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Let's extend a hearty "FUCK YOU!" and a double-handed middle
2006-12-02 16:07:04
The inconceivable has happened. With all his bald-faced lying, with all of Turd Blossom's vaunted 72 hour masturbation programs, Chimperator Caesar Deciderus is no longer the unchecked and uncheckable neocon tool that he was.I just hope that when Democrats go back to form the new majorities, they extend the party of fat old sleazoid greedy white men a hearty "FUCK YOU!" right into their faces, along with a bunch of middle fingers: it's time to start putting America back together.So while John Conyers, bless him, will begin hearings on Impeachment, the rest can repeal the Military Tortures Act of 2006, US Patronizing Act, and other over- and under-reaches of the Perfidious Monstrosity. And in the mean time Henry Waxman can start subpoenaing the CEOs of Halliburton, Raytheon, and Boeing!Of course Vice President Sidius, being a fascist at heart, said that he would fight "to his death" any attempts to subpoena his fat old sleazoid greedy white ass. Oh, what fun! Sending him to jai...
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The triumph of the machinery...
2006-12-02 16:07:04
Well, gentle reader, as expected in the 21st Century, the quiet political machinery working behind the scenes has triumphed once more.While I have no idea whether the ethics allegations against Murtha are true, I do know that the newly-elected Majority Leader has worked his ass off to undermine the incoming Speakeress. And I also know that the ex-ballerina elected caucus chair, being an "out" DLC triangulating corporate whore, will do everything in her power to pull the party toward the middle as defined by the neocons.So everything that this party absolutely must do as soon as the 110th Congress convenes now stands athwart the triangulations to come. John Conyers Jr.'s decision to open hearings on impeachment; Henry Waxman's hearings on the fraud, waste, and corruption of the Iraq Fiasco; and any chance of overturning some of the horrors from the 109th Congress (starting with the Military Commissions Act of 2006) now all stand in danger of the so-called "moderates."The reason t...
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I TOLD you the bastard would do it!...
2006-12-02 16:07:04
Yes, gentle reader, I've shared this with you five days ago: Independent Joe may yet screw the Democrats out of the Senate Majority, and just now it is confirmed!Now will every single Democrat who voted for Independent Joe apologise to the rest of the country for betraying the Democratic Party yet again?!? I sincerely doubt it.Damn it, it sucks being right about this one! I just hope the Connecticut Democrats will start their recall/impeachment process today!--TechnoratiTags: Joe Lieberman, U.S. politics, U.S. Senate, commentary, opinion
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Taking stock...
2006-12-02 16:07:04
So the insanity of the election season really took a toll out of me. It was nice to take a break and to take stock of what's happened with the story so far.On the positive side, we've won a majority in both houses, but it's a very slim one at that. The majority includes the assumption (and quite the assumption it is!) that Independent Joe won't screw the Democratic Party. We'll see what happens there.Also on the positive side it's wonderful to note the end of political careers by such Republican luminaries as ex-Senator Cat-Killer Fristy-pants, ex-Senator Macacawitz, and most wonderfully ex-Senator Frothy Mix of Lube and Fecal Matter! Someone did a reasonably funny bit on Air America a few days ago saying that while Senator "I've Been Tortured By the Vice President to Support Torture" was at Carlo's baby's christening this election eve, the Democrats went and took out the heads of the five families (the future Seven Dwarves) "for him"...Sure, the 2008 Republican nominat...
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Well, it's about time!!!
2006-12-02 16:07:04
It's official: Senator Macacawitz is toast.You can imagine how happy I feel, but I do have to raise the following spectre: Independent Joe may yet screw the Democratic Party one more time. He might caucus, and vote, with the party that brung him, the fat old sleazoid greedy white men.And of course that's not all. Today's admission by Rush Limpdick that he's been lying for the Administration only underscores how deeply this complete repudiation of the Republican Party will hurt them!Well , there's very little left now until the new Congress is sworn in, and begins its proceedings, except that I would encourage any Democratic candidates with any proof that Republican vote tampering of any kind caused them to lose is encouraged to come out and publish the evidence to shut the fright wing noise machine once and for all.But most importantly, we must remember that the reason the Democratic Party won was because the progressives have stepped in. This election saw a conservative puff...
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The party of treason is finally on the run!
2006-12-02 16:07:04
With the wins in Montana by John Tester and in Virginia by Jim Webb, the Democrats now control both Houses of the hitherto-errant Congress.Imagine what it will mean to have John Conyers, Jr., heading up Impeachment hearings, and Henry Waxman heading up fraud and waste hearings, and Charlie Rangel heading up tax-cuts for the super-rich while more and more people slide into poverty hearings!And just imagine that ugly evil-ravaged visage of Vice President Sidius as he keeps getting subpoenaed and then found guilty (at first!) of contempt of Congress!...Many things are ahead of us now!--TechnoratiTags: 2006 Election, Dick Cheney, U.S. politics, government oversight, checks and balances, commentary, opinion
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IT'S HAPPENING!!!
2006-12-02 16:07:04
The vicious blood-sucking vampire, the nightmare ghoul who used to haunt the E-Ring of the Pentagon is resigning! Now if only Vice President Wicked Witch of the West and his Treasonous Flying Monkey, Squinty McLuddite, would do the same!Now that we have control of Congress, it's never been more important to investigate, indict, impeach, and incarcerate these venal traitors!--TechnoratiTags: Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, U.S. politics, commentary, opinion

An astounding election-eve condemnation from Keith Olbermann
2006-12-02 16:07:04
Keith truly is a star. This latest in his string of Special Comments, addressing the unfettered lame-footedness of the Administration, drives the point home: this country has had enough of the Boy King and his court!Watch for yourselves, courtesy of Crooks and Liars.Tomorrow's election is being fought in the trenches. Republicans are pulling out every dirty trick ever invented. And while it'll be all very nice when Democrats file their lawsuits to bankrupt the Republican Nation al Committee (their fines can be as high as $500/call times tens of thousands of calls!), it still doesn't change the fact that with these races all being so close, these dirty tricks may very well help the party of fat old sleazoid greedy white men to keep control of both Houses of Congress, and forego any and all oversight over this treasonous Administration.Without a large turn-out and an overwhelming vote against these bastards, this democracy will be relegated to the history pages.Stop the Republica...
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There's more where that came from...
2006-12-02 16:07:04
As someone said in one of the HuffPo threads, or was it on AlterNet... Regardless, thank gawd for Final Cut Pro!!!Watch this one as well.And do not forget to vote these scum-sucking bastards out of power!--TechnoratiTags: 2006 Election, Phil Collins, Land of the Living, Once Upon a Time in America, U.S. politics, commentary, opinion
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Oh, no, Jack, you didn't!
2006-12-02 16:07:04
Dear Mr. Cafferty,No!!!You did NOT go over the line when you so courageously called Rummy a war criminal!Torture is a war crime!Extraordinary renditions are a war crime!Mass murder of Iraqis is a war crime!Death squads are a war crime!Illegal war is a war crime!Do not let him off the hook and apologize!Do not stifle the truth just because some Republican tool in the CNN offices is going berzerk and seeing his or her future lucrative lobbying career go up on the barbeque of appeasement of this atrocity of an Administration!Do not let a few negative responses sway you from telling it like you have been, like Keith Olbermann has been, like Helen Thomas has been, like Randi Rhodes has been, like Rachel Maddow has been... Need I go on?We haven't anyone else left, Mr. Cafferty, who is willing to tell the truth day in and day out (the future President and Vice President on Comedy Central being the only exceptions, but they are always included in the lists of truth-tellers, and sometimes ...
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A good answer ...
2006-12-02 16:07:04
Chellie Pingree is wondering whether this election will be stolen, while quoting Jimmy Carter on all the reasons why American elections don't qualify under the Carter Center rules for monitoring.First, someone else's response:Answer - not necessarily - but yes, if necessary. And I think it will be deemed necessary today. So what have we (crafty Republican operatives) been up to? (1) Set the stage for enough confusion in enough places (HAVA, premature technology, strange voter ID regs, etc). (2) Spend six years appointing sympathetic judges. (3) Prepare and fly in teams of lawyers - challenge and litigate. If you win in court, fine. If not, (4) announce that the country cannot stand prolonged uncertainty at this crucial time, etc, (same argument that stopped the count in 2000) and therefore you are declaring the election void - make some noises about holding it again next year.Any protests - well, let's see, we got rid of habeas corpus, we got Halliburton to build detention center...
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The most important election in anyone's lifetime ...
2006-12-02 16:07:04
Gore Vidal feels threatened by the possibility of the party of fat old sleazoid greedy white men remaining in power.Indeed!Mr Vidal,How right you are. The Republican insistence on unbridled single-party rule is so Soviet I feel like I've been transported back in time to Brezhnev's USSR.The biggest difference, though, was that in the Soviet Union, the vast majority was already hip to the communist hypocricy; whereas here in the United States of Happy Families, we still have somewhere between 25 and 40 percent of the population so brainwashed that nothing, but nothing, seems to be getting through.I wonder what catastrophic event or chain of events could break through that authoritarian follower conditioning.Of course, this isn't a problem Mr. Vidal can solve...--TechnoratiTags: 2006 election, U.S. Politics, commentary, opinion
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"This sure seems a lot like Iraq will be ..."
2006-12-02 16:07:04
Yes, gentle reader, here it is, the absolutely devastating segment with the "Iraq " line still intact (pre Fox censors).Devastating, isn't it?--TechnoratiTags: The Simpsons, Iraq War parody, commentary
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Pass it on!!!
2006-12-02 16:07:04
When you find perfection, all you have to do is to present it.Watch.--TechnoratiTags: Freedom, George Michael, George W. Bush, catastrophic failures, U.S. politics, 2006 election, commentary, opinion
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In haste...
2006-12-02 16:07:04
Blogger is going down in a few minutes (these denial-of-service attacks are creeping up everywhere!), but I just had to post this: via Digby and Crooks and Liars,The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has proposed a system which will in essence make it mandatory for you to have permission before leaving or entering the country, effectively putting everyone on a no-fly list unless the government says otherwise.In times like this believe me, I shit you not.Back when I was twleve, my parents set me down and told me we will be seeking exit visas to leave the Soviet Union, to get out from under an oppressive totalitarian regime. That process took two years, and we eventually left for what was supposed to be a free country.Of course, what was before the neocons have had their way.Go ahead and check my sources, but this looks like yet another step in creating a fascist dictatorship under a thin veneer of pseudo-democracy.It has never been more imperative that we take our country back fr...

And the question of the day is: (updated)
2006-11-05 22:00:00
"Will a cock up a Haggard ass finally prove to be the undoing of the Republican Party?" If we are still talking about the United States of America in the year 2006, the answer is, Not likely! ...Yes, gentle reader, with only two days to go to the 2006 Election, yet another scummy Republican comes out of the denial closet.Is it any wonder that they are so desperately trying to steal this election? Is it any wonder that those of us who've been right all along about this monstrous horror of an Administration stand back and point to all of those deluded millions of bushtards while desperately trying not to laugh our asses off?There is nothing wrong about a man wanting to have sex with another man. There is nothing wrong with a man wanting to pay for sex with another man. There is nothing wrong (save the damage to his own body) with a man wanting to take recreational substances while engaging in sex with another man.What is incredibly, indescribably, indisputably wrong is for that ...
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The latest in the heinous Republican tactics: Denial-of-service attacks on
2006-11-05 08:00:00
I don't know about you, gentle reader, but over the last couple of hours most of my attempts at perusing articles that are more than a couple of days old on HuffPo keeps coming back with this:Service UnavailableThe server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later.Reference #6.a73bf546.1162712318.548fd3bThis generally means that the server is working its little CPU cycles off trying to deliver pages, and it can't.Now, HuffPo being one of the top 10 blogs on the net, this will most likely start happening if there were "denial-of-service" (malicious) attacks taking place.And with just two days left to do whatever they can to muddy the waters sufficiently (as though Junior's EPA clean water enforcement wasn't muddying them up already) before Tuesday's election to just possibly squeak out a death grip on at least one of the Houses. Most likely, this will be the Senate, where, as someone quipped today on one of the blogs, only Republican s could end up wit...
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GOP-TV is at it again...
2006-11-04 19:00:00
There they go again.Yes, gentle reader, the network that so lovingly brought you the Imaginary Pathway to 9/11: It's All Clinton's Fault, having proved its bushtard credentials to Vice President Sidius, gets to finally reap its reward: a Kerry- and Hillary-bashing fawning acceptance of this atrocity of an administration.I sincerely wish I did, but, unfortunately, once again, I shit you not.So Mr. Five Deferments, Mr. Secrecy About My Favorite Torture Techniques, Mr. There Were WMDs is now telling us that everything is going swimmingly in Iraq. And after six years of the most outrageous bald-faced lies and hitherto unthinkable incompetence and venality of the hackocracy he runs we are supposed to buy it?!?!Twice in one day I have to ask, "You've got to be fucking kidding me, right?!?!?!"Remember, bring a digital camera (or a phone that can take pictures) with you when you vote, and document the rampant election theft! Publish it on blogs, Black Box Voting, BradBlog, and anywhere...
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The tour bus has just stopped at one of our regular spots: the aisles of th
2006-11-04 18:00:00
Oh, my gentle reader, this was something out of a Kafka novel: I saw this piece of garbage on HuffPo by a fucking neocon, and it just went way beyond the pale! He actually still contends:My most fundamental views on the war in Iraq remain as they were in 2003: The war was right, victory is essential, and defeat would be calamitous.You'd think I'd be shitting you, but of course, for something this important, I am not.As you can also imagine, I had a few fine points to make to this swine:Aw, gee, a member of The Neocon Bunch refuses once again to see reality? Shock, horror, al Qaeda!Mr. Frum, your brand of horseshit just won't pass the smell test here: this is a war about lies, profits, torture, and desperate clinging to power! There was nothing right about us going into that war, there is nothing right about almost 3,000 Americans killed in combat, and there is absolutely nothing right about 655,000 Iraqis murdered!What I am wondering is why the fuck are you pushing your drivel o...
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How much is enough?
2006-11-04 17:00:00
It's a simple question, gentle reader: how much is enough?How much is enough to spend on a war for profits?How much is enough to spend on maliciously false advertising?How much is enough to spend in lives for idiotic goals of neocons?How much is enough to spend to give more corporate welfare to Halliburton, Boeing, Raytheon, Black Water, and other blood money profiteers while refusing to budge the minimum wage?How much is enough to spend on a Congress that's abrogated its responsibilities?How much is enough to spend on false science?How much is enough to spend on boosting the already obscene profits of ExxonMobil and ChenvronConoco?How much is enough to spend on even more tax cuts for the plutocrats?How much is enough to spend on the Republican cronies instead of Katrina victims?How much is enough to spend on protecting the Biggest Ball of String in the World instead of New York and Washington?How much is enough to spend on lying advertisements to American people with public funds...
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A rosy picture...
2006-11-01 19:00:00
Lawrence O'Donnell is always a good read on HuffPo, and today's piece is no exception.I could only wish!Mr. O'Donnell,As my sainted grandmother used to say, from your mouth to [fill in the deity of choice]'s ears.This country simply cannot survive another two years of unbridled chimpocracy. The world certainly cannot afford two more years of what's laughingly referred to as bush foreign policy. And the environment absolutely cannot afford two more years of secret meetings where Vice President Palpatine allows the vestiges of Seven Sisters to write our energy and global climate policies.So when you paint that beautiful picture of both Houses changing hands, the only thing that detracts from it for me is the memory of our corporate shill Leaderess of the House Democrats guaranteeing a pass for this horror of an Administration and absolutely disavowing Impeachment.What do we say to the future generations, future presidents, and the future of democracy if Chimperator Caesar Decider...
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How to extract pearls out of swine droppings: a tutorial ...
2006-11-01 18:00:00
The New York Observer can be iffy, but once again Joe Conason is on point.He noticed the beginning of the new spin cycle desinged to explain how our repugnance of Republicans in power, and their ouster, is a win for the neo-con movement.No, really, I shit you not.I just hope that this newest stupidity will be dismissed by the American people as easily as Mr. Conason does in his clear conclusion:Who wins and who loses, where and why, may tell us whether voters are moving leftward and away from the rightist hegemony of the past six years. What a Democratic midterm victory in either house will surely mean, however, is that Americans are appalled by the manifest failures of President Bush and his one-party conservative government, both at home and abroad. Only a torrent of popular anger can overcome the inherent advantages of incumbency, money, organization and gerrymandering. But if such a tide engulfs the Republicans, their rickety ideology will sink with them.So there you have it, ge...
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The Com-Passion of Rush Limpdick ...
2006-11-01 18:00:00
I hadn't weighed in on the Michael J. Fox/Fat Windbag of Fetid Wind controversy here, and there's very little I have to say on the subject.Besides being a typical amoral soulless venal Republican asshole, Rush also has a tendency to put his hoof in his mouth at least once a week. The soul-drained zombies who listen to him every day for their messages telling them what they should think about the events of the day continue to tune in, and continue to buy his pig shit geyser of talking points wholesale.The myopia of these authoritarian followers continues to astound me. It's as though none of them have any children; none of them want anyone to survive past this generation; and none of them care one fingernail clipping about the atrocities being committmed in their name by their government. They would much rather worry about Tomkat's wedding, or how Jack Bauer will find the next mole at LA anti-terrorist unit, or (most important of all) who wins American Idol.And while they cont...
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Gee, what do you do when everything else fails?
2006-11-01 03:00:00
Yes, gentle reader, we are down to the absolute wire in this election, and if you thought racist commercials, or commercials lying blatantly about Democratic candidates were the bottom of the dark pit of Republican dirty tricks, just you wait!A company with ties to the White House is engaged in a voter suppression operation even as we speak:In increasingly tight races around the country, voters are receiving telephone "push poll" calls, a classic dirty trick designed to suppress turnout on election day. One calling firm in particular, with White House ties and an impressive ability to fire off millions of automated calls per day, is benefiting from the strategy.(And evidently, I shit you not.)So having Diebold be certified for use in at least ten States (including, mind you, California!) without a single check of any of its code, and having unregulated access to the voting machines for weeks prior to the elections is not enough. These bastards know that if everyone who is pissed of...
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Let's summarize, shall we?
2006-10-31 21:00:00
So where do we stand as of today, the end of the year by the pagan calendar?This was the bloodiest month in Iraq in two years.Over two-thirds of us are actually sick of "Stay the Course!" policies while unveiling new, even stupider, slogans.Even John Kerry is finding a spine.And the chimpocracy is all hot and bothered about 20-somethings having sex, and is trying to stop them. Of course I am disgusted to tell you that I shit you not.Would someone please explain these sets of values to me?! The only way I can comprehend this is to accept the basic premise of the Nouveaux Stonecutters and their ilk declaring themselves so chosen by their fictitious deity that they are so far above the law that anything goes.But if you consider the behavior of our Mostly Elected Congress, aren't they acting precisely like nothing whatever will stop their tenure? Haven't ordinary Americans been relegated to either authoritarian follower neo-conservative echo chamber repeater stations, or the rest o...
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Yet another comment for Jack Cafferty ...
2006-10-09 03:12:03
Jack Cafferty asked the same question I was asking myself for two days: "What Are We Becoming?" Exactly. Dear Mr. Cafferty, Any Congressional representative voting for giving the Perfidious Monstrosity immunity for its crimes against humanity is an accessory, and I doubt very strongly that it was after the fact for most of the sycophantic nincompoops that currently define the Republicans in this
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A simply wonderful way of standing up...
2006-10-09 03:12:03
Well, gentle reader, you might remember the following sound-bite falling out of the mouth of the Monkey-in-Chief: "When they stand up, we will stand down." So while sitting here on my ass and waiting for that occasion, I asked: just how well are they standing up over there in the Mess-O-Potamia. And today a little article appears telling us that 700 American-trained and equipped Iraqi police
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Required viewing by every patriot!
2006-10-09 03:12:03
OK. There are still patriots left in this country. What you are seeing above is one of them. Dennis Kucinich was portrayed as a cook during his Presidential run, and you can see why: he would not stand for the destruction of the Constitution. Listen to him, and spread the word: the patriots only have 32 days left to make at least 2 in 5 Republicans finally see the light of day and abandon the
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In memoriam ...
2006-09-12 00:03:02
In memory of all those viciously murdered by neocons on 11 September 2001, this is what I imagine Vice President Palpatine was saying to himself before the Secret Service took over. The sheer vileness that it took to think up a scheme to wire up the three buildings (WTC 7 held too much evidence), suborn at least one officer to fire that Tomahawk at the Pentagon (if he even knew what he was doing), and then blithely cover up by destroying evidence at the rates hitherto unknown, could only have originated in the black hearts of Straussian neocons. And the world continues to pay for this quintessetial act of hubris, though we, as Americans, pay much more. To use this anniversary to prop up the sagging Republican poll numbers by callously and disingenuosly interrupting that abortion of truth on ABC and giving a Karl Rove speech in front of the American flag deserves a good lightning bolt if there ever were any gods around this Universe. Five years on America is reviled, mired down...
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An open letter to George Mitchell ...
2006-09-08 05:42:02
Now that the ABC dreku-drama slime job is on the ropes, the next person on the contact sheet is former Senator George Mitchell. Dear Senator Mitchell, I have been an admirer of yours since your days in the Senate last Century, and have so far found you to be an honorable and honest man. Based on that, I can only assume that you could not have known that the writer/producer of your upcoming ABC show, "Path to 9/11," was a self-avowed apologist for the atrocity known as the 43rd Presidency of the United States. You could not have known that he invented scenes specifically to shift the blame for one of the worst events in American history onto President Bill Clinton and his advisors, while exonerating the current Administration. Unfortunately, now you do know, and so I ask you: what will you do? Will you take the honorable step and either correct the record, or take this show off the air; or will you allow ABC and Disney to be used as delivery mechanisms for propaganda more blatan...
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