Jay Bookman

By AJC/DNC Management

February 6, 2009 4:45 PM | Link to this

Damn, and here I thought you had no soul.

By AJC/DNC Management

February 6, 2009 4:59 PM | Link to this

Only the most dense people in America do not know this already and since most of them are right here on this blog, let me clue y’all in to something.

Rush Limbaugh was on vacation all week.

And we still tore your %$# up.

Kinda puts a crimp on all that psychobabble of yours about him doing all thinking for us, don’t it?

KKKooks.

By Taxpayer

February 6, 2009 5:05 PM | Link to this

A penny for your thoughts, Jay. Not that I’m beggin’ or in need of some coin of the realm or anything like that. It’s just that the prospect of beggin’ got my mind wandering a little farther off track than normal.

I wonder — what does a 21st Century debtor’s prison look like. Are its boundaries constructed of brick and mortar or is the sky the limit. Is it 2000 square feet of hardwood floors or four wheels of 10 mpg delight. Funny how one’s thoughts can change in the blink of an eye.

Have a good weekend.

By Hillbilly Deluxe

February 6, 2009 5:06 PM | Link to this

Good song.

By Paul

February 6, 2009 5:18 PM | Link to this

Hey Management

A while back Jay said words to the effect that the Fairness Doctrine was just a straw man to keep the farRight riled up and if there was ever a movement started he’d lobby against it.

Well, looks like it’s time for a liberal columnist to tell a liberal senator what’s what.

[[ Another Democratic U.S. senator has gone on record as supporting the reinstatement of the so-called “Fairness Doctrine,” adding, “I feel like that’s gonna happen.”

Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., told radio host and WND columnist Bill Press yesterday when asked about whether it was time to bring back the so-called “Fairness Doctrine”: “I think it’s absolutely time to pass a standard. Now, whether it’s called the Fairness Standard, whether it’s called something else – I absolutely think it’s time to be bringing accountability to the airwaves. I mean, our new president has talked rightly about accountability and transparency. You know, that we all have to step up and be responsible. And, I think in this case, there needs to be some accountability and standards put in place.” ]]

Seems her husband is Tom Athans, exec VP of…. Air America! He left when it filed for bankruptcy.

Guess it’s true. Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned. Or of a senator married to a failed businessman.

Link: Another senator lines up behind “Fairness” Doctrine

geeee, I thought it was jackbooted fascist Republicans who wanted to inhibit free speech……

By AJC/DNC Management

February 6, 2009 5:34 PM | Link to this

Paul: No worry.

It’s just the demokrats way of hoping to distract Conservative talk show hosts to keep them from focusing on what a bumbling bozo baraKKK has turned out to be.

You know, like blogs that are titled “So, what do you think is the future of newspapers?”

Don’t take the bait.

Even these liberals aren’t dull enough to enrage such a large constituency as that, even you, half lib, half Con, are worked up about it.

But then again, demokrats are pretty dense.

By AJC/DNC Management

February 6, 2009 5:39 PM | Link to this

The again, Debbie Stabenow may see her work in Michigan as finished, now that the whole state has been laid to waste, and may be trying to fill some free time.

Who knows?

By citizen

February 6, 2009 5:43 PM | Link to this

Jay, LOVE IT!! Thanks for the bright note at the end of the week. I graduated from high school in 1966 so this brings back sweet memories. This was a time when the keys were left in the car and the doors were never locked.

By Paul

February 6, 2009 5:46 PM | Link to this

Management

It’s turning into a target-rich environment. Here’s a half-lib (NPR) half-con (so much for Democratic oversight) piece:

[[As it stands now, says David Walker, a former U.S. comptroller general, the bill appears to have no mechanism for directing spending. It’s left up to those state and local officials, who may or may not have the ideas or the means to spend it appropriately. And that will lead to “a series of disappointments that it’s too late to do anything about,” Walker says.

The bill does make it possible for lawmakers and the public to track the money — but only after it’s spent. And that, he says, will lead to bad surprises.]]

Link: Earmark-Free Stimulus Bill Lacks Spending Direction

By Paul

February 6, 2009 5:50 PM | Link to this

Management

Posted too soon. This is priceless - from Rep David Obey, Democratic chairman of the Appropriations Committee:

[[Leaving out the earmarks does mean Congress will have less control over how the money is spent. But, Obey says, “So what? This is an emergency. We’ve got to simply find a way to get this done as fast as possible and as well as possible, and that’s what we’re doing.”

That doesn’t mean Congress will be responsible if the money is spent badly, he says.

“The person who spends the money badly will be responsible. We are simply trying to build as many protections in as possible,” Obey says. “We have more oversight built into this package than any package in the history of man. If money is spent badly, we want to know about it so we can hold accountable the people who made that choice. And guess what? Regardless of what we do, there will be some stupid decisions made.”]]

That is just so convolutedly wrong on so many levels…

“Oversight means you know who screws up. But we aren’t responsible.”

By AJC/DNC Management

February 6, 2009 6:01 PM | Link to this

{{{{U.S. Rep. David Obey (D-WI), the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, helped write the bill and says he doesn’t like being asked about earmarks.

“We simply made a decision, which took about three seconds, not to have earmarks in the bill,” he says. “And with all due respect, that’s the least important question facing us on putting together this package.”}}}}

Paul: An “earmark” is pork that is attached to a piece of legislation as it travels through grimy halls of Congress, it could be a parasite upon some otherwise harmless resolution such as renaming a post office.

What Oblahmi is shaking at the nation and whining at us about is nothing but pork.

It’s Mister Earmark, hahaha.

It’s just further proof of how wormy democrats really are, they can stand before the cameras chirping about how they are against the “Fairness Doctrine,” while only hours before they crafted some abomination to the Constitution and called it “Local Broadcasting Diversity,” or some such BS.

Which is just the “Fairness Doctrine” of another name.

You can’t trust these people.

By TN Gelding

February 6, 2009 6:01 PM | Link to this

Have you seen this?

Have a nice weekend everyone.

By CommunistAJC

February 6, 2009 6:19 PM | Link to this

AJC/DNC Management, I like that: Barack the Bozo. Nancy Pelosi fits that description better than Hussein only because she is truly an idiot. PresBo is simply a communist in socialist clothing. Newt was on O’Reilly the other night and was asked whether Pelosi was smart enough to handle her job. Before O could even finish his sentence, Newt said “NO” while shaking his head and laughing. This crop, or crap, of democrats are by far the most idiotic the country has ever seen. I’d say it’s safe to assume that a Clayton County grad has a higher IQ than Pelosi and Reid combined.

By getalife

February 6, 2009 6:22 PM | Link to this

Good thing you started blogging Jay.

It is a beautiful spring like day.

They reached a deal and cut 80 billion:

“Total Reductions: $80 billion

Eliminations:

Head Start, Education for the Disadvantaged, School improvement, Child Nutrition, Firefighters, Transportation Security Administration, Coast Guard, Prisons, COPS Hiring, Violence Against Women, NASA, NSF, Western Area Power Administration, CDC, Food Stamps

Reductions:

Public Transit $3.4 billion, School Construction $60 billion

Increases:

Defense operations and procurement, STAG Grants, Brownfields, Additional transportation funding”

By AJC/DNC Management

February 6, 2009 6:38 PM | Link to this

Commie- Don’t count baraKKK out of the head bozo contest just yet.

~~~~~

al-Gitmo: They have to wait for Swimmer Kennedy to get better before they can vote on it, or it will never pass.

Republicans rock!

By @@

February 6, 2009 6:42 PM | Link to this

The Temptations — Ain’t to Proud to Beg

Very stimulating.

Very apropos, jay. Very!!!!

By RW-(the original)

February 6, 2009 6:49 PM | Link to this

Why do I get the feeling, when I see these Friday night videos where Jay B gets to go home for the weekend, that he’s really more of a prisoner in that grimy downtown building that gets weekend furloughs than a big city writer?

Come to think of it when he told us he was making an appearance on Tuesday he called it him being “free.”

Pinstripe suits, anyone?

By getalife

February 6, 2009 6:54 PM | Link to this

Andy,

They need all dems to vote yes.

Doubt it but some gop up for reelection may help.

Baucus said they are voting and Ted will vote.

Drama but they say it will pass.

By AJC/DNC Management

February 6, 2009 7:03 PM | Link to this

Whether the skein of ethics problems will dent the President’s popularity is yet to be seen. Newsweek’s longtime political analyst Jonathan Alter said he would award Mr. Obama another record 75th straight “up arrow” in his weekly Convential Wisdom column, but warned that he must act quickly before he loses control of the agenda.

“The problem with the Chu resignation is that now all the critic will be asking, ‘what about all the other cabinet members with dead hobos? Why do they get a pass?’ Frankly I blame Rahm Emanuel for this mess, and Obama needs to tell him to fix it now. The President has to get the public’s attention focused on his new improved $180 quadrillion stimulus package and his weekend Vanity Fair cover shoot with Annie Leibowitz,” said Alter, collapsing into tears while clinging to his Bearack the Bear plush inauguration collectible.

By @@

February 6, 2009 7:10 PM | Link to this

If the economic crisis isn’t enough for Obama, it’s gonna be interesting to see what comes out of the Global Security Council in Munich.

The missile game: Russian chess, American checkers, Iranian roulette

Throw in the likelihood that Benjamin Netanyahu will win the election February 10th and Obama’s cup will be overflowing.

He’ll be treading water.

By Bosch

February 6, 2009 7:13 PM | Link to this

Sigh. The two real women in the Senate, Collins and Snowe (their names just roll off my tongue) are coming through.

Susan Collins should have been the VP pick. Her and Olympia are so awesome.

By Bosch

February 6, 2009 8:24 PM | Link to this

Paul,

Have you watched the BSG webisodes? I watched them today. Wow, I wouldn’t trust Cylons either if that had happened to me!

By Chad Harris

February 6, 2009 8:55 PM | Link to this

Big shoutouts:

To Bushie and the Rethuglican Congress for Losing near 600,000 jobs. Nice job Bushie.

To all the Wall Street CEOs who used their corp. credit cards at Escort services—according to the Madam in the Spitzer case. (And for the retarded rethugs as Madam she had a large number of customers—not just S;pitzer).

It’s not known at this time what credit card Hooker Vitter used.

By Chad Harris

February 6, 2009 9:20 PM | Link to this

Obama was treading water when he had the guts to follow Moron Bush who couldn’t have fooked up things more.

By fed up

February 6, 2009 9:21 PM | Link to this

Darn thought chad had flown the coop. No such luck.

By Mrs.Godzilla

February 6, 2009 9:57 PM | Link to this

TN Gelding

Thanks for that wonderful link!

How about a little Love and Affection

I love the sax bridge near the end.

By Chad Harris

February 6, 2009 10:09 PM | Link to this

And you thought the Moroness Palin had a chance along with McStupid didn’t you.

By @@

February 6, 2009 10:18 PM | Link to this

ChaddyWick:

What say we just leave you alone with your personal issues.

I’ve heard misery loves company but you’re on your own. Have a party.

By Right All Along

February 6, 2009 10:24 PM | Link to this

I love the way Libs denigrated Cheney for fear mongering about our nation’s security (which involved people’s lives) but not one word about President Obama’s fear mongering to get his pet pork barrel project passed before everybody figures out it won’t do anything except worsen the situation. AJC writes about the Savior,”Obama said further delay would be “inexcusable and irresponsible” given Friday’s worst monthly unemployment report in a generation. Let me translate for all the Left Wing koolaid drinkers: “Hurry up and fund all the political paybacks while my approval ratings are up.” Change who can believe in? :-)

By Chad Harris

February 6, 2009 10:27 PM | Link to this

@@—

What’s say there’s no one on this earth for whom your urgings have any impact.

BTW Snowe and Collins and Leiberman are three of the dumbest Senators in a cohort of stupid Rethugs.

Basically, Spector, Collins, the Bad Nelson, and Sanctimonious Joe just cut $600 million in child care. By themselves.

Tax cuts did so well during the last eight years. They yielded millions of jobs lost, and hundreds of thousands of homes lost.

Nice Job Bushie.

By RW-(the original)

February 6, 2009 10:37 PM | Link to this

Chadly,

Try not to let me intrude on your delusions, but Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barack Obama are all Democrats.

By Chad Harris

February 6, 2009 10:43 PM | Link to this

@@—

Don’t you get a little bit tired of paraphrasing the memes from that favorite web site of yours in hopes of looking educated and read?

By @@

February 6, 2009 11:09 PM | Link to this

ChaddyWick:

Are you talking about my 7:10, “The World Tribune” link?

I don’t believe I’ve ever referenced them here.

OH! you mean Stratfor? They’re reporting has been slow of late. I think they’re waiting for events to unfold.

I’m off to snuggle. My job has been a lot harder this week than need be.

Maybe Midori will drop in to keep you company. When she’s feeling a real familiarity, she’ll say “You rawk”.

You can hope, can’t you, Chaddy?

By Chad Harris

February 6, 2009 11:11 PM | Link to this

RW—

You’re awesome dude. Could I persuade you to let me in on the cutting edge sites that gave you that privileged info?

They’ve done a lot of bumbling on any number of issues, but they were not the movers and shakers that shipwrecked this economy.

I’m hardly a fan of Pelosi, and particularly of Reid, but some of the biggest bull$sh*t was flung by the Thugs posturing in those Senate speeches throughout the day and this evening. The ones I caught could have been aptly named “dumb and dumber.

If you really want to get into the inner workings, arcanity and posturing of the BS Senate, a very bright lawyer who keeps close track is here:

He’s also about as non-partisan as it gets.

Senate by Cboldt

He has his own methods and madness as to dates and chronology but he knows the Senate extremely well and misses nothing.

By Paul

February 6, 2009 11:22 PM | Link to this

Hey Bosch

Did you watch the preview? If you don’t want to know the answer - don’t/

By Bosch

February 6, 2009 11:26 PM | Link to this

Paul,

Yeah I did! Duh! Wow, oh wow! That episode was great. Ellen’s back! After watching the webisodes, I felt one iota sorry for Gaita, but only one.

That was chilling when Zarek had the quorum killed, Gaita knew he’d frakked up.

By Fact

February 6, 2009 11:29 PM | Link to this

zzzzz

By Paul

February 6, 2009 11:33 PM | Link to this

Bosch

A few minutes before Zarek gave the order I thought “I wonder if he’ll totally be like Stalin.” He was.

An iota. I gave him that. How’d you like the momentary mind game with Baltar? “I know what you are.”

Baltar - back with a Six! They needed to bring that back - it’s too darn entertaining. Think your life is complete? Well, maybe not complete, but…. lololol

You know what Ellen means? Resurrection ship somewhere - or that was a scene from right after her death - but then, where’s she been?

By RW-(the original)

February 6, 2009 11:35 PM | Link to this

Chadly,

Thanks and did you notice that the last time there was any content on that blog was October 2, 2008?

It does give us a little window into your derangement though, that you think that is keeping close track of the Senate workings.

By Bosch

February 6, 2009 11:39 PM | Link to this

Chad,

I have a lot of respect for Collins. She’s worked hard this week to get the pork out of the stimulus package, and in my opinion made it better.

After reading through the bill the house rejected, I can see why many did - including many Democrats. The projects they cut are worthy causes, but don’t belong here.

I can’t help but respect those in the GOP who’ve been working on this stimulus package instead of those who’ve been acting like spoiled children and pitching fits because they didn’t get their way. Vitter’s performance was humiliating - like Gingrey slobbering for Limbaugh to forgive him.

I saw Mitt Romney this morning talking about the package this morning - touting the same old tired policies that have failed miserably. I honestly don’t know how he does it with a straight face or if he thinks anyone cares what he has to say.

I saw Michael Steele on CNN tonight - he seems like a reasonable guy who admits mistakes and will hopefully work at negotiating differences instead of pitching hissy fits.

I heard tonight they have provisions for tax cuts for the middle class - I think that’s a good idea instead of giving them to the huge international conglomerates that don’t need them or deserve them - all the wealth of the past century has been transferred to them and no one below that level has anything. I agree that small businesses and the middle class need tax cuts, but I fear that most in that category are in too much debt right now to do any good.

Anyway, my two cents for the evening - I have a little time to kill before Battlestar comes back on again at midnight. I’ve gotta see that again!

By Bosch

February 6, 2009 11:44 PM | Link to this

Paul,

I just thought the same thing about Ellen and the Res. ship, but it had to have been before they blew it up because of when she died. Good guess as to where she’s been.

Baltar is such a weird character. I don’t know if I like him or hate him. He certainly has alot of fun. I liked that line “I know who you are,” but Laura had the line of the night with her “I’m coming for you” stuff. I loved that scene at the end when Adama and the others were marching back in the command center with all those people behind him. The old man - wow.

By Paul

February 6, 2009 11:45 PM | Link to this

Bosch

DVR

DVR

DVR

DVR

and I have Season 4 and 4.5 from Netflix.

But my mind is fried. Waaayyyyyyy past my bedtime.

G’night -

By Paul

February 6, 2009 11:51 PM | Link to this

Bosch

When Laura said that I thought “could be a Cylon - the Cylon to lead them.”

That was effective with the Admiral. Amazing how many coups in history have succeeded or failed by a thread.

Like or hate Baltar? Nights like this I envy him! How’d you like the return of the brunette Six? I can hear the director again - Cut! Take 36! (After this musing RW just may tune in - but he’d never admit it!).

But now, I’m out - g’night -

By Chad Harris

February 6, 2009 11:53 PM | Link to this

As usual I was tyring to help a Thuglican get a little information and yeah I noticed after I hit “post” that CBoldt DC’d his site about November. I hadn’t really followed it closely since the FISA fiasco last year and I was scanning it to see if he was tracking the Thugs making fools of themselves today.

Those of us who classify “derangement” professionally wouldn’t include catching Cboldt’s ending his blogging after “post” as derangement but what the hell.

We all understand that the stark truth is this.

Your Rethuglican butts are creamed in most states as to the House, the Senate, and there are only 23 governors left. You thrive in the states with the most rednecks and least education—Georgia a prime example. You will never see a Rethug in the White House the rest of your lives, and that has you bitter and humerously with Obama less than 20 days in office blaming him because he can’t wave a magic wand and make the fookups of the Bush 8 years vanish.

Sadly most of the fookups hurt middle income and lower income people, but ocassionally a fookup bites some of the rich (as well as some of the lower income population like the Bush SEC’s fookup with Madoff—particularly the Boston and NYC offices that were explicitly warned dozens of times and looked the other way.

Lots of Thuglican trust funds and hedge funds bit the dust there.

By RW-(the original)

February 7, 2009 12:01 AM | Link to this

Over the years we’ve had a remarkable number of out and out nutjobs on this site that claim to be medical professionals of one sort or another which begs the question. Do nuts just love to portray themselves as doctors? Worse yet, are a large number of our doctors mental cases?

Goodnight Chadly!

By Chad Harris

February 7, 2009 12:25 AM | Link to this

I can answer your question. Someone politically aware who knows the difference between honest debate (next to none here) and the constant “so and so is mentally deranged because he supports someone I don’t” happens to be a medical doctor.

I never allude to it unless

a) someeone says something that’s simply medically not factual b) some medical economic issue is discussed—like health care which is something you do get acquainted with after years of medicine c) some thuglican politician or Democrat has said something that doesn’t make medical economic sense.

BTW—- if in fact there were people pretending to be docs here

a) how the fook would you know b) why the fook would you even care

And it has to occur to you that someone who has practiced medicine for years and knows it well doesn’t give a flying fook what your opinion is. It doesn’t change reality.

Thugs are invariably rude 99.999% of the time to people who don’t agree with them.

Eg. @@’s stupid meanderings that because someone posts something she doesn’t like, or points out that the posturing in the Senate today by thugs was absurd (I’m not fond of any of hte bailouts or the so-called stimulus package but what McCain and Lindsay Graham shoveled was beyond the pale and you have to try pretty hard to absolve Phil Graham, Greenspan and the Rethuglican controlled Congress for all the years up to 2006 of the blame for this economy.

And the artificial rule that the Senate must vote a 60 majority is just plain insane. Let ‘em fillibuster. Soon there will be in fact 59 Dem votes, and an unforseen event could boost it to 60. Additionally, rather than but also as the Sarah moron would say, go down the list and look at the Rethuglicans number who are quitting after their term is up.

The Dems aren’t going to lose votes in the House and Senate in 2010 no matter what happens. And Obama’s going to crush the dead men walking that you have to offer in 2012.

What’s most ridiculous is the idiots who are calling Obama a failure with about 17 days in office. That’s the most pathetic sour grapes I’ve seen in many elections. But I understand—you all were actually under the illusion you were going to beat Obama.

By Fact

February 7, 2009 6:50 AM | Link to this

Was the safe Nixon used to finance his cover up kept inside Cheney’s man-sized safe? and is there another safe inside Nixons that Kennedy was using to pay off the CIA’s assassination of the President of Vietnam in 1961? And then is there another tiny safe inside Kennedy’s safe that FDR used to finance the blitzkreig. Beware the military industrial complex. Ike wasn’t looking forward, he was looking backwards. This explains both bushes on the white house lawn. Whatever money put the techno twins in the white house surely will address us all soon again. Cheney and the Saudis: The military industrial complex.

By DB, Gwinnettian

February 7, 2009 7:16 AM | Link to this

“What’s most ridiculous is the idiots who are calling Obama a failure with about 17 days in office. That’s the most pathetic sour grapes I’ve seen in many elections. But I understand—you all were actually under the illusion you were going to beat Obama.”

I’ve given up trying to think what illusions drive that side. Fact is, they’re out of power, and desperate to block any progress. They’ll get a lot crazier, say and possibly do a lot more irrational stuff before they hit the acceptance phase; it’s to be expected.

Biggest wildcard is how the media spin this—we all know the media tend to build up their rockstars (like, say, Obama—because to a certain mentality, this is just some personality cult, and not a collective desire to start behaving more responsibly as a nation) only to tear them down from one cycle to the next.

But yellow journalism will always be with us, and will be managed somehow.

later, all.

By Courtenay

February 7, 2009 8:12 AM | Link to this

Yes, that’s true, yellow journalism will always be with us, like yellow snow at christmas, and yellow bellies at sap suckers conventions, and I am curious yellow.

By GodHatesTrash

February 7, 2009 8:19 AM | Link to this

Here’s a great job for the ex-Chickenhawk-in-Chief, something that matches his skill set

By AJC/DNC Management

February 7, 2009 8:38 AM | Link to this

{{{{WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats reached an agreement with Republican moderates on Friday to pare a huge economic recovery measure, clearing the way for approval of a package that President Obama said was urgently needed in light of mounting job losses.-Urinal/kult of baraKKK}}}}

Wow, the libs “picked up” Collins and Snowe, and since every move they’ve made the last two weeks has been a total disaster, the toady press treats this like the democrats have discovered the fountain of youth.

Roll out the barrel, the barrel the barrel roll out, eh, Urinal?

Two RINO’s combined, they scrubbed 100 billion in pork right out of this monstrosity, any more “victories” like that for baraKKK, and there won’t be any money left in the bill at all.

Bwahahahahahahaha, oww!

Stop it!!!

By AJC/DNC Management

February 7, 2009 8:41 AM | Link to this

To get a good idea of how totally f’ed up the democrats are nowadays, just think that they are taking earmarks OUT of spending bills just so they can get the RINOs to cooperate with them.

Ahahahahahahahahahaha, oww!

Stop it!!!!

By AJC/DNC Management

February 7, 2009 8:52 AM | Link to this

{{{{What to do about the troops????-Urinal/Jihad}}}}

Yes, what to do, what to do?

{{{{The White House is considering at least two troop withdrawal options as it weighs a new Iraq strategy —- one that would preserve President Barack Obama’s campaign pledge to get all combat brigades out within 16 months and a second that would stretch it to 23 months, two officials said Friday.}}}}

Hmmmmm, I thought the KKKampaign promise was ALL troops?

Whatever, that’s something for Code Pinko to fret over later when it hits home.

But, I mean if you really wanna make it seem as though little baraKKKy is mulling over the same terms that Bushie signed off on in the “Status of Forces” agreement with Iraq, feel free.

But that’s sort of idiotic, isn’t it, to basically say you’re, after careful and deliberate considerations, we will abide by the agreement?

Huh?

By Paul

February 7, 2009 8:53 AM | Link to this

Management 8:38

Why does so much good stuff happen on the weekends?

Like it or not, Pres Obama’s ‘change’ program is taking hold. Remember, just a few short years ago, at the height of the Bush repression, one senator breaks with party dogma and the activists drum him out of the party. Now, three Republicans break and vote with the opposition, and there’s acceptance.

Wait…. wait… that earlier senator…. that was Lieberman…. and he’s a Democrat… oops…

At least it’s change!

By AJC/DNC Management

February 7, 2009 8:56 AM | Link to this

(Since it is no longer Friday afternoon and Chadly has already thrown open the discussion, I’m figuring this is a like a free blog by now, maybe?)

Aahhh, yes, baraKKKy’s very first foreign policy disaster, mark your calenders-

{{{{Kyrgyzstan announced the closure of the Manas air base, but American officials suspect that Russia was behind the decision, having long been irritated by the U.S presence in central Asia.-Urinal/Jihad}}}}

Yeah, “irritated” for years but unable to do anything about it.

Could it have anything to do with the new era of American Spinelessness?

Gosh, I wonder.

By Paul

February 7, 2009 9:07 AM | Link to this

And how do we think this would have been portrayed three years ago? Administration secrecy! Press intimidation! Assault!

But now, it’s not portrayed so. It’s - okay. Change!

Link: Unidentified CIA Operative Assaults Reporter to Limit Access to CIA Director

By CommunistAJC

February 7, 2009 9:12 AM | Link to this

Chad Harris, you say that 600,000 job loses belong to Bush. Ok, fine, then 911 belongs to Clinton. If you want to blame Bush for the current economic mess then I will automatically assume that you will agree with me that 8 years of failed Clinton national security is to blame for 911. You can’t have it both ways. It’s the same type of situation. Clinton did nothing with 4 terrorist attacks and Bush inherited his failed policies.

Right, Chad Harris?

By Mrs.Godzilla

February 7, 2009 10:12 AM | Link to this

B!tch, B!tch, B!tch

The stimulus will pass.

The success limited somewhat by old base Republicans mightily concerned for their waning party’s power and our American President’s serious attempt to be inclusive.

Each will reap their just rewards. More Gop seats lost in the mid-terms for the old base. Increased respect, wisdom and influence for our American President.

And the American People?

We’ll be taking another one of those small steps that leads to great leaps.

Anyway, the droll, daily, drivel of the the old base is boring.

It’s a beautiful crisp day. I have 9 camelia bushes, 7 funny little yews, 7 confederate roses and 5 tiny spreading lillies I got for a song at the end of last season and have been keeping safe and tended all winter. Too early to plant, to be sure, but a little yard reconnoitering and initial site prep may be called for.

Y’all get outside and get some fresh air today, ok?