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by Goldy — Saturday, 6/24/06, 5:55 pm

I’m blogging on the radio tonight (7 PM to 10 PM, 710-KIRO), so you all talk amongst yourselves.

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  1. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 6:02 pm

    20 million Americans listen to Rush EACH day. How many listen to Goldystein?

  2. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 6:03 pm

    Look at what they are trying to do to that good man Lynn Swann running for Governor of Pennsylvania.

    Notice I didn’t talk about Michael Steele or Ken Blackwell. Well, I just did!

    Commentby Don\’t You Know Liberals R Racist Pigs— 6/24/06@ 10:34 am [……………………………………………………………..Very true. The libs will slim #88 Swann as they hate a Republican black.]

  3. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 6:04 pm

    Over 5,ooo black men lynched by white, terrorists in the South from 1930 to 1964.

    Commentby L-Mur Phd.— 6/23/06@ 6:39 pm [………..Er, Phd., Have you spoken to Robert “KKK” Byrd, DEMOCRAT, WV, about this? hehe]

  4. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 6:07 pm

    Puddybud Kennedy, MTR Kennedy, Dan Rather Kennedy, RUFUS Kennedy, and JCH Kennedy!! It’s safe to say we rule, and as long as they “gets their “guvment” check, dumb ass lib sheep Democrats like Left Turn and Roger Rabbit will vote for us for decades!! Remember the Kennedy motto: Drive, rape, kill, and drive!!

  5. LeftTurn spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 6:12 pm

    Is there a giant vacuum in the room or was all that noise just another right wing traitor sticking his head up his ass looking for wisdom?

  6. BushWentAWOL spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 6:13 pm

    Goldy be sure to invite the moronic, inbred, right wing chickenhawks to call in. Keep em on the line long enough so that when they violate FCC rules you can have the calls traced and get the rat coward bastards fined.

  7. LauraBushKilledAGuy spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 6:14 pm

    It’s true I killed a guy but I had a reason, my twins, whores that they are pulled a train on him and his buddies.

  8. howcanyoubePROUDtobeanASS spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 6:33 pm

    THE VERY REASON WHY MAINSTREAM AMERICA WILL NEVER, EVER ELECT A D’RAT/LIBERAL SUPPORTED BY THE FAR LEFT, HATE-FILLED, AMERICA-AND-ALL-THAT’S-DECENT-DESPISING LUNATICS:

    Goldy be sure to invite the moronic, inbred, right wing chickenhawks to call in. Keep em on the line long enough so that when they violate FCC rules you can have the calls traced and get the rat coward bastards fined. -Commentby BushWentAWOL— 6/24/06@ 6:13 pm

    It’s true I killed a guy but I had a reason, my twins, whores that they are pulled a train on him and his buddies. -Commentby LauraBushKilledAGuy— 6/24/06@ 6:14 pm

    KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! MEHLMAN, TEBELIUS, et. al., THANK YOU!

  9. Kevin J spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 6:48 pm

    Hey Trolls:

    You are being driven over the cliff by Rove, Cheney, Reichert, Limbaugh, Mehlman and the satanic neocon cult.

    I watch you go SPLAT!!!

  10. Tommmmmy-de-LAIIIIIIIIIIIID, ugh, bitchslap jack, jack, ugh, ugh, JACK, JACK JACK Abraaaaaammmooooffff spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 6:55 pm

    Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, JCH. You are my jizzum of last resssssorrt. Shrug off, jerka-jerka-jerka-jerka. AAAAAAHHHHHWHOOOOOOOoooooooow. Yeow!!! OH MY GOD, my MIGHTY ATLAS!!! Shrugggah shruggah shruggahhhh!!!!!

    You make my spine tingle with delight when you send me money!!!!!

    Send more.

  11. ufda spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 7:00 pm

    holy batfuck jch
    you have
    gone
    over
    the edge
    into the void.

  12. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 7:11 pm

    10, Too much meth. Finish the bottle and take them by the hand full!!

  13. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 7:12 pm

    2006, 2008………Dems lose again, and again. Deal with it!!

  14. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 7:15 pm

    Dems will do well in the dead vote, the illegal vote, and black districts in Chicago, Detroit, and Philly will vote Democrat at 115% of registration. No questions will be “axed”; however, as any and all voter fraud inquiries would be racist.

  15. RUFUS Fitzgerald Kennedy spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 7:16 pm

    You are being driven over the cliff by Rove, Cheney, Reichert, Limbaugh, Mehlman and the satanic neocon cult.

    I watch you go SPLAT!!!

    Commentby Kevin J— 6/24/06@ 6:48 pm

    Nah. Not buying it for a second. A bridge yes but cliff never.

  16. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 7:16 pm

    Left Turn….Look for the mailbox with the NRA stickers. Then hold still for 5 seconds.

  17. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 7:17 pm

    RUFUS Kennedy, Please welcome Dan Rather as the latest Kennedy. Best regards, JCH Kennedy

  18. RUFUS Fitzgerald Kennedy spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 7:18 pm

    I watch you go SPLAT!!!

    Commentby Kevin J— 6/24/06@ 6:48 pm

    Hey dumbass. SPLASH!!! No wonder you libs follow us Kennedys, your as dumb as fucking rocks. Geeeeesh

  19. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 7:24 pm

    Check out the “Liberty City, Fl 7”. Looks like a DNC/NAALCP membership meeting.

  20. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 7:25 pm

    Jesse is on his way down to Florida to ensure the “Liberty City 7” can vote Democrat in November.

  21. RUFUS Fitzgerald Kennedy spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 7:27 pm

    17

    Yes Dan definitely has the pedigree to be a Kennedy:

    Rather has already achieved a kind of perfection: He has been accused of liberal bias by every GOP administration since Richard Nixon’s. After he pilloried Nixon during press briefings for months, the president growled, “Are you running for something?” Reaganites accused the Evening News of interviewing downtrodden workers to generate pathos and undermine President Reagan’s policies. Rather’s most famous showdown with a Republican came against George H.W. Bush, when he harangued the vice president about the Iran-Contra scandal. Bush responded with so much vitriol—Rather was left to sputter, “You made us hypocrites in the eyes of the world!”—that the veep temporarily quelled the “wimp factor” and marched through the Republican primaries.

    In reponse to these brouhahas and the National Guard story, conservative media critics have demanded blood. They charge that Rather’s careless muckraking betrays a liberal bias, but it’s actually much worse than that. Rather isn’t a liberal hack. He’s bonkers.

    What other reporter could get away with the spontaneous fits of rage and the homespun corniness that are his trademarks? Raised in Texas, Rather reads the news in a colloquial rat-a-tat: Paul Harvey as performed by Bill O’Reilly. He peppers his copy with aphorisms—e.g., “that dog won’t hunt”—and for a while ended the Evening News with a single, baffling word: “Courage.”

    Rather’s taste for the absurd goes beyond mere oratorical style, according to Peter J. Boyer’s excellent book Who Killed CBS? In 1981, Rather decided that he couldn’t occupy Walter Cronkite’s chair, so for his first Evening News broadcast he read the headlines while crouching behind the desk. When a rival TV journalist ambushed him outside of CBS headquarters—a favorite tactic of the 60 Minutes gang—Rather instructed the reporter, “Get the microphone right up, will you?” Then he barked, “Fuck you.” The clip played on television for days. Then there’s Rather’s odd penchant for costumes. He once trekked across the Afghan border on foot and returned with hours of dazzling reporting—all of which he undermined by wearing a ludicrous peasant disguise on camera. TV critics lashed him with the nickname “Gunga Dan.”

    Rather’s most embarrassing tantrum came during the 1987 U.S. Open tennis tournament. When producers told him a match would run long and truncate the Evening News, Rather disappeared and left the network with more than six minutes of dead air. (Such was Rather’s cachet that no executive dared summon a replacement.) And don’t forget the 1986 “What’s the frequency, Kenneth?” attack, in which Rather was accosted by street toughs on Park Avenue in New York. You can hardly blame Rather for that one, but Boyer notes that such things rarely seem to happen to Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings. It’s as if Rather attracts half the madness in the universe, and the other half comes out of his mouth.

    What makes him bluster? Some say Rather, who attended Sam Houston State College, tries to compensate for his brittle education with hard-charging brio. He often tells a story from his days as a young CBS correspondent, when he bought a Great Books series and plowed through all the volumes. Rather didn’t wear his newfound erudition lightly. Once, during a tense moment at the network, he lectured his colleagues, “I only have one thing to say to all of you people. Syracuse, 413.” Producers were baffled. Only later did they realize that Rather kept a copy of Sir Edward Creasy’s Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World on his desk—Syracuse, 413 B.C., was in Chapter 2.

    These days, network news survives in hermetically sealed cocoons—free of commercial pressures and calls for financial viability. CBS News has more cocoons than any other network. There’s Evening News, which languished in last place for years; Face the Nation, another ratings disaster; Sunday Morning, which remained unchanged even after the death of anchor Charles Kuralt; and 60 Minutes, which is profitable but has an employee-retirement program similar to that of the U.S. Supreme Court.

    The CBS cocoons engender a kind of madness. Rather is paid an outsized salary—he makes $7 million per year—that is in no way commensurate with the number of viewers he delivers. Where most prime-time shows have a few weeks to prove their viability, newscasts often are given years and decades. The network’s former glory allows Rather to shroud himself in the aura of Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow. “I’m confident we worked longer, dug deeper, and worked harder than almost anybody in American journalism does,” Rather told the Washington Post Sunday, when in fact CBS spent less time verifying the Guard documents than most bloggers.

    Rather has labored in Walter Cronkite’s shadow for more than 20 years, ever since the old man lumbered off into retirement. The problem isn’t that Rather can’t match Cronkite’s gravitas (though he can’t). The problem is that Rather can’t duplicate Cronkite’s magnificent ratings, which protected him from all sorts of unwanted intrusions. When Rather took over the anchor chair—and ratings dipped—CBS began to slash costs and push for Nielsen-boosting scoops.

    “Old anchormen don’t go away,” Cronkite said on his final broadcast, “they keep coming back for more.” When Rather quits—whether this week or at a moment of his own choosing—it will mark an enormous shift in American cultural life. For the first time in a generation, viewers will flip on Evening News, grab a snifter of brandy, and prepare to receive the day’s stories from someone who isn’t barking mad.

    Yes, Dan Rather would fit right in.

  22. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 7:28 pm

    OK…..Stupid change of subject………….Teddy “Oldsmobile” Kennedy actually has a dog named “Splash”!! If I were Mary Jo’s father I would introduce Uncle Ted to Uncle Mossberg.

  23. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 7:31 pm

    Why do the idiot libs in MASS keep voting for us Kennedys? Are they “progressive” sheep? Teddy must be amazed that these dumb asses are really that stupid.

  24. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 7:32 pm

    holy batfuck jch
    you have
    gone
    over
    the edge
    into the void.

    Commentby ufda— 6/24/06@ 7:00 pm [………Now HERE is a well thought out post by an educated Democrat! hehe, JCH]

  25. Kevin J spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 7:48 pm

    Hey Rufus @15, 18:

    Whether you go splat or splash is immaterial to me-your irrelevance is the same.

    Get over yourself and your traiterous party-we’re taking the country back-it will be up to fix your fuck-ups into the next generation. You losers are pathetic.

    Go Darcy in the 8th. You trolls will just go ballistic over that won’t you?

  26. bluesky spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 7:55 pm

    How does one listen on-line? Do you really have to “register” to listen???

  27. Janet S spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 8:03 pm

    Kevin – why do you want to put a complete neophyte in a position of tremendous responsibility?

    She can’t even handle msft, washing out after three years. How is she going to handle the national spotlight? What if something big happens on her watch? Will she cry and run away? What proof do you have that she has any ability what so ever to handle pressure?

    But, she will vote as told, and that is what counts.

  28. howcanyoubePROUDtobeanASS spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 8:04 pm

    How does one listen on-line? Do you really have to “register” to listen??? -Commentby bluesky— 6/24/06@ 7:55 pm

    The answer to either/both is WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO????

  29. Had Enough Yet? spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 8:05 pm

    In times like these there is but one question:

    WWJD?

    What Would Jenna Drink?

  30. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 8:17 pm

    29, Had Enough Yet?—, Wasn’t Al Gore’s son stopped for 82 in a 55 with drugs in the car? Unlike Amy Carter or Chel Clinton, the Bush twins are babes. The difference is night and day.

  31. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 8:20 pm

    “we’re taking the country back”

    Commentby Kevin J— 6/24/06@ 7:48 pm [The Dems lost in 2000, 2002, 2004, and will lose in 2006 and 2008. Time for you libs to get a real job in the private sector as Atlas has Shrugged and the grasshopper Democrats will need to tax each other.]

  32. Janet S spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 8:39 pm

    This is really too good: the evidence is in that netroots is pocketing the money being contributed to candidates through netroots. So, darcy, how much money made it to you coffers from this group? Oh, well, you got lots of publicity.

    Anyone here stupid enough to donate per goldy’s instructions?

    http://www.riehlworldview.com/.....isbur.html

  33. Puddybud Michael Kennedy spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 8:51 pm

    Janet S: Stop displaying the truth for moonbats. Thye’ll call you a liar! But they do eat shit and bark at the moon: “Lost in the current controversy over MyDD founder Jerome Armstrong’s apparent belief in astrology,” — see Janets S link above. Too funny moonbats!!!!!

  34. Puddybud Michael Kennedy spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 8:53 pm

    This man has it pretty much right!

    “I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK!”- By Rick Roberts – 760 KFMB AM

    I don’t mean to go off on a rant here, but here’s the bottom line, I want my country back.

    I want my kids to be able to walk to the store or walk to school without being abducted by some 3-time convicted child molester. And the politically correct powers that be in this country just can’t seem to get over themselves with “CAN’T WE JUST HELP THIS PERSON!” No! You can’t. But they’re let loose to prey on more children.

    I want my kids back. I want my country back.

    I don’t agree with everything this President does. I’ve never agreed with anything 100% that any President has done or said.

    You know, I was very young during the Vietnam War. So I probably missed that thing by a hair. I don’t know whether I would have agreed with that or not at the time. I was too stupid to have an opinion at that point and time even though I thought I did.

    I want my country back.

    I want some semblance of respect for authority, whether I agree with it all or not.

    I want the Boy Scouts to be “boy” scouts, not boy and “we think she’s a girl” scouts. I want Girl Scouts to be “girl” scouts not Girl Scouts and “Bruce.”

    I want my country back.

    I want to be able to wake up in the morning knowing that I can walk outside without some gang-banger on parole taking my life.

    Or being able to go down and purchase a car without having to worry about you know 90% of the parts being made overseas in some sweatshop.

    I want my politicians, when they finally do get my vote, to do what the hell they said they were going to do in the first place.

    I want the Abramoff’s of the world to be labeled what they…nothing more than organized crime in a better suit.

    I want the Hollywood elite to make movies to entertain me. Not use their celebrity to sway me politically one way or the other.

    Quite honestly, if you’re a has-been-pseudo-celebrity I want you to go away quietly, so that I can remember you fondly through your “artiste work” that’s left in the archives.

    I want people to say something and when they say something look at me in the eye. And mean what they say. Not say what they think I want to hear. And then do what they want to later politically or any other way.

    I want to be able to go out and work and make a decent wage and buy a home. Half the people that are listening to me right now can’t even afford to buy a house unless they’re working three jobs.

    And I want America to be America. All of those opportunities, all of those things that made her great, I want those returned to the forefront. If you want to come to this country we welcome you with open arms. We simply ask that you abide by our laws. I don’t want you to snub your nose at our laws, then take advantage of our opportunities, and then cling to the constitution most of which you can’t even read because you don’t speak the language.

    I want us to secure our borders because the country is worth securing. The people that live here are worth protecting.

    I want my country back. I want my children back.

    I want some semblance of what this country used to be.

    It’s worth protecting. It’s worth defending.

    I don’t recognize this country anymore.

    Not politically, not philosophically, not spiritually.

    Whether you like it or whether you don’t God was a part of building this great nation. To remove him is to take away the very foundation of what this country was all about.

    I don’t care about your political correctness!

    I don’t want to know your sexual preference!

    I could care less about all of that. Stop making it the headline of the day!

    That’s not America.

    I want my country back!

    And the only way I’m ever going to be able to get this country back is if I reach out to the brothers and the sisters that all feel the same way and we say “Hell No! You can’t have our country.”

    It’s not for sale! Take the price tag off this country!

    Take the price tag off the heads of our children!

    Stop it already!

    The politically-correct-psychobabble-hug-a-tree-experts ; You are not qualified to release sex offenders back into our neighborhoods.

    The southern border, more than any other border, needs to be secured tomorrow. For all those that wish to come to this country to take advantage of her opportunity, to live under a constitution a living document that breathes in and out just like you do, this country is not for sale.

    I should know. I’m one of the owners. You can’t sell it without my permission.

    I want my country back!

  35. Had Enough Yet? spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 9:07 pm

    Bitchslap @ 31,

    Man you can say that again. The twins really are babes!
    ‘Specailly Jenna:

    What a Babe!

  36. For the Clueless spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 9:07 pm

    This man has it pretty much right!

    Yep.

  37. Had Enough Yet? spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 9:08 pm

    Does her daddy know she drinks Canadian?

  38. Janet S spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 9:17 pm

    Hey, 39, do you stalk young women regularly? It is kind of creepy.

  39. Harry Tuttle aka voter advocate spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 9:19 pm

    21.

    Dan Rather made a mistake, citing a memo which could not be authenticated, but the “Killian” memo had nothing to do with the real story — Shrub used his daddy’s connections to duck out of Vietnam. The Killian memo was a goofy little addition to the story of then Lt. Governor Ben Barnes’ meeting with the late oilman Sid Adger, a friend to both Barnes and then-Congressman George H. W. Bush.

    Adger asked Barnes to help young George W. Bush get in the Air National Guard. Barnes then contacted his longtime friend Gen. James Rose, the head of Texas’ Air National Guard, and recommended Bush the younger for placement.

    Asked if it was a case of preferential treatment, Barnes said: “I would describe it as preferential treatment. There were hundreds of names on the list of people wanting to get into the Air National Guard or the Army National Guard. I think that would have been a preference to anybody that didn’t want to go to Vietnam or didn’t want to leave. We had a lot of young men that left and went to Canada in the ’60s and fled this country. But those that could get in the Reserves, or those that could get in the National Guard – chances are they would not have to go to Vietnam.”

    For years, Bush had been hounded by questions about how he got in the National Guard.

    “Any allegation that my dad asked for special favors is simply not true,” said Bush. “And the former president of the United States has said that he in no way, shape or form helped me get into the National Guard. I didn’t ask anyone to help me get into the Guard either.”

    I suppose Adger could have asked without ever informing either Bush, it seems unlikely, but the point is other young men of the day, in particular Al Gore and John Kerry did not accept such special treatment. Kerry probably, and Gore most certainly could have had family friends get them sweet deals, but they both went to Vietnam.

    So, you should be happy that Rather so stupidly screwed-up his own story. It’s almost like some friend was helping Bush behind the scene, once again.

    First Sid, then Karl.

  40. Kevin J spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 9:24 pm

    Darcy is going to win-you will not be able to deal with that.
    Your right wing heads will explode and I will shovel your brains into Puget Sound.

  41. Kevin J spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 9:26 pm

    Hey Goldy:

    Is this all trolls all the time?
    Don’t you idiots have anything better to do?

    You guys are incredibly lame-just like your president and his criminal cabal.

  42. righton spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 9:27 pm

    harry tuttle

    yea, gore was in the nation of vietnam; in as much danger in his rear echelon job as jimmie mcdermot. He used privilige in a big way

    i think mccain is the guy you’re looking for; dad then a bigshot admiral, son went gung ho despite the connections..

  43. Janet S spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 9:28 pm

    So, Harry, your answer is “fake but true”?

    Kerry got out on “injuries” after four months, Gore sat in an office and wrote press releases for six months. Neither served a full term of duty. I give them credit for going over. You are right – they both had access to get out of it. One has to wonder why they didn’t. Maybe a political calculation?

  44. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 9:36 pm

    Harry Tuttle aka voter advocate, Could you do a post on Bill Clinton’s military service? hehe, JCH Kennedy

  45. Kevin J spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 9:38 pm

    You guys have absolutely nothing!
    You know you are going down so get into the bitch position.
    We are going to win and we will take the country back.
    George and Karl are pissing their pants over a dem majority in the House-so how wet are your pants?

    Get used to it trolls-your pig fucking is about to be exposed.

  46. Janet S spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 9:43 pm

    Kevin – contributed lately to nutroots?

  47. Harry Tuttle aka voter advocate spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 9:44 pm

    44,45

    Nice tries at straw-men, but it is Bush who was pumping up his resume.

    There were lots of guys at the time who would have rather taken a cushy Air Nat’l Guard slot than a one-way ticket to Vietnam. The idea that GWB got one without ROTC and other military committment is laughable.

    That he took one is less than admirable.

  48. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 9:45 pm

    There must be something in the water. The family of Hillary Rodham Clinton, the American presidential hopeful, hails from the same part of northeast England as George Washington, the first president of the United States.

    Hehe…………..Yes, and Hillary also claims that her parents named her after Sir Edmund Hillary, the mountain climber who achieved notoriety for scaling Mt Everest six years after Hillary was born. And, remember when Hillary tried to join the Marine Corps? Classic!! What dumb ass Democrat believes the MSM’s puff pieces on the Queen Bitch?

  49. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 9:46 pm

    You guys have absolutely nothing!
    You know you are going down so get into the bitch position.
    We are going to win and we will take the country back.

    Commentby Kevin J…….NOV 2004 hehe, JCH Kennedy

  50. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 9:47 pm

    You guys have absolutely nothing!
    You know you are going down so get into the bitch position.
    We are going to win and we will take the country back.
    George and Karl are pissing their pants over a dem majority in the House-so how wet are your pants?

    Get used to it trolls-your pig fucking is about to be exposed.

    Commentby Kevin J [………..Kevin, Somehow tonight I just can’t feel your love? Where is the love, Kevin? hehe, JCH Kennedy]

  51. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 9:50 pm

    The idea that GWB got one without ROTC and other military committment is laughable.

    Commentby Harry Tuttle aka voter advocate [………………..Er, Harry, What is a “committment”? Try repeating third grade. JCH Kennedy]

  52. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 9:52 pm

    Kevin, let me be frank. It will be YOU “progressive” [communist] Democrats who will assume the “bitch” position in 2006 and 2008. Like in 2000, 2002, and 2004, you will take it up the rectum and enjoy it! No more “guvment” checks for you. Welcome to the private sector!!

  53. Tree Frog Farmer spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 10:01 pm

    I see our troll brigade is busy doing their daisy-chain action here on the comment threads. . .pity, their audence is so small. . . .there are thousands out there listening to the audio blog.
    Eat yer hearts out trolls. . . .can’t set the agenda on the Raid-ee-oh can you?

  54. Janet S spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 10:04 pm

    Harry – I enjoy jousting with you. But, I have to remind you – Bush isn’t running for office!

    If the dems are basing their hopes on the likes of darcy, then I suspect that the takeover of congress is pretty unlikely. It is sad that the DCCC and Emily’s List is backing someone who has absolutely no resume whatsoever. If they have to take a “hail mary” like this, then the ranks must be pretty thin.

  55. Harry Tuttle aka voter advocate spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 10:05 pm

    53

    Ahh, the cutting repartee. What parry, what thrust!

    Come on, Jughead, you always want to talk about Rather. Why don’t you give him some credit for being a helpful screw-up for your boy?

  56. Harry Tuttle aka voter advocate spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 10:07 pm

    56

    You aren’t really that dense, are you Janet? Your resident clown is constantly bringing up Dan Rather, no I.

    Dna’s no longer with CBS, either.

  57. Harry Tuttle aka voter advocate spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 10:08 pm

    Dan’s no longer…

  58. Harry Tuttle aka voter advocate spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 10:10 pm

    56

    Of course, Karl Rove is still strategizing for the Republicans, which is the point of the Killian “screw-up”.

  59. Harry Tuttle aka voter advocate spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 10:14 pm

    Funny that someone would comment about George W. Bush not running again amid all the Clinton and Kennedy clap-trap hereabouts.

  60. Harry Tuttle aka voter advocate spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 10:15 pm

    How are things in that Kent trailer park, Jughead?

  61. Janet S spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 10:18 pm

    Harry – can you explain to me why darcy is the best candidate for the 8th district? Other than being a reliable dem vote, what else does she bring to the table? I understand that Rove is the devil and probably set up the whole rather thing. Whatever. But the whole meme is getting tiresome. Can’t darcy stand up for herself?

    BTW – be sure to donate to Darcy Burner over at Nutroots. And check your astrological fate at the same time!

  62. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 10:20 pm

    Eat yer hearts out trolls. . . .can’t set the agenda on the Raid-ee-oh can you?

    Commentby Tree Frog Farmer— [………………………………………………………Er, Tree Frog………Can you say R U S H? How’s that for “setting the agenda on the Raid-ee-oh.” hehe, JCH Kennedy]

  63. howcanyoubePROUDtobeanASS spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 10:30 pm

    I’ve been thinking about Radio Moldy and the timing of it all: “The David Goldstein Show” is a summer replacement show! Think about it… there are no summer ratings “sweeps”, summer is traditionally the political malaise season… citizens are thinking beaches and vacations, barbeques and gardens, boating and baseball not about drippy dick durbin or hitlary health care… nothing of political merit ever happens in summer… which is why it’s the perfect time to let a neophyte play radio host!

  64. LeftTurn spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 10:35 pm

    Notice Janet S has never told us why we should vote for Rubber Stamp Reichert? She really can’t think for herself and just takes marching orders from GOP HQ. I hope she continues to loudly proclaim a woman’s place is in the home. That didn’t work when the lying fucks tried it against Senator Murray and it won’t work now. If Rubber Stamp Reichert – with his nose firmly planted up Bush’s ass is the best the GOP has to offer, not only are the republicans in trouble, America is in trouble.

  65. BushWentAWOL spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 10:37 pm

    Uh oh. We got some of the right’s hero’s with their hands in the cookie jar.

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13531045/

    The culture of corruption just keeps on going and the right is silent. Their concern for law and order appears to stop at their side of the aisle. Great example to set for your kids you worthless fucks!

  66. JanetSSucksDick spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 10:38 pm

    Notice how Janet S runs and hides when you call bullshit on her arguments? I hear her sons are Steffy’s assistants in the Washington state Log Cabin Republican organization.

    Hey Janet S. Your daughter says hi!

  67. howcanyoubePROUDtobeanASS spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 10:42 pm

    ho hum… conservatiVE activist vs BIG BAD SENATE MINORITY LEADER… oh gee, which could be worse???

    Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid wrote at least four letters helpful to Indian tribes represented by Jack Abramoff, and the senator’s staff regularly had contact with the disgraced lobbyist’s team about legislation affecting other clients.

    The activities _ detailed in billing records and correspondence obtained by The Associated Press _ are far more extensive than previously disclosed. They occurred over three years as Reid collected nearly $68,000 in donations from Abramoff’s firm, lobbying partners and clients.

    Reid’s office acknowledged Thursday having “routine contacts” with Abramoff’s lobbying partners and intervening on some government matters _ such as blocking some tribal casinos _ in ways Abramoff’s clients might have deemed helpful. But it said none of his actions were affected by donations or done for Abramoff.

    “All the actions that Senator Reid took were consistent with his long- held beliefs, such as not letting tribal casinos expand beyond reservations, and were taken to defend the interests of Nevada constituents,” spokesman Jim Manley said.

    Reid, D-Nev., has led the Democratic Party’s attacks portraying Abramoff’s lobbying and fundraising as a Republican scandal.

    But Abramoff’s records show his lobbying partners billed for nearly two dozen phone contacts or meetings with Reid’s office in 2001 alone.

    Most were to discuss Democratic legislation that would have applied the U.S. minimum wage to the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory and Abramoff client, but would have given the islands a temporary break on the wage rate, the billing records show.

    Reid also intervened on government matters at least five times in ways helpful to Abramoff’s tribal clients, once opposing legislation on the Senate floor and four times sending letters pressing the Bush administration on tribal issues. Reid collected donations around the time of each action.

    Ethics rules require senators to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest in collecting contributions around the times they take official acts benefiting donors.

    Abramoff’s firm also hired one of Reid’s top legislative aides as a lobbyist. The aide later helped throw a fundraiser for Reid at Abramoff’s firm that raised donations from several of his lobbying partners.

    And Reid’s longtime chief of staff accepted a free trip to Malaysia arranged by a consulting firm connected to Abramoff that recently has gained attention in the influence-peddling investigation that has gripped the Capitol.

  68. Janet S spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 10:48 pm

    Yeah, Grover Norquist lost my support a long time ago, after he proved to be a shill for the islamists.

    LT – I actually respect Murray. I don’t agree with her positions, and I didn’t vote for her. But she has integrity. Before running for the senate, she taught school and served on the the school board. She may not be the smartest one of the bunch, but she has proven herself to be a capable legislator.

    None of this answers my question: what has darcy done to earn our vote? Reichart’s record stands on it own. I don’t need to defend it or explain it.

  69. K spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 10:50 pm

    Are you seriously contending that the Democrats have an “Abramoff Problem”. You guys seem to forget who is in the majority, and who sets the agenda. How ’bout this, throw out any of them that took dirty money, and see who is dirtier.

  70. howcanyoubePROUDtobeanASS spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 10:50 pm

    She never taught school.

    She was a teachers ‘aid’: a room mom with pay

    whoop de damned do

  71. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 10:51 pm

    OFFICIAL REPORT: JCH IS INSANE

    The Roger Rabbit Institute for Abnormal Studies issues a report today officially certifying JCH as “Fucking Nuts,” which is the most severe degree of insanity the Institute recognizes.

  72. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 10:52 pm

    5

    See #73.

  73. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 10:53 pm

    11

    See #73.

  74. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 10:54 pm

    12, 13

    See #73.

  75. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 10:55 pm

    24

    See #73.

  76. REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX] spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 10:57 pm

    How are things in that Kent trailer park, Jughead?

    Commentby Harry Tuttle aka voter advocate [Oh RR!! Perhaps it’s time to set this loser straight? Perhaps not!! But land in “Kent” does not sell for 95 grand and acre. ]

  77. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 10:59 pm

    78

    See #73.

  78. Harry Tuttle aka voter advocate spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 10:59 pm

    Janet, Sheriff Davie is caught in the resolution on Iraq that the House passed last week. Darcy will be able to plaster the situation in Iraq all over him.

    Your guys were feeling their oats over the latest PR campaign — death of al-Zarqawi, the victory lap in the Green Zone — but today the news is:

    Baghdad in state of emergency

    U.S. and Iraqi troops struggle with insurgents in armed street battlehe fighting in the heart of Baghdad came despite a crackdown launched 10 days ago that put tens of thousands of U.S.-backed Iraqi troops on the streets as the new prime minister sought to restore a modicum of safety for the capital’s more than 5 million people.

    Iraqi and U.S. military forces clashed with heavily armed attackers throughout the morning Friday within earshot of the Green Zone, which houses the U.S. and British embassies and Iraqi government headquarters.

    The experience the Grey Fox has is kissing the ass of the naked Emperor. That isn’t going to do it in November.

  79. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 11:01 pm

    33

    Kevin C. aka Janet S — have you supported the troops? http://www.operation-helmet.org/ No? I didn’t think so.

  80. howcanyoubePROUDtobeanASS spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 11:02 pm

    Democrats DO have an Abramoff problem… why do you think it suddenly fell off the talking points?

    Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.); Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin, both Michigan Democrats; and the Democratic Senatorial Committee (DSCC), Thomas A. Daschle (S.D.), Byron L. Dorgan (N.D.), Democratic senators Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor among others, took money from Abramoff’s former clients.

    Nearly 90 Percent Of Senate “Democrats Have Taken Abramoff-Related Money:
    Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) Received At Least – $22,500
    Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) Received At Least – $6,500
    Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) Received At Least – $1,250
    Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) Received At Least – $2,000
    Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) Received At Least – $20,250
    Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) Received At Least – $21,765
    Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) Received At Least – $7,500
    Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) Received At Least – $12,950
    Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) Received At Least – $8,000
    Senator Jon Corzine (D-NJ) Received At Least – $7,500
    Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) Received At Least – $14,792
    Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) Received At Least – $79,300
    Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) Received At Least – $14,000
    Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) Received At Least – $2,000
    Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) Received At Least – $1,250
    Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) Received At Least – $45,750
    Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI) Received At Least – $9,000
    Senator Jim Jeffords (I-VT) Received At Least – $2,000
    Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) Received At Least – $14,250
    Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) Received At Least – $3,300
    Senator John Kerry (D-MA) Received At Least – $98,550
    Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) Received At Least – $28,000
    Senator Pat Leahy (D-VT) Received At Least – $4,000
    Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) Received At Least – $6,000
    Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) Received At Least – $29,830
    Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) Received At Least – $14,891
    Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) Received At Least – $10,550
    Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) Received At Least – $78,991
    Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) Received At Least – $20,168
    Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) Received At Least – $5,200
    Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) Received At Least – $7,500
    Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR) Received At Least – $2,300
    Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) Received At Least – $3,500
    Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) Received At Least – $68,941
    Senator John Rockefeller (D-WV) Received At Least – $4,000
    Senator Ken Salazar (D-CO) Received At Least – $4,500
    Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) Received At Least – $4,300
    Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) Received At Least – $29,550
    Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) Received At Least – $6,250
    Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) Received At Least – $6,250
    Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte $423,480
    Democratic Congressional Campaign Cmte $354,700
    Democratic National Cmte $65,720
    Democratic Party of Michigan $23,000
    Democratic Party of Oklahoma $15,000
    Democratic Party of North Dakota $10,000
    Democratic Party of South Dakota $9,500
    Democratic Party of Minnesota $9,000
    Democratic Party of New Mexico $6,250
    Democratic Party of Montana $5,000
    Democratic Party of Washington $500
    (clearly he wasn’t too impressed with our sad little WA d’RATS)

  81. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 11:03 pm

    37

    If you dipped your wick in that, you’d need it amputated.

  82. Harry Tuttle aka voter advocate spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 11:06 pm

    Let’s just count up the indictments, hcybPtbaA.

  83. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 11:08 pm

    40

    You wanna see “creepy”? I’ll show you “creepy.”

    http://www.hermes-press.com/coulter_insane.htm

  84. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 11:14 pm

    82

    That’s not a list of Democratic politicians and organizations who received bribes from Abramoff. It’s only a list of Democratic politicians and organizations who received contributions from tribes that Abramoff extorted money from. So fucking what?

  85. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 11:16 pm

    63

    “can you explain to me why darcy is the best candidate for the 8th district?” Commentby Janet S— 6/24/06@ 10:18 pm

    A) She isn’t a rubberstamp for the dumbest president of all time
    B) She didn’t need 20 years to complete her work assignment
    C) She hugged a rabbit

  86. Had Enough Yet? spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 11:27 pm

    RR @ 83
    guess that explains JCH’s er, uhm, shortcoming.

  87. K spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 11:35 pm

    ASS @ 82- Roger has slapped that one down before. Just right wing BS talking points.

  88. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Saturday, 6/24/06 at 11:47 pm

    88

    JCH was the inspiration for “The Sun Also Rises”

  89. Had Enough Yet? spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 12:06 am

    90

    I thought he/she was the inspiration for “The Crying Game”

  90. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 1:20 am

    91

    The only dick JCH has is between his shoulders.

  91. Proud To Be An Ass spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 4:58 am

    @78: How are things in that Kent trailer park, Jughead?

    Commentby Harry Tuttle aka voter advocate [Oh RR!! Perhaps it’s time to set this loser straight? Perhaps not!! But land in “Kent” does not sell for 95 grand and acre. ]

    Commentby REP Pat Kennedy [D-Bitchslap the Black Security Guard At LAX]— 6/24/06@ 10:57 pm

    Actually, shit for brains, some vacant land in Kent goes for well over 100 grand/acre.

  92. LeftTurn spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 5:12 am

    Janet S I am glad to hear you respect Senator Murray. None of this answers my question: what has Rubber Stamp Reichert done to earn our vote? It’s typical that you want to have one set of rules for your candidate and another for our candidate. Must be fun for you in that special universe you live in where things don’t ever have to be fair or balanced.

  93. LeftTurn spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 5:26 am

    1) How many Democrats have been arrested, indicted or convicted because of their ties to Abramoff?

    ANSWER – NONE – ZERO – BUPKIS

    2) How many Republicans have been arrested, indicted or convicted because of their ties to Abramoff?

    ANSWER – SEVEN and counting including Deke Cunningham, Mike Scanlon, David Safavian, Adam Kidan and others.

    3) How many Democrats are under subpoena because of their ties to Abramoff?

    ANSWER – NONE – ZERO – BUPKIS

    3) How many Republicans are under subpoena because of their ties to Abramoff?

    THREE and counting including Republican Congressman Bob Ney and Jogn Doolittle.

    How many Republicans are under suspicion because of their ties to Abramoff?

    TEN and counting including ex-Congressman Tom DeLay, Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) ,Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) Bob Volz and Ralph Reed.

    Sure this is a Democratic problem. Keep lying to yourself and your kids. Maybe it will make you and them feel better but it won’t change the fact that it is the REPUBLICAN culture of corruption at stake. And we’ll be building TV ads around these guys come October.

  94. LeftTurn spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 5:30 am

    http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....5UC00.html

    Funny, none of these emails were to Democrats???? I guess this really IS A REPUBLICAN PROBLEM!

  95. LeftTurn spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 7:20 am

    I guess they don’t call it “cut and run” when a republican general has the idea…

    U.S. General in Iraq Outlines Troop Cuts

    By MICHAEL R. GORDON, The New York Times

    WASHINGTON (June 25) – The top American commander in Iraq has drafted a plan that projects sharp reductions in the United States military presence there by the end of 2007, with the first cuts coming this September, American officials say.

  96. righton spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 7:22 am

    Great DOT story in the morning news…

    Seem’s Goldy’s brain trust messed up again; can’t even measure the height of the bridge, so incoming new bridge on a boat hit and damaged the new bridge.

    Anybody got a tape measure? I think my inflated taxes paid for 1

  97. Daddy Love spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 8:10 am

    8
    “MAINSTREAM AMERICA”
    – believes that going into Iraq was a mistkae
    – think that the U.S. should set a timetable for when troops will be withdrawn from Iraq
    – knows that human generated global climate change is real
    – thinks GW Bush is doing a terrible job
    – think that gay people are eintitled to either legal marraige or legal partnership arrangements simlare to but not called marriage
    – think this country is on the wrong track
    – want to see the Democrats win control of Congress

  98. Daddy Love spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 8:15 am

    Puddy @ 34

    Typical lying.

    Busby said:
    “You don’t need ‘papers to vote,’ you don’t need to be registered, to help [my campaign]…”

    The word “and” that you included was never spoken. By saying “papers to vote” she was echoing the phrase used by her ESL questioner to make her answer clear to him: that even people in this country illegally, or even legals who do not have all of their papers in order, can still help work with her campaign.

    Of course all you can do is quote out of context and add words that were not said for your smears.

  99. Daddy Love spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 8:25 am

    JS @ 45

    “Kerry got out on “injuries” after four months…Neither served a full term of duty. I give them credit for going over.”

    Love the scare quotes around “injuries.” Way to imply that he was no injured. Too bad that his shipmates, his doctors, and the US Navy doesn’t agree with you, to the tune of a Bronze Star, a Silver Star and three Purple Hearts.

    From Snopes.com:
    According to a Boston Globe overview of John Kerry’s Vietnam experience:

    Under [Navy Admiral Elmo] Zumwalt’s command, swift boats would aggressively engage the enemy. Zumwalt, who died in 2000, calculated in his autobiography that these men under his command had a 75 percent chance of being killed or wounded during a typical year.

    “There were an awful lot of Purple Hearts — from shrapnel, some of those might have been M-40 grenades,” said George Elliott, Kerry’s commanding officer. “The Purple Hearts were coming down in boxes. Kerry, he had three Purple Hearts. None of them took him off duty. Not to belittle it, that was more the rule than the exception.”

    Back in 1969, Navy regulations specified that any soldier wounded in combat three times be automatically reassigned away from a combat zone to an assignment of his choosing (unless the thrice-wounded soldier specifically requested to stay). Four days after Kerry took his third hit of shrapnel, Commodore Charles F. Horne, an administrative official and commander of the coastal squadron in which Kerry served, forwarded a request on Kerry’s behalf to the Navy Bureau of Personnel asking that Kerry be reassigned to “duty as a personal aide in Boston, New York, or Washington, D.C.” Soon afterwards Kerry was transferred to Cam Ranh Bay to await further orders, and within a month he had been reassigned as a personal aide and flag lieutenant to Rear Admiral Walter F. Schlech, Jr. with the Military Sea Transportation Service based in Brooklyn, New York.

    Kerry served with Admiral Schlech until the end of 1969, when he requested an early discharge from the Navy in order to run for a Massachusetts congressional seat. Admiral Schlech approved the request, and on 3 January 1970 Kerry received an honorable discharge, six months early.

    You are right – they both had access to get out of it. One has to wonder why they didn’t. Maybe a political calculation?

  100. Had Enough Yet? spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 8:30 am

    That bridge is a design-build turnkey project being engineered and built by a joint venture between Kiewit and Bechtel. This is an example of the much lauded practice of privatization. WashDOT engineers don’t perform any of the engineering on this project. Nor do they supply the tape measures. My guess is the money for tape measures was instead used to purchase tickets to Reichert’s little love fest in Medina.

    Do a quick search and you’ll see that the board members and execs for those two companies overwhelmingly supported…

    Bush

    Not exactly Goldy’s braintrust, now is it?

  101. Daddy Love spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 8:40 am

    69, 82

    Your weasel words are showing.

    “Indian tribes represented by Jack Abramoff”
    “the senator’s staff regularly had contact with the disgraced lobbyist’s team”
    “collected donations around the time of each action. ”
    “a consulting firm connected to Abramoff”

    Nice, general terms that are carefull chosen and intended to hide the LACK of connection here.

    Yes, “Indian tribes” donate to Democrats. Democrats represent the interests of “indian tribes,” whereas Republicans see them only as “moronic” and “stupid” enough to let the GOP take their money (quotes are terms from Abramoff e-mails referring to the tribes). and yes, Harry Reid’s staff meet with lobbyists. Every Senator’s staff members meet with lobbyists. There never is or was any quid pro quo (or surely you would have mentioned it), and Reid voted against the interests of Abramoff’s clients when he was being lobbied on bahalf of the casino interests Abramoff represented.

    I like the later ones even better:
    “took money from Abramoff’s former clients”

    whic then magically turns into:
    “Abramoff-Related Money”

    The TRUTH is that none of the money from “Abramoff’s former clients” that went to a Democrat was solicited by Abramoff. Abramoff’s job in the case of Indian tribes was to influence them to give money to Republicans. Abaramoff never solicited a single donation to a Democrat. But do keep trying to use vague and general terms to imply the opposite of the TRUTH. It is, after all, the only thing you are good at.

  102. Daddy Love spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 8:41 am

    The last sentence in 103:
    “You are right – they both had access to get out of it. One has to wonder why they didn’t. Maybe a political calculation?”

    …was janet’s which I accidentally left in as i was composing.

  103. uppitymenschwench spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 8:47 am

    It’s time to crawl back on the Maria Bandwagon…even if it hurts.

    If you read the McGavick PR puff piece, er, lead article page 1 of Sunday’s Seattle Times, you’ll see McGavick’s total dependence on Ted Stevens and I suggest you evaluate for yourself the likelihood of any kind of Stevens-independent energy policy on the part of (Not in our lifetime) a Senator McGavick. Even if you’re mad at Maria, think about depleting a little of Stevens’ rumored clout, which would be called bullying anywhere but the senate. Reelecting Maria might make it possible for a few more people to stand up to The Incredible Bulk and may even make him understand it’s time to retire.

  104. Harry Tuttle spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 8:59 am

    106.

    I guess I’ll get some yard signs from the Cantwell campaign and start talking nicer about her.

    Not kissing Steven’s ass like the rest raises her stature, in my estimation.

  105. Had Enough Yet? spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 8:59 am

    106,
    more to the point, why would Rethugs, bent on curbing federal largess, support a Senator, his political cronies like Lobbyist Mike, and a system that transfers wealth from “producer states” like ours to a giant wealfare state like AK?

  106. Daddy Love spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 9:00 am

    Hey, remember Iraq? Remember how withdrawing any troops at any time was cutting and running, and setting a timetable only “emboldens the terrorists” and lets the “enemy” in on our plans? Well, that’s all crap if you’re the Bush administyration!

    Bush is now withdrawing troops (which as we all know will send the “wrong message”) and providing numbers, dates, etc. Bush just adopted the Democrats’ plan (the SAME plan he and Karl Rove and Ken Mehlman and the Republican Congress savaged all week). Bushjust provided “the enemy” with DETAILED dates for the withdrawal and the exact number of troops we would withdraw and where they remaining troops would be stationed. What changed in Iraq for the better in the past two days that let the White House come up with a timetable for a partial withdrawal? Was it the kidnapping of 85 to 100 people north of Baghdad? Was it the US embassy memo saying the situation is deteriorating? There are no facts whatsoever to suggest that the situation in Iraq has improved at all, so what possibly can Bush be basing this on other than political pandering for the upcoming US elections? and isn’t it nice to know that the US military is now actively trying to influence US elections?

    http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06.....wanted=all

  107. Daddy Love spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 9:02 am

    “administyration”

    I like that. Freakin’ laptop keyboards.

  108. Proud To Be An Ass spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 9:11 am

    Whatever happened to “rooting for the little guy”? The GOP is now the party of the rich, pampered, well-off.

    Cantwell is to be commended for taking on that bloodsucking (MY tax money) scumbag Ted Stevens. Let’s face it folks, no republican would ever pay money to see a remake of “Mr. Smith Goes To Washington”.

  109. John McDonald spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 9:23 am

    Great Point Daddy Love,

    When Bush started to treat our soldiers worse than iraqi terrorists – conservatives like me are demanding our troops out of Iraqi. For example, today Iraqi insurgents are being offered amnesty, what about our guys? Our guys are rotting in jail in Camp Pendleton unable to say anything, while their commander-in-chief tells everyone how bad they are. I guess support for the troops only means support for you poll ratings.

  110. Had Enough Yet? spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 9:36 am

    Don’t look now, Daddy Love, but if Gen. Casey is openly preparing to redeploy the troops in Iraq, it’s because he’s been ordered by Rummy to prepare an invasion of Iran.

  111. John McDonald spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 9:43 am

    Hi Proud to be Ass,

    I don’t the Republican Party is that. I think they have turned in the party of the payoff to stay in power at any price, they are throwing money at just about anything and everything that they believe will buy them a vote. Very similar to the last few election cycles as Democrats were losing power nationwide.

    As someone in the top 2% of wager earners in the nation, I’m pretty pissed at Bush’s handling of the economy. There are 3 consequences of big deficits, 1. inflation, 2. higher taxes, 3. cut spending. 3 isn’t going to happen. 1 and 2 directly impact the wealthy and people on a fixed income like seniors.

    Republicans will say there is a fourth choice, which is grow your way out (which can be true but not the way Bush is going about it) — and they will point to the growth rate of GDP under Bush. However, subtract the increase in government spending and the growth rate drops by 50%. subtract the ripple effect of this spending as it goes through the economy and the economic growth rate nears 0 under Bush.

    One of the massive problems Bush is creating that will be left to whoever takes over for him is: an economy that is becoming ever more dependent on government spending — remember the public sector economy doesn’t pay taxes or create wealth. Thus, get ready for a massive recession when a Democrat takes office and trys to break the downward cycle. However, it will be a good recession as it should kick a lot of companies off the government nipple and get them back to actually making real products. People are not the only things that get welfare, corporations get more welfare today then those in poor neighborhoods.

  112. Daddy Love spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 10:16 am

    John McDonald.

    I don’t agree.

    “…get ready for a massive recession when a Democrat takes office and trys to break the downward cycle. ”

    After massive deficit spending for the decade and a half of the Reagan years, Bill Clinton and a Democratic Congress raised taxes, cut the size of government, and ushered in the longest economic expansion in our nation’s history, balancing the budget along the way.

  113. Daddy Love spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 10:17 am

    Did I mention historically-unprecendented unemployment under Clitnon?

  114. Daddy Love spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 10:17 am

    Low unemployment, that is.

  115. uppitymenschwench spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 10:57 am

    Ah, but you forget…low unemployment is bad for the Ruling Class — it means paying competitive wages and benefits. The key word in this sentence is competitive — competition is only a cudgel with which to terrify workers–competition isn’t four news media organizations in the entire country. Competitive isn’t unbridled mergers with no question from the agencies that are supposed to protect the economic interest of people beyond the upper .5 percent.

    We have to be on the offensive and even be offensive–unapologetically so — on behalf of the people. We have to reclaim words like liberal and even the dread government. And, for g-d’s sake, we can’t let incompetence in governing prove anything except that the incompetents shouldn’t have jobs they can’t do. I can’t program in LISP–this doesn’t mean all lisp interpretors should be burned–it probably means I shouldn’t be hired as a LISP coder.

    Where Is Our Karl Rove???? Oh, I forgot — he’s out threatening progressives who dare work against the DC-annointed democrats. Rom? You out there?

    umw

  116. LeftTurn spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 11:11 am

    Funny how it’s cut and run when Dems say it and it’s fine policy when righties say it. Situational ethics – it’s the only kind the righties have.

  117. pbj_says spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 11:47 am

    For all the doomer gloomer “populatiom bomb” theorists out there (you know who you are):

    The U.S. population growth rate is slowing.

    Despite these large increases in the number of persons in the population, the rate of population growth, referred to as the average annual percent change,1 is projected to decrease during the next six decades by about 50 percent, from 1.10 between 1990 and 1995 to 0.54 between 2040 and 2050. The decrease in the rate of growth is predominantly due to the aging of the population and, consequently, a dramatic increase in the number of deaths. From 2030 to 2050, the United States would grow more slowly than ever before in its history.

    Source: http://www.census.gov/populati.....tproj.html

    Once again for all those alarmists out there:

    “The predictions not only did not come true, the world developed in a direction completely opposite to the one predicted by Ehrlich, without implementing any of his proposed measures. The world food production grows exponentially at a rate much higher than the population growth,”The Population Bomb (1968) is a book written by Paul R. Ehrlich. A best-selling work, it predicted disaster for humanity due to overpopulation and the “population explosion”.

    The book predicted that “in the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death”, that nothing can be done to avoid mass famine greater than any in the history, and radical action is needed to limit the overpopulation.”

    Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb

  118. uppitymenschwench spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 1:29 pm

    Wikipedia…oh yeah, there’s an expert. Write anything you want….believe anything you want…you’ll find it there. Do you have some tarot card readings to back this up? Perhaps a ouiji board or two?

  119. howcanyoubePROUDtobeanASS spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 1:43 pm

    I agree about wikipedia… but that doesn’t change verifiable FACTS:

    The population bomb, hyped by the likes of Paul Ehrlich (aka: Malthus Man), turned out to be a dud. The Western world now faces the reality of depopulation. Since the 1970s, worldwide fertility rates have been cut in half. In all, 59 nations with 44% of the world’s people have below-replacement birthrates.

    To maintain a stable population requires a birthrate of 2.1 children per woman. Italy’s rate is 1.2. In Spain, the average is just 1.15.

    Russia is losing 700,000 people a year by attrition. If the trend isn’t reversed, by 2050, the nation could lose one-third of its current population (146 million).

    “ Bluntly put, for decades, Western society — under the sway of feminists, environmentalists, Zero Population Growth-types and other assorted utopians — has inculcated an anti-family ethos.

    Selfishness was celebrated. Marriage and children were downgraded to lifestyle options. Women who stayed at home to raise and nurture a family were derided. The importance of fathers was downplayed. Abortion was enshrined as a “human right.” And contraception was ubiquitous. “

    Economist Robert J. Samuelson wrote about depopulation graphically in a Washington Post column from last June.

    “Europe as we know it is going out of business,” Samuelson warned. Talk of a united Europe challenging America is a fantasy. “It’s hard to be a great power if your population’s shriveling,” the economist observed. It’s also hard to maintain a social insurance system with a demographic deficit. Samuelson: “Western Europe’s population grows dramatically grayer, projects the U.S. Census Bureau. Now about one-sixth of the population is 65 and older. By 2030 that would be one-fourth, and by 2050 almost one-third.”

    “ Russian President Vladimir Putin has inadvertently spotlighted one of today’s momentous mysteries: collapsing birthrates in industrialized countries. Putin proposed that Russia pay women to have children to remedy a “critical” population outlook. Actually, he might have said “desperate.” In 2000, Russia’s population totaled almost 147 million; Putin says it’s declining by 700,000 a year. With plausible assumptions, the U.S. Census Bureau projects it at 111 million in 2050. The median age (half the population above, half below) would be almost 50, up from 38 now. Could this Russia maintain a strong economy, national optimism or a capable military?

    Russia’s case, though extreme, isn’t isolated. There’s no more population “explosion.” In wealthier countries, motherhood is going out of style and plunging birthrates portend population loss. This is a hugely significant development, even if we don’t fully understand the causes — 30 years ago experts didn’t predict it — or consequences. One way or another, the side effects will be massive for economics, politics and people’s well-being. Indeed, they may already have started. Is it a coincidence that Germany and Italy, two countries on the edge of population decline, are so troubled? “

    “The forthcoming and dramatic depopulation of Europe and Japan will cause many problems,” writes Ben Wattenberg in “Fewer,” his excellent book on the subject. “Populations will age, the customer base (for businesses) will shrink, there will be labor shortages, the tax base will decline, pensions will be cut, retirement ages will increase.” All plausible. In 2000, one in six people in Germany and Japan were 65 or older; by 2050, the projections are for one in three.

  120. Puddybud Michael Kennedy spews:

    Sunday, 6/25/06 at 10:07 pm

    ProudHeisStillanASS: You make this so easy.

    http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/arti.....N57190.DTL

    Who are the richest again? Dumb donk barking at the moon!

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