in that little drama. As Digby says, we’re going to kick Lieberman’s ass, then we’ll kick Bush’s ass, then we’ll kick Osama Been Forgotten’s ass. Every time they want to crank up the volume button and scream that we’re a bit mean and ruthless I feel like I should be hitting a donation button somewhere.

I think it would be interesting if we called ourselves “The People” INSTEAD OF BLOGGERS it would better represent who we really are! Think about it. We are not a special interest group, we have no position or status to protect. We are just Americans who care about our country. We “The People” are speaking our minds and want OUR representatives to listen!

NPLC - The No Party Leadership Council. It really has a ring to it.

Jeebus, Joe Biden and Joe Lieberman he holds up as examples of ‘prinipled stalwarts’?Puh leeez.A freekin’ blowhard and a WATB in my opinion.

“Country before party” says the BullMoose, concluding his ÜberLecture. Just one question, Marshall: which country is it that Joe is sticking up for?

A country that detains its enemies, allowing no access to a legal system to help sort friend from foe?

A country that repudiates the Geneva Convention’s prohibition on torture?

A country that disregards its own constitutional prohibitions on searches and eavesdropping without properly obtained warrants granted by a court of law?

A country that smears the honorable military service records of any who dare express dissent?

A country whose leaders out a clandestine operative because her husband criticized the President’s state of the union address?

A country that engages in secret rendition of terror suspects, to keep our hands clean?

A country that turns its eyes from the preventable deaths of millions in Africa from AIDS, by refusing to fund condoms?

Please, Marshall, which country is Joe putting ahead of party?

Brava, Jane - great post, as always; the question needs to be asked of many others in the party, as well. And we should keep asking it until we get an answer, or we see proof that the lights have finally come on for these people.

I’m beginning to think that media and political consultants and other so-called “experts” should be the last to have “premium” membership status in the party.

Don’t'ya wonder if Biden loves being in this saddle?

To their credit, Joe Biden and Joe Lieberman are two additional high-profile Democrats who have put country before partisanship when it comes to foreign policy. Although Senator Biden has been strongly critical of Administration policy, the Moose was struck by his recent comments that he wishes for the President’s success in Iraq - because when he succeeds in foreign policy, America succeeds. That was a profoundly patriotic comment that one rarely hears in Washington these days.

Say it ain’t so, Moose!

I’m sure this political miasma will part like the Red Sea before your wisdom.

Ummm, not so much part as maybe make a wavelet or two …

Marshall Whitman is former Christian Coalition and McCain advisor. I imagine McCain/Lieberman would be his dream ticket for 08 (and surely the whole point of Unity08).

I suspect at least some in DLC are sorry they took him in.

Newdonkey.com is Ed Kilgore’s blog. Nothing to do with Whitman.

This question needs to be asked of all Lieberman apologists who will stand for re-election: “Why should any Democrat ever vote for YOU, if you refuse to accept the will of the voters in a Democratic primary? Don’t you believe in representative democracy?”

DLCers

Don’t you mean Deal Seers?

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Holy Joe - so Bush League.

Marksb #10 -

I recently became involved with the county Democrats with that as my five year goal. I am currently the Precinct Chair and will try to work my way up.

There is no evidence to suggest that Marshall Whittman is a Democrat.

Peterr @ 1:33 pm (#18) - A country that lets its leaders break whatever laws they choose because it’s too busy pissing its pants about terrorism?

Easy answer — Ass.

He’s not really even a Democrat. He was a rethug and got known when he worked for McCain, fer chrissakes.

Marshall Witless is the poster boy for everything that is wrong with the DLC and the WATBs who go crying “Oh the Rethugs beat us, We must become more like them to win!” every time they wet themselves because of an electoral defeat they helped engender.

Witless’s secret agenda: destroy the Dem party before it becomes actually liberal again. Proof? His backing candidate who says he will not support the Dem nominee in a high profile race. Backing, hell, he’s doing a hagiography on the guy. If that’s not hurting the party, then tell me what is.

I think Witless and Lieberman should get out of the party if they don’t like its base. Joe already has one foot out the door. Just don’t let it hit you in your big fat ass on your way out.

OT: Stole this from the Corner (NRO)

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From an April 2, 2006, article in the Los Angeles Times (bold is mine):

During the 2000 election, Bush previewed a campaign video from ad-maker Lionel Sosa that used emotion-laden themes to woo Latinos.

As he watched, Sosa recalled, Bush’s face lighted up. “How much do you need for this?” Bush asked as the two men sat with Rove in the governor’s mansion in Texas, Sosa said.

Sosa replied that it would take $3 million. According to the ad-maker, Bush then turned to Rove, saying: “Give him five.”

Four years later, Sosa produced a variation of that video for the 2004 campaign that was mailed to Latino voters across the country.

The video includes images that would probably rile those who today are calling for the most restrictive immigration laws. At one point, Bush is shown waving a Mexican flag. The footage was shot, Sosa said, during a Mexican Independence Day parade in San Antonio in 1998, when Bush was running for reelection as governor.

The five-minute video, narrated by Bush, opens with an image of him fishing on his property near Crawford, Texas, as he essentially described millions of Americans who populate his home state as the true foreigners in someone else’s native land.

“About 15 years before the Civil War, much of the American West was northern Mexico,” Bush says in the video. “The people who lived there weren’t called Latinos or Hispanics. They were Mexican citizens, until all that land became part of the United States.

“After that, many of them were treated as foreigners in their own land,” Bush adds.

He says the “Latino spirit” was fueled by “strong conservative values” of family, a strong work ethic, faith in God, patriotism and personal responsibility. “These values are my values,” Bush says. “I live by them, and I lead by them.”

As Bush speaks in the video, the background music — a Latin beat — grows louder. The president is pictured waving the Mexican flag, hugging a Latino woman, and then holding a Latino baby.

Political strategists in both parties said the video illustrated how Bush, unlike other Republicans, had forged a personal relationship with Latino voters largely on his ability to convey empathy and invite them into his party.

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Please tell me someone is looking for this?
a) ‘Give him five?’ No wonder we have a exploding deficit.
b) FLIP FLOPPER and pander bear. Do as I say - not as I do.

You know, I grant you I’m a little slow sometimes, but I just don’t see where what goes on around here is either looney or, most of the time, all that lefty either.

At least 90 to 95% of the time, we FDLers are standing right on the center-line of the Constitution of the United States, hollering for the current government to make its way back to where it belongs, right here with us.

Or have I missed the whole point?

Don Young, invoking the Nazi Principle that the GOP uses so well…

lotus 30 -

“The law of the jungle is ‘eat or be eaten.’ The law of civilization is ‘define or be defined.’“

- Dr. Thomas Szasz

“… if you believe in peace you must — finish it”

Almost said that famous Bush line, “when we talk about war we really mean peace.”

Besides, every day the DLC lets people like Witless represent them they lose credibility. That is, if they still have any.

Real Democratas in the DLC. maybe Mark Warner, Ed Kilgore, Hillary and a few others, need to repudiate this guy. Fast. Or they will be stained by his treachery. We need to make this point loud and clear.

Are you listening Gov. Warner? How about you, Jerome Armstrong?

puppethead at 12: I’m sure the DLCers will rationalize that Lieberman isn’t leaving the party, but that the party is leaving him.

So since the DLC is in line with Lieberman, that would have mean that the party is leaving them, too, right?

I’m good with that.

Lotus 30

No, you haven’t missed the point. You’ve nailed it.

You nailed it lotus at 1:49, thanks.

Lotus, you are absolutely correct, we aren’t “lefty” at all. That’s the picture that the GOP and therefore the press paints us as. A handy reference word that is designed to nulify whatever we are saying or doing before it’s said and done. Liberal is the same thing. That’s why I love “wingnut”, but most of America doesn’t get it. They get “lefty” and “liberal”. Conservative is seen as a good, solid, American value. Liberal is something scary, a little crazy perhaps, and not true-blue American. Lefty brings in pictures of Che and Castro and so on. God it must be good to be a winger!

O/T, but about as good a summary of ‘net neutrality arguments as you’re likely to read:

http://live.psu.edu/story/18325

[snip]

“…The original Internet was designed to have an agnostic, neutral “core” whose job was to pass packets back and forth - and not to discriminate or examine the packets themselves. This allowed the network to be very cost efficient and economical. It also allowed all of the “intelligence” in the network to be at the “edge,” that is, in the hands of the user.

This was very important to the evolution of the Internet. The network provider did not have control, the user did. As long as the user utilized the standardized protocols, he or she could expect to send and receive packets to anyone else on the network in a completely understandable, predictable manner. That allowed the user to experiment with new programs, new applications, slightly tweaked applications, and even new devices - and the user would know that the network would treat the packets all exactly alike. Innovation was possible and could happen very quickly at “the edge” because you did not have to re-architect or re-build the entire network in order to make a tweak or improvement in an end-user technology (such as improving a web search engine or developing a new video encoding program).

As a result of this remarkable design, sometimes called “end-to-end architecture,” an explosion of new Internet technologies emerged over the past decade, many of them on university campuses or by recent graduates. The World Wide Web, the Web browser, the search engine, instant messaging, and many other technologies were innovations by users of the network. Not one of these innovations was developed by telephone or cable companies.”

Haven’t read all of the comments but whenever I see that name I remember that he’s a pnac boy & that should tell you all you need to know about hinm.

Who wants to take bets on Hillary in 2008?

I love the theatre!

~

Hey Mosse - Better puerile than senile!

Jane,
Guys like Whitman don’t have a clue as to what us outside-the-beltway Democrats want for America. Most of us want out ASAP of a war that was based on a pack of lies. We want at least a few representatives in Washington who will not be completely dedicated to acting as whores for Corporate America. We want a government that will put the interests of the American people ahead of the very powerful NeoCon lobby in Washington. Of course, Whitman wouldn’t have a fuckin’ clue as to what we really want.
Keep up the great work, Jane.

FWIW, when Bull S. Moose endorses his checks he spells his name Wittmann, not Whitman.

lotus at 30: Exactly. The right-wing program is:

1. Define anything that’s not them as “extreme left liberal”
2. Define “liberal” as a part of the political spectrum unacceptable in America
3. Redefine the “center” as somewhere within their own ranks.
4. Rinse, repeat.

We are the mainstream. Iraq, government secrecy, fiscal responsibility, accountability, the environment, you name it, we are where America is, just a little louder about it than some. We are the mainstream. Never forget it.

lotus - you’re not slow - and definitely not loony. To brand us that way suits the way the right has to frame the argument, because they have little else in their arsenal anymore. If anything, the inability of Republicans to hold to the fiscal conservatism/less government principles has probably driven many on the left further to the right as a result. It’s Democrats calling for fiscal restraint, and Democrats calling for reduction in the bureaucracy. The GOP has made enriching the rich its top fiscal priority, to the detriment of the country, and has bloated the bureaucracy and put government watchdogs in bedrooms all over the country.

While we have retained our left-of-center position on intrusion of government in private matters, we have had to move more to the right on fiscal issues to keep some check on the free-spending GOP.

They’d like to ignore everything except the bedroom issues - they loves sniffin’ them some panties and jock straps!

Oh, and while there are conservatives in the GOP, the ones in government aren’t conservatives, they’re radicals.

If you get in a conversation with a conservative, try asking them “how is the Bush Administration conservative?”

BobbyG 39, excellent! Thanks.

“What Byron Didn’t Tell You”
by emptywheel
“Well, I didn’t think Byron could write it. I mean, I didn’t think he would print my judgment that Rove’s cooperation before last Fall was just a show of testicular fortitude.
But then that was just a throwaway comment, not central to our discussion. There are other details that Byron left out that I find more fascinating….”

This old piece (from July 05) has been on my mind a lot lately. At the time I found it, I was looking for the DLC platform. My intention was to compare and contrast it to REAL Democratic values. I wrote to the DNC after finding the article and explained that I could never again vote for a member of the DLC and that for the sake of the party, they should disavow it and its members as not being Democrats. I believe that I’m not the only one to express such sentiments to them. IIRC, there was some statement made later about Dean opposing the DLC.

Here’s the link:
Democratic Leadership Council drafts right-wing platform for coming elections
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2.....-j28.shtml

“The Democratic Leadership Council” is anything but. This little exclusive coterie is not Democratic and it doesn’t lead. It is the terminal cancer growing on the Democratic Party. The thing that really disturbs is that the DLC advertises itself as progressive.

Bustedknuckles - you around?

You betcha bud.

Ros-Lehtinen saying that Iraq is a sign of hope for democracy and freedom?

Why do they keep pushing that given Bush’s support for the Saudi monarch?

Oh Matt Taibbi you come sit over here next to ol Clare

goodness that is some on point smack !

“MSNBC Question of the Day”
Should a timetable be set for pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq?
Yes
73%
No
27%
* 8722 responses

I’m getting a little tired, at my advanced age, of Republicans fighting for the heart and soul of the Democratic Party.

Really tired.

I mean, yeah, I welcomed Marshal at first. Then I realized that all the so-called moderates coming over here from the GOP were nothing more than WATBs who didn’t want to expend the effort to clean up their own bed, their own party, the one their previous fellow-travelers had shit.

Marshall? I’m real sorry the GOP turned to shit on you, innocent bystander that you are and all.

But, seriously, I’ve spent a lifetime in the Democratic Party and, please, can I have my party back? It’s getting late and if you guys can’t let go you’re going to bring it down, too.

I belong to the party that, however imperfectly, at least tried to speak for the small voices, stood up to the racists, however imperfectly, and cut its own electoral throat, and did it knowingly.

Because it was right.

Why don’t you get off you’re lousy ass and redeem YOUR party, not destroty mine.

Please?

(Busted - left something for you at the tail end of the WOT thread)

punaise,
I was looking for over an hour for that (ahem) picture of your bad self that you posted last weekend. I was going to rock Sharkbabes world with it.

Great comment yesterday by mnpundit at Glenn Greenwald’s site: They can’t ever ever EVER admit that Kos is anything but fringe because if KOS is the center; then they have no choice but to acknowedge that THEY are the extremists.” KOS, blogger dems, progressives all fit in that comment. There it is, plain & simple.

Matt O 53 -

Anyone with an IQ starting with an integer should recognize that Bush is full of shit. Platitude mongering dliettante. As long as the MSM refrains from hectoring him on questions like yours, he’ll just continue to daince wit’ da one whut brung him.

IT’S A NUMBER?!?!!!

I just heard Tony Snowjob’s glib comment about our 2500 dead soldiers. I’m so mad I could spit fire right now. You want to take on the war, KKKarl? You want to treat our soldiers like just so much cannon fodder? FINE.

Someone needs to make this commercial …

Letters on a black background …
“How the Bush administration explains 2500 dead American soldiers …”

(Clip) Tony Snow saying “It’s a number. And every time there’s one of these 500 benchmarks, people want something.”

Fade to letters on a black background
‘It’s a number’

Fade to a picture of a group of our soldiers in combat gear, eyes weary but determined.
Then fade to letters on a black background

‘No, it’s not.’

……………………………….
God, these f*ckers never fail to disappoint and infuriate me.

Well, Marshall Whitman’s blog doesn’t have comments, so I have to say my piece here. It’s one thing to take a centrist or conservative position on any issue, but when did Holy Joe graduate to the level where he doesn’t have to explain his positions? I *don’t* think he’s independent as much as aloof and disengaged.

And MW really needs to make a stronger case on the merits. As with Holy Joe, he needs to be much more explicit with his arguments and avoid making vague assertions that what he suggests is in the best interests of the Democratic Party. From where I’m sitting he seems like Zell Miller with a better user-interface.

–Dan

ironranger #59 - yes, yes, yes. We are the center, and they are the radical fringe, dammit!

MaryAnn 61,

Send that to MoveOn. Seriously.

“Zell Miller with a better user-interface.”

Glad I wasn’t sipping any liquids just then, Dan. Good one.

punaise, Good God man! glad I’m straight.Lol. Thanks fer that. Guess I’ll have to crack someones camera lens, Btw, I was referring to the red thumbtack pic. Priceless.

y’all need to read the Taibbi link in Jane’s post - it’s worth it for

The graphic

and

Taibbi’s advice to Marshall as he sets out on his planned tour of the blogosphere

Cmike 9: They call themselves Bull Moose? I consider that an insult to Teddy.

“I’m getting a little tired, at my advanced age, of Republicans fighting for the heart and soul of the Democratic Party.”
Thanks lettuce at 2:14.

Finally some real passion!

Busted - LOL. the thumbtack was kind of a cheap shot…

MaryAnn @63 - WOW. Very powerful. Are you in the ad biz?

Yeah, what’s with the Bull Moose crap anyway? The guy fancies himself Teddy Roosevelt reincarnate?

It’s ‘Wittman’, but who’s counting?

Olbermann insults rocks.

“Olbermann Claims Rita Cosby is “Dumber Than a Suitcase of Rocks’”

Mary Ann 63 - sing it. pitch-perfect.

Any particular reason his name is misspelled?

punaise, That’s the one I was looking for. I was going to have you autograph it for Sharkbabe. Roflmao.

Mary Ann at 2:19! Yes!

I’m always a tad disappointed when Josh Marshall cites Wittman.

maybe it’s a “Marshall” solidarity thing.

2,500 is just “a number.”

The Constitution, according to Bush, is “just a goddamned piece of paper.”

Jane,

Wondeful. Perfect post. Hit just the right note and got the peanut gallery all fired up. Storyboarding excellent commericails no less.

I too, think that commercial should be referred to someone like Move-On who will actually put it on the air.

Sorry, CMike was already on it at 45.

I feel confident that if FDL charged a $50 annual subscriber fee, it could afford a full time editor/fact checker.

First the post here, then the Taibbi link. Smiling at last today.

Mooseketeers? ROFL

As I remember, isn’t it the moose who has the squirrely little friend?

Marshall….or the French equivalent, Marechal?

(Marechal Petain was the leader of the Vichy collaborationist govt. in France during WWII….just sayin’)

I think getting names spelled correctly is pretty basic. Typos happen, but names are important and deserve a second check (and correction if an error is found, as in this case). That’s just my opinion, of course.

There is a truly smug and disgusting piece on NPR right now by Rich Lowry.

BobbyG @ 1:58 pm (#40) - Good article. I have a small problem with the history as told by this guy.

* Unix, which was the basis for the Internet’s servers for many years, was invented at AT&Ts Bell Laboratories.

* The media that the Internet is built on, the ATM, SS7, fiber optics, to name just a few, were either developed by or with the help of the telecoms. All the “high level” technology, except for Unix, got its start elsewhere, but this isn’t just splitting hairs. Without all those technologies I just mentioned, the Internet would be a very slow place.

Anyhow, I have no problem with his basic points. In fact, I liked the UPS analogy. One of the reasons I know that prioritizing traffic is a bad idea came from experience I had on a DoD program many years ago. We were trying to fit too much data through the communications media that were available (this was back when 16 kilobits was a fast link). One particular form of traffic was accounting for 80 percent of the offered communications load. Some management genius told us to set that traffic at a higher priority so it would get through. We argued, of course, but had to do it anyway. The results were predictably disasterous. Not only did the “priority” traffic not get through, neither did anything else. The problem was too much comm for the pipes available. Nothing was going to fix that but less comm or more pipes.

You folks who still wonder about why prioritizing traffic is a bad idea should take heed of that example.

Rich Lowry is even worse than David Brooks in that he doesn’t have a hint of Brooks’ one somewhat redeeming feature: a bit of self-deprecation.

The moose is loose.

(Just a shout-out to all our Canadian lurkers. We know you’re out there!)

John Casper @ 2:31 pm (#77) - Olbermann’s just jealous because Rita gets all those missing white girl scoops.

Well it looks like BushCo bad hijinx has gotten the U.S. banned from the new international ‘kool-kids’.

The formation of the Shanghai Cooperative Organization SCO has many world powers cozying up but guess what…

Not welcome: the United States. For the last two years, SCO members have even been conducting joint military exercises and they may someday become “a corral of countries capable of countering Western influence.” After all, the organization’s founding charter calls for it to be the foundation stone of “a new international political and economic order.”

emphasis mine

from Tomdispatch–Michael Klare on Playing Chess with Iran.

Damn, who would of thought that BushCo-NeoCon epithet of being sinister AND incompetent could take on an even worse dimension.

There’s the real story behind all the current GOOPER ‘lookit how good we’re doin now’ obfuscation.

damn, link dropped

here it is

Tomdispatch%u2013Michael Klare on Playing Chess with Iran.

http://www.tomdispatch.com/ind.....;pid=92161

Cujo at 2:50
LMAO.

Rich Lowry is even worse than David Brooks in that he doesn’t have a hint of Brooks’ one somewhat redeeming feature: a bit of self-deprecation.

I think Brooks is worse. I’ve never found anything redeeming about him. Just because he is liberals’ favorite conservative - a lot of liberals seem to find him palatable, maybe because he knows his way around a wheel of Brie - doesn’t make him OK in my book. If I had a nickel for every time I read a David Brooks column and wondered what the FUCK planet he lived on I’d be able to hire someone to kill him.

Him and John Tierney.

Self-deprecation only means something if you really mean it.

Those pictures of the elusive punaise make my heart go pitta pat. Charisma, baby. Goooood lookin’.

Sigh.

LeisureGuy and others — if we charged a $50 annual subscription fee, a proofreader is the last thing we would spend it on. Insurance, daycare, vacation pay, retirement benefits would come way before that. If people can’t muddle through a few typos feel free to express your irritation in the comments section. And I will feel free to ignore it.

(BTW, we have no plans to charge a subscription fee. That goes against everything I believe in when it comes to building a populist, progressive site. So nobody hold your breath.)

A-flippin’-men, Lobstergirl!

“Court Backs No-Knock Search”
More bad news from the Supreme Disappointment Court
Thanks to Joementum and other Vichy Dems, we’ve got strip search Sammy wrecking the Bill of Rights.

lettuce: totally agree..I want my part AND my country back.
I want our reps & senators to go full court press every damn day on the floor. I want to see them NEVER let up. I want them to show these lunatics they know how to fight a war. The Repugs have nothin, NOTHING!

Congrats Christy! A mention by Howard Kurtz!!

(I’m sure someone has already linked….I’m a little behind.)

WHAT picshures of punaise– I am lost at FDL!

I think that if there is a $50 subscription fee that they wouldn’t need a proofreader because there wouldn’t be too many readers left to read the typos. (not that I’m saying I don’t love to read this site, but 50$?)

Jane,

Thanks for another fine post! The question it brings to my mind is:

Just who was the DLC individual that hired this mole quisling person?

‘Cause there’s gotta be a DLC decision-maker somewhere who’s culpable! Or conspirin’ with the RNC!

new thread: Hairboy’s review

NEW THREAD

Jane Hamsher @ 3:00 pm (#100) - I like your priorities.

BTW, I think Wittman is spelled without the ‘h’ in this case. At least, that’s how all the other kids are spelling it.

Jane, it wasn’t I who brought up the $50 subscription fee idea. And it wasn’t I who bemoaned typos. I just wanted to make the point that (perhaps) the spelling of names deserves some extra care.

BTW, I apologize for pointing out in another post that “aids” should have been “aides,” though in that case the typo was corrected. In the case of Wittman’s name, though, it seems not to be a typo but a simple misspelling, and I’m wondering why it’s not corrected–i.e., is there a point in maintaining the misspelling?

—It’s WITTMANN, actually. Was that a typo LeisureGuy? Moderator—-

If you spot a typo, just say- this is a typo- xxx should be xyz.

It will get fixed. It’s really that simple.

One of the most irritating things about the CM is how often they quote Whittman to represent the democratic side of the he said/she said equation, characterizing him as a centrist Democrat. Frequently these quotes mirror GOP talking points. I have taken to writing to the editor and the reporter suggesting they note his work for John McCain, conservative think tanks, and the CC so readers can better assess the value of his comments. Barring that, perhaps they could spend the time to find an actual Democrat to provide the all important “balance.”

Had I not become a blog addict a few years ago, I would not have a clue who MW was and wouldn’t have paused to consider his background. Since the CM seems to quote a small universe of “experts,” perhaps it would be useful to call attention to other named sources who are not accurately described by reporters. Of course, that still leaves us with the former hill staffer who currently works in the west wing.

Feh! I have an idea about what that dimwit can do with his big stick.

BroD - the big stick is depicted in the picture at the top of the post. It’s kinda crooked, and could be mistaken for a tail.

Months or Years ago I actually wrote Marshall and mentioned that maybe just maybe some folks had trouble with the way Bush was conducting the war and what were his suggestions and low and behold there were none. Since then I turned him off or just stopped reading him. At fifty=six I’m to old for garbage.

Er, the Marshall Plan? Throw money around and repel autonomy and competing ideas. Yup: plus ca change….

I got carried away a couple weeks ago when Lamont pulled his up