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Harry Reid's insistence on telling the truth about the McCain/Lieberman vanity war is driving RNC endorsed sources batshit insane (this deserves a DMS-IV classification all to itself) and pushing media (*choke*) outlets into bolder partisan extremes, but it's proving extraordinarliy popular with the base. Reid's latest DKos straw poll had his approval rating at 40%. As of today, that approval rating has soared to 90%. The Bush junta, the war bloggers and their in-the-tank media might not iike it, but Reid is voicing the opinion of the majority of Americans with regard to the war and the netroots community appears to love him for it.
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Beautiful Jane.
REID!!!
keep it coming
Go Get ‘um Harry!
90% compared to Deadeye’s 9%.
His time has come.
“I’d like some more, please . . .” — Oliver Twist
My most recent rant to my paper:
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President Bush now excoriates “politicians in Washington who are substituting their own judgment for that of our generals in Iraq.”
Had the War President/Decider taken his own advice at the outset of his inexorably failing Iraq misadventure, things might have turned out favorably. The “politicians in Washington” comprising his own inner circle of invasion architects, however, had no problem in 2003 “substituting their own judgment for that of our generals.” The tragic and criminally incompetent net result is plain for all to see.
I want out of Iraq now. Are you listening Democratic front runners for the nomination for prez?
We need to call and thank Harry for hanging tough. He needs to know how much we appreciate him doing his ..um ..er job. Is the poll still open?
I guess I’m not the only one freaking tired of lies.
The poll is still open. Click on Janes link and go vote!!!!
lolo
I like Harry.
Once sent his office (along with dozens of other Americabloggers) some sweets for sticking it to the thugs on the floor of the Senate when they were still in control.
harry reid has been doing a great job recently of rhetorically challenging the bush/cheney administration over the iraq war/occupation.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 7
Ditto
I wonder if the AP takes a dim view of their material being rewritten in the manner the NY Post did.
This stuff is only going to get deeper so now is good time to go out and buy those rubber boots you have always wanted.
I’ve given Harry a ration or two over the years when I thought he’s deserved it — and he had shown as little spine as any other democrat over much of the last six years — but if he continues in his current vein, he will redeem himself in my and many other peoples eyes.
Besides, it’s easy to be righteous when you’re in the right, and Harry’s never been righter…er, lefter…more righteous!
It’s like the hackneyed scene from the movies where the sadistic jailer gets some of his own medicine
and stares unbelievingly at the oncoming inmates.
“Give ‘em hell, Harry” never rang so sweet.
selise @ 12
;0)
Tony Snow back on Monday EPU’d. He is going to start his cancer treatment while working. I wonder if all the naysayers will attack him like they attacked Elizabeth Edwards. I doubt it. Hopefully it will diffuse all the fuss about Elizabeth. God bless them both during their recoveries.
lolo
lolo @
8
Called his office this morning to do just that. Told ‘em to keep up the good work since I couldn’t convince my own senators to do so.
I’m so sick and tired of being sick and tired. I hope Reid stands his ground.
When is the House vote supposed to be? I figured it would have happened by now. Don’t they need to vote so they can get out of town for the weekend?
cathy @ 21
Understood.
Tony Snow gonna go for the sympathy angle, IMHO
This is just more proof Harry and Nancy (at 93% last I looked) are captive of the nutroots.
/snark
lolo @
19
And Roger Ebert.
Jane!!! Yes, and the MSNBC poll says (when I looked) that 87% who answered the poll want W impeached.
America has switched beverages.
My current theory is that Harry has clued in (although not about Liebermonster) and is persuing a deliberate strategy.
Believe it was Kagro X who’d suggested taking the whole battle over Iraq to the American public, to bypass the media.
But I think Reid’s trying out a “use the media” option, making an end run around the White House by way of their own mouthpiece. By continuing to employ such blatantly confrontational language, the media has no choice but to ask for a response from the POTUS.
I can hardly wait to see it, wonder which MSM member will have the guts to ask: “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said again that the war in Iraq has been been a presidential failure of policy, and further said you were in a state of denial. How do you respond?”
Bwa-hahahahahahah…
Harry keeps poking the psycho nutjob in the solar plexus until he goes all Colonel Jessup on us in front of the media and his staff. And then Congress will have no choice but to ask if the POTUS is competent in a DSM-IV sense to uphold his oath.
Give him another poke, Harry.
And then ask Granny Pelosi to give him one in the shins with her pointy toed shoes.
Good for Harry, but I wish the media would stop salivating over this like it’s some kinda High Noon b/w Bush and Reid. Everybody knows Bush will veto. What’s the big woop? Let’s get the predictable WH BS done and over with. They probably rushed poor Tony Snow back to handle the PR on this, I guaran-damn-tee ya.
Josh Marshall commenting a few moments ago on the NYPost’s
rewritedestruction of the AP Reid story Jane linked to above:It gets better. I just heard back from the author, David Espo. He told me: “I didn’t write anything remotely like that. My name was on the story and I didn’t write it anything like the way it was printed.”
I say the less traffic we give that Malkin person the better.
i thought i heard that the house was going to debate/vote on the conference version of the iraq war/occupation supplemental funding bill today… (and the senate tomorrow)
been listening to c-span, but nothing so far… does anyone know the schedule for this?
LS @ 27
W-O-W
Regardless of other considerations. Impeachment hearings are necessary.
People are beginning to identify when the liberty bell rings true. This country is recovering from PTSD after 9/11, and the Neocons took total advantage (or, nevermind) of the shock, fear and grief of this Nation.
We are recovering and coming on strong.
Ed*ard Teller @ 30
If the AP has any integrity, they will sue the b*stards.
Mandrake @ 29
You can flame me and call me cynical, but I think this is a blatant use of the sympathy card. Tony may be up for the job, but what White House gaggle member will have the chutzpah to take it to Tony? Cheese-on-rice, they didn’t have the stones to ask the POTUS why he was taking softball questions from the fiddy-dollar-two-day-journo-cert man-whore in their midst, when the POTUS had the benefit of political capital. They won’t be up to the job of asking “poor, poor Tony” about the f*cking truth.
Ed*ard Teller @ 30
Well, then who the hell did???????????
Tap Duncan @ 24
I watched him at WH correspondents’ dinner last Saturday. He didn’t appear to be playing any games. Since word came out on his recurrance of cancer, he has made several statements about cancer fighters in general which struck me as sensible and humble.
No doubt this will make the Tillmans feel better.
LINK
Ed*ard Teller @ 39
It’s not Tony that’s playing games per se, ET. It’s Rove, with Tony’s permission. Rove’s trying to use the sympathy card to put up a social firewall between himself, POTUS and the media.
Go to the blogroll here and click on The Rude Pundit. He says it best.
But I have to say, I love how Harry just keeps at it, every day, never giving an inch. That’s how we’re going to win.
Is Harkin’s ad not supposed to say what party he is, if he is in one?
Calling Monica Goodling–as Blitzed just did–merely “a former Justice official” instead of liaison to the WH, is kinda like calling ol’ Scoots a former Congressional aide.
Oh, c’mon Jane. A dKos straw poll? I’m all for whoopin’ up Reid, but that’s not exactly a meaningful number.
Ed*ard Teller @ 39
Well he does have the best cancer doctors in the country working on him, but what about the rest of us?
AZ Matt @ 40
Um, Tillman passed nearly 3 years ago. Why the sudden need to make this particular point??
I call bullsh*t.
Rayne @ 37
Rayne I don’t think that will work for them, if we bark on the blogs about it then C&L, TPM, Daily Show etc. will pick it up. I dare them.
lolo
I don’t see how Snow is an improvement on previous Bush PR men. Snow is a gofer-turkey. I refuse to watch or listen to this man.
AZ Matt @ 40
Did the prez attend Tillman’s funeral? I don’t think so.
Rayne @ 41
No doubt Rayne. When in doubt (read Low Poll Numbers) go for the sympathy vote. Let’s not forget this guy went from fox news to the W.H. if that doesn’t put his genuiness in question well then nothing will. He’s a shill, plain and simple irregardless of his illness. Keep it in perspective people (Not You Rayne)
Got an email from Larry Kissell, NC-08 in ‘08 we hope!
Rahm is attending a fundraiser for Kissell soon, too bad he couldn’t take this race seriously in ‘06. Kissell lost by only 300 votes. Wish the national party had been there for him.
Tony Snow’s cancer and his treatment should not be taken lightly. The first few days the press might take it easy but then it will be back to normal. Oh, forgot that’s easy too
Rayne @ 46
A good call. Pat Tillman was great propaganda for the Bushies.
Rayne @ 41
I don’t disagree with that, Rayne, but I’m sure Snow is eager to be engaged spreading the usual GOP lies. He’ll be busy enough without having to be Rove’s poster boy in a cynical sympathy game. He might even push back if Rove assaults or attempts overtly to manipulate what remains of Snow’s sense of dignity and professionalism when he’s fighting for his life.
Bearpaw @45
Jane did say “straw poll”, yes? Um-hum, I see that. And the last DKos strawpoll did a fairly decent job of taking the temperature of grassroots’/netroots’ sentiment, yes? I don’t remember hearing a lot of argument about the sentiment conveyed in the last several straw polls.
If you don’t like the point the lady and operator of this blog is making, perhaps you could call Reid’s office and ask how sentiment has been running — but that would include the sentiment of folks who are quite unlikely to vote for the man or support his party, probably not a reasonable benchmark.
NYT/Reuters
Cuomo testimony story on student loans.
“Our investigation has revealed an unholy alliance between lenders and many trusted institutions of higher education. Part of the reason the practices we have uncovered have been able to flourish nationwide over the past several years is because the U.S. Department of Education has been asleep at the switch.”
An Education Department spokeswoman had no immediate comment.
Prairie Sunshine @ 36
It doesn’t. The AP regularly trashes Pelosi, Reid, Edwards, ( fill in name of your favorite Democrat) .
Just look at their coverage of Pelosi’s trip to the Middle East a few weeks ago.
CNN Mary Snow w/Blitzed giving many minutes to Guiliani’s attacks…Dem responses, not so much.
Let’s see. Republicans…the party of “okay, now you’ve covered your ass.” Or this gem, “no one could have anticipated…”
Or, in an executive decision that boggles the mind, Guiliani blocks his public safety divisions from communicating with each other…and puts his task force in the WTC after it was already attacked…and has so many sexual hi-jinks going on between himself and his BFF Kerik they must be stuporfied…
That Republican offense? Yeah, it’s offensive all right.
They don’t like Henry using the stick, either. Latest GOP talking point on Waxman’s DOJ hearings, the hearings to nowhere…..
AZ Matt @ 40
Rayne @ 47
Perino actually made a very carefully worded statement to the effect that she was not aware that Bush knew anything about the Tillman situation being bogus before the family. Presumptive indicia of prevarication.
She’s actually getting a bit better at spouting bullsh*t. All the practice is paying off.
I called Reid’s office today, just to say I agree that the war is lost and to encourage Harry to never back down from that statement.
And damn, he cracked me up with his “Cheney the attack dog with the 9% approval rating” stuff. Ouch.
Heh, heh.
Keep it up Harry - We want more of this!!
Ed*ard Teller @ 60
Ed*ard Teller @ 60
Hearings to nowhere alright, they can’t get anywhere anymore with Waxman, Leahy, and Schumer…
You play, you pay.
OT — sorry, but I think I have to point this out, completely pisses me off even if I am an investor.
CNBC’s Larry “so far to the right he supports slavery” Kudlow is crowing, making me absolutely nauseous about the performance of the market, going on and on about this being the biggest uninterrupted market expansion since the 1950’s-60’s. I don’t know what kind of crack this ugly old dork is cramming in his bodily orifices, but his glee at the market’s strong uptick is absolutely disgusting.
He had a gentleman on who said that corporations’ profitability came at the expense of labor, and that labor would firm and push back — but Kudlow treated the guy like crap and wiped his verbal shoes on him, following up with a couple of his fellow bulls.
If you have cable, you really do need to spend some time watching Kudlow; you need to see the world through the lenses of the top 5% of the world, to realize that they really, REALLY don’t give a sh*t about you or anybody else, only their profits. And as long as the money keeps pouring in due to Kudlow’s happily endorsed low corporate tax rate, they will continue to think that everything in the world is just hunky-dory.
Meanwhile, the majority of Americans have had to tighten their belts this past couple weeks as gasoline prices went back up. And some of us who do have assets in the market know that some of this run-up is because the money has no where else to go right now; when interest rates were low, they put money in real estate. And now that doesn’t work, so they’re running up the market. What a crock, totally disconnected from reality…
Rayne 65,
So, so true.
Tap Duncan and Raven - In case you’re here now, I posted a message for you at 2:08 pm on the previous thread.
Just from the peanut gallery, but in spite of his willingness or ability to use it, the outlook for Tony Snow, chemo or not, is pretty bad. He’s buying months with the treatment, IMHO, and will decline onscreen, without having to hold up any cards at all. I’m sorry that he believes that shilling for the Bush Administration is a useful way to spend his end of life; I’d be on a plane to Bora Bora.
namaste
Another department under Bush cronyism
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04.....ref=slogin
just heard on c-span….
debate on iraq war/occupation supplemental spending bill is expected to begin on the house floor in 1 to 1.25 hours (6:45-7pm ET).
some bill info here (with thanks to TiredFed for figuring it out with me).
WRT Iraq Accountability Bill, i.e. the Supplemental, I called my Congresswoman and urged her to vote for it.
When the Idiot-in-Chief vetos it, I guess I’ll be calling to try to get her to vote to over-ride…
Thank you for actually representing the American public, Mr. Reid…and Mr Kucinich…
I understand John Edwards is going to call for the firing of Karl Rove tomorrow night.
Most things break, said Yeats. It’s taken much too long but I think that this administration is finally about to break into teeny, tiny pieces.
[just delurking long enough to wave hello to all the regulars]
((hello))
George break it down!
On HuffPo
Bush Breaks It Down At Malaria Awareness Event
Boogie Down
cathy @ 69
Holy sh*t!!! That popcorn lung, destroying, artifical flavoring is still legal???? It’s worse that smoking!!!!!!
zennurse @ 68
Agreed, zen (good to see you, btw). I try to keep in mind that he must believe in what he’s doing, but I just can’t reconcile how a human can delude themselves into thinking that cheerleading and manipulating the media for an administration that is worse than Nixon’s is somehow noble.
Rayne @ 56
Are we getting overly thin-skinned? It seems that, lately, there have been an awful lot of smack-downs if anyone even slightly disagrees with the post.
John Edwards calls for Rove to be fired, Gozales to resign
http://www.wxii12.com/politics.....etail.html
“The President should demand that Alberto Gonzales resign, and he should fire Karl Rove. They have turned the Department of Justice into the Department of Political Payback. In doing so, they deny every American the legitimate expectation that justice will be administered without reference to partisan considerations,” Edwards said in a prepared statement.
It is becoming obvious that the GOP is completely falling apart. Yeah! Rudy is spouting talking points from 2003. And the RNC is running an attack ad on Sen. Harkin a war vet who is a vocal critic of the War. I guess the RNC did not see the latest Iowa poll of Republican voters which shows 58% of the GOP voters in Iowa favor a withdrawal from Iraq within 6 months. It is like these folks are in a dis-associative state.
Brisingamen @ 71
i hope bush does veto - ‘cuz otherwise, as far as i can tell… bush will have his endless war, as this bill does not seem to have a binding withdrawal timeline…
i wonder if harry reid’s recent rhetorical challengs have been done in order to push bush’s buttons until he is so pissed off he will veto the bill no matter what.
if that’s the case - then… go harry! it’s good to see him join nancy pelosi in this.
Pelosi Statement Following Her Briefing With General Petraeus
LINK
April 25th, 2007 by Office of the Speaker
Speaker Pelosi released the following statement on her briefing yesterday with General David Petraeus:
General Petraeus and I had a very informative half-hour discussion yesterday, which included the assessment of the situation in Iraq that he will share with other House Members today. I appreciated his report and his responses to my questions on security and political issues in Iraq. We share a conviction that the war in Iraq will not be resolved militarily, and I look forward to future reports from him on the effects of President Bush’s escalation plan.
solai @ 77
Solai — there’s disagreement, and then there’s rudeness. This is Jane’s house, after all; one does not come in and say, “The drapes reek.” Bad form, whether in a blog or in real life.
BobbyG @
6
The problem is the one politician in Washington (George W. Bush) who doesn’t listen to our generals, and instead substitutes his own judgment by firing the generals who disagree with him until he finds one who will say “yes” to his daffy ideas.
Bob in HI
Rayne @ 65
Two reality checks for Kudlow
Here and here
Stephen Parrish, CPA @ 67
I am here, got that link, and MANY THANKS, Tap
Selise, I’m praying that Reid sticks to his guns and the next bill will be even more restrictive.
AFAIC Congress could just abandon the supplemental funding, which would allow the Defense Dept. to run out of funds even faster!
Instead of “what if they gave a war and nobody came” we’d have “what if they gave a war and no one was willing to pay for it?”
Hmmm…. Petreus said he doesn’t want to get into the minefield of legislative matters….and Pelosi says they share a conviction that the war cannot be won militarily…and, he spoke to Granny first!
Sounds promising to me.
Rayne @ 76
Hi Rayne, back atcha, sweetie, good to be seen. from where I sit, as a hospice nurse, I guess what I’m saying is that I wish someone would sit him down and say, What is it you want to do with this life? So many times we see folks who are going to “do battle” or “fight back” and are surrounded by others who want them to do just that. It totally annoys me because in my experience, a lot of them are just really tired and want to let go, screw treatment and looking strong. Everyone isn’t Lance Armstrong and they shouldn’t be expected to be, y’know. I can’t even imagine the messages coming at him from THIS White House.
editorializing, sorry, but geez louise, it’s the guy’s life, and you know Dim Son will use it for all he’s worth. Yuk.
Appologies if this has already been discussed- Imus’s replacement for a week.
http://noquarter.typepad.com/m.....mille.html
Rayne @ 82
What I’ve always loved about this site is that one can voice their opinion and it is respected. I’m not speaking of Trolls, of course, just honest progressives who may not always agree. I would hate to see it made into something where we could not disagree with the hosts.
And, besides, all the hosts are highly intelligent, accomplished individuals. I’m sure they can take an alternate opinion, or a slight tease.
oversight, I love you; overreach, I love you not; oversight, I love you; overreach, I love you not;
oversight, I love you; overreach, I love you not; oversight, I love you; overreach, I love you not;
oversight, I love you!
John in Sacremento @ 84
Reality and Larry Kudlow rarely exist in the same dimension.
cathy @ 89
This is fantastic news. I might have to plug in the TV and get cable..
Brisingamen @ 86
reid has got a very difficult job - much worse that the situation in the house.
there are 50 dems in the senate (including sanders but not lieberman)… and with johnson out… IF he can hold the caucus together, he only has 49 votes. hagel and smith gave him 51 votes for the non-binding bill. he can only afford to lose one vote to pass this bill.
gotta peel away some more of the republicans - hopefully the moveon mobilization will help with that, eventually.
LS @ 91
The only ones claiming overreach are the reich-wingers who do NOT want any oversight.
dakine01 @ 95
Today, Dana Perino made the comparison..this is a snark on her comparison.
on c-span NOW - debate on iraq war/occupation supplemental funding conference report.
…to be followed by vote
Rayne @ 65
I listened to CNBC this AM and Alan Murray, a Wall Street journal person and Big Time Bush cheerleader made this point, “the Dow Jones Industrial Average does in no way reflect the health of the U.S. economy, but since this is all a global economy, it reflects a European and Asian healthy economy” I don’t think he was thinking too carefully how this sounded. He is such a Bush guy that PomPoms would be in order. But sometimes the truth slips out. But this statement can be used to refute how good the Bush economy is when we all know it is teetering.
zennurse @ 88 says:
Kinda like he’s used the 3300 US troops and the god knows how many Iraqis. Life is meaningless to the Chimpenfuhrer. Except for his own of course.
Wow. I just watched that Malkin cheerleader video. That is quite possibly the lamest thing I have ever seen, and I’ve sifted through a *lot* of YouTube.
LS @ 96
Since my blood pressure doesn’t stand up to watching the kool-aid drinkers, I stand corrected.
Rayne @ 82
Rayne, not to offend, but if MY drapes reek, I sure hope someone will tell me so I can correct the situation. Then again, I tend to be far too thick skinned.
I have mini-blinds.
I know this is off point but apparently George Tenet, perhaps the worst hack of all time, is now set to promote his book. This endless parade of jerks, Cheney, Libby, Gore, the Clintons, Bushes, Kerry reflects the level of systemic failure I felt in the Vietnam era. But then the opposition was so clear (and I am not including Kerry who was always a gadfly) and the press was making an effort, even electronic media before the era of Disney and Viacom. It really will go down that the Vietnam War so emasculated and disabled my generation that we were only destined to have the petty such as the Clintons and their appointee, George Tenet and Bush. If you ever watch a re-run of Gore “debating” Bush it is just incredible and that is where that election was lost, not “stolen”.
Fox News has Rahm Emanual reading his speach. (hum….not very well) I haven’t seen it anywhere else. They called it a ‘he said she said’ partisan fight. Between Rahm and DAna Snows replacement. Brit Hume announced Tony Snow coming back and started coughing and choking. Very strange that channel, gotta bleach eyes……
dakine01 101, :}
Eli @ 103
707
selise @ 97
David Dreir all dressed up and preening
Eli @ 103
and here I was, admiring your non-blinding resolution.