Jay Bookman

By AJC/DNC Management

January 1, 2009 12:04 PM | Link to this

Um, Boomer Sooners.

Soon enough.

bwa

By chinstrap

January 1, 2009 12:04 PM | Link to this

MI State rolls:) you wish.

the only reason LSU rolled GT is because they didn’t smile:)

:)

Penn St. rolls too:)

By Bud Wiser

January 1, 2009 12:15 PM | Link to this

Georgia wins BIG.

LSU stomped Tech!!! hahahahaha

Happy Valley won’t be so happy after today. UCS by 20.

My head hurts.

By Bud Wiser

January 1, 2009 12:16 PM | Link to this

Oh, and please, somebody tell me why South Carolina is playing on New Years Day ???

By Bud Wiser

January 1, 2009 12:17 PM | Link to this

**USC,……….ugh.

By getalife

January 1, 2009 12:27 PM | Link to this

SEC football rules as GT found out last night and Oklahoma will find out soon.

I can’t wait to see Andy’s pro Obama posts for a week.

By AJC/DNC Management

January 1, 2009 1:48 PM | Link to this

BlogMommy- I see that the gay thoughts permeate all through your brain this morning, you people always find the most delightful ways to celebrate the holidays.

GFY (good for you.)

Sorry but I won’t be able to join your, uh, festivities.

But don’t let that stop you from knocking yourself out!

Have at it.

By Mrs.Godzilla

January 1, 2009 1:53 PM | Link to this

For those of us for whom sports is just a testosterone soap opera…

TMC is showing My Favorite Wife at 2:30, cute 1940 film with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, then at 6:00 from 1934 It Happened One Night with Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable and at 8, Fay Wray has a date with King Kong. (Or I suppose I could clean out the basement!)

However, the big manly man TV placed for perfect viewing in front of the manly man chair next to the recliner-gating table covered with carbs will be padlocked on football.

Can I get you some Tums to go with those spicey wings?

You fella’s have fun.

By Empty Nester

January 1, 2009 2:32 PM | Link to this

I would rather watch a good soccer (real football)match any day.

By AJC/DNC Management

January 1, 2009 2:37 PM | Link to this

Nothing like a gigantic hissy fit to start off the error of hopeandchange-

Chicago —- Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s choice to take Barack Obama’s Senate seat plans to be in Washington next week when new senators are sworn in, but he won’t make a scene if he’s turned away by Senate leaders who object to his appointment.-Urinal/DNC

You know, there is a word missing from this AP story, I can’t quite put my finger on it, what are we missing here, oh yeah, “democrats.”

And now, dear viewers, we resume the drama with the scene from the Senate, as we open the curtain upon thee foamy Hairy Reed as he kicks the 71 year old black man out on his as-s, cover your children’s eyes please.

Or will the creepy criminal democrat governor of Illinois cause wittle harry weed to cower in fright!

Either way works for me.

Popcorn?

By The BlogFather of Scroll

January 1, 2009 2:39 PM | Link to this

Told you he’d swing at it, Book.

‘muff said.

By AJC/DNC Management

January 1, 2009 2:53 PM | Link to this

Why are the libs always so surprised by things that we are constantly telling them-

Grady might limit access to free care- Proposal upsets patient advocates, but hospital says some people have abused the system and those who can pay something should do so. -Urinal

Slow learners?

By mm

January 1, 2009 3:13 PM | Link to this

Hey Manglement. Who the hell cares about any subject you bring up?

By Bosch

January 1, 2009 3:21 PM | Link to this

Happy New Year everyone!

I’m bringing it in with bronchitis. Instead of champagne last night, i was whooping it up with TheraFlu. Ye Ha.

Eating lots of greens and black eyed peas today - any little bit to help with the money situation - I do what I have to.

Georgia is making me nervous. They need to open up on the Spartans.

By Midori

January 1, 2009 3:25 PM | Link to this

poor Boschie — I hope you feel better real soon.

My sister called at around 1 - 2 a.m., but I didn’t hear the phone ring. I’ve been trying to call her back all afternoon.

I’ll bet she was just full of Xmas cheer :)

Happy New Year, everyone.

By The BlogFather of Scroll

January 1, 2009 3:27 PM | Link to this

The system that ranked this rank team number one needs to be dismantled.

By Morningstar

January 1, 2009 3:38 PM | Link to this

By Mrs.Godzilla January 1, 2009 1:53 PM For those of us for whom sports is just a testosterone soap opera…

Thanks Mrs. G. It is so wonderful to be a three-television household!

To ALL: I hope everyone had a great Holiday Season and a happy and trouble-free 2009!!!

By Morningstar

January 1, 2009 3:43 PM | Link to this

correction to 3:38PM—-I hope everyone HAS a happy, prosperous and trouble free 2009.

By Mrs.Godzilla

January 1, 2009 3:58 PM | Link to this

Bosch

Sorry to hear you are under the weather. Try some spice tea, honey, lemon and JD. Celtic Thera-Flu.

Midori

I didn’t hear from the Zillette’s until a few minutes ago. Those 20-somethings sounded a tad puny.

Morningstar

I really can’t stand watching sports on the teevee. BORING. However, get me tickets and I’ll pack a tailgate meal to be proud of and I’ll holler my head off.

Happy New Year Y’all.

I’ve got the ham and blacked eyed peas but nobody will eat collards but me. WIll that be enough for at least some good luck?

By getalife

January 1, 2009 4:00 PM | Link to this

Good hard hitting game.

GA needs a field goal to end this one.

By getalife

January 1, 2009 4:06 PM | Link to this

And they get a touchdown.

Game over.

By AJC/DNC Management

January 1, 2009 4:08 PM | Link to this

Democrats who run the state assembly are still trying to impeach Mr. Blagojevich, but meantime they’ve stepped back from allowing a special election for the seat. Democrats hope to dump the Governor and then have his replacement appoint a different Democrat. No doubt they’re afraid Republicans might win given this exquisite display of competent, honest Democratic government.-WSJ

Yeah, you sniveling kowards.

I thought hopeandchange would win over all and everybody hated the Rethuglicans?

Watcha so afraid of?

Huh, huh?

By AJC/DNC Management

January 1, 2009 4:23 PM | Link to this

The libs have properly disposed of democracy and elections and all that, so to placate the outraged they send your new $$$$junior$$$$ senator from Illinois, the high bidder himself, off to pinko purgatory-

An Empty Suit For an Empty Seat- By Steve Chapman

Lightweight Burris Just Part of the Spectacle- By David Broder

After the proper amount of feigned huffing and mau mauing, all will be forgotten, let’s just MoveOn to the criminal doings in Minnesota and New York, where we can be “affronted” anew.

Perhaps someday we can be done with being “upset,” no?

ew

By Morningstar

January 1, 2009 4:29 PM | Link to this

By Mrs.Godzilla January 1, 2009 3:58 PM nobody will eat collards but me.

Their loss Mrs. Godzilla. I LOVE collards, mustard greens, turnip greens, cabbage slaw (prepared any way). Too bad we aren’t neighbors in the event you had too many left-over collards…… I’d share my great deviled eggs, potato salad (never met a tater I didn’t like). Have a great evening.

By Midori

January 1, 2009 5:01 PM | Link to this

and a very Happy New Year to you, Mrs. G.

Like Morningstar, I love ALL greens - especially collards and spinach.

they just don’t know what they’re missing!!! :)

I think I’ll find some other pasttime, as Andy has once again started throwing feces all over this blog.

By low country boil

January 1, 2009 5:27 PM | Link to this

greens..,will trash fix me a cheese burger?:)

By spankmonkey

January 1, 2009 5:28 PM | Link to this

Happy New Year!

By moo moos rule

January 1, 2009 5:39 PM | Link to this

Penn St. destroys

By Bud Wiser

January 1, 2009 7:02 PM | Link to this

31-7 !!!!!!!!!!!

Halftime!!!!!!!!!!

hahahahahahahahahahahaha !!

(My wife is really mad at me right now because she is also a native Pennsylvanian.)

By The Corporal

January 1, 2009 7:18 PM | Link to this

Off Topic

But much more serious than the game of football:

HEADLINE - MILITARY TIMES poll:

Troops wary about Obama… When asked how they feel about President-elect Barack Obama as commander in chief, six out of 10 active-duty service members say they are uncertain or pessimistic, according to a Military Times survey.

In follow-up interviews, respondents expressed concerns about Obama’s lack of military service and experience leading men and women in uniform.

“Being that the Marine Corps can be sent anywhere in the world with the snap of his fingers, nobody has confidence in this guy as commander in chief,” said one lance corporal who asked not to be identified.

Read the whole article. A lot of it falls along racial lines ……. not good.

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/12/militarypollmain_122908/

By Taxpayer

January 1, 2009 7:26 PM | Link to this

If those so-called soldiers, Corporal, don’t like living off the taxpayer’s money or taking orders from their new Commander-In-Chief, then they sure don’t have to sign up for another tour, now do they. They can walk away and never be missed.

By @@

January 1, 2009 7:30 PM | Link to this

Off topic and Unbelievable! Well……not really

Outgoing Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill filed for bankruptcy during his last week in office.

Hill, who ends his single term at midnight Wednesday, filed suit Tuesday in U.S. District Court, claiming he does not have enough money to pay $1.7 million in damages for several lawsuits. This includes a judgment for $475,000 he owes to Mark Tuggle, the brother of Hill’s predecessor as sheriff. Tuggle won a lawsuit against Hill in U.S. District Court in October after a jury found Hill guilty of false arrest.

Clayton County taxpayers have certainly paid a high price for all the legal shenanigans Hill pulled during his term as sheriff. Now he files bankruptcy to avoid paying for his ignorance?

Drop dead Victor.

By The Corporal

January 1, 2009 7:31 PM | Link to this

Taxpayer

Very, very true without a draft (except for stop-loss which is a back-door draft) to replace them.

But they would be missed in more ways than you will ever admit.

By getalife

January 1, 2009 7:41 PM | Link to this

Give the hate a rest wingnuts.

This thread is about the thumpin Penn State is getting.

Try to start the new year on topic and show some patriotism for our new President.

Geez.

By JAY BOOKMAN

January 1, 2009 7:57 PM | Link to this

So …. when’s that VaTech-Utah game start?

By Taxpayer

January 1, 2009 8:02 PM | Link to this

So, Corporal, are you condoning an enlisted person’s dis-respectful remarks toward his Commander-In-Chief. That would be as bad as a hippie burning a flag. No. It would be worse than a hippie burning a US flag.

By getalife

January 1, 2009 8:07 PM | Link to this

Orange Bowl

(12) Cincinnati 8:30pm

(21) Virginia Tech ET

By CommunistAJC

January 1, 2009 8:16 PM | Link to this

PENN STATE IS HORRIBLE! USC USC USC!!!

Now for more seriousness, Jay. These men and women really count and they don’t seem to like Mr. Hussein all that much. Can’t blame them.

2008 Military Times poll: Wary about Obama.

Troops cite inexperience, Iraq timetable By Brendan McGarry - Staff writer Posted : Thursday Jan 1, 2009 11:06:56 EST

When asked how they feel about President-elect Barack Obama as commander in chief, six out of 10 active-duty service members say they are uncertain or pessimistic, according to a Military Times survey.

In follow-up interviews, respondents expressed concerns about Obama’s lack of military service and experience leading men and women in uniform.

“Being that the Marine Corps can be sent anywhere in the world with the snap of his fingers, nobody has confidence in this guy as commander in chief,” said one lance corporal who asked not to be identified.

For eight years, members of the U.S. military have served under a Republican commander in chief who reflected their generally conservative views and led them to war in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Now, the troops face change not only at the very top of the chain of command, as Obama nears his Jan. 20 inauguration, but perhaps in mission, policy and values.

Underlying much of the uncertainty is Obama’s stated 16-month timetable for pulling combat troops out of Iraq, as well as his calls to end the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy to allow gays to serve openly in the military, according to survey responses and interviews.

“How are you going to safely pull combat troops out of Iraq?” said Air Force 1st Lt. Rachel Kleinpeter, an intelligence officer with the 100th Operations Support Squadron at RAF Mildenhall, England. “And if you’re pulling out combat troops, who are you leaving to help support what’s left? What happens if Iraq falls back into chaos? Are we going to be there in five years doing the same thing over again?”

When asked who has their best interests at heart — Obama or President George W. Bush — a higher percentage of respondents picked Bush, though Bush has lost ground over time. About half of the respondents said Bush has their best interests at heart this year, the same percentage as last year but a decline from 69 percent in 2004.

Nearly one-third of respondents — including eight out of 10 black service members — said they are optimistic about their incoming boss.

Even some service members who voted against Obama — only 1 in 4 supported him over Sen. John McCain in a pre-election survey of Military Times subscribers —now express goodwill toward him as their new commander in chief.

“Overall, the prospect of having someone who isn’t necessarily tied to old strategies is a good thing,” said Air Force Master Sgt. David Ortegon, who said he voted for McCain. “Sometimes you need a fresh perspective to be able to handle our military readiness and the needs of the nation.”

The findings are part of the sixth annual Military Times survey of subscribers to Army Times, Air Force Times, Navy Times and Marine Corps Times newspapers. This year’s survey, conducted Dec. 1 through Dec. 8, included more than 1,900 active-duty respondents.

The responses are not representative of the opinions of the military as a whole. The survey group overall under-represents minorities, women and junior enlisted service members, and over-represents soldiers.

But as a snapshot of the professional corps, the responses highlight the challenges Obama faces as he prepares to take command of military careerists with different political and cultural attitudes.

In keeping with previous surveys, nearly half of the respondents described their political views as conservative or very conservative. Slightly more than half said they consider themselves Republicans, 22 percent independents and 13 percent Democrats.

Peter Feaver, a political science professor at Duke University who has written extensively about civil-military relations, said a degree of uncertainty among service members toward Obama is appropriate, given their questions about how he will govern as commander in chief.

“Those numbers don’t convince me he has got a big problem on his hands because what he is seeing is not military hostility, but rather military caution, and caution that is reasonable because he has never been in the position of this office,” Feaver said. “It’s sensible and understandable that they have doubts about him.

“They respect the office of the commander in chief,” Feaver said. “As long as he wields that office responsibly, then these numbers need not morph into a problem.”

David Segal, a military sociologist at the University of Maryland, said respondents’ optimism toward Obama can be partially attributed to confidence in his military advisers, including Richard Danzig, former secretary of the Navy, and retired Gen. James Jones Jr., former commandant of the Marine Corps and NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe.

On Dec. 1, the day the survey was released, Obama announced his national security team, including Jones as national security adviser and Robert Gates, a holdover from the Bush administration, as defense secretary.

“There is an understanding that the president doesn’t do all his own paperwork,” Segal said. “The quality of any president is going to depend on the quality of the people he has around him.” When to leave Iraq

While nearly half of the respondents said they disapprove of Obama’s proposal to withdraw combat brigades from Iraq within 16 months of taking office, a slightly higher percentage said they support the Status of Forces Agreement calling for U.S. forces to leave the country by the end of 2011.

Army Spc. Robbie Blackford, an infantryman with C Troop, 1-71st Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, who returned from a 14-month tour in Iraq in late October, said Obama should gradually reduce the number of U.S. service members in Iraq.

“In my mind, things were changing to the point where we could get out of there and the Iraqis could take over their own country,” Blackford said. “I think that he should just pull out a little at a time.”

Although realistic about the challenges ahead, troops overwhelmingly support the mission in Afghanistan.

Eight out of 10 respondents said the U.S. should have gone to war in Afghanistan. Nearly the same amount support plans to boost the number of troops there by more than 20,000, for a total of more than 50,000.

“We just don’t have enough manpower to be out there doing what we need to do, winning the hearts and minds and so forth,” said Chief Warrant Officer 4 Jay Brewer, a meteorological and oceanographic officer with Marine Forces Pacific who has twice deployed to Iraq. “In Iraq, when we increased the number of troops, we were able to increase our presence full-time in certain areas.”

While the majority of respondents expressed some degree of optimism the U.S. will succeed in Afghanistan, 30 percent said troops will need to stay for more than a decade to achieve its goals.

The survey results also suggest that despite the military’s efforts to address mental-health issues, such as post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, stigma associated with the conditions lingers.

About 15 percent of active-duty respondents said they are suffering from or have suffered from PTSD, TBI or other mental health issues.

Most of those respondents said they sought help with the treatment. But four out of 10 said they believed seeking care for such disabilities would negatively affect their career.

Navy Gunner’s Mate 2nd Class William Rioseco, an instructor at Center for Security Forces, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, said mandatory post-deployment screening across all services would help to reduce stigma associated with mental health disorders.

“Like PT, it should be mandatory. It doesn’t matter if you’ve been in action, or you’re doing support,” he said. “If you’re in a combat zone, you’re subject for mandatory psychoanalysis because people can get affected by different things.”

By AJC/DNC Management

January 1, 2009 8:19 PM | Link to this

O.K. here’s your chance to “support” the troops-

When asked how they feel about President-elect Barack Obama as commander in chief, six out of 10 active-duty service members say they are uncertain or pessimistic, according to a Military Times survey.-Hat tip, Corporal

I only see one option here and that is to indict Oblahmasan, after all, we do have enough evidence.

So let’s get to work, editors and columnists, we must give our men in uniform a new commander that they can trust.

Snap to it.

By The Corporal

January 1, 2009 8:21 PM | Link to this

To Jay

My wife hates football.

A couple of years ago I was sitting in my lounge chair watching Virginia Tech play someone. She walked by and was just trying to be nice and act interested and said, “I didn’t know Vermont had a team”.

By the time I got through laughting on the floor, I was in the doghouse for a week.

By White collar crime under Bush

January 1, 2009 8:23 PM | Link to this

Will any of the Wall Street Crooks go to prison for their multi-million dollar thefts?

By The Corporal

January 1, 2009 8:25 PM | Link to this

To Taxpayer

You omit one very important point.

He is NOT anyone’s Commander in Chief until noon Janurary 20th.

Right now Aytch is just another U.S. citizen and in my opinion that Lance Corporal outranks him.

Come Janurary 20th you will have a point (except that a service member is free to express his viewpoints outside the chain of command to his Congressman or Senator).

By mm

January 1, 2009 8:26 PM | Link to this

Jay,

Your post went right over the heads of the wingnuts. They’re not watching football, they’re watching Fox News.

Anti-American indeed.

By The Corporal

January 1, 2009 8:27 PM | Link to this

Off Topic

I saw an Obama for President bumper sticker today that had two of those little round Georgia Peach I voted* stickers pasted on it. **Sadly, that’s probably just what the driver did.

By The Corporal

January 1, 2009 8:31 PM | Link to this

To AJC/DNC

As Jay I am sure will point out later, this is an informal, non-military wide survey that focuses mainly on careerists and not the lower ranked troops.

However, to me that makes it even more telling as they are the ones who make it a career and carry this country for the long-run.

What I would really like to see is a secret survey of all flag ranks.

Now that would be an eye opener!

By Taxpayer

January 1, 2009 8:32 PM | Link to this

Does Virginia have a “Tech”.

By HERBERT HOOVER

January 1, 2009 8:34 PM | Link to this

BUSH was worse than HERBERT HOOVER, hands down!

By The Corporal

January 1, 2009 8:34 PM | Link to this

To mm

Most of our combat MOS troops (out in the field - not in the “rear with the gear”) are not watching football right now either.

By FDR

January 1, 2009 8:39 PM | Link to this

We need another world war to get out of this DEPRESSION.

By Taxpayer

January 1, 2009 8:44 PM | Link to this

Dear Jay,

I apologize if I am responsible for awakening the corporal. I won’t pick on him any more tonight.

By The Corporal

January 1, 2009 9:09 PM | Link to this

To Taxpayer

Thank you for being honest.

However, your missive to Jay is just a polite way of saying you got busted regarding the unnamed Lance Corporal and his Non Commander in Chief.

By Chad Harris

January 1, 2009 9:26 PM | Link to this

What seems to be over most Wingnuts’ heads is that Reid is making a fool out of himself legally as is Durbin. Law school didn’t get in the way of that.

What is going to happen in the Courts if Reid doesn’t get better legal help than he has now, is what is being called the Limieux position, and what I’ve pointed out all along:

http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/2008/12/powell-precedent.html

Maybe Reid and the Dem majority will spend your money litigating but they’ll lose. The appellate federal courts, i.e the 7th Circuit, or more likely the D.C. Circuit and the Supremes are not going to take a position contrary to

Powell v. McCormack, 395 U.S. 486 (1969)

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSCCR03950486ZO.html

The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in Powell’s favor, and 8-0 on the merits, and there is no legal wrongdoing by Burris in this situation whatsoever that’s going to impact this case.

I was hoping for a confrontation in the courts, and now I have my wish. It will quickly move to a federal venue from the Illionis Supreme Court if the AG—moron Lisa Madigan continues to get in Burris’ way. Her brief should be interesting since she has no legal basis on which to argue.

It reminds me of Karen Handel’s attorney being ordered to show proof that their is voter fraud and to this nanosecond Handel and her attorney Mark Cohen have not complied with the Eleventh Circuit’s order to them.

The case is Burris v. White, 107816, Supreme Court of Illinois (Springfield).

A big Legal LOL.

By AJC/DNC Management

January 1, 2009 9:48 PM | Link to this

Global thermometers stopped rising after 1998, and have plummeted in the last two years by more than 0.5 degrees Celsius. The 2007-2008 temperature drop was not predicted by global climate models. But it was predictable by a decline in sunspot activity since 2000.

Duh.

By The Corporal

January 1, 2009 10:04 PM | Link to this

Chad

Not trying to be argumentative here and I don’t necessarily disagree with your logic re: the new Senate appointment.

However, I never did see a reply to my post of your previous blog point that I was trying to suspend the Constitution.

Chad

I don’t recall ever saying suspend the Constitution.

I have said there are ways to change it instead of cheapening it (which is what happens when rulings are based on provisions that are just not there).

The Court …. has improperly set itself up as a third house of Congress - a super legislature - reading into the Constitution words and implications which are not there, and which were never intended to be there. We have therefore reached the point as a nation where we must take action to save the Consitution from the Court and the Court from itself. We must find a way to take an appeal from the Supreme Court to the Constitution itself. We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution and not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

If in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.

George Washington

By Midori

January 1, 2009 10:17 PM | Link to this

Corporal,

you’re just one big, fat, giant contradiction and an equally huge ball of confusion.

On the one hand, you b*tch about Obama “playing golf” while the crisis ensues in Israel, and in the next breath you loudly “note” that Obama hasn’t taken the office of the presidency yet.

Which is it?

also, are you drunk?

By E-4

January 1, 2009 10:18 PM | Link to this

Some of you may be a little surprised by the old Corporal’s take on this one but as you know I try to call them as I see them. This is another Bush Administration error in a country where their new Constitution says, “nothing in this Constitution shall violate the tenets of Islam” :

Unless I was a 18-19 year old and not mature enough to know better, I would NEVER “voluntarily enlist” to serve under the conditions outlined in the below article. This is a great disservice to our troops in harm’s way.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=6555255&page=1

By E-4

January 1, 2009 10:27 PM | Link to this

To Midori

1) Let’s try to be nice. I don’t call you names or try to be insluting. I try to stick to issues.

2) I explained this once yesterday but I’ll do it again just for you.

Of course he is not President but more than any President Elect in modern history he has had the arrogance (from that stupid seal to stating the Inauguration should be sooner so he can solve everything) to get in the current President’s way.

Therefore, he made that bed so let him sleep in it. Instead of off vacationing and playing golf he should be planning and consulting and looking concerned! His own Democrat party complained this week that he hadn’t given them anything yet on the stimulus package so they could fine tune it and be ready to go immediately after he was sorn in.

Democrats!!

3) I don’t drink.

By Midori

January 1, 2009 10:41 PM | Link to this

lol,

omg!!!!

now he’s switching rank insignia!!! Or is it branches of service?

ROFL!!!!

Does that mean we get to demote you?

LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!

P.S. - The Twilight Marathon is still running on the Sci Fi Channel.

Bet you can “tune in” without even changing the channel.

ROFL!!!!

AND — I defy you to point out where I called “you” a name. I stuck to the absurbity of your comments.

By Chad Harris

January 1, 2009 10:54 PM | Link to this

@ Corporal—

I absolutely did reply on that thread, and I said that there was no way that the Burris situation which is now in the Illinois Supreme Court, rose to any level that historically elicited suspending the Constitution. When it was done, whether correctly or not, there was backing by the legislative branch—not the unilateral and stupid unitary executive tack that Cheney and his puppy Bush have taken.

Your idea to suspend the Constitution seemed focused on soon to be Senator Burris—or maybe you were referencing suspending the Constitution in passing.

The Burris situation is where it should be now. The popcorn I’m enjoying is the ambitious and petty AG of Illinois Lisa Madigan having her deputies research the law that isn’t there, and she should have had the sense of a freshman law student to recognize this and say so.

There’s a big distinction between not being happy with a situation (that Blago isn’t going away from Fitz with tail between legs) and doing the obviously correct thing legally. AGs are supposed to recognize this—Madigan is too stupid to do so.

The Constitution was suspended, trampled and ignored the last 8 years.

Historically, and I provided a link, there have been times when presidents have suspended the Constitution and formally announced they are doing so—usually those events have been real wars, not the pathetic fiasco in Iraq.

The great thing about putting this into the court heirarchy is that Reid, Durbin and the Democrats in Congress, who have been very ineffective in addressing most substantive issues in the last eight years and extremely cowardly when it comes to issues like FISA, the financial bail out and a long list of hits, are now forced to face the fact that the only legal precedent is *Powell and it’s not in their favor. Burris has not done anything at all that makes him unqualified legally, although there may be better individuals to represent Illinois or every other state in the Senate. There are many people in the US Senate now who are rather pathetic, and fortunately some of them won’t be there come January 6 when the 11th takes the field.

See: Stevens Uncle Ted destined to be a trash officer in a BOP hospital facility during his later years although the US Attorney prosecuting him performed shabilly but not to the level (IMHO) to cause the D.C. Circuit to reverse or remand Stevens’ case.

See: Domenici Pistol Pete (he of the calls to the US Attorney of New Mexico about his prosecutorial wish list)

As to your comment:

I have said there are ways to change it instead of cheapening it (which is what happens when rulings are based on provisions that are just not there).

I am amused all the time that Republicans repeat the banal mantra that judges are “legislating from the Bench” when opinions are issued they don’t like or want. There is never a trace of legislating from the bench chatter when an opinion goes the way they want.

Wooten who has a child’s understanding of legal issues and most other things that elicit his attention, is predictable in this regard.

I’ll give you an example.

A couple of months ago, a very conservative federal district judge in the D.C. Circuit, John Bates who can usually be relied upon to rubber stamp the Bush administration, surprised Conservatives when he issued a near 100 page opinion ordering Karl Rove and Harriet Miers to testify before House Judiciary (Conyers’ Committee) on the matter of Rove’s Hijacking DOJ and firing US Attorneys who wouldn’t carry out his agenda. (There were more “I don’t recalls” from Gonzales and Kyle Sampson than I’ve seen in any hearing in history).

The immediate reaction of the Conservative pundits was that Bates was “legislating from the bench.”

As I predicted at the time, Rove and Miers ran to the D.C. Circuit to get an emergency restraining order to keep from testifying effectively forcing the new Congress to issue the subpoenas which I hope they do. Better still, they should go after Rove and put his a* in prison. This is doable, but I doubt they will since Obama doesn’t seem to want to pursue Bushian wrongdoing and nail it.

There were no cries of legislating from the Bench when the D.C. Circuit (18/21 of them loyal federalist society Bush martinets) gave Rove and the dispicably stupid Miers some relief.

The term “legislating from the bench” is always thrown around when any opinion is issued that Republicans don’t like. They seem to forget it’s the job of the judiciary to interpret the law including case law, code section, and the application of the Constitution to the first two.

I believe that Burris is in a good legal position. I hope he enlists the help of some great constitutional lawyers when and if this case goes federal.

In the popcorn out and poised area, I look forward to the consumately stupid attorney general Lisa Madigan’s brief arguing why Burris’ appointment is not perfectly legal. Had she been competent, she would have already endorsed Burris.

However, her job is to represent any position her clients, the agencies and the people running them in the state of Illinois. Part of that job is to advise her clients when they are heading down an untenable road of certain defeat. She obviously isn’t woman enough to do that.

She has wanted to run for governor for years, and even though she has no legal precedent, she’s not about to give up a spotlight that she feels is popular from which to run (Blago bashing is the “in thing” of the moment in Illinois, and although he was elected in 2002, his popularity ratings have been as low as Bush’s or lower if that’s possible.

By E-4

January 1, 2009 11:20 PM | Link to this

Midori

1) You caught it!! Very good !!

“E-4” = Enlisted pay grad #4 = Corporal

2) No let’s be nice. I don’t try to insult you in any way.

By RW-(the original)

January 1, 2009 11:24 PM | Link to this

I’ve never been a big SoCal fan, but it was pretty classy of them to let their pep squad play the second half so as not to show off Penn State too badly.

By E-4

January 1, 2009 11:31 PM | Link to this

To Chad

1) I understand your well thought out position on this matter but I still maintain I never used the word suspend.

2) I am an originalist first and a Republican second. Your point about only complaining when it doesn’t go their way has some merit, but that’s the point.

It’s always wrong to cheapen the Constitution even as Washington said when it is to do good. Why? Because once you do that you make it easier to do the same thing to do bad.

3) Washington’s and Roosevelt’s guotes on this matter hit the nail on the head and neither were Republicans!

4) Regarding the Constitution being trampled on the past eight years, that will only be true if/and when the U.S. Supreme Court rules as such without legislating from the bench …. and they haven’t.

Thanks for your response. I am enjoying the discussion. I wish some of your friends would be as forthcoming.

By Chad Harris

January 1, 2009 11:50 PM | Link to this

@e4—

I have a nice collection of books on Roosevelt by some of the best historians who wrote about him which doesn’t mean anything other than I enjoy reading about him and his era.

I always note two things about FDR that don’t go in the plus column at all:

1) Roosevelt ignored the ongoing Holocaust until about 6 million Jews had been tortured and burned by Hitler and untold millions had their lives ruined and lost family members and their possessions and much of their lives. He was told explicitly what was happening for years. He had intelligence that proved it and he had Jewish cabinet members putting considerable pressure on him. What got Roosevelt involved was the bombing of pearl harbor as well as political calculus, and economic incentives that were overwhelming.

2) Roosevelt illegally and reprehensibly interred Japanese families at US prison camps, and we know now there was no basis for his doing so. One of them was a cabinet member in the Bush administration, Norman Mineta and was the only Democratic member of the Bush Cabinet, as Sec Transportation. He was the longest serving Sec Transportation in the history of the US.

By E-4

January 2, 2009 12:27 AM | Link to this

Chad

I hear you. I also think we must judge people by the times they lived in.

The Japanese internment thing looks terrible to us now but :

1) The Supreme Court upheld it.

2) It may have prevented substantial loss of life. Remember, even California then had individuals who may have taken matters into their own hands. Many saw it as protective custody for the Japanese.

Some argue it was racial and we didn’t do it to the Germans but at that time we were somewhat in fear of a Japanese attack/invasion on the West Coast but not so much on the East Coast. Probably a little of both.

The real shame is that they were not compensated properly afterwards not to mention that the 442nd Regimental Combat Team (all Japanese Americans) that fought in Europe was the most decorated unit in the history of the U.S. Army (21 Medals of Honor) !!!

3) Also, I have never understood why Allied units were never ordered to bomb areas near the Holocaust camps (that is the troop barracks, railroad lines, bridges to the camps, etc.)

If you want a good read that goes into that try “A General’s Life (Omar Bradley) by Bradley and Clay Blair.

By Midori

January 2, 2009 1:04 AM | Link to this

As the new Democratic majority prepares to take power, Republicans have become, as Phil Gramm might put it, a party of whiners.

Some of the whining almost defies belief. Did Alberto Gonzales, the former attorney general, really say, “I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror”? Did Rush Limbaugh really suggest that the financial crisis was the result of a conspiracy, masterminded by that evil genius Chuck Schumer?

But most of the whining takes the form of claims that the Bush administration’s failure was simply a matter of bad luck — either the bad luck of President Bush himself, who just happened to have disasters happen on his watch, or the bad luck of the G.O.P., which just happened to send the wrong man to the White House.

The fault, however, lies not in Republicans’ stars but in themselves. Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect, to make itself the party of racial backlash. And everything that has happened in recent years, from the choice of Mr. Bush as the party’s champion, to the Bush administration’s pervasive incompetence, to the party’s shrinking base, is a consequence of that decision.

If the Bush administration became a byword for policy bungles, for government by the unqualified, well, it was just following the advice of leading conservative think tanks: after the 2000 election the Heritage Foundation specifically urged the new team to “make appointments based on loyalty first and expertise second.”

Will the Republicans eventually stage a comeback? Yes, of course. But barring some huge missteps by Mr. Obama, that will not happen until they stop whining and look at what really went wrong. And when they do, they will discover that they need to get in touch with the real “real America,” a country that is more diverse, more tolerant, and more demanding of effective government than is dreamt of in their political philosophy.

By Bud Wiser

January 2, 2009 6:37 AM | Link to this

Some people get delirious when they stay up too late.

The GOP did not send the wrong man to the White House with George W. Bush; America did …… twice. That is two more times than Al Gore, and two more times than John Kerry, for those of you who attended public schools.

And of course the ultimate card always played by the ignorant liberal is ————- “We the victims o racial backlashin’.”

Please. That sort of stupidity is so long over, at least for those of us who possess a gram of intellect.

By AJC/DNC Management

January 2, 2009 6:56 AM | Link to this

In what amounts to an Afghan version of the surge in Iraq, the U.S. is preparing to pour at least 20,000 extra troops into the south, augmenting 12,500 NATO soldiers who have proved too few to cope with a Taliban insurgency that is fiercer than NATO leaders expected.-Urinal/Jihad

Why ain’t the “world” pouring the 20,000 additional troops into their area?

I thought they loved us because of Oblahmi now?

“Change” they can count on.

By AJC/DNC Management

January 2, 2009 7:26 AM | Link to this

With motorists driving less and buying less fuel, the current 18.4 cents a gallon federal gas tax and 24.4 cents a gallon diesel tax fail to raise enough to keep pace with the cost of road, bridge and transit programs.-Urinal/DNC

I’ll give you one guess of what the democrat solution to that “problem” is-

Gas tax hike urged to fix roads

And you thought the Prius was a money saver.

hahahaha

By Bud Wiser

January 2, 2009 7:27 AM | Link to this

The legions of morons that voted Obama into office just knew that he was going to raise taxes on the ‘rich’, that he was going to toss freebies their way, that everyone else would have to shoulder the burden but them.

Well ….

Associated Press

Thursday, January 01, 2009

WASHINGTON — A 50 percent increase in gasoline and diesel fuel taxes is being urged by a federal commission to finance highway construction and repair until the government devises another way for motorists to pay for using public roads. (Translated: until they can figure out a name for another additional tax)

The National Commission on Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing, a 15-member panel created by (the Democrat controlled) Congress, is the second group in a year to call for higher fuel taxes.

With motorists driving less and buying less fuel, the current 18.4 cents a gallon gas tax and 24.4 cents a gallon diesel tax fail to raise enough to keep pace with the cost of road, bridge and transit programs.

In a report expected in late January, members of the infrastructure financing commission say they will urge Congress to raise the gas tax by 10 cents a gallon and the diesel fuel tax by 12 to 15 cents a gallon. At the same time, the commission will recommend tying the fuel tax rates to inflation.

The commission will also recommend that states raise their fuel taxes and make greater use of toll roads and fees for rush-hour driving.

A tax increase on this order would be politically treacherous for Democratic leaders in Congress — a gas tax hike was one of the reasons they lost control of the House and Senate in the 1994 elections. President-elect Barack Obama has expressed concern about raising gas taxes in the current economic climate. But commission members said the government must find the money somewhere.

I may have missed it, but I don’t see anything in there that would lead me to believe that Obama supporters would be exempted from this tax. Maybe they’ll look for the bumper stickers? It appears however that it would have to be paid by everyone that puts a drop of fuel into any gas powered vehicle. That means its going to cost more to drive down to the welfare office to pick up yo check.

Call Peggy Joseph to see if she has any leads.

They are just gettin’ warmed up in Washington, folks. The Tax Tidal Wave (TTW) is just in the formative stages.

You idiots really fell for that Change crap, didn’t you?

By The BlogFather of Scroll

January 2, 2009 7:35 AM | Link to this

CNN reported that Cheney tripped the light fandango to the sounds of Barack the Magic Negro on New Year’s Eve. He’s an excellent dancer, but the way Cheney will disappear after milking Lady Liberty proves that he’s “Poof, the tragic gigolo”.

Cheney’s got all his money in Dubais. He’s going to flee there. Self imposed exile. He’s the Charlie Chaplin of politics and crime.

I wonder where Bush will flee? Probably Wyoming. Bush thinks Wyoming is a foreign country. A Dog Day Afternoon filled with Fleas.

The Bush Administration’s epitaph: China’s Navy called. They want Taiwan back.

By Bud Wiser

January 2, 2009 7:48 AM | Link to this

Is the best that you’ve got, BlogFather?

Reminiscing about Bush and Cheney?

When all thought fails, when intellect gives way to stupidity, is that all you have; going after the Repugs?

How very very shallow.

They are history.

There’s about to be a new sheriff in town … save your tap dancing shoes to talk around the gaffes, the connections, the taxes your savior is about to make.

You’ll need them.

The next four years is going to seem like a century before it is over.

TTW getting bigger……

By GodHatesTrash

January 2, 2009 7:52 AM | Link to this

I drove the wife’s Prius to Boston and back last week, about 500 miles RT, paid $1.65 in federal gas tax on the 9 gallons of gasoline.

Thanks, Hummer drivers!

(morons)

By DB, Gwinnettian

January 2, 2009 7:55 AM | Link to this

So Bud, the sky is falling because a commission will recommend raising the gasoline tax to somewhere-in-the-neighborhood of where it should’ve been many years ago? That’s your big blockbuster story of the day?

I really do pity your side sometimes. Not often, but sometimes.

By The BlogFather of Scroll

January 2, 2009 8:06 AM | Link to this

Book said his wife watched the Rose Bowl Parade. Couldn’t they have re-run last year’s parade and wouldn’t nobody have noticed?

Parades are the part of life I dont git, they dont make not a lickosense to me.

CNN reported that finally-aware voters released a CD of parody songs about Cheney. Here’s one of them:

“Poof, the Tragic Gigolo”

Poof, the tragic gigolo, bilked lady liberty

of all her milk and honey, and bills that start with T

Little Lackey Warrior loved that rascal Poof, and brought him sunni enemies without any proof, oh,

Poof the tragic gigolo, bilked lady liberty…..

By AJC/DNC Management

January 2, 2009 8:06 AM | Link to this

By GodHatesTrash January 2, 2009 7:52 AM I drove the wife’s Prius to Boston and back last week, about 500 miles RT, paid $1.65 in federal gas tax on the 9 gallons of gasoline. Thanks, Hummer drivers! (morons)

That’s nice but I don’t have to worry about it, uh, like you do.

~~~~~

Here’s the same person that sputtered and foamed over Sarah Palin, a woman who has actually accomplished something in her life-

But life is complicated. If you’re going to run as the princess of a dynasty, you have to act and be like a princess—something different, rarefied, heightened. Her problem in part has been that she spent a quarter-century trying to blend in and not call attention to herself. She made herself convincingly average—not distinguished. She has her parents’ dignity but not their dash. She radiates a certain clueless class.-Peggy “Lunatic” Noonan.

Yep-

“Well, you know, that’s something, obviously, that, you know, in principle and in the campaign, you know, I think that, um, the tax cuts, you know, were expiring and needed to be repealed.”-Princess Kenneduh

She’s got the pinko talking points, uh, like down, you know?

Toadies

By Bud Wiser

January 2, 2009 8:22 AM | Link to this

DB, if you are a tax and spend liberal, then you are right at home with the Messiah.

I personally like to keep my own money, and this crap about *where taxes should have been…” is just that, crap.

Your shallowness equals or surpasses that of the BlogFather.

How typically left, how typically ignorant.

By GodHatesTrash

January 2, 2009 8:24 AM | Link to this

Taking the MARTA now to the airport to read the Urinal with Larry Craig?

Great way to save on gas tax.

By AJC/DNC Management

January 2, 2009 8:25 AM | Link to this

Rep. Bobby Rush says he doesn’t think any U.S. senator would be caught turning a black man away from serving alongside them.

No Senate Democrats responded to his racial challenge. And they got support from President-elect Barack Obama, who will be the first African-American in the White House.

Aahh yes, the democrats don’t have to bow before the race card no more cause they got Chief Token up in da house, eh?

How do you like that, 95 percenters, have aspirations, have dreams, fuh git about it, we already broke that ceiling so you can just, uh, run along. And be sure to vote for us again in two years, capiche?

Worked out real well for you, didn’t it?

By DB, Gwinnettian

January 2, 2009 8:30 AM | Link to this

Bud, the 80s called. They want their catch-phrases back.

By AJC/DNC Management

January 2, 2009 8:35 AM | Link to this

Yet, if Blago were going to sell the seat, the obvious party to sell it to is the man with the power to appoint ambassadors and Cabinet officers, or to convince others to hire Blago: President-elect Obama.

Bingo.

ew

By GayGrayGeek

January 2, 2009 8:36 AM | Link to this

Bud - better to be a Tax And Spend “whatever” than a Republican’t “Borrow and Spend”-bot.

It’s amazing to me how all of you wingnuts scream about “personal responsibility”, meanwhile you want everything nowNowNOW and insist that your children and grandchildren will be the ones to pay for it.

Or, mayhaps you simply wish that your children and grandchildren will be economic vassals to China?

By GodHatesTrash

January 2, 2009 8:40 AM | Link to this

Hopin’ for those GEDs… You betcha!

Good to see Levi working - he’ll need $ to pay Grandma Johnston’s lawyers…

By The BlogFather of Scroll

January 2, 2009 8:43 AM | Link to this

China’s Navy called.

They want Taiwan back.

The Village People called. They want Andy back.

Hey Buttgeyser, The Special Olympics called.

They want their blogger back.

CNN just reported that the Canoe Industry is asking for a bailout…..in the wake of the SkyDiving Industry’s bailout last week.

The missionary position called. They want a bailout.

By AJC/DNC Management

January 2, 2009 8:45 AM | Link to this

Lucky for Princess Kennedy that she looks like a horse, it keeps her from having family problems like Hot Sarah does.

I mean, really, who would want to knock her up?

ew

By Bud Wiser

January 2, 2009 9:08 AM | Link to this

I didn’t really think you could come up with an educated, or better, response than that.

But I was hoping…..

By E-4

January 2, 2009 9:35 AM | Link to this

Chad

What are your thought on this ??

(CNN) — The man tapped by Illinois’ embattled governor to fill an open U.S. Senate seat will be turned away if he arrives for Tuesday’s inauguration of new members, according to two Democratic aides.

By Chad Harris

January 2, 2009 4:24 PM | Link to this

E4—

My thoughts should be clear by now. The Dems and Rethugs that turn Burris away are legally stupid. When Burris kicks their butts in court, and he will, he should ask for sanctions and he should ask for damages to compensate him for his wasted time, and he certainly should move for legal fees. I would, and by the time this migrates from the Illinois Supreme Court on the apellate ladder to the federal appellate courts Burris would be wise to acquire nationally known constitutional law esperts like Larry Tribe or Cass Sunstein (although Sunstein who moved from U Chicago to be with his honey Samantha Power at Harvard is on team Obama and Obama has made a legally stupid choice in this matter. Obama didn’t take time to research the law, and neither did the morons in the US Senate.

They can refuse to seat him on Tuesday, January 6, only because the court battle will take a lot longer.

By Chad Harris

January 2, 2009 5:09 PM | Link to this

AJC—

Caroline Kennedy isn’t qualified to be Senator and won’t be, but we aren’t running our government with the criteria of “Who is the most f*ckable to be in office” and a lot of people who see the moron Palin would opt for someone attractive with brains instead of someone outwardly attractive with mush for brains.

I’m not sure what point your making sitting there with a mouse and keyboard commenting on Caroline Kennedy’s “looks.”

By The Corporal

January 2, 2009 7:27 PM | Link to this

Chad

I hear you but what does it say about a person who would be that arrogant to defy his own party’s senators and President Elect ??