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Crooks and Liars has a clip from The Daily Show that is pretty funny -- it's great to see Jon Stewart and TDS crew back. Especially when they say things like this:
George W. Bush in the right man to lead us in the era of post-whatever horrible calamity he leads us into next.
Yesterday, Keith Olbermann really lit into the Bush Administration in his commentary -- if you haven't seen it, you should. He really brought some heat. (MyDD reports that Olbermann's ratings have surged past his CNN competitors. It's no wonder.)
Eugene Robinson parses the phrasing brought to us by the "war on terror." Orwell would be proud.
(Speaking of Orwell, the Administration has apparently wrangled concessions out of McCain, Warner and Graham on the Hamdan decision clean-up bills. If Democrats were waiting for the Three Stooges to have a spine for them in these negotiations, they bet on the wrong men. I don't have time this morning to get into this article -- but LHP sent me an e-mail about it, and I think it is worth a mention and some discussion. And I wanted to throw it out there for everyone to think about and call about until I can grab the time to do a more in depth discussion. This is important.
And while we are at it, anyone understand what in the hell this is? [PDF] Since when does the Pentagon ask for public comments on torture/non-torture rules? What's up? And is it me, or did everyone else just feel a tremor in the Mary force?)
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Jon Stewart! Keith!
woohoo, go Jon and Keith!
Thanks Christy! Keith, Jon and Colbert were all on fire last nite. I haven’t gone to bed that giddy since forever ago…
Agree, we need to support Keith with everything we can. E-mails, watch the show, check out the web site.
His immediate boss is Abrams, dabrams@msnbc.com
Send an E-mail of support!!!
To Do: November, vote; January, impeach!
And if anyone ever has any doubts about trying to take out “moderate” Republicans:
There are no moderate Republicans.
It is worth thinking about how best to avoid the trap that Bush is laying, in which Democrats have to vote for his immunity-from-Geneva-Conventions military commissions bill or face Rovian attacks in their elections this fall on the terror issue.
What should be the politically survivable tactic that D’s should take?
Christy! lhp! Mary!
I was especially glad to see Stephen Colbert hitting on George Allen’s juvenile amendment-stealing, since that’s less likely to get coverage elsewhere than “macaca.”
Absolutely nothing the Bush Administration has said about the ME in general, and Syria in particular, could have prepared us for this:
Of course, he then reverted to form by adding this:
Condi then added:
The cognitive dissonance in the WH this morning must be mind blowing.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200.....syria_dc_8
EPU’ed
Great Olbermann article!
Sept. 11, 2006 | MSNBC host Keith Olbermann has been building ratings for his nightly show, “Countdown,” and has become a darling of the liberal half of the Internet, by tacking to the left while most of cable’s chattering class veers right. His 3-year-old show continues to add viewers, especially the young ones that advertisers crave; the numbers for such conservative warhorses as Bill O’Reilly, with whom Olbermann has pursued a long-running feud, are down, as are the ratings for the Fox News Channel generally.
Olbermann closes each broadcast with a personal, often acerbic, commentary. In the past two weeks, as the Bush administration launched its pre-election anti-terror public relations blitz, Olbermann upped the ante and cemented his hero status in Left Blogistan with two especially acid speeches. On Aug. 30, he blistered Donald Rumsfeld with a breathtaking on-air screed that called the defense secretary a quack, explicitly compared him to Neville Chamberlain, and implicitly accused him of fascism and McCarthyism. President Bush himself for an “awful,” “cynical” and “un-American” equation of dissent and disloyalty. Olbermann, who usually ends his commentaries with a quote that pays tribute to Edward R. Murrow — “Good night and good luck” — instead closed with a different, and much angrier, echo of the McCarthy era. He asked the president, “Have you no sense of decency, sir?”
Now in his second tour with MSNBC, Olbermann first came to prominence as one of the anchors of ESPN’s “SportsCenter.” He’s since been a host for the Fox Sports Network, a radio reporter and (full disclosure) a columnist for Salon. His latest book, “The Worst Person in the World: And 202 Strong Contenders,” will be released Sept. 15.
http://www.salon.com/news/feat.....source=rss
FYI - Here is the latest email from Joe Lieberman’s team.
Please note how scared they are that voters will not look down the ballot to find Lieberman’s name in FIFTH PLACE.
Also note that they want Lieberman supporters at every poll “educating” voters about where to find his name.
Lieberman’s campaign had better be extremely careful about advocating such behavior, because, as I understand it, poll watchers are not allowed to try to influence voters or approach them before they vote.
Based on what I have read about the primary, the law is clear on this point. Lieberman’s supporters should be watched closely to ensure that they do not overstep the bounds of appropriate legal behavior at the polls in November.
Based on the unscrupulous behavior of Gerstein and Lieberman’s campaign team thus far, they cannot be trusted to comply with the rules.
Anyway, here’s the email:
Dear [ ],
For the last 18 years, Senator Joe Lieberman has delivered for Connecticut, standing up for what he believes is right and working across party lines to get things done for our state.
Now that he is in tough fight for reelection, against an opponent willing to spend millions of his own dollars to tear him down, many of you have been asking how you can deliver for Joe.
Well, if you live in Connecticut and you’d like to help Joe win, here are some easy ways you can make a difference:
Adopt a Polling Place – Due to Joe’s unusual placement on the November ballot, we need to make sure every voter knows where to find his name. That’s why it is extremely important that we have a Joe supporter outside of every polling place in Connecticut on November 7th educating every voter about where they can find the Senator’s name. Would you take a polling place and commit to finding people to monitor that spot from 6am to 8pm? This is a great friends and family project and you have more than 60 days to plan!
Don’t just tell us – tell them! – So many of you have called to tell us why you are supporting the Senator. We couldn’t say it better. Send those kind thoughts and supporting words to the editor of your local paper to include in the Letters to the Editor column. You can do it all through an easy-to-follow form on our website — www.Joe2006.com. Then, call five friends or family members and tell them why you’re voting for Joe. YOUR opinion has a forceful effect on your neighbors. Let ‘em know you are sticking with Joe!
Network – Are you a part of an organization that is Joe-friendly? Do you have friend or family members who may also be willing to help out? Let us know about supporters in your community and others who may want to be actively involved in the campaign.
You can be Joe! – When Joe is working in Washington on our behalf, there will be meetings and events here in Connecticut that he will have to miss. While he is doing his job for us, YOU can be his stand in. If you are interested in doing some public speaking for Joe, let us know and we can help steer you in the right direction.
Seniors – Joe has long been a strong advocate for seniors on issues that they care about and they appreciate it! We need to help them exercise their right to vote by providing access to the polls or informing them about how to vote absentee. Do you have a friend in one of the local senior housing projects? We will make them part of Joe’s “Seniors Vote!” Project. Send their names along to us.
Join Joe’s Door-to-Door Corps – The best way to spread the word about Joe is from neighbor to neighbor and door to door! We have a lot of ground to cover in the next nine weeks and we need as many hands as we can get to knock on doors in every part of the state. For more information, take a look at our website at www.joe2006.com or contact me directly.
For our friends outside of Connecticut, here are some more ways you can help Joe:
Visit www.joe2006.com – Take a moment to ‘Endorse Joe’ and read Joe’s Blog, a real-time digest of what our campaign is doing and saying. You can also take a look at where Joe stands on the issues and see photos of Joe in action along the campaign trail.
Contribute – Our opponent is a wealthy man who has already donated $4 million to his own campaign and we expect that he will spend a lot more in the weeks ahead. To contribute, and help us get Joe’s message out about putting people ahead of politics, you can click here and enter your credit card information online.
Please respond to this email if you would like to help out in any of the above ways. As the Volunteer Coordinator for the campaign, I am here to assist you and direct your efforts. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me directly. We are excited to have you be part of Team Connecticut. Joe needs your help now more than ever!
Thank you for your support.
Crystal Cook
Volunteer Coordinator
Friends of Joe Lieberman
Redshift @ 9
Me too!
OT
Bad headline for women-in-biz:
Embattled H.P. Chairwoman to Step Down
Prof @ 6
How about “once again, the President is trying to blame other people for a problem he created”?
Bush originally promoted his kangaroo-court “military commissions” by claiming a need to act quickly. It’s been five years and none of the Guantanamo detainees or secret prisoners have been tried, because they tried to make up judicial procedures in crayon on the back of an envelope. Now he’s trying to blame everyone else for “delaying justice.” If he’d just used courts martial or ordinary courts (which are perfectly capable of handling these things, unless you’re trying to use them as an excuse to grab absolute power), they’d have long since been tried and convicted.
OK, the torture bills look they will now go like all other bits of the worst of the Bush administration’s legislation.
The House will pass a version almost identical to the President’s Bill. The Senate will pass the McCain/Warner/Graham piece of shit. It will go to conference where the House version will be reported out unchanged.
The Senate and House will happily pass it without any debate and the President will sign torture into law for the first time in this nation’s history.
I have no idea how we will recover from this act.
Still that same old polarization. Is it just possible that Olbermann has gained such popularity, not even by running to the left as such, but simply by not mincing words or cynically covering ass for a failed and increasingly unpopular president?
Not to say that Olbermann isn’t to the left of many of his peers, but is that really the reason for his recent success?
Off topic, but I suspect this will be a hot topic on FDL and other political blogs on all points of the spectrum soon.
Effective this month the IRS began subcontracting collections of smaller debts to outside agencies, and it hasn’t taken long for the predictable nastiness to strike disturbing close to home. According to IRS announcements referred cases were going to be limited to only tax debts that were uncontested. Last evening our friend J stopped by for a glass of wine after a workout at the health club and told a tale of woe about her son, whom they are going after for alleged VA over-payments that are being contested, at least to the point of getting specific information about them. Here’s the story:
http://stridentcentrist.com/sc/?p=54
OT -But if the Bush admin has not been counting the Iraqis killed in bombings etc. in its tallies, doesn’t this mean that (given the real numbers) Iraq really is in Civil War?
And, on not counting more generally: Isn’t this what the Bush administration also did on the unemployment figures (people who have given up looking for a job), the war costs, tax relief etc. Maybe we should insist that the “No Child Left Behind” Act start with required math lessons (and requisite tests) for those now in the administration.
OT but I guess Howard Kurtz is in tighter than even I thought. From the politics chat today at wapo:
hmmmmm.
OK, Christy, I’ll bite.
Mary Force?
Nothing on Google.Could you please clue me in?
Thanks.
Bustednuckles @ 20
I think she’s talking about our own intrepid Mary and her passion for treating our prisoners humanely.
xyz (#12):
What I want to know is “Can I Be Joe?” Can I, Can I, Huh?
Prof @ 6
And more important, they need to realize that giving in isn’t a survival tactic. (They damn well better have learned that from the Homeland Security debacle.) The time people see the Dems as weak is when they won’t even fight for their own beliefs, not when they’re refusing to be as authoritarian as Bush.
Start with the knowledge that giving Bush what he wants, even completely, will not diminish Rovian attacks on the terror issue one bit, it will only change the details of what they contain. Then do what’s right for the country, and start talking about how Bush and his cronies are willing to throw away everything this country stands for on a false claim that it makes us safer, but we Americans are better than that.
Bustednuckles @ 21
Busted, hold that thought for a few minutes, and I betcha Mary will come along to clue us all in.
Prof @ 7
I suppose that not enough Americans have heard of Nuremburg to make that a viable line of attack…”Let’s try them like we tried the Nazis”.
Thanks Angie.
Busted - Mary, as in Mary4, Maryfornow, and her advanced legal/deconstructionist skills.
Prof @
7
Plainly tell the truth about what Dems believe:
We believe that the Geneva Convention works.
We do not believe in torture.
We believe in accountability and the rule of law.
We do not believe in secret prisons.
We believe that our morality is not dependent upon the morality of others.
We do not believe in giving up our moral stature in times of war.
We believe that no one is above the law - not the president, not the CIA, not the Justice Department, not the Congress, not the courts, not corporations, not unions, not lobbyists.
We believe that no one is beneath the law - not the poor, not the non-English speakers, not the immigrant (legal or not), not the ill, not the outcasts of our society.
We believe that the military and the officers of the intelligence communuity are safer with the Geneva Conventions in place.
We do not believe in cutting and running from the protections of Geneva.
We believe in three branches of government that hold each other accountable as they do the people’s business.
We do not believe in King George. Not in 1776, and not in 2006.
Evil Parallel Universe @ 26
God bless her, every one.
fahrender @ 22
Yes you may, if the price is right.
It has been that way for a long time.
Bustednuckles @ 20
The Mary4 force is one of the secret military projects that is described in great detail by some posters here at FDL. In fact, there have been some witnesses who have had personal experiences with the effects of the force and reporters suggest that it is both awesome to behold and has an amazing potential for serious damaging effect on its target. Although the military kept this new force/weapon under wraps, it seems that it has been misplaced. Unfortunately, it is independently intelligent and therefore not easily controlled. Last known location was somewhere in Kentucky. The DOD, it is rumored, dispatched five guys with yellow ties to the heartland to find and retrieve the Mary4 Force. All five have been recently listed as MIA in Afghanistan.
Currently in the process of mass caffeine absorbtion.
Gonna be a few minutes.
Everytime the Clusterfuckers use the word “terrorists”, they should be required to replace the word with the specific group they are referring to.
For example, in the sentence “If we don’t defeat the terrorists there, they will follow us here” should be rephrased as “If we don’t defeat the Sunni insurgents in Iraq- the sunni insurgents in Iraq will come to the United States and perform terrorist acts”. That doesn’t make any sense does it? The generalizing and equivicating that the people of the United States allow their govt is criminal.
Standing O for Peterr’s 29.
Thank you.
That awful Ned Lamont! Spending his own MONEY to beat poor Joe. It’s just not the American way!
*xyz @ 29
Just click your heel together three times and say “There’s no guy like Joe.”
Peterr — damn, that was GREAT!!! You rock!!!
A progressive manifesto!!
‘Public comment’? As if public opinion about torture are the criteria: the U.S. has signed various treaties which settle the issue. Also the long-standing custom of the U.S. not to torture (at least officially) used to have almost the character of common law among the populace until Mr. Bush turned up.
Obviously the Pentagon wants the comments to influence congress in the upcoming vote about the treatment of prisoners. Of course the public will come down on the side of harsh treatment=torture because the Pentagon has control over the whole process. Who will ever know if perahps 99% of the respondants were against torture. Recently Andrew Sullivan (yes, that drip!) wrote in the Times of London that the White House is planning ‘to display publically’ the families of 9/11 victims in a push to influence the congressional vote: We Want Justice Now!
P.S. Shh, right before the election.
imm — shhh! We gots to sneak up on ‘em with that thang. They won’t know they been sliced until they heads fall off.
Peterr @ 34
and, and, will Mr. Gerstein show me how?!
what is with you lefties choking me up all the time ?!?!?*g*
go over to C&L and watch the other Jon Stewart clip - if you haven’t seen it yet, it was TDS first broadcast after the attacks -
http://www.crooksandliars.com/.....aily-show/
and for those who haven’t seen this yet - Jebby and the Mouse (via Corrente)
http://www.correntewire.com/wh....._in_a_vice
And this statement needs to be on the bathroom mirror of every Democratic politician, staffer and yes, even consultant, in 18-point bold-face type so that when they gaze into their own reflections (apparently one of their favorite pastimes), they’ll have some chance at internalizing this wisdom.
If this comment places me on the Redshift for President in 2008 bandwagon, so be it. We could do, and already have done, a whole lot worse.
Redshift @ 14
We pull up our favorite quotes from the Neuremburg trials. And we flog them to death with it.
There are some lovely bits from Justice Jackson.
You know, speaking of mini series, there was a mini series a couple years ago … had Alec Baldwin and the first woman prosecutor from Law & Order…name??? Jill Hennesy?
I wonder if it’s out in video or something? Maybe a few houseparty screenings as an act of protest? Is it too long to put up onthe web? What if in evey Congressional District someone hosted a houseparty/screening (or even the orginal “judgement at neurenburg” with Spencer Tracy) and invited the Congressperson and Senators to attend.
The invitation could say something like, “we are watching this movie on X night to remember what it was like when the US was opposed to war crimes, when the US showed the rest of the world that war crimes wil not be tolerated, when the US was a beacon of cicilization and hope for the world. We hope you will join us for an evening of rememberance and prayer and hope that the US Congress will not destroy that legacy and will vote down (put in both the senat and house bill #s )”
Send that invitaiton as part of a press release saying which Senators and Congresion Reprsentaitves you have invited.
If we did that all over the country, in a single week, Somebody might notice. Especailly, if Hillary doesn’t get more than 80%.
I really believe the press is sniffing the wind to see of there really has been a seachange in the attitudes of regular Americans. That’s what I think the Mega church article was about.
Dru in the last thread - apologies change to hooligans.
Peterr!!
Imm–LOL
Quentin, Most military folk I know are very much against torture because what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander and they don’t want anyone to torture our soldiers.
Lieberman hasn’t been showing up to vote on important bills regarding the war in Iraq. Words fail me.
The link is below. Please read.
I’m hoping Jane, Christy or someone else does a post on this here at FDL so we can spotlight it from here to eternity.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/9/12/12827/2352
Pade- thanks! I have a friend whose pupster was named Hooligan…he was a great dog.
Peterr
at 28
I just loved that!
Really good.
By the way- here’s the current scorecard in the senate races:
Dems need to win six out of these seven races without losing any current seats to take control:
Montana dems up 3
Missouri goopers up 4
Tenn goopers up 3
Virginia goopers up 4
Penn dems up 4
Ohio dems up 4
Rhode Island dems up 2
Bottom line is that these seven races are about evenly divided and one would expect the dems to win perhaps four of them unless something happens to change the lay of the land- leaving em two seats short.
Dems are the challengers in all of these races but one- and last minute changes tend to go to the challenger– but it’s not looking like a landslide victory at this point.
angie @ 20
More crazy talk from Wapo coming up…a new op ed columnist, fresh from the White House!
http://www.editorandpublisher......1003120055
“Hiatt told Kurtz that Gerson, 41, has “a really interesting mind” and being “a different kind of conservative from the other conservatives on our page. . . . He’s been part of this White House, but I expect he will be an independent voice.”
snip
Gerson, a member of the White House Iraq Group, has been credited with several memorable Bush phrases, including “axis of evil.” He has been active in the religious community, and in its February 1, 2005 issue, Time Magazine called him the nation’s 9th most influential evangelical, labeling him “The President’s Spiritual Scribe.” It said, “The former journalist shares Bush’s devout Christian faith and his view that the role of Providence in human affairs should be reaffirmed in the public square.”
Gerson’s previous jobs included working for Charle Colson, as a senior editor at U.S. News and World Report, and at the Heritage Foundation.”
Redshift and Peterr:
Yee hah!
(That’s what we need them to do, now how do we get them to do it?)
rwcole — best to wait on the Rhode Island numbers until that State picks a republican candidate. Last I saw, the number you have up is assuming a Chaffey primary win which does not really look all that certain right now.
By the By, A hopeful sign
When I went to vote today–got to the polls around 10:30–I was the next to last person to sign on my page in the registration book.
In other words, every other person, in my election district (except one) who’s name started with the same letter as mine, had ALREADY VOTED.
Turnout is really heavy in my town today.
And my town, is overwhelmingly Dem.
I think PT9-11 and the Shrub’s speech may have had a big effect indeed, just maybe not the one they were hoping for.
Great idea, lhp!
Okay, folks, feast your minds on Justice Jackson’s summation at Nuremberg.
al-Scooter @43
*blush*
Peterr, you rock!
Dru @ 47– omg– the “axis of evil” author himself? Quite probably the most destructive thing to ever come out of the preznit’s mouth (and that is saying a lot!) I betcha he also put the “crusades” into w’s speech. Gerson– a WHIG!
aargh!
looseheadprop @ 54
It’s possible. The Bushistas’ biggest PR gaffe, I think, is that they don’t recognize the desensitizing effect that repeated exposure to fear stimuli can have. They think they can keep pushing the same buttons forever, and they haven’t made much adjustment even when the returns are clearly diminishing. It could well be that many Americans are just past the saturation point and starting to reject the source of the stimulus.
rwcole @
34
Bulls-eye.
Dru 49 — Ugh. More Heritage Foundation spawn.
Every time I see that organization mentioned, I want to hurl. They are the Borg.
Until this past week’s disclosure that Miami Herald journalists were on the take from the feds, every known payola-recipient had ties with Heritage. (I’m still looking for links between the Miami journos and Heritage; think they had a symbiotic relationship, with Alfonso being a cut-out for them and for John Bolton.)
At least Gerson is out. We know with certainty he’s been on our dime, just need to watch to see if he continues to be on our dime.
*xyz @ 47
Heh. Well, let’s see, he had three choices:
Vote with the R’s and be “principled” but add fuel to the antiwar fire.
Vote against them and follow the will of constituents, but look like a craven flip-flopper.
Not show up and hope nobody notices.
For two of these, he could make a case that he was honestly doing what he thought best for the country, and the third is what’s best for Joe.
Guess which one he chose?
lotus @ 55
Thanks rw for your 50.
Last night, after watching the Bush “deer in the headlights” impression, I dug out the Declaration of Independence again. I needed some solace and comfort from a president who knew how to write and speak.
The key to replying to the Bush nonsense - on Geneva or anything else - is to do what Jefferson did. He took on King George’s basic assumptions, in basic ordinary language that everyone can understand. He didn’t get caught up in arguing about the little pieces around the edges (at least not in the Declaration, designed for mass public consumption), but went after the fundamental building blocks of his theory of governing.
What worked against one King George is worth trying against another.
“We believe” puts everyone on notice that these are basic assumptions that we’re talking about. It conjures up religious language, in the sense of referring to our society’s basic beliefs that ought to motivate our behavior. It battles back against the notion that Republicans are the only folks who “believe” in anything.
A Roving, a roving,
since Roving’s been my ruin,
I’ll go no more a-Roving
with you, fair maid
LHP @ 51: What state are you in? Or should I say “live in?” ;-)
Hey Christy (and emptywheel, if you’re checking in) — do you think Gerson is on board to help with the spin pre-trial?
Or pre-indictment?
Heh. I better check the popcorn inventory level.
Beloved lhp, if you knew exactly where to point that cursor alla time, you wouldn’t be as much fun to read — just as smart, but a tidge less fun.
*smoochies*
Kudos to Peterr @ 29–
We should send this to every Dem in or running for Congress.
just an fyi– Robert Kaiser did a chat today at wapo and there was some fascinating discussion, imo.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....01052.html
I can finally tell!
The Charlie Brown poll results are released, and it is amazing. As we know, Charlie Brown is running in CA-04 against John Doolittle. Everyone knows Doolittle is the worst, and Charlie Brown is a great candidate. BUT the district is red, red, red. The numbers:
Name recognition: Brown 33 percent, Doolittle 86 percent.
Cold call: A dead heat! Doolittle 41 percent/Brown 39 percent. And the margin of error is 4.9 percent.
After positives are read about both candidates, Charlie Brown has a 9 point lead! — 47/38 percent. After positives and negatives are read about both candidates, respondents prefer Charlie by 7 points — 45/38.
It’s a race!
lotus @ 14
Ummm, Lotus-blossom,
Could you ’splain me exackly why this is bad news for women in bidness? From what I’ve read of the controversy, she was responsible for authorizing PI’s to spy on people in legally questionable ways.
BC
Redshift @
62
will they let me be Joe in the Senate vote??
Peterr @ 29
Great stuff, and also make clear — the only reason we opposed Bush’s kangaroo courts is that he stubbornly insisted on including procedures that are patently Un-American. All he had to do was accept that he isn’t always right, but after all his failures, he insisted on “my way or the highway.”
Honestly, we really ought to get out in front on this, not play defense. Before the Rove “weak on security” ad appears, we need to have one prepped that says “Why has the President failed to prosecute any of these detainees for five years? He claimes that our courts somehow aren’t good enough, but America has the finest system of justice in the world. End the excuses and demands for more power, and just put them on trial.”
I’m gonna go write to MoveOn…
LindaR @ 71
Woo and hoo, LindaR — thank you for this news!
Peterr @
65
This apropos excerpt about H.L. Mencken’s The American Language and the excerpt of the translation contained therein of the Declaration of Independence into American English from this morning’s The Writer’s Almanac might be of interest to you:
angie @ 58
Yup. Painful, isn’t it?
Maybe Wapo can add a little something to their masthead, just in case anyone is unclear on how they are leaning and wrt crusades…courtesy of the noble watertiger
http://www.flickr.com/photos/3.....241167910/
Oh but y’all just gotta read Eugene Robinson’s column this morning! It is right in line with George Lakoff’s article @ HuffPo from yesterday that dru linked to:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....00883.html
The answer to the torture bill that Pres. Monkeypants wants is simple. Democrats should not answer any of Rove’s barbs.
Just repeat after me: “Sen. McCain’s bill will get American soldiers tortured. President Bush sent our troops to Iraq without body armor, and now he wants the troops to face torture.”
It’s our troops, stupid. the deal is, they fight and die for us, and we’re supposed to protect them.
Minnesotachuck @ 66
New York
Another truth to tell: I heard on the radio news this morning Tony Snow said that Bush “took great pains to be bipartisan” on 9/11. The reaction to that should be, Finally! A true statement from this Administration. It does pain Bush to be bipartisan — and this president doesn’t do anything that causes him discomfort, let alone pain.
Thanks to the beautiful flower, a little selction fro Justice Jackson for your viewing pleasure”
Thanks lotus for Justice Jackson’s summation at Nuremberg.
Agreed BC at 72 — from everything I read, Dunn had this coming. It just so often seems that the time women executives lede the NYT is when one of them — all too often recently, H-P’s — is making bad news.
John Casper @ 81
I’ll second the vote of thanks. It’s not too readable there, but I’ve imported it into WordPro. Great stuff … pity they don’t seem to be making Supreme Court Justices like Messrs. Justice Jackson and Chief Justice Warren anymore.
BC
angie - if you can still edit your post 76 at 9:42 am, you apparently have an open italics tag.
looseheadprop @ 80
Wow lhp.
That works.
I Hear America Voting
. . . Voting, with open minds, their strong melodious voice. . .
am sure Whitman would forgive me
Stephen Parrish, CPA @
83
Funny, I did not use italics there!
Another good example of laying out what progressives believe, in contrast to their opponents: Harry Truman’s 1948 acceptance speech at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia. A taste . . .
Simple, direct, and to the point. Dems ought not be afraid of going back to such direct rhetoric, claiming their heritage of being the party of “we, the people.”
OT
and I really hate to do anything to increase her traffic, but Coultergeist is going after our boy Fitz
http://www.freerepublic.com/fo.....9500/posts
Just so you know, and I will have figures later today or tomorrow (I just have to go finish a brief before I can wip out my calcuator and crunch the numbers from the GAO) But there is no $20 million in investigation costs.
Katie Couric is talking through her hat. And I my need to point it out to her.
Oh, and Pat does not get paid one thin dime extra for having a second full time job as Specail Prosecutor.
There have been little bits and pieces in the press ever since this Armitage thingy. As Emptywheel so correctly pointed out, Ashcroft knew it was Armitage BEFORE he made the decision to aapoint a Sp. Pros.
Clearly there is some other evidence that prompted ASHCROFT to believe a Sp. Pros. was needed.
Bless you Marcy.
Egregious’ political platform–
Domestic policy: the Constitution
Foreign policy: Geneva Conventions.
Really, it covers everything except for my airborne mascara :)
On Sunday, Dick Cheney said the reason there have been no attacks in five years is that the administration has done a good job on “homeland security, in terms of the terrorist surveillance program we’ve put in place, in terms of the financial tracking we put in place, and because of our detainee policy.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...../11/AR2006 091100883.html
so, using this logic, prior to 9/11 we did a good job because no attacks??