David Corn

LOL The birther soldier that won't go to Afghanistan shot himself in the fkn foot. He had VOLUNTEERED to go, so he could've backed out of it AT ANY TIME... without a lawsuit. So what was the outcome of his lawsuit? He lost his fkn JOB. haha His 'free world' job was for a Pentagon contractor AT THE PENTAGON. Guess who can't come on Pentagon grounds? People who've filed lawsuits against them.

What a dumbazz! He basically got conned by a wingnut lawyer into doing something against his own best interests so she could get some publicity.

Letterman Top Ten cheney Excuses

http://tinyurl.com/m9z9kr

You GO dude!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSM8t_cLZgk

Bernie Sanders gives John McCain an uncomfortable moment asking him if the VA is socialized health care, and if he or anyone else in the Senate is advocating doing away with it. Sanders is exactly right. It is NOT the job of the Senate to protect the private health insurance industry.

LOL The internetsss are full of funnies tonight.

Meghan McCain: ‘Joe the Plumber — you can quote me — is a dumbass.’

http://tinyurl.com/n848ge

The job of politicians is to protect whoever bribes them most generously. I hope we can survive the ability of the rich and powerful to buy any legislation they desire no matter how much it may hurt the citizens of the country.

The culture wars are simply in a state of temporary truce. They exist because some people there was a golden past that must be regained. Nothing of the sort is possible.

Sen. Bernie Sanders Demands a Crackdown on Bank Bonuses

“Any big bank that received a taxpayer bailout should be subject to strict limits on compensation and should not be rewarding bonuses to senior executives. The American people deserve to know that their hard-earned tax dollars are not going to enrich executives on Wall Street.”

Read Bernie’s letter to Fed Chairman Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Geithner here

http://sanders.senate.gov/files/letter-071509.pdf

(add to the youtube above)

"An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought."

Simon Cameron (1799 - 1889)

Frank Ricci - Resume Padding

Setting aside any embarrassment they might feel at the litigious history of their poster boy for oppressed white men, Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are gleefully anticipating tomorrow's appearance by Frank Ricci at the confirmation hearing of Sonia Sotomayor.

But before they buy Ricci a beer and sing a chorus of Kumbaya, they need to get up to speed on his newly updated resume:

On its official witness list, the Senate Judiciary Committee lists Ricci as Director of Fire Services, ConnectiCOSH (Connecticut Council on Occupational Safety and Health). And that's understandable--he boasts as much on his website.

The problem, unfortunately, is that there is no such position.

Seeking to distance themselves from Ricci, ConnectiCOSH has sent a letter to Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) asking him to correct the record. "Mr. Ricci has posted on his website that he is the "Director of Fire Services for ConnectiCOSH" but there is no such position with ConnectiCOSH," writes ConnectiCOSH Co-Chair Steve Schrag.

Another "serial exaggerator" representing the Republican cause

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/7/15/753774/-Frank-RicciResume-Padding

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It just gets better and better!

What we need is a good analogy.

Bush was to the GOP (and our country as a whole) as Katrina was to New Orleans. Bush has destroyed our economy like no other since Hoover (a conservative, of course -- what is it with Conservatives causing Depressions?). When Americans are having trouble putting food on the table for their families (or as 20 Cent would say "put food on their families"), they will put aside their cultural differences and pull together. We are, after all, Americans, that's what we freakin' do. E pluribus unum, bitches. From the many, ONE!

These folks (whether well-intentioned or self-serving) who are trying to pull us apart by noting our "cultural" differences are being marginalized because Americans are too busy rebuilding from Bush-Katrina. When homes, levees, electrical grids, water and sewage plants, streets, businesses, and that vital sense of communal trust are being rebuilt, you don't want some preachy idiot walking around complaining all the time.

The problem for the Conservative Clown Show is that they are letting these preachy idiots dominate and steer their political party. Americans can still vividly remember when these preachy idiots were in power. They know that Conservatives got us into this hellish mess. They aren't ready to hand the keys to the car back to the CCS just yet. They will, though.

Hoover and Nixon were roughly 40 years apart. Nixon, in addition to being as lawless and stupid as Bush, also visited two destructive recessions upon us (like Bush -- what is it with Conservatives and recessions?). Nixon and Bush were about 30 years apart. Give Americans another generation or so to forget about what these preachy idiots did to our country, once the reconstruction after Bush-Katrina is done, Americans will go back to caring about God, guns, gays, gangs, drugs, and the prurient hollywood poison.

Till then, they'll just keep electing Democrats.

President Obama calls to congratulate Congresswoman-elect Chu on last night’s win
source: http://tinyurl.com/n3vxvh

The first black President calling the first Chinese-American woman in Congress to congratulate her.

Meanwhile, Americans are being treated to high comedy in the form of grumpy white men making asses of themselves questioning President Obama's SCOTUS nominee. How is it that those GOP Senators all sound like Gomer Pyle? Except for Hatch, who sounds like the guy at the Walmart that wants to know if he can see your receipt.

The party of grumpy white men (and 3 or 4 white women) trying to cast a Hispanic woman as a bigot. Sounds like a plan by the Mayberry Machiavellians. It will be just as effective. I feel for them, as pathetic as they are, I feel very badly for them. They're like those squirrels and cats that get their head caught in a tin can. You wanna laugh your ass off and help them with the can at the same time.

regarding yesterday's post on Facebook. Yes, it can get you in a heap of trouble. Remember the President's speechwriter making an ass of himself with a Hilary Clinton cardboard cutout?

Then there's this poor guy, last week:

British spy chief's cover blown on Facebook
source: http://tinyurl.com/kjt5qr

LONDON (Reuters) - The wife of the new head of Britain's spy agency has posted pictures of her husband, family and friends on Internet networking site Facebook, details which could compromise security, a newspaper said on Sunday.

Sir John Sawers is due to take over as head of the Secret Intelligence Service in November. The SIS, popularly known as MI6, is Britain's global intelligence-gathering organization.

In what the Mail on Sunday called an "extraordinary lapse," the new spy chief's wife, Lady Shelley Sawers, posted family pictures and exposed details of where the couple live and take their holidays and who their friends and relatives are.

The details could be viewed by any of the many millions of Facebook users around the world, but were swiftly removed once authorities were alerted by the newspaper's enquiries.

David, the short answer is no.

The good ol' boy club is not going down completely without a fight. Why else would Rush Limbaugh be popping a cork right now?

"Why else would Rush Limbaugh be popping a cork right now?"

(dirty and unnecessary thoughts . . . )

In short - it depends on which orafice the drug addled douche stuffed the cork?

lol

Ha! I didn't EVEN go there...guess that's why we have you Capt!

Well...they are scared sh*tless...

lol

I read more comments that I agreed with yesterday than I have in a long, long time. It shouldn't surprise me that on a left-leaning blog that I agree with folks. It just amazed me that they said it so succinctly. This is something I'm not so good at.

"Don't feed the trolls. . . . People like David Corn should be proud and be aplaud for the size of their grapefruits to speak there mind."
Posted by: CJ Wrangler July 15, 2009 5:42 PM

I am head of Nutritional Services for Trolls around here. I know.

And the grafefruits comment was something that reminded me of something my wife always notes about Politics. We describe how tough politicians are by making allusions to their male genitalia; when in fact, a lot of the toughest political animals out there are female. Look at all the women in the Dem Congressional team. Speaker of the House. Hilary. Look at some of the biggest whistleblowers to come out and show their faces. Look at the face of the anti-war movement . American Gold Star Mothers. Journalistic firethrowers. Helen "babyface" Thomas. Christiane Amanpour. The international leaders. Thatcher, Indira Ghandi, Golda Meir, Benazir Bhutto. You could go on and on to name the ladies that put their "grapefruits" on the line for their beliefs especially when their beliefs were unpopular or unsafe to express.

I like "ta-tas", but thanks Clint

"We describe how tough politicians are by making allusions to their male genitalia"

I think they are trying to compensate.

I bet they have a red sports car and a neverending midlife crisis . . . .

Women are the stronger gender - in too many ways to count.

- or "the girls"

There's a great line from Bride and Prejudice - the best remake of Pride and Prejudice ever made by the way - besides the Colin Firth version -

Anyway, when the Lydia characture, Lakhi, was getting dressed for a party, wearing a very skimpy outfit, the Mrs. Bennett characture told Lakhi, "We want him too look into Jaya'seyes, not your mammies!"

I am a Jane Austen fanatic so please excuse the reference to those that are not as obsessed as I am. If you've never seen Bride and Prejudice, I highly recommend it - a Bollywood version of Pride and Prejudice - it's very good - and very funny.

It will never be over...If these people have anything to say about it...until we are all true believers...

As I described in a June 11, 2009 story Ensign's "C Street House" Owned By Group Touting Plans For Christian World Control, founder of Youth With a Mission Loren Cunningham, whose organization owns the house where GOP Senators John Ensign and Tom Coburn enjoy cheap rent, espouses a doctrine known as the "Seven Mountains Mandate" in which believers seek to gain world control, by gaining influence over seven key sectors of society: religion, government, media, education, arts and entertainment, family, and business.
But the Seven Mountains idea is not unique to Loren Cunningham, and it is likely that Sarah Palin embraces the 7M Mandate's theocratic agenda:

In a 2005 religious ceremony (link to video footage) held as Palin was preparing to run for the Alaska governor's seat, two pastors publicly blessed and anointed Palin and in a short speech prior to the anointing, Kenyan religious leader Thomas Muthee gave an opening speech in whcih he clearly espoused, with Sarah Palin in the audience, the 7 Mountains Mandate.

The 7M Mandate is being promoted by a newly formed global Christian relational network, coalescing out of Pentecostalism and the Charismatic movement, which represents a radically different new form of Christianity, whose leaders Palin is extensively linked to, that most Americans do not even know exists: The New Apostolic Reformation.

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2009/7/16/143533/029/

But so far the media spotlight has completely missed the wider picture; The Family is not the only parachurch organization that promotes anti-democratic religious ideology and wields influence both Washington and internationally as well. Youth With a Mission and Campus Crusade For Christ each boast yearly budgets to rival or exceed those of James Dobson's Focus On The Family and the founders of the two organizations have been billed, along with the late theocratic theologian Francis Schaeffer, as the original visionaries who conceived of the Seven Mountains Mandate.

Most importantly, YWAM and Campus Crusade For Christ are part of a militant stream that has erupted out of Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity, which fielded the GOP vice presidential candidate in the 2008 election: Sarah Palin. Campus Crusade maintains a sub-ministry that focuses it evangelizing efforts on Pentagon members and politicians and staffers on Capital Hill.

I'm on You Tube...The Fred Friendly Seminars came to the NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) conference last week and offered to record our statements. They produced "Minds on the Edge" will be shown on PBS in October, I believe. I have an advance copy and I think it, or portions of it, can be viewed on this site as well. Some of the people on the show were at the conference. Dr. Fred Frese is incredible.

Anyway, I jumped into the booth without much preparation. I thought since I had been doing so much writing I would be ok...It didn't really work out that way. It's not horrible but I'm kind of embarrassed. I know I say "um" too much. This really makes it stand out. I also jumped around too much.

oh well...

I'm Ilene Wells and If I can look like an idiot, so can you...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOjeY0kKwco

You sound fine and look good.

Do NOT be critical of yourself - others will always do that for you.

You made cogent points on an important matter.

I'm impressed.

BTW - nice smile.

You made me smile at the end with you.

*high fives*

video: Obama in a rave mood

The president is in New Jersey today, giving a hand to governor Jon Corzine. Facing a crowd of 17,000 people, Obama stormed back to a campaign mode and clearly released some serious steam that been probably built over the past few months.

I always thought that with all of his coolness and calmness, there's a serious fire inside this man. We don't see much of it now that he's the president and all that, but when has the clearance to be totally partisan, he can explode. This is as fired up as i've seen him in a long time.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/16/754267/-video:-Obama-in-a-rave-mood

ZOMG!!!!!

RNC Web site promoting anti-Semitic, anti-Latino, and pornographic literature

It's not very often the boys at AMERICAblog get to type the word "clitoris" in a political blog post, but thanks to Michael Steele and the headquarters of the Republican party, today is that special day.

Forget that copy of Playboy, kids, you don't need to go any further than your local RNC.com Web site. Of course, in all seriousness, it's far worse than that - the Web site of the Republican National Committee is also promoting literature that is overtly anti-Semitic and anti-Latino.

It all started when earlier this week the GOP started promoting it's new Web site, http://www.gop.com/obamacard/. The site is supposed to showcase how much money President Obama is supposedly spending by letting you, the visitor, spend money too on your new "Obama credit card."

http://www.americablog.com/2009/07/rnc-web-site-promoting-anti-semitic.html

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Not my kind of "family values" - I mean "what will we tell the children?"

Biden challenges GOP on stimulus on Cantor's turf

RICHMOND, Va. — Vice President Joe Biden, in the backyard of the House's No. 2 Republican, asked critics of the economic stimulus package Thursday to explain how they would help the struggling economy.

Biden defended the Obama administration's $787 billion recovery package at a community college in the affluent Richmond suburbs that House Republican Whip Eric Cantor calls home.

Cantor pre-emptively renewed the Republican attack, telling reporters in a conference call that the plan will destroy small businesses and deepen unemployment.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hYS8CIYEBgudlm2SjLh0xekik0RwD99FQSEG2

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That is too easy a question - Tax cuts for billionaires!

It has worked out so swelll so far.

Thanks Capt!

You Might Be A Really Bad 21st Century Republican If...

You have a life threatening illness, no insurance, live in a trailer yet are against Universal Healthcare.

You are African-American but want to be a non-conformist with no friends.

You create a fake business in your head that you're not really buying, look like Mr. Clean and use it to get on TV.

Think dark orange spray tanning looks good.

You look like Tina Fey without the humor or intellect.

You are a male, married politician but love to have sex with men and then vote against any and all things gay while bashing them publicly.

You use a wide stance in Airport bathroom stalls.

More and more . . . .

http://open.salon.com/blog/kind_of_blue/2009/07/14/you_might_be_a_really_bad_21st_century_republican_if