In explaining why state Republicans chose to replace Diane Tebelius with Luke Esser as WSRP chair, one GOP wag privately remarked that “Luke has balls.” I suppose that’s true. Most dicks do.
And as evidence of the WSRP’s ballsy dickery under Esser’s new leadership, the state GOP (or one of their surrogates) is preparing a TV ad attacking Gov. Chris Gregoire for denying Washingtonians the right to vote. How can I be so sure? Well, I happen to have come into possession of a preliminary storyboard:
Storyboard text — Per Account 1267 — DHG, Com5
Followup with client re: cable buy dates, saturation, and market analysis
===Bill 4 hrs===
(6/1/07, 6/2/07) @rate1
Ad specs per conv. 5/31 4:32pm
==Board 1==
[Elderly voters, Am. flag in breeze]
< Screentext >
All over America…
On Febuary 5, 2008…
…People will be going to the polls
…For AMERICA’s First National Primary Day
< /screentext >
< narration: same; soundtrack: "upbeat", "patriotic" >
***
==Board 2==
[Gregoire stock photo, b/w, low contrast]
< screentext >
Except You!
< /screentext >
< soundtrack: file, "despair" >
< narration: same, "angry voice" >
***
==Board 3==
[Prison bars over ballot box]
< screentext >
Gov. Gregoire and her party…
…Don’t want you voting on Feb. 5!
< /screentext >
< narration: same, melodramatic >
< soundrack: same >
==Board 4==
< note: discuss with client*** >
Why?…
…What are Gregoire and the Democrats so afraid of?
< discuss >Why doesn’t she like you?! < /discuss >
That’s pretty much the storyboard as I received it, though I’ve inserted the attached images in their appropriate places in the text.
What a bunch of dicks.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) requires state parties to choose all their delegates by either a primary or a caucus, and it was the 178 members of the WA State Democratic Central Committee (WSDCC) who voted to choose the latter. So of course, Gov. Gregoire had absolutely nothing to do with the decision.
But that’s besides the point, and the Republicans know it, because what this ad is really intended to say is: GOV. CHRIS GREGOIRE STEALS ELECTIONS!
I mean, that’s clearly the subtext. Hell, it’s not even subtext, it’s the whole ad… the script, the music, the images — stern Gregoire, elderly voters, prison bars — the whole point of this ad is to remind voters of the disputed 2004 election, and all the lies and misinformation the GOP disseminated about it.
The presidential primary? That’s just a springboard for an attack ad, and the WSRP couldn’t care less how tangential or intentionally misleading it might be. There are legitimate arguments, pro and con, for selecting delegates via caucus, but all the R’s want to do is dumb down the debate into a smear on Gregoire.
Like I said… what a bunch of dicks.
While I am sure the GOP wing of the Democratic party wants us to turn the other cheek and try to get along with the inbred morons on the Publican side who support this shit – I for one say fight fire with fire. We need to prepare ads showing how the lying piece of shit Dino Rossi tried to subvert the will of the voters by stealing the election for Governor in court.
Nah, I think it’s just a fundraising pitch to the old folks. Republicans love donations from elderly voters:
“Fund-raising group milks vulnerable senior citizens
“By David Postman and Jim Brunner
“Seattle Times staff reporters
“The College Republican National Committee has raised $6.3 million this year through an aggressive and misleading fund-raising campaign that collected money from senior citizens ….
“Many of the top donors were in their 80s and 90s. The donors wrote checks — sometimes hundreds and, in at least one case, totaling more than $100,000 — to groups with official sounding-names …. But all of those groups … were simply projects of the College Republicans, who collected all of the checks. And little of the money went to election efforts … 90 percent … appeared to go into fund-raising expenses, according to a Times analysis of reports filed with the IRS.
“In Van Buren, Ark., Monda Jo Millsap, 68, said she emptied her savings account by writing checks to College Republicans, then got a bank loan of $5,000 and sent that, too, before totaling her donations at more than $59,000. …
“‘I think this is a nationwide scam,’ Boyle said on hearing of recent complaints. ‘They’re covering the whole country … they need to be investigated.’
“The Washington State Attorney General’s Office received at least six complaints about the College Republicans fund-raising letters from 2000 to 2002 …. The complaints cited ‘fund raising representations’ and ‘enior exploitation.’ …
“This year, as millions of dollars flowed in, College Republicans falsely claimed in letters that checks were only trickling in and that the group was in a constant budget crisis. And the elderly continued to be a major source of donations. There are far more retired people giving to College Republicans than to any other IRS-regulated independent political committee, IRS records indicate.
“The Times was able to determine the ages of 49 of the top 50 individual donors to the College Republicans. The median age of the donors is 85, and 14 of them are 90 or older.
“Donors interviewed this week frequently expressed disbelief when they were told how much they gave to the College Republicans. ‘That can’t be true,’ said Francis Lehar, a 91-year-old retired music publisher, when he was told records showed he gave the College Republicans nearly $23,000. … From January through September, the Massachusetts man wrote 90 checks to the group, records show. …
“The College Republicans had another warning in September 2003, when the Center for Public Integrity, a Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group, issued a report on the explosive fund-raising growth by the College Republicans. The report noted that several elderly donors who were contacted did not appear to know to whom they had given money. …
“Response Dynamics, its affiliates and other companies related to the fund raising get most of the money raised by the College Republicans. About $9 million of the College Republicans’ reported spending this year appeared to go into fund-raising expenses, according to a Times analysis of reports filed with the IRS. About $313,000, roughly 3 percent, went for travel, convention expenses and ‘hospitality.’ About $210,000 went to payroll expenses, helping pay for campus organizers who have been drumming up support for the GOP ticket among young people.
“The large amount of money devoted to fund raising, and the small amount for political activities, is unusual among the top ranks of the burgeoning field of so-called 527 independent political groups. …
“Most donors interviewed said they get up to 50 solicitations in the mail each day. That pile can include four or more from the College Republicans. ‘My house looks like a post office, and I’m not exaggerating,’ said Anne Kravic, a retired school-district employee in Parma, Ohio. … Her small monthly pension cannot keep up with the life of a political financier. ‘I’m tired of it. I’m quitting. It is too much for me. My bank account has been overdrawn already,’ she said.
“Elliot Baines is an 84-year-old Florida retiree who says he has a hard time just carrying the mail he gets each day now. ‘It’s almost too much for me to handle,’ he said. Baines was surprised to hear he had given more than $63,000 … to College Republicans.”
Quoted under Fair Use; for complete story and/or copyright info see http://tinyurl.com/6tnzu
Roger Rabbit Commentary: What kind of people rob the elderly of their life savings? Republians, that’s who! Say, didn’t Dino Rossi work for a crooked real estate broker who went to prison for stealing from widows and orphans? Yes — he did! And when this crook got out of jail, Rossi sought him out to work for him again! And THAT, kiddies, is the kind of man the WSRP wants to make governor of our state … =:-(
It is a fact that the Esser folks have been on a quest to highlight the non issue ever since he took the post as GOP chair. We have given them nothing of negative substance to work with, so they have focused on those non issues that they feel some percentage of the voters will buy and the press, like David Postman, will let them get away with.
Case in point #1: The Governor, like all before her, gets political contributions from the tribal PAC’s when permitted by the PDC and laws of the state, while she, as is her duty, negotiates compacts and many other Gov to Gov issues with the Tribal representatives across this state. So the GOP cry out that the Gov should not take any contributions from the tribes when she is negotiating anything with them even though these negotiations and the related dialog go on (as they should) throughout the year.
Case in point #2: In the 06 session, the legislature with wide support from both parties in both houses including Esser’s vote, passed an election reform bill that among other things, removed the prohibition for fundraising during the 30 days after the end of each legislative session for all legislators and state office holders.
So, in keeping with the law, the Gov’s campaign committee raised some money. BFD. Yet Esser raised an objection that would effect only the Gov, this being, that she should not raise any money while signing bills into law (a task which takes place over the 30 days after each session).
Now factor in this primary issue which you correctly point out is an issue the Gov has NO authority over and the pattern is set. As Democrats, we are doing one hell of a good job so the GOP just makes shit up left and right and the press prints the press releases just like a bunch of tabloids without pointing out how full of shit Luke and his GOP tools are.
This ad is typical Republican myth-spewing. It shows how desperate they are — it’s Hail Mary time for the GOP liars.
Every time Republicans do something like this, it proves they know they can’t win on real issues.
Well let’s see, how’s their strategy of campaigning on their anger over losing in 2004 working for them?
Motherbeater Irons got 38% of the vote, Roadkill McGavick got 38% of the vote, cigarette smoke got 39% of the vote, and dogs in bars are outpolling any Republican anywhere than …
What are you guyas worried about? This is one of the bluest of the blue states.
But I wish the Democrats would get some spine and run spots calling the GOP ads “a pack of lies.” How about a storyboard like this:
Storyboard text — Per Account 01RR — FY, Com1
Followup with client re: cable buy dates, saturation, and market analysis
===Bill 1 hr===
(6/11/07, 6/12/07) @rate1/2
Ad specs per conv. 6/11 12:59pm
==Board 1==
[Elderly voters, Am. flag in breeze]
All over America…
People are wondering …
***
==Board 2==
[Bush stock photo, b/w, low contrast]
Why don’t Republicans tell the truth about ANYTHING?
***
==Board 3==
[Prison bars over ballot box]
George Bush, Karl Rove, and their party…
…Don’t want you voting on Nov. 5!
==Board 4==
Why?…
… Because they know they can’t win an honest election!
So, instead, they run attack ads full of lies.
What can YOU do?
Go to your Democratic Caucus on Feb. 5 to help pick a NEW GENERATION OF LEADERS for America!
Let FREEDOM ring!
(close with sound of bells ringing, scenes of whitewashed church steeples glowing in the warm sun)
For a REALLY hard-nosed ad, superimpose a grainy b/w photo of Bush, Gonzales, and Rove over a swatiska background.
Trouble is, this old GOP tactic works if we do not respond. This lesson was learned the hard way with willy horton Dukakis and resulted in the very effective rapid response of Clinton/Carvil fame. We as a party must not let the false ideas settle in the memory banks of voters while we sit back thinking it is too early to spend any energy exposing them for the lies they are and we must not let the press ignore or fail to report the facts.
Federal Appeals Court Orders Release of U.S. Detainee From Military Detention
“RICHMOND, Va. (June 11) – The Bush administration cannot use new anti-terrorism laws to keep U.S. residents locked up indefinitely without charging them, a divided federal appeals court ruled Monday.
“‘To sanction such presidential authority to order the military to seize and indefinitely detain civilians, even if the President calls them ‘enemy combatants,’ would have disastrous consequences for the constitution – and the country,’ the court panel said.
“In the 2-1 decision, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel found that the federal Military Commissions Act doesn’t strip Ali al-Marri, a legal U.S. resident, of his constitutional rights to challenge his accusers in court. It ruled the government must allow al-Marri to be released from military detention. … The court said … he can be returned to the civilian court system and tried on criminal charges. ‘But the government cannot subject al-Marri to indefinite military detention,’ the opinion said. ‘For in the United States, the military cannot seize and imprison civilians – let alone imprison them indefinitely.'”
http://news.aol.com/topnews/ar.....1?cid=2194
Maybe Luke Esser can get appointed to one of those cushie immigration judge positions?
Roger Rabbit @ 8
You are truly brilliant! Are you available as a campaign consultant?
Richard @13,
Oh man… that’s something I’d love to see. Roger Rabbit managing Richard Pope’s campaign.
Wasn’t that prophesied as a sign of the impending End Times?
A propos the End Times: I just receieved this as an attachment to an E-mail:
Many will recall that on July 8, 1947, witnesses claimed that an
>>> unidentified object with five aliens aboard crashed onto a sheep and
>>> cattle ranch just outside Roswell, New Mexico.
>>>
>>> This is a well-known incident that many say has long been covered up
>>> by the U.S. Air Force and the federal government.
>>>
>>> However, what you may not know, that in the month of March 1948,
>>> exactly nine months after that historic day, George W. Bush, Karl
>>> Rove, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfield, Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh,
>>> Condaleeza Rice, and Dan Quayle were all born.
>>>
>>> See what happens when aliens breed with sheep. This piece of
>>> information will help clear up a lot of things
>>>
@12 He has a better chance than you do, Richard … but maybe you’ll have a better shot after next year’s election … being as you’re now a Democrat. =:-D
@13 Yes. Btw how do you like that church bells gimmick?
@14 I’m a mercenary — I’ll do almost anything for money. The difference between me and Republicans as that I admit what I am.
is
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/.....ource=mypi
Puffybutt cuts deal to keep from doing hard time.
@14 “Wasn’t that prophesied as a sign of the impending End Times?”
Not that I know of, but if I can do anything to speed up the Rapture, I’ll throw that in without extra charge as a public service. Man oh man, 144000 Republicans gone in a flash and bang — I can’t wait!!! It’s not enough, but it’s a start.
Hopefully, that’s better.
Breaking News — GOP Blocks Gonzales No-Confidence Vote
“GOP Blocks No-Confidence Vote on Gonzales
“By LAURIE KELLMAN
“AP
“WASHINGTON (June 11) – Republicans blocked the Senate ‘s no-confidence vote on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Monday …. The 53-38 vote to move the resolution to full debate fell seven short of the 60 required.
” … Democrats dared Republicans to vote their true feelings about an attorney general who has alienated even the White House’s strongest defenders by bungling the firings of federal prosecutors and claiming not to recall the details. Republicans did not defend him, but most voted against moving the resolution ahead.
“Short of impeachment, Congress has no authority to oust a Cabinet member, but Democrats were trying anew to give him a push. … The attorney general said he was paying no attention to the rhetoric on Capitol Hill. …
“One veteran Republican said Gonzales had used up all his political capital in the Senate. ‘There is no confidence in the attorney general on this side of the aisle,’ said Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Specter voted to move the resolution forward, but he said many of his GOP colleagues would not because they feared political retribution.
“Democrats said it was only fair to put senators on record for or against Gonzales, particularly since five GOP senators have called for the attorney general’s resignation and many more have said they have lost confidence in him.
“‘If senators cast their vote with their conscience, they would speak with near unanimity that there is no confidence in the attorney general,’ said the resolution’s author, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. ‘Their united voice would undoubtedly dislodge the attorney general from the post that he should no longer hold.'”
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@15 Interesting. Has anyone fact-checked the birthdays? There might be something to this.
The roll call of how senators voted isn’t available yet. It’ll eventually be posted here. http://www.senate.gov/legislat.....vote=00207
What we need to do now is make sure every constituent of every senator who voted against cloture knows their senator is protecting this Constitution-abusing criminal.
Only 38 Senators voted to support Gonzales, but that was enough to keep Democrats from ending debate and bringing the no-confidence resolution to a vote. The vote was 53 – 38 in favor of cloture; 60 votes were required to move the resolution to a floor vote.
I hate to make any comments following a string like that above, but I’d like to point out that as a Democrat, I thought the party’s decision to deny voters a primary election on the candidates for President was not at all smart, basically designed to limit participation by Democratic voters in this important process. I didn’t hear Gov. Gregoire speak out against this bad move, so maybe the Republican ad isn’t entirely out of line, even though it is obviously intended to remind people of a different matter — the contested 2004 election.
@29 Steve, it isn’t just the Democrats. ALL the parties — Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Greens, etc. — sued the State of Washington to set aside the open primary. They ALL want to control their nominating process, and keep opponents from getting involved in choosing their candidates. That proposed ad is manifestly hypocritical, because there is absolutely no difference between the Democrats and Republicans in terms of the open primary.
In fact, if I were Dwight Pelz, I’d be thinking right now about running TV ads telling voters that Republicans sued the state to end Washington’s blanket primary. And I might even forget to mention in the ad that my party, the Democrats, were a co-party in the lawsuit. Dirty pool? Sure. Why not? Republicans play dirty pool all the time, so why shouldn’t we?
Here’s the ayes and nays on the cloture vote. An “aye” is a vote in favor of bring the no-confidence resolution to a floor vote:
Akaka (D-HI), Yea
Alexander (R-TN), Nay
Allard (R-CO), Nay
Baucus (D-MT), Yea
Bayh (D-IN), Yea
Bennett (R-UT), Nay
Biden (D-DE), Not Voting
Bingaman (D-NM), Yea
Bond (R-MO), Nay
Boxer (D-CA), Yea
Brown (D-OH), Yea
Brownback (R-KS), Not Voting
Bunning (R-KY), Nay
Burr (R-NC), Nay
Byrd (D-WV), Yea
Cantwell (D-WA), Yea
Cardin (D-MD), Yea
Carper (D-DE), Yea
Casey (D-PA), Yea
Chambliss (R-GA), Nay
Clinton (D-NY), Yea
Coburn (R-OK), Not Voting
Cochran (R-MS), Nay
Coleman (R-MN), Yea
Collins (R-ME), Yea
Conrad (D-ND), Yea
Corker (R-TN), Nay
Cornyn (R-TX), Nay
Craig (R-ID), Nay
Crapo (R-ID), Nay
DeMint (R-SC), Nay
Dodd (D-CT), Not Voting
Dole (R-NC), Nay
Domenici (R-NM), Nay
Dorgan (D-ND), Yea
Durbin (D-IL), Yea
Ensign (R-NV), Nay
Enzi (R-WY), Nay
Feingold (D-WI), Yea
Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Graham (R-SC), Nay
Grassley (R-IA), Nay
Gregg (R-NH), Nay
Hagel (R-NE), Yea
Harkin (D-IA), Yea
Hatch (R-UT), Nay
Hutchison (R-TX), Nay
Inhofe (R-OK), Nay
Inouye (D-HI), Yea
Isakson (R-GA), Nay
Johnson (D-SD), Not Voting
Kennedy (D-MA), Yea
Kerry (D-MA), Yea
Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea
Kohl (D-WI), Yea
Kyl (R-AZ), Nay
Landrieu (D-LA), Yea
Lautenberg (D-NJ), Yea
Leahy (D-VT), Yea
Levin (D-MI), Yea
Lieberman (ID-CT), Nay
Lincoln (D-AR), Yea
Lott (R-MS), Nay
Lugar (R-IN), Nay
Martinez (R-FL), Nay
McCain (R-AZ), Not Voting
McCaskill (D-MO), Yea
McConnell (R-KY), Nay
Menendez (D-NJ), Yea
Mikulski (D-MD), Yea
Murkowski (R-AK), Nay
Murray (D-WA), Yea
Nelson (D-FL), Yea
Nelson (D-NE), Yea
Obama (D-IL), Not Voting
Pryor (D-AR), Yea
Reed (D-RI), Yea
Reid (D-NV), Yea
Roberts (R-KS), Nay
Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea
Salazar (D-CO), Yea
Sanders (I-VT), Yea
Schumer (D-NY), Yea
Sessions (R-AL), Nay
Shelby (R-AL), Nay
Smith (R-OR), Yea
Snowe (R-ME), Yea
Specter (R-PA), Yea
Stabenow (D-MI), Yea
Stevens (R-AK), Present
Sununu (R-NH), Yea
Tester (D-MT), Yea
Thune (R-SD), Nay
Vitter (R-LA), Nay
Voinovich (R-OH), Nay
Warner (R-VA), Nay
Webb (D-VA), Yea
Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea
Wyden (D-OR), Yea
Here’s the list of all the senators who voted against the Constitution today:
Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lott (R-MS)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)
Not voting:
Biden (D-DE)
Brownback (R-KS)
Coburn (R-OK)
Dodd (D-CT)
Johnson (D-SD)
McCain (R-AZ)
Obama (D-IL)
Voted “present”:
Stevens (R-AK)
Note that although 3 Democratic presidential candidates are on the “not voting” list, their votes would not have been enough to reach the 60 votes required to bring the no-confidence resolution to a floor vote.
Note that POS Lieberman voted against the Constitution.
There are NO Democrats among the “nays”, so it’s now fair to call the GOP “the anti-Constitution party.”
GOP = Anti-Constitution Party
Interestingly, not one single GOP presidential candidate had the guts to vote against this resolution.
Well, we now know who the anti-America, Constitution-hating, traitors in the U.S. Senate are.
38
Joe Lieberman’s chronic constipation appears to have caused fecal matter to invade his brain. His arrogant lifting of his middle finger to the good, liberal people of Connecticut is truly maddening. The two-faced piece of shit needs to look himself in the mirror and acknowledge that he’s a Republican.
The Democrats need to ALLOW the Republicans to FILIBUSTER the Gonzalez no-confidence vote. I don’t think it would last more than a couple of 24 hour straight sessions, if even that long. It is very easy for someone like Voinovich (R-OH) to vote against limiting debate on the resolution. But Voinovich (R-OH) isn’t going to be caught dead standing on the Senate floor for 24 hours or even 24 minutes heaping praise on Gonzalez. Allow unlimited debate — each Senator can talk as long as he or she wishes (until they need to go to the restroom or their diaper is full or until they need to eat or sleep), but only once. There are only a handful of Senate Republicans who wish to be C-SPANed and videotaped praising Gonzo. Debate will exhaust itself and a vote can be taken expeditiously for no confidence in Alberto Gonzalez.
Proud Leftist @ 39
Chronic constipation? I guess that means Lieberman can break the filibuster record, since he doesn’t relief himself often.
41
Taking a clue from that NASA gal, I suspect Joe has figured out that Depends will take care of the weak dribble of pee that his prostate still permits. With that, and given how he always impresses himself with every word he speaks, I think Joe could do a 24-hour filibuster.
Justin Timberlake called, and he wants you to “Cry me a river…”
Since Pelletbreath deviated from the subject on this thread, here is somtin interesting:
Liberal Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz showed up this morning on the Clinton News Network to communicate his support of Scooter Libby, whom Dershowitz says was given too stiff of a sentence. “Considering all of the circumstances of the case, first offender, good record, generally, you wouldn’t get a sentence of that length.”
CNN host Kiran Chetry asked, “So, this is a little puzzling because you are not known as a friend of this administration. Some may have been a little surprised to read that you did file this friend of the court’s brief on behalf of Scooter Libby. Why?” Dershowitz explained the Libby case “wasn’t a Republican-Democrat issue for me.”
Memo to Prof Dershowitz – Politics, plain and simple!
Puddy
Bush–yes, your hero, George W. Bush–appointed the judge who sentenced Scooter. He appointed him to the federal bench because, as a state court judge, he was known as a law and order, throw-the-book-at-the-defendant kind of guy. Now, all you Republican guys who like long sentences don’t seem to like long sentences. Might that have something to do with politics? Bite me, Puddy. You pour hypocrisy over your oatmeal in the morning.
Now for sumtin seriously funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miXAZj-tcGI
Golly Proud Libtard:
U R an IDIOT.
I just stated something said by Prof Dershowitz. It was interesting take on the Libby Affair. Grow up get a life and feed the single celled organism you call a brain!
BTW, U R STILL an IDIOT!
Wait a minute here. Michael The Pumpkin Moore ain’t black. How can he claim “discrimination”? That’s a term reserved for black peeps!
http://tinyurl.com/27tjru
Pudwhack
I graciously accept your declaring me an idiot. From the likes of you, I’d hardly want to be thought wise. By the way, Dershowitz is, among other things, a criminal defense lawyer. He’s never met a prison sentence he liked. Dershowitz also likes media attention. He’ll say almost anything to get such attention. Some would refer to him as a “media whore.” That doesn’t mean, however, Puddy, that you could give him $20 to suck you off. Dershowitz lost all credibility in the legal profession quite sometime ago. If he did not have tenure at Harvard, he would not be teaching there.
Just wondering if Sharkansky has gone completely ballistic over not having been leaked the above storyboard. So much for his constant refrain that Goldy is not “relevant”. Obviously someone thought Goldy was best qualified to break this story.
The problem is when you are as marginalized as Stefan is, it is very difficult to get any information, let alone good information.
He must be under his desk, sucking his thumb and in a fetal position crying for his wife to make it all better.
puddy, you an i “get” this but i doubt if any of the whiners on here will….enjoy:
THE OLD VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long,
building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The
grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances
and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm
and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he
dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
************************************************************
THE MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long,
building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The
grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances
and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering
grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know
why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while
others are cold and starving. CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC
show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper
next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a
table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp
contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth,
this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the
Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody
cries when they sing, “It’s Not Easy Being Green.” Jesse
Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house
where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall
overcome.” Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to
God for the grasshopper’s sake. Nancy Pelosi &John Kerry
exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has
gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for
an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair
share. Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity and
Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the
summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate
number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his
retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the
government. Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the
grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the
case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton
appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients. The
ant loses the case.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the
last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is
in, which just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles
around him because he doesn’t maintain it properly. The ant
has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found dead
in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is
taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once
peaceful neighborhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote.
that would be “and”
…sorry, working too hard….
Perhaps the problem isn’t so much with the vote to limit debate. If they really feel that strongly that Mr. Gonzales’ behaviour as Attorney General is appropriate and proper, then let them filibuster.
But make them do it the old fashioned way.
From Wikipedia:
Make them stand and talk. Make them have to bring in pee buckets to hold the floor. Make them read the Washington DC telephone directory and their Aunt Mable’s receipe for rhubarb pie (and make sure that Rep Smith is taking notes on that one).
Make them stand and fight for Attorney General Gonzales, on the record, supporting him and his policies.
The Washington GOP national convention delegate process is a fraud and a sham.
The Democratic caucuses guarantee delegates chosen by the presidential campaigns at every step of the process — precinct caucuses, legislative caucuses, congressional district caucuses, and the state convention. If Barack Obama gets 25% of the people attending precinct caucuses in the 8th CD, then Obama gets 25% of the delegates (who are chosen by Obama supporters) at each stage of the process, including national convention delegates.
The Republican caucuses — which are much more sparsely attended — are winner-take-all at each stage of the process. People do not attend to formally express a presidential preference. At best, straw polls are taken. At each stage of the process, delegates are chosen to the next level by majority vote of the delegates attending.
So let’s suppose the Republicans have 39 national delegates, and 20 of them are chosen by the primary. Let’s suppose Mitt Romney gets 25% of the primary vote, but that Rudy Giuliani is preferred by the party establishment. Giuliani gets only 10% of the primary vote. The remaining 65% is split between other candidates.
At the precinct caucuses — attended by just a few thousand party activists and establishment figures, 1/3 of the people support Romney, and 2/3 of the people support Giuliani. So Giuliani gets at least 2/3 of the delegate chosen at the precinct level.
The Romney delegates chosen by the precincts show up at the legislative district and county caucuses. However, most attendees support Giuliani, and the overwhelming majority of delegates to the state convention are Giuliani supporters.
As a result, Giuliani would get all 19 “caucus” delegates, even though Giuliani only got 10% of the primary vote (where perhaps 500,000 or vote people vote GOP ballots).
Now, Romney is supposedly “guaranteed” 25% of the “primary” delegates (5 out of 20) and other candidates are “guaranteed” the other 65% (13 out of 20). Only 10% is supposed to go to Giuliani (2 out of 20).
However, the overwhelming number of convention attendees are Giuliani supporters. They get to elect the actual “Romney” and other “primary” delegates to the national convention. So all of the slots for “Romney” delegates, “Thompson” delegates, “McCain” delegates, etc. are actually filled by Giuliani supporters. True, they are committed to vote for “their” candidate on the first ballot — assuming that person is still in the race — but they are going to support Giuliani under any other possible contingency.
The same thing happened to me in 2000. I supported John McCain for President in 2000. 39% of the Republican ballots were cast for McCain in the February 28, 2000 primary. McCain was theorectically entitled to several national convention delegates from the 1/3 that were supposed to be allocated by the primary results in 2000.
However, relatively few McCain supporters attended the March 7, 2000 precinct caucuses. I was one of only a handful of McCain supporters chosen from my legislative district to attend the June 2000 state convention in Spokane. The people attending in Spokane were overwhelmingly George W. Bush supporters.
To further cement their control, the Bush supporters adopted convention rules allowing national convention delegates to be chosen on a “slate”. Rather than each national delegate having to be voted on individually, a state delegate could vote for all the national delegates by “slate” — one push of a button on the electronic machine to elect all the delegates.
As a result, a “slate” of national convention delegates approved by the party hierarchy was prepared. All of the “McCain” delegates on the official “slate” were really Bush supporters. In theory, they were obligated to vote for McCain on the first ballot — but McCain had already withdrawn from the race by then.
I filed my application to run as a real McCain delegate to the national convention, as did several other genuine McCain supporters. However, every single delegate on the official “slate” was elected, since it was easier for most drones (I mean “delegates”) to push one buttons, instead of vote individually.
So even though 39% of Washington Republicans had voted for McCain in the presidential primary, not one single GENUINE McCain supporter ended up being elected to attend the Republican National Convention.
Bunch of Dick’s Eh Goldy…
Didn’t the people of this state Twice vote for $30 tabs…
The Queen walked all over the people of this state’s vote, laughed in their face and slammed another $20 on their tabs.
Yeh she cares about the people of this state voting.. Ha Ha Ha
Hey Xmasghost! Did you listen to Goldy talking on the raaay-deee-ooooh last night while Roger Rabbit was posting on HorsesAss? Another of your conspiracy theories is blown to hell!!!
@39 They elected him — what can I say? Or did the Pubers rig the voting machines for Joe, too? I wouldn’t doubt it.
@40 You’re going to make a fine Democrat, Richard, and we should try to find a nice job for you. I don’t know if your interpretation of the Senate rules will work, but it sounds good.
@44 I never would have guessed you had it in you to be butt-buddies with a bleeding-heart liberal defense mouthpiece, puffy.
@44 (continued) Does your affection for lawyers who help bad guys beat the rap stem from personal experience with the criminal justice system?
@47 I suppose if Dershowitz is being paid by the defense team he’d say what his employers expect him to say, wouldn’t he? Which makes me wonder if he’s being paid to work on this case.
@51 The modern version is the working-class ant labors all summer so the cheaplabor conservative grasshopper doesn’t have to work at all.
@54 That makes 15 elections you’ve lost, Richard. Are there are any more we don’t know about?
goldyroger@56………once again “i think you doth protest too much”
you overplay your hand constantly….can’t you hold your water like a REAL man for even one second?
that’s rhetorical sweets…….we all know the answer is ‘no’.
and by the way….pretty much everyone KNOWS that you can write a post and have it post today in five minutes or next week on a certain day you complete idiot. gads….goldy does this shtick ever work for you….really???
and it figures that you would try and spin the ant/grasshopper story…..good try though.
i guess you have to though ,on second thought, because goldy YOU ARE THE GRASSHOPPER.
heh heh heh……….
ghost,
You’re fading, sweetie, into the deepest chasm of irrelevancy. Does someone actually find you cute? The arrogance of your posts is matched only by their incomprehensibility. Go smoke some more of what Humboldt County produces best.
Ghost: I was busy last night but the NEW Progressive ant/grasshopper story is apropos. That’s why the Moonbat!s are up in arms. It exemplifies the real deal of today’s Progressive New Democrat Party!
Proud Libtard: If you notice between Pelletbreath’s diarrhea spewings in Post #59 – Dershowitz IS a bleeding heart liberal!
BTW U R STILL an IDIOT!
More demonstration of the libtard MSM
http://tinyurl.com/yo2xsr
Proud Libtard: Don’t worry I wouldn’t waste my good money trolling for a BJ from you. I wouldn’t allow you to soil me!
178 Members of the State Central Committee did NOT vote to ignore the results of the Presidential Primary!
Not all voting members showed up, and as I recall 42 of us (yes I am a voting member of the SCC) voted for a Feb 5 Presidential Primary.
Your bullshit distortions of the truth are one of the main reasons I (and many others I know) read you less and less.
To EWALib at 70,
I am on my break at work, where we have ALL been talking about the Presidential Primary. We have a pretty funky mix of super-active Progressives, indies, knuckle-dragging Republicans, and even two Libertarians!
This decision just does not seem very Progressive, and I am trying to see how it makes sense.
Pretty much all of us here would be really interested in knowing what the pro and con arguments were at the State Central Committee.
Could you take a moment and lay out the various arguments?
And just so I know – how does one get to be on the State Central Committee?