Login HereWhile Michael Schaivo was holding a press conference to remind everyone what a sanctimonious, meddling, holier-than-thou, politically opportunistic tin-eared prick Joe Lieberman was during the difficult last days of his wife's life (YouTube above), Joe was touring Connecticut on a campaign bus.
Almost nobody showed up to meet Joe, so it must have been comforting to find that the Kiss Float was trailing him along the way.
The Kiss Float and the Lieberman parade caravaned from Naugutuck to Seymour to Ansonia. While Joe would walk into diners that were virtually empty, the Kiss float provided a wonderful distraction for bored journalists who otherwise would've had precious little to cover.
As TrueBlueCT says, "It was Photo op after photo op, but nobody's turning out for him -- no supporters whatsoever. Why go around on this bus tour if he's not going to connect with the people?" (Although former congressman Jim Maloney was one of the 11 or so people who turned up the entire day to pay homage to Holy Joe. Nice to see someone besides Bubba isn't afraid to coat their political career with LieberCooties.)
Speaking of Bubba, Lieberman staffer Marion Slimefels was passing out big bags of "hug" buttons showing a precious moment between Lieberman and Clinton, reminding everyone that Joe's favorite position is always playing the Little Woman to men more powerful than he is. Then someone noticed that the buttons didin't have the union bug, and the campaign people quickly began denying they had anything to do with them. My that AFL-CIO endorement from Little Jimmy Olsen, Cub Labor Leader sure is starting to lose its luster.
At "Bar" Pizza one of the few people who showed up spontanously chewed out Joe over the war. This tour is supposed to last through the week. Wonder if Holy Joe's sense of entitlement can carrying him through such a sea of apathy on the part of the little people?
Ingrates.
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Then someone noticed that the buttons didin’t have the union bug, and the campaign people quickly began denying they had anything to do with them. My that AFL-CIO endorement from Little Jimmy Olsen, Cub Labor Leader sure is starting to lose its luster.
J’oh!
Eli sez:
I pinch.
Wrong.
Try agaian.
.
Gotta love it!
and he has the most inept campaign team ever - missing the union bug, claiming they “just put out press releases whenever they’re ready,” not organizing to have people waiting to meet him … I know they’re out of practice actually running for an office but sheesh!
amateurs galore!
amateurs galore!
I think he should run for prez in 2008 on the Republican ticket. I think Katherine Harris would be the perfect running mate.
Fargin ‘A’!
For Joe, it’s just a ‘labor’ of love, ain’t it. Love of Joe, maybe?
I loves me some empty pizza parlor.
I suppose the thronging crowds ‘had other priorities’.
Somebody, quick, break out the Wax Lips plz…it’s too good an idea to not do.
I have faith yet that Katherine Harris will prevail.
Machines do as they are told.
YouTube rules. It’s the tubes’ gift to accountability in Washington.
I hope the “no union bug” thing hits the CT media — kinda fits CAFTA/NAFTA Joe doesnt it ?
At “Bar” Pizza …Ingrates.
pass the grated karma-san
I have faith yet that Katherine Harris will prevail.
Machines do as they are told.
I think there are limits to just how big a discrepancy they can explain away with “amazing moral values turnout!”…
Joe’s Bus to Nowhere. Bwaaahahahaaaa.
Joe’s Bus to Nowhere.
It’s a very short ride.
Dover Bitch sez:
YouTube rules. It’s the tubes’ gift to accountability in Washington.
Maybe it’s to my shame but I’ve never clicked on a “YouTube” link.
The Atrios//Sadly, No! war discouraged me.
There were no winners; only death.
.
Lieberman: THE MOVIE!
I bet that guy who started YouTube must just be freakin’ a little at how much influence he’s distributed. The old dot com days of real creativity and innovation are back!
Joe’s Bus to Nowhere.
It’s a very short ride.
All alone.
There were no winners; only death.
I’m holding onto rare film archives of Terry Jacks singing “Seasons in the Sun” as a nuclear deterrent.
I wouldn’t grip too hard about the buttons, most of those are done by mom & pop promo products distributors. Printed stuff is another story…
… and Joe’s Bus is the Short Bus too …
from Late Nite last night:
SF Chronicle article about YouTube founder Chad Hurley
linky dink
Joe’s Bus to Nowhere.
It’s a very short ride.
All alone.
One-way ticket.
Did the pizza people miss the train?
That was a stunning video. How f*cking sanctimonious can a person be? “He” would’ve decided…!!??!!
When the Terri Schiavo fiasco hit the 24 hour news cycle, I was with a relative in intensive care, consulting with family members and doctors. Thankfully she had a living will, the family was in agreement that her wishes be supported, the medical staff was supportive and informative. After she was removed from life support she died quietly and peacefully surrounded by 3 generations of her family.
Then there was the funeral, and so forth. So I missed much of the Terri Schiavo tragedy — and certainly did not know about this shameful episode in Joe’s career. Until now.
OT
Ana Marie Cox is Time.com Washington Editor.
This will not boost the credibility of Time.com
try this instead: dinky link
…
The float following Holy Joe Around is like Helen Thomas chasing Colbert aroud…life imitating art!
Joe’s Bus to Nowhere.
It’s a very short ride.
All alone.
One-way ticket.
Straight to Crawford.
My Lieberman update for today…
Saw my first signature table for him today. I was in a strip mall driving past a supermarket (for the locals, it’s Stop and Shop at the Wal-Mart plaza at the Wethersfield/Rock Hill line right at I-91 — Lieberman’s HQ is in Rocky Hill — must be a coincidence.)
A 30ish man had 3 L signs stapled to a pole — very clever — the top and bottom were blue on white, the middle was
Twizted — when you are running a major, national, well-funded Senatorial campaign, you do not go to Mom&Pop operations making non-union-bug buttons. The LieberNeophytes might have done so but it’s a major fuckup politically with the unions.
Lamont on Colbert next week according to colbertnation.com, should be a hoot!
Poor Joe. He needs some Merry Pranksters. Heee.
Twisty, niiiice.
http://www.actblue.com/page/blueamerica
Link for contributions to BlueAmerica candidates, incl. Lamont.
Jane, can you put this link on the main FDL page?
Was Schaivo’s presser scheduled today at 12:30 pm at the same time as the Pomp & Poodle presser?
meta -
youtube, etc.
If we’re lucky. So far, it looks the way you see it.
(Sorry; I’m a victim of Buckner/’86/6. Yogi Berra w/extra mustard: “It ain’t over till it’s a final.”)
NSA, telecom tiered services, WHO COULD IMAGINE? etc.
*ilson, those Mensas would fuck up a 2 car funeral parade, I have no doubt they used some staffer’s brother in law who has a button machine in his garage. You haven’t seen the coffee mugs yet!
Maybe the pizza people had “calls to make.”
It bothers me no end to observe the apparent symbiosis between the Clintons and Lieberman. I just can’t figure out how Senator Clinton thinks this will enhance her chances for the presidency, certainly not among progressives, or for that matter center, to left-of-center Democratic moderates. Up until the Senator’s pronouncements on the Bush Iraq War, I would have walked on burning coals for her. It’s not just that I feel betrayed, it’s the sense that humane ideals seem no longer relevant to her. It’s ALL about winning in 2008.
A 30ish man had 3 L signs stapled to a pole
Smash Mouth: All Star
HoJo’s a pizza s**t
Um, if there’s nobody there when the bus stops, who are they giving those Bubba buttons to?
And doesn’t it seem a little pathetic that Joe’s hanging his whole campaign now on being associated with Clinton?
I mean, he’s been in the Senate for 18 years and his candidate is all about star-f*cking?
Blank Kludge, I so hear ya! Who would have guessed that we would be paying to both make a call and receive a call, in a movie theater?
Bundling?
VOIP?
Fiber to the curb?
Mmmmmm, mustard……..
Ana Marie Cox is Time.com Washington Editor.
I didn’t intend to blogwhore but yeesh.
.
Got cut off earlier….
My Lieberman update for today…
Saw my first signature table for him today. I was in a strip mall driving past a supermarket (for the locals, it’s Stop and Shop at the Wal-Mart plaza at the Wethersfield/Rock Hill line right at I-91 — Lieberman’s HQ is in Rocky Hill — must be a coincidence.)
A 30ish man had 3 L signs stapled to a pole — very clever — the top and bottom were blue on white, the middle was white on blue. Amazing.
Set up with a card table and a plastic tablecloth. The worst part was that the guy was offering people a bite from a box of Dunkin Munchkins (what comes out of the donut hole for the uninitiated). The paws that reached into that box made me want to at the thought of eating one of those thigns.The heat stress was close to 100 — he had an elderly couple cornered in the bright sun.
Clinton TV up today — same message I got on the phone, same poor edits in which they string grammatically incorrect words together because I guess Big Dawg did not follow the script they gave him to say things just like they wanted for the commercials.
Joe’s tour is the “Thinkin About Tomorrow” bus tour == complete with the cheesy Fleetwood Mac music (that I am sure they never gave him permission to use — and furthermore, Joe must have wanted Fleetwood Mac albums at some point — just to make the hypocracy complete.
He pointed out that there is so much negative fighting over events of the past, that we should all be looking toward the future. Yeah, right, Joe.
Mark McGwire, who was first to break Maris’ single season HR record, when asked about whether he used performance enhancing drugs before a senate committee (under oath), said the very same thing.
McGwire is eligible for the baseball Hall of Fame this fall. He won’t get voted in first ballot, and neither will Joe.
OK Kiddo, if I may - rejoice in your knowledge! Like my ongoing Boxer rant, I’ve now realized I need to move on to whatever the next step is beyond denial, anger, etc. Not pretty.
OT - Tony Blair just landed in SF. His itinerary?
dinner with schultz
visit to delancey street
genentech
cisco
rupert murdock in carmel to golf
liebermania 15, that’s a damn funny link. Here’s HoJo’s thought’s on casting the role of Jane Hamsher (of the Left):
Italians are the largest ethnic/national minority in Connecticut (20%) — by hitting pizza shops, Joe must tbe trying to nail down that vote …
Joe’s Bus to Nowhere.
It’s a very short ride.
All alone.
One-way ticket.
Straight to Crawford.
Dead on Arrival
Spork@Yay, a round of buttplugs for all my friends!
http://www.courant.com/hc-sa-n.....4474.story
Lieberman Backers Are Optimistic On Petition Signatures
July 28, 2006
meta -
Let’s relish it while we can.
The button is so cheesy I swear I thought it was a gag when I saw it. I thought it was Lamont’s people making a funny. :)
Ooops 42
Make that all his *campaign* is about.
The button is so cheesy I swear I thought it was a gag when I saw it. I thought it was Lamont’s people making a funny. :)
Why would they even *want* to remind anyone of “The Kiss”? Insane.
Blunder bus?
Is that the fratboy in you, Hillary? From Raw Story:
On a congressional delegation trip to Estonia in August of 2004, Senators Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and John McCain (R-AZ) held a “vodka-drinking contest,” according to an article slated for Saturday’s edition of The New York Times.
“Two summers ago, on a congressional trip to Estonia, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton astonished her traveling companions by suggesting the group do what one does in the Baltics: hold a vodka-drinking contest,” reports Anne E. Kornblut for The Times.
“Delighted, the leader of the overseas delegation, Sen. John McCain, quickly agreed,” Kornblut continues.
“The after-dinner game went so well that McCain later told people how unexpectedly fun he found Clinton to be,” Kornblut reports. “‘One of the guys,’ was the way he described her.”
OT, but need your help.
A nurse I work with at my home care agency has a son in Afghanistan. There is always a box in the office to collect things to send over there. Now they are looking for paperback books.
I know before, we talked about sending progressive political books, but since this is a conservative non-profit, if you could just send general interest paperbacks. Nothing overtly sexual, because it would get pulled by the military because of local customs.
I’ve put in a bunch of John Grisham and Patricia Cornwell type stuff. Don’t forget the great escapist Harlequin Romance stuff, too — these men and women are young and want an escape by reading.
If you will drop me an e-mail to pat[at]nursesnotebook [dot] com — I’ll give you a local address here. Shipping costs are taken care of from here to Afghanistan. My fellow nurse’s son will make sure the things get distributed.
I know FDLers are voracious readers — and I thought I would reach out in case you’re looking for a more direct way to donate.
Thanks.
WAIT, did I just hear Lara Logan say that 1/3 of all killed in the ME crisis are children? Did anyone else hear this?
Eli:
Insane.
Heh, stoopid. Their next one should be a freeze-frame of HoJo doing his LOL at the Bush’s WMD search joke. Geez, these people have a real nose for effective PR. Not.
Liebermania — we love you but the blog whoring needs to stop.
Joe’s on a Road to Nowhere!
meta:
I heard a figure of something like 3/4 of the human beings killed in Lebanon at the moment are chldren. I do remember it’s a hideously high percentage.
Spork Incident,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....earch=1967
Buffalo Springfield, “For what it’s worth”
a heads-up for salon.commies -
(War Room is generally a good clearinghouse for political analysis of developing events - Rarely a source of breaking news, but Tim Grieve and Co. often have good insights to add)
Any new Ned ads? He should have all of his ads on his site.
First there was “The Silver Fox”.
But now there’s Joe, “The Grey Hound”.
Joe’s on a Road to Nowhere!
True story.
The kiss, the hug.. I felt sure the next act would be rated X
meta, you had to have heard right. On the NBC Nightly News tonight I about fell over to hear Brian Williams quoting someone that “it is profoundly wrong that more children have died in this latest war than armed soldiers”.
The kiss, the hug.. I felt sure the next act would be rated X
Joe Blow?
Margot 64 — my current fave:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....rch=Stills stephen
We will have more YouTube mania tonight.
Can HolyJoe screw up worse than this? Hard to believe but…
Yes! Go HolyJoe! Go! Man! Go!
Git Hillary up there and then pullout the stops and git Poppy Bush to campaign fer ya.
Yeah, that’ll work goooooooooooood.
You and he can shake yer heads in unison over the absolute lack of moral fiber Clinton exhibited in office by getting a blow-job.
Then yer can get all enthusiastic about Poppy’s son, Preznint ‘Dumbya’, who is now revealed as the true ‘dumbest man on the planet’…
Go HolyJoe!
Go!
Away.
The kiss, the hug…don’t forget the blowjob. It’s there by implication.
Jenny, so it’s the reverse horror. On that score, I’m with you and your feelings about the new poster. Just sayin.
in Indianapolis, 1/4 of all humans are under 18yo — if you are killing civilians randomly, you will kill way too many kids — I recall hearing that half of all Iraqis are under 25yo so young’uns are definitely under fire …
TEddy, are you here? Are you hearing massive helicopters? I assume it’s for Blair security, but it’s a little intense at the moment.
Talking heads - Road to Nowhere
Jane - especially
“you are living
a reality
I left years ago
it quite nearly killed me”
hmmmm……..
Thanks for reminding how cute those boys were.
meta…5:25pm
You are a person not lacking in principle. And I think I know, that you know, I don’t have to tell you that.
Schultz? Would this be George Schultz of Hoover/Reagan/Nixon/Bechtel and who knows what else, infamy?
Forgive my ignorance, blogwhoring is pimping your own blog incessantly?
Bus to Nowhere?
…and the Other Joe caught the Train to Nowhere to stump for CT Joe?
“Standing on the platform
Staring down the track
I felt a shiver
When I heard that clickety-clack
Heard the cry of “All aboard”
The ancient whistle blow
I’ve been waiting here so long
I can’t tell friend from foe
Oh - - -
I’ll meet you down the line
I’m on the train to nowhere
And it’s right on time
The conductor was a blind man
And it caused me some concern
When he handed me my ticket
For the point of no return
He said, “You look a little worse for wear
I hate to call your bluff
But if you’re going to ride this line
You must be made of sterner stuff”
I begged the brakeman, “Stop this train”
He said, “But what’s the use?
You should know by now it’s commonplace
For all hell to be breaking loose”
Then I heard my grandmother singing
“Hush - don’t you cry
You’re my little piece of Heaven
Fallen down from the sky”
B. Keith
—-
Lots of other roots rock (Changing of the Guard, When Parliament Convenes, Rectified, covers of ‘Paranoid’, ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ and ‘Season of the Witch’ and:
http://www.stonecoyotes.com/music.html
also, iTMS, CD Baby.
(no blogwhoring for me. no blog. But I love this band.) Give ‘em a listen.
Forgive my ignorance, blogwhoring is pimping your own blog incessantly?
Yes. Actually, I think it’s blogwhoring every time you do it, but doing it a lot can be obnoxious, especially if it’s OT, or if you don’t otherwise contribute to the conversation.
meta -
The only thing I can come up with (and I’ve been trying to understand) is that certain people believe some lives are simply more valuable than others. The stunning disconnect comes when I consider what being a liberal means — to me it means that we stand for human rights, first and foremost.
So I get confused, very confused.
I guess this is the last time I’ll say I’m Jewish. I wasn’t going to do it but… :)
Huh. A friend said that she went to a Lieberman event at a restaurant today? yesterday? that was so crowded she didn’t get a chance to meet the candidate.
I’ll have to ask her where that was!
The DNC just called — they are having a matching fund $ for $ fund drive. Wasn’t going to give, but then I just had to get my two cents in about the sorry state of the DLC, and I mentioned Lieberman’s sorry assed threat to run and an independent, yada, yada. So he says. Maam, you may have heard this, but there is an unverified rumor out there that Clinton only agreed to show up and campaign for Joe if Joe promised not to run as an indie if Lamont won. I said, yeah, I had heard that. So then he said, I think Lamont is going to win this one!
I was so charmed (an actual thinking person fundraising!) that I coughed up a little cash.
blogwhoring is when you tout your own blog — blogpimping is when you hype somebody else’s blog …
And nobody came
Too funny…..
blogwhoring is when you tout your own blog — blogpimping is when you hype somebody else’s blog …
I gave up blogwhoring, and am now looking for blogrelationships.
The children and the elderly are always the most vulnerable. Even if they don’t get killed by a bomb, denied food and clean water, denied electricity, having to suffer the hardship of being an instant refugee and all that entails…
evening, firepups. a little drive by live reporting from DC blogwhoring, fresh from a think tank speech on the new book “fiasco.” read about why you’re smarter than many highly placed policy makers at corrente.
gotta run, have a good one everybody.
no more oneblogstands?
no more oneblogstands?
Well, I’ll take what I can get…
Joe certainly seems to enjoy the role of the Little Woman to the more powerful guys.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 5:44 pm - finding this kind of information about those women I have looked up to in the past is both profoundly disappointing and disturbing. We both know that political life has become a complex hurly burly mess, but to sacrifice such fundamental principles for the craven lust for the presidency - to spend countless millions to attain the office - it really leaves me very disillusioned. Beyond words.
Yes, it’s George Bechtel Schultz. Now why does Tony Blair have dinner with Schultz???? I don’t know. Do they go way back?
Looking for Mr GoodBlog?
no more oneblogstands?
Well, if you buy me breakfast in the morning…
damn tags. SORRY!
“A foolish consistency is the ho-bloggin’ of little minds”
The smell of blogging is like nectar
Well, if you buy me breakfast in the morning…
11:59 still counts as “morning”, right?
meta -
per our previous DOT rebirth: I see Cisco on Blair’s stops. What do they do?
it’s morning somewhere
per our previous DOT rebirth: I see Cisco on Blair’s stops. What do they do?
Networking switches and backbone kind of stuff.
So much for the Kos headline from a couple days ago that the Lieberman meltdown is over. I guess even Bill Clinton’s help isn’t being handled very effectively. First the poorly-spliced robocall and now the non-union “hug” buttons. I love Jane’s portrait of Lieberman as the little woman in the arms of others.
Maybe HoJo should try trolling the restrooms along the Interstate for supporters…erm I mean campaigning along the Interstate! The Float might not be able to keep up.
punaise
Does Salon do that ’sit for ad’ and then you get in thing?
If so, they’ve got this set of eyes for a few days.
“Cisco kid was a friend of mine”
(Cisco is a major high-tech company making routers as other network stuff)
Cisco makes the plumbing and valves for the InterTubes.
Don’t blogart that joint, my friend.
Blank Kludge
Does Salon do that ’sit for ad’ and then you get in thing?
yes, if you’re willing to sit through a commercial you can get into salon without forking over any moolah
Crisco makes the shortening that lubricates the InterTubes
Eli at 55
“Why would they even *want* to remind anyone of “The Kiss”? Insane.”
Exactly. His argument is in our frame. The man is clueless.
Thanks.
Does anyone else think that stop is a curiousity? Tony gettin’ his bits n’ bytes in order? OR WHAT?
(Mr. Bechtel ain’t no saloon barmaid, neither.)
The Blair Switch Project
Forgive my ignorance, blogwhoring is pimping your own blog incessantly?
I wouldn’t know as I never, *ever* blogwhore.
Ned will be on Colbert Monday night — July 31st !
Blank - Cisco = routers. Hmmmmmm….
punaise: word!
punaise -
I’m dying here…sheesh…just get to stop lauging, hit refresh and BOOM!
Blair Switch…good lord, you are good.
A scary survey for the GOP
A bipartisan NPR survey shows a nation that rejects “moral values” pandering — and is very angry at Bush.
By Joe Conason
Jul. 28, 2006 | For Democrats, who have suffered repeated Election Day disappointments since the dawn of the new millennium, predictions of victory are only another reason to be wary. But while caution is always advised and excessive optimism should be avoided, portents of a voter uprising against the Republican regime can be glimpsed on the November horizon. What seemed most unlikely a year ago — the turnover of the House of Representatives only 12 years after the “Gingrich revolution” — is looking very … possible.
The latest evidence is provided in an unusual survey released today by National Public Radio, whose bipartisan team interviewed a thousand likely voters last week. Many polls showing a generic preference for Democrats have appeared over the past several months, and many such polls have been dismissed by Republicans who say that national polling in a contest of 435 districts has little salience. But the NPR poll is different because, unlike most measures of midterm attitudes, this survey was conducted only in the 50 most hotly contested congressional districts. Pollsters Stan Greenberg and Glenn Bolger found that in those crucial districts, the attitudes about President Bush, the direction of the country, and the Republican congressional majority are strikingly negative
http://www.salon.com/opinion/c.....print.html
(If you’re not a subscriber you have to watch an ad - but the article is worth it.)
…pimping your own blog incessantly
if one links to Shakespeare’s Sister, is that blog-pimping incestuously?
Cisco makes the plumbing and valves for the InterTubes.
Then again, you have Bricso County, Jr.
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Check out TPM and Thinkprogress on some posts that document the horror that the oh-so reasonable, centrist, very *responsible* elder statesmen like Lieberman are facilitating.
Bush sez today: violence, war and mayhem, doing damage to US strength and leadership in ME is better than better than ‘managing calm’
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.c.....009218.php
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/28/manage-calm/
And this is truly mind boggling -even Likud/Kadima cannot comprehend how much the script has changed. Apprently Israel figured the US would have stepped in by now to calm things down, and. gosh darn it, get people talking, get some calm going and get down the hard work of managing it. But no, not this WH. Apparently BushCo is upset that Israel is not being more aggressive and ruthless.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.c.....009227.php
This is the humble foeign policy promised by Bush. In the Middle East now and who knows where else later. And it’s just OK with Lieberman. We are supposed to stand by it to be patrioic during A Time of War. It is high crime and a catastrophic blunder. Yeesh. I hope no one goes to meet the guy at all. He’s been running around the last three years facilitating war criminals with blood on their hands. Now the war criminals are coming out of the closet. War killing and mayhem are better than mangaged calm any day, they say.
If anyone’s interested, there’s some discussion about that anti-Lieberman ad on the ImpeachPAC blog. (IMHO there’s something really twisted about the argument Fertig makes in it’s defense.)
to my FDL addiction therapist: Friday end-of-work-day is probably the hardest. Just when I’m supposed to be getting stuff out the door to get a semblance of being caught up, that’s when it hits. “Oh, I’ll just drop by to see what’s going on”. uh-huh. thus starts another potential blog-bender.
Jane - You are the Wonder Woman of snark!
xoxoxo - for you and the pooches
Kelven
Kirby: Send anything. One will read a